Dancing into 2023 with legendary DJ Honey Dijon

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

2022 was a banner year for Honey Dijon. She co-produced two of the fiercest tracks on Beyoncé's latest record, 'Renaissance,' and she released her own studio album this fall, called 'Black Girl Magic.' But Honey – one of the only Black trans DJs playing the biggest clubs in the world – has been a mainstay on dance floors for decades. And she's become a historian, and champion, of the Black musical traditions that house music draws from. In this episode, Honey talks to host Brittany Luse about using music to create spaces of liberation and paving the way for future generations to do the same.

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0:00.0	It's always good to talk to somebody else from the Midwest.
0:03.6	I'm from the Detroit area.
0:04.7	So we're going to keep a real 100 up in here.
0:08.1	We will.
0:09.2	We will.
0:10.2	We will.
0:11.2	You know how Midwest people do?
0:13.5	We talk straight.
0:15.3	Real to real.
0:16.6	Hey there.
0:20.5	You're listening to It's been a minute from NPR.
0:23.0	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:24.3	In 2022, there was one album that I kept coming back to over and over.
0:30.9	Beyonce's Renaissance.
0:39.1	I played that album out, of course, because it made me want to move.
0:43.0	It made me want to dance.
0:44.2	It made me want to party.
0:45.8	But also because when I dug into it, I found a rich history.
0:50.7	That's because Renaissance is a love letter to dance music's black queer roots.
0:55.6	And Beyonce didn't just pay homage.
0:58.0	She literally hired the source.
1:00.5	My role for her in creating this album, I wanted to do the community justice.
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