Pharoahe Monch Breaks Down 'Simon Says,' The Legacy Of 'Internal Affairs,' & Rawkus | People's Party
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- In this clip from next week's "People's Party with Talib Kweli," Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh talk with rapper Pharoahe Monch about making the album 'Internal Affairs,' the power of the track 'Simon Says,' and working with Rawkus.
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Share your Pharoahe thoughts! You know his cuts? Have you heard other rappers shout him out? Tell us what's up! (We'll send the love to the man himself!)
Organized Konfusion was my shit!
I loved Pharoahe since I first heard that song he did for Madden 2002. Aside from his unique flow, most always credit him as one of few artists from the 90s that is not only consistent, but is always growing in terms of his subject matter. Like, he's not making Simon Says pt 5 or relying on what he talked about in his Organized Konfusion days. He's never antiquated.
...he's my favorite emcee.
Organized konfusion - open your eyes 🔥🔥
You should have added what it was like being sued?
Sean P was taking the piss when he quoted “They sued your ass” then he bursts out laughing wildly. 😆
Pharaoh Monche has always been a backpacker favorite... and as rap nerds in the '90s, we hated almost anything commercial or popular... but we weren't mad at "Simon Says." We were proud that an elite lyricist like Pharaoh was finally getting some mainstream shine... the beat was ridiculous, the chorus was cool and the lyrics were still dope af... that song is a classic.
absolute classic!
Pharoahe Monch is one of the true greats, straight up lyrical genius.
A true lyrical monster
I've been waiting for this...2 of Rawkus Records finest alumni. 2 incredible emcees and lyricist. This brings me back to Washington Square, West 4th, Fat Beats...Thank you People's Party for continuing to release quality content
Lol, fam we see that you were really there!
One of my favorite rappers of all time!
Stress: The Extinction Agenda is one of the best hip hop albums ever made
FACTS
Equally amazing album cover as well. R.I.P. Matt Doo
It's one of the most underrated albums of the '90s, along with Enta Da Stage.
Yep
Never a liar👊🏿
Most of my favorite rap albums come from that era: Blackstar, Internal Affairs, Let's Get Free, The Platform and the 1st High & Mighty.
Not even talking about the 1st CNN album released just before that and all the Stones Throw vibe following the Rawkus vibe.
Loved seeing Pharoahe live. Lee Stone is a great producer
I use to bodyguard in Manhattan. I recalled this brother carrying around his vinyl record to be played by the DJ. I love that record about Chicken 🐔 Awesome
Internal Affiars imo is a flawless, 5 mics album. I was super thrilled when Spotify made it streamable on its 20th anniversary after the whole sampling fiasco made it so rare to find.
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Word, you can play that album without skipping a song. Classic!!
Boss
I remember I had just gotten out of the military and a bad marriage. I was just stuck in a "sunken place". I was a truck driver driving thru McComb, Ms and this song came on XM. This song came on and I lost my cool completely. Man, I pulled over in that town and went straight to the record store. Nobody but this young white cat was THEE ONLY ONE in the store who knew the chorus I was imitating and repeating. And coped it, jumped back in the truck, pressed play and I started shifting like a maniac. I played the album from front to back for like a week straight. Thinking to myself, "THIS DUDE IS SOO ILL WIT IT" Pharaoh, all I have to say is THANK YOU FROM EVERY HEAD WHO HAS EVEN ACCIDENTALLY CAME ACCROSS THAT ALBUM
I've got my release day, first edition CD right here in my room. I picked up every Rawkus CD on every single release day. This album is a classic.
A W E S O M E!
Shoutout to The People's Party for this.
I'm just here to give flowers. Been a fan since the beginning and watched him excel to be such a dope lyricist. Thank you for blessing us with your talent. You, my brother are (and has been) definitely a top tier MC. 🙏🏽
So grateful that it's resonating! Thanks for the love!
BARS!!!
major bars
I didn't listen to Organized music much but one of my boys had this CD when it dropped and once I heard Queens that song right there got me into this album. The song The Truth w/ Common and Talib is my favorite song off the Internal Affairs album the album is a classic and sounds even better today and aged well.
Askin about Simon Says reminded me of when Sean P interviewed Monch as Seanwuar
I copped promo of Simon says in...'01 I think. Maybe 02. Dopest record in a decade and maybe 10 years after. Two decades of Greatness and never fails to move a crowd. Respect to Pharoche Monch. Dude is gifted.
One of my top 3 MCs ever
Much Appreciation .
I own a physical of everything he's ever done, (except for the new Thirteen joint, which is dope) & I've seen him live twice and the man doesn't disappoint, truss me! 👊🏾 #T5DOA
Can't wait for this one 😁
yyyeeessssss, finally. Thank you.
You're welcome!
The Equinox album was one of my favourite rap albums ... along with OGC The Storm
Super underrated album
Gives me chills to see Talib Kweli speak to PM about this record. What they did on the Truth was LEGENDARY!!!!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.... I can't wait. My favorite album.
Sweeeet!
I can imagine Kweli on a Motley Crue gig!! Missing the Rawkus era, you could cop anything blind folded Mos Def, Black Star, Pharoahe, Company Flow, the whole Lyricist Lounge and Sound Bombing series, anything, pure gold💯👑🫡
Hip hops most complex lyricist ...top 5 lyricist all time
He's not the most complex. Aesop Rock is.
Oh my God, who gives a shit about which of the top tier lyricists has the biggest word count?
All you assholes who are always pushing lyricism over content and catchiness and digability and everything else that makes a record great, you are going to kill hip hop music as we know it. Not the mumble rappers who you feel so boastingly superior over, it's you. You are killing hip hop with your relentless feedback on lyricism to the point that impressive word statistics is on its way to become the single focus for producers of hip hop music.
