WEBVTT - Questlove Reaches Into The Mailbag & Answers - August 6

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<v Speaker 1>Quest Love Show is a production of iHeartRadio. What's going on?

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<v Speaker 2>This is cousin Jake, one of the producers of The

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<v Speaker 2>Questlove Show. We are back here for a mini episode

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<v Speaker 2>with the Man, the Myth, the Legend Questlove.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, we've been taping up a storm lately. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>our dedicated readers have been sending in questions. Encourage everyone

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<v Speaker 2>you know. Go to Questlove Supreme, the old name of

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<v Speaker 2>the podcast dot com. There's a great contact us. You

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<v Speaker 2>can also you can DM the QLs channel not a

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<v Speaker 2>mere direct or. You can leave us a thoughtful comment

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<v Speaker 2>on YouTube. We'll try to get the good ones answered.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, we got one actually today. So one of

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<v Speaker 2>our new episodes is with DJ Muggs of Cypress.

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<v Speaker 1>Hill the Black Sunday comment.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no oka, no, I like no hate, like people

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<v Speaker 2>have been I hate.

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<v Speaker 3>The clip makes it seem like Black Sunday blew my mind.

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<v Speaker 3>When I was telling the Han Soul story, I meant

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<v Speaker 3>to say the debut.

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<v Speaker 1>Album, oh, the self titled, but.

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<v Speaker 3>I was telling him that I got hired when Black

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<v Speaker 3>Sunday was finished.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, however, and people were.

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<v Speaker 3>Like, I think you met the debut record and that

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<v Speaker 3>was that's the thing I wanted to make clear that

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<v Speaker 3>when I'm talking about how my mind was blown. Han

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<v Speaker 3>Soul played us Me and Tuik then ninety one the title.

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<v Speaker 2>Interesting what was funny too? And you know there's a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of things, and this happens when you're doing podcasts

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<v Speaker 2>like Mugs in the clip that by the time you

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<v Speaker 2>hear this, the animation's out. And thank you by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>you put up all our animations in your stories. The

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<v Speaker 2>other day you just went ham.

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<v Speaker 1>It's my favorite thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, shout out to Nick. But he had mentioned that

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<v Speaker 2>funk Master Flex when he was doing a and R

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<v Speaker 2>almost signed jump Around by House of Pain on a

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<v Speaker 2>single deal. Mugs had attributed Flex to being at priority records.

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<v Speaker 2>He was at profile like things happen, you know, that's

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<v Speaker 2>the great thing of oral histories. But so I hear

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<v Speaker 2>you on the clip, it's still getting a lot of love.

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<v Speaker 2>Mugs is absolutely getting his flowers. That was an amazing episode.

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<v Speaker 2>It touched on some of your overlapping history back to

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<v Speaker 2>rough House and Studio four. But here's the question, and

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<v Speaker 2>this is from sinestat Canal on YouTube. I butchered that. Apologies.

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<v Speaker 2>DJ Muggs is a legend. I would say he originated

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<v Speaker 2>the whole psychedelic, dark cinematic beats, possibly even before Rizza.

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<v Speaker 2>Many great producers and hard beats came before, but I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like Muggs was the one who brought that special

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<v Speaker 2>feeling starting with Black Sunday and especially Temples of Boom.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm interested in Questlov who knows music history so much better,

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<v Speaker 2>would agree, So I just wanted, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I will say that probably, you know, hip hop's first

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<v Speaker 3>introduction to just atonal music. You know, I think we

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<v Speaker 3>can all pretty much safely say like public enemies work

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<v Speaker 3>and just really introducing like really really dark musical backdrops

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<v Speaker 3>is you know, before public Darman, it was like the

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<v Speaker 3>goal was to rock the party, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>and you use like the jam of the moment. And

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<v Speaker 3>of course I would say that Mugs pretty much and

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<v Speaker 3>you know, my knowlogy, I always say that eighty seven

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<v Speaker 3>to ninety two was the crack period and then ninety

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<v Speaker 3>two to ninety seven was the Weed period, and so

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<v Speaker 3>Mugs basically just whittled it down to something very specific.

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<v Speaker 3>So I will indeed say I think that Mugs' is work.

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<v Speaker 3>And also my theory of like there's a person that's

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<v Speaker 3>the pioneer, and then the person comes right behind and

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<v Speaker 3>really nails it. So I agree one hundred percent that

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<v Speaker 3>I do believe that Mugs was the flag planner of

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<v Speaker 3>a certain type of dusty, dark musical backdrop that later

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<v Speaker 3>the Rizon came in and totally just you know, knocked

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<v Speaker 3>out the part and kind of made his you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I mean I know those guys, especially through

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<v Speaker 2>like the Soul Assassin's compilations, there's a lot of overlapping

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<v Speaker 2>history and just like peer respect and.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's why we were taking members fit so well.

