Left of Black S2:E27 | April 9, 2012

‘Black Radio,’ Philly Soul and Hip-Hop with Robert Glasper Bassist Derrick Hodge

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by Philadelphia’s own Derrick Hodge, bassist for the Robert Glasper Experiment and longtime musical director for R&B artist Maxwell at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies.  Hodge discusses working as a musician in high school with few resources, and recounts his experiences working with various artists’ including Lupe Fiasco, Bilal, J-Dilla, Common, and Kanye West.  Hodge’s talks about his biggest influences as a musician, including that of the Philadelphia sound, and the significance of the Experiment’s new recording Black Radio.  Hodge may be most well known, among Hip-hop fans, for the bass solo that open Common’s “Be.”

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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