Shifting Gears: Drive with Swizz Beatz and Nasir Dean

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:05.080 In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk with music legend Swizz Beats 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:07.960 as well as his son this Ser Dean, all about their brand new show 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.880 on Hulu called Drive with Swizbeats. Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:19.120 Kyle McMahon from my Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews 5 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.920 and celebrity interviews on all the movies, TV, music and pomp culture u 6 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:32.000 Crabe Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon. Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.439 with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon, and I am excited 8 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:46.159 about today's show because I sit down with the incredible music wonder kind, wonder 9 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.000 kid, wonder kin, whatever the word is. This is why I don't 10 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:53.840 use big words. I sit down with Swizz Beats, hip hop legend and 11 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:00.520 car collector and his son Nazir Dean, who is also known as note Arcado, 12 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.319 and we talk about their brand new series on Hulu called Drive with Swizz 13 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:11.239 Beats. The series is really good. I you know, got to watch 14 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.560 the first season and I was really surprised at how emotional it is. How 15 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.959 you know, it's not just a car show. Honestly, it really isn't 16 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:29.319 it is a series about connection and family and that just so happens to revolve 17 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:34.040 in this series around cars. So you know, basically, in Drive with 18 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:42.040 Swiss Beats, Swizz and Nazir go to different car loving communities like New York 19 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:51.480 and southern California and of course Houston and Japan and Atlanta and even Saudi Arabia 20 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:57.560 actually, and they talk with these communities about the car community and the connection 21 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.200 and the family that it. I sound like Vin Diesel right now, continuing 22 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:07.400 to talk about family. But you know, each of these places has a 23 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:13.080 unique car culture and you know, no matter what the background is, their 24 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:17.039 love for cars is what brings them together. So it's really really an awesome 25 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:23.120 series that I highly recommend you watch. It is exclusively available on Hulu today. 26 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.879 And let's just hop right into my interview with Swizz Beats and the c 27 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.400 R Dan Hey. First of all, thank you both so much for speaking 28 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.719 with me. I really appreciate it. Drive is so awesome and and this 29 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:40.360 question is for both of you. From you know what I gather, I 30 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.159 would say, ultimately, yes, it's about cars and all, but it 31 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.800 really seems as more than that, deeper than that. It's at its heart, 32 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:54.120 it's more about community. Would you both agree with that? Definitely yes. 33 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:59.319 And the reason I say that is because or we say that, is 34 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:05.800 because every where we went, we dove deep into the community and exploring their 35 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.919 creativity, exploring what drove them. And everyone was amazing and their own way 36 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.840 was very specific and they put their whole life into their craftsmanship and it's amazing 37 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:21.879 to see. I love that. And did you what was surprising about, 38 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.919 you know, going to these various places and jumping into these cultures. What 39 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.680 was the most surprising thing for both of you about as it were filming Drive. 40 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.719 I think the most thing that surprised me was how much was going on 41 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.159 right in our backyards that we didn't know about. You know, like in 42 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.439 La you would think low riders, but you know, the hot ride scene 43 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:49.759 out here is incredible. You know, in Japan you would think that there 44 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:54.120 was only drifting with the lowrider scene was incredible, you know, and I'm 45 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.360 like, wow, Like they have like a whole low rider culture in Japan, 46 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.240 you know, from the ain't to the hydraulics to everything. And it 47 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.560 was just amazing to see the juxtaposition of what you thought versus what it is 48 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.560 and which made it a discovery and I hope the viewers would love to see 49 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.240 that as well. I love that, And how about for you and Asaire. 