Episode 20 - Young

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Story time. A man drifts away from his family after his brother is killed. His estranged wife struggles to raise four kids alone. Their youngest son turns to the streets. A mix of genius and luck propels him from the jaws of death to superstar status. What can we learn from the life and times of Shawn Carter? Warning: This episode contains some very strong language, language which may offend and adult themes. Credits: Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the Poet Mixing, recording and editing by Benbrick. With music from: Nines - NIC (feat. Tiggs Da Author) Lonnie Liston Smith - A Garden of Peace Jay-Z - Dead Presidents Jay Z - My First Song All original music is written by Benbrick and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra. We had the following guests: The former DMC world champion DJ Blakey scratching those Jay-Z samples, and Sandra Makumbi. Thank you to: My team Sandra, Vidhu, and Birungi. Dylan Haskins and the team at BBC Sounds, BBC Concert Orchestra, Jay-Z's Mum, Ms Lowden, Torrie Maas, DJ Clark Kent speaking on DJ Vlad, Kareem Burke talking on the Reasonable Doubt Documentary, Andrew Marr, Evan Rogers, Tom Kelly & Adam Miller, my nephews. Archive: The clip of Jay-Z in the restaurant at 12:10 is taken from the Jay-Z record Only A Customer. There are various clips between 15:12 and 15:27 introducing Jay-Z and these are taken from CNN’s Van Jones Show, Stephen A. Smith on ESPN, Jay-Z on Conan O’Brien, Jay-Z’s appearance on 106 & Park, and Canada’s Breakfast Television. The clips of Jay-Z’s mum Ms Gloria Carter used at 17:18 are taken from the Jay-Z record December 4Th. The clips of Jay-Z’s teacher Renee Rosenblum-Lowden used at 18:11 are taken from the Brut Media video “Jay-Z Credits Teacher With His love of Language”. The Jay-Z acapellas used at 18:03, 18:57, 19:46 are taken from the Jay-Z record Blueprint (Momma Loves Me) The clip of DJ Clark Kent used at 20:21 is taken from the DJVlad show titled “Clark Kent on Introducing Biggie to Jay Z, Biggie Best Rapper but Jay Z Best MC". The clip of Kareem Burke used at 23:06 is taken from the Tidal documentary Reasonable Doubt. The clip of Jay-Z used at 27:04 is taken from the BBC Andrew Marr show. Soundtrack: Nines - NIC (feat. Tiggs Da Author) 00:37 - 02:30 Benbrick - Young Intro 02:18 - 03:51 Jay Z - My First Song [Benbrick Remake] 04:41 - 05:30 Benbrick - Young 05:45 - 06:40 Benbrick - Back to the kid 07:15 - 07:49 Benbrick - All Aboard 08:02 - 08:21 Benbrick - All Aboard 09:08 - 10:08 Benbrick - Damon 11:16- 12:03 Lonnie Liston Smith - A Garden of Peace 12:27 - 15:09 Jay-Z - Dead Presidents 15:10 - 15:54 Benbrick - Back to the kid 16:20 - 17:13 Jay Z - December 4Th (Benbrick Remake) 17:15 - 18:01 Benbrick - Dec 4 18:10 - 18:54 Benbrick - Back to the kid 19:05 - 19:46 Benbrick - Rodolfo 19:54 - 21:15 Jay Z - My First Song [Benbrick Remake] 21:48 - 22:45 Benbrick - Roc 23:04 - 24:00 Benbrick - Back to the kid 24:50 - 26:05 Jay Z - My First Song [Benbrick Remake] 26:08 - 26:57 Jay Z - My First Song 26:35 - 28:00 Have You Heard George’s Podcast? is a George the Poet production for BBC Sounds. Commissioning Executive for BBC: Dylan Haskins

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0:00.0	MBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:09.5	Yo, this episode contains very strong language and some adult themes, but we move. Let's go.
0:18.4	Look at me, tapping away, trying to see how many words I can write in a day,
0:24.7	and two months I've got to write 70,000 words. I don't know. Sounds upset,
0:30.9	but I've got a head full of nouns and verbs and music. Music helps me calm down the nerves.
0:54.5	So I'm a writer in a book, when I could make more money from writing a hook,
0:58.7	when I got a podcast that's doing well enough and a woman to attend to since I fell in love.
1:07.0	Oh, thank you very much. On one hand, I'm an artist at the top of his game,
1:11.7	on the other I'm a philosopher with a lot to explain.
1:17.8	I want to teach people how to make money from their passion, using my career as a guide in life.
1:23.2	Some people can't do much with my advice, for others, my advice, my suffice.
1:30.8	Plan A was to teach through music. Plan B was to do it through TV. I was working on both when I
1:37.6	realized podcasting was the best way for the audience to receive me. That's all about
1:44.8	seven years to figure out. I spent two of them seven years in a drought. I spent a lot of money
1:50.8	on a lot of experiments and this right here is what I offer is evidence.
2:11.9	I feel like I know why this podcast has become successful. There's a formula to it, which I want
2:19.2	to share with everyone trying to write something special. But it's impossible to tell you this
2:26.0	formula without explaining certain things first. I'm talking about the business and psychology
2:35.0	of working with words. Now, I don't want to waste your time as much as I don't want to waste my
2:42.0	time. So we need to make sure we understand each other and that's going to take time.
2:49.3	For those who want to learn more and want to support me,
2:53.4	best place to start is the following story.
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