Sacha Jenkins’ 5 Best Gems From “The Cipher” Q&A: “Eminem’s One Of The Greatest Writers & Performers Hip-Hop Has Ever Known” [Audio]

Written By Shawn Setaro

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[Ego Trip co-founder and Fresh Dressed director Sacha Jenkins recently sat down with hip-hop personality and SOHH Correspondent Shawn Setaro on his popular “The Cipher” podcast. Listen to the full interview and check out five gems Sacha dropped during the Q&A.]

On the meaning of hip-hop:

“What is hip-hop? Hip-hop is a reflection of the environment and the climate. Hip-hop is the dozens, making fun of people. Hip-hop is insecurity. Hip-hop is the byproduct of oppression. It’s the blues. It’s having a new pair of sneakers and feeling good about it. It’s all those things.”

On Ego Trip’s The (White) Rapper Show, which he co-created:

“I think the show is reflective of the DNA of Ego Trip, which is nerding out on history and culture, having our facts together, wanting to say something, and having fun with it. That was what we were about.”

On the relationship between biker gangs and hip-hop:

“If you go from Easy Rider to Altamont to the South Bronx, the South Bronx was Altamont. It was people stabbing each other. It was people dressing in particular ways. It was rough-and-tumble. So early hip-hop was inspired by that. Gang culture gave birth to hip-hop, and that’s how gang culture identified itself. That’s how it dressed itself. It was inspired by biker gangs.”

On Eminem’s short-lived Shady Ltd. clothing line. Jenkins mentioned it critically in Fresh Dressed – which in turn annoyed the Shady people:

“Eminem is one of the greatest writers and performers hip-hop has ever known. I don’t know that clothing is high on his agenda as an artist. I don’t know that commentary on that clothing line is going to somehow hurt him.”

On the 1980s NYC culture that inspired him as a kid:

“Hip-hop is do it yourself. Hardcore is do it yourself. Graffiti is do it yourself. And for me as a kid who wanted to do it himself, I gravitated towards all of these things.”

To hear the whole interview, click here or listen below.

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