On August 28, Netflix released La Flame’s Look Mom I Can Fly behind-the-scenes documentary to their streaming platform. The 85-minute documentary is directed by White Trash Tyler, who previously shot footage for Travis’ 2016 La Flame documentary.
Executive produced by Travis Scott himself, Look Mom I Can Fly followed the rapper’s life in the months surrounding the release of his most recent album Astroworld and the birth of his daughter who is listed credited as a producer.
Travis Scott listed his manager David Stromberg, Angus Wall and his daughter Stormi Webster as producers of the documentary. Travis credited Stormi as a producer on his Netflix documentary ‘Look Mom I Can Fly’ so she can receive royalties from it.
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Joey Bada$$ found the beat for “Christ Conscious” from his debut album, B4.DA.$$, on YouTube, he found it by searching “Joey Bada$$ type beat.” Christ Conscious was produced by Basquiat.
“I went on YouTube, ’cause back before I got on, I used to always go on YouTube and look for beats, just search J. Dilla stuff. What I did this time was I was like, Yo, I actually got a name now. So I typed in ‘Joey Bada$$ type beat,’ and that was literally the first beat that popped up, and as soon as I heard it, I started freestyling the song.” Joey Bada$$ revealed to MTV News.
Joey Bada$$ called “Christ Conscious” one of his favorite records off of his debut album B4.DA.$$.
Back when Common was just Lonnie Lynn, Jr. growing up on 87th St. and Stony Island in Chicago’s South Side, Common played basketball in high school and had a dream of being in the NBA. He didn’t end up being in the NBA but he was a ball boy for The Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan joined the team in the mid-1980s.
“Yes i was there, the first year Michael…. his rookie year I was a ball boy. I was there for a couple years while he was there. I used to get his gym shoes and everything, That was my buddy when I was a ball boy,” Common said during an episode of “Live with Kelly and Michael.” “It was an incredible job. People in my neighborhood loved me because I would get the gym shoes, I actually would sell them.”
Common played a basketball player in the 2009 romantic comedy ‘Just Wright’ with Queen Latifah.
Common also speaks on his time working as a ball boy for The Chicago Bulls with Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“Jordan was incredible. … He wouldn’t tip me, but actually I made a little money off him. Somebody asked for his autograph, and I charged the guy. I said, “OK, $5.” You know I was a little kid. I was trying to make it. I needed lunch money, so I went and I said, “Look, Mike, can you sign this for this kid?” and he was like, “You sign it.” It was like a joke. … I signed it and took it back to the kid, and the kid looked at it and said, “Wait, this is not Michael’s autograph.” And I said, “How did he know?” I spelled “Michael” wrong. I didn’t get the $5.”
Common’s father, former ABA baller Lonnie Lynn, set him up with the ball boy job that led to him meeting Michael Jordan and, ultimately, forging the basketball icon’s signature in the hopes of making $5.
The Sugarhill Gang‘s “Rapper’s Delight” 12-inch was released on September 16, 1979. Rappers Delight is considered to be one of the most important records in Hip-hop as the record helped pave the way for other hip-hop artists.
Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike and Master Gee, known collectively as The Sugarhill Gang, met Sylvia Robinson, owner of the New Jersey label Sugarhill Records, on a Friday and recorded “Rapper’s Delight” in the studio the following Monday in one take.
In 2001, the song was used in commercials for Dasani water.
In an interview detailing how “Rapper’s Delight” was made, Michael ‘Wonder Mike‘ Wright, a member of The Sugarhill Gang told The Guardian,
“At parties, guys would pass mics around for hours, so rapping for 20 minutes in a studio seemed like nothing. When we made the record we kept coming up with clever things and the producers never stopped us. The finished recording was 19 minutes long, all the rap done in one take, but we cut it to 15, making the intro shorter and cutting out some party noise.”
On March 25, 1979, a funk band known as The Fatback Band released the first commercially successful hip-hop song, “King Tim III (Personality Jock).”
Fatback were a funk and disco band but they were trying something different with this record so they hired radio DJ Tim Washington, aka King Tim III, to rap at their live shows. After all of the positive reactions from audiences, Fatback decided to combine one of King Tim’s raps over a track called “Catch the Beat,” and retitle it “King Tim III.”
This song was originally released on the B-Side of the 7-inch single but after the huge responses it received in the clubs it was re-released on the A-side and became a Top 40 hit. The song was on their 1979 album XII and peaked at No. 26 on the R&B chart and stayed on for 11 weeks.
Contrary to popular belief, The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” (released on September 16, 1979) was not the first commercially successful hip-hop single. It wasn’t released until the fall of 1979 only months after “Kim Tim III (Personality Jock)” was released. however it can be said that Sugarhill Gang was the first rap group to have a commercial release.
While in College, Jas Prince stumbled across Drake‘s music on MySpace and was immediately impressed, to the point he introduced him to Lil Wayne.
Jas Prince recalls Lil Wayne’s initial thoughts on Young Money’s biggest asset to date in the upcoming film Drake’s Homecoming: The Lost Footage.
“Wayne told me he sucked,” Jas Prince said of Lil Wayne’s thoughts on Drake. “He was like, ‘Jas, don’t play me that shit no more. He’s not good.’”
But Jas Prince was consistent, and managed to find the perfect moment to play Lil Wayne some of Drake’s songs like “Replacement Girl” and “Brand New.” Lil Wayne liked those songs and after hearing them Wayne got Drake on a flight to Houston and the rest was history.
The Sugarhill Gang‘s “Rapper’s Delight” from their self-titled album, was the first hip-hop song to receive a music video.
“Rappers Delight” was released via Sugar Hill Records on September 16, 1979. Shortly after came the music video, hip-hop’s first music video, which was recorded on “The Soap Factory” Disco show in Palisades Park, New Jersey. During their 1979 appearance on “The Soap Factory”, The Sugarhill gang turned the high-quality production of the disco show into rap’s first music video.
In 1980, Hip-Hop took its first baby steps into the album format, The Sugarhill Gang’s self-titled album “The Sugarhill Gang” was the first full-length hip-hop/rap album ever.
The album “The Sugarhill Gang” was released on February 7, 1980. Sylvia Robinson, founder of Sugar Hill Records, didn’t think people were ready to buy an entire long-player featuring nothing but rap music at the time. So along with a bunch of songs in the style of “Rapper’s Delight” they included a full side’s worth of R&B ballads and instrumental disco records.
