Speaker:

Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club,

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the show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip

hop with the magic of movies.

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We're thrilled to put all that together

to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster,

filmmaker, long time Hip-Hop

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fan, and I was hyped to attend our guests

event a couple weeks ago.

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On the history of sampling.

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JB Eighties and nineties

Nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan

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and I was just recently turned on

to Indian rapper Brodha V

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by a coworker who lives in Noida, India.

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Yo, I'm BooGie, a deejay, long time

hip hop fan.

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And at the time of this recording,

I'm so hype for tomorrow night's

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in-person event.

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We're doing a in-person screening

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of the classic film

Juice, followed by a talkback with us.

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You around, check it out.

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Today we have the special honor

to speak with the co-hosts

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of the Serious Rap Shit podcast,

Philly guys John Morrison and Josh Leidy.

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(Bring it, c’mon!)

Josh joined Raj Haldar, a.k.a.

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rapper Lush Life on a pilgrimage

back to his family's homeland of India

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to document the hip hop culture

throughout the nation there.

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Their result:

an engrossing documentary to share

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with the world

called Another Word for Paradise.

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In this episode, we'll answer the question

Why is India one of the next

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big spots for hip hop?

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(Bring it! C’mon!) All right.

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Welcome, guys.

Thank you for joining us today.

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Appreciate you.

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Yeah, thank you for having us. Of course.

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So first question I have and

you guys can take turns or what have you.

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How did this trip to India come about?

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Like,

who had the idea for the documentary?

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Was it Raj's idea? Lush Life.

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Are you guys tight with him?

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You want to kick it off?

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Josh or John You wanna go?

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Either one, doesn’t matter.

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You can go, bro. So, yeah.

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Lush Life.

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Raj is a very good friend of ours.

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It's funny because Josh and

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I were actually fans of his music

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before we became friends, and

he was a really big fan of our podcast.

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So he got booked to do a tour in India.

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He'd never performed there.

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His parents are from India,

and he approached us with this idea

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like, Yo,

Josh can fill in some more details here.

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But basically, Raj approached us like, Yo,

why don't we do a tour documentary?

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Why, When I go over here to India to

to perform these series of concerts?

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Yeah,

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basically he was doing a set of shows

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for there was there's a beer company

out of India called Bira,

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and they were doing an April Fools fest.

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So like, they were doing a set of tour

stops that led up to this big

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festival on April 1st.

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And so basically, he he approached us

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middle of February

or something of 2018 and was like, hey,

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literally the text was like, Hey,

do you guys want to go do

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a documentary in India

and go shoot a documentary in India?

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And we were like,

No, like, no, I have no interest in it.

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Doesn't make sense. I get those texts

all the time, so annoying!

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But mind you,

we had not made films before.

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Right?

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We've never done anything like this.

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We, we, we were only like we had done

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we had only been doing the podcast

for a little over a year.

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We started toward the end of 2016.

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So it was February of:

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when we got asked and I,

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we were like,

Yeah, let's let's, let's do it.

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And so we were like in the

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we started like doing like a shit

ton of research and like, I'd be like

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watching like we didn't know

if we were going to be shooting it.

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Like we had no idea of any, like.

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We just were like,

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first of all, like,

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who doesn’t say yes to that,

that opportunity, right?

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Like, I've never been.

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I've never been anywhere.

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Like,

the furthest I've been is Puerto Rico.

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So I've like, I've never been

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any where,

like really outside of the United States.

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So there was absolutely nothing in me

that was like,

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yeah, no, I don't want to do that.

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Like, it was like. I pass.

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I didn't

Have a passport, We didn't have passports.

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In all fairness, like I had a passport.

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Mine was expired though.

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I had no, but I was like,

what was I going, I get it.

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I mean, I was a hooligan from Philly,

so I, I had really we were.

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So that was February.

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We left the trip left at the end of March.

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So like, we had like a like six weeks

essentially to, like,

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get the stuff prepared.

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Nowadays

you can't get a passport that quick

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because we travel, it's like three month

minimum.

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We've got to pay it at Crazy Premium.

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You guys maybe.

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But we had, we were very lucky.

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Yeah.

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That the beer company

was like footing the bill for all of this.

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So they, like, rushed our visas

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and rushed our, like passports.

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They were able to like,

put a rush on things.

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Hired a film crew, one ground

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in India

to tour around and shoot this whole thing.

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Yeah, because it would have been us

with, like, camcorders of.

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Yeah, like, figure it out.

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They had a film crew that we met with

when we landed.

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We met.

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Well, so then to, like, lead up to

the process, do you want to start telling.

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Yeah, I can jump in here.

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So we get the text from Raj,

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we sit down and we talk about it

and we're like, Yeah, let's do it.

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Let's go shoot a documentary in India.

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This is February.

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I'm also I start

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feeling like a little sick,

like I got the flu

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and I'm like, Man,

this flu, it won't like, shake me.

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Flu turns into, like, a headache.

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It's like a persistent headache.

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And I'm like, Man, this headache is like,

really, like, beat me down.

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Even if you look at my passport photo

I won’t show you...

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But if you look at.

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My photo, I look like dead in the eyes

because I was like, sick as a dog

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trying to get this passport

so we can go to India.

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So maybe two weeks, I think before we were

supposed to be on a plane.

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I'm sitting in my house

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and my fiancee is like looking at me

and she's like, yo,

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she's like, talk to me.

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Like, I'm like, we wanna talk about

she's like tell me

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about like a TV show

that you that you like.

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And mind you,

this is after a couple weeks of like,

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a persistent headache, Like, I'm like,

I went to emergency.

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They didn't do anything.

Sent me back home.

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So we're sitting in the house

and she's looking at me.

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She asks me to to just talk to her.

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So I'm talking.

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I'm like talking about Atlanta

because I think Atlanta season two

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was about to come out. Yeah, Yeah.

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I'm talking about yeah, I'm

talking to her about Atlanta.

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I'm like, Yo,

I'm excited about all of this show.

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And I think that I'm talking to her

like I'm talking with y'all.

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But apparently what was coming out

was gobbledygook.

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So long story short,

I had viral meningitis.

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So now my brain, my spine was inflamed

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and my brain was swollen, essentially. And

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she looks at me, she's

like, we got to go to the hospital now.

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So we are

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I kind of like

make my way down the stairs.

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And then from there

everything gets like real foggy.

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So long story short, I was in the hospital

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swollen brain, collapsed lung,

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hallucinations, weeks of hallucinations.

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Josh was there.

