Speaker 1: I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's
Speaker 1: Up Sides Team, You're listening to The Daily Game, the
Speaker 1: compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years that
Speaker 1: I found inspiring and helped me through the game of life.
Speaker 1: James Baldwin is the source of this quote today as
Speaker 1: an activist and author, Baldwin is known for fighting for
Speaker 1: civil and gay rights. Its quote fits his mo artists
Speaker 1: are here to disturb the piece, absolutely absolutely. Now you
Speaker 1: have two different kinds of artists. You have artists that
Speaker 1: make art that just come from the heart with their
Speaker 1: ideas and their influences and what they see in life.
Speaker 1: Then you have a different kind of artists who will
Speaker 1: go in the museum see what people like and then
Speaker 1: try to emulate that. It's like me listening to a
Speaker 1: record on the radio. Everyone likes it, and then I
Speaker 1: try to copy it. Those aren't artists. Those are emula.
Speaker 1: Those are people that are copying. But a real, true
Speaker 1: artist is coming from the heart. And I believe anything
Speaker 1: from the heart will be controversial because its opinion. It's
Speaker 1: a viewpoint, and someone will always have a counterviewpoint. So
Speaker 1: if you really are saying about something, it will disturb
Speaker 1: the peace. Some artists are more controversial and more opinionated
Speaker 1: and more radical than others, and they set out to
Speaker 1: disturb the peace. I know myself, NWA Public Enemy. We
Speaker 1: set out to disturb the peace because we weren't happy
Speaker 1: with the peace. The piece was black people having injustices
Speaker 1: put upon us police brutality, and a lot of other
Speaker 1: social indignities that were going on in our lives. So
Speaker 1: we wanted to shake that shit up. So fuck your peace.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it uncomfortable for you, at least long
Speaker 1: enough for you to listen. I think what we did
Speaker 1: help change the world because a lot of the things
Speaker 1: we sung about, young white kids understood for the first time.
Speaker 1: They may not have got it from the history books,
Speaker 1: but they got it from me, a public Enemy or Kars,
Speaker 1: and they said, you know what, these black kids ain't
Speaker 1: mad at us. They're mad at things. They're mad at
Speaker 1: issues that dad, mom, I think they're fucked up. I
Speaker 1: think this is in just and we were able to
Speaker 1: change the world together. So when James Baldwin says an
Speaker 1: artist's job artists are here to disturb the peace, I
Speaker 1: absolutely totally agree with him. And if you're an artist
Speaker 1: and you're not disrupting the piece, you're basically doing what
Speaker 1: we call pop.
Speaker 2: You're tempting to be popular.
Speaker 1: And in the world of music, where you'll have the
Speaker 1: Bob Marley's, or you'll have the Jimmy Hendrix's, or you'll
Speaker 1: have the Chuck D's, there's a different level of respect
Speaker 1: that goes to those who broke the rules versus those
Speaker 1: who fell in line. It's a whole different level of
Speaker 1: respect goes out to some of the great blues players
Speaker 1: that went up against racism and segregation and those people
Speaker 1: that fought those battles. Different level of respect than someone
Speaker 1: who's just making a pop record to get on the
Speaker 1: radio and ain't really moving nothing.
Speaker 2: If you're a real artist, you should be disturbing the piece.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Another thing I could say about it is you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily got to disturb the piece with your music as
Speaker 1: much as with your personality. One of the great people
Speaker 1: I heard and I always been a fan of, was
Speaker 1: David Bowie who really sent the bullet right through the
Speaker 1: head of MTV back in the day when he talked
Speaker 1: to them about playing black people on their station.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't ever heard it.
Speaker 1: You should go to YouTube and google David Bowie MTV
Speaker 1: interview and he disturbed the piece and therefore people respect
Speaker 1: him that much more for having a stance about what's
Speaker 1: right and wrong than any music you make.
Speaker 2: So you know, being.
Speaker 1: About something does help a lot. This has been another
Speaker 1: ice cold fact from me iced tea. Listening again tomorrow
Speaker 1: when I drop some wisdom on your ass till then,
Speaker 1: stay safe, stay smart, and stay knowing that your art
Speaker 1: can change the world.
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