WEBVTT - The Questlove Supreme Reunion Finale Part 2 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.080 West Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.000 Hey, this is Sugar Steve from Quest Love Supreme and 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:10.400 I'll be half the team Supreme. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:18.280 Thanks for being part of us. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:19.320 We love you. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:20.880 Is this. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:27.000 Fucking go? 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:44.599 Oh? Oh my god? 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.280 This is It's okay to sing along, y'all. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.280 Okay, I used to be. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.320 He used to be. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.240 A man. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.720 On the bridge too. Seems like it's your chance, you see, 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.119 have my plea. I don't even know this. I actually don't. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:25.960 Lisa, go ahead, Melly, can't you see? 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.720 I'm a cry. I can't believe he did this. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.119 Wow, man, you. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.400 Are blacker than I've never thought. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.160 Wait the half suit? 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.720 Oh my god? 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.080 Wait, I love you like. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:02:01.760 My friend, famous brother, happy poor, Thank you quest Love 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.280 for this magical journey. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.960 You used to I don't feel like I'm my funeral 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:20.120 ship he used to. Wait a minute, I'm so many. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.519 Questions, no technical questions. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.679 How did you get the instrumental. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.120 The internet? 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:53.000 He's engineered this, Jesus, Oh my god, Erica, oh man, man, Wow, oh. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:03:00.880 My gosh, I'm a second. I'm gonna tell off. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.720 Wait, aren't getting then? Are we getting? The rigging belt burst? 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.600 He put so much working I didn't hear it. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:14.120 There you got this. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:16.680 One. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.440 This was gone and happened. But he never told me. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 He told me that this clodcast never did he. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.040 Don't get this. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.079 To me. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.160 One This was gone happening, but he never told him 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.400 to win. He told me that this podcast. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.880 Never would be cold up dad. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:46.440 He won't say his die. My god, no, my god, no, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.200 I wan know. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.520 Wow, that sounds really good. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:04.320 Steve harmonized, that's not you see. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:09.840 Yeah, who have I been sitting next to for eight years? 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:10.560 Who is this guy? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:11.640 Who is this. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.240 Guynte has an infamous saying that he says occasionally in 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:23.359 quest of Supreme episodes, which is from downtown. That was 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.320 the ten year from downtown. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.040 I thought it was just gonna be like ten seconds long. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:32.320 Got to commit. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.720 So when we get in the s R and B. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.400 Yeah, it was between that and on the wings. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.000 I even think you liked R and B. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.200 He he liked that y a little. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:45.960 I mean that's black. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.920 But no, this was a choice. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.120 This was a choice, Steve. That was the greatest thing 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.800 you've ever done. The thing was I thought, in my 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:01.640 mind you brought up there is a I wanted this 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:01.880 to be. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:05.880 This was way better. Oh my god. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.640 The length of the song a couple of times. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.080 Can you imagine in your mind that he had to 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.679 study all the lyrics because you ain't I know that joint. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.160 Did you reported that where you did it? 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:22.760 Yeah? 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.200 Nah, Man, that that was touching Steve that that kind of. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.280 Yeah, I'd like to communicate in song. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.000 Hey, but we were saying we received received, we receive it. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.360 Brittany reminded me of some honorable mentions that you had 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:37.960 asked a question about, and I just wanted to mention 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.560 these real quick because I feel like they might touch 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.960 your soul on the answer to the real question of 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.280 the hardest booking I have it because you've never heard 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:51.040 the episode, which is Dave Chappelle, because we're still waiting 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.279 for him to sign that paperwork. It caused a rift 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.839 between he and I. Unbeknownst to him, he didn't give 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:56.839 for three years. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.039 The riff is still going on. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.680 Oh why I thought y'all made but y'all. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.039 Made up cordial. I mean. The thing is is that 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.280 this is also the quasi elephant in the room, Like, yes, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.520 there's the risk that if you're doing business with your 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.839 loved ones or your friends that the script will get lost. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.640 Miscommunication happens whatever. Like in the case of Dave, I 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.400 don't know why he wanted to pull the episode. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.719 Because he got beer drunk and he thought they thought 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.359 that he didn't sound coherent because it was. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:28.760 It was dope, It was dope. He was just in 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:29.440 there chopping it up. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.800 Shout out to Corey Blacksmith, fucking it up. I don't care. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:39.799 And then also did they get to hear it? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.640 No, no, no, no, no, no, they're good. This is just 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.560 a historical we have to detail that you you won't 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:44.960 hear this episode to that part. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.000 And then also another uncomfortable guest situation must be brought 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.520 up because of mirror. I know you with me on 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.680 this one who Snoop's house? Where say it was it 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.840 Bill or Steve was living a different life than me 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.000 and a mirror on the other side of the table. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.880 Do you remember that? The Oh okay, then it was 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:03.640 Steve and. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.719 Fante living a different life on one side and you 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.240 and I were living us. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.320 Totally, because I think that was like his guy kept 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:11.440 trying to wrap it up. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.400 All I remember was I couldn't get into the Snoop 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.920 episode because we I guess they're just under the impression 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.880 that it was going to be like a quickie, yeah, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.560 twenty minute thing, and didn't know the depths that we 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.400 went into it, and Fante just kept shooting from the 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.440 half court and all the way over the other side. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.760 Remember that time you did that record with this person. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:32.480 That was cool. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.800 Yeah, and he kept going like as long as Snoop 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.160 was having a good time, I was like, if he 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.640 having a good time, shit, I'm gonna keep going. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.680 Would ask a question, and then Snoop brought like gave 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.080 us another like three minutes, but he just kept asking 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.840 I guess, lion, and I just kept trying. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.720 To but his boy kept getting closer to me and 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.160 a mirror like I know, y'all see me standing here, like. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.120 Wrap this shit up, and I had to and he 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:54.840 had to bring me. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.360 I had old school radio flashbacks because I had to 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.920 go outside and talk to that brother and be like yo, while. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.920 The interview, it's as like you on us and I 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.760 can I'm supposed to be doing this and you right here. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.840 I wish, But Snoops House is really fun though, and 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.000 we played a lot like kids. No. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.480 That was awesome. That was an awesome show. Yeah, it was fun, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.240 Like I wish we could have deep dove, but it 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.280 was such a panic to keep him engaged, you know. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.000 And so all right, so there are some questions that 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.640 our audience asked for us. The number one is, how 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:37.840 have we individually evolved since QLs launched in twenty sixteen. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.800 How have we how have we evolved in the last 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.040 almost ten years. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.280 Like professionally or personally? 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:50.000 Well, because they now, so that's a beautiful evolution too. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.960 Yeah, you know, I guess and I can tie this 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.840 into well one while we're doing this episode, which was 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.680 I think back in twenty fifteen, you know, I took 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.640 great pride in just working, work and work and work 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.680 and working, doing a whole bunch of shit, doing the podcast, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.000 doing falling, DJing, and that's when I was doing like 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.160 Brooklyn Bowl Heavy and you know, I would do about 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.760 maybe sixteen DJ gigs a month. I mean, roots were 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.120 still doing shows, and you know, it was kind of 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.880 at the beginning of the end of me scoring stuff. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.559 I was scoring movies. I thought that was going to 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.520 be my entry into the world of you know, movies 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:34.080 or whatever. And actually Summer Soul kind of first entered 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.960 maybe in twenty seventeen, like a year later, but I 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.800 never thought I would get tired or just like, maybe 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:47.240 I'm doing too much, don't he do it? And it's yeah, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.680 And sometimes it's also like it costs and relationships, like 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.840 you have two full grown sons, you got kids and 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.439 different spouses than you did when you first started this 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.120 jouring or what. I don't know. I think maybe in 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.200 the last four or five years, that's where I was 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.120 where I was just like I was living my dreams, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:13.600 but like coming home to the worst silence ever, like 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:23.520 nothing pains me, Alexand quest's what. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.440 The lyric was, thank. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:32.160 You and you've learned to accept your flowers. I feel 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.280 like that's the thing you've learned over these years we've 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.400 been doing this. That's that you know how to accept 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.000 the compliment now like you never have before. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.439 You know, and it's given to you. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.200 Yes, But also I will on the professional front, I 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:50.080 listened to four early episodes all last week, and I 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:51.800 have to say that I think all of us have 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.959 done a remarkable job in our interviewing skills. And I 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.360 don't know, like what we're doing now will still apply 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.000 to where we are in our lives, but I would 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.880 like to actually say that, yeah, I mean there were 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.839 some episodes that were chaotic. Of course, you know Fante's 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.360 I roll in at the small episode, Yo, classic, that 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.160 ship was crazy. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.040 We had fun. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:14.880 It's not his favorite episode. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.400 It was I mean, it was fine, you know, it 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:16.760 was cool. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:17.240 They were cool. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.320 But yeah, yes, he was so funny. I don't know 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.200 what to do with him. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.040 Sorry, it was a special episode. I enjoyed it because 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.800 it was just, you know, just hearing them scream on 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.920 top of each other. But yes, it was chaotic funny. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.959 But I will say that in terms of interviewing and 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.120 getting to know people and that sort of thing, that's 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:43.240 what I felt that this this platform had given me. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.680 And also you know the fact that choosing you guys. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.480 Shout out to Sean G. Because you can't be saying 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.200 you chose me because called me Yo. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.400 I just showed up. But who said it to Sea G. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:55.480 I don't know. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:56.839 I thought it was Sean G. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.120 I'm a person too. What you thought you was? Just 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.480 like you arrived at the doors, stoped with it in 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.480 a basket given to me by the fire department. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.440 Like an assignment, like so take this good luck. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.040 No, but Shawing heard the pilot. He was just like, Okay, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.080 there's a lot of inside talk here. You guys don't 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.240 explain you're talking over each other. You need someone experienced 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.720 and you know, hide to stopterone. You need a lady, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.280 a woman in here to put you guys in line. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.640 And of course you know. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.240 The third person. I thought it was like. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.760 Two years before you started this podcast when I had 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.400 first heard Q Tips podcast on Apple. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.800 And I was like, yo, we should do something like this. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.120 And do you know this fool said to me. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:53.079 You know I'm working on something, and it took know you. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.560 You already know that y'all taught me this. That there's 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:59.200 Ronald McDonald and then there's Ray kroc u Less. Yes, indeed, we. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:12:59.880 Have talked about him. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.520 You know that I am Ronald McDonald no matter how 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.480 you cut it. I know that in your eye rolling already. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.040 You know you always go to the very crock first 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.440 instead of ron McDonald. When I want jay Z to 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.199 do something, I don't go to jay Z to ask 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.040 him to do I know who to ask to get 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.880 him to be like, hey, you know what I mean. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.840 That's just the name of the game. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.319 And by the way, that's shan Gee episode also one 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:29.040 of our sleepers, like, yes, very good episode. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.040 James Boyser episode. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.040 Yeah, that was great. So yeah, I will say that 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.800 what I learned, especially like last year, and you know, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.520 the total transparency. We had a real talk last night 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:49.720 at dinner as a family, as as friends without microphones 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:56.040 and whatever, and basically I felt like, especially with last year, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.520 there was a commonality where, you know, I had nine 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.560 businesses open with nine imagine what it takes to run 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.640 this and know that there's eight other this world, like 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.960 when I do my bookshit, there's eight of this in 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.840 the food, shit, this shit, root stuff, movie stuff like. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.720 And I realized probably last year that yes, even though 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.960 the businesses are up and running and thriving, but I'm 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.880 also failing in the personal relationship one on one thing, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:34.000 which a lot of that is also just the reluctant leadership, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.880 which I had to work on a lot of it 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.800 is also just not knowing how to communicate, which is 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.920 like called for another therapist. I got two therapists. Oh no, brow, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.560 I had to get two therapists just. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.440 To are any of your therapists of color? 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.240 Yeah, okay, yeah, Jaska. And so it's pretty much like 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.680 I had to learn, especially for this platform. My decision 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.600 thought decision was also the thought decision to kind of 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.520 bring this to a closer land the plane was basically 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.120 like what were my bottom like, what's my priority? Set 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.880 you on fire? Like for me, the roots will always 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.040 be my number one thing. Movies I have a passion 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.600 for doing that. Book writing is not so on fire. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.280 I'd rather be the book company and people write there's 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.960 shit just going down the list. But this, as far 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.400 as this is concerned, even though I love nerding out 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.720 on meeting people whatever, I just wasn't able to really 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.000 give this the commitment that I felt it would deserve. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.960 And I felt like it was also putting a strain 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:46.160 on us personally as people, and I love our camaraderie 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.840 on and off the air. So that's my version of 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.560 like landing the plane, at least as far as this 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.160 episode's concerned. So I had a lot of learning to do, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.320 like last year, as people are concerned, Yeah, I think 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.000 we all did. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.960 I think back to the personal the evolution question that 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.080 I think one of the viewers asked, I think for me, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.440 this definitely everything you said one hundred percent. You know, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.880 we kind of watched from the sidelines. I guess there's 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.800 like one of your homeboys becomes you know, famous. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:21.520 You know what I mean. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.520 And so for me, I just always kind of gave 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.280 that grace of just understand. It's like, listen, this has 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.320 got to be a total mindfucking I've said this. You know, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.280 it's got to be a mindfucker to go from drumming 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.560 on South Street to now you got Obama in your phone, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.480 you know what I mean. And that's and to go 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.680 through that kind of trajectory, and you know the amount 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.280 of time that that happened, you know, I knew that 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.640 was a lot. And so for me, because I do 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.400 know some people that ask, like why you know I 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.520 left the show, I only left. The first time I left, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.480 it was because I was have a cigarettes. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:51.760 I was not. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.200 I'm not out for fucking cigarettes. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.160 I was on tour with my group Little Brother, because 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.400 we just came back. When I first known one album 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 they a little Watch it number one, and I couldn't, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.720 you know, I couldn't. I couldn't do both. It was 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.560 just you know, two times, you. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.120 Knew where I'm discovering now that you can't do both. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.760 Yeah, you get something's gotta give, yeah, you know, because 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.320 it's gonna eventually that neglect is gonna show up. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:19.520 In your product, you know what I mean. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.399 And so you know, man, so yeah, that was the 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.320 first time, and then this last time, I think it 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.640 was just kind of what you were saying. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.480 It just kind of definitely felt. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:27.879 Like the show. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.040 I just saw like kind of where your career is 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.480 going to what you're involved in. It was just like, yeah, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.600 I think it's time. You know, for me, it was time. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.280 I had my own work to do. And uh, you know, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.679 we was our twenty anniversary of foreign exchange period, so 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.560 you know, I was able to get nick you know 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.399 on we you know, able to celebrate that. You know, 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.359 we had a slew releases from our label and stuff. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.000 Last year, my son graduated high school and like. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.880 Winning the congratulations, thank you man. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.440 And and then you know, at the end of the year, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.520 I lost my best friend, Big Milk. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.800 He died in September. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.560 So you know, even if I had a stayed on, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.240 you know, it was still I didn't have room for it. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.320 I just didn't have like this because I had life 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.359 shit that you know was happening. And you know, it 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.520 was this thing where I think we did a good job, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.280 where I think we're all at now is that understanding. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.000 It's like, listen, man, everything ends. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.320 You just hope that in the best case scenario, you 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.600 can sit and talk about it and it doesn't have 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.560 to end in chaos. And I think that is the 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.760 biggest part for me in terms of watching you know 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.719 how I've seen certain entities end over my life as 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.280 anyone has seen the LB DOT you know, it was lived. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:35.359 It. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.679 I like that we're all at a place where we 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.560 can all decide like, hey, this is where it ends. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.560 We've told our story and our relationships are no less 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.880 you know, no less, not any less stronger or any 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.199 you know, any more love, loss or whatever. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.480 And that's what I'm most proud of. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.120 And you know, this has been an amazing journey man, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:18:59.879 like over nine years, like you know, I mean you 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.200 was joking earlier, but it's them being divorces, it's being 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.920 kids born, it's being like it's you know, real shit 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.840 that happened, and uh, you know, outside of just the 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.840 work that we do here, like y'all are all like 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.119 my friends, Like I love y'all man like straight like that, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.600 you know what I mean, and so too, Yeah, thank 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.240 you for all of you know, and and this is 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.720 whatever you know a lot of times me and like 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.879 you talked about last night, when you're doing times with friends, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.640 doing work with friends, you have to kind of stop 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.159 sometimes and differentiate. It's like, Okay, I know there's not 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.480 a malicious bone in this person's body. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.520 I know it's not malicious. So they're not. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.080 Being a shitty friend. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.199 They are just trying to navigate this business, and I 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.320 have to give them that grace to say, Okay, bro, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:39.000 you know what I'm saying. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.879 It's not their fault it sometimes the business is shitty, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:41.800 but they're still a good friend. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:42.120 Yeah. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.760 Yeah, right, It's it's like, yeah, it's cool and you know, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:45.639 but yeah, took. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.040 Me a minute. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.399 Yeah, okay, that took me a minute. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.960 See, my whole life has been a little different, like 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.560 doing radio and Philadelphia and going being an advocate for 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.160 you guys on my own. Now you never, nobody ever 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.239 forced me to be an advocate for the Root, but 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.639 it was just what I felt in my heart, and 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.600 then the music and going into Shawn Gee's office at 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.400 some point and being like I want to work with y'all. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:06.919 I have to. 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.400 I want to do something because it's just something more here, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.879 which that was like that might have been fifteen years 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.719 ago and fast forward to this being like the first 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.240 time working with you guys. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.080 It's been an interesting journey and separate. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.920 Like Fante said, like, I'm just getting to the point 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.359 now where i can separate the friendship from the business 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:27.000 because it's been. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:27.760 About a rocky road. 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.200 I think probably out of everybody sitting here, I've probably 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.720 had a little bit of a more rockiest road. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.000 You know, because you have the longest history, like you would, 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:36.520 you know. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.640 The longest history. This is my profession. Nobody else makes 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.840 money off of doing this but me. So I came 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.560 in here also like hoping to, you know, get their 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.160 respect in that way because I'm the person that has 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.120 been doing broadcasting for all of their career and had 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:52.720 to felt like I had to earn it in these 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.080 eight years again, like I have really had to earn 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.960 it and make my way and make my voice be 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.040 heard and doubled and get in when you hit fit 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.359 in and not talk. All the stuff that I've learned 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.600 a long time ago. Now I'm experienced it with co 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:08.159 hosts who've never been taught it. So between that and 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.440 you know, just again separating the business from the friendship. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.879 Last night, was a real moment in that conversation Fonte 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:16.960 where I really went like, you know, a mirror. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.040