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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jimmy jam what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You got it? How's going?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's going great? Boy? You are busy, my friend. This
is a huge, huge undertaking and very very exciting. First
of all, it's great to talk to you. I've loved
all your music for decades and now the one hundred
Billion Meals Challenge is on. Can you tell everybody what
that's all about?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yep? So one hundred Billion Meals Challenge is basically a
you know, we want to try to feed people around
the world. We're kind of in a crisis, and it
kind of was inspired by We Are the World forty
years ago and Live Aid forty years ago, where music
was used to try to raise money and trace I
(00:41):
always say raised spirits because I think that's also an
important part of this too. So what we're doing is
we're putting together a song with a bunch of great
creative folks, and tomorrow on Zoom you can actually join.
It's almost like you could be a fly on the
wall of the We Are the World sessions, but you're
going to be able to join us on Zoom and
actually watch the recording some of the recording process take place,
(01:05):
and it's going to be a pretty a pretty great event.
I think it's one hundred billion meals. Dot Org is
the place to go to, and there's also a place
on there. We're calling it the Next Verse. And the
reason we're calling it the Next Verse is because we
want people to be able to write their own lyrics
and add lyrics to the song as it evolves and
(01:25):
continues to hopefully raise money over over a period of time.
So there's a lot of ways you can participate. You
can add your own verse to the song, but you
can also join us as we record the next verse.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That is such a cool idea. I was just watching
some of the people that have already submitted. Some people
are even doing like spoken word. Other people are actually singing.
This is all going to take place at the iHeart
Theater in Burbank tomorrow on the sixteenth, right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, that'll be where we're going to do it from.
And yeah, the thing is is that when you watch
what people do with music, they remix it, they reinterpret it,
they do different versions of it. That was the reason
we wanted the song to feel like it was a
continuing thing, that it really belonged to everyone. I mean,
we're going to do our initial version of it that
you will hear with a bunch of artists, but then
(02:15):
people will be able to make the song their own.
And I just think that's one of the cool things
about music, but also the cool thing about technology now
because obviously, when the original we Are of the World happened,
there was no TikTok, there was no social media, there
wasn't the ability for people to go in their laptops
and make music. But now you see from the things
(02:36):
that are already online that people are taking the song
and making it their own and adding their own verses
and doing as you said, spoken word and doing all
kinds of different things. That to me, is what the
song should be. It should be really an instrument forgiving.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That is so cool. We're on here with Jimmy Jam,
producer of the Next Verse. When I think, because I
watched the Weird of the World documentary, I'm sure you've
probably seen that when you look at what came together
and how it came together for one night like it did,
I mean, it's still such a crazy, amazing, mind blowing
(03:11):
moment in time. And then of course the future impact
that it had and actually still has, that all those
artists were able to come together like that. But now,
like you said, you've got you know, it's so much
more viral and global where people can actually participate themselves.
But do you ever look back on We're the World
as I mean, there will probably never be anything else
(03:32):
quite like that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, that's absolutely the case. There will never be And
that's why I say what we're doing is inspired by that. Yeah,
because we would like to see the result happen, but
we're obviously doing it in a different time, and so
we want to utilize the ability that we have. Like
you know, for instance, I was working last night with
(03:55):
Duran Duran who's in London, and I was working with
Neil shown from Journey who's in the Bay Area. And
I was working with doctor Dre who's about four blocks
from my house. Actually we live pretty close to each other.
But the thing is is we can really work with
people around the world, which is really cool. I think
(04:17):
I don't know this yet. I heard Andrea Bocelli's going
to join from Italy. I think Janet's going to join
from London, so on and so forth. But that's the
ability we have now. And also, if you think about
we Are the World, that was USA for Africa, which
is absolutely needed in Africa still needs it, but it's
a worldwide phenomenon, meaning right here in this country because
(04:40):
of the snap cuts and all of those different things.
There's food and security in the United States, so we've
ear marked twenty percent of all the money that gets
raised we'll stay right here in the US. And there's
six food charities that were aligned with on this, so
it should affect people here at home, which I think.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is really important. Talking to Jimmy jam we've enjoyed you
and Terry Lewis and all the different stuff that you
had your hands. I was looking at the Liz. You know,
obviously everybody knows very well Janet Jackson, but Lionel Richie
and Herb Albert and TLC and Michael Jackson, Michael in
addition to Janet, Boys, to men, Brian Adams, Gwen Stefani.
