February 14, 2025 • 42 mins
The latest Building Black Business podcast episode features Taylor Hayes in conversation with Anita Scipio, arthur of Hip-hop Time Capsule: Document Your Personal Journey
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, guys, we are now on building Black Business podcasts.
I'm your host, Terry Hayes, and I am with someone.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How do I explain this woman?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
She is phenomenal and admirable, one of the sweetest people
I've ever met. And some people may call her Mississipio
or Miss Anita, but I.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Call her Mama and thank you. We are here. I'm
so excited to be here with you. Now for people
who don't.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Know, yes, how would you describe now you know author
miss and Minisipio.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes, I am well, first of all, I like to
say it, I'm pretty awesome, and I'm very very proud
of myself or the hard work and everything that went
into me being an author.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It was not easy. It was a great challenge.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But at the end of the day, I'm very proud
of the product that I have made and I hope
it's something that's enjoyable for everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And her product is hip Hop Time Capsule Document your
personal journey.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, now, how did you what was the inspiration?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, so, on the fiftieth anniversary of Hip Hop, I
was at Yankee Stadium. I was there with my family,
my niece, de niece, my daughter, Arlene, my nephew Melvin,
my nephew Kevin, and.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
My son Misa.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So we went and we had those those up in
the sky seats, those just happy to be here since
and we were just so grateful. And as I looked
around at the sea of people, I noticed people of
all different ages, you know, with their hip hop gearn
some were my age, they went their sixties, you know, forties, thirties,
(01:50):
you know, younger. I'm like, oh wow, each one of
these people. I didn't think of it that night. It
was only like a few days later. I feel like
I was inspired. I feel like God gave me this idea.
Whereas I said.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Each one of those people have a story about.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Their journey and their love of hip hop, what hip
hop means to them in their everyday life. And so
I started thinking, like, how can I help people document
their story because it's very very important, you know now
with everything that's going on in hip hop, it's very
important for people to know maybe what their mother loved
(02:26):
when she was growing up, what their father used to
listen to, their own journey as well.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I thought this was a good idea to document it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Who is your favorite perfore minutes that happens Dougie Fresh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Dougie Fresh, and that's a hard decision to make because
everybody was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I saw some of my most favorite iconic artists and
it was very, very hard.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
But I have to say at the end, it was
Dougie Fresh that took me out.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It took me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I can only still know how to do like he
says good as he's ever.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And he looks like he's just getting younger by the day.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I haven't to meet him. Oh way before I
was even in this business, I was in Vegas at
the MGM Hotel and he was like, I guess going
back to his room or something like that. Everyone like
fanned around him. He was able to take He's awesome.
I never I never got a chance to meet him,
(03:26):
but I would have Loveday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Has it come up period? I know, I hope he will,
and when he does, make sure you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Got you now.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I will question though, Yeah, what did you wear?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Because in the beginning of the book you were talking
about which I really like, how you said that hip
hop has to do with like fashion as well expressing yourself.
And you're saying that the hats that people used to wear,
it's like their African crowd.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
No looking like a grandma.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't have any hip hop gear on. Okay, but
my spirit was again like when I was twenty five.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Years old, so what was your but what was your
go to hat back then?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And Mike, Actually, I never wore hat. I was never
into the fashion part of it. Like I didn't wear
the sweatshirts or the big chains or any of that.
When I was younger, I used to mostly wear like
I used to just wear like maybe turtlenecks and stuff,
you know, or I loved My thing was like high heels.
I always loved hiking. So I wasn't into the fashion
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of it. But the music and the culture you know,
otherwise was just something.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I really really loved. Okay, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well first let me I already know this, but
for people to know who's your favorite rap who's your
top three favorite rapper?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
My top three would have to be DMX.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, I thought, okay, this is in particular order.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, Okay, I'm struggling now because I actually have a
lot and I really struggled answering these questions because we
give a hundred questions in the book. Yes, prompt questions
for people to answer, and I was as I was
trying to answer the questions, it was really difficult to
narrow down.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I'm gonna have to say d MX, Kendrick Lamar,
that's your journey.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Even though I do love them, I do love him.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm a fan. I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm a fan, But I will say that it would
have to be d MX, Snoop Dogg. Okay, and oh gosh,
I'm trying to think who that third one would be, Snoop.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Dog That, Yeah, I'm first. I'm drawing a blank. Tupac
would have to be first.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, so you you spoke of Snoop Dogg and now
you're seeing I guess. I mean, I guess hip hop
always been a mixed with like politics as well, right, right,
So how do you see hip hop going now? Do
(06:05):
you like the combination of hip hop and politics or
do you think it should be in a sense separate.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, I kind of think that everybody has the right
to their own opinions, their own opinions. I think everybody
has the right to vote or promote their own best interests.
I don't necessarily have to agree with them. Okay, Sometimes
I don't, but I try to keep that separate for
the from the love of the person themselves, you know,
(06:34):
how separate the artists. I know how to separate the
artists and what they bring to hip hop from their
own personal views.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I think that's the best way to do it.
If not, you know, really, you go down a dark hole.
Yeah yeah, But so what would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Are you more of a rap girly or R and
B girly?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Though a rap definitely? Oh? Absolutely? So what would I mean?
I walked to Power one oh five?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, I'm working for iHeart for eighteen years and then
for fifteen years of the Breakfast club being there, that's
all I listened to OS Okay, I'll be up at
the desk jamming.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I know what I'm saying. So yeah, I love rap music.
So how would you describe the feeling it gives you? This? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, because there's so many different types of rap music.
There's music that is uplifting, there's music that is political
oriented and makes me feel strong and powerful and knowing
that there is, you know, a way out of some
of the things that we're going through in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It just strengthens me, you know. And then there are songs.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That just it's just pure fun and entertainment, and then
songs that teach you about the history about life itself.
I love the storytelling aspect of hip hop.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Do you think, well, you know, I think Kendrick's bringing
it back, But do you think the storytelling was getting
lost at a point?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I do, and I missed it. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I'm old school. I'm old school, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I love, you know, having been there, like from the
beginning of hip hop, and I love in some ways
it has evolved, not all the ways, you know, but
it has to evolve, right, and so but I'm classic
old school, you know. I just love that good old
music from back in the day. But I do have
a lot of favorite artists up today, right, you know,
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And so I just I just love the whole journey that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We're going through.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What generation do you think has the best hip hop?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
My generation.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That so, do you think there's anything from the older
generation that could take from the new generation? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The old something from the older generation society?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Do you think they can learn something from the new generation?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, I mean, and the new generation can learn something
from these always, Yeah, that's what the book is all
about like learning the history. I think it's very important
for young artists to learn who opened the doors.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For them, who started this, who paved the way.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
And there are times when I felt that maybe some
people are not that interested in knowing who, you know,
who set down these the roadway, the pathway for them
to do what they're doing today. And that's why I
think Hip Hop Dime Capsule is very important in that way.
As a matter of fact, aside from the one hundred
questions that it includes I've incorporated.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
First of all, this.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Book is done in conjunction with my brother, DJ Sippio
from South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So when I saw this whole.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Event and I I went back and I told him,
I said, wow, I said, I need to come up
with a hundred questions.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I said, listen, you a DJ. You've been a DJ
for over forty years.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He was born in New York City, but then he
moved to Orangeburg, South Carolina, and he made a way
for himself down there, very popular, very well respected. So
I said, listen, I love the music, but I don't
know a lot about the history. Can you help me
with some of the history of hip hop? And then
I asked him to join me in deciding some of
the questions for the book. So he was very very
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helpful and we worked together well and that was awesome. So,
but our goal was to try to help the young
people understand about old school and then the old school
learn about what our new artists are contributing, because both
are important.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Both are important.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What do you think was the hardest part making this book?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The hardest part making this book was trying to narrow
down some of the answers. Okay, because my brother and
I we also answered the same questions, the same one
hundred prompt questions. That was very difficult to make decisions.
