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Toure Show

Young Guru—I Am Music

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Young Guru is Jay-Z’s engineer and he’s the best engineer in hiphop. He knows music at a deep level. I love talking to him about Jay, Kanye, Rihanna and many more stars. Let me know what you think. Twitter: @toure. Toure Show Ep 45 Young Guru—I Am Music Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Chris Colbert Video Director: Jason Wallace Assistant Producers: William Jolley and Candid Nicole Photographer: Chuck Marcus The House: The Young Turks See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock

0:07.9

Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,

0:14.4

playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.

0:18.3

Here we go!

0:19.3

I'm for a drum and bass!

0:21.3

Oh, just 110 pounds!

0:24.0

Tom Bola!

0:25.0

Open for fun!

0:27.0

Terms apply 18 plus.

0:29.0

Please play safely. I met young guru back when I was writing about Jay-Z for the cover of Rolling Stone.

0:46.8

He was always there talking to Jay, very tall, very cool, holding it down to the studio. I don't think I ever interviewed him about Jay back then

0:58.0

because most of the time we interview recording artists, producers, maybe executives. We hardly ever talk to engineers. But what a mistake.

1:10.4

Recording engineers tend to be really smart, they have a really interesting relationship with music,

1:15.0

they know what's going on, they know where all the bodies are buried.

1:19.0

Young Guru is known for being Jay-Z's engineer, but he's also just one of the best engineers in all of modern music.

1:25.8

He's worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kanye.

1:29.2

He's a brilliant guy who's really interesting to talk to and he knows so much about music, technology, celebrities, people, everything.

1:38.0

So this is a really unique discussion of music with someone who's a critical part of modern music and

1:45.3

doesn't usually get the credit. We go in depth about working with Jay-Z and others

1:50.4

about making music, everything.

1:54.6

It's Young Guru on Torrey Show. What do you love about music? I love the feeling of it, man. I love the emotion that you get to put across the people and I love that language that is

2:16.4

that non-verbal it doesn't necessarily have to be words it's the communication of

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