Testing This Legendary Rapper’s Music Knowledge

All right, before we start the music, introduce yourself. Hey, what's up? I'm Heems, Himanshu Suri, rapper. >> One of my best friends >> interned for you back in the day.

>> Shout out Amit. >> He sent me this playlist. Good luck. >> Yeah, come on, The Management. >> What's good with them?

>> They went to Wesleyan where you went, where I went. They were like 2 years older than me and they made the song Kids while they were in college in a dorm room. We heard it everywhere we went.

>> I think, honestly, if I didn't see like two people I saw every day go on to do music for like a living, I probably didn't think I could do it. >> You were like, "Wow, that's possible." >> I took what they

did with like irony and like psych rock and I was like, "What if I do that with hip hop?" So, thank you Banno. Thank you Andrew. Yeah.

>> Fire. One for one. >> You know I'm nervous cuz my hand stance Yeah, cool. J Paul. >> I used to be MySpace friends with J Paul.

We used to like email with him a little bit. >> Top eight. He was on my top eight. I wasn't on his. >> Right on Television.

>> Tell me about Television. >> Awesome. Just New York, punk, >> downtown, CBGB's, Richard Hell was in it for a little bit. >> Interesting guitarist stuff happening.

>> Crying poetry over angular guitars. >> It's also old, you know? It's one of those ones where you're like, "Wait, this is from the '70s?" >> I know all the time you think about punk, you think about probably like Ramones and Patti

Smith and like Television I think is my favorite from that era. The era that I wish I was like alive during. But it's probably safer that I wasn't. >> If you were alive in that era, like do you

think you'd be punk rocker? >> 100%. I I kind of consider myself a bit of a punk rocker in this era. >> Yeah.

What else we got here? >> I can barely hear it, but Stone Roses, >> Why is that on there? >> Cuz that's another one of my top five albums of all time.

>> Yeah. Why? >> I don't know. It's just amazing. I think it's got like good grooves to it for

lack of a better word. And I don't know. As far as like British music goes, you know, I think Stone Roses at that era of the Manchester were like doing the most interesting stuff.

The way they dressed, they looked cool, which is very important to me. >> Yeah. What do you got now? What do you got for me?

>> I tried to do handstands for >> It's Chairlift. Patrick Wimberly from Chairlift produced our album Relax, and now is just an amazing, amazing producer doing stuff with like MGMT and stuff with Solange and like one of the nicest, kindest guys and one of the most talented producers