LL Cool J speaks on Napster, digital streaming, and the future of music
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a special interview that I did with rap legend, LL Cool J. We talk deeply about his history in the music industry, as well as his current projects and future aspirations. He discusses his early perspectives on the internet and how he reacted to early music sharing services like Napster and Limewire, and more. Enjoy! Let me know what you thought.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Gary B audio experience. |
| 0:21.4 | All right, everybody. |
| 0:26.1 | As many of you know, listening to this podcast, I've been thinking about doing more interview |
| 0:29.9 | and when I was thinking it through and thinking about, who do I want to get on? |
| 0:36.1 | Who have I not been able to really chop with? |
| 0:38.9 | Because you know, two planes in the night, everyone's moving fast. |
| 0:43.1 | This man came first to mind. |
| 0:45.0 | I hit him on DM. |
| 0:46.0 | He said, let's chop it up. |
| 0:47.6 | And a couple of weeks later, we are here recording on a Saturday, the legend that is really |
| 0:52.6 | the only thing that comes to mind when I get to say it truly. |
| 0:55.2 | You know, I think these days, you know, kid has one good game in high school and they |
| 0:58.9 | call him the goat and I laugh. |
| 1:02.5 | But you know, those hyperboleys get thrown around, but you know, being 45 growing up in |
| 1:07.6 | Jersey, for me, LL Cool J is on a different status. |
| 1:13.0 | It's exciting to kind of grow up in life when you're in the same general age and range of |
| 1:18.3 | age because you get to watch the whole manifesto. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you so much for doing the podcast. |
| 1:23.1 | How are you? |
| 1:24.1 | How's your family? |
| 1:25.1 | First of all, before we get into a bunch of different shit. |
| 1:27.5 | Our family's well, you know, healthy, thankfully, having a weird thing given, had to call some |
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