{"id":29143,"date":"2011-03-27T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:02:01","slug":"interview-with-smokey-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-with-smokey-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Smokey Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"100%\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/video\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"video=1826231936&amp;player=viral\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Motown OG, Smokey Robinson, is interviewed by Tavis Smiley (for his show on PBS) and answers questions on songwriting, Beethoven, sampling, performing the same material over the decades, surviving the rapidly shifting times, his experience with drugs, etc.<br \/>\nA quote from Smokey on sampling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026when the first guys who came out who were doing the rap and then they would, what do you call, sample off your songs. There were people who I know who were writers who said, \u201cWhy are you sampling my music?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sample all of mine. (Laughter) Please. I beg of you, sample all of mine, man, because \u2013 really, because first of all, what better form of flattery is that, for a young artist who wasn\u2019t even born when that song was written to hear that song and say, \u201cHey, man, I love this song so much I\u2019m going to include it in one of my songs,\u201d you know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>So as a songwriter, man, that\u2019s a dream come true for me. So I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/grandgood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motown OG, Smokey Robinson, is interviewed by Tavis Smiley (for his show on PBS)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-7A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}