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He remember I was out of my f--king mind.

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Just as you know

what happens with meningitis sometimes.

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And I came to,

like, came out of all of that stuff,

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and I was in the hospital, and my legs

didn't work, so

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Long story short,

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I had to rehab, you know what I'm saying?

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And it's crazy because at one point

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I'm still a little wonky,

like I'm still hallucinating a little bit.

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I'm still a little bit out of it.

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And I remember talking to one of the neuro

doctors, and I'm like, Yo, my man,

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I'm supposed to go to India in a week,

Can I get my shots here?

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And they're looking at me like, you

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ain’t goin’ to no f--king India, You know,

you're not going anywhere.

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So, you know,

long story short, I did end up rehab in

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a lot of the episodes.

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We took a long break.

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Josh had to go to India. I had to rehab.

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But even like, some of those,

like, post break

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episodes, I'm in a wheelchair

while we're recording that.

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You know what I mean?

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It was a long process

to like, relearn how to walk,

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you know, something

I hadn't done since I was a baby.

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I want to learn how to walk.

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It's like it was really like an ordeal.

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And that kept me from going to India.

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So Josh and Raj went, rocked it out,

brought the footage back

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and literally

we were sitting in my mom's living room

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going through footage

and I'm just in a wheelchair.

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Josh got to help me into the bathroom.

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My mom had to bathe me.

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It was it was crazy.

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It was it was absolutely crazy.

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But, you know, it it it ended up

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being the film that it was

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destined to be because all of that stuff,

it happened.

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Yeah.

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So I think one thing people should know

is, like,

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me and John have been friends

for almost 30 years.

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We've known each other

longer than we haven’t. ‘95?

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Yeah, something like that.

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Yeah.

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So we've known each other

for a very long time.

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So me and him have been best friends

for a very long time.

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So March 2nd was the day

he went into the hospital.

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I got a phone call from his

from his fiancee that morning.

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I was just coming off shift.

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I know it was March 2nd

because it was my son's birthday

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and I was taking him to a Sixers game

that night.

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So I remember like that, I know.

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I remember the day

I remember the phone call.

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She called me and she was like, he's

not making sense da-da da-da.

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And I was like,

All right, well, take him to the hospital.

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I'm going to go home and take a nap and

then I'll get up before I go get my son.

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I'll come to the hospital.

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I had no idea how bad that

was going to be and stuff.

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And it was scary.

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It was scary.

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Like obviously with like John's health,

like it was it was bad.

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It was like he said hallucinations.

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Like I in a room talk at all.

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But we're talking about stuff

that's not in the room and stuff.

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So like, it would it was it was crazy.

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And John, at that point, like,

like now I am a like a, you know, a writer

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and I do interviews on a regular now

and stuff at that point you're talking

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six years ago

now, I had never wrote anything.

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I had never asked the question

in an interview.

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We didn't do interviews on the podcast. So

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that was a thing I did.

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John was the journalist.

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John's the one who's the writer.

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He's the one

who's like the brain of the inspiration.

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I'm more of like the the muscle of. ...

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But he's, you know, it was

it was really scary, the idea that,

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like, you know, we're doing something

I've never done before.

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It was a lot more comfortable to do it

with my best friend.

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Like, All right, well,

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it'll be me and him doing it together

so if we look like idiots.

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We look like idiots together.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's crazy.

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So, wait, before we left to go shoot,

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John had got better,

like you said, about a week before,

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like, really started to come around

mentally, everything like that.

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And I still at that point was like,

I don't know if I feel good

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leaving to do this.

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And he's not with me

because, like, we're doing this together.

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This is our thing together.

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We started our

our media group Culture Cypher

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Media together, and like,

this is our thing.

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How can...I can't go by myself?

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I really felt that way.

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I felt really weird about going

without him.

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And I asked him before we left, I was

like, you know, you can testify to this.

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I was like, Yo, is it cool if I go like,

Do you think it's okay?

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And he told me, like, you have to, like,

I got to go.

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Yeah, yeah.

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He was like, I can't go. Like,

what are you not going to go?

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Like, you have to go do

it for us because I can't go.

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And there's

a scene in the in the documentary

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that I feel like really

it was important to me.

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There's a scene

where I'm tagging a wall in Bangalore

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and like it says John and Josh SRS.

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I saw that like, yeah.

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And for me it was important.

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Like I, I he was there with us

through the whole thing,

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you know, and I mean, and like,

it was impossible.

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I couldn't like my phone was like a brick.

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It was a camera essentially in, in India.

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I had no, like I didn’t

have international calling so like

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I was sending emails back and forth

to like family and friends

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of checking on John

through email and stuff

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and like trying to send some stuff

back to them

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and like when I came back,

I had to like when I came back

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he had been released from the hospital

and he was in the rehab at that point.

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And like I came to the rehab

when I got home, like, look,

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like this is like the stuff that we shot.

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But I like sharing

all that information with them.

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And it was really important for me,

like I us that he's he, he was there

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for this like, as much as like

I could make him there for it, you know?

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And I mean.

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That's amazing story.

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Thank goodness

you made the full recovery. And,

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you know, it all turned out as as it did.

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Yeah. Yeah.

And then thanks for sharing that.

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Yeah.

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We're I mean, not to like, spoiling it.

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We're working on a new documentary.

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And then when we went to go shoot

one of the first days to shoot

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the new documentary I had had

I had a couple back surgeries

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a couple of years ago

and on the second back surgery ended up

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getting an infection from it

like bacteria, like a bacterial infection.

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And I had to have an emergency surgery

because I had Klebsiella

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and that shit can like kill you, or like,

paralyze.

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Yeah, Yeah.

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And like,

I've literally said to John, like,

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we really have to, like,

stop making documentaries.

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And we’re like.

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And then have, like, life altering

situations happening every time

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we get ready to start a new movie project.

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This might not be the lane for us.

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Is God talking to us?

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Like, is God saying like,

you guys aren’t supposed to do this?

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I Don't make any movies.

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Yeah, I've got signs in a whole other way.

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But like, this one is really standing out.

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You're really suffering for your art.

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Yeah, right, Right. Yes.

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Yes. Crazy.

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Maybe John had to do a solo.

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Now it was his turn to do the solo voyage.

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Yeah, well, he did.

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He went and shot

while I was in the hospital.

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He went to shoot,

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Shoot stuff while I was in the hospital

like a one thing that I really love is

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and I guess this is comes

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from a situation of like me

and him being friends for so long, right?

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We are

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we we will like.

