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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Diplo | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #284' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-30. Transcript available.

Diplo | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #284

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Today's guest is one of the most successful and one of the most musically,
maybe provocative or, I don't know, unique men that there is in the music
market.
He has a new album out, which is kind of a country, well, I don't know what to
classify.
We'll get into it a little bit, but it is Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter
One, Snake Oil.
It's the new album, I suggest you check it out.
It's got some real bangers on it.
Today's guest is none other than Diplo.
I mean, you did it, you did it, you did it more riffraff here, right?
Like, was it here?
Okay, so, like, he, I was, you've kind of helped, kind of, yeah, I mean, I was,
I remember he was living in Baltimore, and I just was watching his videos, and
I had a label, I still had a label called Mad Decent, and I was just like, man,
this guy, there's something special about him.
And I linked him and had him come up to LA, and we worked a little bit, and we
made his, I signed him to his first album on my label, which for me, in
retrospect, I think it was one of the most groundbreaking hip-hop albums of
this, like, new generation.
And people don't believe me, but every time I work with a young rapper, they
always brought him up, like, because they were, like, 14, 15, they watch him on
YouTube, and he's, like, doing lines of coke, or, like, acting crazy, or just
being unabashedly himself, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what he is.
They had this free, they see that, and they see, like, this idea of, like, the
freedom that he did, because he was, like, he was, like, the people on Worldstar
would comment, just, he would blow up on Worldstar, people just, like, fuck
this.
Like, you know, they were, like, what the fuck is this bullshit?
But it, it's, like, drove the videos up to where people were, like, so confused,
and if you're, like, an older person, you're, like, I don't get that hip-hop,
but if you're, like, 14, 15, like, oh, I love this punk aspect of this, so,
like.
That's a good word.
He's, like, punk hip-hop.
Yeah, he was punk, and he was just, everything was freestyle, too.
I mean, he was, that's what I'm saying with him, I bet the podcast is just so
good, because the guy is so fast.
Like, he just.
Oh, he's that cherry canary, bro.
The things he freaking comes up with, pulls out of space, is just, like, what
the fuck, bro?
He's that tangerine Lamborghini, dude.
He has a, what was the album called?
I want to give him, I know he has a new album out right now called Vanilla Gorilla,
so everybody go and get that and support Riff Raff, man.
Yeah, I love him.
Dude, when I, so I went to his place in Florida.
Deerfield, that's where he lives.
Yep, in Deerfield.
So, we get there, we go to the front door, right, and I'm kind of nervous,
because it's almost like meeting, like, an endangered species.
Yeah, if you don't know him for the first time, he must be a pretty daunting
creature.
Remember in Jurassic Park, when they kind of are milling around, and they know
the dinosaur's out there?
And they just see the big old brontosaurus.
It's kind of like that.
Yeah, he's like that.
When you're riding along, you don't know where the animal's going to come from.
And then, we get to his front door, and it has been welded shut.
There is no way.
There's no actual door?
Yes.
It's just a huge piece of metal that's just welded.
Why do you get in?
Bro, that's what I didn't know.
So, I started just saying things that I'd seen on Harry Potter, you know, like
Zillica's.
Trying to open the door.
And then, he takes us, then he comes out, his assistant comes out through the
garage, and he met us in there.
He had an assistant?
He had no, this guy, Maserati Mike.
Maserati Matt.
Yeah, he always has people around that are just like crazy people that are his
assistants, but I don't know.
Crazy, but also slash barber.
And Maserati Mike gave me some stripes in my head, too, that were really,
really dope.
And I felt like when he did that, that I was like.
Did he have the mullet when you interviewed him?
Yeah, he did.
He had just gotten it.
He has a good mullet.
Yeah.
Oh, he's got beautiful hair.
I cut his brother's hair, Victor.
Is that who you did on your Instagram?
Yeah, on Instagram.
And he has good.
There you go, right there.
Yeah, he has a good.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a young mullet.
Now, your mullet's a little fuller, puffy.
You shave the insides a little bit more.
Yeah, it's getting a little more.
I have the straightest hair that like my mullet.
I'm going to get a mullet soon because it's my last thing before I just shave
the head off.
Oh, you're going all the way back to that.
Bro, I'm 41.
I mean, like, this is my last chance for growing my hair long.
I don't think this is like.
It was like an accident.
I started doing it.
I'm just like, I can't turn back now.
It's like a one-way street.
And I'm so scared because when I do it, I just give up on the dream of having
long hair.
Yeah.
Right?
So, I'm going to go to the mullet.
But I have straight-ass hair, so it's going to look like.
Oh, yeah.
It's going to look like Joe Dirt.
Yeah, like Joe Dirt.
But I don't even have the hair that sticks up, though.
Like how those guys, like the 80s guys had the fucking things that pop up.
It's not even going to look like that.
It's going to look like.
I mean, can you pull up any like.
I don't know if you can pull up any mullets that are straight-haired mullets.
It's pretty.
Yeah, let's go straight-haired mullets.
Well, Joe Exotic, but I think his hair bleaches so much, it got like fluffy,
but it's kind
of hard to do the straight-haired mullet, man.
Or almost stringy.
I didn't want to say it.
You said it, Nick.
