Chris Webby Talks Working With Sap On “JAMO-NEAT” [Video]

Recently, Chris Webby dropped off an EP with producer/sometimes-rapper Sap. The two connected for a week-long adventure of drinking Jameson in the studio, which fueled their decision to call the project JAMO-NEAT. While doing a brief press run in NYC, Webby stopped by to discuss the creation of JAMO-NEAT, and how Jameson helped it become what it is. “Without it, I’m pretty sure this project wouldn’t have come together the same way,” he says. Webby also talks about working with a singular producer on the EP, and how that worked to his advantage, as well as the musical diversity of the EP.

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Papoose On Hip-Hop’s N-Word Usage: “It’s A Term Of Endearment” [Video]

During such a tense time in America, wrongdoings towards the Black community have been indisputably brought to the limelight more than ever. At the time this interview was recorded with Papoose, South Carolina officials took down the Confederate flag from in front of the state’s Capitol building. The Bed-Stuy lyricist concurs that the flag has a racist history, as does the n-word, which he feels Caucasian people don’t have the right to use. When it comes to hip-hop, he feels the term is acceptable, as he himself uses it on just about every one of his tracks. “We kinda flipped it now, like, to show that that doesn’t affect us anymore…It’s more like a term of endearment,” Papoose tells us. Papoose goes on to share his thoughts about Bill Cosby as well. “I didn’t understand how they did that, from a legal standpoint,” he says of the courts unsealing documents from Cosby’s 2005 deposition. “It’s something weird about it…It just seems kinda, you know, orchestrated to me. But we never know. We gotta see how it turns out in the end.” Hear more above.

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