You hear that even in the voice tone or the selection of music, and it just feel dark and painful, like the struggle," he says. King was in the city when he was assassinated, the reason he gave his I've Been to the Mountaintop speech at the city's Mason Temple - the connection between the city's iconic soul music and Memphis rap is obvious. To Yo Gotti, a Memphis rapper who refers to the sanitation workers' strike of 1968 on the cover of his album I Am - the strike is the reason Dr. And there are ghosts, too - an empty pyramid by the river, a crime scene at the Lorraine Hotel that's now a museum. When you are there, you can see the history of Memphis on plaques and honorary street names and restaurants like the Four-Way, which promotes itself as Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite place to eat when he was in town. Microphone Check Starlito And Don Trip: Writers First, Rappers Second I remember my cousins and them pulling up in they box Chevys, listening to Comin' Out Hard."
"Eightball and MJG - they legends down here. You know how you run up behind you big cousin, and whatever they on, that's what you on, from the clothes to the music," says Young Dolph, a rapper who grew up in Memphis. "I used to always listen to everything my big cousin listened to. Like, 'I'm balling, not because of my size.' His flow and who he was - he was just like a fly fat dude." "I had a lot of big, fat-ass homies, you know what I'm saying? And I remember, like, how comfortable big dudes started feeling wanting to go out and hit the club more. Big" was still that song, and Eightball, the rounder half of the group, still an inspiration. Even after he got his driver's license, " Mr. Just, 'Woo!' You didn't want to get out the car," says Drumma Boy, a producer born and raised in Memphis, who was 11 when Comin' Out Hard dropped. "I remember popping it into my Oldsmobile - I had a '83 Cutlass Oldsmobile - and we just hit the block, hit the mall and we just went everywhere. I left it there, because I was in the city to talk to the men who put a drop-top Lexus coupe on the front and back covers of their first CD and to the people who kept it in their CD players for years. When I got into my rental car at the Memphis Airport, the bass on the stereo was at +9. Last year, right around the 20th anniversary of the first of those records, Comin' Out Hard, I went to the birthplace of both Stax and Sun Records to hear the story of Premro Smith and Marlon Jermaine Goodwin, better known as Eightball and MJG. A pair of young rapper-producers from Memphis straddled the tonal shift, and you can hear, on the two albums they released between the summer of '93 and the spring of '94, the unease of an industry flooded with money just as regional markets were wolfing down less commercial, grittier records. In 1993, the wild success of cinematic albums like The Chronic and Doggystyle had shown corporate America just how large the appetite for rap was, but the next wave of musicians had something more serious in mind. Two decades ago the essence of adolescence was leaving hip-hop.
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From Serial Productions and The New York Times comes The Trojan Horse Affair: a mystery in eight parts.MJG (left) and Eightball in an early, undated photo. Together they team up to investigate: Who wrote the Trojan Horse letter? They quickly discover that it’s a question people in power do not want them asking. Because through all the official inquiries and heated speeches in Parliament, no one has ever bothered to answer a basic question: Who wrote the letter? And why? The night before Hamza is to start journalism school, he has a chance meeting in Birmingham with the reporter Brian Reed, the host of the hit podcast S-Town. To Hamza Syed, who is watching the scandal unfold in his city, the whole thing seemed … off. By the time it all dies down, the government has launched multiple investigations, beefed up the country’s counterterrorism policy, revamped schools and banned people from education for the rest of their lives. The story soon explodes in the news and kicks off a national panic.
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The plot has a code name: Operation Trojan Horse. A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate the city’s schools.
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