You know, who's your favorite artists, who's your favorite producers?
What is one hip hop concert that you missed it
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you would have loved to have been through when you
were sad or you are down? What hip hop songs
resonated with you? You know? And all types of questions that
make you stop and think, go back in time, have
some good memories, you know. And then like I said,
we incorporated well, what I was gonna say is we
incorporated QR codes. Yes, I see with that that will
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give you direct access to some of the history of
hip hop videos where you can see old school dancing,
you can see new school artists.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Music of the day, classic old hip hop music. It's
just a fun book.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's a hybrid book and a journal, So the journal part,
you're documenting your story. I also include fifty trivia questions
and answers, fifty quotes by some of the biggest legends
in hip hop that are timeless, quotes that I don't
care they may have been from thirty years ago, today,
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they're still going to resonate with you because they're positive
and they're timeless, and fifty years from now they'll still
resonate with somebody because of their positivity. Absolutely, and that's very,
very important. And today, especially in today's world, we need
more positivity, we need more love, we need more good memories.
It's a feel good book. Yeah, you know, I mean,
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I hope everybody will feel the same way that me
and DJ Sippio feel about it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So, what do you think was the easiest part of
making it?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The easiest part was being driven by the love of it,
being driven by the love, wanting to put out the
best product, wanting to put out the most accurate product.
Doing so much research and It was fun because it
was a learning experience. My brother introduced me to something
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that I didn't know, but independent of him, I did.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
My own research.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I did my own research. Another aspect of it is
in me answering my questions that the one hundred questions,
I was able to tell stories about my experiences with
some of the biggest legends in hip hop, my personal experiences.
Having been the receptionist for iHeartMedia, I had a personal
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relationship with these artists. DMX used to call me Auntie.
Snoop Dogg calls me Mama.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
That video was everywhere and I love him and I
love them all, and it's still If you go to
Google right now and put it in anitissipio and Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You're gonna see me having a fit just being so
happy to see him. Because I've been a receptionist actually
for thirty years. So I used to work for Westwood
one in my early days and one they would have
artists of all genres. So I met Will Smith when
he was just a young man getting into the business.
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He had just started being a rapper. Yeah, and he
came in and he was so awesome. The first rapper
I ever met.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I didn't know what to expect, but he was.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
So awesome, so polite, and I said to myself, hmm,
he's gonna go pleass, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And that's the understatement of the year, right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And so then over thirty years later, when I'm retiring
my daughter little one right here, told him said, you know,
you know, mama's inside, you know, mama's her retirement day.
And he came and screaming, Mama, mama. So it was
our first time seeing each other after thirty something years
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in the business, and I was just so honored.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, no one could meet me heat no, no, no,
it can't happen.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I said.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
One of the questions, and see if you could answer,
thank god you have in one of the in the book,
if the lyrics in one of your favorite songs could
come true for a day, which lyrics would it be?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do you have an answer for? No? I couldn't say.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I couldn't think of a song where if the lyrics
could come true for a day, what would it be?
I just could not just draw a blank on that question.
That's my own question.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you were a rap song,
what song would it be?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
If I was one a rap song. If I was
a rap song, is that in the book, So that
I missed that one. If I was a rap song,
what would it be? Oh man, that's a good one.
I need to add that one.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
If I was a rap song, what would be? I
would say? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Maybe unity. Unity by Queen Latifa, Unity by Queen Latifa.
The way she commands respect. I love the way you know,
she just lets you know, look, I'm a queen. I
need to be treated like a queen. Yeah, like that attitude,
you know. Yeah, and you know what, ladies today need
more of an attitude like that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think is this I think it's packaged differently now.
You know it's all about sex appeal and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Now, yeah, you know, And I mean I mean that's okay.
Sex appeal has its place, but dignity and respect for
yourself that has a place as well. Yeah, you know, so,
I mean a nice little combination of the two.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, actually, now that you wrote a hip hop time capsule,
you're gonna write it R and B because you.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Do have you like R and B as well? I
like R and B.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, this is the thing. The amm of iHeartMedia program director.
She had advised me when I first started writing this
book that I should also give in depth, detailed stories
about all of the artists that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I have pictures included. So as I started doing this.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Project, the project became overwhelming and it became just too much,
a mishmash of things in one book. So I decided,
as you will see in the book and the introduction
of the book, to break the book up into two
different parts. So my next book is going to be
about hip hop artists as well, but it's going to
have pictures of us, it's gonna have detailed stories. It's
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going to have more about their music, more about the history,
and I might incorporate a section of other artists that
I've met, because being in the business for thirty five years,
I have met almost everybody from Taylor Smith to I mean,
my goodness, Taylor Smith.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Gosh, I'm doing a blank right now.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
It's just like so many people, you know, Taylor Smith
and Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton, just just a plethora
of people from all different genres, And so I incorporate
some of that as well.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, yeah, so cann't get a sneak peek, like, what
would be what was like one of your favorite moments,
one of my favorite moments artists?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh my god, well it would have been Snoop Dogg. Honestly,
I just loved meeting him.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Because he's so cool. He's so cool. I was at
the desk, I'm working.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I look up and I see somebody walking and I
see shoulders going like this.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I'm like, oh my god, that's Snoop deep Oh doubleg.
Oh my goodness. That was awesome. And I would say
that DMX. I love DMX. You know.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I love Fat Joe, I love the Baby, I love
two Chains.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean, it's just a plethora of people.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I love Rick Ross. I met Mary J. Blige and I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Looking at all the pictures here to help me. I
met PARTI B.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was just awesome, know and uh so that was
I met Pop Smoke.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was with you. I was yeah, and were you
with me? When I put lipstick on? And he was away? Yeah?
When Okay, he was so very ic. It's cool. He's like,
yeah he was, he said to Okay, So this is
what happened. I was on my way.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It was after five o'clock. DJ pro Style had just
finished interviewing him.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I didn't know who he was. So DJ pro Style
brings him to the desk. You were there, Oh my god.
You're always around the little.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
One, and I talk about you in the book, So
you're always around mama.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So DJ pro he says. He says, no, miss Anita,
this is Pop Smoke. I'm like, hi, how are you?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I'm just getting ready to go for the day,
so I have my fresh lipstick on. Everything is just beautiful.
Pop Smoke grabs me and pulls me into him like this,
and when he lets me go, there's a perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Beautiful red lipstick.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And in his ten thousand dollars Louis Vitton jacket that
he had just been talking about in his interview. He
looked down, he looked at pro Style and he said,
I'll sing you the bell.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Oh my, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And it's so ironic because I had always wondered if
he was able to get that staying out of his jacket.
