Ep. 46 Watsky- Ear Biscuits

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Mythical

Comedy

4.9 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Award winning slam-poet turned rapper, George Watsky, sits down with Rhett & Link this week to talk about what was behind his controversial 35 ft. stage dive in late 2013, his recent struggle with epilepsy, how he maintains authenticity in his lyrics and online persona, and why he's making waves in the hip hop industry with the release of his new album "All You Can Do." *NOTE: This conversation contains adult themes and language.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ear Biscuits.
0:04.2	I'm Rhett.
0:05.2	And I'm Link.
0:06.2	This week at the round table of dim lighting, we have George Watsky, award-winning slam
0:11.3	poet and rapper.
0:12.7	He's been climbing the charts both with the release of his new album All You Can Do
0:18.4	and his ever-growing YouTube channel Watsky exclamation point.
0:21.9	Yes.
0:22.9	George's first claim to fame was being featured on Russell Simmons presents Death Poetry
0:25.8	on HBO.
0:26.8	This was back when he was 19 in 2006.
0:29.0	And more recently, you might have seen him featured in one or two epic rap battles of
0:32.9	history as Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe.
0:36.1	Watsky's breakout viral video, I remember seeing it at the time, blew my mind.
0:42.0	He was titled then Pale Kid Raps Fast.
0:45.8	He was speed-rapping over an instrumental from Buster Rhymes song Break Your Neck.
0:51.2	He posted that in January of 2011 and it currently has over 25 million views.
0:56.2	Oh, hi, I'm that guy, Bill Soflaggett Soko Ty, don't know why, I'm not so fly, but I'm
1:00.5	no lie, oh my, world by, get a low ride, Huffy sitting on the peg, his shoulders, Huffy
1:04.7	cuff rolled up to my calf, clashed to the ass, bad, but it's right like Buffy.
1:07.6	Gotta be the one I'm bigger, but I'm a sinner, but I better, better, better man, I wanna
1:10.6	be Sam, but I guess I'm better, some medicine, instead I'm meditative, but I gotta wanna
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