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Music legend Nile Rodgers joins HuffPost Live to discuss his work relationship with Madonna, including an awkward conversation the two had.
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"Madonna was feeling insecure"
So was that interviewer.
Have the confidence to let the man finish his story without trying to be a wise ass and interrupting him
I agree. I found it to be really annoying and not necessary. It almost seemed like he wanted to talk about it how much he liked her versus just trying do an interview.
I totally agree!
Right, annoying as hell!
Exactly, and so nice the way he told him
The interviewer is annoying. He's asking that question like there's something wrong with Nile not wanting to have sex with madonna.
The interviewer is awful, does not let Nile answer, and wastes time talking about whether Madonna was trying to screw him. All the incredible albums he was a part of and that’s what he focus s on.
Nailed it.....and actually Nile did'nt ;)
I stopped watching after 2 minutes bc of his constant interrupting and trying to put words into Niles mouth. Rule number one for interviewers:- shut tf up and let the guest speak.
The interviewer is overbearing
@@Kkidzz After watching the interview I'm 50/50 on whether he f'ed Madonna or not.
Miserable Yellow Journalist
the interviewer has to stop interrupting and let the man tell his story
For real! This guy should shut the f@&$ up!
Exactly
Thank you for saying it. He needs to hear that and reflect. It really could improve his interviews if would listen to answers after asking questions
It was giving me the same feeling as a fly that won't go away
He doesn’t have nothing on Nore from Drink Champs Podcast 😏
“It was my job” Nile Rogers is a legend and a true musician, he doesn’t care if you’re Madonna, Pharrell or Duran Duran
Duran Duran steady😊
He probably smelled what DRake smelled when he almost puked when she kissed him on stage🤢🤢🤢🤣🤣🤣
@@rickimhotep1236 o
@@rickimhotep1236 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah and that shows a neutral stance and having longevity in getting jobs down the line. Long vision and not murky because keeping personal situations out of the professionalism.
"It's a paragraph!" ... Nile basically teaching the interviewer how to do his job better...
Exactly.
🤔🤔🤔🤔😏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This guy wanted to manipulate the interview just to preserve a quote out of context, and Nile wasn't having it. You got your clickbait, now shut up and "let me finish my story," bro.
That "journalist" is acting like a child.
@@audibletapehiss3764 The context didn't really destroy the quote. It sounded like validation to me.
The guy has a moral code. Respect him.
And Madonna is nasty and has no morals. He definitely made the right choice.
Awww ..more like smart business.
I don’t. I woulda been on her like a rat on a Cheeto
@@larryp3641 Whichever way you look at it, the man showed (and still shows) that magic quality that some people call "class".
😂😂
This is what having class looks like.
Nile Rodgers for the win 👍
@@TURTLEORIGINAL Your not fooling anybody with that youtube user name.
We all know it's you Madonna.
I cannot believe that 38 years later you are still mad that he didn't want your goodies.
@@TURTLEORIGINAL , Jealous much! He is an excellent example, a breath of fresh air!
OH PLEASE HE DID COCAINE AND GOT BJS IN BATHROOM OF STUDIO 54 HE DIDNT WANNA FUCK MADONNA BECASUE HE KNEW SHE WAS A MEAL TICKET
YOU DONT FUCK WHERE YOU EAT MADONNA WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE BACK IN DAY
Wow! A man of substance, rare nowadays. I like him.
This woman was hit on by many men in and out of the industry.
She felt insecure because ONE guy, who she didn't want anyway, wouldn't try and smash?
That story is VERY believable.
The fact that this is a straight black man probably would have been an extra bruise to her ego.
yes and yes.. (additionally) remain professional and have a work ethic Bravo to Mr. Niles Rodgers!! It is probably more common that we think...it just does not get much "play" in the media!! does not fit a certain narrative!
It was also a different era
Trust me there that fragile...
you're so dramatic
Madonna also hit on a lot of men herself... stories of her working at Terrace on the park at Flushing Meadows when she lived in Corona before she got famous and would get it on with coworkers in the elevator and such... im sure that played into her dismay at not being objectified by Nile. He kept it classy and separated work from play.
Don’t sh*t where you eat…even if it means turning down the chance to smash a young Madonna. Nile Rodgers maintained his frame and his professionalism. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Don't get your meat where you make your bread.
Assumes he actually even found Madonna sexually attractive.
@@piecesofme8531 Yeah, there is that. Based on her reaction though, I suspect she was surprised that he didn’t “hit” her because she was there😏
Why do you kids today use the term, "Smash?"