And you were the one that came to me and
said to me, mom, you no Pop Smoke.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Is gone. And I'm like.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Who, And you said, mom, remember the guy that you
got the lipstick?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Go on on, and I was just horrified, horrified, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So some of the questions are, has there ever been
any deaths of hip hop legends that affected you in
a certain way, and if so, how you know?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Another one is if you could spend.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The whole day with your favorite hip hop artists, who
would it be? And I chose Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know, we'd been chilling, you know, laid back, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I also give some of the songs that we
would be jamming to me him, Boss Lady and the
whole family, you know, and if you could so. So
it's just a lot of interesting questions. And like I said,
in me and my brother answering our questions, we give
you a lot of information about hip hop and how experiences.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What do you think is the most important thing history
wise for the young generation to.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Know about hip hop? Really in general, it's just knowing
who paved the way for you that is incredibly important
to so that you can have respect for these artists.
I mean, I put like I talk about DJ Morley mal.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You know, he was one of the first DJs to
put scratching on a record, you know, I mean many
people have done it, you know, in the parks and
but he was one of the first DJs. And I
worked with DJ Molly Mal. I love DJ Molly mal
ed Lover, who was on MTV Raps, one of the
first shows that played videos for rap artists. And you
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know what I'm saying, And you know, these are iconic
people that I think it's very important to know about them.
Kumo D did did the forward for my book. I
was honored to have Kumo D do the forward for
my book.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Kumo D.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
My best friend of sixty years, literally sixty years. I
met her when I was in kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I'm going to give my age away now, don't start
doing the math, okay, because I'm thirty five.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And so he was a good friend of my best
friend's younger brother and his name is Dano. So Dana
was the DJ for kum O D when they when
it was Kumo D in the Treacherous Three. So, as
a young girl me going over to visit my friend Sonah,
he was there, and of course, I mean he was
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just a young guy. Whoever knew he would grow up
to be the legendary Kumo D.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And then on top of that, my brother DJ Sippio
went to school with him.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Oh wow. So when it was.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Time to write the book, he was the first person
that I thought of to do this book.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
To do a forward for this book, your brother and
DC to hip hop.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My brother did introduce me to hip hop. Okayah, I okay.
So it's around nineteen seventy seven and we share we
share a wall between our bedrooms. So there was this
song good Times we uh we are the good Times,
and so I love that song.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I love that song.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But then one day I'm listening to him play you know,
this song, and he's going.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Good good good good good good times. And I'm like,
what is going on? Over and over good good good times?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
And me and my mother's like, oh my god, what's
going It's driving me crazy. I'm in my bedroom trying
to watch Happy Days, trying to say for his son
good times and all like it, good good good.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So I said what is that? I said, why are
you doing that? He said, well, it's called scratching. I
said scratching. I said, oh my god, it's so annoying.
You so annoying.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Here's my great song that I love. And he's back there,
good good good, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So that was my first introduction to well hip hop.
So when did you fall in love with hip hop?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
This?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I fell in love with hip hop when I started
hearing artists like Salt and Pepper, like Run DMC, like
Cool mo O D and uh Eric B and Rock
Cam l El Cool J, you know, I mean, and
then of course you know DMX later on, you know,
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in the in the in the years. But uh, I mean,
I just love the way it makes me want to
dance and have fun. And again, like I said, there's
there's the real life thing about hip hop, like that
you you know, that you that you get from the
political side of hip hop and those artists you know,
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I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
You know, and k R S One.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, they used to spit knowledge, you know, and
fairly different from some of the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Music that we hear today.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So okay, so that's what I was gonna ask. What
would you change in hip hop today? Do you think
there's also a difference between rap and hip hop?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah? I think rap is the music and hip hop
is the culture. That's my understanding. And so the hip
hop culture would include you know, fashion and break dancing,
you know, and uh and uh.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So much more.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But rap itself is the music, you know, So yeah,
that's the difference to me.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
But what would you change in hip hop today?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, one of the questions is was there any music
that I felt had a negative impact on hip hop? First,
I wasn't gonna answer it because I didn't want to
try to alienate anybody. But then I said, I have
to be true to myself. Charlemagne did a book and
I think it's called Why Small Talk Sucks.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
No, Get honest or die line, and it's why small
talk sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
So there was some initially some questions that I didn't
want to answer because I didn't want to offend anybody.
After reading his book, I just wait a minute. I'm
gonna have to just be honest, put my journey out there,
and just let it be what it is. So I
went back and where I had said no comment, I
said drill music because and not all drill music, not
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all drill music.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't like the drill music that talks about the dead.
I do not like that disrespecting the dead. I do
not like that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't like music that challenges your ops, you know,
or I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
For that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's a whole different level that I don't care for,
even though there are some drill artists who have done
songs that don't always express those type of sentiments. So
I don't want to say all drill music is bad,
you know. I don't want to say that all any
type of hip hop music is good.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't want to say that, you know, I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Explain also why you're not necessarily a rapper or a
DJ or anything like that, but you have the experience
and understanding of what hip hop is well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I do because I was around it. These people, these icons,
these legends, would walk into the door, like there was
hardly a day that I did not meet a hip
hop legend.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Coming to Power one oh five point one.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And you know that because you were there with me
most of the time. I got to meet them. I
got to hug them, I got to have a relationship
with them. I got to talk about their kids. They
showed me picture of their children. They let me into
their personal life. Most of them called me mama, like
I said. DMX called me Auntie Young and May she
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was awesome. I mean Mary J. Blige, She's hip hop
and R and B awesome. Awesome, just loving.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Blige stood at my desk my niece. I have a
niece named Shirley and at the time, she was going
through a serious health crisis.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Blige, I said, knowing that she's so spiritual, I said, Mary,
would you please say a prayer for my niece Shirley?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And she said sure. Mary started giving the most wonderful prayer.
It just sent shivers through me.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And meanwhile, her label reps are saying, Mary, we got
to go because she had a plane to catch, but
Mary would not leave.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Until she finished that plath.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And it was just awesome, you know, and I really appreciate.
The only problem is I didn't have the the the
vocals up, so when I looked at the video, it
was just Mary Jaborn.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah. That broke my heart.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So if you hear this, I want you to know
I thank you anyway, just knowing that you took the time,
you cared enough to take the time to say a
prayer for a stranger. And these artists don't know what
they can do for a person. Just their smile, just
their love. People look up to them. Yeah, they're only human.
They make mistakes like anybody else. I try not to
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idolize them, even though sometimes I do, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't think people.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Can say though did just like everybody else. They're not
just like everybody else. I mean, they went through the fire,
you know, to be who they are, to overcome all
the obstacles. Anything that you want to do in life,
there's a there's a price to pay. They were willing
to pay that price. So I have to honor them.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And by the way, and I hope you're happy to
hear this, I do love Kendrick. I do love him. Okay,
I only got to know him more.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I always knew him through you, but I also got
to know him more of course recently with everything that's
going on and his five Grammys. Congratulations to him. Yeah,
so I'm blessed, you know, blessed. I mean the baby
came in here recently and he asked about me, and
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you know, when he didn't see me, he threw a
little tantrum. And so when he got outside, he had
his label Rep. Sherry do a video and he did
a FaceTime with me.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I'm like, oh my god. He was like, I missed you.
I'm like, oh I missed you. He said, when you
weren't here.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I was stopping my feet, you know, And it's just
love like that. A Snoop Dogg when his mom had
passed away, he came in and you were at the
You led him to the front desk because he was
looking for me, and he did a video and he said,
hello mother. He said, I wanted one of your hugs,
but you're not here today, so I'm going to send
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you a virtual hug. I mean, Snoop Dogg, Hello mother.
He was looking for that comfort, he was looking for
because I embraced them with love, with no expectation of anything.
