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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Clipping's Daveed Diggs: noise rap, Hamilton & Sesame Street

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Let's start taking bets for the next person to EGOT: that is, the next person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony award. Our money is on Daveed Diggs. He's already got a Grammy and a Tony for his fantastic work on the Broadway smash hit Hamilton. So, he's halfway there! Diggs has one of the most varied resumes in entertainment. He's an actor on the small screen. You've seen him on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Get Down, Black -ish and Sesame Street. He's a writer, too – he co-wrote the screenplay for Blindspotting, a movie about violence and gentrification in Oakland, his hometown. He also co-stars in the film. And, if that wasn't enough he's a very talented musician as a member of the rap group Clipping. Diggs joins us to talk about Clipping's new record, his various acting roles, and of course, Hamilton. Let's go!

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:13.0

I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.

0:22.0

Let's start taking bets for the next person to EGOT to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar,

0:29.0

and Tony.

0:30.0

I think my money is on Davide Diggs.

0:33.0

That's because Davide has one of the most varied resumes in entertainment.

0:38.0

He starred in the original cast of Hamilton, playing Thomas Jefferson and the Marquita

0:42.8

Lafayette.

0:43.8

He earned a Tony for that, so that one's already handled.

0:46.8

He's an actor on screen too, he was on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Blackish.

0:51.4

He's now starring in the Amazon series Undone.

0:54.8

He's also a writer.

0:55.8

He and his friend Rafael Casal wrote the screenplay for Blind Spotting, the movie about violence

1:01.1

and gentrification in their hometown, Oakland.

1:04.4

Diggs and Casal also co-star in the film, and it is amazing.

1:08.9

And Diggs is also in clipping.

1:11.4

It's a wrap room.

1:12.4

He's the MC, along with the producer's William Hudson and Jonathan Snipes.

1:17.3

Clipping gets called experimental, often.

1:20.3

The producers build their beats out of weird samples, beer bottles, alarm clocks.

1:25.5

They collaborate with noise artists, and Davide never wraps in the first person, which is

1:31.4

both hard and very unusual.

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