OG Cuicide Takes Calls From The Fans

Joe Coscarelli talks about getting access to the QC empire, and tells a very interesting story about the label and their artists. His book “Rap Capital : An Atlanta Story”is out now. ---- 00:00 Intro 0:53 - How he got the idea to cover Atlanta hip hop artist surrounding QC label  6:48 - How Atlanta continues to churn out rap stars that are originally street legends, Lil Baby, Jeezy, BMF 9:02 - Migos regenerating so many different times, surviving the “Drake hype wave” after “Versace”  10:30 - Migos being like legendary group “The Ramones” staying to their sound, putting out so much good music in the last 10 yrs  12:55 - QC being overlooked for how stable they’ve been, putting out Migos, Yatchy, Lil Baby, City Girls  14:16 - Working for The NY Times, Doing stories on Yatchy, Migos, Offset etc before doing book on Lil Baby 19:03 - Being like a fly on the wall around Artist like Marlo, Migos, Lil Baby etc. showing he’s interested and engaged in the culture  23:33 - Marlo confiding in his father about k*lling a man, Marlo being k*lled, his father not being ashamed of his son  26:32 - The stories of these artist being like Greek tragedies and mafia stories that people love like The Godfather 27:46 - Letting the facts speak for themselves, not being interested in wether rap music is good or bad for the world, letting people speak for themselves  29:08 - Lil Baby’s mom being a huge reason the focus was on him for book, Baby being very smart 30:08 - Seeing P pull out a big stack of cash out of Lil Baby’s pocket and telling Joe the money Baby can make in the streets was why he was so reluctant to believe in music  32:08 - Drake telling DJ Drama that Migos is going to be big before Drake even met them  48:43 - “On to the next one” culture, their being so much choice right now, not seeing superstars like we used to  50:48 - Most people stop absorbing new music by the time their 25 or have a kid, people listening to older music more than new music  53:54 - Adam on not seeing Ice Spice blowing up his first time seeing her  5