I'm Frankie Greek for Uproxx.
I'm here today with multi Grammy Award winning and, most recently, Emmy Award winning–
Yes.
– producer and pianist, Robert Glasper.
Yes.
Hello.
Hello, hello, hello.
Thank you for being with us today.
No problem.
So, we are here today at Capitol Records.
We are in the studio right now–
Yes.
Hanging out. You've been here all day.
Yes.
And we have a couple things we want to talk to you about,
most importantly this coming Monday
you're holding an event, here in Los Angeles–
Yes.
–Help Houston Heal.
Yes.
Tell us a little bit about what that is.
So I'm from Houston, Texas.
I've had some family members who have lost houses and cars and all that kind of stuff
and some friends, family members, friends of friends
who have actually passed away in the middle of all that stuff.
So it's definitely a time of need there.
So me and some of my friends from Houston decided to come together and do a benefit
to raise money so we can give people their some relief.
Myself, Letoya Luckett, and my best friend, Bryan-Michael Cox, we're all doing this together.
We all went to the same high school, as well–
Oh, cool.
–at a high school for the performing and visual arts.
Amazing.
Yeah, so we decided to do something here in L.A. because a lot of people are here.
A lot of people don't want to fly to Houston right now, you know?
Right.
People trying to do benefits in Houston, but it's like a lot of people aren't trying to
really fly there and figure things out– Houston's not rebuilt yet.
So it's not really just ready, you know, to have a bunch of shows.
Given how extensive your discography is, what are you planning on performing on Monday,
and will you be collaborating with any of those artists that you just mentioned?
Yeah, I'm going to– some of it's literally going to be up in the air
because people are just saying, "Hey, we're going to come through."
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Some people are like, "I have a studio session, but I'm going to come through."
"I'm flying in that day for something, but I'm going to come through."
So it's going to be up in the air.
It's kind of how my shows are in general, like –
Right.
When I do shows, people just fall through.
So, aside from the concert, you are a very busy guy.
You've had a very busy year.
We teased it a little bit earlier, but you recently won an Emmy with Common –
Yes.
For the song "The Letter to the Free," which was in
Ava Duvernay's Netflix documentary , "13th."
Yes, yes.
So why do you think that song in particular resonated so much?
Because of the times that we're going through now.
I mean, the song talks about the Trump Administration and what's going on with that.
It just talks about racism in America.
The film itself talks about, the "13th" is a reference to the 13th Amendment,
which is basically the... it's modern day slavery.
You know what I mean... it's basically a way to
make people slaves without them "being slaves".
You put them in jail, therefore – that was the amendment – you put them in jail, therefore,
you know, you can treat them like slaves, make money off them, make profit off of it.
So the more people you have in jail then the cheaper labor is
and then, you know, big corporations become a part of that,
and now you don't want the jails to be empty.
You want people in them, you know what I mean?
So, there's that and a lot of things.
I think that the way we... with Ava's film and the lyrics that Common wrote
for that song, it just really speaks to everyone.
How did you react when you heard the news about winning the Emmy?
It's funny, I was in Europe.
I was in– I forget where I was.
I think I was in Germany or something.
I was just about to walk on stage for my show, and Ava texted me like,
"Congratulations! You're nominated for an Emmy!"
And I didn't even know we were in the runnings for it or anything, you know?
I didn't know anything. I was like, "For what?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Huh?"
"Who? What?" You know...
And she told me for "Letter to the Free."
I was like, "Oh, my Gosh!"
Just the nomination itself is like, "Oh man, this is great."
So I was happy just to be nominated and to know I'm going to go to the Emmy's is cool.
But when they called my name, called me and Common and Kareem's name,
I was like, "Oh my God, this really happened."
And it's great when you win something like that on that kind of platform
for this. For what we're talking about. For what we believe in.
Right.
It gives it a bigger platform, you know what I mean?
It's great you can win something so prestigious by telling the truth with something
that's real, that we all feel... feel passionate about.
For sure.
So that's the best kind of award you can get, you know.
Definitely.
As far as the current administration goes, I mean, I feel like it's more of the same
other than, you know, Barrack and probably Clinton, you know, a little bit in there.
But other than that, for the history of America, it's been pretty much the same.
It's just now there's Twitter.
Now there's Instagram.
So it's just more obvious.
Trump is just being more obvious about it.
Even with the killing of black people by police and all that stuff, that's been around.
Now we can just say, "Ha! See?!"
"It's really happening," and everybody can see it.
Now, racism is at a point where it's in your face and you can see it,
and there are still people who fight the fact, and don't want to believe that it's here,
you know what I mean? But now we can say, "Look, it's here."
"It came up on my Instagram post." We can prove it now, you know what I mean?
So, that's where we are in America right now, I think.
So, I want to bring back to Monday– Help Houston Heal– 8 p.m. at The Troubadour.
Yes, 8 p.m. at The Troubadour.
What message do you feel like people who are attending the event, like, what's the goal
for them to take away about Houston, about music, about activism?
Basically, we're all human.
You're a human first.
Musician is what we do.
Whatever you do for a living is what you do,
but the first thing is you're a person, you know what I mean?
And you're a person who didn't make it on your own, you know?
There was somebody, or a group of people, or whatever that got you to where you are.
So you always have to remember that you're a person first,
and you're not going to take any of the stuff that you've obtained with you when pass away.
You know what I mean?
You didn't ask to come here, you don't know when you going.
So that's my thing, I'm like, "Always remember you're a person first
and try to help whenever you can, whatever you can do."
Somebody's in need, try to help.
That's it. It's that simple.
And especially if you can use the gift that God gave you to do that,
you know what I mean?
If you can use a gift... everybody doesn't have that kind of gift that can raise money.
You know what I mean? I do what I'm doing and money comes, and then I can give it away.
So Monday, 8 p.m. at The Troubadour.
There'll be more information about the benefit in the comments below and the organizations
that will be benefitting from the tickets and everything–
Yes, exactly, and we're using real organizations, grassroots organizations that really help.
This ain't Red Cross, and none of that other stuff.
People who are on the ground.
People who are actually on the ground, for sure.
Thank you guys for watching, I'm Frankie for Uproxx.
And I'm Robert Glasper– Uproxx rocks, baby!
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