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<v Speaker 3>Grandmasters, Yeah, it fits so well on those particular albums.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think did he not do he did an

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<v Speaker 1>album with the Ji Yeah, Grandmasters? Yeh yeah, that's yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, we'll keep it in the hip hop space.

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<v Speaker 2>Since we went there, we'll go to Steve. Can you

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<v Speaker 2>explain a little bit more about Justin Warfield and quote

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<v Speaker 2>my field trip to Planet nine that was name dropped

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<v Speaker 2>on Phrenology that came out of nowhere as well, Because

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<v Speaker 2>I will say this and you probably don't know this, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>Justin is always messing with Q less.

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<v Speaker 3>Shout out to Justin, you know, really it's just positioning

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<v Speaker 3>what I had Ursula rucket do.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so what's being referred to is ah Man.

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<v Speaker 3>I hate this to this day that I made a

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<v Speaker 3>banger song for Fantastic Volume two, like my four contributions

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<v Speaker 3>to Fantastic Volume two, well, namely the one that did

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<v Speaker 3>make it, which was tell Me with di'angelo, that's.

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<v Speaker 1>One of them, and there were.

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<v Speaker 3>Two that didn't make it that feature Tarik Ryman. And

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<v Speaker 3>then there was a fourth song that was based on

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<v Speaker 3>this breakbeat called.

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<v Speaker 1>Disco Tech Soul and Disco Tech's Soul.

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<v Speaker 3>Hip hop fans would know this as the drums of

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<v Speaker 3>Big Daddy Kane's The Wrath of Kane.

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<v Speaker 1>They're very fast drum break and it was a little

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<v Speaker 1>too fast I was trying to by Ricky Williams.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And so the deal is, like, because Tarik is

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<v Speaker 3>always the MC in my head when I'm creating stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, Tarika is kind of prime for a speed

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<v Speaker 3>rap and you know he comes from the the Iambic

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<v Speaker 3>contemporary Yeah, Coolgie Wrap and the Cane Dudu like that,

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<v Speaker 3>Like that's his zone. And so when I made it,

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<v Speaker 3>Dylan wanted it. If you look up in one of

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<v Speaker 3>those like slum Village Lost Scrolls thing. They put up

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<v Speaker 3>a snippet of it, so that music that.

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<v Speaker 1>Is used on the roll.

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<v Speaker 3>Call portion of Phrenology in which all those rappers are

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<v Speaker 3>being named started off as a slum village song. I

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<v Speaker 3>believe if you look up the Lost Scrolls album or whatever,

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<v Speaker 3>it's Buster Rhymes and slum Village, and it's like if

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<v Speaker 3>you're making the money and they're making a swing and

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<v Speaker 3>we're doing our thing, I mean, living it up. That's

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<v Speaker 3>what it's called. It's called living it up. It did

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<v Speaker 3>make fantastic Volume two. So then I hit up Dylan

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<v Speaker 3>and I was like, can I take that track back?

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<v Speaker 3>And I took it back. Tari didn't have nothing for it,

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<v Speaker 3>and we had to turn in Phrenology like in a week,

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<v Speaker 3>and and we're already holding out for a Mary Baraka

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<v Speaker 3>to write something in the way of things. Water of

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<v Speaker 3>course being the thirteen minute piece that it was took

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<v Speaker 3>like at least three days to do. Fun fact like

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<v Speaker 3>Water at the time when Russell Elevado just got finished

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<v Speaker 3>with Black Delicious Blazing Arrow album and the Breathe song,

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<v Speaker 3>the song at the end with like.

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<v Speaker 2>Zach and saw woof three songs in one right.

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<v Speaker 3>So I was there for that and there for watching

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<v Speaker 3>Russ put his magic on it. And it's all that

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<v Speaker 3>stuff is analog, it's not you know, that was electric Lady.

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<v Speaker 1>That was electric Lady.

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<v Speaker 3>So you know, Russ has all his tools out and everything,

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<v Speaker 3>and like though just one echo could take him like

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<v Speaker 3>forty minutes to get perfectly, and we have to the

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<v Speaker 3>way it was crafted.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I sat there.

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<v Speaker 3>Doing that session, like yo, this is what I want

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<v Speaker 3>for water, and so we put water together. But as

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<v Speaker 3>far as the roll call thing is, I wanted Ursula

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<v Speaker 3>to just name drop all rappers' names, kind of the

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<v Speaker 3>way that Samuel Jackson.

