WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Ledisi 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:10.000 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.160 Welcome to Quest Love Supreme. Neil's Quest five. We have 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.639 Teams Supreme with us. This is a morning episode of 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.759 Quest Love Supreme. So it would be very interesting to 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.160 see how the energy is this morning, because you know 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:25.560 how you doing. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.360 Tries you ready to go? 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.480 That's an instant Jiff right there. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.680 I think it's Kiff. It's not Jif. Steve is Jip. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:45.000 Jip is a peanut butter bro yo man before Money died. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.559 Before he passed, he told me it was Jiff. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.599 Hey man, it's just like the thing. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.760 Come on, man, draw draws. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.440 I get it all right, all right, I'll roll with 0:00:59.480 --> 0:00:59.840 the mob. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.480 Call the creator of the gift. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.360 The creator of the gift, like he was one of 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.920 the early people to die in the pandemic. But the 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.760 last thing we did together some awards thing, and I 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:12.320 asked him. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.720 I didn't even ask him, he says Jim. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.360 I was like, how do you know? I was going 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.720 to ask you? Like I get asked this one hundred 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.760 times a day. But then he also said I should 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:22.360 have said. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.680 Gift, but yeah, or used a jay if he wanted it. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:28.600 I get it. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.000 It's above him now, so you know he's not here, 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.000 so he's. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:32.560 Above us now. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:41.400 He's oh god, all right, So Bill, how you doing? Man? 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.880 I just I just googled it said. He called it 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.640 a gift with a soft g. Choosy developers, he said, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.840 choose Jiff. This was, of course, a play on the 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.840 peanut butter brand Jeff's line. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.760 Choosy mothers, choose Jeff. That's all. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.600 And the Internet never lies, So I'm going gift. I'm fine, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.120 by the way, thank you very much for asking. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:06.520 Well, and thank you and Steve. Yes, I'm good, Fante. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.680 I'm good, Man, I'm good. Been working. Men just did something, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.359 but it said, yeah, what are you working on? I 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.000 don't know how much I'm a livinged to say, so 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.560 I let William Bill. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.320 I'll explain what it happened once. Tell us. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.440 What it happened was Sponte and his producing partner Zoe 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.679 have created a jam for the children that will air 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:32.560 sometime in September by very famous, fantastic artist on this 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.080 films today. But we're not allowed to say who that 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.880 person is other than it's gonna be awesome. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.480 Wait, Fante wrote an Elmo jam. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.560 Yeah, I've been right, I've been writing. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.600 Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I will say that our guests today, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.440 what's an understatement to say that she is a monster talent, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.400 as talented as they come. Uh, she's an unworldly singer, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.120 one of the you know, there's there's people that ooze 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:09.560 with charisma, and I mean I've probably have been. Yeah, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.160 I think we're our careers are borderline neck and neck. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.239 So since the Roots have been. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.560 Years older, but that's okay. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.480 Yeah, but like I just started late. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:26.760 Okay, so our guest started when she was two years old, Okay, anyway, Yeah, no, 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.600 I'll say that, even if my memory serves me correct, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.800 whenever the Roots would come to the Bay Area, I 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.360 believe that this person has been kind of a presence 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.280 in the entirety of my career. And even from the 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.800 first moment we've laid eyes on her, like just absolute charisma, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.440 Like she owned the stage and that's that's something that 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.880 you can't find anywhere pretty much in entertainment. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:53.960 Like that's a special gift. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.440 As of now, as we speak, her eleventh album, entitled 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.360 Good Life, has just been released. By the time it 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.400 gets on the air, it should have been out by then. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.200 So in addition to a Grammy Award winning music career 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.040 in multiple genres, he's also an actress of stage screen, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.280 don't forget, an author, an educator, and an advocate for others. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.640 And this is a long time coming. So welcome to 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.559 q LS today we have let usy welcome to question. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.680 Thank you so much. What that means a lot just 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.279 hearing you talk about me because I see you DJing 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.599 all the time. You know, I would always go to 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.279 your shows. That's like one of my favorite things. