Louis Theroux
speaker
6,783 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4 Aug
Louis Theroux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Your producer was Rick Rubin.
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It was said that he was a big fan of wrestling and that he encouraged you to take on, you know, in wrestling classically, there's the good guys and the bad guys.
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The bad guys whip up the crowd by doing horrible things.
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Everyone goes nuts.
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And he encouraged you to play up to kind of bad boy personas.
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Is there anything in there?
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Not that I get to decide this, but, you know, I think the way you've managed your place as white performers in a culturally, you know, largely black space has been admirable.
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Like, to what extent are you aware of, I don't know, like needing not to own it too much, not apologizing, but nevertheless paying respect to the people who created the music originally?
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I mean, are you conscious of all of that?
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When NWA blew up, did you get on board with that straight away?
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And there was a pivot towards actually almost...
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histrionic level of violence, you know, shooting and killing and disrespecting women.
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I don't want to sound disapproving, like I'm a fan of the music, but how did you react to that?
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records.
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Well, you said it.
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Yeah, it couldn't have been anybody.
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He couldn't have just grabbed three guys off the street.
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Are we legally...
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That could cause us legal issues.
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Why?
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