Chuck D on his new PBS docuseries, the younger hip-hop acts he respects, and the future of AI in music.
You’re saying there are songs and artists in other genres that were dealing with the same sorts of issues as rappers?Last Poets, Watts Prophets, Gil Scott-Heron, Nina Simone.
Do you want to work on a documentary series on global hip-hop next? Nigerian rap is so incredible, so is South African rap. You can’t waste time with people that don’t get it. There’s a lot of chasing in society: “I need you, I’m going to try to appeal to you.” It’s like when people walk outside after they looked in the mirror and they ask a person how they look. It’s like,You’re showing that you don’t have enough confidence.
You can’t market everything. You can market some of the story and then the individual has to figure out where it applies to their life. The whole key with any kind of education or information, it’s like,[People say,] “I love hip-hop, but I don’t know enough about it.” So I tell people, I say, “Well, if you love something, you try to figure it out along the way. There’s no rush.” Figure out why you love it.
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