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The sound of the band threw Russell Simmons off, who gave Paul his short-lived Doo Doo Man Records imprint. (32:00) After discussing the solo production projects of Paul’s work, Shawn Setaro talks about his group Resident Alien, which consisted of Paul’s close friends. He talked about how the KMD front man was a respectable young man at the time, but he dismisses the rumors that the original London, England native produced the Def Jam Records hit, saying “no disrespect to DOOM, but I did the whole thing by myself.” The conversation then switches up to Paul’s first run in with MF DOOM-during his “Zev Love X” days, on the hit, “Gas Face,” that he produced for 3rd Bass in 1988. (24:00) Although admitting how hard it was to work with such a peculiar artist, Paul cites his production and work with Barman’s debut, It’s Very Stimulating as one of his personal favorite records. Setaro then asks Prince Paul about his involvement with experimental rapper, MC Paul Barman, and why he chose to work with him. Using a Billy Squier sample in Queen Latifah’s “Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children” featuring De La Soul, Paul talks about transforming the Rock hit to a Hip Hop classic. (21:00) In a subsequent discussion, spanning Janet Jackson to The B-52’s (of “Love Shack” fame) to working with Prince and George Clinton on their “Paisley Park” joint, Prince Paul’s interest in music, and his many talents sneak out at every turn.
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After he produced hit after hit, he was telling The Cipher Show host that he caught the attention of artists outside of the Rap genre that wanted Paul to remix their records. (16:00) Paul then goes in to talk about personal issues among co-workers, and the trust issues he has because of the “cold reality” of the world, and how everything is about success, no matter what the situation is. Setaro then switches it up to ask Paul about a track called “Beautiful Night” off of his debut album, Psychoanalysis: What Is It? Paul states that even though this track was a bit grim and voile based on the content, it propelled him back into the conversation (as a soloist for the first time) at the time of its 1996 release. (10:00) With a list of big named guest appearances, Paul talks about how Everlast (previously of House Of Pain, Rhyme Syndicate), who appeared as a racist cop on the track “The Men In Blue” was at first uncomfortable with going against his newly-adopted non-use of profanity. The character’s interactions were created from an inspiration by Paul’s custody battle over his son before he finished the ’99 LP, where he subscribed to the concept of the common saying “the bad guy always wins” as a theme throughout the story. (6:00) Paul goes on to talk about the work he put into the mixing, and editing of the Breeze Brewin (of The Juggaknots) starring LP, and how some of the tracks were created through “MIDI-sequencing” on an earlier version of the Apple Macintosh “Master Tracks” program. Paul comments on how his primary label in his career, at the time did not vest their interest in capitalizing on this project. He talks about the $10,000 trailer he had made for the promotion of the Tommy Boy Records release, and how he was inspired by the poorly directed but commercially successful Master P movie, I’m Bout It to create an actual film from the album. (4:00) The second part of the epic interview starts off with a discussion about his second album, A Prince Among Thieves, which many people consider the first “Hip Hop Opera” and one the most ambitious conceptual albums of its time. Now, The Cipher Show has released part 2 of the conversation and it is filled with more unearthed Prince Paul jewels. That portion of the talk covered his involvement with Stetsasonic, the production of De La Soul’s first three albums, his relationship with RZA and the formation of Gravediggaz. “The Cipher Show” host Shawn Setaro recently released part 1 of a comprehensive interview with Paul. He is a Grammy Award-winning artist/producer with numerous amounts of gold and platinum works under his belt/on his wall. He has gifted a good amount of people in the industry with true talent that helped pioneer the art and culture of Hip Hop today. His approaches have changed and pioneered the modern Rap sound, with the use of sampling, mixing, and adding thematic interludes to his and others’ work. Throughout that time, the Long Island, New York native has been involved with an extensive range of music, into Comedy and Spoken Word. Prince Paul is one of the more legendary producers of the last 30 years.