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Yes. That’s

my brother for real like I like

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I've known him more than half my life.

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Like I've known him more than

I've known him like I haven't known him.

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Right. So for me, it's like, no.

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Like if I'm down, he's

there to take it up.

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If I'm like, That's just how

we're going to always, we’re gonna rock.

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And we're really good at like,

filling in each other's like

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bad spots, like, you know, and I mean,

which I think makes a good team.

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Yeah, definitely.

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So now

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going back to the hip hop

culture in India,

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what what was your biggest takeaway

if you had to just

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condense it into

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small one statement, few words or so,

like what's your biggest takeaway

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that you took from that trip about hip hop

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culture

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Admiration.

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There

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Not as much now, but

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like six years ago when we shot this,

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it was so infantile.

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It was still very small, like to put

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like they didn't have like you didn't

get like hip hop played on the radio.

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They are really

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there wasn't that kind of scene there.

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There it was just starting like, it's a

hip hop night on like a Tuesday, you know?

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And I mean, like it was it's

kind of it was just starting.

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But I admired like

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what they had to learn.

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We interview a rapper in there

Prab Deep in the documentary

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and it's I don't know if it's I don't know

if it me I don't remember

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if it made the documentary.

I don't think it did.

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But he talked to me about

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one of the first

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like exposures to hip hop for him was

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the 8 Mile movie.

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Is crazy to me. Yeah.

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So like they had they had just like,

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just started

really like learning the culture.

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So the culture was still really new,

like dance culture there.

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Like there was the dance culture,

but like the emceeing and like the

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producing beats and all that kind of stuff

is still very, very much in its infancy.

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And so I admired like,

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man, like you guys have.

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So like I,

I'm going to be able to watch this scene

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completely grow from the ground up.

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We there's we talked to Mo

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Joshi in the documentary

and he mentions like,

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you know, and I'm seeing it now is like

because I'm still very much like

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I still have contact

with like the crew and stuff like that

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and follow people from over there

that we interacted with.

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So like, I see now like,

you know, a rapper like Prab Deep

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then has now like his like four records

or five records out

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like,

you know, in the six years and stuff.

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And that was like we had,

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he had just dropped his first record

when we were interviewing.

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He was touring it. So

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he, like

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Mo Joshi in the documentary, says like,

you know,

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a Divine, a Raja Kumari, Prab Deep, like

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they're going to be the rappers

that like the little kids

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that are trying to do it now.

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They're looking up to them.

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And it was really dope to see like a Raja

Kumari

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and a Divine who we didn’t interview,

but he was at

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the April Fools Fest.

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He like, they're signed to Mass Appeal now

and he you know what I mean?

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Like they're going to be the people

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that, like

the younger artists are looking up to.

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And now they're going to continue

to make more of their music.

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And like Mo Joshi’s

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Azadi records that Prab Deep is on

is like ten artists deep now.

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Nice. That's amazing.

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That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.

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And it was like It was their infancy.

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was two when we interviewed them.

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So yeah, it's really like it's,

it's grown so much.

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And that's what I really was like, man.

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Like,

you guys are like going to build your own,

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like real culture

and it's going to be so dope to like,

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we would love to go back and experience

it now.

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Seems so changed. Yeah, yeah.

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That's awesome.

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That's a good segue.

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My next question is like, so you said,

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I want them to see

now they're growing a little bit.

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How do we put that in perspective

in American terms?

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Like are they like in the early nineties

of hip hop, you we've had 50 years.

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If you talk about 73 being the origin,

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they're probably in that range like

all right there.

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Yeah, yeah, probably like early

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early nineties mid-nineties era.

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Like that's

probably what era they're going into.

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But I also think it's

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so different now because of like,

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like their exposure is so different,

right?

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Like the way hip hop traveled when we were

kids is not how hip hop travels now.

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And yeah. Yeah.

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So the harmony,

the homogeneity of like of monoculture

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is so prevalent that I,

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I think they have essentially skipped

a lot of levels, right.

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Because because of the ability to like,

you know, like

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so me and John, when we were kids

we rapped in

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like John made beats, I didn’t but like,

you know what I mean?

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Like we we're part

of the culture, right? So

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if we

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wanted to record, you had to know

somebody who had like a microphone

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and ability to actually record you.

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Now, like any kid

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with a phone can do it,

you know what I mean?

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And that's awesome.

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That's that's great because it gives

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a democracy of like

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availability of just like anybody

can do these kind of things now, right?

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So I think they were able to skip a lot.

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Like if you look at like videos

from artists from India, like they look

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just as good as videos here

because like they have the same ability

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to like shoot and do this stuff where,

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you know, artists like,

especially like in our time

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because like one thing

like, as, as Americans,

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I think it's very easy to just be like,

well, like

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India is like a like one

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one thing like is India as opposed

to, like,

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like with Prab like Prab’s from Mumbai.

436

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So like,

he has his thing, like his whole style.

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He's Sikh.

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So like, there's, like,

there's a difference to him

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compared to a Divine who's from Delhi and

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it's a different there's just different

culture.

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It's very similar to like,

you know, Chicago, New York or Philly.

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A million people.

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Yeah, Yeah.

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You know, and that's the thing too,

where like, they're,

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they are the numbers of like people

that were listening to hip hop

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then compared to what the numbers are

now, are just astronomical.

447

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Yeah, it's almost like you wish

you could buy stock in Indian hip hop.

448

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Like, I know that.

449

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There's,

there's There's such a market, right?

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Like, there's, like

John says there's a billion people there.

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Like what?

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What you can, the fraction

that you have to hit to like

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do really well

compared to like what our market would be,

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you know what I mean

it is completely different

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and I think there's

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I definitely think there's a

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an aspect that like they were so

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so able to like jump

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like jump levels

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they were able to hit

what was the the Mario shit

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the, the, the world skips or whatever.

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You able to do a lot of that because

of like technology, you know what I mean.

463

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Yeah. And there's not...

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Yeah. Warp zones. Yeah.

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There's not that in like

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the present day landscape, there's not

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that reliance on labels,

you know what I mean?

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In order to, to distribute music,

even even the,

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the steps that you need to take from,

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you know, an idea to market

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have been like a lot of that stuff's

been cut out.

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You know what I mean?

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You know, I remember

reading The Source magazine and people

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talking about meeting A&R’s on the street,

you know what I'm saying?

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Like an A&R,

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you know,

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showing up at a club or a show

and here to emcee.

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And you got to, you know,

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they got to take that rapper to their boss

and get a demo budget approved.

