Robert Glasper Talks Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop Collabs, And Lauryn Hill

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with multi-Grammy Award-winning jazz/R&B/hip-hop pianist, performer, and producer Robert Glasper. The conversation is wide-ranging -- the trio discusses his early days playing a broken organ at his local church, his time in the Brooklyn scene working with artists like Bilal, Erykah Badu, Common, Mos Def, and Kweli, and his later collabs with Lupe Fiasco, Q-Tip, J Dilla, Slum Village, Kendrick Lamar, Anita Baker and countless other industry legends.

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0:00.0	What's up party people? It's Tyler and Kuala Lita, host of the People's Party.
0:03.4	I know you've been enjoying it so far. We thank you for your love and support.
0:06.8	We got more people's party coming up. We got all types of situations that you're
0:10.6	gonna want to tune into and never forget to watch. Tyler and Kuala Lita, Jasmine Lee,
0:14.8	it is the People's Party. Let's go.
0:16.5	How you doing party people? This is Tyler Kuala Lita. Welcome to another edition of the People's
0:33.4	Party with Tyler Kuala Lita and my lovely and talented co-host Jasmine Lee in the place to be.
0:38.0	Make some noise giving up. What's up? It's very random. Bunk's isn't here tonight.
0:42.6	I know. There's a lot of great energy in here tonight and you know why? Because our next guest
0:47.4	brings a lot of energy. I feel it already. You can feel the energy, right?
0:51.9	Yeah, I feel it already. You can feel the electricity in the air, right? This guy's from Houston,
0:55.8	Texas. That's why I got my Houston hat on. Shout out to the Astros. He has a multi Grammy winner
1:01.7	that's important to state. He's worked with some of your favorite artists from Belao,
1:06.8	to Kendrick Lamar, to comment, to loop his fiasco, to Yasin Bey to myself. He did the music for the
1:13.0	13th documentary. The music for the Miles ahead with Don Chito. Ladies and gentlemen,
1:19.3	one of the greatest working jazz pianists of all time. But definitely of this generation.
1:26.9	Give it up for Robert Glassberg.
1:36.1	I like that. I like that. I like that. I didn't hear the last part.
1:38.5	What's the last part of the day? One of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.
1:46.3	I want to say pianist. Period. Pianist. That's right. We're going to get into that.
1:52.8	This is going to be a genre-bending conversation. 100%. How you doing, Robert? I'm good, man.
1:58.9	I'm good. This man sees Yasin Bey more than I do. He does. He's a new member of Black
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