And that's the relationship I have with them. So it's
a working relationship with him, Bob. It's not just what
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I read in the books. I experienced the love, the
respect of these people.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Rick Ross.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Rick Ross sent six cases twice. He sent six cases
of bel air to iHeart, and then he sent six
cases to my job, I mean, to my home. And
everybody wanted to be my friend. Everybody, my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, Hi, auntie y, how you're doing. Yeah? You know,
have a extra.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Ballo bel air, know, I mean, just wonderful, wonderful things.
Neo's not a hip hop artist, but he's written for
hip hop artists, and I had to include Neo because
Neo's my darling. He made sure I had flowers on
Valentine's Day. Neo would always just show so much love
(32:19):
for me. And in the book, I say, Neo, I
made you a rapper just so I could include you
in my book, you know, And I mean just you know,
French Montana, just gosh, I mean, it's just just been
an awesome, awesome experience. Fat Joe, I love Fat Joe.
I love fifty cent, you know, fifty He came by
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and I wanted to have a picture with him. He said,
I'm sorry, I think, he said, sweetheart, he.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Said next time. He said, I'm in a rush.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And I was a little disappointed, only because I didn't
know if he came back, if he would remember or
I finally would even see him again. And sure enough,
when he came back, he did not forget to give
me that picture. And I am just so so honored,
and I just loved him because there are a lot
of people in the business. They're busy, they're doing things.
Some are real, some really love people. Some you know,
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they have their attitudes or they have their ways in
your mind. Yeah, oh, you will check them in a heartbeat.
Like you say, you don't play about mama. You had
to check a couple of people for me, Okay, who
will remain nameless, but you have.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
To check a couple of people, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah, and so you know, it's just it's just a
beautiful thing, you know, you just accept people on their terms.
The wonderful thing about being a receptionist for so long
and meeting all of these artists.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
There's some artists I met the first time and they
were awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Sometimes I may have met them again a third time
and they were okay, or they weren't quite as friendly,
or they were just downright, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Not friendly at all.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And then there's some who were not friendly in the
beginning and then just grew or the next time I
saw them they were awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So when you.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Meet somebody for the first and only time, you only
have that one impression of them.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I was blessed enough to see all sides of these
artists over and over again.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
What an amazing blessing. I'm so grateful to iHeartMedia, so
grateful to Power one five. I love every single station
that I worked with. You know, I was a receptionist
for six other stations.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
All and I'm retired now almost five years I came back.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I think it was yes years ago. Was that three
years ago? I think?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
During the pandemic, THEO Mitcham and Bernie Weiss, the president
of NO I think he's oh, he's I don't remember
his title right now, but I think he's even above
the president. But he and THEA invited me back because
they said after the pandemic, when people were coming in
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and they wanted a friendly face for people to see.
So imagine the shot of people seeing me sitting up
there at the desk. Everybody had their mask on and
all I could see with their eyes just the biggest
eyes like oh my God.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I'm like, yes me, it's me. Mama's back, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And we hugged and we kissed and it felt like
just felt like old times again. And during that time
I got to meet some of the younger artists. I
met Tootsie, I met Gloilla, I met Loto.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
And Doci. Who was that Doci?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, I met Doci. And it's somebody else that I
met that I really loved. But he'll he'll come back
to me. He was just very very sweet, not necessarily
a hip hop artist, but a young artist that's been
in the business for a while. So yeah, I've just
been so so blessed, so blessed, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So what do you want readers to take away from
just your experience?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I just want people to take away from my experience
how much I love hip hop, and to.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Be able to.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Go back to a time and place where hip hop
meant so much to them and still means to them,
and to be aware of the history, to respect the history,
and then for you know, people in my generation to
learn about the new artists, because everybody brings something to
hip hop, everybody, you know, I love the diversity of
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hip hop. I love that as well. You know, there's
room for everybody in hip hop. But it's just important
to respect and honor the foundation of hip hop, the
origins of hip hop, and the people who put it
on the planet, and everybody be real and honest about
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their contribution to the genre. Whatever credit that you take,
let it be credit for something that you actually did,
or true and honest to hip hop, no more and
no less. That's what we need, and that's why document
your journeys. Going to help that a lot for all
heads like me who are forgetting things and for the
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young people who want to see their story in writing.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
It's important. Music is important. It is so can you
tell everybody where? Book? You can get.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Hip Hop Time Capsule Document your Personal Journey on Amazon.
It's available now and it's doing very well. But I
hope everybody will take the time and pick up a copy,
and I hope you have an awesome time and if
you would please leave a review, that would be wonderful.
I have a website that we're working on right now.
(37:56):
It's going to be www dot tem scipio. Give me
about another week. If you have any questions, you'll be
able to go on that website and get more information.
But the book is on Amazon and I hope you
enjoy it and have a ball.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Now before we close out my question, can you tell
me what artists you would include on our iHeartRadio station?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
What artists I would include an iHeartRadio station?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Okay, I feel that there are some artists that would
be considered old school that transition.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Well into new school.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So if I had to do some planning today, it
would definitely be Snoop.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Dogg from the old school. Who would you like? What
do you think? MC Good?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Oh my god, is timeless. EMC Hammer is timeless. Fifteen
years from now, he'll still be relevant. He is truly,
truly one of a kind. Snoop dog will always always
have L L cool J. L L cool J can
get up and perform right now like he did thirty
years ago. Eminem timeless. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You know, I wonder if Dagie Fresh could come back
and mat but his his skill, that could be.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Oh Man beatboxing.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
There's nobody like him, absolutely nobody like him. I mean,
there are a couple of other artists that that did well,
but nobody like him.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
And he still looks so good. It looks so good.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's like when he was at the the Yankee State
Stadium performance. I mean, I could have looked at videos
from him over thirty years ago and to make he
would have looked the same.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Oh my god, that's for this for your I heard station,
for my art station.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Yeah, it would have to be. Donky Fresh would be
on the playlist. Snoop Dogg would be on the playlist.
Pop Smoke would be on the playlist of course. Oh
so Alive or Gone, DMX, Tupop the Baby, and two
Chains two Jazz.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I love two Chains and specific songs. I'm different.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
What's the song that you heard first where you were
introduced to hip hop?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
You have that song Oh good Time? Yeah, well it's
a disco song.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But hip hop different aspects of all types of music, right,
jazz and funk, disco, and they took the best parts
of those musics and made their own thing, you know,
like James Brown, who is a funk artist, number one
in the business, James Brown soul and funk artists. His
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breakbeats were used in the early days of hip hop
almost all of the hip hop songs. It's called sam
when you take a part of a certain music when
you know that, I'm just saying it for some of
you young folks who might not know, uh you know,
take a certain part of the music and use it
for the break, and then they elongated the break and
that's what everybody would be getting down, you know and
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break dancing, and I mean just awesome.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And I.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Give a shout out to uh DJ Cool Heirk, you know,
for having that very very historic and important party. Okay,
And I also show the postcard the flyer in the
book for that very first hip hop party that was recognized.
I don't know that that was the first hip hop party,
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but the first hip hop party that was.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Put on the map. And give a shout out to
DJ cool Herk for that. You know, yes, well, this
was it was one of the sweetheart Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Now tell them again where they can find it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
You can find it on Amazon. That's where it's at
right now. I hopeing to broaden it to other outlets,
but at this time it's only on Amazon, and I
hope you'll go and pick up your copy and begin
your hip hop journey.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yes, and this was Building Black Business podcast. I'm Tailor
Haes and.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
We're with I'm Anita Cipio Mama for sure. Oh yes,
Hi, guys, we are now on building Black Business podcasts.