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And then you got to,

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you know, record the demo

and then you got to get that approved.

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Then you got to do a single deal

and then maybe you do an album deal.

483

00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,120

That stuff is not a thing anymore.

484

00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:59,800

Even on major labels,

that that process has been

485

00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,880

greatly

486

00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,960

expediated out of this.

487

00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,360

The word I want to say,

but it's sped up that process.

488

00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,040

So when you're doing it

independently, it's is doubly sped up

489

00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,120

because you don't have any,

you know, gatekeepers or anything

490

00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:20,280

you any corporation

that you have to go through right.

491

00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:21,600

So, Josh, you kind of read my mind.

492

00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,760

Well, I was going to ask next

493

00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,600

in the documentary, you went to three main

areas, Bangalore, which was described

494

00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,280

as like a Silicon Valley of India, Mumbai,

495

00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,240

you talked about with Prab Deep

and then New Delhi.

496

00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,840

So you said the styles of hip

hop are different in all areas.

497

00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,320

And is that just because there's different

either languages or dialects?

498

00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,760

I guess, yeah.

499

00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,440

There's, I think, over 100 dialects

spoken in India.

500

00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,680

I think I could be wrong on that,

or it may be higher.

501

00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,640

There's a ton of dialects.

502

00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,240

I want to be really respectful

because I'm not like, Yeah,

503

00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,720

I'm not like a master, right?

504

00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,880

But yeah, so it's just regional, right?

505

00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,000

Like there's,

506

00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,200

like Bangalore when we So

Bangalore is the first city we went to.

507

00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,920

That's the,

the documentary is essentially cut

508

00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,960

like just essentially cut the same way

we did the trip.

509

00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,120

It's we did we did that.

510

00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:17,880

You know, it's linear. Linear,

I guess. That's right. Right. Yeah.

511

00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,200

Yeah. Linear.

512

00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,880

So I just basically just because

esthetically I want to cut it

513

00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,600

where we were, where different clothes

in different light, different

514

00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,720

like I don't know, like for me visually

that would have like threw me off.

515

00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,040

The film follows. The trip as it.

516

00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,720

Yeah. You filmed it in sequence.

517

00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,600

Yes. Yeah.

518

00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,880

And it's edited a little out.

519

00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,200

Like there's a couple of things

that happen in different orders

520

00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,840

and stuff like that, but like the

the cities are done the same way.

521

00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,840

So Bangalore was the first city we went to

and it's like we were there

522

00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,240

and like a Tuesday night and we were like,

Hey, let's like go out,

523

00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,040

get drinks and like,

you know, enjoy the night, enjoy the town.

524

00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,400

And they were like, It's Tuesday in Bangalore. Dude like there's nothing happening.

525

00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,200

Like, it is A closed city.

526

00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,920

Like this isn’t a party city.

Mumbai is a party city.

527

00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,680

You go to Mumbai

there’s like we were at like this.

528

00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,080

What's...”God's Plan” had first dropped.

529

00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,800

Drake's “God’s Plan”

and we went to some club in Mumbai

530

00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,720

that had like sand floors,

531

00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,520

like beach, Like it was a beach.

532

00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,920

It was insane.

533

00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,120

Like it was full of like, models.

534

00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,040

I have like,

did not belong in this place, but.

535

00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,840

Like, leer bar or was that the other?

536

00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,840

No, that was not the leer bar.

The leer bar was back. So.

537

00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,760

So I will tell this story. Okay.

538

00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,440

John brings up the leer bar.

539

00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:37,760

Okay.

540

00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,160

A leer bar is essentially a

is like a version of a strip club.

541

00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,160

It's like a sanitized version

of a strip club.

542

00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,120

The first night we were there,

we asked the where everything was

543

00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,360

and they were like, there is no party.

544

00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,280

There's there's a there's a bar down

the street called Rough Riders.

545

00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,560

And next door

there is a like a diner type thing.

546

00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,320

And you can go like, get something to eat.

547

00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,240

And they go to there, go there

and they get something to eat.

548

00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,080

You get some drinks at the bar.

549

00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,000

So we're like all right,

We go down to Rough Riders, we walk.

550

00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,320

It was we're walking up.

551

00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,520

There's just like a bunch of dudes

hanging outside

552

00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,800

and we're like,

What is this place like, this is weird.

553

00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,560

We go in and it's dark

554

00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,520

and there's just really loud

music and like, we walk in that

555

00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,680

there's like a dance floor

kind of in the middle of the floor

556

00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,360

and then like a, like a gate essentially,

like around that floor.

557

00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,520

And then there were some seats along there

where you could sit in along the floor.

558

00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,680

And then outside the gate

there was like stand up bar tables.

559

00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,680

So we just like post up at the bar tables

in in the middle of the floor.

560

00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,400

There's a bunch of like 20

something year old women

561

00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,720

in some of them in saris

and then some of them in

562

00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,000

just like nightclub clothes, like

563

00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000

just out on the town

and they're just dancing.

564

00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,960

And as you start to, like, coordinate,

565

00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,760

you go, It's just a bunch of

old men sitting around here,

566

00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,400

old men standing around too.

567

00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,760

Looking and leering.

568

00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,080

Yes! It's. So.

569

00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,600

As our guide for the trip.

570

00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,600

Deepak, he was a dope dude.

571

00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,360

Shout out to Deepak. He was

572

00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,000

he worked for Bira and he was like,

573

00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,120

my God, I think this is a leer bar.

574

00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:27,960

And we're like, What's that?

575

00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,560

And he's like, It's like a conservative

version of a strip club.

576

00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,440

Like older people come in here,

like the older uncles come in here

577

00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,320

and watch the young girls dance,

and you can tip them like when they come.

578

00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,320

You you have to give the security money.

579

00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,360

He gives you back money

580

00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,000

from the hotel that it was, right?

581

00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,400

And it said like Rough Riders Hotel.

582

00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,160

Like Rough Riders use only like a hotel

use only or something like that.

583

00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,760

But you you get that and then you could

throw that onto the girls and stuff.

584

00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,880

And so,

like, we're in there and we're like,

585

00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,880

All right, well, if we're here,

we're going to have a good time.

586

00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,320

There's nobody touching anybody.

587

00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,720

It was a fairly respectful and shit.

588

00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,400

So we're just like having a good time.

589

00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,480

And girls

kept coming over and looking at me,

590

00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:17,040

partially

because tattoos are not huge in India.

591

00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,280

Like tattoo culture isn't real big

592

00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,320

and big, bushy

beards are not like, really like it.

