What Does Black Ambition Sound Like?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think is America's number one musical contribution to the world? |
| 0:06.0 | Woodstock. |
| 0:07.0 | They changed completely the way you do music and it was free and they could perform whatever they wanted. |
| 0:14.0 | Beastie Boys, hip-hop, yeah, Beastie Boys. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm from Chile and I think you have talent all over the world |
| 0:20.0 | but America has like artists from here, |
| 0:22.0 | inspired artists from all over the world. |
| 0:24.4 | I would say, |
| 0:25.6 | we Samstrong. |
| 0:26.5 | Jungle train, a jazz saxophones. |
| 0:28.9 | I'd say jazz music. |
| 0:30.9 | In New York, he can hear it like on the street, |
| 0:32.8 | you hear the saxophone or hear the trumpet, |
| 0:34.4 | everyone enjoys it. |
| 0:35.4 | I love American music. |
| 0:37.3 | It's really disparate music mixed. |
| 0:39.8 | Complex structures from Europe, and then from Africa you had this incredible embodiment |
| 0:45.1 | and rhythm and it created this incredibly gorgeous thing and that's what the world has fallen |
| 0:50.6 | in love with. Happy holidays, everybody. |
| 0:57.0 | I hope you've been blessed with at least some time off from your grind to spin with the people you love. |
| 1:04.8 | That's what our team is doing this week, so I'll take the chance to reshare one of my favorite |
| 1:10.2 | episodes from earlier this year. It includes my own response to the question |
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