Derrick "D-Nice" Jones

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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On the 100th episode of the podcast, John Heilemann welcomes hip hop veteran, DJ extraordinaire, and one of the inspirations for Hell & High Water: Derrick "D-Nice" Jones, fresh off a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Heilemann and D-Nice discuss Club Quarantine, the experiment in Instagram Live DJing that D-Nice began in the darkest early days of Covid, and how his socially distanced dance parties exploded into an overnight sensation, with hundreds of thousands of housebound partiers around the world logging on to find community and solace (and fun!) in the face of the extreme isolation imposed by the pandemic; his musical philosophy and what he's learned from other elite DJs, including Q-Tip, Mark Ronson, and Questlove; and his experiences spinning for Barack and Michelle Obama both inside and outside the White House. They also explore D-Nice's storied history in rap music, starting with his role as as founding member of the legendary old-school hip-hop collective Boogie Down Productions, his self-reinvention as a DJ after his solo career fizzled in the 1990s, and what the future holds for D and Club Quarantine. It’s a centenary saturnalia that you won’t want to miss!

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0:00.0	Blur are back.
0:04.6	Second show added due to phenomenal demand.
0:07.4	Sunday the 9th of July 2023, Wembley Stadium.
0:15.0	Tickets on sale now from metropolismusic.com.
0:19.2	Don't miss Blur live.
0:31.2	I'm Andy Dawson and I'm Sam Delaney and we're from the podcast.
0:34.5	Top right time machine.
0:35.9	Sam, there's a lot of football and telly in the next few weeks could be tantabuy a new TV.
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0:44.8	Such as acoustic surface audio plus a unique Sony technology which makes the sound come from
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0:50.0	The sound literally follows the action around the screen as well, meaning your pictures
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1:00.8	Hey everyone, John Hyelman here and welcome to Hell on High Water.
1:19.8	My podcast for the recount about politics and culture on the edge of our McGueden with
1:23.5	big ups to my pal Rizza, the presiding genius behind the sound of Wuteng Clan and the producer
1:28.3	of our dope theme.
1:30.4	Like this week on the podcast, we are celebrating a big time milestone in the life of this show.
1:36.9	It's the 100th episode of Hell on High Water.
1:41.4	And to mark the occasion, we have with us a very special guest, a guy I have been wanting
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