How I Became The Worlds Best DJ With Only One Arm: Black Coffee

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Black Coffee is one of the biggest DJs in the world, and one of the largest musical artists to ever come out of Africa full stop. Charging up to $300,000 a set, he’s one of the most coveted and in-demand DJs in the game today. But what people may not know about him is that he’s climbed to the top of the DJ world while being able to spin with only one arm, losing his ability to use the other in a tragic childhood accident. From the greatest adversity comes the greatest achievement, though, and Black Coffee took it as more inspiration to drive towards his dreams - relentlessly, unrelentingly, fearlessly. Black Coffee’s story is truly inspiring. He is just one of many we’re bringing to you this Black History Month, during which we’re making a special effort to bring you essential conversations with people of colour who are thought and industry leaders in their fields. Follow Black Coffee: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/realblackcoffee/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/realblackcoffee Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We just had this sound and it was a car just rammed through the crowd and I just black a childhood. I was always working and I used to hate it growing up because I just felt like when am I going to become a child, you know, and I just felt like when am I going to become a child you know and play like other kids
0:26.7	the 10th of February tell me about that day
0:30.8	Man I was a scary thing for me.
0:33.0	When I went to the hospital, no one knew what to do.
0:36.0	I would literally close my eyes.
0:38.0	I wouldn't know whether it's here or here or here or here.
0:42.0	So it was paralyzed at that point.
0:44.0	Yeah, I stayed for three months in the hospital,
0:46.0	you know, and that depressed me even more.
0:49.0	Music helped me so much.
0:51.0	It brought me peace.
0:52.0	This is why I share it. It's my way of
0:55.1	healing people the same way it healed me. My childhood where I come from those
1:02.4	things scare me. What from those things scare me.
1:04.1	What do those things scare you?
1:05.6	Because this is a story that it was for years hard to share.
1:09.8	So what happened is like.
1:18.0	Without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this yourself. So the question that I always start this podcast with,
1:31.1	because I studied childhood psychology for a little while and it was
1:34.2	illuminating to me how much of our early years end up defining and shaping us how much who we become.
1:39.7	So that early context before 12 years old, What did that look like for you?
1:45.0	When I was born like my parents were married. My mom was super young. I was the first one. Two other siblings at the time.
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