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Toure Show

Major Jackson–I'm A Poet

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Major Jackson is one of America’s great poets. Amazing conversation about what it means to write poetry for a living. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 376
 
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Okay, ready.

0:02.0

Take what you know, things she's a thing about

0:17.0

every thing and she's a thing about

0:20.0

can be one you need.

0:22.0

I'll only need things rooms and real now.

0:25.0

I have here seen you wanting you.

0:28.0

Hey, it's a race show.

0:30.0

Okay, though.

0:32.0

Good so a race show. Okay okay though. That might be the best question I've ever been on. You's a phenomenal

0:40.0

person and I mean you legendary. I am a fan of you, my brother.

0:45.0

I'm mainly right in silence, but sometimes, uh sometimes there was this one album, several albums I would play just to get me amped.

1:01.0

Yeah, to get into it. like what? Okay, old school biggie, would definitely take me there. And I got to get it from. Second one, okay, death. Yeah. I'm so happy day-life streaming now because

1:17.0

ballooned my estate was like that break a dawn man,

1:24.0

Dela's Swiss, oh my God.

1:26.0

But a lot of a lot of jazz.

1:31.0

Yeah, a lot of jazz.

1:32.0

They're doing so much. They're so active. Well that's what I mean. Well the thing is is like if the horns are going and if you got you know someone like Elvin Jones on the drums,

1:44.8

your heart rate is gonna blow up.

1:46.9

It's gonna just like get you in that space

1:49.6

where your mind is just popping.

1:51.5

And that's what I need. I need my mind to kind of like associate.

1:55.0

Major Jackson is one of the great poets of our time and an old friend of mine

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