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J Dilla: Dan Charnas on the Life and Legacy of Jay Dee

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Big Payback

After leaving forest, he wrote comedy for m t v and b e t. Eventually decided to go back to journalism school in new york. The crowning course of that programme was a class called book writing. In it you have to apply to get into the class. Opropose a book. So this book i proposed, which became the big payback, was called beats, rhymes and cash. Because there were books that were coming out about hippop that were very artists and muse eccentric but they were missing the key part: how did this thing get big? Right? Rundy m c didn't just appear on m t v. People had to fight tooth and nail to

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