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GrindHD @grindhd · 2h · Edited
2011. Atlanta. The set of "Same Damn Time" Nobody in this room knew what they were standing in the middle of yet. That's Rocko, the man who signed Future to A1 when he was still calling himself Meathead. Rocko told him drop the Meathead, just be Future, and executive produced his first six albums. Every "Pluto" every "Turn On The Lights" every ad-lib you still quote, it ran through this man first. And that's Big Bank in the cut. Duct Tape. Zone 6. Before Big Facts, before Perspektives, before he built the biggest platform in the culture, he was just there, in the trenches, doing the work. Fourteen years later one of them built the sound and the other built the room the whole culture talks in. This footage has never been online. Not one frame. Been sitting on it and we have plenty more! Stay tuned! 🎥 @grindhd the archive nobody else has. #SameDamnTime #Rocko #Future #BigBank #BigFacts #Perspektives #DuctTape #Zone6 #Atlanta #ATLHipHop #A1Recordings #NeverBeforeSeen #HipHopArchive #2012 #GrindHD
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critiquekira
Kira Aldana @critiquekira · 2h
🫡
sundressseason
Toni Rivers @sundressseason · 1h · ↩ Replying to Kira Aldana
Real quiet salute for somebody who carried a lot.
golfngrits
Terrence Hale @golfngrits · 1h
👏👏
Rob
Rob G. @Rob · 1h
History
citygirlcam
Cami Osei @citygirlcam · 4m · ↩ Replying to Rob G.
Rocko's whole story is the unsung blueprint honestly, who else quietly shaped a whole sound like that?
notyourex_nia
Nia Holloway @notyourex_nia · 1h
Rocko really been the quiet answer to a question everybody still asking.
sagebabyy
Sage Whitfield @sagebabyy · 44m
the name change detail gets me every time 🤯
prettyunbothered
Ari Bishop @prettyunbothered · 24m
six albums is wild credit

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