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.120 I know. This is the thing. As long as we've 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.880 known each other, like, we've never had a moment to 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.680 really just chop it up like in every real way. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.839 So this is almost like our first real in depth conversation, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.600 even though you know, again it's it's been several decades 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.840 and you know this is a long time coming. Uh well, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.760 I'll ask you because you know today's is the what 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.960 I say, the birth day of your new album. Do 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.599 you still get excited about these things as if it 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.040 were like your children out in the world, or like 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.960 you still get like butterflies and anticipation and excitement of 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.159 presenting it to the world. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.920 I am so nervous right now, but I really every 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.479 single time, but I think this one even more so 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.839 because of the growth. I never chase relevancy. It's not 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:36.080 my thing. I love growth and perseverance in history more 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.719 than anything, and so me, I'm always adding colors to 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.920 my version of whoever I am in that era and 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.560 hoping for people to see another side of myself that 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.640 I never get to show. So this is another side 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.479 and kind of full circle, coming back to the root 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.159 of feel good music, like when I started, you know, 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.479 so this one, I'm kind of grown and I don't 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.360 care what people think anymore. I just want to put 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.800 feel good out there. I think we needed it. I 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.680 needed it, And what I'm nervous about is, after three 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.560 years of work, is it enough? You know? 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:24.400 Yes, I'm so glad you said that, because right now 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.479 we're going through a cycle. I mean, you'll be maybe 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.640 the fourth or fifth artist that we've interviewed in which 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.240 their product is kind of a direct result of whatever 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.080 they learned from the pandemic. This restart thing, like it 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:45.559 happened with Brittany, with Brittany Howard and also with Green 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:46.240 Bailey Ray. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:47.360 Yeah. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.039 Yeah, Like you're seeing these artists who kind of had 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.880 either a pivot or a transformation, or they got to 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.160 know themselves better. They have a lot of self work 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:02.520 and the creativity that normally went on their product before 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.640 twenty twenty is not the same way as it is now. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.679 So would you say that for you? That's also the case. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.960 I think I'm a chameleon every album, though I've always 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.600 been different every project. I think I did a complete 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.280 pivot by doing Lettucey sings Nina when I'm an R 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.400 and B. You know me as an R and B artist, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.280 but I've seen classical and opera and in French and Italian, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.960 but I never get to show that in R and B. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.000 So to me, it's like for me, it's how I feel, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.400 And a lot of it has to do with ownership, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.120 being my own under my own label and doing my 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.679 own thing, so I've never had that. The pandemic only 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:50.560 pushed me forward to be more active in socially active 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.560 online and talking to people. Before I was more like 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.760 just putting stuff out and going away. This is new 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.960 for me, actually talking to people more. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.320 Wait, so you're not an engager, No, I try to be. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.080 I've gotten better. Twenty twenty taught me that I have 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.920 my own podcasts. I started talking more to my friends privately, 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.640 but then I'm like, I might as well put this 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.920 out and show people that I'm talking. You know, no 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.880 one knows and knew anything much about me, but you 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.400 seeing me around, you know what I mean. I'm like 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.920 the the oh let Usy said the show, what is 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.520 she doing here? 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:29.520 You know what I mean? 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.240 Well, you know what, I would have thought the opposite, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.120 because when you're on. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.040 Stage, that's another thing you do. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.120 But when you're on stage, you do this like zero 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.319 to one hundred in two seconds. And you know, I'm 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.400 not even trying to blow smoke up your ass or anything, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.000 but literally like charisma, connecting with the audience, talking to 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.920 the audience, engaging them, telling jokes, yeah, talking about your life. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.800 Like that's a hard thing to do. Like I avoided 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.880 it all costs, you know what I mean. I hide 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.200 behind a drum set. I hide behind turntables and the 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.880 internet and all these things like where you have to 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.040 be out there. And I just naturally thought there was 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.079 one show I saw where I was like, I will 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.679 be none surprised if you know, you get an OPRAH 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.319 platform just the way that you were doing one on 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.760 one with your your audience. But that's weird to hear 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.880 that in your personal off stage life that you're you're 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.719 saying you're an introvert sort of or worth I'm a little. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.680 Bit of both, but more so introverted, really shy stage though. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.000 It's I think of the audience more so. I don't 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.200 think of myself. I think of them and making time 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.240 and moments to come to the show and entertain them 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.319 and be honest and authentic because I wouldn't want to 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.559 pay for that and then put myself in their position. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.200 But what would I if I'm sitting out there watching 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.199 you guys? I want to be like this, you know 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.040 what I mean. I want feel something. So if I'm 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.360 standing there like glue, just letting it dry, just boring. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.439 So I always think of put myself in the audience's position. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.120 Well, look, so if you are shy in your personal life. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.520 And this is something I'm just discovering maybe in the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.160 last two or three years and talking to artists like 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.720 on this platform and also just interviewing them in general. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.800 I think a lot of the general public is rather 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.360 shocked that some artists might have anxiety, social anxiety, that 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.280 sort of thing. And so I'm often finding out that 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.920 they have to sort of psyche themselves up, like a 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.600 half hour before going on stage or like transform into 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.120 a new character, that sort of thing like so what 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.319 is your process to get out of your social shyness 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.600 of non stage life into like what is your process 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.280 like an hour before the before showtime? 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.080 A lot of breathing High Hills does it for me. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.959 I love wearing, so you become a new character that 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:05.319 I love. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.359 High heels, I love makeup. I just love this becoming 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:15.160 grown woman like energy. It's so good for me. It 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:20.520 says I belong, It says I'm worthy, it says power, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.520 and inside my heart is racing. I'm still afraid. But 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:29.520 I recycle the fear into win and gather tell them 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.800 about who you are, where you come from, the music, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.160 the root, everything, it's not it's bigger than me. But 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.720 all of that gives me power to just execute the stories. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.960 We're storytellers, we're creative, so we gotta It's not about us, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.360 It's about what we're trying to ignite and inspire other people. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.840 They want to feel something. So I go back to that, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.280 and but the high Hills six it ashow hold. I 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.240 can get it off even one. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.320 Keeping clothes again the first the first guest to go 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:06.559 and grab their shoes. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.600 I will fight you. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:09.400 That is not a way. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:15.000 What that is my uncles, all your ankles, so much fun. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.720 That's a whole performance and notes. Yeah, yes, ma'am ninety's 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.840 Warrior ninety minutes. I love a good hell. It makes 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.800 me taller. I'm five five. I need some y'all are 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.320 tall short, all. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:39.200 Right, so noted, I will be writing crocks for. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.120 I have some nice make her some nice high crocks. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:40.439 Me. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.520 You have some heels with cracks. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.959 They actually have platform crocks. 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.600 But yeah, have some, but they don't. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.040 They don't go beyond size fourteen. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.320 So you know, I don't know. I need. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:56.000 I love it. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.480 It's happening, but I'll produce it. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.319 Down in two years as well. Do it as long 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.479 as I can watch those hips. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:11.280 Yeah, let to see. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.880 I thought you were born in the Bay Area, but 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.760 I found out I was wrong. He tell us where 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:16.520 you were born. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.480 I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and my family comes 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.000 from the Holly Grove area. I don't have an accent 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.920 because I moved when I was twelve years old to 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.280 the Bay Area. So it's raised in Oakland, East Oakland. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.480 But when I get mad, my accent comes out really 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.959 nicely bit bad. It gets round. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:41.880 A new Ornan's accent. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.520 Wait, can I ask the question of mirror that I 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.000 feel like we might have to skip because I. