Little Brother stays the most effective teams in Hip-Hop historical past and their influence and affect remains to be flourishing some 20 years later. Phonte and Rapper Large Pooh lately shared in a wonderful podcast interview a lot about their background, together with saying that had a heavy affect on Kanye West when the Chicago famous person was early on the rise.

Little Brother sat down with the Expensive Tradition podcast, hosted by Panama Jackson. The three gents mentioned the early days of Little Brother, the influence of their 2003 album The Listening, and the character of their relationship with their former bandmate, ninth Marvel.

Followers of the group are nicely conscious of the observe “I See Now” which incorporates a robust verse from Kanye West and it could most likely determine that the producer and rapper, a member on the time of the sprawling Roc-A-Fella camp, served as an inspiration however Little Brother says it was the opposite method round.

From theGrio:

Panama Jackson: There are a variety of teams in hip hop who won’t ever be remembered. Y’all won’t ever be forgotten. Like do y’all ever sit again, mirror on that a part of it? Like y’all actually cemented a spot in a style of music in hip-hop that can by no means be forgotten.

Phonte: Um yeah, I imply Pooh I’ll allow you to take it however I’ll simply say. I believe it was extra so you recognize, Kanye didn’t affect us, we influenced him.

Panama: Yeah.

Phonte: So you recognize I simply wish to put that on the market and ensure that’s clear. Pooh you possibly can take it from right here.

Panama: Make it clear proper, I’m with you.

Large Pooh: Each once in a while you could have the moments the place you want, rattling, you recognize, look what we did. Or take a look at the influence, you recognize, that that we’ve had. However, you recognize, like, even once we after I noticed they’ve put our identify up on the Grammys once they was doing the fifth yr of hip hop, and so they had our identify and it was entrance and middle like that was that was one of many moments I used to be like, oh, censor phrase like, it was undoubtedly one of many moments, it was identical to, I count on us to at all times have high quality. I count on excellence. However it’s nonetheless surprising when folks or whenever you step again and begin seeing the excessive regard had been held in. Not that we don’t deserve it. It’s simply I’ve been so busy doing the work I don’t take a variety of time to. You recognize, sit again and acknowledge the work.

Take a look at the dialog between Little Brother and Expensive Tradition’s Panama Jackson under.

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