Mike D – The Art of Opening the Global Music Scene

One World with Deepak Chopra – Mike D

From Licensed to Ill to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Beastie Boys’ MC & drummer Mike D pioneered the Hip Hop marginalized subculture of South Bronx to the global music scene.

MIKE D: The Art of Pioneering the Hip Hop Marginalized Subculture of South Bronx to the Global Music Scene.

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Regardless of your particular tastes in music, it is likely that you are familiar with Mike D or at the very least with the band that made him a household name. The Beastie Boys founder recently sat down with Deepak Chopra to discuss his passion for music, how his career started and what he’s doing now. The full discussion is part of NEWSWIRE.FM’S ONE WORLD series and can be viewed here.

Music was always Mike’s passion and even at a young age it was his entire focus. It was that passion for music that, as a teenager, led Mike to the club scene in New York City where he would eventually meet his future bandmates. “It was a funny time because…if you listened to music a lot it was only logical that you would start to play music. Not that we knew how to do it,” he recalled to Deepak, it just seemed the logical next step. With the music came fame which, as for many artists, was a challenge. “There’s so much adrenaline, and so much exchanging of energy that you can be very unprotected in that environment,” Mike D explained. It’s an environment that can lead musicians down a dangerous path and many spiral out of control. But that is not Mike’s story. Mike found that yoga was a way to deal with the ups and downs of the music industry. “I was so grateful to be introduced to yoga practices because… that was really a practice of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable.” For an artist like Mike D, this was a critical skill; being able to enter the unknown and be comfortable with the risks involved was something that practicing yoga helped with.

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Deepak Chopra

DEEPAK CHOPRA MD, FACP, is the author of more than 80 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Chopra is the co-author with Rudolph Tanzi of the New York Times bestseller, Super Brain. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.