WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Jill Scott (Part 2) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.400 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.639 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back. My name is Questlove. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:13.119 Last week we had this long overdue talk with our friend, 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.040 our love, Jill Scott. Coming up without further ado, Part 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.279 two of our exciting interview on Quest Love Supreme One 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:30.320 and only Miss Jill Scott. This is like our first 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.040 real extended conversation has lasted more than an hour in 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:35.880 our twenty years of knowing each other. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.640 Now I understand why she ended up working with Jazz Jail. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:49.839 And even Ryan. I was trying. I called. I called 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.519 James Poyser because I knew him from the Jam sessions. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.720 I called every producer that I knew of, every studio 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.400 that I knew of, to find out if they needed 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.000 a writer or a singer. And for six months, nobody 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.479 said anything. And then one day I saw Jazzy Jeff 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.280 on the street talking to Rich Mendena and I was like, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.480 what's up. I'm just annoyed, you know, heading to the theater, 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.199 go sweep floors and clean toilets. And I walked away 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.280 and Jeff was like, who's that? And Rich told him, now, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.959 that's Jill Scot. He was like that's Jills guy. She 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.080 calls my studio every day. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:25.160 Wow. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.360 And then they called me in to see if I 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.399 could write a song, but I, you know, still lying. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:37.040 I was like, yeah, yeah, I write a song, and 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.080 I tried it and it worked out. It just and 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.319 it kept working out, and it just until album happened, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.319 and you kept working. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.919 What was the first song that you wrote? 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.400 The first song at a touch of jazz? The first 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.360 song that I ever wrote? Well, the hook I ever 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:53.200 wrote was you got me? 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.040 Wait a minute, dog, that's what she said. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.760 She said, she faked her. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.080 I know that, but I still was hoping to get 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:07.680 Claire that my song wasn't your first, got first? 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.799 But what you get? 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:17.880 Are you serious? 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.600 I am for all listening to this episode. That's a 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:28.120 life lesson. You stepped into some ship, into an opportunity. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.680 I would have thought that by that point you, I mean, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.320 you handled it like you've been doing this ship for 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:36.320 seven eight years. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.640 You I've never once heard you say this is the 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.520 first song I ever wrote? And wait? Also, how does 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.680 it feel to be Drake famous? Did you like your 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:44.160 shout out? 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.800 Yeah? This is this is his second one. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:48.799 Oh I missed the first time. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:49.760 Yeah? 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.240 Oh wait, we got to Drake icons on the line 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.440 what do you say, Jill? What did he say to you? 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.720 He talked about his quest on Jill Scott on this 0:02:58.720 --> 0:02:59.239 new album. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.440 Yeah, okay, I'll go listen to that sweet All the 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.840 kids are listening to it. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.640 It's very sweet, banging. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.000 I mean, okay, yeah, she got thanks ma'am. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.600 Thinks you yo. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.000 But Joe, weren't you one of the one of the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.919 rare artists that actually got the whole touch of jazz 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.639 involved in your record, because it's not like too many 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.000 artists that have everybody right? 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.280 Yeah? What was it like at the point where they 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.000 were together like. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.799 As magic magic? I missed that, I think. I mean, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.840 that's the thing I missed the most. We had so 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.000 much fun in every room. They were working every room, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.320 five rooms, four rooms or whatever it was at the time. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.120 You just walk out of one and go to the 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.040 next a totally different energy, and then you go in 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.800 the next room and laugh hysterically. Vidal of course was 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.880 hilarious and still is, and and Dre is learning how 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.880 to play the guitar at the time. And Keith is 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.680 straight out of church, so all of his stuff, everything 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.200 that he puts his fingers to on the keys. It 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.160 just feels like like old soul because the church that 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.600 he was in his father was a pastor, and it 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.440 just had felt old and rich and everything it was. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.720 We had fun. We didn't have any money. We shared 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.640 cheese steaks, We cut out, cut out the McDonald's bags 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.840 to go to great event not great adventures. All rolled 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.279 in Dre's car. It had a hole in the floor 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.080 if you sat in the front seat, not fall asleep 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.560 and let your feet fall in the hole because it 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:29.279 was a rap. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:31.919 Rap. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.920 We were broke and it was fun and it was 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.480 probably still the best time I ever had. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.360 Or you were working, you were working on the album 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.719 or what would become the album. This was before Hidden 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.360 Beach even came into the picture. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.120 Yeah. I had been calling Jeff and finally he'd seen 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.040 me and he said, okay, you can come in. I 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.640 called again and said why did you come down? And 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.040 none of the guys wanted to give me any music, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.000 So I kind of hung around, stood around, hung around us, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.039 Well do you have anything that you know that I 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.200 could take? And they were like, oh no, no, we're 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.800 working with Will Smooth, working with you know, And I 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.240 was like, uh, well, the studio. I gotta find a 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.320 way to come back here. You know, the lobby, the 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.560 wood is exposed. Can I stand in Polly your thing 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:28.880 the lobby? So to look at me seriously, I'm very serious, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.760 and Jeff was like, oh, that would look nice. And 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.880 I said, well, you know, can I do it? And 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.640 he was like all right, I'll give you. You know, I'll 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.479 give you money for the supplies. And I stained in 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:47.960 poly your thing the lobby and so Scott was going 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.800 on in the other rooms, and you know, they would 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.560 come out and leave the door open and let me 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.400 hear sometimes or I would, you know, go in for 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.040 a minute and to say, oh, I like that. And 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.159 then eventually they gave me a tape and they had 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.560 seven songs on them, and those seven songs ended up 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.279 being on who is Jill Scott? 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.640 And the Rain was after that? Right, I'm sorry, you 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.080 said Will Smith. So I just automatically went to the rain. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.200 It happened later, okay, after. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.720 After they started letting me write and then uh sing, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.520 because I had to let him know. I wasn't planning 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.560 on singing, but I had to let him know how 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.120 it went. And they were like, oh, yeah, that was 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.719 that was good, Wait a minute you sing? 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:35.040 I was like, yeah, Joe was be ready in one 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.000 of these seven songs. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.640 Be Ready came later? Damn, Okay, be Ready came Later. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:41.440 I love that song. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:47.840 But that's the most amazing story I've ever heard. Mom. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.320 One thing we never talked about, like your voice. How 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.320 did you develop your voice? You said you didn't like 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.479 really sing in choirs or church or whatever. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.919 How did you develop your style? 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.359 I did sing at Girls High, but we sang classical 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.719 music primarily, and that just it just felt nice to me. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.840 And then they sent me on some school trip and 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.720 I saw Kathleen Battle sing and was like, oh my god, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.480 I didn't even know there was such thing as a 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.240 black opera singer, Like this is dope. And then I 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.240 mostly honestly, I just started being a mimic. I mimicked 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:31.480 Anita Baker, I mimicked philisheymon, Kathleen Battle mimicked her. That. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.280 I think that's just where it started. You know, I 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.840 didn't have any plans to sing at all. I'm still amazed. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:45.520 I'm still like, what you want me to? What? All right? Okay? 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 So yeah, Jeff, he said the same thing about he said, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.120 like when y'all first started working that and you can, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.920 you know, tell me for stort. He was saying that 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.720 they kind of had to convince you, I guess, to sing, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.800 like you know, they were more so interested in doing 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.160 the poetry, but. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.440 He was like, yo, what the hell, Like, nah, you 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.080 need to do that ship. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.000 He was kind of pushing you to do it. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.960 Yeah. Yeah, he was definitely a motivating force. And then 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.200 I think when I when I started singing in front 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.360 of people, this was before that. I mean yeah, this 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 was before Hit a Touch of Jazz or Hitting Beach 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.840 or any of that. Richmondina and I we were sitting 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:30.520 outside my house and normally and things had gone real bad. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.839 I knew, all uk, it was anew all the crack kids. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.040 Nobody ever bothered me. You know, somebody would like try 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.160 to run up on me or whatever, and then they 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.400 sing it like oh hey hey hey Jill. And if 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.640 they were real hot to be like Jill, Jill, you 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:47.840 know right, you know, they got to give you a 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:53.679 double that's right, right, what's something or mayor then some 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.920 guy pulled up on us and tried to rob us 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:03.520 sitting in front of my house and shot at us. Actually, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.880 Richard pulled off and the guy shot at us, and 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.840 everything I think was different. We had a poetry reading 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.520 the next day and I went to it in my 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.840 pajamas because I couldn't figure out how to put clothes on. Like, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:22.160 my safety was gone. Everything I knew that was my own, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.680 this is my hood, these are my crackheads, this is 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.000 my drug dealers, this is my block. You know, I'm 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:33.640 safe was gone, and I instead of writing or reciting 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.920 the poem I had written, I just started singing. And 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:44.160 that was That was the beginning. It must have been 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:49.400 two No, couldn't have been two thousand and probably ninety eight, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.719 ninety yeah, probably like ninety eight, gotcha. And that's when 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.200 I was like, I think I could do this. You know, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.200 I probably could do this. I'll just try to be 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.800 a writer, because lord knows, I don't want to be famous. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:04.160 Wow. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.280 So what was that like? Well, first of all, there's 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.440 a question I had about your block. The house that 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.960 the video to Long Walk is connected to. Is that 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.839 your childhood home? Yes, And the same house is getting 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:22.200 in the way. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.000 You're just sitting in front the. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.720 One that I came out of for getting in the way. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.320 Is across the street from my house. I passed my 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.839 house right and the one that I was sitting on 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.240 the steps for a long Walk, that's a neighbor's. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:41.440 I gotta say the intro to long Walk no fully strong, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.560 the intro yeah, well no, no, no, I don't even mean 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.600 the video. Of course the video too, because you're smiling 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.920 and all that stuff, But the ten seconds, the first 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.360 fifteen seconds of long Walk, the song is probably like 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.000 I have like my top five. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.080 Half the adrenaline moments, like things I. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.000 Have to hear if I need to like get in 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.080 a mood of happiness or whatever. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.760 Long Walk and Herb Albert's Root one oh one or 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:17.680 those two songs, which is where don't look up Herb Alberts. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:25.079 People associated that with the Dentist Office happy song, But yeah, man, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.000 it's something. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.400 That like, do you ever get tired of. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.880 People's fandom of because I feel as though they don't 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:39.640 give your entire catalog a fair shot. Only because I 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.480 think that sort of like your association with Wiz, I 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.640 think the sentimental attachment to discovering you as an artist 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.840 as a fan, discovering you as an artist and what 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.120 the soundtrack of that album for everyone in two thousand, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.959 like it was perfect because no one saw it coming. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.960 And to me, nobody saw it coming. Like literally on 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.120 I'll say the soundtrack to the Voodoo Tour was like 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.199 just playing it every twenty. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:12.440 Four to seven. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.440 If I'm not playing it, Anthony Hamilton's playing in the back. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.680 Even the you know, D'Angelo is so retro, like he 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.560 wouldn't dare listen to anything older than like thirty years 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.560 Like even he's rocking that shit because no one is 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.280 expecting it. Like how how was it the first go 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:36.200 round in your taste of celebrity and your relationship with 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.800 your family, your relationship with your friends, and I might 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.559 have to move out of this neighborhood like separation? 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.480 Can you come back? 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:45.720 Is? 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:46.679 What's Thanksgiving? 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:46.880 Like? 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.160 In Thanksgiving two thousand and one? Like what was it? 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.680 What was it like the first year and a half 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.120 that after that album came out? 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.040 Well it, I could say there were a lot more 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.680 people at the family re union then that ever showed 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:10.760 up for sure. Yeah, man, I didn't expect anything, so 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.720 I got way more than I expected because I wasn't 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.040 expecting anything. But Lizella and I were living together and uh, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:23.319 and our little second floor walk up and people were 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.599 riding by playing the music at three four o'clock in 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.880 the morning, you know, just highest capacity, just so loud. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.440 And I at first, honestly, I was blown I just 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.880 was blown away. I didn't expect anything, so I was 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.560 really didn't know how to take it, didn't didn't know 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.400 what to feel about it either. Oh, it just started 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:46.240 to hurt. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:48.400 In what way? 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.040 In what way because people there were the presumption that 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.280 they knew everything about me or who I was instead 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.840 of just meeting me, and that hurt. It hurt me, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.720 Like I've got sense, right. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:08.000 I heard, she heard, I know her from this to that. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.360 She's like this, so she's like that, and I'm like, 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:16.319 I'm still growing, I'm still figuring it out. I I 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.480 don't know. I'm out here trying to live and you 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:19.880 still have. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.200 And they gave you the earthy label too, which for 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.720 us at black radio, trying to play your radio, play 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.240 your song, we were trying to make people understand the 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.000 difference in earthy and neo soul people and regular old folks, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.000 in the fact that they were regular old folks. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.160 She wrote a song about beating a bitious ass, like 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:36.160 why can't she be. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:42.120 There's nothing conscious about this now. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.800 But they put you in that bubble. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.880 Bubbles happened. You know. I didn't like that either. I 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.120 just didn't like the world thinking that they knew who 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.520 or what or why I was even here before I did. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.680 You know, I'm still figuring it out twenty years later. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.920 You know, who is Jill Scott? So much has changed, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.640 you know, it's way different than it was last year. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.600 You know, I'm a mother of eleven year old. Now 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.120 that's way different from ten. I don't care who you 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:11.640 talk to. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.800 You talk now, aren't you them teaching in handy? 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.120 They have to? You know, we're in the middle of 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.560 a pandemic. What does that mean? Who do I become 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.720 in the middle of a pandemic? Or who does anybody become? 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.600 You know, I'm I still like simple things, no matter 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.360 how fancy my life may appear. I still hug trees. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.520 I think they're the bomb. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.200 I do argument about you being earthy, but that's fine. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.960 That's what I fart with them. You know, I'm still 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.640 very very simple in these ways, and I treasure that 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.800 about myself. I just take it all with with a 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.200 grain of salt all the time, all the time. I 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.320 don't need I don't. I don't need the athlete so much. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.240 What I need is to be able to pay all 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.560 my bills. I need to be able to go on 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.360 vacations and enjoy them. I need to be able to 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.800 help my people where I can. I need to be 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.840 able to not worry that I'm headed back where it 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.000 came from because I don't want to go. I don't 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.760 want to be shot at. I don't. I don't want 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.400 to have to fend off, you know, crackheads trying to 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:21.920 shoot at me. I don't want that light. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.000 So you have nightmares of one day this could be 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.200 over and I'll be back at twenty third and blah 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.080 blah blah. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.840 I have nightmares of not having food in the pantry. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:32.400 That is. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:33.680 That's a big one. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:35.000 I remember that. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:44.760 It comes from quite some time where neighbors, Jehovah witnesses particularly, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.040 were coming by dropping off baskets of food because we 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.960 didn't have any. And I'm you know, it's not like 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.200 I'm really pulling out a violin for sad songs. This 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.000 is my existence, this is my life, and these are 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.440 the things that keep me grounded. I know that it 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.239 only takes one wrong phrase or one wrong song or 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.120 one wrong role, or you know, to have to have 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.360 a society cancel you or or shoe you away and 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.159 not value you, know, what you bring to the table. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.680 I don't think that I'm the greatest singer. I think 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.320 that I offer a lot of spirit. I think that 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.880 whatever if it's passion or lust, if it's if it's 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:34.879 fear or pain or happiness, simple joys, whatever they may be, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.520 thought process when I sing, you can hear that. And 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.880 that's my gift. I'm able to convey emotions well. And 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.040 I'm aware. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.480 Now you you do that well, and you I always 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.879 wanted to tell you this, like you really played a 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.679 big role, probably annoyingly for me. I was doing the 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.240 session with Jeff like some years ago, and it was 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.119 a little brother song and me and Pooh we were 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.359 driving up the Delaware and we had in our mind, okay, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:05.720 it's rap the rap rap time. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.600 We about to damn wrap this nigg under the table, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:08.439 you know what I'm saying. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.000 And so we just like, all right, this rap the 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.119 rap rap, And so we get to the to the 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.359 spot and Jeff is just playing like all these kind 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.000 of R and B records, you know what I'm saying, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.639 and they were dope. I mean, the shit was dope, 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.960 but it was not what we expected, you know what 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.040 I mean. And so we ended up doing the song 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.040 where pooh rhyme, and I mean, I ended up singing 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.320 on it. And so I was just singing because Jeff 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.440 had to touch your flight and stuff, and so I'm 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.760 just kind of cutting vocals, not really thinking about it. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.879 And so I came out to booth and I was like, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.879 Jeff had this look on his face. I thought I 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.080 had fucked up. I said, Man, what's wrong? He was like, man, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.040 you need to be singing all this time. You need 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.080 to be singing. I was like, Jeff, Dude, I just 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.199 kind of did it because that's what we had. I 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.000 don't really want to do it. He was like, man, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:50.879 you know who the same You know who else said that? 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.720 You know who else said that same shit. I was like, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:53.600 who he said? 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:53.920 Jill? 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.400 And I was like, damn, like word and he said 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:59.880 at that time that he told me, he said, man, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.080 sometimes people can see things in you that you don't 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.879 see in yourself. He was like, bro, you got something 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.199 keep doing And that's something that I always always just 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.119 want to share that with you you know you really 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.800 When I when I heard when when he heard when 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.760 I heard him say that Jill Scott didn't think she 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.879 was a good singer, I said, well, nigga, God damn, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.199 everybody must hate they voice then, because I love your voice, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:24.960 you know what I mean? 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.920 But that was that was really that was really inspiring 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.480 to me. Jill. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.840 What is your preparation for acting and how different how 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:42.000 does it differ to your preparation for singing and songwriting? 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.440 Like what's your creative process? Are you meditation? 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.600 Is it? Like? What's what's your creative approach to it? 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.840 Probably terror is the first step for me, Like I 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.760 just don't want to fuck up so bad. I don't 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.800 want to be the weak link in the room. I 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.560 don't that's I just don't want that. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:03.680 What was the first one, Jie? 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:03.879 Was it? 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.040 Why did I get married? 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:06.640 Yeah? 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:06.359 Yeah? 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:12.199 And the first TV show was Girlfriends and Marlbrock I 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.480 killed gave me an ARC. She had never even seen 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.320 me act before and gave me an ARC. And I 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.200 was like, come on, God, like, I'm just like out 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:27.080 here blessed, like crazy, and it's like ridiculous, goodness, gracious, anyway, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.400 how do I prepare like versus it's terror. And then 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.399 there's homework because so I could be prepared, and I 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.120 study a lot, a lot. I try to take walks 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.359 where I can and be still where I can, and 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.240 then I need to move my body, you know, so 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.520 that I could feel that person you know in me 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:54.520 around me. And then the famous line is to be 0:20:54.800 --> 0:21:02.160 that guy. That's it, Be that guy at all costs, 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:03.480 whatever that means. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.760 Who challenged you the most in his acting journey, like 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:11.360 as far as like direction, Anthony Minguela, he was. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:16.679 He he directed the talent in mister Ripley. Okay, I 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.520 think in the Piano lesson Cold Mountain. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.840 HBO. Serious, correct. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:33.439 Yes, he auditioned me six times, Yes, for hours. It 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.560 was the most gruesome experience. At some point I was like, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.159 fuck you either you want me or you don't, Like 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.879