Haven't you noticed a decline in beats you can bump to? And how often do you rap along to the songs of your word vomiting favorites, if you're being honest? Never is the answer because it's not flowing at all, it's just speed reading and you would admit that it sucks if you hadn't painted yourself into a corner over the past years, with your constant hollering about lyricism.
And do you realize that the proud hip hop tradition of releasing hard hitting records is dying as we speak and will soon be gone entirely if you keep up your bullshit? It's not possible to get the listener all fired up when the lyrics are so complex, and the message of every bar is shrouded by ridiculously niched double and third entendres, that it takes three plays to begin to understand what the rapper is talking (deliberate use of word) about.
And because the producers have stripped the song of everything that they feel is clouding the lyricism, there's no beat to pound the message home anyway. And what do you think will happen to hip hop music when it's lost all ability to resonate with the urban youth?
It will die and only be known to the broad audience as the shallow rapping to radio pop beats that survived, and soon after that douchebag college kids will claim to rep the only bastions of true hip hop music that's left, incorrectly identifying the monotone beatless lyricist crap that still survive in the rooms and apartments of pretensious college douchebags as real hip hop because it's so apart from the commercial crap that also survived the Death of Hip Hop.
And it's all because of you assholes.
@@achillessteals4535 Man, just say you want simple and catchy songs without artistic substance lol. You can have that opinion, and people can have their preference for lyrical content. People who say that lyrical miracle stuff is wack the same as people who say the catchy, easily digested stuff is wack. Yall are just representing a different side, you need to find middle ground and let artists express themselves how they want.
@@fulfillthedream9343 I listen to all types but my favorite is lies somewhere in the middle with emcees like Treach, Kool G Rap or, in honor of the man above, Pharoahe Monch spitting over dope beats. You do realize that by saying that only word counting lyricism have "artistic substance" you are dissing the culture's foundation and basically every hip hop legend from Kool Moe Dee to KRS-One. Speaking of, have you heard Teacha's latest album? Amazing boom bap, killer delivery of great lyrics and just oozing artistic substance...
I could argue that just trying to pack as many words in a song as possible lacks in artistic substance, but I'm not gonna. There's a place for everything and monotone recitation of maximum words to minimal beats is obviously a thing. But so are dope beats in the vein of RZA or Apollo Brown, flowing like Grandmaster Caz or Rakim, the showmanship of Biz Markie or Shock G, the edutainment of KRS-One or Brand Nubian, the party music of Beastie Boys or Kurtis Blow, the storytelling of Masta Ace or Slick Rick, the revolutionary spirit of NWA or Public Enemy, and I could go on and on listing all the aspects of hip hop that I love.
But you guys wanna make it all about the lyricism. The comment section under every rap video are full of opinions about the lyricism displayed and nothing else, and every discussion that follows about who is the greatest rapper mentions only lyricism as a criteria. It's crazy to me to hold a discussion on the greatest rappers and not even consider The Fresh Prince and many other legends. But it's not just you, a lot of critics are pushing the drone way of word speaking over sparse instrumentals. And the industry is starting to take notice, I'm guessing that they see a new market opening up, consisting of people who have always looked down on hip hop and never would have consumed any form of street culture. And that's fine, like I said, there's a place for everything (Rocket to Nebula was my favorite album of last year, speaking of minimalist beats) but you guys wanna make it everything.
*Monstrous* ! 😎
Pharoahe was the only backpack rapper that got love from the hood.. i was hooked after hearing metal thangs and internal affairs is one of the few albums i like start to finish. Shit is hard! Salute the Master lyricist.. Peace!
Was front row in Detroit at St Andrews for the Spitkicker tour with Kweli and Monch. Was such a dope show. I believe Phife and Xzibit was on the bill too and Xzibit had Tash as his hype man (and Tash was my fav mc at the time).
Ras is WAY underrated
I would love a Monch/Capleton colab
Talking about pitching his voice up cos he was watching Thai, fighting movies? This is the shit we love. Big Up UpROXX
I fuck with Biggie, Eminem, Jay Z, Nas & Pac...but when you start listing MC’s like Pharoah Monch, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Black Thought....the convo can be just as powerful, if not even more, at least to people like myself....
had parental advisory double-sided cassette with the instrumental on the other side of the simon says!
Is there any video of Motley Crue playing Simon Says?
Man internal affairs was on its way to being Rawkus' first platinum album. But Rawkus dropped the ball via the lawsuit against Pharoahe Monch surrounding Simon Says.
Did the whole Rawkus catalogue go on streaming? Let me find out...
They had pharaoh’s boots from the video shoot on display at rawkus
Shout out to speak n spell all day
Behind Closed Doors, Queens, Godsend still get play today🔥🔥🔥
Don't forget no mercy. That was a banger two 🔥🔥🔥
I would kill to see talib at a crue show
Need The Extinction Agenda and De La Soul’s albums on steaming ASAP
Streaming makes you lose all the intricacies of the sounds. FLAC is CD quality so I'm always rotating 20-30 CDs on my phone.
Speaking of De La Soul, they need to be the next guests on People's Party. Given that they don't do a whole lot of interviews, that would be dope to see!
Holla at spit kickin' niggas
Pharoahe Monch, De La Soul, Common Sense
And my man Biz Markie (Kweli) - Talib
Phaoahe one of the trurest emcess to ever hold the mic.
This is for either or Rolliessss or Timexesss
That’s right!!!
Ladies Rub on your.....classical Hip Hop
Luv pharoahe mounche. But he looks nervous or something lol.
The only song I really didn't like was Rape. I hope they ask him to elaborate on that one.
Dude had mad hype but was pretty 🌽 shouts to prince po
They're all locked for the Harvey Weinstein case! Common, questlove, monie love...
Que?
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