Tunde Adebimpe

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tunde Adebimpe is a creative powerhouse. He's a cartoonist, a painter, a director, a Hollywood actor, and for the past 20 years, he’s been the lead singer of the band TV On The Radio. His latest offering—another of his many artistic pursuits—is a solo project called Thee Black Boltz.

Tunde began writing these songs back in 2019. And after a stint composing music for the PBS Kids show “City Island” with producer Wilder Zoby, the two decided to set their sights on Tunde’s growing collection of solo songs. Both Jaleel Bunton and Jahphet Landis of TV On The Radio also contributed to the album, which sounds every bit as fresh and thrilling as Tunde’s past work.

On today’s episode Leah Rose talks to Tunde Adebimpe about how staying steeped in creative projects keeps him sane. He also recalls his days working as a stop-motion artist on MTV’s Celebrity Death Match, and why he thinks TV On The Radio isn’t cool enough to be considered “indie sleaze.”

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.8	Tunde Arabempe is a creative powerhouse.
0:13.5	He's a cartoonist, a painter, a director, a Hollywood actor,
0:17.2	and for the past 20 years, he's been the lead singer of the band TV on the radio.
0:22.1	His latest offering, another of his many artistic pursuits, is a solo project called The Black Boltz.
0:29.7	Tunday began writing these songs back in 2019, and after a stink composing music for the PBS
0:34.9	Kids Show City Island with producer Wilder Zobie,
0:41.4	the two decided to set their sights on Tunday's growing collection of solo songs.
0:46.8	Boltser Leo Bontan and Jaffitlandis of TV on the radio also contributed to the album,
0:50.7	which sounds every bit as fresh and thrilling as Tunday's past work.
0:55.8	On today's episode, Leah Rose talks to Tunday out of Bempé about how staying steeped in creative projects keeps him sane.
0:58.1	He also recalls his days working as a
0:59.7	stop-motion artist on MTV's Celebrity
1:01.6	Death Match and why he thinks TV
1:03.8	on the radio isn't cool enough to be
1:05.7	considered indie slees.
1:09.8	This is Broken Record. Real musicians,
1:13.1	real conversations.
1:19.1	Here's Leah Rose's conversation with Tunday Arabenpe.
1:23.4	So I have a theory about how you came to record to finally put out this solo album.
1:31.4	So I saw that in the Not So Distant Past, you learned how to mix, how to master, how to produce, and you started sort of like messing around in Ableton.
1:43.8	And, you know, you had been in TV on the radio for over 20 years.
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