On his Luminary podcast with Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, the superstar comedian covers a wide range of topics, including the merits of Kevin Hart's standup: 'He’s like actually incredibly good at it.'
“There’s two things that I think about: What does that feel like and, of course, the greatest cultural impact, right?” he said during the episode, one that was recorded in front of an audience at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa Valley last summer. He then applied it to awards, specifically music’s highest honor. “Michael Jackson swept forThriller
for best song? Anybody? Does anybody even know? ‘Every Breath You Take,’ by the Police. Take it easy. My point is what difference does it make? The best song is a completely subjective metric.” On Hart, Chappelle said he’s “very impressed with him as a comedian,” adding that he doesn’t believe Hart gets the credit he deserves for his proficiency as a stand-up. “He’s, like, actually incredibly good at it. But Kevin, from early on, had a very specific notion about who and what he wanted to be, and it was big. You know, he plays stadiums. Everything in his mind is big. It was a choice,” Chappelle explained. “Him being big was a skilled shot. It was a hole in one. ‘I want this.
The trio also discussed money with Bey kicking off that segment by saying, “I like money. I love money. Delicious. It goes with everything I want to do. OK? I’m not afraid of money. I’m not ashamed of having money. I’m just not going to do anything for it. I’m not going to betray myself for your money. Because when the money is gone, which it inevitably always is at some point. You can’t die with it. You can’t. Everything that you have will go.
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