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<v Speaker 1>Did in the Do the Right Thing roll Call.

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<v Speaker 3>We Yet we love radio love ro call, you know

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<v Speaker 3>Gladays Knight and the Pips, the Jackson's Prince and Da

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<v Speaker 3>Da Da dah.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's what I wanted her to do.

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<v Speaker 3>Weird enough, I tried that idea again two years later

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<v Speaker 3>when Tarika and I flew down to Miami to work

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<v Speaker 3>with Scott Storch, and I was.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, well, damn.

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<v Speaker 3>I gave the Slum Village trackaway as an interlude on

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<v Speaker 3>the Phrenology record, and then I thought, well, since I

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<v Speaker 3>was thinking of Do the Right Thing, why not just

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<v Speaker 3>literally recreate the drum break from the Do the Right

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<v Speaker 3>Thing roll call thing, which we did, and that should

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<v Speaker 3>have been our song. Someone decided to give it to

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<v Speaker 3>his girlfriend and that song is called Lighters Up by

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<v Speaker 3>Little Kim, So the Lighter is Up thing with the

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<v Speaker 3>little deep, the little simple thing that was kind of

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<v Speaker 3>the music backdrop of what Samuel Jackson was talking about

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<v Speaker 3>on his roll call thing.

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<v Speaker 1>So once again I tried to do it again.

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<v Speaker 3>But to answer your question, why was and Justin Warfield

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<v Speaker 3>the last thing you heard, simply because he's the letter

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<v Speaker 3>W and he was the last name on the list.

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<v Speaker 3>So I had Ego Trip's book of rap lists, and

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<v Speaker 3>it took me like an hour to like write down

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<v Speaker 3>every name that was inside of both of those Ego

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<v Speaker 3>Trip books. And I just gave it to Ursula Rucker

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<v Speaker 3>and she just read one track of like A through

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<v Speaker 3>f the next one F through and Warfield just happened to.

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<v Speaker 1>Be the last name on track number five.

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<v Speaker 3>And when it stood out, I tried to because we

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<v Speaker 3>weren't doing pro tools, it would have been easier for

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<v Speaker 3>me to just shift it inside the song, so it

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<v Speaker 3>didn't have an ending, but we did it on analog

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<v Speaker 3>and it would have taken like fifteen minutes for me

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<v Speaker 3>to figure out a proper delay to slide it back.

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<v Speaker 3>Because even though I thought, like, I wonder if he

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<v Speaker 3>thinks like that's a dig or a diss like and

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<v Speaker 3>Justin Warfield, but no.

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<v Speaker 1>He DMed me was like, hey, why was I singled

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<v Speaker 1>out like that?

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<v Speaker 3>I was just like, your name is last on this, bro, So.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like there's some good Justin Warfield talk. At

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the Prince Paul Classic episode of QLs two.

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<v Speaker 1>Season other Victor, You're steal my shit.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, It's funny you mentioned slum Village. We got a

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<v Speaker 2>question too, and I'm very curious myself, Like, I know

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<v Speaker 2>you had a working relationship with BB obviously Dila did

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<v Speaker 2>as well. What is your relationship to the creation of

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<v Speaker 2>the Welcome to Detroit album?

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<v Speaker 1>Anny Ah?

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<v Speaker 3>And this is from Rod by the way, I consider

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<v Speaker 3>you know, you know it's weird. You know, it's better

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<v Speaker 3>than being on anything that Dyla created or even around.

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<v Speaker 1>I happen to know that I was first to hear

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<v Speaker 1>like seven of the songs.

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<v Speaker 3>It's almost more of a bragging right, instead of saying like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm on this shit to say I was the first

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<v Speaker 3>to hear it. I'm not on the record, but you

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<v Speaker 3>know what I remember. The most legendary Slum Village show

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<v Speaker 3>of all time is a show that happens in Los

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<v Speaker 3>Angeles when dyl at the last minute decides, you know what,

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<v Speaker 3>We're gonna go rogue and do less songs on the

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<v Speaker 3>playback machine than dat and I'm gonna bring up to

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<v Speaker 3>NBC three thousands, and so someone has the complete show

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<v Speaker 3>on tape. I've seen maybe five minutes of it, but

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<v Speaker 3>I've seen a lot of the sound check. And so

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<v Speaker 3>this is also the time period in which the day before,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe two days before the Okay Player two thousand tour

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<v Speaker 3>is at the House of Blues, and so all three

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<v Speaker 3>Slum Village members are performing together with the roots backing

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<v Speaker 3>them up, and during sound check, Dyla starts rocking what

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<v Speaker 3>I would call the Ohio Players interlude, which is like,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, really, it's it's Juni Morrison on Ecstasies again.