I'm your host, Terry Hayes, and I am with someone.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How do I explain this woman?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
She is phenomenal and admirable, one of the sweetest people
I've ever met. And some people may call her Mississipio
or Miss Anita, but I.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Call her Mama and thank you. We are here. I'm
so excited to be here with you. Now for people
who don't.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Know, yes, how would you describe now you know author
miss and Minisipio.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes, I am well, first of all, I like to
say it, I'm pretty awesome, and I'm very very proud
of myself or the hard work and everything that went
into me being an author.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It was not easy. It was a great challenge.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But at the end of the day, I'm very proud
of the product that I have made and I hope
it's something that's enjoyable for everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And her product is hip Hop Time Capsule Document your
personal journey.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, now, how did you what was the inspiration?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, so, on the fiftieth anniversary of Hip Hop, I
was at Yankee Stadium. I was there with my family,
my niece, de niece, my daughter, Arlene, my nephew Melvin,
my nephew Kevin, and.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
My son Misa.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So we went and we had those those up in
the sky seats, those just happy to be here since
and we were just so grateful. And as I looked
around at the sea of people, I noticed people of
all different ages, you know, with their hip hop gearn
some were my age, they went their sixties, you know, forties, thirties,
(01:50):
you know, younger. I'm like, oh wow, each one of
these people. I didn't think of it that night. It
was only like a few days later. I feel like
I was inspired. I feel like God gave me this idea.
Whereas I said.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Each one of those people have a story about.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Their journey and their love of hip hop, what hip
hop means to them in their everyday life. And so
I started thinking, like, how can I help people document
their story because it's very very important, you know now
with everything that's going on in hip hop, it's very
important for people to know maybe what their mother loved
(02:26):
when she was growing up, what their father used to
listen to, their own journey as well.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I thought this was a good idea to document it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Who is your favorite perfore minutes that happens Dougie Fresh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Dougie Fresh, and that's a hard decision to make because
everybody was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I saw some of my most favorite iconic artists and
it was very, very hard.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
But I have to say at the end, it was
Dougie Fresh that took me out.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It took me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I can only still know how to do like he
says good as he's ever.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And he looks like he's just getting younger by the day.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I haven't to meet him. Oh way before I
was even in this business, I was in Vegas at
the MGM Hotel and he was like, I guess going
back to his room or something like that. Everyone like
fanned around him. He was able to take He's awesome.
I never I never got a chance to meet him,
(03:26):
but I would have Loveday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Has it come up period? I know, I hope he will,
and when he does, make sure you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Got you now.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I will question though, Yeah, what did you wear?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Because in the beginning of the book you were talking
about which I really like, how you said that hip
hop has to do with like fashion as well expressing yourself.
And you're saying that the hats that people used to wear,
it's like their African crowd.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
No looking like a grandma.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't have any hip hop gear on. Okay, but
my spirit was again like when I was twenty five.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Years old, so what was your but what was your
go to hat back then?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And Mike, Actually, I never wore hat. I was never
into the fashion part of it. Like I didn't wear
the sweatshirts or the big chains or any of that.
When I was younger, I used to mostly wear like
I used to just wear like maybe turtlenecks and stuff,
you know, or I loved My thing was like high heels.
I always loved hiking. So I wasn't into the fashion
(04:27):
of it. But the music and the culture you know,
otherwise was just something.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I really really loved. Okay, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well first let me I already know this, but
for people to know who's your favorite rap who's your
top three favorite rapper?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
My top three would have to be DMX.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, I thought, okay, this is in particular order.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, Okay, I'm struggling now because I actually have a
lot and I really struggled answering these questions because we
give a hundred questions in the book. Yes, prompt questions
for people to answer, and I was as I was
trying to answer the questions, it was really difficult to
narrow down.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I'm gonna have to say d MX, Kendrick Lamar,
that's your journey.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Even though I do love them, I do love him.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm a fan. I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm a fan, But I will say that it would
have to be d MX, Snoop Dogg. Okay, and oh gosh,
I'm trying to think who that third one would be, Snoop.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Dog That, Yeah, I'm first. I'm drawing a blank. Tupac
would have to be first.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, so you you spoke of Snoop Dogg and now
you're seeing I guess. I mean, I guess hip hop
always been a mixed with like politics as well, right, right,
So how do you see hip hop going now? Do
(06:05):
you like the combination of hip hop and politics or
do you think it should be in a sense separate.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, I kind of think that everybody has the right
to their own opinions, their own opinions. I think everybody
has the right to vote or promote their own best interests.
I don't necessarily have to agree with them. Okay, Sometimes
I don't, but I try to keep that separate for
the from the love of the person themselves, you know,
(06:34):
how separate the artists. I know how to separate the
artists and what they bring to hip hop from their
own personal views.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I think that's the best way to do it.
If not, you know, really, you go down a dark hole.
Yeah yeah, But so what would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Are you more of a rap girly or R and
B girly?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Though a rap definitely? Oh? Absolutely? So what would I mean?
I walked to Power one oh five?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, I'm working for iHeart for eighteen years and then
for fifteen years of the Breakfast club being there, that's
all I listened to OS Okay, I'll be up at
the desk jamming.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I know what I'm saying. So yeah, I love rap music.
So how would you describe the feeling it gives you? This? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, because there's so many different types of rap music.
There's music that is uplifting, there's music that is political
oriented and makes me feel strong and powerful and knowing
that there is, you know, a way out of some
of the things that we're going through in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It just strengthens me, you know. And then there are songs.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That just it's just pure fun and entertainment, and then
songs that teach you about the history about life itself.
I love the storytelling aspect of hip hop.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Do you think, well, you know, I think Kendrick's bringing
it back, But do you think the storytelling was getting
lost at a point?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I do, and I missed it. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I'm old school. I'm old school, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I love, you know, having been there, like from the
beginning of hip hop, and I love in some ways
it has evolved, not all the ways, you know, but
it has to evolve, right, and so but I'm classic
old school, you know. I just love that good old
music from back in the day. But I do have
a lot of favorite artists up today, right, you know,
(08:38):
And so I just I just love the whole journey that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We're going through.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What generation do you think has the best hip hop?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
My generation.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That so, do you think there's anything from the older
generation that could take from the new generation? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The old something from the older generation society?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Do you think they can learn something from the new generation?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, I mean, and the new generation can learn something
from these always, Yeah, that's what the book is all
about like learning the history. I think it's very important
for young artists to learn who opened the doors.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For them, who started this, who paved the way.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
And there are times when I felt that maybe some
people are not that interested in knowing who, you know,
who set down these the roadway, the pathway for them
to do what they're doing today. And that's why I
think Hip Hop Dime Capsule is very important in that way.
As a matter of fact, aside from the one hundred
questions that it includes I've incorporated.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
First of all, this.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Book is done in conjunction with my brother, DJ Sippio
from South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So when I saw this whole.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Event and I I went back and I told him,
I said, wow, I said, I need to come up
with a hundred questions.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I said, listen, you a DJ. You've been a DJ
for over forty years.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He was born in New York City, but then he
moved to Orangeburg, South Carolina, and he made a way
for himself down there, very popular, very well respected. So
I said, listen, I love the music, but I don't
know a lot about the history. Can you help me
with some of the history of hip hop? And then
I asked him to join me in deciding some of
the questions for the book. So he was very very
(10:30):
helpful and we worked together well and that was awesome. So,
but our goal was to try to help the young
people understand about old school and then the old school
learn about what our new artists are contributing, because both
are important.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Both are important.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What do you think was the hardest part making this book?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The hardest part making this book was trying to narrow
down some of the answers. Okay, because my brother and
I we also answered the same questions, the same one
hundred prompt questions. That was very difficult to make decisions.