I mean, we would be here for ten more minutes
(05:19):
listing everybody you guys ever worked with. Thank you for
so much great music, just for decades. But now I
think it's so cool that you're able to you're pretty
well connected, to call your friends and go, hey, this
is what I'm doing. I mean, do you find that
most most of these folks are saying, heck, yeah, I
mean I want to jump in. What do I have
to do? What do you need from me?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's been pretty much the thing. And I think the
other I will say, the other difference is we are
the world. Because it happened on the night of the
American Music Awards, you already had everybody all in one
place at one time, right, this was a little bit
more random. We wanted to do it during the Christmas season,
during the holiday season. We just weren't sure exactly when
(05:59):
it was. We landed on the sixteenth because we wanted
to be during the season of giving. But then, you know,
you're dealing with everybody's schedule. There's people on tour. It's
kind of the time when the record industry actually starts
shutting down a little bit, which has helped us in
some ways, but it's also hurt us in some ways too,
you know. So, But yeah, I mean it's been I
(06:22):
definitely before we even started the project, I went and
I and I reached out to some key, at least
to me, some kind of key creative folks that I
thought would be great to have on board. And once
they said yes, then it was kind of like, Okay,
let's do this and then we'll get everybody else to
join in. But no, everybody's been very excited and very cooperative,
and I think they are interested in being a part
(06:43):
of something that hopefully will live on and inspire more
giving because to me, it's not this shouldn't be the end.
This should be really the beginning and hopefully motivate other
people to do this same type of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All right, well, I know I have you just for
another minute here, Jimmy jam one hundred billion meals dot org.
A couple of dates to remember. The sixteenth is the
Global Recording Experience, and then on December twenty fifth, actually
on Christmas, I believe that's when we can stream the
world premiere.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Correct, that is correct, Yes, Christmas Day, and that's when
it will come out and it'll be a worldwide premiere
and you'll hear it everywhere and hopefully you'll love it,
and then you will go and add hopefully more funds
and also have fun in adding your next verses onto
what we've already done, because everybody gets a chance to
(07:30):
add their own verses to this, and that's to me,
the thing that will make the giving continue and make
the song continue to grow well and more forvid the years.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, if anybody can produce, you know, basically artists from
all over the place throwing in their own verses, it's you,
my friends. So we'll look forward to hearing that and
such great work that you're doing. Real quick, give me
if you can just put it into a short perspective here.
What was it like to work initially with Janet when
she took off? Obviously you and Terry knew that she
(08:03):
had something very very special.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, Jane was obviously wonderful, and you know, we're celebrating
the fortieth year of control next year. Wow, so that's
a forty year. I hope I didn't just make everybody
feel a lot over it. But yeah, but but it
was I know, but it was great. She came to
Minneapolis to record, and kind of it was nice because
what she talked about on the record about going out
(08:25):
on her own, that's literally what she was doing. She
was coming away from home, she was going to Minneapolis.
This is pre GPS days, where you just typed in,
you know, in your phone, where you wanted to go.
You had to have like a real map, like a
Thomas Guide or something for people that remember that, and
it was it was a whole different experience. But that
experience of her kind of growing up and being out
on her own and making her own record and being
(08:46):
away from her parents and away from bodyguards and away
from kind of the trappings, that to me, is what
made Controls so successful. And she's done that on all
of her albums. I've always told people, even if you
don't see an interview with her, if you ever want
to know what she's thinking, just listen to the album
and then tells you everything.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So well said, all right, your idea or her idea
for give me a beat?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, that was my idea because we just wanted to
have something to get us into the song, you know.
And I just said, thank you, give me a beat,
and she said, yeah, you mean I said that. Perfect. Perfect.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I've always wanted to know that. So thank you for
answering that one, Jimmy jam thank you for producing the
next verse and all you're doing for one hundred billion
meals dot org. We'll look forward to it and we
will be playing it all across iHeart on Christmas Day
on December twenty fifth. So good work, my friend, Thank you, sir,
appreciate it.
