1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Up Sides Team, You're listening to The Daily Game, the 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years that 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: I found inspiring and helped me through the game of life. 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: James Baldwin is the source of this quote today as 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: an activist and author, Baldwin is known for fighting for 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: civil and gay rights. Its quote fits his mo artists 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: are here to disturb the piece, absolutely absolutely. Now you 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: have two different kinds of artists. You have artists that 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: make art that just come from the heart with their 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: ideas and their influences and what they see in life. 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: Then you have a different kind of artists who will 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: go in the museum see what people like and then 14 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: try to emulate that. It's like me listening to a 15 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: record on the radio. Everyone likes it, and then I 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: try to copy it. Those aren't artists. Those are emula. 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: Those are people that are copying. But a real, true 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: artist is coming from the heart. And I believe anything 19 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: from the heart will be controversial because its opinion. It's 20 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: a viewpoint, and someone will always have a counterviewpoint. So 21 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: if you really are saying about something, it will disturb 22 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: the peace. Some artists are more controversial and more opinionated 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: and more radical than others, and they set out to 24 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: disturb the peace. I know myself, NWA Public Enemy. We 25 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: set out to disturb the peace because we weren't happy 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: with the peace. The piece was black people having injustices 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: put upon us police brutality, and a lot of other 28 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: social indignities that were going on in our lives. So 29 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: we wanted to shake that shit up. So fuck your peace. 30 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna make it uncomfortable for you, at least long 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: enough for you to listen. I think what we did 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: help change the world because a lot of the things 33 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: we sung about, young white kids understood for the first time. 34 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: They may not have got it from the history books, 35 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: but they got it from me, a public Enemy or Kars, 36 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: and they said, you know what, these black kids ain't 37 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: mad at us. They're mad at things. They're mad at 38 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: issues that dad, mom, I think they're fucked up. I 39 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: think this is in just and we were able to 40 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: change the world together. So when James Baldwin says an 41 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: artist's job artists are here to disturb the peace, I 42 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: absolutely totally agree with him. And if you're an artist 43 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: and you're not disrupting the piece, you're basically doing what 44 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: we call pop. 45 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: You're tempting to be popular. 46 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: And in the world of music, where you'll have the 47 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: Bob Marley's, or you'll have the Jimmy Hendrix's, or you'll 48 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: have the Chuck D's, there's a different level of respect 49 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: that goes to those who broke the rules versus those 50 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: who fell in line. It's a whole different level of 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: respect goes out to some of the great blues players 52 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: that went up against racism and segregation and those people 53 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: that fought those battles. Different level of respect than someone 54 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: who's just making a pop record to get on the 55 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: radio and ain't really moving nothing. 56 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 2: If you're a real artist, you should be disturbing the piece. 57 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 2: You know. 58 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: Another thing I could say about it is you don't 59 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: necessarily got to disturb the piece with your music as 60 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: much as with your personality. One of the great people 61 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: I heard and I always been a fan of, was 62 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: David Bowie who really sent the bullet right through the 63 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: head of MTV back in the day when he talked 64 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: to them about playing black people on their station. 65 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: And if you haven't ever heard it. 66 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: You should go to YouTube and google David Bowie MTV 67 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 1: interview and he disturbed the piece and therefore people respect 68 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: him that much more for having a stance about what's 69 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: right and wrong than any music you make. 70 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: So you know, being. 71 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: About something does help a lot. This has been another 72 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 1: ice cold fact from me iced tea. Listening again tomorrow 73 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: when I drop some wisdom on your ass till then, 74 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: stay safe, stay smart, and stay knowing that your art 75 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: can change the world. 76 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 2: Icy's Daily Game. 77 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: It's a production of iHeart Radio, Final Level Entertainment and Oddity, 78 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: an Asylum entertainment company. The show's executive producer is Noel Brown. 79 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: Supervising producer is Jordan run Talk. If you like what 80 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: you heard, please subscribe and leave us a review. 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