593

00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,640

So the combination was like,

really like weird to them.

594

00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,240

Like, where are you from?

595

00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,760

Yes, there was

very much that kind of thing.

596

00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,720

So we're

597

00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,760

like, Wow, this is like a weird vibe

or whatever, But whatever.

598

00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,600

We're in India, we're having a good time.

We're going to enjoy it.

599

00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,520

We go next door, we go get some food.

600

00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,680

I see some of the girls

601

00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,080

who were in the bar like trickling in

with some like with some guys and stuff.

602

00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,360

And I'm like, you know, they're out.

603

00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,400

Just paying no mind.

604

00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,920

The next night, the night you see in the

605

00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,920

the first night

you see in the documentary,

606

00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,880

we go to the Humming Tree

to do a performance.

607

00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,600

Raj performs.

608

00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,720

As we're in the green room,

we're like hanging out.

609

00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,640

We're talking.

610

00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,680

The woman who runs, one of the women

who runs the Humming Tree

611

00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,360

came back and was like,

What did you guys do?

612

00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,840

Like, you know, talking to us like what

you guys do yesterday or whatever.

613

00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,280

And we're like,

yesterday was our first day.

614

00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,600

We went to Rough Riders and she was like,

You guys went to a whorehouse?

615

00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,200

ha ha ha ha And I'm like.

616

00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,880

ha ha What?

617

00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,880

She was like, It's a whorehouse.

618

00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,320

And we're like,

Well, no, what are you talking about?

619

00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,800

Like, it's though it's the.

620

00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,840

It’s a leer bar.

621

00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,160

Yeah, like. It's a leer bar.

622

00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,480

And then, like, all of a sudden, like,

623

00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,960

the money that said hotel use only,

you know,

624

00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,760

that kinda shit, like,

a lot of shit started to, like, make sense

625

00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,160

of. So, like, that was the.

626

00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,840

First night I was at a whorehouse

627

00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,600

the first night in India

and had no idea about it.

628

00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,400

But it is very much a

629

00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,440

it's different from city to city.

630

00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,880

Mumbai is very like a

631

00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,960

very like party ish.

632

00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,000

Very like

633

00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,480

the dichotomy of like rich and poor is

634

00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,000

wildly on display in Mumbai.

635

00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,760

Like you. It's very easy.

636

00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,080

There was a scene that we cut of

like a Lamborghini

637

00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:27,400

that's just like parked next

to like shanty houses and shit.

638

00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,080

That’s wild.

639

00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,560

That's where you met the Slum Gods,

the guy that was really

640

00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,800

teaching the youth.

641

00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,440

Akash Dhungar. Yeah. Yeah.

642

00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,400

The that was really cool

that these kids have very little means

643

00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,680

and they're giving them a source of pride

and confidence is with hip hop.

644

00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,120

It’s cool. Yeah.

645

00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:52,280

It was my favorite part of the trip,

and I actually tried to get us to not go.

646

00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,720

We had met the first night, you see, like

647

00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,080

the first the first day we had already met

with a breakdancing crew.

648

00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:58,760

Right.

649

00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,760

And we had actually

when we did our research, me and John, me

650

00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,760

and John and Raj were doing our research

before the trip.

651

00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,800

Slum Gods came up, right, John?

652

00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,160

I'm pretty sure we talked about them.

653

00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,640

So we had reached out

to make contact with them

654

00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,640

because they did tours

through Dharavi as well.

655

00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,760

Right?

656

00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,000

And so

657

00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,160

when we were getting ready to

658

00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,240

go, they were like,

Yo, it's going to be like a two hour ride.

659

00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,800

Everything is like,

traffic is insane in India.

660

00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,480

You can see it in the documentary.

661

00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,120

Everywhere you go is like an hour

and change like everywhere.

662

00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,480

And I was like, I really don't

want to go like, drive to this.

663

00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,440

And then we had another shoot to do.

I was very tired.

664

00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,760

We were ripping and running.

665

00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:52,360

I mean, we were up from like the crack

of dawn, shoot all day, perform at night,

666

00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,600

sleep for

667

00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,360

an hour, hop on a plane to the next city.

668

00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,720

So it was very like I was just like, Dude,

I was tired, it was hot.

669

00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,600

I was like, Man,

I really don't want to go to this.

670

00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,000

We already did a break dance crew.

671

00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,840

Like, maybe we shouldn't go.

672

00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,440

And I forget, I think it was the director

was just like, Yeah, we should go.

673

00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,960

We definitely should go see them. Like,

it's going to be cool, I'm telling you.

674

00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,200

So we're like, All right, let's go.

675

00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,840

And we went and I mean, it was definitely

676

00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,400

the best experience we had there.

677

00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,680

The the ending of the documentary

678

00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,800

where Raj is rapping

that was shot with the kids and Dharavi

679

00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,200

when we shot as we were shooting it,

I remember standing there watching it

680

00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,840

and going like, this is going to be

the end of the documentary.

681

00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,120

I remember you telling me that.

682

00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,600

So and then when we. Way before.

683

00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,960

Yes, when we got the footage

684

00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,320

and we were we were sitting

685

00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,000

in the car

riding to the interview with Himesh

686

00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,000

and we were

687

00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,800

we were looking at that

and me and Raj were like, this is the end.

688

00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,040

This is it. Like this is it.

689

00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,680

And that's like just looking at it, going

like, this is it.

690

00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,240

And it was one of the things

that was like, that things were falling

691

00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,520

in place in my head finally of like,

how the

692

00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,120

the film would be built

and that kind of stuff.

693

00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,000

You can see like, and like,

I'm sure like if you watched

694

00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,800

the documentary

knowing now, like I was unbearably nervous

695

00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,040

through most of that documentary

of like being on camera, I'm not like,

696

00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,960

I'm not a person who like to be on camera

or anything like that. So

697

00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,440

I, I, I was

698

00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,040

very like, like uptight about it.

699

00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,000

But the going to Dharavi was crazy.

700

00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,560

I'm still in contact

701

00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,560

with, like, the little girl who's doing,

like, the head spinning there.

702

00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,920

Okay.

703

00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,560

She, we follow each other on IG.

704

00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,800

Like in, like now they're out

in like the suburbs of India doing,

705

00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:57,680

still doing like the Slum God stuff and

like she still like breakdancing, though

706

00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:02,080

all of them are still,

they're still doing that stuff. And

707

00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:07,800

you know, that's where they like slum guy,

the Slumdog Millionaire.

708

00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,520

Like that's where that's based.