Jimmy jam what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You got it? How's going?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's going great? Boy? You are busy, my friend. This
is a huge, huge undertaking and very very exciting. First
of all, it's great to talk to you. I've loved
all your music for decades and now the one hundred
Billion Meals Challenge is on. Can you tell everybody what
that's all about?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yep? So one hundred Billion Meals Challenge is basically a
you know, we want to try to feed people around
the world. We're kind of in a crisis, and it
kind of was inspired by We Are the World forty
years ago and Live Aid forty years ago, where music
was used to try to raise money and trace I
(00:41):
always say raised spirits because I think that's also an
important part of this too. So what we're doing is
we're putting together a song with a bunch of great
creative folks, and tomorrow on Zoom you can actually join.
It's almost like you could be a fly on the
wall of the We Are the World sessions, but you're
going to be able to join us on Zoom and
actually watch the recording some of the recording process take place,
(01:05):
and it's going to be a pretty a pretty great event.
I think it's one hundred billion meals. Dot Org is
the place to go to, and there's also a place
on there. We're calling it the Next Verse. And the
reason we're calling it the Next Verse is because we
want people to be able to write their own lyrics
and add lyrics to the song as it evolves and
(01:25):
continues to hopefully raise money over over a period of time.
So there's a lot of ways you can participate. You
can add your own verse to the song, but you
can also join us as we record the next verse.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That is such a cool idea. I was just watching
some of the people that have already submitted. Some people
are even doing like spoken word. Other people are actually singing.
This is all going to take place at the iHeart
Theater in Burbank tomorrow on the sixteenth, right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, that'll be where we're going to do it from.
And yeah, the thing is is that when you watch
what people do with music, they remix it, they reinterpret it,
they do different versions of it. That was the reason
we wanted the song to feel like it was a
continuing thing, that it really belonged to everyone. I mean,
we're going to do our initial version of it that
you will hear with a bunch of artists, but then
(02:15):
people will be able to make the song their own.
And I just think that's one of the cool things
about music, but also the cool thing about technology now
because obviously, when the original we Are of the World happened,
there was no TikTok, there was no social media, there
wasn't the ability for people to go in their laptops
and make music. But now you see from the things
(02:36):
that are already online that people are taking the song
and making it their own and adding their own verses
and doing as you said, spoken word and doing all
kinds of different things. That to me, is what the
song should be. It should be really an instrument forgiving.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That is so cool. We're on here with Jimmy Jam,
producer of the Next Verse. When I think, because I
watched the Weird of the World documentary, I'm sure you've
probably seen that when you look at what came together
and how it came together for one night like it did,
I mean, it's still such a crazy, amazing, mind blowing
(03:11):
moment in time. And then of course the future impact
that it had and actually still has, that all those
artists were able to come together like that. But now,
like you said, you've got you know, it's so much
more viral and global where people can actually participate themselves.
But do you ever look back on We're the World
as I mean, there will probably never be anything else
(03:32):
quite like that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, that's absolutely the case. There will never be And
that's why I say what we're doing is inspired by that. Yeah,
because we would like to see the result happen, but
we're obviously doing it in a different time, and so
we want to utilize the ability that we have. Like
you know, for instance, I was working last night with
(03:55):
Duran Duran who's in London, and I was working with
Neil shown from Journey who's in the Bay Area. And
I was working with doctor Dre who's about four blocks
from my house. Actually we live pretty close to each other.
But the thing is is we can really work with
people around the world, which is really cool. I think
(04:17):
I don't know this yet. I heard Andrea Bocelli's going
to join from Italy. I think Janet's going to join
from London, so on and so forth. But that's the
ability we have now. And also, if you think about
we Are the World, that was USA for Africa, which
is absolutely needed in Africa still needs it, but it's
a worldwide phenomenon, meaning right here in this country because
(04:40):
of the snap cuts and all of those different things.
There's food and security in the United States, so we've
ear marked twenty percent of all the money that gets
raised we'll stay right here in the US. And there's
six food charities that were aligned with on this, so
it should affect people here at home, which I think.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is really important. Talking to Jimmy jam we've enjoyed you
and Terry Lewis and all the different stuff that you
had your hands. I was looking at the Liz. You know,
obviously everybody knows very well Janet Jackson, but Lionel Richie
and Herb Albert and TLC and Michael Jackson, Michael in
addition to Janet, Boys, to men, Brian Adams, Gwen Stefani.
