Introducing Started From The Bottom: Charlamagne Tha God

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today we're excited to share a preview of Justin Richmond's new Pushkin Industries podcast, Started From The Bottom. Every week on Started from the Bottom, Justin interviews successful people who grew up on the outside—women, people of color, anyone not part of the old boy's network—to find out how they were able to beat the odds.

Today's episode features an interview with Charlamagne Tha God. Over his 25 year career, Charlamagne clawed his way to the top of the radio industry. On today's episode, the long-time host of The Breakfast Club tells Justin Richmond what it took for him — a young man suffering from anxiety, constantly in and out of jail — to become an icon of modern media.

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1:02.4	Hey everyone, it's Justin Richmond.
1:04.7	I'm dropping in today to play you an episode from my brand new podcast started from the bottom.
1:11.6	The idea for the show predates my work with Rick and Malcolm here on Broken Record and
1:16.5	goes all the way back to a meeting I had in 2017 with Quincy Jones, probably one of the
1:22.3	most successful people I've ever and maybe will ever meet in my entire life.
1:27.4	I think it'll make sense to you why this idea sprung from that meeting when you hear the
1:31.7	episode.
1:33.0	So without further ado, I want to play for you my conversation with one of the most successful
1:37.3	radio personalities of all time, the breakfast clubs, Charlemagne the God.
1:43.6	For me growing up it was oh, oh, oh, it's the time join a morning show because my mom
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