Yeah. Movie. Yeah.

709

00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,120

So like that

we talk about it in the documentary.

710

00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,320

That's why they're like reclaiming

that in like, you know, they're

711

00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,280

the Slum Gods as opposed to there's,

712

00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:26,680

you know, one thing

me and John and Raj talked about a lot

713

00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,120

was not doing poverty porn.

714

00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:34,440

I think it's very easy when you're doing

like a travelog, especially in a country

715

00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,120

like India, where there is such

a dichotomy between the rich and the poor.

716

00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,120

Yeah. you know, it's really easy to do

717

00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,120

like poverty

porn to get like points, right?

718

00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,400

Yeah.

719

00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,160

We set in like, we will not do that.

720

00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,080

We talked about that a lot.

721

00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,760

Yes, we were adamant not to do that.

722

00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,600

We did not want to do that kind of thing.

723

00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,560

And I don't think

like we do that with that.

724

00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:03,080

I think we try to show like

it is very helpful in this beautiful thing

725

00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,240

because I think that's what it is

that we really wanted that to come across.

726

00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,240

Certainly I thought so too. Yeah.

727

00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,680

That was well done for sure.

728

00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,000

Yeah.

729

00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,320

Did you get

730

00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,320

did you get a sense

of how popular American rappers

731

00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,280

are to the Indian population over there,

or did you not really get that sense

732

00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,520

because you were like an engrossed

in their hip hop scene?

733

00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,520

No, we

734

00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,440

heard because I heard like,

they're obviously like any performance.

735

00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,240

There's always like a DJ set

at any performance, right?

736

00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:37,040

So like, no, they are playing like regular

hip hop and we would we go at night.

737

00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,320

We literally went out like every night

after

738

00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,440

we were there, like, you know, listen,

what were you going to do?

739

00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,240

Like not go enjoy the time you were there?

740

00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,440

Like,

when am I ever going to get back to India?

741

00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,040

Like, I don't know if I'll ever be able

to go back. Right?

742

00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,440

So I'm going to go Joy, every minute

I was there.

743

00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,080

And so we would go out every night.

744

00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,480

We'd be in bars and clubs and shit

like that.

745

00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,080

And American hip hop was huge there.

746

00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,160

Like I said, one

747

00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,120

Drake’s

God’s Plan had just dropped in like

748

00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,560

it was playing all everywhere we went.

749

00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,400

It was playing.

750

00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,280

So they were playing the current,

the current stuff.

751

00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,040

Not like. Okay.

I was just curious about that.

752

00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,400

I know

753

00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,280

what I, you know, based on your word,

but I know

754

00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,280

God's Plan came out around that time

because I remember being in the hospital

755

00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,520

and I was going to do a MRI

756

00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,000

and they put me in the machine

and they asked me

757

00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,360

like I went in with head trauma.

758

00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,440

They got to like, lock you in.

759

00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:48,640

So I'm like, in this thing and I'm doing

like 40 minutes at a time, like MRI's.

760

00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:53,040

And they asked me like yo, Do you want to

listen to music in the headphones?

761

00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,440

I was like, Yeah, sure is like

762

00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:56,240

the, the

763

00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:59,680

attending like technician was like,

what kind of music do you want to hear?

764

00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:04,240

I was like, you know something, chill,

play some jazz and then a God’s Plan.

765

00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:10,440

I asked for a jazz

and he just played Drake anyway.

766

00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,840

He literally.

767

00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,840

Every time I hear that song.

768

00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,600

I picture myself in that.

769

00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,160

In an MRI machine, it’s not pleasant.

770

00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:21,320

That's funny.

771

00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,000

Yeah.

772

00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:22,880

You know what?

773

00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,200

They were playing a lot. There was.

774

00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:25,680

I am just.

775

00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,680

I can't live in

776

00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,440

that song. I think had just dropped.

777

00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,320

So that was huge.

778

00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:32,880

Yeah.

779

00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,920

Like they played that a lot

while we were there.

780

00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,720

They were playing a lot of current.

781

00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:39,480

Like I said, look,

I think the, the homogeneity of like

782

00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,480

monoculture is like so huge at this point.

783

00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:47,880

Like, yeah, they were playing like a lot

of, like the modern stuff.

784

00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,160

I like to

give the listeners like a comparison too.

785

00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,960

So as far as like Prab Deep,

who you know, was at the top, was up

786

00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,960

and coming, now you see he's dropped

like four albums and yeah,

787

00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,560

which American rapper style does

he most sound like,

788

00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:06,360

If you could possibly compare,

if there's any comparison,

789

00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,520

he's got a good stage presence,

I saw, you know.

790

00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:14,280

Yes, he's a great performer,

amazing performer.

791

00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,680

Honestly,

792

00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,520

Maybe Childish Gambino,

like a lot of their early

793

00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:25,600

stuff, reminds me of like Bonfire and

794

00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:26,880

what's the name of that record?

795

00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:27,840

I love that record.

796

00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:28,600

I can't think of it.

797

00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,120

It's also like that off that album.

798

00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,000

But like a lot of that early stuff

and then like there's

799

00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,800

newer stuff that's very much like later

Childish Gambino.

800

00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,520

He really kind of reminds

me of Childish Gambino.

801

00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:43,960

Nice,

802

00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,360

cool.

803

00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,560

This couple more questions

and then we can wrap.

804

00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,440

So the record label owner and the manager

of Prab Deep, it was Mo Joshi.

805

00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,240

He was. Yeah, he was delightful.

806

00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:55,640

He was just a fountain of information.

807

00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,320

Like, I got to listen to him British guy.

808

00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,400

We there's.

809

00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,320

That interview's like an hour long.

810

00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:01,800

Oh wow.

811

00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,800

A lot of that interview's cut, but

812

00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,680

it literally is just like it.

813

00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,680

We talked and just talked and talked and

talked and talked and talked and talked.

814

00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,240

And like you said, yes, he.

815

00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:13,600

He would talk forever.

816

00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:14,760

Yeah, he was.

817

00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,480

He was great.

818

00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,480

He was fantastic, too, with like,

819

00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,800

you know, we use a couple other songs

in like the movie.

820

00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,120

So, like he was really cool about like,

just letting us, like, rock out with that.

821

00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,000

It's actually funny, too,

822

00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000

because there's like several versions

of the actual documentary.

823

00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,760

There's a version that lives on

Quincy Jones’s streaming

824

00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,760

service Qwest TV, that's

825

00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,400

that doesn't have some of the songs

cause like, we like, I pulled some stuff

826

00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,920

because it was like, well, we're,

you know, I didn't want to like

827

00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,760

licensing stuff. I was worried.