@@TURTLEORIGINAL Dave Matthew's made a song called crash right? I can't I just can't
some dudes aren't thirsty as fuck and can maintain professionalism while working with women
This man have Self-Respect, he's not like some of the other sex thristy non self respect men who will jump in bed with the first woman " they consider hot" Good for you Nile, I don't have nothing but love and respect for you
Self respect, man. I don't know why it's so outrageous for a man not to sleep with a woman given the chance.. there's a right time and right place. Hat's off to you if that's every time, but there's something to be said for choosing wisely.
Unlike Captain Kirk, he didnt want to boldly go where many men have been
@@lastnamefirst4035 he isn't gay. he's been married to a woman for a long time.
@@romulus_ I don't know where I read that he was. Im going to delete my comment bc I don't know.
Madonna: U don't want this?
Nile Rogers: Money over everything, girl
LOL....the best part of the interview is the royalty payments talk at the end...that man is rolling in it...He truly scored
Not the money -- his explanation makes clear he didn't want to compromise the art. To be able to say "your vision here is wrong, it'll be better like this" rather than holding your tongue to not offend your girlfriend.
@@AllenKnutson 👍👍
"I knew Madonna, I wasn't her kind of guy." Even more respect for him for saying that because given the context of her words, he could have easily made himself look bigger and made it look as if she was basically inviting him to have sex instead of asking why he wasn't hitting on her.
She wasnt his type or physically not attracted to her.
Yet, the characters she went on to have actual sex with in many cases was ridiculous like Dennis Rodman for one, so, no matter how you slice it, it is Niles for the win for not being just another notch on her belt.
@@simplereally6317she just wanted another notch on her belt
The interviewer is freaking annoying. Let the man talk geez! Stop interrupting him every second.
Yes he has to learn how to shut the fuck up! He sounds nervous and excited like a virgin on prom night.. man do your job and let your guest talk!!
Modern day liberal media shit stain
Professionalism. A lost element of many business relationships.
This guy doesn't get the credit he deserves. He should be mentioned in the same breath as N. Michael Walden, Quincy Jones, .... Phile Spector and George Martin. Nile Rodgers is a genius. Check out his work with Al Jarreau.
You just did. He's phenomenal.
I think he is.
Huh? He was in Chic. Please don't mention Quincy, he is not Chic at all!
He DOES get that much credit and respect, though.
Yeah, but you know what? Niles has had what to me would be an ideal career. The musical greats all know who he is, and hugely respect him. He's made total bank with his talents, but could still walk into starbucks and not be mobbed. Fame & notoriety with the broad public are overrated; I'd rather have what he's got.
This journalist is the BEST example of what midia has turned into. WITH HIS SOURCE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. he STILL wants to create a fake headline.
In other words, the Interviewer wants to fu*k Madonna.
Riiiiight like wow fake Harvey Levin wanna be
Exactly . It really irked me the way the interviewer wanted to sell a certain narrative.
Soooo true!
Spoken like a true professional, Nile. To show such self control is almost unheard of in the music industry. I'm glad you didn't do it because I wouldn't have either. Thank you Nile Rodgers.
Why wouldn’t you have?
@@originalbabygal I don't sleep with co-workers and frankly never found Madonna attractive. I would pass on her even if she begged me.
@@evertzinho Mervin the anti-simp
she's gross, I wouldn't either
who is this dude lol
Nile was the hidden hand behind the 80’s!!!
Ikr! Nile Bernard & the Drummer from Chic!!!
The Drummer was on The Power Station etc!
Some people just don’t know!!!
We have background singers who can really sing….. and musicians who are behind the scenes unbeknownst!
@@orlandojohnson5742 Tony Thompson was the drummer
This guy has class.
Good point.
*Sense
i wish all men were like him
@@ZENSIBLE he was asked about a quote from Madonna made public by Madonna herself. It wasn't a secret and not everyone considers talking about sex classless. Madonna asked the man a raunchy question, the interviewer asked him about it and he answered with class. If this were a whte dude, you wouldn't have commented your stupid response, "Period"
@@reddre3995 Ah, the racism of the libs must be injected into every issue.
Much respect, Nile. I admire someone that doesn't just jump into sex and seemingly has scruples.
You clearly do not know much about Nile rodgers. Check out his autobiography.
Despite his super stratospheric success, Nile is so incredibly humble. Its a lesson for all of us.
With an iconic Stratocaster !
I have even more respect for Nile after this interview. The fact that he chose to remain professional with Madonna at th beginning of her career says a lot. She wasn't yet a susperstar, but she was on her way. It also says a lot about how many men have been inside her. I think she associated sex with approval/desirability for a long time in the 80's and 90's.
