our guest today has been chuck d. i'm ken paulson, back next week with another conversation about free expression, the arts, and america. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com

you know, we had chuck d on the show not long ago, and at one point, he was talking about being a fatherand was talking about the need to keep some of this ugly music off the radio, and at that point, i asked to see his drivers license, 'cause i couldn't believe i was talking to chuck d. well, i'm--you know, some of us get old. i mean--and they change in their ideas. you know, i-- i'm much older than chuck, but i don't judge so easily people's, you know, choices, and, you know, i am a person-- i don't eat any animals. i have just kind of--you know, people would say i was a renunciate, you know, and i took all of these drugs and had all this fun, and i'm having all of this fun now, and i haven't changed at all, you know, except that i don't eat animals, and i don't do certain things that i used to because it's not in my heart to do it today, but i certainly don't want to restrict anybody. i love hearing snoop dogg's-- i keep using his name because he's-- you know, for people who don't know any better, he's the gangster rapper, you know, but i love all of what we do in rap, and i think it'

snoop, bobbie womack, bela fleck, chuck d, and that is not even half of them. this is a wonderful tribute that they wanted to appear on your stuff. >> this was a town home meeting of the minds and souls to just have people like dr. west, reverend al sharpton, samuel l. jackson. these people are really not noticed as musicians, artists. what i wanted to do was to have a musical biography of people that i looked up to. where i get my funk from. the people that encourage me and inspire me. the people who really brought me through. i was having really tough times. these voices. where are these voices? i wanted to make sure that these voices showed up today because we need to these voices more now than ever. tavis: how do they do when they get in the studio with bootsy collins? how did they do when you pick up the base? >> they just at the full -- act the fool. no pockets of resistance. everyone wanted to be on this record. it was amazing to me. the real shocking thing for me was to see dr. west come in the studio. we were laughing, talking, and everything and he as

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