Ep. 42: Pt. I | NAS, CROSSING OVER, ART MUSIC VS. COMMERCE MUSIC & PUBLIC ENEMY W/ THE HARRY "THE MEDIA ASSASSIN" ALLEN

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Words Matter Pod w/ Akil Pinnock

Akil Pinnock

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16 hours ago

After years of entertaining the idea of starting an interview based Hip-Hop podcast, but realizing how the saturated the genre was becoming, independent journalist Akil Pinnock decided to pivot. This spawned the Words Matter Pod w/ Akil Pinnock, a podcast dedicated to storytellers. Using his love for long-form interviewing, derived from listening to hours of interview Hip-Hop podcasts like Juan Epstein, Combat Jack, and Rap Radar. Akil Pinnock decided that he would take what he learned from those platforms, and apply it interviewing storytellers of varying fields and not just Hip-Hop.

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Ep. 42: Pt. I | NAS, CROSSING OVER, ART MUSIC VS. COMMERCE MUSIC & PUBLIC ENEMY W/ THE HARRY "THE MEDIA ASSASSIN" ALLEN

Words Matter Pod w/ Akil Pinnock

1 hour 5 minutes 9 seconds

4 months ago

Ep. 42: Pt. I | NAS, CROSSING OVER, ART MUSIC VS. COMMERCE MUSIC & PUBLIC ENEMY W/ THE HARRY "THE MEDIA ASSASSIN" ALLEN

We got another two parter y’all! We have Harry Allen, one of three of the 2024-2025 Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellows from the Harvard Hip Hop Archive. Mr. Allen is a longtime Hip-Hop journalist, media personality, educator, and member of the legendary Public Enemy. Today, we’re here to speak about his fellowship project harbanger. In his own words, harbanger is a turntablist septet, and an experimental hip-hop research project created at MIT in 2020 designed to investigate turntable polyphony, polyrhythm, and polysemantics. This may sound like a foreign language to most so we get into that during this interview. In part one of this week’s episode, Mr. Allen explains how harbanger represents an alternate reality of hip-hop being taken seriously when it was formed instead of initially being written off as a silly fad like most things that Black people create. He spoke about the difference between “art music” and “commerce music,” commercialization of Hip-Hop, what “crossing over” means, his relationship with Chuck D and Public Enemy, what being the “Media Assassin” meant, hip-hop being “reasonable,” and so much more. Stay tuned for part two coming next week. Please LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE! Words Matter. CHECK OUT HARRY'S HARBANGER COLLOQUIUM!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnbDwvCj4vk&t=5413sSUBSCRIBE TO WORDS MATTER NETWORK ONLINE!https://www.wordsmatternetwork.com/ APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/words-matter-pod-w-akil-pinnock/id1617394062 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YvGpb3HRumh4B6CDtKAom?si=f4272d0c0c644e1a CHECK US OUT ON SOCIALS!Host: https://www.instagram.com/akngozi/ Words Matter Pod: https://www.instagram.com/wordsmatterpod/ Words Matter Network: https://www.instagram.com/wordsmatternetwork/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_AkNgozi TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@wordsmatterpod?lang=en