Hi, everyone. Today’s a big day at Narratively. We released the final episode of Track Change, our five-part documentary podcast that follows Grammy-winning musician Speech Thomas of Arrested Development — known to many as the “Godfather of Conscious Hip-Hop” — into Virginia’s Richmond City Jail to record an album with four incarcerated men, inside a makeshift recording studio. I decided it was only fitting to give Speech the last word about a project that means so much to him and to which he’s dedicated so many years of his life. I hope you enjoy it, and that you’ll listen to Track Change if you haven’t yet!
Noah: Speech! Here we are, our Track Change podcast is fully out in the world and we’re getting a phenomenal response. Congratulations! For me personally, it feels like we’ve just finished a marathon, since we first began developing the podcast four years ago. But you were involved in this project years before that, back when you were shooting the…