Popcast: Prince’s Fateful Flight and Judith Hill’s Story

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For those looking to understand Prince’s musical life in his final years, the larger story of Ms. Hill is illuminating.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your new power generation of music news.
0:08.2	I'm your host Ben Ratliff.
0:09.2	Telling you that you're not what you can see everything except what you're going to be
0:18.3	calling you names while trying to make it cheap.
0:25.0	Shoot you day and leave your body on in the streets.
0:30.0	Tell me what's there.
0:32.0	That is a Tell me what's there.
0:38.0	That is as trains go by by the singer Judith Hill, who coincidentally is playing a show tonight.
0:42.0	Today is Wednesday, and she's playing a show tonight at the High Line.
0:45.5	We are here because Melana Reisic, reporter at the New York Times,
0:50.1	who is our guest today.
0:51.7	Hi Melana.
0:52.4	Hey Ben. You've got an A1 story. who is our guest today. I'm Elena.
0:53.0	You've got an A1 story this week in the paper
0:57.0	about Judith Hill and the fact that Judith Hill was on the plane with Prince after After his show in Atlanta, which would be his final show,
1:07.0	Melena, this story must have been kind of difficult to get.
1:12.0	Absolutely.
1:13.4	It's a testament to my editor, Karen Gans,
1:16.2	who followed this story, who had the sense
1:18.9	that Judith might be close to Prince and stuck with it.
1:22.0	Any part of the situation, we didn't really know what the details were but we kind of knew that she was close to Prince.
1:27.0	So we wanted to hear her story and it took Judith a long time to be ready to talk about it.
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