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The drug industry brought in an estimated 7 to $12 billion a year and that was of 1981 miami. that is a lot of trickle down. one of the most successful documentaries in the history of film is "cocaine cowboys" that tells that story. the film, made my these guys, alfred spellman and billy corbin. so things were in decline. cocaine sort of saved the city? >> we'd say so. am i going to get in trouble for it? yes, but by 1981 you had a murder rate. you had 635 homicides here and 25% of those bodies had automatic weapons bullets. >> right. we talk about the uncomfortable reality of where a lot of t...

And then it is. so you've been here how many years now? >> 15 years. >> 15 years. you're a floridian. >> yeah. >> when i was young, this man was a role model, an ideal, a roadmap for bad behavior. his music, it turned out, was the soundtrack for most of my life. still is. james osterburg of muskegon, michigan, known still all over the world as iggy pop. >> you grew up in michigan, you've lived in new york for a long period of time. >> i went from michigan to london. i went from london to hollywood, which was rough. hollywood to berlin, which was great. back to london. and new york from '79 to ...

Estimated 7 to $12 billion a year and that's of 1981 money. that is a lot of trickle down. one of the most successful documentaries in the history of film is "cocaine cowboys" that tells that story. the film made by these guys, alfred spellman and billy corbin. >> so things were in decline. cocaine sort of saved the city? >> we'd say so. am i going to get in trouble for it? >> yes. >> you had a murder rate. 25% of those bodies had automatic weapons bullets. >> right. >> we talk about the uncomfortable reality of where a lot of modern miami came from over something you just have to hit hard in ...

>> enormous african-american and caribbean community. how come the state keeps electing conservative white guys? >> you have a whole quiet community. you didn't get them excited about voting. >> it is the opposite of get out the vote program. it is don't bother to vote. >> don't bother to vote. african-americans voted at 20%. if we would have voted at 50%, charlotte gris would have won the governor's race. >> if you were selling miami to somebody, what's the best thing about miami? >> best weather. >> how do you handle the cold if you have to tour or something and you have to spin a week or tw...

Down. >> there's another bubble, and the question is how long will it last? >> there's history and there's the more immediate needs of the present. i need food presently and perhaps some fine bourbon, and when i need good food in a city not my own, more and more these days i call somebody if they weren't good at enough things already has become something of an expert on good food around the world. every time i check instagram you're eating with one of my culinary heros. you're here and he seems to like you better than me. i'm here with ahmir-khalib thompson, otherwise known as questlove. >> yo...