Talking Eazy E, DJ Muggs, House of Pain, Anderson .Paak, Good Life Cafe with Adrian Miller | Ep. 120

This week we’re joined by record exec and manager to Anderson .Paak, Adrian Miller - a man who helped build the LA hip hop scene and work with Good Life Cafe, Easy E, Ras Kass, RZA, DJ Muggs, House of Pain, Freestyle Fellowship and many more.

 

We spoke on a whole host of subjects, including…

 

🔥 How DJ Muggs and House of Pain changed hip hop

👀 Did Ice Cube really steal Volume 10’s style?

💥 Making ‘Pistol Grip Pump’…and DJ Mugg’s superb reaction

🙏 His relationship with Eazy E and Jerry Heller

🗣 Origins of the Good Life Cafe

✍️ Helping Freestyle Fellowship get signed

😱 How nobody wanted to sign Anderson .Paak

🤝 What it’s like being family to Freeway Rick - the man that Franklin Saint is based on from Snowfall

 

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (00:00)
• What LA hip hop was like in the early 90s (05:20)
• Being there at the origins of the Good Life Cafe (11:40)
• Helping Freestyle Fellowship get signed (17:22)
• Working with Ras Kass and meeting The Pharcyde (19:56)
• Did Ice Cube really steal Volume 10’s style? Plus making ‘Pistol Grip Pump’…and DJ Mugg’s superb reaction (24:45)
• What lessons he learnt working with The Pharcyde (29:30)
• What hip hop NEEDS right now: Togetherness and becoming a family unit (31:00)
• DJ Muggs and House of Pain: Why they changed hip hop (35:20)
• How nobody wanted to sig