You know, who's your favorite artists, who's your favorite producers?
What is one hip hop concert that you missed it
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you would have loved to have been through when you
were sad or you are down? What hip hop songs
resonated with you? You know? And all types of questions that
make you stop and think, go back in time, have
some good memories, you know. And then like I said,
we incorporated well, what I was gonna say is we
incorporated QR codes. Yes, I see with that that will
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give you direct access to some of the history of
hip hop videos where you can see old school dancing,
you can see new school artists.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Music of the day, classic old hip hop music. It's
just a fun book.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's a hybrid book and a journal, So the journal part,
you're documenting your story. I also include fifty trivia questions
and answers, fifty quotes by some of the biggest legends
in hip hop that are timeless, quotes that I don't
care they may have been from thirty years ago, today,
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they're still going to resonate with you because they're positive
and they're timeless, and fifty years from now they'll still
resonate with somebody because of their positivity. Absolutely, and that's very,
very important. And today, especially in today's world, we need
more positivity, we need more love, we need more good memories.
It's a feel good book. Yeah, you know, I mean,
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I hope everybody will feel the same way that me
and DJ Sippio feel about it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So, what do you think was the easiest part of
making it?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The easiest part was being driven by the love of it,
being driven by the love, wanting to put out the
best product, wanting to put out the most accurate product.
Doing so much research and It was fun because it
was a learning experience. My brother introduced me to something
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that I didn't know, but independent of him, I did.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
My own research.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I did my own research. Another aspect of it is
in me answering my questions that the one hundred questions,
I was able to tell stories about my experiences with
some of the biggest legends in hip hop, my personal experiences.
Having been the receptionist for iHeartMedia, I had a personal
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relationship with these artists. DMX used to call me Auntie.
Snoop Dogg calls me Mama.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
That video was everywhere and I love him and I
love them all, and it's still If you go to
Google right now and put it in anitissipio and Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You're gonna see me having a fit just being so
happy to see him. Because I've been a receptionist actually
for thirty years. So I used to work for Westwood
one in my early days and one they would have
artists of all genres. So I met Will Smith when
he was just a young man getting into the business.
(14:07):
He had just started being a rapper. Yeah, and he
came in and he was so awesome. The first rapper
I ever met.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I didn't know what to expect, but he was.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
So awesome, so polite, and I said to myself, hmm,
he's gonna go pleass, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And that's the understatement of the year, right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And so then over thirty years later, when I'm retiring
my daughter little one right here, told him said, you know,
you know, mama's inside, you know, mama's her retirement day.
And he came and screaming, Mama, mama. So it was
our first time seeing each other after thirty something years
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in the business, and I was just so honored.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, no one could meet me heat no, no, no,
it can't happen.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I said.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
One of the questions, and see if you could answer,
thank god you have in one of the in the book,
if the lyrics in one of your favorite songs could
come true for a day, which lyrics would it be?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do you have an answer for? No? I couldn't say.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I couldn't think of a song where if the lyrics
could come true for a day, what would it be?
I just could not just draw a blank on that question.
That's my own question.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you were a rap song,
what song would it be?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
If I was one a rap song. If I was
a rap song, is that in the book, So that
I missed that one. If I was a rap song,
what would it be? Oh man, that's a good one.
I need to add that one.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
If I was a rap song, what would be? I
would say? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Maybe unity. Unity by Queen Latifa, Unity by Queen Latifa.
The way she commands respect. I love the way you know,
she just lets you know, look, I'm a queen. I
need to be treated like a queen. Yeah, like that attitude,
you know. Yeah, and you know what, ladies today need
more of an attitude like that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think is this I think it's packaged differently now.
You know it's all about sex appeal and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Now, yeah, you know, And I mean I mean that's okay.
Sex appeal has its place, but dignity and respect for
yourself that has a place as well. Yeah, you know, so,
I mean a nice little combination of the two.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, actually, now that you wrote a hip hop time capsule,
you're gonna write it R and B because you.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Do have you like R and B as well? I
like R and B.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, this is the thing. The amm of iHeartMedia program director.
She had advised me when I first started writing this
book that I should also give in depth, detailed stories
about all of the artists that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I have pictures included. So as I started doing this.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Project, the project became overwhelming and it became just too much,
a mishmash of things in one book. So I decided,
as you will see in the book and the introduction
of the book, to break the book up into two
different parts. So my next book is going to be
about hip hop artists as well, but it's going to
have pictures of us, it's gonna have detailed stories. It's
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going to have more about their music, more about the history,
and I might incorporate a section of other artists that
I've met, because being in the business for thirty five years,
I have met almost everybody from Taylor Smith to I mean,
my goodness, Taylor Smith.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Gosh, I'm doing a blank right now.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
It's just like so many people, you know, Taylor Smith
and Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton, just just a plethora
of people from all different genres, And so I incorporate
some of that as well.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, yeah, so cann't get a sneak peek, like, what
would be what was like one of your favorite moments,
one of my favorite moments artists?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh my god, well it would have been Snoop Dogg. Honestly,
I just loved meeting him.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Because he's so cool. He's so cool. I was at
the desk, I'm working.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I look up and I see somebody walking and I
see shoulders going like this.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I'm like, oh my god, that's Snoop deep Oh doubleg.
Oh my goodness. That was awesome. And I would say
that DMX. I love DMX. You know.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I love Fat Joe, I love the Baby, I love
two Chains.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean, it's just a plethora of people.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I love Rick Ross. I met Mary J. Blige and I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Looking at all the pictures here to help me. I
met PARTI B.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was just awesome, know and uh so that was
I met Pop Smoke.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was with you. I was yeah, and were you
with me? When I put lipstick on? And he was away? Yeah?
When Okay, he was so very ic. It's cool. He's like,
yeah he was, he said to Okay, So this is
what happened. I was on my way.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It was after five o'clock. DJ pro Style had just
finished interviewing him.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I didn't know who he was. So DJ pro Style
brings him to the desk. You were there, Oh my god.
You're always around the little.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
One, and I talk about you in the book, So
you're always around mama.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So DJ pro he says. He says, no, miss Anita,
this is Pop Smoke. I'm like, hi, how are you?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I'm just getting ready to go for the day,
so I have my fresh lipstick on. Everything is just beautiful.
Pop Smoke grabs me and pulls me into him like this,
and when he lets me go, there's a perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Beautiful red lipstick.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And in his ten thousand dollars Louis Vitton jacket that
he had just been talking about in his interview. He
looked down, he looked at pro Style and he said,
I'll sing you the bell.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Oh my, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And it's so ironic because I had always wondered if
he was able to get that staying out of his jacket.
And you were the one that came to me and
said to me, mom, you no Pop Smoke.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Is gone. And I'm like.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Who, And you said, mom, remember the guy that you
got the lipstick?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Go on on, and I was just horrified, horrified, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So some of the questions are, has there ever been
any deaths of hip hop legends that affected you in
a certain way, and if so, how you know?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Another one is if you could spend.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The whole day with your favorite hip hop artists, who
would it be? And I chose Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know, we'd been chilling, you know, laid back, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I also give some of the songs that we
would be jamming to me him, Boss Lady and the
whole family, you know, and if you could so. So
it's just a lot of interesting questions. And like I said,
in me and my brother answering our questions, we give
you a lot of information about hip hop and how experiences.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What do you think is the most important thing history
wise for the young generation to.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Know about hip hop? Really in general, it's just knowing
who paved the way for you that is incredibly important
to so that you can have respect for these artists.
