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The Midnight Miracle

Bugs Bunny Math, ft. Black Star (Encore)

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“Art is a thing people forget they need until they need it” - yasiin bey


Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove, Michelle Wolf, Niko Is, Narcy, Radio Rahim, Roc Marciano and Black Thought 


Contains audio clips featuring Prince and Chuck Berry and unreleased music from Black Star, as well as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders


Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020 and Spring 2021


Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, Kenzi Wilbur, and Miles Hodges


Produced by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT

Production Manager: Liz LeMay

Recording Engineer: Federico Lopez

Recording Engineer: Adrián Bruque for NPND

Assistant Editor: Noah Kowalski 

Additional Score by Jasper van Dijk 

Senior Sound Designer: Russell Topal

Transcription Supervisor: Sam Beasley

Mixer: Jordan Galvan


Podcast Artwork: Rachel Eck

Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton


The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.


Special thanks to Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Sina Sadighi, Mark Silverstein, and Carla Sims.


Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc. Copyright © 2021 by Pilot Boy Productions, Inc., all rights reserved.


Author-read book passages from Vibrate Higher, by Talib Kweli (available at KweliClub.com, Audible.com, or other booksellers)

Transcript

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0:00.0

In September 2000, I've been living in Ohio for about a year again.

0:07.0

In September 2000, I've been living in Ohio for about a year again.

0:23.6

And there was a terrible tornado that tours in your part.

0:27.6

It reminded me of the one back in the 70s, but not as severe.

0:32.6

I remember at that time in my life, I was changing.

0:35.6

It was right before I was going to do Chappelle's show and all this other stuff.

0:39.5

And I realized in that time, usually, every profound season of my life, its preface is a natural disaster.

0:49.8

And in that instance, it was a tornado.

0:55.3

May 27, 2019, I made what I called the shack with Yassine and Talib Qaulay.

1:03.4

It's before we did the midnight miracles for any of this ever happened.

1:08.0

The Shag is like a clubhouse I have, so on the walls, they're like pictures from all

1:12.5

throughout my life, great memories that I've made with my friends. There's a block party

1:16.5

poster. It's just a space where I come and hang out. Yeah, it used to be an old service station,

1:22.1

probably from like the 1950s. I left the outside untouched, and inside I put a bar and some tables and a DJ

1:29.0

rig and it just became like the hangout. So May 27th, 2019, I'm in the shack with Yassine

1:37.5

and Kuali just hanging out, taught my life, work. And then my neighbor, Patrick, comes storming in.

1:45.0

He looks a little shook about something, and he's telling us that there's a tornado,

1:51.0

that we gotta get the fuck out of there, like now.

1:54.0

I mean, he wasn't like panicking, but he was stern.

1:57.0

I knew it was something serious.

1:59.0

We all go outside.

2:01.7

The sky had gotten dark, ominously dark, and the trees were rustling, and he could just feel

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