Heat Rocks Special! Jay Smooth, Meshell Ndegeocello, & Vernon Reid

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We're doing something a little different this week: you're about to hear three of our favorite interviews from Heat Rocks, one of our sister shows here at company Maximum Fun. Heat Rocks is a music podcast about passion. It's hosted by Oliver Wang, a veteran hip-hop writer, and Morgan Rhodes - she's a music supervisor who's worked closely with Ava DuVernay. Each week, Heat Rocks brings you a conversation with a guest about the album that shaped their lives. Morgan and Oliver have talked with people like Cut Chemist, Ishmael Butler, Ann Powers and more. Expect deep, compelling conversations about R&B, Soul, Jazz, Hip-hop and more. Oliver and Morgan use each record as a jumping off point to talk about its history, its context, and why we care about it. This week you'll hear from Jay Smooth, the radio DJ and commentator, singer/songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello and Vernon Reid, founder of Living Colour.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.2	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:20.6	Walk this way, the version of the song recorded by Run DMC was a pretty big deal when it came
0:26.2	out.
0:27.2	Number four on the Billboard Hot 100, it was the biggest hit Run DMC ever had.
0:32.2	It's the kind of song music critics on TV will say changed everything for hip hop.
0:38.2	J-Smooth is a writer, a radio DJ and an internet commentator.
0:44.0	He's also a huge Run DMC fan.
0:47.6	But walk this way, maybe not so much.
0:50.7	That was a song that frustrated me at the time because after years of me rooting for
0:55.1	Run DMC to really earn that respect from the rest of the world and from people to recognize
1:00.5	how much we love them, they finally got that acclaim from the wackest song they ever made
1:07.0	in my eyes at the time.
1:09.9	So I had a lot of mixed feelings about it.
1:11.7	Now I can sort of look back and appreciate more.
1:14.7	It's Bullseye.
1:23.2	Coming up a special treat for you.
1:25.6	Three legendary interviews from our friends at the podcast, Heat Rocks.
1:29.6	Morgan Rhodes and Oliver Wang.
1:32.2	On Heat Rocks, Morgan and Oliver talk to artists and thinkers about truly great albums.
1:40.1	You'll hear J-Smooth talk more about the Run DMC songs he actually truly loves.
1:45.2	Oliver and Morgan will also talk with the singer and songwriter Michelle Indeo-Cello.
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