Dave Chappelle

It's our connective tissue.

And we got close to losing them to Dayton, Ohio.

And we were able to work things out and get this building built.

And this is the first time I think this room has ever been used in any actual recording capacity.

And, man, I can't think of a better way to inaugurate any room but with you and your brother here amongst us and our friends and family.

And it means the world to us.

It means the world to me.

But all of us, I can say without a doubt, are elated that you're here.

I think my presence, my family's presence in this community is an extension of like my father's life work.

He lived here all of my life, and a lot of the ethics of community, you know, I learned from him.

My mother and he are both from Washington, D.C., so I would mostly live with my mother.

But Christmas time and summertime, I would come out to Yellow Springs, and it was so much different in D.C.

And it also kind of prepared me for what my life would be like because I was a kid with two lives.

I had friends from out here, and I had friends in D.C., and, you know, D.C.

is like, you know, it's black.

But this town is white.

And I would come out here and play D.C.

records for them.

And they'd be like, what is this music?

And then I'd go home and play rock and roll stuff in D.C.