South Beach Sessions - Diplo
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What unfiltered stories does Diplo share from his life?
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These are the teeth I was born with, except for this one because it fell out because I got in a fight in Orlando like 20 years ago. And then I used my fingers to put it back into place. Like it was dangling a little bit. And it was like this, like you'd say your teeth. Are we recording it? This is Thomas Wesley Pence. You might know him as Diplo, and yes, we're recording. Continue your story. He's a multi-Grammy winning artist, DJ, producer, and you can continue your story. Why did you have to push your tooth back in? My face looks great on this camera. Your makeup girl did a really good job. I look super young and cool. I had a fight with this guy in the parking lot of a dorm, and he mainly headbutted me.
That's kind of cheating. And, uh, my teeth were like this and this one just went in, like it went like this. So this tooth, I went in and it was like, damn, that's gonna like really suck. But I mean, I've, I've got cousins with like missing front teeth. I was like, whatever, I'll deal with it. But I went home and I just kind of shoved it back in there pretty quickly. And maybe it's like when your finger cuts off and you immediately freeze it and sew it back on. It stayed for a little bit. About five years later, it started to get grayer. And then like eight years ago, it was pretty gray. It was kind of like, it was hard to like, it just looked like not good. It was rotting. It was kind of like, it was falling out.
I had to get a root canal. And they're like, what is up with this tooth? Just get rid of this thing. I was like, all right, cool. And I have a lot of gold teeth. I have like, I have like. I don't know if you see it. I got like probably eight gold teeth in the back because my mother and father, beautiful people, but they just didn't have a lot of money. We got really bad fillings back in the day with whatever material it is that's kind of cheap. So I had to get rid of these teeth after a while. And gold teeth are the best teeth to put in your mouth. It's the best material that your body bonds with. So I was like, I like my gold teeth, so I put a gold tooth right here. For about two years, I had one big gold tooth in the front of my mouth, and it was just...
It felt really cool, but every picture, it looked like I was missing the tooth, and then people just didn't want to talk to me. I would have to meet with people that aren't just rappers or whatever, and they were just like, are you good? It just looked like a... I looked more like a prospector than I'd look like a cool person. Were you getting into a lot of fights? You weren't getting into a lot of fights in Fort Lauderdale, were you? No, Fort Lauderdale, I got into a lot of fights, because in Fort Lauderdale, this is when I was younger. This fight happened in Orlando in college when I was at UCF for a year. Fort Lauderdale, though, is where We would go to school early because we walked to this middle school, Seminole Middle School.
Me and my friend, Sam Borkson, is an artist. He's still a friend of mine. We would go to school early, like around seven, because we could walk there and the bus would take that long anyway. And we'd go to the back of the school and we would have the racquetball kind of course that we would play this game called ASS. Remember that game? I do not. With the blue rubber ball. So the name of the game was Ass. Yeah, Ass. So you go there with this ball and you just... 10, 20 people would play. We'd throw the ball, and it would bounce. Someone would grab it. And if you touch it, it didn't grab it. You had to run to the wall, fast touch the wall, and someone could throw the ball at you and hit you hard. And that would start a lot of fights.
So we would go there early, try to get in, like, one or two fights, and just, like, you know. And if you get the wall, you're out. But sometimes people would hit you after you got in. They're like, yo, what's up? Why you hit me like that? And so you would fight them. And, yeah, I think I probably had, like, two or three fights a week. Really? It was pretty good.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What unfiltered stories does Diplo share from his life?
0:04–4:54
2
How did Diplo's early experiences shape his music career?
4:54–9:38
3
What challenges does Diplo face while touring over 200 days a year?
9:38–15:28
4
How does Diplo use music as a coping mechanism for loss?
15:28–21:25
5
What insights does Diplo offer about managing imposter syndrome?
21:25–27:16
6
How has Diplo's upbringing influenced his creative philosophy?
27:16–34:08
7
What does Diplo believe about the connection between music and culture?
34:08–39:14
8
How does Diplo view the role of technology in music today?
39:14–1:05:27
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