Jaden Smith Gets Trippy
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jaden Smith has proved to be much more than just the sum of his famous parents. At 23 he’s spent more than half of his life working as an actor, a musician, and an entrepreneur. Since the release of Jaden’s debut mixtape in 2012, he has gone on to put out three studio albums that loosely follow a semi-autobiographical character named Syre who chases sunsets after a painful breakup. Jaden’s latest album, Cool Tape Volume 3: Day Tripper’s Edition, picks up with Syre’s personal journey—but this time around set to a psychedelic-rock inspired soundscape.
On today’s episode, Jaden talks to Rick Rubin about an ex-girlfriend who inspired him to embrace the classic rock from the ‘60s and ‘70s that influenced his latest album. He also explains how recording with live musicians—as opposed to building tracks digitally—brought a newfound energy to his project. And Jaden also tells Rick how growing up in Malibu allows him to feel intimately connected to the Beach Boys.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:12.6 | Jaden Smith proved to be so much more than just the sum of his famous parents. |
| 0:17.2 | At 23, he spent more than half his life working as an actor, a musician, and an entrepreneur. |
| 0:24.5 | Jaden co-founded the Sustainable Water Company Just Water when he was only 12 years old. |
| 0:29.5 | It's now valued at $100 million. |
| 0:49.8 | Since the release of Jaden's debut mixtape in 2012, he's gone on to put out three studio |
| 0:54.7 | albums that loosely follow a semi-autobiographical character named Sire, who chased his |
| 1:00.3 | sunsets after a painful breakup. |
| 1:03.5 | Jaden's latest album, Cool Tape Volume 3, Date Ripper's Edition, picks up with Sire's |
| 1:08.8 | personal journey, but this time around, set to a psychedelic rock-inspired soundscape. |
| 1:14.8 | On today's episode, Jaden talks to Rick Rubin about an ex-girlfriend who inspired him to |
| 1:19.6 | embrace the 60s and 70s classic rock sound that influenced his latest album. |
| 1:24.6 | He also explains how recording with live musicians, as opposed to building tracks digitally, |
| 1:29.4 | brought a newfound energy to this project. |
| 1:32.2 | Jaden also tells Rick how growing up in Malibu, allows him to feel intimately connected |
| 1:37.4 | to the Beach Boys. |
| 1:42.2 | This is Broken Record, liner notes for the Digital Age. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm Justin Richmond. |
| 1:51.0 | Here's Rick Rubin and Jaden Smith. |
| 1:53.3 | How are you, bro? |
| 1:56.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:58.2 | I can't remember where I was, but I saw a flyer up for your new project. |
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