Episode 088: Divine Styler Show/Hide Search
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Our interview with the enigmatic Divine Styler starts with him present, via his DJ father, at the very beginnings of hip-hop. He then became a part of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate crew, which included a pre-House of Pain Everlast. His second album, Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light, drastically expanded the range of what a hip-hop artist could do with its spoken word-industrial-rock hybrids.
His latest record Def Mask comes after a 15-year hiatus. From NYC park jams to getting arrested the day after signing a record deal to having a front-row seat for “Jump Around“‘s massive success to pushing musical boundaries to making pilgrimages to Mecca, Divine Styler shares his whole fascinating story.
Tracks featured in this episode:
- The Cipher Episode 21: Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie
- Mixmag: Larry Levan is the Greatest DJ Of All Time…by Arthur Baker
- MFSB, “Love is the Message”
- McFadden and Whitehead, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”
- Chic, “Good Times”
- Frisco Disco, “Eastside Connection”
- Esther Williams, “Last Night Changed It All”
- Captain Sky, “Super Sporm”
- Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”
- Defunkt, “In the Good Times”
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel”
- LL Cool J, “Rock the Bells”
- Cheryl Lynn, “Got to be Real”
- Funky Four Plus One More, “Rappin’ And Rocking The House”
- Brother D with The Collective Effort, “How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?”
- Lonnie Love, “Young Ladies”
- DJ Hollywood, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow, “‘Live’ Convention ‘79”
- Crash Crew, “High Power Rap”
- Cold Crush Brothers, “Cold Crush Brothers At The Dixie”
- Spoonie G, “Spoonin Rap”
- T La Rock and Jazzy Jay, “It’s Yours”
- Rammellzee Versus K-Rob, “Beat Bop”
- Divine Styler, “It’s A Black Thing”
- Divine Styler, “Word Power”
- Divine Styler, “In Divine Style”
- Channel 7 story on Edward Byrne incident (1988)
- Divine Styler, “Touch”
- Divine Styler, “Love, Lies, and Lifetime’s Cries”
- Divine Styler, “Aura”
- Divine Styler, “Mystic Sheep Drink Electric Tea”
- Everlast, “Hot to Death”
- Queen Latifah, “Brownsville”
- The World’s Famous Supreme Team, “Hobo Scratch”
- Divine Styler, “Hajji”
- Divine Styler, “Triple Irons”
- Divine Styler, “Carrier’s IQ”
- Divine Styler, “Architectonic”
- Divine Styler, “Architectonic”
- Ice-T (f/ Rhyme Syndicate), “What Ya Wanna Do”