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The Joe Rogan Experience the different ways of approaching comedy it's it's got to parallel with music right I mean there's got to be some artists that you know they just want to riff they want to figure it out on the Fly they want to do it all you know almost off the top of their head and then there's other artists where every single word is gone over and meticulously analyzed and pieced together yeah there's no right right or wrong way and you just have to find your way yeah whatever works for you yeah um yeah I've worked with artists who do it completely different ways you know you'll see like Eminem will he's always writing in a book always writing all the time and he's always got notebooks writing and I I asked him it's like of these all you know Rhymes Tuesday he's like no no he's like 99 of what I write I'll never use just to stay engaged in the process of of writing and finding new ways to write so that it just when I need it it just comes and then um Jay-Z would doesn't write anything down yeah and he just listens to the beat and hums hums and then goes into the goes on the mic you know 20 minutes later and just says a whole complicated very complicated verse I don't know how I don't know how he can remember it much like much less have just written it and just be able to do it like free it's crazy does he practice on his own does he does he create these wraps on his own with like alone or does he only do it when he's talking to people or does he only do it on stage no no this is this is on for a record like when we were recording 99 problems I played the beat for him he likes the beat and then he says okay just keep playing it and then he sits in the back of the control room on the couch and he's and you just hear him humming like hmm [Music] as I say 15 or 20 minutes and then he jumps I was like okay I got it and then he goes in no no paper no writing nothing and delivers the whole thing and then says let's try it again and then he does
it again and the words will be the same but the phrasing will be different so it's more like um an improvisational solo you know if you have a Melody you could play the same Melody with uh putting emphasis on different parts of it so he does it it's not the same the words are the same or close to the same but the feeling of it and the rhythm of it changes when he does it again and he does it a few times and he's like okay I think that one's good and but did you ever ask him these things that he's saying has he said them before does he he's not I know he hasn't because it's it's happening live in the room in this moment so but it's not like he's not recite he's not even though it's live in the moment it's not like things that he's thought about before just all off the top yes wow yes isn't that incredible it's insane the same thing like it that's incredible yeah he's famous for that he's famous for having it all in his head but instantaneously or you know relatively instantaneously does anybody else do it like that like no I've not seen Nas I've never seen anyone else do that do that wow it's not uncommon for singers or rappers to hear something and immediately start like automatic writing where they'll just start saying nonsense words yeah the first thing that comes to mind over the over the beat where you can feel a shape of what it can be yeah and like um we just made two new albums with the Chili Peppers that the second one is just came just coming out now I think but the first one came out like six months ago but two double albums and the way Anthony works is he'll hear the music and he'll sing along but he'll sing along with an idea of a Melody but he doesn't yet have words and just sing nonsense words and just sing along making up nonsense words automatically real time and then listens back and says okay this phrase in this spot sounds good and this phrase in this spot sounds good what else goes with that and then it's like a puzzle where you fill in the rests like you you don't necessarily have an idea what the song's going to be about or you might not even know what song's about until you finish
you might not even know after the song's finished what it's about you might not know for years what it's about because it's like a dream you know it comes from the subconscious yeah it's a great way to work it's a great way to write to um just like participate with what's going on in a free way and then listen back to what you did and look for Clues look for where where is the connective tissue here are there any things here that that sound like they belong there