Miles Brown & Jack Brown (Wildchild) Talk About B-Boy Culture, Black-ish, And Famous Mentors

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Our first two-person episode is a fitting one. Miles Brown is the young star of Black-ish and a musician on the cusp of mega-stardom. His dad, Jack Brown a.k.a Wildchild, is an original member of the Lootpack crew -- produced by Black Star collaborator Madlib. Together, they’ve got great stories to tell and plenty of insight to share. On this episode of People’s Party with Talib Kweli, Miles and Jack unpack their respective career highs and lows, trade stories, and speak boldly about their father-son relationship. Taken all together, it’s an incredibly insightful episode -- an exploration of dreams, family, and music as a bond that spans the generation gap.

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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 co-host,
0:08.6	Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes.
0:13.6	We've started from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Miles, let's talk about one of my favorite shows,
0:25.1	Black-ish. How did you land the part on Black-ish? Did you audition with Kenya Bears? Like,
0:31.1	how walk us through that process? This is probably one of the craziest experiences. So I would say that,
0:36.8	I'm gonna just say, sorry, at the concert, to be honest. Yeah, I don't know that story, too.
0:41.7	I mean, I don't think I've ever really said this, but I mean, I was, this is it, so I got back
0:46.7	because I was nine, or I was eight, twenty nine, and I think I met Anthony, but I met Anthony
0:51.2	before at this concert. And who was there that mom wanted to see? New addition. New addition. Yes.
0:56.1	Robin Thick. I'm gonna think it was there. Yes. But, cameo happened to me. Yeah, it's Kenya. That's his
1:00.3	one of his favorite bands. That's why we wanted to. Yeah, it was a random, and so we only went.
1:06.0	Word up. Just see, cameo. All of the day. Word up. And I met Anthony there, like just as, you know,
1:11.6	baby bugle, like that was just me. And got a picture with him. I have the whole picture. And I remember,
1:18.3	I auditioned for blackish. I think it was like two years after. No, it was actually year. Oh,
1:22.5	it's a year after. And I did my first audition. It was just, you know, with a lady in the camera.
1:27.2	Then I got the call back. Oh, should I just say that I explained the heaven heart thing?
1:30.0	Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, I got to spend the whole story. So the craziest, I guess, moment,
1:36.0	because that could have led to me not even being like in the situation because I at the same time,
1:40.8	I auditioned for that. There was this Kevin Hart show that was being made, like the same year,
1:45.3	black should be made. And obviously this is 2014. Like Kevin Hart was like hot hot.
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