Macklemore: Why He Never Signed to a Label, His Struggle with Addiction, and Making Art that Means Something
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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Is Your Mom Calling You Creative?
Ben Folds: My mom instilled that with me from the age of seven drawing pictures. I was a teenager making trash, uh, you know, rap songs thinking they were great because I didn't have an instant feedback loop to go upload them and get shit on in the comments. If I would have came up in this era where everyone is a critic and everyone has a voice,. There's so many people in the comments and on TikTok and there's so much negativity out there. Everyone wants to be ... pitchfork writer behind the keyboard.
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