Brown Sugar: When I Fell in Love with Hip-Hop

The General's Briefing · Mar 20, 2026 · 15m

In this bonus episode, I tell the story of when I fell in love with hip-hop. I was 11 years old when I saw Monty on a talent show tape, rapping on stage. I was immediately captured. A few weeks later, he rode down my street on a moped, stopped, and we talked. And that was it. That was the beginning of everything.

I talk about how I started writing rap songs in a composition book because I was in love with him. I talk about how my love for Monty and my love for hip-hop grew together, inseparably. I talk about how it took him two years to be in a relationship with me, but when we finally got…