I mean, we would be here for ten more minutes
(05:19):
listing everybody you guys ever worked with. Thank you for
so much great music, just for decades. But now I
think it's so cool that you're able to you're pretty
well connected, to call your friends and go, hey, this
is what I'm doing. I mean, do you find that
most most of these folks are saying, heck, yeah, I
mean I want to jump in. What do I have
to do? What do you need from me?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's been pretty much the thing. And I think the
other I will say, the other difference is we are
the world. Because it happened on the night of the
American Music Awards, you already had everybody all in one
place at one time, right, this was a little bit
more random. We wanted to do it during the Christmas season,
during the holiday season. We just weren't sure exactly when
(05:59):
it was. We landed on the sixteenth because we wanted
to be during the season of giving. But then, you know,
you're dealing with everybody's schedule. There's people on tour. It's
kind of the time when the record industry actually starts
shutting down a little bit, which has helped us in
some ways, but it's also hurt us in some ways too,
you know. So, But yeah, I mean it's been I
(06:22):
definitely before we even started the project, I went and
I and I reached out to some key, at least
to me, some kind of key creative folks that I
thought would be great to have on board. And once
they said yes, then it was kind of like, Okay,
let's do this and then we'll get everybody else to
join in. But no, everybody's been very excited and very cooperative,
and I think they are interested in being a part
(06:43):
of something that hopefully will live on and inspire more
giving because to me, it's not this shouldn't be the end.
This should be really the beginning and hopefully motivate other
people to do this same type of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All right, well, I know I have you just for
another minute here, Jimmy jam one hundred billion meals dot org.
A couple of dates to remember. The sixteenth is the
Global Recording Experience, and then on December twenty fifth, actually
on Christmas, I believe that's when we can stream the
world premiere.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Correct, that is correct, Yes, Christmas Day, and that's when
it will come out and it'll be a worldwide premiere
and you'll hear it everywhere and hopefully you'll love it,
and then you will go and add hopefully more funds
and also have fun in adding your next verses onto
what we've already done, because everybody gets a chance to
(07:30):
add their own verses to this, and that's to me,
the thing that will make the giving continue and make
the song continue to grow well and more forvid the years.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, if anybody can produce, you know, basically artists from
all over the place throwing in their own verses, it's you,
my friends. So we'll look forward to hearing that and
such great work that you're doing. Real quick, give me
if you can just put it into a short perspective here.
What was it like to work initially with Janet when
she took off? Obviously you and Terry knew that she
(08:03):
had something very very special.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, Jane was obviously wonderful, and you know, we're celebrating
the fortieth year of control next year. Wow, so that's
a forty year. I hope I didn't just make everybody
feel a lot over it. But yeah, but but it
was I know, but it was great. She came to
Minneapolis to record, and kind of it was nice because
what she talked about on the record about going out
(08:25):
on her own, that's literally what she was doing. She
was coming away from home, she was going to Minneapolis.
This is pre GPS days, where you just typed in,
you know, in your phone, where you wanted to go.
You had to have like a real map, like a
Thomas Guide or something for people that remember that, and
it was it was a whole different experience. But that
experience of her kind of growing up and being out
on her own and making her own record and being
(08:46):
away from her parents and away from bodyguards and away
from kind of the trappings, that to me, is what
made Controls so successful. And she's done that on all
of her albums. I've always told people, even if you
don't see an interview with her, if you ever want
to know what she's thinking, just listen to the album
and then tells you everything.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So well said, all right, your idea or her idea
for give me a beat?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, that was my idea because we just wanted to
have something to get us into the song, you know.
And I just said, thank you, give me a beat,
and she said, yeah, you mean I said that. Perfect. Perfect.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I've always wanted to know that. So thank you for
answering that one, Jimmy jam thank you for producing the
next verse and all you're doing for one hundred billion
meals dot org. We'll look forward to it and we
will be playing it all across iHeart on Christmas Day
on December twenty fifth. So good work, my friend, Thank you, sir,
appreciate it.
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