Well, she lost her mom at 5 and has probably been needy for attention since. But the other thing that made me respect him after this interview was that he had so much confidence in himself and Madonna as an artist that he made that smart business deal that I'm sure his estate will appreciate for many years to come. Class act with brains!
That's 80% of women out there
@@PermanentHigh 80 percent of us lost our moms and are desperate for approval?
@@swaters5127 No, had a bad or no relationship with their fathers at all. A lot of emotional neglect and unresolved daddy issues that lead to promiscuity and using their bodies and sex as a means for male approval
@@PermanentHigh 80 percent?
None of the women I know had negligent/absentee fathers.
So he gets to interview the legendary Niles Rogers and THEN talks over the top of him? WTF?
I'm nearly 55 now. When I was 10/11 years old I thought CHIC was the coolest group ever! NOBODY dressed better, had cooler themes about their songs or what they were doing. The strings were majestic, the Bass was smooth, Rhythm Guitar was great, the Ladies were classy. Everything BEAUTIFUL!!! Rest in Power Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson.
I'm long overdue for a Chic/ Sister Sledge Mashup. #herewego
Need the Nile Roger's and Chic movie....just to tell the story of Le Freak....
@@cjwallace4559
They have a video for years now
CHIC AT THE BUDAKON
jb.shalom
Brother you spoke it to the tee. I saw them live for the first time @ The Front Row Cleveland, Ohio. I was probably 16. I can't add to anything you previously said but Norma Jean Wright, Alfa Anderson and Lucy Martin belted out the lyrics like velvet.
Nile was smart to take nothing upfront and BIG royalty rate on Madonna's "Like A Virgin" album that solid 20 million copies = he's RICH and TALENTED !!
Dozer LA producers are so greedy and arrogant They miss out on good opportunities like this
And he can sleep at night, like a baby
My Lord is this interviewer a disaster. He's like the prequels.
You mean the Disney Sequel trilogy.
The prequels are the best of the star wars movies
@@ulia8h975 so nostalgia has blinded you ?
@@one8hundred1 nah the disney movies are great movies, they just have a pretty bad stories. the prequels were god awful movies that had some great concepts.
Kudos to Nile Rodgers! lesson learned: it doesn't all boil down to sex. have integrity!
Nile seems like the only music producer who isn't a major creep. It's disgusting to hear so many other producers slept with Madonna, that's so unprofessional and inappropriate!!! Nile has class despite being interviewed by a total amateur
The interviewer wouldn't let Nile finish the story without interrupting
Nile was new to Madonna, but Madonna wouldn't have been anything new to Nile. Not only was the guy already a seasoned veteran within the industry by the time of their first meeting; Madonna's questions, insecurities, requests - the whole lot - would've been just another number along the conveyer belt.
The guy is a total powerhouse. It's the work that's important. No producer lasts five decades, and counting, within the music industry without absolute focus and discipline.
Look at his track record.
What else needs to be said?
Interviewer is a pretentious hipster
The bitch is a typical "entertainment journalist" - cliché really.
You Trump freaks are out of your minds bringing politics into every fucking conversation. WTF does liberal or gay have to do with this interview? Fucking idiot.
eatenalive nice name, Diana Ross album? and yeah they're fucking obsessed proving how 'macho' they are lol insecure fucks
Yep, I loved that album of hers! And of course the 'diana' and 'Workin' Overtime' albums she did with Nile!
He's a fuck!
THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA WHOM HE'S INTERVIEWING. NILES RODGERS IS A LIVING LEGEND AND PLEASE TREAT HIM AS SUCH. HE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LEARN HIS CRAFT.
Interviewer seriously needs to learn to listen & when to shut up.
A professional. A gentleman. "Nuff said.
NIle is a great guy and and a great producer.
The interviewer wants the interviewed to confirm the story the interviewer wants to present as his exclusive interview. Hats off to the interviewed for keeping the interviewer on track. This is a perfect interview segment to show how not to do an interview.
You lost me at the interviewees thrice removed from the third cousins on the maternal side
@@charlesnyagah7423 push your mind just a little bit. You’ll be so surprised! No, your brain will not explode and leak out your ear. Chill!
It is honestly so bad, he pushes and Nile has to justify his action like it would be normal for all this planet to want to sleep with Madonna. It's obnoxious
PLEASE interviewer LET THE INTERVIEWEE TALK!!! Stop being soooo thirsty for gossip and allow your guest to deliver their truth! Sounds like to me that Madonna had some very serious self-esteem issues going on during this time. Way to stay professional Niles!!
I think she still does..
They should work together again. Nile is a great Producer. He's made great music with so many artists.
