In the early days of hip hop, when he was in high school, the only place you could hear hip hop was once a week on WHBI called Mr. Magic's Rap Attack. "I'd listen to that every week and hear whatever was going on in rap music" And one week in the middle of these all rap songs,. he played a trouble funk song, which is not rap music. It's go go music and it's long. So a seven or nine non rap song took up seven to nine minutes of my 60 minutes plus commercials removed my little bit of rap music for the week. I was so angry. He has gone since.
In which Malcolm reunites with his colleague, friend and fellow host of Broken Record (not to mention a music icon in his own right), Rick Rubin.
This month Rick released his first book, called "The Creative Act: A Way Of Being." In it he shares practical principles on how anyone can generate creative authenticity and ultimately find their voice.
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