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<v Speaker 1>No no boom, boom boom.

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<v Speaker 3>It's one of those interludes on Welcome to Detroit, like

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<v Speaker 3>he would play your beat and that shit would sit

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<v Speaker 3>in your head for like months at a time. I

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<v Speaker 3>begged and begged and begged and beg like, Yo, like

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<v Speaker 3>that beat, I gotta hear that beat again.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, all right, I'm gonna put it on the

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<v Speaker 1>news one. And so when he finally came to the studio,

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<v Speaker 1>I will.

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<v Speaker 3>Say that this is at the very beginning, the very

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<v Speaker 3>beginning of what will eventually be Electric Circus.

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<v Speaker 1>Electric Circus was kind of like.

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<v Speaker 3>A year and not a year and a half, like

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<v Speaker 3>a year and seven months in the making, So I

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<v Speaker 3>think the I don't know, the very first session was

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<v Speaker 3>for Electric Circus. Like we had a lot of like

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<v Speaker 3>amazing songs that like Common and Dyla.

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<v Speaker 1>Just through to the floor.

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<v Speaker 3>Like it had to be super weird for it to

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<v Speaker 3>make it to the finish line. So the first twenty

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<v Speaker 3>songs like really good, normal, normal shit.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, and there's a vision board in place, right, like

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<v Speaker 2>you know what you're trying to do well.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not saying like, Okay, I'm gonna take a back seat,

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<v Speaker 3>but I know if I'm really gonna be honest. Stan

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<v Speaker 3>Conia had us a little worried because all we knew

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<v Speaker 3>was like whatever comes next after stainkne you ever, like

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<v Speaker 3>miss a train as it leaves the station and you

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<v Speaker 3>wait at the platform, you got to wait like eight

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<v Speaker 3>minutes for the next train to come. So it's almost

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<v Speaker 3>like if we're on those tracks and we know that

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<v Speaker 3>a new train is coming to eight minutes and we

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<v Speaker 3>better run our asses off to the next station to

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<v Speaker 3>not get hit.

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<v Speaker 1>After Stanconia, and we and this includes D'Angelo, like we

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<v Speaker 1>were so jarred.

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<v Speaker 3>Over the radical rock star change that Stanconia was from

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<v Speaker 3>a Quimini that we were basically like, dude, we're almost

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<v Speaker 3>certain that whatever is going to come after Stanconia is

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<v Speaker 3>going to be even weirder than that shit. It's almost

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<v Speaker 3>like we all knew we better come with our most

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<v Speaker 3>radical shit because and this is what starts. I know

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<v Speaker 3>for fact that a thousand deaths for di'angelo was the

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<v Speaker 3>immediate reaction of, oh, I better come with it. And

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<v Speaker 3>I still maintain that listening to the Roots Come Alive,

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<v Speaker 3>which is such a slow live record, like when you

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<v Speaker 3>listen to the next movement, it's so slow, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>And granted I was also like two hundred pounds heavier

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<v Speaker 3>than so it's almost like the sluggish and the slowest

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<v Speaker 3>by that point, you know, I lost like one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>pounds and so three years of doing that, I was

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<v Speaker 3>just like, I want to do a faster record.

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<v Speaker 1>So my mind for.

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<v Speaker 3>Knowlogy was the hey, let's do a more energetic record

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<v Speaker 3>so that when we go on stage, like we could

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<v Speaker 3>really rock out. And you know, and I think common also,

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<v Speaker 3>and this is kind of when him and Erica were

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<v Speaker 3>making an official so he's probably privy to some stuff

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<v Speaker 3>that we weren't.

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<v Speaker 1>All I know is that and Dila was the last one.

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<v Speaker 3>Dila was like, you know cause by two thousand, I

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<v Speaker 3>will probably say I think when he here butterflies or

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<v Speaker 3>like something like not in the camp. Yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>first it was like music, Sonny, and it was almost like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>like wait, this sound is catching on to the world,

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<v Speaker 3>like you know, messed up drums and all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>So even then I think his reaction was like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna do the opposite of that shit. And literally

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<v Speaker 3>he's like no more, two thousand, no more. Like he

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<v Speaker 3>was getting like the straight Detroit like eight o eight

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<v Speaker 3>nine oh nine, and we're starting from scratch. And so

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<v Speaker 3>it took about twenty songs before like some weird shit

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<v Speaker 3>started to happen, and then they were like, this is

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<v Speaker 3>where we're going. I was kind of protesting a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit because I figure that at the end of the

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<v Speaker 3>day the people just be like, ah, I'm mere, this

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<v Speaker 3>is you know, a.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>But to answer that question, yeah, Day one of Electric Circus,

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<v Speaker 3>he plays six or seven of the Welcome to Detroit

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<v Speaker 3>songs and I don't know, I just consider it myself like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I was the first to hear that.

