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Watch Battle Rap Legend Supernatural Recount The Golden Age of Freestyle in a Rare Interview with Talib Kweli
Watch Battle Rap Legend Supernatural Recount The Golden Age of Freestyle in a Rare Interview with Talib Kweli
Source: Youtube/People's Party

Watch Battle Rap Legend Supernatural Recount The Golden Age of Freestyles in a Rare Interview with Talib Kweli

Watch Battle Rap Legend Supernatural Recount The Golden Age of Freestyle in a Rare Interview with Talib Kweli Source: Youtube/People's Party

"I want to teach freestyle as a philosophy, almost as like a mental martial arts."

Talib Kweli's People's Party podcast is back this week with a rare career-spanning interview of battle rap hero, Supernatural.

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Equal parts confessional and hip-hop history masterclass, the hour-plus chat covers a lot of ground between old friends, who blazed trails (and a ton of tree) in the formative moments of the "conscious rap" era in NYC. Spanning Nat's transition from hustling in Marion, IN to sharpening his incomparable stream-of-consciousness flows in Washington Square Park to finally signing a record deal and, eventually, squandering it, the interview is an intimate portrait of freestyle's golden era from the vantage of one of its great pioneers.

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Watch Supernatural's career-spanning interview with Talib Kweli on the People's Party podcast below.