Spotify is branching out from piping your favorite Diplo track into your ears to piping Diplo's thoughts on student debt through your headphones instead. Clarify, a new venture between Spotify and Mic, will feature "weekly audio and video programming on Tuesdays through Election Day" including "musicians [talking] about millennial issues," Politico reports. First up: Student debt.
Comedian Baratunde Thurston moderates with millennial-friendly facts: For instance, the average student debt is money that could be put toward a car, retirement, "or [used to] watch Netflix for 300 years." His first guest, Diplo, might not exactly be the typical American suffering from student debt — the DJ is worth an estimated $15 million — but before he made it big, Diplo recalled the oppressive weight of debt when he was attending Temple University in Philadelphia. "I took out loans, I borrowed money from my family, I had jobs all the time. Paying rent and just buying food is difficult. That's the most difficult thing," Diplo told Thurston.
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