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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Beats real quick. I want to close that loop. Where he's like, ask him about the fact that he's bringing these super controversial artists at the time. They're not that well known. I think it was Dre and Snoop. And they wouldn't play him on the top 40. And he says, Jimmy did something genius to get Dre and Snoop Play it on the top 40. What did you do?
A Well, I, I just considered it a reflex. You know, what, what we did was, I said, ok, you gotta understand, whenever there's gatekeepers on anything, Your job is to figure out a way around the gatekeeper with something you really believe in. Whether the gatekeepers are people at your own company, or people in, you know, at radio stations, or at wherever the gatekeepers are, your job is to skate around them, right? So I said, okay, let's do this. Let's make a minute commercial of G-Thang, which was Dre's first single with Snoop, right? I said, let's make a 62nd spot. Now, I don't want anything said before it or after it. I just want it to play.
AI assessment note: “Let's make a minute commercial of G-Thang, which was Dre's first single”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q You told him the truth, too. Like, where did, where did that come from?
A Because not out of arrogance or confidence, it's comfort. My father really drilled in me from when I was a little kid that wherever you go, The place is better because you're there, because you're a decent person. He used, you're a humble person, you're a decent person, you're a good person, and you're not going to screw anybody in his language, right? So wherever I went in my life, I always feel comfortable, very insecure in my personal life, which I've grown out of in the list that that's 72, hello, right? Thank God, you know, who the fuck wants to die that insecure, right? But, um, You know, in, in work, I always had a certain amount of confidence because it came natural to me. I, nothing came natural to me before that, but when I set it a console and I put the faders up, the balance came very, very naturally and people liked it. So that's kind of where I got some of the confidence from, but you know, I just, I don't know. I was always willing to say what I felt about music and to anybody at any time, you know, and I, I, I'm, I mean, what's the point of asking me a question if I'm not supposed to give you my answer? I don't, I don't understand that philosophy.
AI assessment note: “My father really drilled in me from when I was a little kid”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q How did you know there's a need for a new school, though?
A Because I realized it was education, because I realized it was siloing in education, that you go to, you, you, because I see, again, what do I know? I know, I know, like, the feel of young people, culture, right? So I see the way kids are being brought up. They're brought, brought multidisciplinary right now for the last, 15 years, they're all being brought up with multiple disciplines. You know, tech, music, culture, design, they're all fascinated by that. So when you go to school, when you go to college, you get siloed. You go to Wharton, you're an accountant. Yeah, they have classes and all that. They have an engineering course you could take. Well, you take that engineering course with 50 other engineers, right? So now you're seeing school, remember, we started this school 14 years ago.
AI assessment note: “because I realized it was siloing in education”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q So you lose the status part, is that?
A Whatever the fuck it is, I didn't care about any of that shit, I just wanted to stop feeling that feeling, you know what I mean? So I didn't have that, that wasn't a currency for me. It's a blessing and a currency, but I just said, I don't give a fuck, I don't wanna, I, I, I want this, I just don't wanna, I wanna get rid of the obsession. I mean, if you work, if you want to work past 70, 75, 80, if you're a founder of a company like Phil Knight, I understand that he's still involved with Nike, do it. If you're feeling it, it's not what I wanted to do, and it's what, not what I had to do for my own sanity.
AI assessment note: “I didn't care about any of that shit, I just wanted to stop”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.85
Q What was the right attitude about their work?
A Well, they weren't thinking about how to promote it. They were thinking about how to make it, you know, and, um, it's kind of what I liked about Steve Jobs when I met him, you know, I met a lot of these guys since the year, 2000, you know, cause I'd gone on the road. Once, once Napster came out, I was like, oh shit, what's going on? I better learn something new, you know, I mean, cause this trick isn't going to work anymore, you know, the whole music business I felt was going to be upside down, you know, and it has been, but Um, but in those days, I wanted to get a feel for what I called at that time, the other side. So I met with a bunch of tech companies, then I started to get, and then I met Steve. And he was the only one that had soul. And.
AI assessment note: “They weren't thinking about how to promote it. They were thinking about how to make it”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.55
Q Absolutely. Five years from now, do you think we're gonna have AI, complete AI-created music that is at the top of the charts? Isn't it already happening?
A I don't know. Let me tell you, I don't fucking know. If I could predict the future, ma'am, you know what I mean? I wouldn't have health insurance. You know, it's like, you know, I have fire insurance in my house. I can't predict the future. I have no, I, I, I overpaid for everything. I'm a retail guy. But, you know, it's like, I do know one thing that I don't understand. I hear a lot of these artists coming out against AI. So I come from a place where to get a record deal, going back to my, when I was a kid, right, in the music business. You have to sing. You have to really sing. Sometimes you had to write, but if you're Barbra Streisand, you had to sing. Frank Sinatra, you had to sing. Those people could really sing. You know, Sam Cooke, whoo, could he sing? He could sing and write, you know what I mean? Incredible, right? Stevie Wonder. There's a lot of people out now on the charts right now of being really successful, selling out arenas, that can barely sing Happy Birthday. So, what I say to the people that are challenging AI, and they're doing that because of technology.
AI assessment note: “I don't know. Let me tell you, I don't fucking know.”
