Lineage: Jazz & Hip-Hop Podcast (Jade, Anna, Dash)

We decided to embark upon creating a podcast because none of us play musical instruments, but all share a love for music. At first, we didn’t know how to approach this and didn’t realize the required time and effort. As we moved along, we analyzed some of our favorite artists and songs that we were interested in discovering more about. It ended up being much more enjoyable than we expected because all of the songs we had chosen were personal to us as we all shared them amongst our playlists. We decided on looking at two Kanye West songs, Ghost Town including the samples (Someday by Shirley Ann Lee) and another sample of a song by the group The Royal Jesters (Take Me For a Little While).  We all have a common interest in his music and aspired to traverse more into it. For our episodes we used Metro Boomin’s song Borrowed Love which samples (After Laughter Comes Tears) and another one of Kanye’s songs Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1, which sampled (Father I Stretch My Hands by Pastor TL Barrett). During the process of that we found the connection to jazz and learned how it is truly the mother of hip hop. We were also introduced to many different soul and gospel pieces throughout the project. In the end, we uncovered so much about modern-day pieces that we all appreciate and the history beyond the samples and supplements to them.