Introducing: Broken Record
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Hey Slow Burn listeners. We have something special for you this week. It's an episode of Broken Record, a music podcast from Pushkin Industries, co-hosted by Malcolm Gladwell and music producer Rick Rubin. In the episode, Malcolm and Rick talk to Questlove about his memories of the MOVE police bombing in Philly, the music of his childhood, and Quest gets behind the drums to show the evolution of his playing.
Being the music lover he is, Questlove can't help but turn the tables to ask Rick about his own Hip Hop history: working on the Beastie Boys' first album, License to Ill, and LL Cool J's first album, Radio. Then it all culminates in one of the best Obama stories ever. You can subscribe to Broken Record wherever you get your podcasts, and see some amazing studio session photos on Instagram, @TheBrokenRecordPod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Slow Burn listeners, we have something special for you this week. It's an episode of |
| 0:03.9 | Broken Record, a music podcast from Pushkin Industries, co-hosted by Malcolm Gladwell and music producer |
| 0:09.9 | Rick Rubin. In the episode, Malcolm and Rick talked to Quest Love. He talks about the music of his |
| 0:15.6 | childhood and about his memories of the move police bombing in Philly. You'll also hear Quest |
| 0:20.7 | get behind the drums to show the evolution of his playing. |
| 0:23.6 | And he turns the tables to ask Rick Rubin about his own hip-hop history, |
| 0:26.9 | including working on the debut albums from L.O. Cool J. and The Beastie Boys. |
| 0:31.2 | Check out this episode and subscribe to Broken Record wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | And you can see some amazing studio session photos on Instagram at The Broken Record Pod. |
| 0:42.5 | I want to talk a little bit about Philadelphia. |
| 0:45.7 | Okay. |
| 0:46.4 | Particularly, you're born in 71. |
| 0:49.9 | 71. |
| 0:50.7 | You come of age in a very sort of strange period in the history of Philadelphia. |
| 0:56.9 | Right. |
| 0:57.5 | Frank Rizzo, Mummium Mall, move, I mean, all kinds of strange. |
| 1:04.7 | Teddy Pendergrass. |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, it's like... |
| 1:06.2 | I lived on O'Sage Avenue. |
| 1:08.8 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:09.4 | The May 13th, 1985, I'll never, see, for every other Philadelphia, they remember every |
| 1:21.4 | detail of that day because that was the move bombing. |
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