50 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.040 I just love the fact that every single place we went to you could 51 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:28.079 expect the unexpected and the show Drive it was really like shot in an unorthodox 52 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.839 way, because like my father's saying, it's not like we did the norm 53 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:38.279 it's not like we did they expected. It's actually the opposite. And that's 54 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.360 what made it so fun because it was organic and then we got to experience 55 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.519 that firsthand, like we knew what we were walking into, but we really 56 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.120 didn't like at certain points, and that made it so much more of an 57 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:53.360 adventure. I love that. What did you think is the biggest lesson that 58 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:59.680 you learned filming Drive? The biggest lesson I learned doing Drive was definitely, 59 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.240 definitely, definitely, if you're gonna go fast, you gotta know how fast 60 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:11.959 you actually want to go, and you gotta you gotta, you gotta know 61 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:17.920 what drives you. You gotta know the nucleus of what inspires you for you 62 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:23.800 to actually put your mechanism of your mind and your soul to use in the 63 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:29.199 right way. And hearing so many people talk about their passion was inspired me 64 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.120 on a whole different level. I know it my dad as well, and 65 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:36.199 we were blessed to talk to these amazing people. I love that. And 66 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:43.600 how about for you. I think what surprised me the most was people's passion 67 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:48.959 to just go to the extreme of their dreams. You know, some people 68 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:54.519 was making engines with their hands, some people with three D print engines, 69 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.920 just for this one hundred dollar trophy. Then I realized, wait a minute, 70 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.759 it's not even about the trophy. The trophy just symbolized the completion of 71 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.839 the mission. It didn't it didn't it didn't mean what. It didn't have 72 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.160 the power that we think it had. You know, it had a different 73 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.639 power that was bigger than the power. And so to see people go so 74 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.439 hard spend their lives, you know, it was more it wasn't about them 75 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.199 spending the money. It was more about them being together with their community for 76 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:26.959 long periods of time. And then that community finished the mission and then you 77 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.160 know, went to a transition to go get this trophy. But all they 78 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.720 would do is come back and start another mission again, right, So that 79 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.000 was that was the drive I was. I was impressed by people's drive for 80 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:41.319 real, for both of you. When someone goes to sit down to watch 81 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:45.920 Drive with Swiss Beats, besides it being so entertaining and all, what do 82 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:50.639 you hope that people take away from it? I just would love for them 83 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:55.879 to get up and have it fuel them, you know, have it inspire 84 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.439 them. I want them to feel motivated after they watched. And uh, 85 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.720 and and we had the pre like when we do the preview and we've had 86 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:09.959 a couple, that's what we saw. So like that seeing that was really 87 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:14.240 really really giving, Like that's what actually brought it to life so much more 88 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.839 because it brought life to the people who was watching it. And I thought 89 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:21.480 that was like really awesome. I just want people to walk away motivated. 90 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:26.199 I want people to walk away educated. I want people to walk away more 91 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:31.160 for family orientated and more global minded, thinking about travel more, thinking about 92 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.240 exploring more. And we put all of those ingredients in the show on purpose 93 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:41.920 to spark spark your senses to think beyond the norm and you know, maybe 94 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.920 get a new hobby. Maybe go to Houston and want to go mud racing. 95 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.360 Maybe you know, go to a monster jam and see the monster trucks 96 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.720 and you know, just open up what you might see might not see every 97 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.240 day, and just give you the blueprint to it. And in these six 98 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.600 episodes, I love, love, love that, and I think you both 99 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:05.199 have accomplished that with Drive. I know I now have some things on my 100 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.439 list that I want to go do after seeing it, and as I watched 101 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.959 the series, and I think you're going to get people doing that all over 102 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.680 the world. Thank you both so much for your time. Yes, thank 103 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.600 you Swizz Beats, Nasir, and thank you for speaking with me about Drive 104 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:26.600 with Swizz Beats streaming exclusively on Hulu right now. Swiz Beats in the Sudan. 105 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:33.320 I can't believe that I talked to not only in air, but Swiz 106 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.080 Beats. I have loved him forever. He is a hip hop legend, 107 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:43.039 songwriting legend, producer legend. He is incredible and what a nice guy to 108 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.000 and his son is amazing as well. So loved that chat with these very 109 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:56.000 talented men. Go watch Drive with Swizz Beats right now on Hulu. It 110 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:00.440 is exclusively available on Hulu and as I said, you can watch it right 111 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.200 now links in the show notes. And that's it for this episode. 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