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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

“Nobody's building monuments to the sellouts.” —yasiin bey Dave, Talib, and yasiin discuss the importance of keeping the main thing the main thing. [Free excerpt. Hear the full episode now, and new episodes all season long. Subscribe to Luminary. Learn more at https://luminary.link/miracle] Featuring: Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey Contains music from Michael Jackson, Eric B. & Rakim, Black Star, Kendrick Lamar, LL Cool J, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler, the Creator Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, Kenzi Wilbur Produced, Edited, and Composed by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT Production Manager: Liz LeMay Production Coordinator: Diana Chammas Live Engineering by: Mike Brown Mixed by: Mario Borgatta & Jordan Galvan Podcast Artwork: Leeann Sheely Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT. Special thanks to Ted Williams, Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Sina Sadighi, Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Nicolle Johnson, Donna Dragotta, Carla Sims, Pete Amaro, Clint Balcom, Jennifer Branigan, Taylor Dalton, Miles Hodges, Zainab Khan, Christopher Landry, Coral Lee, Jayme Lynes, Mykola Logvynenko, Rishi Malhotra, Mohan Nerkar, Brian Parsons, Lauren Perkins, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Matt Sacks, Betsy Santoyo, Lisa Schrader, Akhila Shankar, Leeann Sheely, and Mark Silverstein. Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc. Copyright © 2022 by Pilot Boy Productions, Inc., all rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello, what you're about to hear is a free piece of the Midnight Miracle, the best podcast
0:13.0	in the world.
0:14.8	There is not just one episode of this show, there are many, with more on the way.
0:21.2	But to hear them, you are going to need to subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple
0:26.2	Podcasts.
0:27.2	Yes, it caused money about the price of one coffee per month, and that doesn't make
0:33.0	you a better person like we do.
0:35.6	Now, without further ado, the Midnight Miracle.
0:45.6	We didn't play our records because we are not and have never been a soundtrack for consumerism.
0:55.6	The records that get played in the system, the entertainment that you see for the larger
1:09.6	part, promotes and is a backdrop for empty consumerist activity.
1:18.1	Period, if there's no group of products or lifestyle activities that can be attached
1:24.6	to your particular art or your expression, and they're like, well, what are you supposed
1:28.3	to do with this?
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:30.3	This is not pushing the production arrow forward.
1:33.3	We can't sell anything against it.
1:35.5	Who gives them about what's on your mind and the way you see the world?
1:39.8	You better attach it to a product and go to service, a lifestyle, a look, and then we
1:46.0	can digest it.
1:47.8	And this is why I've always resisted it because there's no group of people in this world who
1:54.0	under more constriction or scrutiny in relation to their identity on every level, their personal
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