Will.i.am Reflects on 25 Years of Black Eyed Peas, his Underground Rap Origins, Ye, Rap-Techno Connections, and The Future

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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You’ve never met a person like will.i.am. He’s a rapper, a producer, a futurist, an autodidact, and generally one of the most fascinating humans on the planet. And this longform interview with Kweli—a close personal friend—is the definitive conversation with the globally renowned multi-hyphenate. Do you love rap? Dance? Techno? Humanity itself? Then you want to hear more from will.i.am. Seriously. And in this riveting conversation, he’s raw, funny, unguarded, and—as always—deeply inquisitive!

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. You mentioned, uh, okay, player earlier,
0:24.4	and I sort of had some bars dissing that sort of, a leader's pretentious community in the
0:32.5	okay player like boards on Get Him High, me and Kanye West. You had a theory about Get Him High
0:39.5	that you shared with me. I wanted to know if you wanted to share it or not. Oh, sure. All the time,
0:45.3	it's time to talk about, yeah, I feel conflicted like a lot of people. And the confliction is
0:50.7	because I know Kanye personally, he's different than the person that he broadcasts.
1:01.9	Mm-hmm. The broadcasting of Kanye is different than the actual Kanye that you sit and talk to
1:07.2	and, uh, the sensitive one. Mm-hmm. And so when these two things exist in the world,
1:16.7	the broadcast hurts the one that you like, yo, that's my dude. Mm-hmm. And so the part, one of the
1:25.5	things that hurt me on the drink champs was when he said, I use them. That really like hurt.
1:32.8	I'm like, what? One title that was like, I feel like if we was in high school, we would be like,
1:38.8	we couldn't want high school together. We would have been like dream, dream kids together,
1:43.3	like dreaming up like, yo, this will mention all the things we can accomplish. Like,
1:47.7	15, 16, 17, 18 year olds, like we would have all been the same way we are now as adults. We
1:55.2	would have been as teenagers if we knew each other then. And so when he said that, I was,
1:59.7	that hurt my feelings because most deaf, that's another one, like, person that is dear to me.
2:08.3	And so I took that personal and I'm not even y'all niggas. I'm like, what, what a fuck would he do that?
2:14.6	And then you hear, get him high. And when you listen to get him high, turns out maybe,
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