Legendary hip-hop icon Shyne joins Jeff Weiss, Rosecrans Vic & Free at Gold Diggers in LA to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his self-titled debut album & his first U.S. tour in over two decades.He talks about working with producers like Hit-Boy, Swizz Beats,Timbaland, RZA and Dre, and breaks down the young artists he’s listening to today. He touches on Pop Smoke and Jay-Z’s legacy, and how escaping the warzone of Brooklyn Vietnam made him feel like he could do anything.Shyne revisits the making of “Bad Boyz” and other classics, and touches on his reaction to the Diddy documentary, his incarceration & return. He shares his spiritual journey from Orthodox Judaism to what he now describes as “enlightenment,” and explains how he’s involved in Belize politics in order to give a voice to the people.

Shout out to https://www.gold-diggers.com for hosting the show!

00:00 Intro

1:33 Returning to America from Belize

5:00 Timing of success

7:17 Working with Legendary Producers

7:45 What he’s going to be doing differently

9:36 The evolution of his life and hip-hop

13:00 Global view of music

15:42 Pop Smoke

17:20 Moving to Brooklyn1

19:30 His mom wanting him to go to college over rapping

20:40 Meeting Jay-Z

24:10 AI

26:45 “Bad Boyz”

35:28 Diddy documentary

39:22 Incarceration & Return

43:55 Orthodox Judaism & spiritual journey to enlightenment

48:47 Returning to Performance

52:10 Belize Parliament

1:00:22 Politics vs. Hip-Hop

1:01:49 Belize independence history

1:04:30 Unpopular Truth: Manifest Your Own Destiny

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