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Published · transcript-backedBen Westhoff: belief
9 Oct 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
“I think New Jersey gets a bad rap in just about everything, but the first popular hip-hop song, “Rapper’s Delight,” came from New Jersey.”
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- Ben Westhoff
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- 9 Oct 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…New Jersey hip-hop — underrated or overrated? Again, very underrated. I think New Jersey gets a bad rap in just about everything, but the first popular hip-hop song, “Rapper’s Delight,” came from New Jersey. The Sugar Hill Records was basically like a hit factory in early hip-hop. All of these important people like Queen Latifah and Naughty by Nature, and even Jay-Z spent a bunch of time in his early days coming up in New Jersey. So it’s very important. So where does the underrating come from? Everyone talks about the South Bronx, right? Why don’t they talk about New Jersey? Any possible reason for that?…
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