"My Brother’s A Basehead” is a true story. Posdnous from De La Soul had an older brother who had a crack addiction and it was very damaging for the whole family. For Pos and his parents, crack was literally in the house just as it was in many houses and many families during the crack era. Crack decimated many families and De La Soul made one of the most powerful songs about all that. In this episode we talk about how crack destroyed families and what went into the making of "My Brother’s A Basehead.” We talk to Prince Paul, De La Soul’s producer who’s sometimes called the 4th member of the group. We also talk about a very different song about crack users, Public Enemy’s Night of the Living Baseheads, which looked down on people who used crack while one of the members of PE was a crack addict. PE's producer Hank Shocklee joins us for that.
Brooklyn based alt-rock band Superbloom have announced they will be releasing their new EP, Life s A Blur on June 8th, 2023, which is also available for pre-order. The band also released the first single from the album for you all to check out, see below to listen to "Head First". The album was prod.
Greta Van Fleet’s guitar rock, the Allman Brothers in
Blackberry Smoke’s southern rock, and Queen in
The Struts ’70s glam rock. For the members of the Gen Z, Brooklyn-based
Superbloom, “classic rock” is music created in the early-to-mid ’90s which means they pay homage not only to the first wave of grunge bands (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden) but also the bands that followed in grunge’s wake (Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, Fuel). The raspy vocals with the fuzzy guitars on Superbloom’s recently released debut,
Pollen, may sound familiar to those who listened to alternative rock radio in 1995, but there’s a freshness that the kids bring to the music.