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Big Think Interview with Jay Smooth New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big Think interview with Jay Smooth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Smooth: Jay Smooth is the creator of the Hip-Hop Music Blog, and video blogging site IllDoctrine. In 1991, he founded what has become New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Jay Smooth: My name, for the public sphere, is Jay Smooth; J-A-Y S-M-O-O-T-H. Jay Smooth: I am the composer, arranger, and conductor of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, The Underground Railroad, also a blogger at HipHopMusic.com and a video blogger at IllDoctrine.com. Question: What is the added value of the video format? Jay Smooth: I was drawn to radio because there was a sense of intimacy there—just sitting at home listening to someone's voice—that I felt was unique compared to television and any other stuff that was out there. I think what we have now with blogging, and especially video blogging, it sort of recreates that intimacy in a different way. Having my face inside the box there at home it sort of adds a bit of mystique of television, but it's a more intimate, personal thing. I feel like radio…I

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