Niles is an amazing musician. So many artists had their biggest hits thanks to this man. This story makes it sound like she slept her way to the hits.
you're actually right. the whole gossiping stuff does feel a little sleazy. madonna actually co wrote a lot of the songs and she is brilliant.. the whole gossiping thing feels uncomfortable
Maybe because that's what she did. If she felt that was a winning strategy for her, then good on her.
I believe she did in some ways.
One guy is really smart and has a whole life experience, the other guy never will
Also, when Sex comes in to a working Relationship it can change it negatively.
Or positively
I would recommend for everyone to see the documentary on Nile Rogers from the TV show "UNSUNG". This man contributed a TREMENDOUS amount of music and joy to the world, but in my opinion, he is tragically underrated and under appreciated. I personally would like to thank you (Nile Rogers) for all you have done!
Reason is he's not the type to want to be out and about and in scandals or part of tabloid fodder. But he's very well respected by artists and musicians in the industry.
Isn't that the story of Black people in general. Blacks created everything gets no credit and white people get all the praises from
rare in these days would we hear gentlemen like nile rodgers.
That's what I want to say.
Omg let him finish the god damn story! Holy shit!
😰🙀😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nile rodgers - pure class, talent and an amazing person! Madonna- haha, I dont think too many people really like her much anymore- she was cool in the 80s and 90s - shes like the evil queen "Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" nowadays
We have Nile Rodgers to thank for so much great music! LEGEND!
100% Professionalism.
The best interviewers let their subject shine....this guy went to the Jimmy Fallon school of obnoxious annoyance.
Someone with integrity attempting to explain the concept to someone who just can’t grasp it!
I just read a spot about Nile in Guitar Player & sought this out.
This guy is great I have to say.
He deserves nothing but total respect & sure has mine.
Nile Rogers=True Professional. He was exactly who Madonna had needed to work with at that specific point in her career.
Yep...he treated her like a professional and saw her genius
Nile is a man of sheer class. I'd never eat dinner at a public toilet either.
Nile Rodgers is a class guy !
Nile Rodgers is such a talented, admirable person in so many ways, obviously intelligent, articulate, humble, respectful and professional.
Niles Is So Classy. Love his playing and attitude.
+Al Ward he gave the Thompson Twins Future Days album a great feel. more accessible sound than their niche music of previous albums.
So much respect to you man, proves that men still have class and respect for women. Some men still have mothers and sisters that are on their mind.
Yes, so much class and respect he went to the press with a clearly private story to brag about a chance with her, at the same time making himself look all decent and her trampy.
Its women that don't respect themselves and men.
Nile is always a good interview, if you let him speak. This guy for some reason feels the need to speak more than the interviewee.
It seems that many of the artist felt the same about Nile because many of them achieved big success however, they didn't repeat the success. I never understood that. Especially Diana Ross, who didn't write at all needed Nile because her next album didn't do that well and i am saying that lightly. Nile was and still is a musical beast! Love him still.
Wow he blew me away with that never knew that.This guy living off 80's money.
Saw Niles and Chic open up for Duran......made sure I got to the show early to see him....it was so worth it....a true legend.
Absolutely the coolest guy on the planet.
I really like Nile Rodgers’ productions with all the artists he produced.
Four decades of GREAT music! Nile Rodgers is *That Dude.*
Great guitar player and props for him for not making his professional relationship with Madonna a personal one.
How dare the interviewer to talk to Niles Rodgers like that. Jesus. HuffPo really?
To Hardtechnoboy, I read where Nile said he never wanted to get married or have kids. He said he found a woman who didn't want kids and he said, okay, then you're my girlfriend. They live a very private life.
We sold 21 million records...it was like, Ooops! lol
Geez
$21,000,000,000.00. X $10.00
$210,000,000,000.00 that's conservative. Could be $18.00
CAPITALISM @ BEST
jb
LOOK U IDIOT jb
21,000,000 units X $10.00
$210,000,000,000.00
U idiot now that's conservative
COULD be @ $18.00
jb
To the interviewer, hope you learned from this humbling experience.
Nile: SO LET ME FINISH THE STORY😂😂😂😂 best part of the interview👏👏👏👏….these talking head journalists always trying to get the main course before the appetizer…..Nile is a professional & hit maker to the stars ✨not his first rodeo, Madonna young, immature & starting to make a name for herself in one of the most evil male driven industries on earth, the music industry….
And to think, if Bernard Edwards were still alive he would be right there with him, like Jam and Lewis. Rip Bernard 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🎸🎸
Brilliant bass player, I enjoy strapping on my musicman stingray and playing some of his bass lines. Another bass player I enjoy is George Murray (David Bowie's old bass player). I miss that kind of music, I can't remember the last time I listened to the charts and heard a good song with great musicianship.
