HOORAE: Issa Rae

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Obsessed with TV and passionate about writing, Issa Rae sent an unsolicited script to CBS’s Cosby when she was still in middle school. By her 20's, she realized there was a certain type of character that was absent from the media landscape—a character she would eventually inhabit in her breakout YouTube series, "Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl." From there, Issa created the five-season HBO hit Insecure, but first went through a bruising gauntlet of rejections and reversals as she learned to navigate Hollywood. Today, Issa has built a company—HOORAE Media—which produces her new HBO show, Rap Sh!t, and multiple other TV and film projects.

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0:00.0	What is actually going on with the economy nowadays?
0:04.4	The price of gas, inflation?
0:06.5	Are we in a recession?
0:08.2	I'm Jeff Quo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money.
0:11.2	Come along with our super team of econ experts
0:14.1	as we delve into the stories that show you
0:16.2	how the world really works.
0:18.6	That's Planet Money from NPR.
0:21.9	Hey, it's Guy here with a very exciting announcement.
0:24.7	I have a brand new podcast.
0:26.8	It's called The Great Creators and the launches on September 20th.
0:31.2	In each week, I'll be interviewing some of your favorite actors,
0:34.2	comedians, and musicians about their lives, their work,
0:38.0	and where they find creativity.
0:40.2	So please check out the great creators
0:42.6	it's available wherever you find your podcasts.
0:45.8	And please do subscribe so you won't miss any of the episodes.
0:49.5	And our first episode is with Stephen Colbert.
0:52.4	So check out the great creators wherever you get your podcasts
0:56.0	and we'll include a link in the show notes to this episode too.
0:59.3	Thanks.
1:00.1	Now enjoy how I built this.
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