Guests
"My first rhymes were... kind of advanced for a young kid. 'I'm the king of hip-hop/Renewed like the Reebok' ... I look back on that rhyme now and I'm like, man, that's pretty prophetic."
Jay-Z is one of the most successful hip-hop artists of all time. He discusses growing up in Brooklyn surrounded by drugs and violence, and the stories behind many of his famous songs.
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"I wanted to be an actress. The comedy was making secretaries laugh so I could get in to see the agent. And finally one secretary said to me: You're very funny, you should do stand-up."
Before she passed away in 2014, Rivers talked with Fresh Air in 1991, 2010 and 2012 about how her comedy evolved -- and why she didn't care what others thought of her.
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"I built up a sort of pharmacological launch pad with amphetamines and LSD and a little cannabis on top of that, and when I was really stoned I said: I want to see indigo now."
The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations -- and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.
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