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<v Speaker 2>So ye had the earliest accent.

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<v Speaker 1>That to me is better than Hey, I'm on that.

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<v Speaker 2>So we're gonna end on a funny note or a

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<v Speaker 2>different non musical note. This is from Allen, who I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like, keep submitting questions, but Alan, they are all great.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to ask this, he says, like quest love

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<v Speaker 2>no Philly accent, others have it? Did you ever have

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<v Speaker 2>to work on it?

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<v Speaker 1>The cochutin is real.

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<v Speaker 3>I was aware that I didn't talk like Philadelphians, probably

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<v Speaker 3>by age five, when like I remember the first time,

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<v Speaker 3>like I went outside to play min got go outside

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<v Speaker 3>to play okay steal you know, and it resulted in

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<v Speaker 3>like my first fist fight, and my first fist fight

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<v Speaker 3>was a tie between like like my hair was unusually

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<v Speaker 3>like there were afros, and then like my hair was

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<v Speaker 3>like a lion's man. Like there's some afros that are

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<v Speaker 3>just like hard froze, and then there's some afros that

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<v Speaker 3>are so heavy that it makes me look like whatever

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<v Speaker 3>that monster figure is and mooney Tunes like up but

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<v Speaker 3>you know, like it's like the orange figure in uh

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<v Speaker 3>Looney Tunes like that person. So just the whole like mom,

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<v Speaker 3>cut my hair, cut my hair, the kids are making

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<v Speaker 3>fun of me, and then you know, like me just

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<v Speaker 3>not because I was only the only non music show

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<v Speaker 3>I was allowed to watch was PBS, which at the

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<v Speaker 3>time was working backwards Zoom Electric Company, Mister Rogers Neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 3>and Sesame Street.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'll probably say that maybe.

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<v Speaker 3>Taking in that much Jim Henson, it starts to wear

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<v Speaker 3>off on you were suddenly you're avore something like this.

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<v Speaker 3>And so I would come up the street and I

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<v Speaker 3>got made fun of because I would say, hey, guys,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, and then every time I go on, people be.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, hey, guys, how are you doing straight frame.

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<v Speaker 3>Like whatever Grover or Kermit talks like yeah. So I

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<v Speaker 3>got relentlessly teased for just my happy Hey, guy's how

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<v Speaker 3>you doing? And it was kind of the seeds of

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<v Speaker 3>rock yim nobody smiling level of the hood.

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<v Speaker 1>So that ended quickly.

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<v Speaker 3>So my mom was wise enough to be like, you're

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<v Speaker 3>not going outside, just listening to those records, and so

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<v Speaker 3>me taking on all those records as a result of

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<v Speaker 3>me not going outside.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think hanging with Tarik. Tarik is the first

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<v Speaker 1>person in.

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<v Speaker 3>My life that like one, he never judged me, so

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<v Speaker 3>to get past the whole making fun of the holes

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<v Speaker 3>in his jeans or like not knowing like guys, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>doing this on purpose, like you could show your knees

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<v Speaker 3>like they didn't know like that level of fashion and whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>And so Treik was the dude that was take me

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<v Speaker 3>around the way, and I don't know I'm catching on to.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that's when like I really just went heavy

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<v Speaker 3>on join.

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<v Speaker 2>It's almost it just wore off of me. So Tarika

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<v Speaker 2>is my favorite Philly accent. I'm gonna end with a

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<v Speaker 2>little aside, and what is the origin story of two fifteen?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I know it's a play on two one.

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<v Speaker 1>Five fine, or he'll say pound or twenty one pound.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, please, if you have a mailbag question, send it

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<v Speaker 2>to Like I said, questlov Supreme dot Com dm us

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<v Speaker 2>on ig at the week Answer. We engage all, we

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<v Speaker 2>read it all and the questions are great and honestly

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<v Speaker 2>they these episodes do really well and shout out to

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<v Speaker 2>open Mike Eagle. He obviously is part of this dude.

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<v Speaker 3>They I will actually say I can get more feedback

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<v Speaker 3>from the miniature episodes than from the real joints, which

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, okay, who knew?

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<v Speaker 2>So so all right everyone until the next time Peace

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