On this week’s “Renaissance Man” podcast, Jalen Rose sits down with Papoose and talks about the Bed-Stuy rapper’s drive to succeed and his marriage to fellow rapper Remy Ma.
The rapper Papoose knows a thing about grit. Growing up in Bed-Stuy, he dreamed of being a hip-hop star. He was making great music, selling CDs out of his trunk and winning battles on the street, but he had no connections in the industry. What he did have was persistence and nerve.
It was a huge break. Kay Slay was a human rap radar. He kept his ears to the streets and helped source and launch new talent. He would become a mentor to Pap, and put him on mixtapes with big artists. Pap soon found himself being courted by all the hip-hop labels.reached out to me. I sat down with Nas at a pizza shop in lower Manhattan and he was going to Def Jam with Jay-Z at the time. He made an offer. Interscope made it up.
In his executive role, he will be advising artists. He also has some universal knowledge to drop: the relationship kind. In 2008, he
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