828

00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,000

So, like, there's that version.

829

00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,280

There's a version that has

830

00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,000

that has the one that's on

831

00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,600

YouTube is in three parts

and it has like some extra stuff in it.

832

00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,600

And then there's a whole version

that we've said

833

00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,600

that was in the film festivals

that's like its own thing.

834

00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,640

That's like just a full film in one piece.

835

00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,640

So there's actually like

several different,

836

00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,240

like little versions of the film,

which is actually kind of cool.

837

00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:14,440

That's cool.

838

00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,960

So one other thing about Mo Joshi,

he referenced Sez on the Beat

839

00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,720

as being super integral to the growing

popularity of hip hop in India.

840

00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:24,680

Like he's the guy that helped

841

00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,120

spawn the popularity.

842

00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,040

Is there a US equivalent of Sez

843

00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,480

like what Sez has done

for hip hop in India?

844

00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,120

Is there someone the U.S.

845

00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,880

is that like

846

00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,440

Dre or P-Diddy?

847

00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,120

I actually have somebody in my head.

848

00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,920

I wonder, John, do you

can you think of somebody like.

849

00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,840

Yeah, I don't know, because I don't know

that there's any single equivalent

850

00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,920

Marley maybe. You know. Yeah, yeah.

851

00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,280

You know who I was thinking about?

And it's more current.

852

00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,640

I get like, not current guys, but I can't.

853

00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,640

I was thinking Timberland because, like,

he, like, kind of, like, launched

854

00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,840

that whole kind of Virginia sound wave

type thing that came out.

855

00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,520

A lot of people took his style, too.

856

00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,240

Yes. Yeah.

857

00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:07,600

Sez...Sez.

858

00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,000

I don't think

it's like as big in the scene right now.

859

00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:11,640

And that's partially

860

00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,480

just because like he's doing other stuff,

like he's moved on to do other stuff.

861

00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,760

But he was like

862

00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,920

when we were there,

863

00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,200

his name was the name

we heard brought up a ton.

864

00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,400

Nice.

865

00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,360

He was like one of the first big,

866

00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,680

like non like rapper names

to kind of come out like he's like a big

867

00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,320

he's like, he's the big first producer

to come out of India type thing.

868

00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:43,240

Hmm. That's cool.

869

00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,000

So other final question is

870

00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,640

how do you think this trip changed

Lush- changed Lush Life?

871

00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:54,280

How did it change him?

872

00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:55,080

He was in the element.

873

00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,400

He was enjoying it.

874

00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,880

I mean, obviously,

you know, when he's before, he's like,

875

00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,440

this is always, you know,

because he hadn’t been there ten years.

876

00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,240

That's his homeland.

877

00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:06,720

And he embraced the audience.

878

00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,680

They seemed to embrace him.

879

00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,040

Josh, I don't know if you talked to him

about this.

880

00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,520

I haven't spoken to him about this.

881

00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,880

So I spoke to him mostly about like,

you know what the trip overall is like

882

00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:18,280

me and him.

883

00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,760

Me and him came very close,

like me and John said.

884

00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,560

We were like

885

00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,640

friends at the time.

886

00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,120

Like, we were like super close.

887

00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,080

John, like, interviewed him and like,

had spent a little more time with him.

888

00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,720

I had like, hung out with him

a couple of times.

889

00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:35,440

I mean, John had hung out with him

a couple of times, but like we were

890

00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,440

I was still kind of not really like,

891

00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,400

you know, didn't really know him that

well when we went.

892

00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,640

Raj is now one of our closest friends.

893

00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:48,720

We it was a great experience to like.

894

00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:53,280

It was something

that was he expressed like

895

00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,320

he had toured obviously with his music.

896

00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,040

He was like, I've never had a schedule

like that where we were up

897

00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,040

all day, shooting all day,

then recording it, then

898

00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,640

like performing at night

and then like being on the road

899

00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:11,120

and then like doing that over and over

and over and over, day after day.

900

00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,400

I do think he

901

00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,040

got I think it gave him

902

00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,320

I know he said,

like when the first night in Bangalore,

903

00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:28,200

there were some people who knew his lyrics

and he

904

00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,960

he said, it felt surreal

905

00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,760

to like hear

like people in India rap his lyrics,

906

00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,160

That’s

907

00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,960

dope. Yeah.

908

00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,400

And then like doing the actual

big festival because that was huge.

909

00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,640

That place was like,

I don't think you don't even really get

910

00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,240

the scope of it in the film.

911

00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:50,400

I think I think we didn't

get a really one of the things was like

912

00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,880

that was like

we the shout out to the film crew,

913

00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,320

they were fucking running on fumes

because like when we slept

914

00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,120

for like an hour or two, they were up

like transporting like trans- like,

915

00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,200

like moving the footage

from one drive to another drive.

916

00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,360

So they would have like space for the new

the next day.

917

00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,720

Like they didn't sleep for like seven

days, man.

918

00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:14,360

They ran ragged.

919

00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,160

So toward the end

920

00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,880

we were like,

we ran with more of a skeleton crew

921

00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:25,240

and we so I don't we didn't really

I don't think

922

00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:29,440

we got as much of the festival

as we really wanted, but

923

00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,400

the festival was packed and like,

924

00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,000

I know, like being in India and rocking in

925

00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,240

India was huge for him

926

00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,200

and I'm sure like kind of felt

927

00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:47,200

like a culmination of sorts

for him to like, go to India and perform,

928

00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,080

go to the homeland

and the motherland and like,

929

00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:56,480

get to rock

and do something that you love.

930

00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,480

It was really dope

and we got to experience

931

00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,480

so much cool shit over there,

932

00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,920

you know, they got to like,

933

00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,240

teach me how to eat different shit there.

934

00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:10,000

I'm very like,

John knows me, I'm a super picky eater.

935

00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,160

I was super scared to go there and eat

936

00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:14,400

because I'm so picky.

937

00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,680

I have a really questionable

stomach too like.

938

00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:22,240

And I was like

super scared over there eating and

939

00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:23,280

so it was

940

00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,800

I know, like it was one of the things

like John is way more adventurous.

941

00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,880

He would like love that shit

way more than I would have

942

00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,800

As long as it ain’t beef or pork.

943

00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,200

Yeah, like we would.

944

00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,120

It's great over there.

945

00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:36,360

I mean, like, we didn't.