I mean, I put like I talk about DJ Morley mal.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You know, he was one of the first DJs to
put scratching on a record, you know, I mean many
people have done it, you know, in the parks and
but he was one of the first DJs. And I
worked with DJ Molly Mal. I love DJ Molly mal
ed Lover, who was on MTV Raps, one of the
first shows that played videos for rap artists. And you
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know what I'm saying, And you know, these are iconic
people that I think it's very important to know about them.
Kumo D did did the forward for my book. I
was honored to have Kumo D do the forward for
my book.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Kumo D.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
My best friend of sixty years, literally sixty years. I
met her when I was in kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I'm going to give my age away now, don't start
doing the math, okay, because I'm thirty five.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And so he was a good friend of my best
friend's younger brother and his name is Dano. So Dana
was the DJ for kum O D when they when
it was Kumo D in the Treacherous Three. So, as
a young girl me going over to visit my friend Sonah,
he was there, and of course, I mean he was
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just a young guy. Whoever knew he would grow up
to be the legendary Kumo D.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And then on top of that, my brother DJ Sippio
went to school with him.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Oh wow. So when it was.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Time to write the book, he was the first person
that I thought of to do this book.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
To do a forward for this book, your brother and
DC to hip hop.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My brother did introduce me to hip hop. Okayah, I okay.
So it's around nineteen seventy seven and we share we
share a wall between our bedrooms. So there was this
song good Times we uh we are the good Times,
and so I love that song.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I love that song.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But then one day I'm listening to him play you know,
this song, and he's going.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Good good good good good good times. And I'm like,
what is going on? Over and over good good good times?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
And me and my mother's like, oh my god, what's
going It's driving me crazy. I'm in my bedroom trying
to watch Happy Days, trying to say for his son
good times and all like it, good good good.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So I said what is that? I said, why are
you doing that? He said, well, it's called scratching. I
said scratching. I said, oh my god, it's so annoying.
You so annoying.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Here's my great song that I love. And he's back there,
good good good, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So that was my first introduction to well hip hop.
So when did you fall in love with hip hop?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
This?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I fell in love with hip hop when I started
hearing artists like Salt and Pepper, like Run DMC, like
Cool mo O D and uh Eric B and Rock
Cam l El Cool J, you know, I mean, and
then of course you know DMX later on, you know,
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in the in the in the years. But uh, I mean,
I just love the way it makes me want to
dance and have fun. And again, like I said, there's
there's the real life thing about hip hop, like that
you you know, that you that you get from the
political side of hip hop and those artists you know,
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I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
You know, and k R S One.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, they used to spit knowledge, you know, and
fairly different from some of the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Music that we hear today.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So okay, so that's what I was gonna ask. What
would you change in hip hop today? Do you think
there's also a difference between rap and hip hop?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah? I think rap is the music and hip hop
is the culture. That's my understanding. And so the hip
hop culture would include you know, fashion and break dancing,
you know, and uh and uh.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So much more.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But rap itself is the music, you know, So yeah,
that's the difference to me.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
But what would you change in hip hop today?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, one of the questions is was there any music
that I felt had a negative impact on hip hop? First,
I wasn't gonna answer it because I didn't want to
try to alienate anybody. But then I said, I have
to be true to myself. Charlemagne did a book and
I think it's called Why Small Talk Sucks.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
No, Get honest or die line, and it's why small
talk sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
So there was some initially some questions that I didn't
want to answer because I didn't want to offend anybody.
After reading his book, I just wait a minute. I'm
gonna have to just be honest, put my journey out there,
and just let it be what it is. So I
went back and where I had said no comment, I
said drill music because and not all drill music, not
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all drill music.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't like the drill music that talks about the dead.
I do not like that disrespecting the dead. I do
not like that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't like music that challenges your ops, you know,
or I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
For that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's a whole different level that I don't care for,
even though there are some drill artists who have done
songs that don't always express those type of sentiments. So
I don't want to say all drill music is bad,
you know. I don't want to say that all any
type of hip hop music is good.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't want to say that, you know, I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Explain also why you're not necessarily a rapper or a
DJ or anything like that, but you have the experience
and understanding of what hip hop is well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I do because I was around it. These people, these icons,
these legends, would walk into the door, like there was
hardly a day that I did not meet a hip
hop legend.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Coming to Power one oh five point one.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And you know that because you were there with me
most of the time. I got to meet them. I
got to hug them, I got to have a relationship
with them. I got to talk about their kids. They
showed me picture of their children. They let me into
their personal life. Most of them called me mama, like
I said. DMX called me Auntie Young and May she
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was awesome. I mean Mary J. Blige, She's hip hop
and R and B awesome. Awesome, just loving.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Blige stood at my desk my niece. I have a
niece named Shirley and at the time, she was going
through a serious health crisis.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Blige, I said, knowing that she's so spiritual, I said, Mary,
would you please say a prayer for my niece Shirley?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And she said sure. Mary started giving the most wonderful prayer.
It just sent shivers through me.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And meanwhile, her label reps are saying, Mary, we got
to go because she had a plane to catch, but
Mary would not leave.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Until she finished that plath.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And it was just awesome, you know, and I really appreciate.
The only problem is I didn't have the the the
vocals up, so when I looked at the video, it
was just Mary Jaborn.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah. That broke my heart.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So if you hear this, I want you to know
I thank you anyway, just knowing that you took the time,
you cared enough to take the time to say a
prayer for a stranger. And these artists don't know what
they can do for a person. Just their smile, just
their love. People look up to them. Yeah, they're only human.
They make mistakes like anybody else. I try not to
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idolize them, even though sometimes I do, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't think people.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Can say though did just like everybody else. They're not
just like everybody else. I mean, they went through the fire,
you know, to be who they are, to overcome all
the obstacles. Anything that you want to do in life,
there's a there's a price to pay. They were willing
to pay that price. So I have to honor them.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And by the way, and I hope you're happy to
hear this, I do love Kendrick. I do love him. Okay,
I only got to know him more.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I always knew him through you, but I also got
to know him more of course recently with everything that's
going on and his five Grammys. Congratulations to him. Yeah,
so I'm blessed, you know, blessed. I mean the baby
came in here recently and he asked about me, and
(30:27):
you know, when he didn't see me, he threw a
little tantrum. And so when he got outside, he had
his label Rep. Sherry do a video and he did
a FaceTime with me.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I'm like, oh my god. He was like, I missed you.
I'm like, oh I missed you. He said, when you
weren't here.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I was stopping my feet, you know, And it's just
love like that. A Snoop Dogg when his mom had
passed away, he came in and you were at the
You led him to the front desk because he was
looking for me, and he did a video and he said,
hello mother. He said, I wanted one of your hugs,
but you're not here today, so I'm going to send
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you a virtual hug. I mean, Snoop Dogg, Hello mother.
He was looking for that comfort, he was looking for
because I embraced them with love, with no expectation of anything.
