The first in a three-part series about the godfather of hip hop, Andre Williams,. This episode details his rather quick trip to fame after he decided to start singing.

Looking back, Falconi says there's plenty of factors in his life that influenced his work with Flipper, but there’s one that stands out above all: the Vietnam War. The list of Flipper's biggest fans reads like a ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Kurt Cobain, Rick Rubin, Moby, Henry Rollins, and many more. Much of that adoration is owed to the band’s co-founder Falconi, whose mind-melting guitar style defines the group’s sound. Falconi also designed the band's iconic “angry fish” logo.

If you have good taste in music, Carney is probably all over your collection. He's played with artists as diverse as Tom Waits and the B-52s. If you were alive in the '80s, you heard his distinctive solo on the Waitresses’ “I Know what Boys Like.”