PUBLISHED BY MADELEINE BYRNE •AUGUST 30, 2017

Starting with the extra-melodic strains of “Golden Lady” taken from his 1973 masterpiece, Innervisions; a drum-roll and then lots and lots of laughter; these sounds set the interview with Stevie Wonder, broadcast on the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito’s What’s Good show on NPR today (August 30).

Stretch & Bobbito, the legendary New York DJs whose late-night radio program broadcast the soundtrack for the nascent Hip-Hop movement back in the ‘90s, were aided by DJ Spinna, the Brooklyn DJ, producer, remixer, and member of Jigmastas.

In the almost hour-long interview, Wonder recalled how he used to carry around ideas for his songs in a bag, filled with cassette tapes; why he got the cornrows (he was sick of his mother pulling his hair) and his 15-year-long fight to establish the Martin Luther King national holiday.

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