BONUS: Jon Batiste On Lil' Wayne, New Orleans Culture, Future EGOT, +'World Music Radio'
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Grammy Award winning artist Jon Batiste sits down with Ebro in the Morning to discuss a variety of topics including working with the likes of Lil' Wayne, Kenny G and more, culture in New Orleans, his various awards including whether he would be persuing the Tony award to finish his prestigious EGOT, and also gives us some insight of his musical genius. His project 'World Music Radio' is available now!
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| 0:00.0 | John Baptiste is on the program. |
| 0:03.0 | John Baptiste. |
| 0:04.0 | Not Baptiste. |
| 0:06.0 | It's Batiste. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, it's Baptiste. |
| 0:09.0 | My grandfather changed it. |
| 0:10.0 | It was Jean Baptiste. |
| 0:12.0 | It was. Like the whole last name was Jean Baptiste. it was |
| 0:13.0 | like the whole last name was Jean Baptist and he changed it |
| 0:16.0 | but I think people spiritually still key into that |
| 0:20.0 | they always call me John Baptiste |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | They're like, Baptist, where you at? |
| 0:25.0 | But you know, it's Baptiste. |
| 0:26.7 | Now the French influence, you're from New Orleans, |
| 0:30.3 | so that's why y'all here is Jean-Baptiste. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah. I know also we have a lot of Haitian listeners too and that relationship between New Orleans and Haiti and French and that whole thing |
| 0:39.3 | You're born and raised from New Orleans. Yeah, 504. Where y'all last? That's right. Come on, |
| 0:45.2 | five or four. Yur me? Say it, bro, 17. |
| 0:50.0 | Bro, yeah. I don't gonna bro, as another vibe |
| 0:55.0 | Your draw was too long on that one Roseboro |
| 0:58.0 | his draw was too long. |
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