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.319 Need to know where lettu see ane by Day came from. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.240 It's a year, but where my mom named me. It 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:59.040 comes from a o'chosea song a year, but word god, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.360 my mom loves year of a music and would sing it. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.480 And that's where the name. It means to bring forth 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.120 is let us see and aniba day means to bring luck, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.440 so bring forth, bring luck. And so that's my real name. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.599 My mom and dad named me. They were kind of 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:22.200 hippies and uh that was their thing, you know. So 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.600 that's where my name comes from. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.040 Do you remember what was your first musical memory. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.960 My mom would sing at this park across the street 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.280 with her band, and she had this big afro and 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.520 bell bottoms, blue jeans, bell bottoms in a green shirt 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.520 and some big hoops, and she had this tambourine but 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.400 she would hit it with her hip all the time, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.160 and I just love every time her hip would move 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.200 her she'd sing the audience would just I just saw 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.760 them go crazy. I didn't know what that meant, but 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.040 the sound of her voice always would do something here. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:06.280 So that memory always, I always remember that before I 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.480 go on stage. But that was my one of my 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.400 first memories of music. The other one is the A track. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.400 The band would record to the A track and it 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.680 would sit in our room. We had a shotgun house 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.640 to just go straight ahead and in the living room. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.240 The band would record in the living room and my 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.600 mom would record her vocal part with the A track 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.640 in our bedroom, which was the next room. So I 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.920 would stare at the A track and watch my mom 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.880 record on the edge of the bed, and then when 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.200 they pressed play and her voice came out of it, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.320 I was just blown away. And that's when I like 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.680 those two memories. That's when I wanted to sing. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.600 Did your mother does she like make records of you're 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.160 recording artists? Or did she just sing? 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.320 And she was a recording artist. She had her own 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.920 band called car Nova in New Orleans. They had their 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:03.120 own band. It was interracial race bass player guitar. My 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.600 stepdad played drums. That's why I started on the drums. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.360 That's why I love watching drummers. That's why I became 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.800 a fan of me. And I would watch the way 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.720 drummers set up their snares. It slanted, is it low? 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.040 Is it below their knees? Like every little technical thing. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.680 So I started on the drums and I would watch 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.160 them perform rehearse in our bedroom. But we were too 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.640 young to go in the club, so they would have 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.040 the car close to the side door so that my 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.200 mom can babysit while performing, so she would do double duty. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.400 So I'm a kid from that kind of era where 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.120 they did a lot of performing and recording at the 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.720 same time. But she had her own band lead singer, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.000 and her and the bass player would write songs together 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:52.600 all the time. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.480 Wow, I know you're probably obsessed with Darry Jones if 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:02.360 you're trying to figure out drummer angles, because I'm still 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.359 trying to figure that out out right. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:05.119 That's set up. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:10.400 It's crazy, Okay, are you still drumming now? 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:10.679 Like? 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.760 Do you can paradiddles on a pad when I get 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.760 nervous or things like that? But not Nah. The band 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.040 always trying to make me play, but I won't play it. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.560 I told you, I get a little nerdy on certain times. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.120 And that's one of them. I don't want to play 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.600 in front of it. I know, like an African beat 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.520 and a James Brown beat. That's all I know right now. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.439 You don't think your audience would go crazy if you 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.399 just suddenly started. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.040 It was a little especially for afrobeats. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.920 Let's go. You think I can do it? 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.560 I mean I know you can do it. You know 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:47.280 you can do it. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.639 I'm in practice. If you're there, definitely not doing it. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.040 Do you own a drum set? 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.040 No, I think when we get a bigger house, i'll 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.240 get one. But right now, I'll wait, I have a 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:00.800 I have a road. It's right there. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.280 I'm sending you a drum set. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:04.520 Really what? 