Music
ORGANIZED GRIND: THE PODCAST is BACK in FULL EFFECT with Episode 48! This time we have super-producer and emcee Big Jess of the legendary Unknown Prophets here to chop it up while the United States is battling the coronavirus pandemic. We jump right into that (0:00) - Growing up in Northeast Minneapolis and how Big Jess discovered Hip-Hop (4:46) - How Hip-Hop fills the void for a young man growing up without a strong male influence (8:34) - Getting into creating music and beginning to collaborate with Mad Son in high school (11:56) - Discovering the Minneapolis Hip-Hop scene for the first time and meeting the early Rhymesayers crew in the mid-late 1990s (17:20) - Big Jess (f/ Brent Snyder) - "Still Feeling Good" (prod. by Big Jess) (24:26) - Big Jess goes in discussing the classic Unknown Prophets album "World Premier" and getting his first MPC (28:20) - Collaborating with Slug on the Unknown Prophets song "Never" (38:46) - Getting into solo Big Jess material and working with Promoe of LoopTroop (47:45) - Creating "Glass Half Full" with Big Wiz and working with Wanz (the chorus vocalist on Macklemore's "Thrift Shop") (58:50) - Producing "The Revival" project for Musab (1:07:07) - Holding it down for his family and what he's up to in 2020 (1:13:00) - Unknown Prophets - "Fly Again" (1:31:21)