946

00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,880

Dude, we caught when we went

947

00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,800

to Mumbai from Bangalore,

948

00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:47,680

we got up super early

and we were in the airport

949

00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:52,200

like 730 in the morning

and we're like dying.

950

00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,200

We're like, yo, we got to like,

we had been drinking all night,

951

00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,040

Like we were drinking beer for free

because the beer company sent us.

952

00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,000

So like we had all the beer

we could drink.

953

00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,120

Been like,

although weed could smoke and shit.

954

00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,880

So it was like a haha magical trip.

955

00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:12,120

And so, like, we got out, we were at this,

956

00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,520

we were at the airport

and the only thing that was open

957

00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,120

was like this Indian restaurant,

not Indian restaurant.

958

00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,320

And it would just...restaurant,

I guess, in India.

959

00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,120

And like they were, we're serving

like regular Indian food and stuff.

960

00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,000

And I was like, Yo, I can't do spices.

961

00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,240

It's like 7:00 the morning.

962

00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,320

I was like, And Deepak was like,

Yo, I can't

963

00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,200

do I don't want to do spices right now

either. Let's let's get some KFC.

964

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So we got some KFC and it

the worst decision,

965

00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:46,080

it was so haha Airport KFC

at 730 in the morning was a bad choice.

966

00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,280

I definitely get away with just like a

nice rice bowl or something. But

967

00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,040

we got that and like it was

968

00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:58,200

it was the worst turbulence

we I've ever experienced flying

969

00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:03,000

and we flew when we were flying from

Bangalore to Mumbai in this tiny plane.

970

00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:07,880

And I was it was the only

971

00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,480

I was legitimate, like scared,

like I was like, you know, we're gone

972

00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,360

because it was all mountains

around us and shit.

973

00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,000

Like at least

what I could see was like mountains.

974

00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,520

And I was like, Yo, if we crash, we're

going to crash into mountains and die.

975

00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,240

Like,

I legitimately was scared on the plane

976

00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,080

and it was not helped

977

00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:30,560

because I had like a belly full of greasy,

978

00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,840

nasty fried

chicken at 7:30 in the morning.

979

00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,800

So it was an adventure.

980

00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,720

It was an amazing trip,

I'll say that. Definitely.

981

00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:40,760

Yeah. And look like it was awesome.

982

00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,760

I'm glad. I'm

so glad you guys put this on film. That

983

00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,440

Wright,

you know, discovered you guys on this

984

00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,680

art of sampling show

and we able to link up.

985

00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:52,760

Thank you for sharing these experiences.

986

00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:53,080

Yeah.

987

00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,000

Thank you for having us.

988

00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,320

Like, it was

989

00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,280

like, just.

990

00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,600

Just putting it all together

in, like, you know,

991

00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,680

we had to learn to make a documentary

to do this.

992

00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,480

Like, we didn't know how

to do any of this stuff.

993

00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:11,560

We were supposed to start working

on this documentary in 2018 to end.

994

00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,000

It was the end of 2018, 2018

when Raj then gets the book

995

00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,000

deal or Raj’s just like book comes out.

996

00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,880

We because Raj,

like Raj is a children's book

997

00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,320

author as well, like a best New York Times

bestselling author.

998

00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,280

His career is like going crazy.

999

00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,280

Yes, we were sitting down

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to like, edit this film, and the book

was just getting ready to come out

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and he just was like getting

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constantly called out of the like

as we're sitting down going over footage.

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And so, like when the pandemic hit,

like me and Diane kind of just decided

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like, well,

if we're ever going to make this, like,

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we got to like, make it, is

this just going to set the footage?

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We'll sit here

and no one will ever see it.

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And so, like I taught myself Final

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Cut Pro and me and John wrote

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and went over footage and did like,

just did a whole bunch of shit.

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We just taught ourselves

how to make a documentary.

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And, you know,

we were we're very proud of this project.

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I mean, it's definitely changed.

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Like our the shape of what we're doing.

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We're, we are working on a new film

project now.

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We have a few other projects in the works

as well.

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Like this is like really kind

of like changed our lives.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah. So I

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implore you all

to watch Another Word for Paradise.

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We can put the YouTube links,

or if you have a better link,

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we could put it in the show

notes. Definitely.

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Yeah, I would just do the YouTube.

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YouTube this way.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Easiest way.

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We we enjoy it. I've been telling

a lot of people about it.

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My son has gone to school for film

and I got to. To.

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Show him as an example.

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He would enjoy it as well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I, I mean, like it is,

I rewatched it today for this podcast.

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I had to sit in in a long time

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and I obviously watch it with like,

you know,

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I should like cut that scene

like a fraction of a second earlier.

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Like all that stuff has like now

in my head you know what I mean?

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I'm like, all going to cut that one

like just a fraction of a second.

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They're like, faded

that song out just a little better here.

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But I mean, like,

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I still really, really,

really proud of that project.

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We have a we're going to be doing

another thing here in Philly.

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You know, we'll we'll definitely keep

you guys, we'll let you guys know.

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We're definitely doing another thing

about this film here in Philly soon.

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So we'll get well,

you know, we'll, we'll just check us out.

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00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,600

Serious Rap Shit,

social media's Instagram and Twitter.

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@SeriousRapShit.

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And you know, if you want to follow us

there, we'll

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there's there's going to be some new stuff

coming up.

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Like I said,

we have the new film. Fantastic. Great.

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Yeah. It's going to be dope.

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Yeah, we'll definitely promote that.

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Thank you.

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Never thought I'd make a film like,

you know, I mean, you're

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talking about two dudes who grew up

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the furthest thing away from Hollywood.

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None of that stuff ever? Like, we.

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We didn't dream about this.

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Like, we didn't dream about this.

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00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,960

We dreamt of it, but, like, they didn't

think this would happen, right?

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00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,680

Like, this is something, you know, we

we never thought would happen.

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You know,

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we're very we're very thankful.

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And like,

you know, I talk about this all the time.

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I mentioned it at the

The Art of Sampling talk.

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We're very grateful to be like

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to be a part of the culture that we love

and like that we admire

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and to be a part of that

and to contribute to it

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is a feeling that I can't like

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00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:53,160

really even like, explain now.

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It's a great feeling.

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Yeah, sure.

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Yeah, yeah. All right. All right.

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Thank you all so much.

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Yes, thank. You.

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It's just nice to meet you. And. Yes.

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Yeah, Thank you.

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We’ll be in touch.

Thanks a lot, you guys. Yeah.

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Thank you. So, thank you.

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