Inua Ellams • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #277
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 277 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A true powerhouse of an episode this week as Pip catches up with an old pal from the spoken word and poetry scene who has an incredible tale or two to tell, it’s INUA ELLAMS!
“I’ve always existed in the grey areas, I’ve always been between countries, always been between cultures...”
You’d be well advised to either listen a few times or just keep a pen and paper by your side, as there are a LOT of gems and quotables in this one! An amazing chat with Inua, as he and Pip get acquainted again for the first time in around a decade. Inua’s tale is not only fascinating from start to present point, but you also get the benefit of milestones of wisdom from the man himself as he is now able to draw conclusions, extract lessons and offer context to the situations in which he found himself. From his beginnings in Nigeria and his subsequent journey out of there (which involves his father and a story worthy of a film premise), to his movements to Ireland and growing up in the more deprived areas, to being introduced to Saul Williams via a mysterious CDR, to his entry into poetry through not having enough money to paint (but a need for manual creativity), the Nigerian attitude and work ethic combined with an immigrant perspective (‘get up and go’ mixed with ‘nothing to lose’), being taught poetry by a basketball teacher, rewriting Romeo & Juliet, leaving home and passport woes, the power of trust, throwing rap parties and SO much more including - of course - his new play ‘The Barbershop Chronicles’ and what you can expect! So much in here. You’ll dig it without question.
Pip outro notes: Ruminations on PR people hitting him up about pals / press junkets and fighting through the barrier / Stormzy @ Glasto / WeAreLizards @ Book Club on the 27th July / Pip’s birthday plans / Podbible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 277 |
| 0:06.3 | And this week I'm job on in your elums. This is one of my favorite chats. I've had |
| 0:11.3 | I swear I don't say that all the time. I say it every now and then but |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah, I was really pleased to catch up with in you is with I've |
| 0:19.4 | This year I've had some really cool ones. Obviously I've had some huge names like Danny Boyle and Charlie |
| 0:25.3 | Brocker |
| 0:26.8 | Mary J. Blige this year, but I've really enjoyed as well as a lot of the little ones like you |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, you're your PC Leon Edwards Leon Edwards. That's that's that's an MMA fire. A |
| 0:39.1 | Leon McLeod |
| 0:42.8 | People like Johan Harry you kind of not celeb names, but I've also had |
| 0:48.5 | A run of people that I used to kind of gig with in the spoken word day |
| 0:53.0 | So I had marked grist and Ross Savilland and Tim Claire in an episode that was a really popular one |
| 0:58.4 | And this week continues that because in you are is an old pal, but I'm not gonna ramble on too much |
| 1:04.2 | I mean |
| 1:06.6 | This is gonna sound like I'm being angry. I'm not to be clear the podcast has started |
| 1:12.0 | I've had I've done some long intro recently and I've had a couple people say oh |
| 1:18.2 | Oh 15 minutes until the podcast started |
| 1:22.2 | And that's not this is the podcast. There's an interview section of it, but we have a bit of a catch up |
| 1:28.1 | The one in question was the Charlie Brocker one and I was you know in the intros |
| 1:32.6 | talking about |
| 1:33.8 | Black Mirror and what my favorite episodes are on stuff like that so |
| 1:37.9 | I'm absolutely fine with people skipping intros. I'd do it on some podcasts and some I don't but |
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