And that's the relationship I have with them. So it's
a working relationship with him, Bob. It's not just what
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I read in the books. I experienced the love, the
respect of these people.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Rick Ross.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Rick Ross sent six cases twice. He sent six cases
of bel air to iHeart, and then he sent six
cases to my job, I mean, to my home. And
everybody wanted to be my friend. Everybody, my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, Hi, auntie y, how you're doing. Yeah? You know,
have a extra.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Ballo bel air, know, I mean, just wonderful, wonderful things.
Neo's not a hip hop artist, but he's written for
hip hop artists, and I had to include Neo because
Neo's my darling. He made sure I had flowers on
Valentine's Day. Neo would always just show so much love
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for me. And in the book, I say, Neo, I
made you a rapper just so I could include you
in my book, you know, And I mean just you know,
French Montana, just gosh, I mean, it's just just been
an awesome, awesome experience. Fat Joe, I love Fat Joe.
I love fifty cent, you know, fifty He came by
(32:41):
and I wanted to have a picture with him. He said,
I'm sorry, I think, he said, sweetheart, he.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Said next time. He said, I'm in a rush.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And I was a little disappointed, only because I didn't
know if he came back, if he would remember or
I finally would even see him again. And sure enough,
when he came back, he did not forget to give
me that picture. And I am just so so honored,
and I just loved him because there are a lot
of people in the business. They're busy, they're doing things.
Some are real, some really love people. Some you know,
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they have their attitudes or they have their ways in
your mind. Yeah, oh, you will check them in a heartbeat.
Like you say, you don't play about mama. You had
to check a couple of people for me, Okay, who
will remain nameless, but you have.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
To check a couple of people, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah, and so you know, it's just it's just a
beautiful thing, you know, you just accept people on their terms.
The wonderful thing about being a receptionist for so long
and meeting all of these artists.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
There's some artists I met the first time and they
were awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Sometimes I may have met them again a third time
and they were okay, or they weren't quite as friendly,
or they were just downright, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Not friendly at all.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And then there's some who were not friendly in the
beginning and then just grew or the next time I
saw them they were awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So when you.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Meet somebody for the first and only time, you only
have that one impression of them.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I was blessed enough to see all sides of these
artists over and over again.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
What an amazing blessing. I'm so grateful to iHeartMedia, so
grateful to Power one five. I love every single station
that I worked with. You know, I was a receptionist
for six other stations.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
All and I'm retired now almost five years I came back.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I think it was yes years ago. Was that three
years ago? I think?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
During the pandemic, THEO Mitcham and Bernie Weiss, the president
of NO I think he's oh, he's I don't remember
his title right now, but I think he's even above
the president. But he and THEA invited me back because
they said after the pandemic, when people were coming in
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and they wanted a friendly face for people to see.
So imagine the shot of people seeing me sitting up
there at the desk. Everybody had their mask on and
all I could see with their eyes just the biggest
eyes like oh my God.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I'm like, yes me, it's me. Mama's back, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And we hugged and we kissed and it felt like
just felt like old times again. And during that time
I got to meet some of the younger artists. I
met Tootsie, I met Gloilla, I met Loto.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
And Doci. Who was that Doci?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, I met Doci. And it's somebody else that I
met that I really loved. But he'll he'll come back
to me. He was just very very sweet, not necessarily
a hip hop artist, but a young artist that's been
in the business for a while. So yeah, I've just
been so so blessed, so blessed, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So what do you want readers to take away from
just your experience?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I just want people to take away from my experience
how much I love hip hop, and to.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Be able to.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Go back to a time and place where hip hop
meant so much to them and still means to them,
and to be aware of the history, to respect the history,
and then for you know, people in my generation to
learn about the new artists, because everybody brings something to
hip hop, everybody, you know, I love the diversity of
(36:42):
hip hop. I love that as well. You know, there's
room for everybody in hip hop. But it's just important
to respect and honor the foundation of hip hop, the
origins of hip hop, and the people who put it
on the planet, and everybody be real and honest about
(37:02):
their contribution to the genre. Whatever credit that you take,
let it be credit for something that you actually did,
or true and honest to hip hop, no more and
no less. That's what we need, and that's why document
your journeys. Going to help that a lot for all
heads like me who are forgetting things and for the
(37:23):
young people who want to see their story in writing.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
It's important. Music is important. It is so can you
tell everybody where? Book? You can get.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Hip Hop Time Capsule Document your Personal Journey on Amazon.
It's available now and it's doing very well. But I
hope everybody will take the time and pick up a copy,
and I hope you have an awesome time and if
you would please leave a review, that would be wonderful.
I have a website that we're working on right now.
(37:56):
It's going to be www dot tem scipio. Give me
about another week. If you have any questions, you'll be
able to go on that website and get more information.
But the book is on Amazon and I hope you
enjoy it and have a ball.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Now before we close out my question, can you tell
me what artists you would include on our iHeartRadio station?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
What artists I would include an iHeartRadio station?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Okay, I feel that there are some artists that would
be considered old school that transition.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Well into new school.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So if I had to do some planning today, it
would definitely be Snoop.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Dogg from the old school. Who would you like? What
do you think? MC Good?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Oh my god, is timeless. EMC Hammer is timeless. Fifteen
years from now, he'll still be relevant. He is truly,
truly one of a kind. Snoop dog will always always
have L L cool J. L L cool J can
get up and perform right now like he did thirty
years ago. Eminem timeless. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You know, I wonder if Dagie Fresh could come back
and mat but his his skill, that could be.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Oh Man beatboxing.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
There's nobody like him, absolutely nobody like him. I mean,
there are a couple of other artists that that did well,
but nobody like him.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
And he still looks so good. It looks so good.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's like when he was at the the Yankee State
Stadium performance. I mean, I could have looked at videos
from him over thirty years ago and to make he
would have looked the same.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Oh my god, that's for this for your I heard station,
for my art station.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Yeah, it would have to be. Donky Fresh would be
on the playlist. Snoop Dogg would be on the playlist.
Pop Smoke would be on the playlist of course. Oh
so Alive or Gone, DMX, Tupop the Baby, and two
Chains two Jazz.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I love two Chains and specific songs. I'm different.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
What's the song that you heard first where you were
introduced to hip hop?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
You have that song Oh good Time? Yeah, well it's
a disco song.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But hip hop different aspects of all types of music, right,
jazz and funk, disco, and they took the best parts
of those musics and made their own thing, you know,
like James Brown, who is a funk artist, number one
in the business, James Brown soul and funk artists. His
(40:53):
breakbeats were used in the early days of hip hop
almost all of the hip hop songs. It's called sam
when you take a part of a certain music when
you know that, I'm just saying it for some of
you young folks who might not know, uh you know,
take a certain part of the music and use it
for the break, and then they elongated the break and
that's what everybody would be getting down, you know and
(41:16):
break dancing, and I mean just awesome.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And I.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Give a shout out to uh DJ Cool Heirk, you know,
for having that very very historic and important party. Okay,
And I also show the postcard the flyer in the
book for that very first hip hop party that was recognized.
I don't know that that was the first hip hop party,
(41:43):
but the first hip hop party that was.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Put on the map. And give a shout out to
DJ cool Herk for that. You know, yes, well, this
was it was one of the sweetheart Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Now tell them again where they can find it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
You can find it on Amazon. That's where it's at
right now. I hopeing to broaden it to other outlets,
but at this time it's only on Amazon, and I
hope you'll go and pick up your copy and begin
your hip hop journey.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yes, and this was Building Black Business podcast. I'm Tailor
Haes and.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
We're with I'm Anita Cipio Mama for sure. Oh yes,
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