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RM + Pharrell Williams: Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians – Special Series

Rolling Stone All Access

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What happens when we take the writer away and ask two pop phenoms, from two completely different places and generations, to interview each other? On today's episode of Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians – also running as a special series here in the Rolling Stone Music Now feed – Pharrell Williams sits down with RM of BTS to talk about the price of fame, the keys to creativity, and why it's important to take a break every so often. RM went from underground rapper in South Korea to performing in sold-out stadiums around the world as the leader of BTS. Now, he's working on his first official solo album. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles this fall, the young superstar met with Pharrell Williams, whose one-of-a-kind career as a producer, rapper, and singer has spanned decades. The conversation highlighted the way both artists use their emotions in their work: from the value of pain to the electric experience of playing for the whole world to the intimacy of producing another artist's work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Words and music is an intimate groundbreaking audible series that blends in-depth memoir

0:06.6

with exclusive performances to reveal the storied lives and singular creative vision

0:11.4

of music icons.

0:13.0

Each thoughtfully crafted volume is as unique and varied as the artist delivering it.

0:17.6

Words and music brings together an extraordinary roster of once in a generation

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artists,

0:22.5

visionaries, trailblazers, and consummate storytellers,

0:26.1

including Smoky Robinson, Alanis Mora set,

0:29.0

Billy Joe Armstrong, Sting, St. Vincent, and Beck, among many others.

0:34.0

Hear them and other groundbreaking artists share their stories and songs,

0:38.0

unscripted and unfiltered.

0:40.0

Listen to Words and Music, and Audible Original Series.

0:44.0

Go to Audible.com, backslash Words and Music to start listening.

0:50.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, host of Rolling Stone Music Now.

0:54.0

Today you're about to hear an episode of our sister podcast, Rolling Stones musicians on musicians,

1:00.0

featuring R.M. of BTS and Ferrell Williams.

1:07.6

So I'm not sure if you if you remember it or not, but we've met at

1:13.0

Of course.

1:14.0

Billboard Music Awards.

1:14.8

Yes, of course.

1:15.8

2018.

1:16.8

Yeah, we took a photo.

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