Thank you.
Stringy hair.
I have thin hair.
I'll be honest, man.
It's like I'm on my last leg over here.
I mean, these are like.
There's a lot of women coming.
That one.
Go to the second one.
That's what it's going to look like.
A prison leg.
It's like, that's what I'm going to look like, bro.
And I think it's blonde, so you're going to think I'm bald, really.
It's going to be pretty.
Dude, if you go full with the front really, really low cut, that's going to be
a brave move.
But you're going to feel like a stallion.
Yeah.
I mean, you know who has a good mullet?
Die Antwoord had a good mullet.
The guy from Ninja, Die Antwoord, he has a good mullet.
Oh, who's always?
He's a South African rapper.
And his girlfriend.
He was always talking about him.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow.
He does.
And his girl has a really good mullet, too.
Oh, yeah.
I'd watch their heads fuck.
I'd watch their heads fuck.
You never seen them?
Uh-uh.
They're rappers from South Africa that like.
He's an old school hip hop rapper.
Like from that era from South Africa.
Everybody like thinks Afrikaans like the wackest culture in the world.
So he kind of like made a fake version of Afrikaans rapper as like kind of a
joke.
But it was amazing.
Like this culture of like these kind of like Cape Town.
Yeah.
I've been there a couple of times.
I really love it.
Yeah.
They made fun of the whole culture of like being like white South African Afrikaans
rapping.
And they just made it actually cool.
He made these amazing videos, like super cutting edge.
I produced some of the music for them.
And they made a movie about robots and stuff.
They actually did amazing things.
Like full artist.
I love the guy.
And that's hit the girl in the band.
Sick rapper too.
And they both were like they had a child together.
And they're just like an awesome power couple.
And they're doing like cool things for in South Africa.
For the community there?
Yeah.
I think so.
I think they represent like Cape Town.
Like kind of like this kind of hybrid of like.
I mean South Africa would be one of the most amazing places like culturally.
My favorite country man.
Yeah.
I love it.
I mean like I go there.
I work a lot in Africa with like Mother Project Major Lazer.
And like I do shows like Nigeria.
We go to Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa.
It's just like a bubble.
Like it doesn't really.
It exists on its own because it's so diverse with like people and music.
And even the scene there.
There's like techno music there.
Like African techno, African house.
It's like African hip hop.
You know they speak Nkosa.
They speak like four different languages.
They have whole different music scenes.
And they have Afrikaans.
They have like you know rock and roll.
It's just the craziest, most vibrant place.
It's just like chaos there.
And I love that place so much.
And then if you see Cape Town, they have like these amazing communities there.
They're like doing like drifting.
And like they're doing like these crazy.
It's just such a bizarre place.
I wonder why.
Well, I guess because I mean obviously they have so much African culture there.
Like anytime I've been there, we even went up into like into the country.
Like away from some of the coastal areas.
And went to like some black colleges.
Like the first black college ever.
And like some places.
So I could see how they just have their influences are just all over the place.
Because it's also a real kind of avant-garde.
Like they're.
Yeah.
They had.
I mean there's like.
It was always the richest African country.
It's terrible because like you know it was colonized.
And I think it was you know it's this hybrid of European.
Like four different tribes that are really big in South Africa.
Then you have like Indian culture.
And then like a lot of immigrants.
And then the like you know like the last 20 years.
I mean apartheid only ended in like the 90s.
Which is crazy.
And then it kind of dissolved into like there's like chaos in the political
universe there.
But in general it's very.
It's a first world country.
It's like the infrastructure was built during apartheid.
And it was always like.
They had like a space program.
You know that.
They had like.
No way.
In the 80s they had like a space program.
Dude I'd love to see that.
I mean it's like this kind of like sense of like.
I mean when you watch Diane Ward and their movies and some of this stuff.
It's like sense of like aliens in South Africa.
You know like this kind of.
Oh the movie.
He did the movie with the guys who were like at District 9.
Oh yeah.
That was great.
They're part of that community that do that kind of.
So that's a full like South African film.
And it kind of feels like.
You know the message there.
Yeah I saw that movie.
That was amazing with those big aliens.
Kind of like it was like in a juncture.
Like a realistic version of like how aliens.
It's a movie about refugee culture.
What it would be like.
Because the aliens are like refugees.
And they're put into like this.
They're put into like the ghettos.
Yeah.
And it's like if you take the idea of race and humans out of it.
You think about it from a different perspective.
That's the movie.
It's like kind of like you think about it in a different way.
Like how you know we're actually one species humans.
Right.
And how can you like discern like the idea of race and speech.
It's just like kind of a really strong conversation.
Because South Africa is such a violent history.
And you know it's kind of cool now.
Because I think the younger generation of kids I see when I go and play there.
They're like finally post apartheid.
Like the way they think about people.
But if you meet people that are over 30 they still have this sense of inbred
racism in their minds.
You know that they have to get rid of.
Yeah.
Racism is kind of fascinating man.
Because some of it is I think it's some of it sadly I think just takes time to
go.
Yeah.
Because some of it isn't even some people's fault.
It is it's the parent.
It's the grant.
It's just something that's like it's almost like that Reaganomics.
It's hard.
It's hard to c