Couldn’t have said it better! CHIC WAS AN AWESOME GROUP! THE DRUMMER WAS LEGEND TOO! Prob underrated at times!?
Daaaaammm for real
super guy. I mean Nile Rodgers.
typical ignorant racist trash deplorable
You mean he's not some blue eyed devil that stole black artist royalties? You're a fucking piece of shit!
What an absolute king.
I’m pleased with Nile Rodgers for telling this idiotic interviewer “let me finish”. Omg that was so awful, why keep interrupting when he’s telling the story? Can only be one possible reason, the interviewer wants to make it about himself. After you ask a question shut up and let the other person finish. There’s only one legend involved in this interview and a nobody, yet mr nobody wants us to hear him talk.
And he said it so nicely too.
The interviewer was trying to put words in Nile’s mouth. Being manipulative
The music biz is so astoundingly inept for the most part, but when Nile Rodgers tells you he's gonna sell 5 million records with Madonna or whoever it is.....you need to listen. Look how many records Chic sold for Atlantic on a relatively unknown band at the time. And that was just Chic warming up!
You can tell the interviewer is a Madonna fanboi the way he keeps talking about her and how great he thinks she is. Embarrassing seeing people that age still gushing over celebs.
I like the line, “I’m not her kinda guy”. It has that Frank Costanza / Buddy Rich feel to it! 🤪
A good, humble & professional man, respect. 🙏
👍
Thank you Nile for not penetrating that petri dish of a womb. Class act.
+sda1225 LMAO!!! Good one!!!!
Yessss
His justification for keeping Madonna at bay was sound. She would have been the boss if he had succumbed. He probably had too many women anyway. Good looking guy.
Nile Rodgers is a guitar and music genius. He does it without shredding a note and too many guitarist sound too much alike. Nile is as fresh , organic and unlike anything else like an ice cold raw clam with a hit of Tabasco and a squeeze of lemon.
I'm sure Nile as an artist saw her as an instrument, a very good instrument. You don't fuck up your instruments.
Sometimes the interviewee has to tell the interviewer "Quit talking over me,you asked a question,let me answer it."
Nile knows that “you don’t shit where you eat”
Terrible interviewer. Get rid of him.
Joseph M Please.
If the interviewer would shut up, he would learn a lot more. Nile was pretty nice to him even when he had to tell him to stop talking.
As a professional musician for 32 years, there is so much merit to producers not banging the artists. Objectivity can’t be skewed.
Nile Rodgers is a class act without or with Madonna. Straight up! 🤎
Dude: what was that like?
Nile: it's my job
This interviewer is exactly the kind of person to hit on Madonna.
1:40 "She was pretty beautiful *_aT_* *th3* _bEGiNInG_ *_oF_* _HeR_ *_CarRER_* "
@@frankirons9337 She's never been that pretty tbh
@@tshidi129 I'm just saying that what the interviewer said was kinda sleazy, nothing more, nothing less.
Mr. Rogers is Music ROYALTY, just a Brilliant Man. Thank You for countless HITS Sir. Great Interview
This dude is tough af. He resisted Madonna. He could have smashed her but he was like nope! Great work dude 😏👍
It’s rude to keep interrupting Mr. Rodgers. Let the man speak !!
interviewer person.Learn to be a better listener. It is ok to not be "on" for every second. :)O
Just saw him at LAX
Hasn't aged a day
Looks exactly the same as in this interview
He smiled and shook my hand
"We sold 21 million records" shame nobody will do that anymore in today's age of getting free songs :(
referral madness you're a piece of shit.
Good for him. I had no idea he was behind so many hits. He sounds like a sound business man, too. A true professional.
The list is endless, even the little known stuff is worth it every time✨
After 'like a virgin' Madonna was given creative control of her music and she became a producer - she chose to work with old friend and collaborator Stephen Bray and after 'Live to Tell' she also chose Patrick Leanord - that is the reason she didn't work with Rodgers again - she didn't want to, and her label no longer were calling the shots.
what a professional, and i’m not taking about the interviewer.
A true gentleman. A real man. Respect ✊🏽
He's a real Man and Gentleman. I read his autobiography and his life has been extraordinary
Nile Rogers is such a cool genius dude.
"What was that like?" Such a hard hitting,original question
What a well spoken gentleman Mr. Rodgers is.
🙄
I wish more people would allow for conversations to involve paragraphs instead of bullet points. Good on Mr. Rodgers to insist on the time to finish his paragraph.