Eric Weinstein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But the point being, right.
Hip-hop and its storytelling and the return to spoken word and poetry and the legacy of the talking blues had a great run, spread worldwide.
You talk about whites taking over.
What do you mean whites?
And, you know, indigenous Peruvians have taken over hip hop in their local sectors.
Uh, so hip hop was just this great platform that once, uh, every local culture figured out some version of that.
And I talk about, um, when I entered Bollywood, there was a song, uh, you know, mama, look, your child is being ruined.
And it has this like, um,
hey mom, hey dad, don't moan and groan.
Why don't you learn to live with the times and please leave us alone.
And it goes- Which is every generation's message.
Yeah, but it's like, it's delivered in boogie woogie, reggae, rap, rock and roll, and bungra.
And it's like trying to, it was the first lame attempt at rap that I saw in a Bollywood film with Jackie Shroff.
And they've all made it theirs.
And so I was hanging out in India now with a DJ
on his program, Untriggered.
And it's changing the developing world.
Um, at a level that rock and roll changed us.