Shamir & Pete Rock

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Jesse talks to singer-songwriter Shamir about high school, musical genres and his new album Ratchet, plus hip-hop producer Pete Rock discusses his best loved collaborations and how he breathes new life into classic records by sampling.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Houston from Gulfport, Mississippi.
0:02.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:08.2	You should support the show like I did.
0:10.2	Just visit maximum fun.org slash donate. It's's Bullsey, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:15.0	It's kind of hard to categorize my guest,
0:18.0	Shamir.
0:19.0	He's known for dance music, but he used to sing country songs and he played in a punk band. He weighs about 120, and he's not exactly the kind of guy you'd picture throwing punches.
0:32.0	Oh, I will fight all the time. Like all the time because people, you
0:37.4	know people would like try to try me like I don't know I guess like doing puberty
0:41.5	I didn't really like you know get facial hair and like my
0:45.3	voice and deeper and whatever so obviously you know the boys with their raging
0:48.3	hormones would like try to fight being or whatever but I obviously didn't go down without a fight and a lot of people didn't kind of like
0:55.0	realized that I took Taekwondo a few years before.
0:59.7	It's bullseye. I'll see. Coming up I'll talk to Shamir about what it was like to grow up in the Las Vegas
1:11.2	suburbs and why his new record sounds the way it does.
1:15.1	I kind of decided to make my music more danceable and lighthearted to take away from
1:21.5	the heaviness of the lyrics.
1:24.0	Why does your music also have to be heavy if your lyrics are?
1:28.0	Then later I'll sit down with Pete Rock.
1:30.0	He's one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, a guy who can find and transform the perfect
1:37.1	sample.
1:38.1	It all started when he was a kid listening to his dance records.
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