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🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Music is a central part of how Leon Benson experiences the world around him. Suspect sound designer, Garrett Tiedemann, sits down with Leon to discuss his lifelong musical journey.
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0:00.0 | One of the things I learned about Leon Benson when I first spoke to him almost a year ago |
0:15.6 | was that music was absolutely central to his life. |
0:19.4 | He was a rapper, and not just an enthusiastic guy would drop a few verses now and then. |
0:24.6 | He'd secretly recorded music while in prison, managed to smuggle the recordings out, and |
0:29.7 | then collaborated with a production company called Die Jim Crow Records, which was set |
0:34.6 | up specifically to release music by prison-impacted artists. |
0:39.4 | His first album is out now, and it's powerful. |
0:42.5 | It's called Innocent Born Guilty. |
0:47.4 | Hip-hop is a big part of how Leon sees the world, and we'd always wanted listeners to |
0:51.9 | hear his music, and to hear Leon talking about his music. |
0:56.2 | We didn't feel like we had enough of that in the first nine episodes of this show. |
1:00.5 | So for our second bonus episode, we wanted to interview Leon about his art, and how it |
1:05.8 | connects so deeply to his life. |
1:10.3 | From campside media in Wondery, I'm Matthew Shere, and this is Suspect, five shots in |
1:16.5 | the dark. |
1:17.8 | This is the second bonus episode, Escape in the Song. |
1:27.2 | This episode is sponsored by the new documentary, Colleen Rooney, The Real Wagatha Story, streaming |
1:32.4 | exclusively on Disney+. |
1:34.7 | There have been many variations of the Wagatha saga, and now it's time to uncover her truth. |
1:39.6 | In this three-part, original series, Colleen will tell her story in her own words for the |
1:43.8 | first time. |
1:45.3 | Tune in to learn how Colleen figured out who was leaking her stories to the press, get |
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