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The Midnight Miracle

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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“Art is a thing people forget they need until they need it” - yasiin bey Black Star * No Fear of Time: album is on Luminary. Learn more: https://luminarypodcasts.com/black-star 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)

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0:00.0

I have been living in Ohio for about a year again and there was a terrible tornado that

0:27.0

tore us in here part. Reminding me of the one back in the 70s but not a severe.

0:32.0

I remember that time in my life I was changing. It was right before I was going to do

0:37.4

Chappelle show and all this other stuff and I realized in that time usually every

0:43.7

profound season of my life its preface is a natural disaster and in that

0:50.2

instance it was a tornado. May 27, 2019 I remember that call the shack with the

1:00.8

I seen in Tile of Quality. It's before we did the midnight miracles for any of

1:06.0

this ever happened. The shack is like a clubhouse I have so on the walls

1:10.5

they're like pictures from all throughout my life great memories that I've

1:14.4

made with my friends. There's a block party poster. It's just a space where I

1:18.2

come and hang out. It used to be an old service station probably from like the

1:22.9

1950s. I left the outside untouched and inside I put a bar and some tables and

1:28.6

a DJ rig and it just became like the hangout. So May 27, 2019 I'm in the shack

1:36.4

with Yassin and Quality just hanging out talking about life, work and then my

1:44.1

neighbor Patrick comes storming in. He looks a little shook about something and

1:49.0

he's telling us that there's a tornado that we got to get the fuck out of there

1:52.8

like now. I mean he wasn't like panicking but he was stern. I knew it was

1:57.4

something serious. We all go outside. The sky had gotten dark, ominously dark and

2:04.6

the trees were rustling and he could just feel like a force of nature was about

2:09.1

to be unleashed so we all went to my house which was you know pretty close by.

2:13.5

We went to my basement. The power had gone out all over town but my power was still

2:19.4

on because we had a generator put in just days before. We all sat in there. It

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