Nardwuar interviews Hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster Jim Robson (Vancouver, BC) and his son Rob Robson, a Bowie mock rock star ! Doot doo !
Nardwuar vs. Chuck D
Nardwuar The Human Serviette vs Chuck D.
Nardwuar: Who are you?
Chuck D: My name is Chuck D and the name of my group is Public Enemy.
Nardwuar: Chuck D, welcome to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Chuck D: Thank you.
Nardwuar: Right off the bat, Chuck, I have a gift for you.
Chuck D: Okay, thank you.
Nardwuar: Here it is right here.
Chuck D: I am not good at accepting gifts.
Nardwuar: What do we have right here?
[Nardwuar hands Chuck D a Blowfly Throbblehead]
Nardwuar: Is this Flavor? You know they’ve got a bunch of Flavors around. Aw, okay. Who’s this?
Nardwuar: Clarence “motherfucking” Reid.
Chuck D: Oh yeah, Blowfly. Right, right, that’s my man.
Nardwuar: And this is interesting because Blowfly’s ‘Rapp Dirty’, that influenced ‘Fight the Power’. How did that happen t?
Chuck D: Well, I mean, in 1980 we collected records, it was on the TK label which was known for a lot of different records in ’77, ’78, ’79 and ’80. ‘Dance to the Drummer’s Beat’ was one of them. You know, so Blowfly had one of the first rap records with ‘Blowfly Rapp’ and they had a sequence in there where he came up with this sequence about the KKK and Muhammad Ali, and so that stuck with me.
Nardwuar vs. Flying Lotus
Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Flying Lotus
Nardwuar: Who are you?
Flying Lotus: I am Flying Lotus. Hey, what’s up, hey [laughs].
Nardwuar: Flying Lotus, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Flying Lotus: Why, thank you sir.
Nardwuar: And I got a poster for you here [Nardwuar hands Flying Lotus a Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers poster].
Flying Lotus: [Laughs] Nice, man. [Laughs] [Looks at poster] Motown, dude, there’s… yeah.
Nardwuar: Motown. Now, Motown is big with Flying Lotus, isn’t it?
Flying Lotus: It is, actually, it is, yeah. My family… it goes back to my grandma and so on, yeah.
Nardwuar:: Please, Flying Lotus, what can you tell me right here [laughs] about Freda Payne, “I Get High” ? [Nardwuar hands Flying Lotus a Freda Payne record]
Flying Lotus: Oh, yeah! Wow, this is awesome, yeah. My grandmother wrote the song for Freda Payne, “I Get High”. Wow.
Nardwuar: Marilyn McLeod.
Flying Lotus: Yeah, Marilyn McLeod, yeah. That’s awesome That’s good, dude, that’s good.
