Jazzy Jeff Talks About Pioneering the Transformer Scratch, Working with Will Smith, Developing Artists Like Jill Scott and Eminem, and the Beauty of Philadelphia Summertime

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The legendary producer, songwriter, actor and DJ talks about his early days of scratching, and takes us into hit songs like “Parent’s Just Don’t Understand” and “Summertime.” Jazzy Jeff also talks about working on the television show “The Fresh Prince,” the work of developing artists like Jill Scott, The Roots, Eminem, and Talib Kweli, and breaks down the best rap releases of the ‘90s.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Now you also figured out that storytelling
0:23.9	is important. Yes. And like, you know, started with the success of Girls and Parents
0:30.6	that don't understand. But later in your career, Will is like, you saw my blinker. And
0:35.3	a whole time, like, I got a story from everything. You got stories from days. He does.
0:40.4	I was listening to one of your records and I was like, every song was at that, in that era. It was
0:45.5	like, you know, it's just spending a day with Will. I woke up at eight o'clock,
0:48.6	when she was on. I haven't read this. I was like, we listen to non-stop when we're doing research,
0:53.7	so I was listening. And I'm like, I feel like I could be a rapper with Will Smith and Jazzy.
0:59.8	Just talk about my day. Parents just don't understand really, really captured that the most.
1:07.1	And it became, in my view, that vision of that song, that video, that's what led to Fresh Prince
1:14.6	of Bel Air. Have you ever seen Parks and Recreation episode where Leslie Knot goes into it?
1:21.2	I didn't see it, but I heard about it. It's amazing. First of all, Parks and Recreation is one of
1:25.5	my favorite TV shows of all time. So I've seen every episode. So somebody comes in and is like,
1:31.2	okay, here's the situation. And then she goes into the whole verse. And every no one in the office
1:35.8	knows what she's talking about. And she's like, you don't know parents she's done this then?
1:39.6	Wow. So yeah, that was great. You had $500 in your pocket when you had one to grant me for that.
1:46.5	What was that like? A reality check. A reality check. I was the one in the group that
1:57.0	comments, I am a very common sense type person. If it makes sense, I'm good. And I think one of
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