![]() Now, I was living in Atlanta not too long after this all went down. And it tells the incredible story of DJ Drama, a kid from Philly who grew up to be the mixtape king. SNEED: So today's show is from your series Louder Than A Riot. MADDEN: It's about the intersection of hip-hop and mass incarceration and how the criminalization of hip-hop is really a microcosm for the criminalization of Black and brown folk in America.ĬARMICHAEL: Yeah, and how the music industry can be complicit in criminalizing the art form. Who have spent the last couple years working on a show about - well, why don't y'all describe it? It's a pleasure to welcome two of my NPR colleagues, Sidney Madden. I'm James Sneed, one of the producers here at PLANET MONEY. Like, just tell us where they are so we don't have to look no more.ĬARMICHAEL: His crime - being a mixtape DJ who got so influential, it threatened the whole power structure of the music industry. Like, they're going through the roof of the building and just looking for all types of shit. MADDEN: It's clear that these officers are looking for a lot more than mixtapes, especially from the way they're barking.ĭJ DRAMA: Tell us where the guns and the drugs are. Like, huh? Like, who - y'all got one of them? Like, wait. Then they get on their radios.ĭJ DRAMA: And I hear them on the other end saying, we got one of the perps. They tell him to get on the ground, and they take his ID. MADDEN: The four officers call Drama by his government name - Tyree Simmons. And I'm like - you know, I've never had an automatic weapon pointed at me. That's what I'm thinking.ĬARMICHAEL: Yeah, but then things escalate.ĭJ DRAMA: As they pull up, they jump out with M16s, like, drawn, right at me. And all right, like, we'll get to the bottom of this. ![]() ![]() Now, Drama plays it cool 'cause he knows that whatever it is, he's not the target.ĭJ DRAMA: I'm not doing nothing, you know what I mean? I'm fucking DJ Drama. And they just, like, pull from all corners. That's when Drama steps outside to move his car.ĭJ DRAMA: I walked out the door and then that was when it just, like - SWAT and helicopters and - you know, here come the SUVs. DJ Drama was in his Atlanta studio with his affiliates, working on his next big project. And this episode is explicit in every way. This is a PLANET MONEY adaptation of Louder Than A Riot. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR.Ī warning before we begin. ![]() UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Hey, it is fundraising season, and the easiest way to support our show is to go to /planetmoney and donate to your local NPR station. ![]()
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