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.360 Well, yeah, you're also helping me because you know I'm 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.160 a hoarder. And yeah, the less less boxes I have. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.280 Well, if you send it, I'll practice and then i'll 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.000 play and record. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.240 I'm not bullstitting you. I'm trying to get rid of 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.040 these boxes. I'm giving you a drum set. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.840 So well, thank you. I appreciate it. I love the doms, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.240 you know what, My monitor's mirror, the rim shot, the 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.600 snare and the kick and my vocal. That's it. That's 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.840 all I have in my my monitor ears. Everyone's like, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.920 you're crazy. I'm like I need to beat Yeah. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.160 I know this, no, this, this is great. I encourage 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:45.800 this highly. I encourage What was the first album that 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:46.439 you owned? 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:51.720 First album? My own Thriller, Purple Rain was there? Those 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.560 two was what I had, But. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.400 Thriller was allowed to listen to Purple Rain. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.960 I snuck it in, Okay, I'm just gonna say, sneak 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:00.320 it in. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.800 I think I think we've had one guest on the 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.280 show that was like freely allowed to listen to Prince 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.320 in their childhood, Like Prince wasn't contraband after the. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.480 Movie, they let it go because we had saw the movie. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.160 It's a rap, you know. The Thriller was the one 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:19.880 that was the that. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.720 Was okay, what about your first content? 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.639 I didn't you know my during my time, we couldn't go. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:31.040 It was run DMC, a fresh vest. It was, yes, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.040 we couldn't go. I couldn't go. My parents wouldn't let 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.920 us go. So I have my little General Electric radio 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.159 and I would just play the cassette on the porch 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.960 and just listen like that and pretend like we were there. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.040 But I didn't go to a concert until I was 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:51.320 in college and the first concert, yes did never had 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.520 never been a concert. My first concert was Dian Reeves 0:19:54.680 --> 0:20:02.280 opening for George Benson in Sonoma somewhere. It was a date. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.320 This guy took me on a date. That's I got 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.480 to go to a concert. Crazy, right. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.520 It's funny you said that because for some reason three 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:17.760 days ago, what was the song about Grandma Better Days? Yeah, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.640 I don't know why I had this need to hear 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.359 that song, like it was always on radio when I 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:26.199 was in high school. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.000 Really, oh god. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:30.960 That was like I forgot there was a time in which, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.119 like Diane Reeves had like the number one song on 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.679 Power ninety nine, like and that was the thing that also. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.720 Likely record and also kind of a Piano in the 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:42.399 Dark by. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:43.840 Brenda Ronda Russell. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.080 Yeah, yeah, e well that still gets played on like 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.600 Piano the Dark has this travel to well I don't 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:55.000 call it yacht rock radio, but whatever, like yeah, yeah, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.639 wherever when you're in CVS at three in the morning. 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.280 That's one of the best albums of all time, the 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.000 Russell album. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.280 It is tell us about your your musical development, Like 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:11.960 do you have any siblings or is it just you? 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.239 I have an older sister, a younger sister, and on 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.399 my dad's side, I have I have eleven and I 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.520 think I'm twelve. I'm twelve in there in that mix. 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.320 I know you're interviewing, but I wanted to ask you 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.680 about when we did the VH one Anita. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:32.720 I'm gonna get to that. I'm gone, I'm sorry. That 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:34.920 is all right, all right, let's just have it now, 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.439 all right. I'm trying to rap up to this. You know, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.240 the thing for me is, as an artist, the two 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.879 things that I look forward to most in life is 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:54.480 when someone puts me onto an album that will later 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.399 like change my life and all that stuff. So, I mean, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.720 I've had that a few times, you know, like Jill 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.879 handing me her record, Oh shit, Fonte handed me his 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.040 you know, the the Little Brother album or record blow 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.679 or whatever. But the only thing that tops that for 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:19.919 me is when I witnessed a star is born moment 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.359 and to see what transpired that day. Now we're doing 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:31.679 VH on'es uh, it's not women who rockets, it's is 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.080 a divas. Was it Divas? 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.800 I think I can't remember. Yeah, I think it was 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.119 Divas R and B Divs. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.040 And I've told many stories of whenever I'm put in 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.040