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Jonathan Gold, OG: LA Food Critic Digs Gangsta Rap

20090304-gold.jpgPulitzer Prize–winning LA food critic Jonathan Gold (LA Weekly, Gourmet) reveals a love of gangsta rap during a guest DJ session on KCRW. Host Garth Trinidad asks Gold about the time he spent in the studio with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre while they recorded Doggystyle.

... LA hip-hop had all been like very fast. Like pop, pop, pop, pop. Stuff for the girl in the disco, and he was the guy who like slowed it down and made it gangsta. Chronic, I think, was the total breakthrough album. It crossed over to the bouncing cars to hanging out barbecuing in the park. It was less about bang, bang, bang, and it was more about "this is a neighborhood you live in and you're enjoying it and y'all are invited to the party." And there's something beautiful about that.

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6 Comments:

Here I thought Opie was directing and now I find out he is hanging out with hip hop moguls. What wil Aunt Bea say? PLEEEEZE!!!

Huh? Jonathan Gold ≠ Ron Howard!

With his mind on his muenster, and his muenster on his mind?

LMAO @Carnal
@Adam I was just making a comparison to his look. Which is white bread yo. Werd.

JG and I have just the same taste - in all things, apparently. I ♥ him.

I've been listening to J-Gold on Good Food for years and this is the first time I've seen a picture of him. It's nuts when you finally put a face to a voice. I was expecting a small bespectacled man, not Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights!

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