Speaker 1: West Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is Sugar Steve from Quest Love Supreme and
Speaker 2: I'll be half the team Supreme.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being part of us.
Speaker 3: We love you.
Speaker 4: Is this.
Speaker 1: Fucking go?
Speaker 5: Oh? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: This is It's okay to sing along, y'all.
Speaker 5: Okay, I used to be.
Speaker 1: He used to be.
Speaker 3: A man.
Speaker 1: On the bridge too. Seems like it's your chance, you see,
Speaker 1: have my plea. I don't even know this. I actually don't.
Speaker 6: Lisa, go ahead, Melly, can't you see?
Speaker 5: I'm a cry. I can't believe he did this.
Speaker 1: Wow, man, you.
Speaker 5: Are blacker than I've never thought.
Speaker 1: Wait the half suit?
Speaker 6: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Wait, I love you like.
Speaker 2: My friend, famous brother, happy poor, Thank you quest Love
Speaker 2: for this magical journey.
Speaker 1: You used to I don't feel like I'm my funeral
Speaker 1: ship he used to. Wait a minute, I'm so many.
Speaker 5: Questions, no technical questions.
Speaker 1: How did you get the instrumental.
Speaker 7: The internet?
Speaker 8: He's engineered this, Jesus, Oh my god, Erica, oh man, man, Wow, oh.
Speaker 5: My gosh, I'm a second. I'm gonna tell off.
Speaker 1: Wait, aren't getting then? Are we getting? The rigging belt burst?
Speaker 5: He put so much working I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: There you got this.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 5: This was gone and happened. But he never told me.
Speaker 1: He told me that this clodcast never did he.
Speaker 5: Don't get this.
Speaker 8: To me.
Speaker 1: One This was gone happening, but he never told him
Speaker 1: to win. He told me that this podcast.
Speaker 9: Never would be cold up dad.
Speaker 1: He won't say his die. My god, no, my god, no,
Speaker 1: I wan know.
Speaker 5: Wow, that sounds really good.
Speaker 4: Steve harmonized, that's not you see.
Speaker 10: Yeah, who have I been sitting next to for eight years?
Speaker 1: Who is this guy?
Speaker 11: Who is this.
Speaker 1: Guynte has an infamous saying that he says occasionally in
Speaker 1: quest of Supreme episodes, which is from downtown. That was
Speaker 1: the ten year from downtown.
Speaker 7: I thought it was just gonna be like ten seconds long.
Speaker 3: Got to commit.
Speaker 11: So when we get in the s R and B.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was between that and on the wings.
Speaker 5: I even think you liked R and B.
Speaker 1: He he liked that y a little.
Speaker 11: I mean that's black.
Speaker 1: But no, this was a choice.
Speaker 12: This was a choice, Steve. That was the greatest thing
Speaker 12: you've ever done. The thing was I thought, in my
Speaker 12: mind you brought up there is a I wanted this
Speaker 12: to be.
Speaker 5: This was way better. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: The length of the song a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine in your mind that he had to
Speaker 1: study all the lyrics because you ain't I know that joint.
Speaker 1: Did you reported that where you did it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nah, Man, that that was touching Steve that that kind of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to communicate in song.
Speaker 1: Hey, but we were saying we received received, we receive it.
Speaker 4: Brittany reminded me of some honorable mentions that you had
Speaker 4: asked a question about, and I just wanted to mention
Speaker 4: these real quick because I feel like they might touch
Speaker 4: your soul on the answer to the real question of
Speaker 4: the hardest booking I have it because you've never heard
Speaker 4: the episode, which is Dave Chappelle, because we're still waiting
Speaker 4: for him to sign that paperwork. It caused a rift
Speaker 4: between he and I. Unbeknownst to him, he didn't give
Speaker 4: for three years.
Speaker 1: The riff is still going on.
Speaker 5: Oh why I thought y'all made but y'all.
Speaker 1: Made up cordial. I mean. The thing is is that
Speaker 1: this is also the quasi elephant in the room, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: there's the risk that if you're doing business with your
Speaker 1: loved ones or your friends that the script will get lost.
Speaker 1: Miscommunication happens whatever. Like in the case of Dave, I
Speaker 1: don't know why he wanted to pull the episode.
Speaker 4: Because he got beer drunk and he thought they thought
Speaker 4: that he didn't sound coherent because it was.
Speaker 11: It was dope, It was dope. He was just in
Speaker 11: there chopping it up.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Corey Blacksmith, fucking it up. I don't care.
Speaker 6: And then also did they get to hear it?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, no, they're good. This is just
Speaker 5: a historical we have to detail that you you won't
Speaker 5: hear this episode to that part.
Speaker 4: And then also another uncomfortable guest situation must be brought
Speaker 4: up because of mirror. I know you with me on
Speaker 4: this one who Snoop's house? Where say it was it
Speaker 4: Bill or Steve was living a different life than me
Speaker 4: and a mirror on the other side of the table.
Speaker 5: Do you remember that? The Oh okay, then it was
Speaker 5: Steve and.
Speaker 4: Fante living a different life on one side and you
Speaker 4: and I were living us.
Speaker 10: Totally, because I think that was like his guy kept
Speaker 10: trying to wrap it up.
Speaker 1: All I remember was I couldn't get into the Snoop
Speaker 1: episode because we I guess they're just under the impression
Speaker 1: that it was going to be like a quickie, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty minute thing, and didn't know the depths that we
Speaker 1: went into it, and Fante just kept shooting from the
Speaker 1: half court and all the way over the other side.
Speaker 7: Remember that time you did that record with this person.
Speaker 1: That was cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and he kept going like as long as Snoop
Speaker 10: was having a good time, I was like, if he
Speaker 10: having a good time, shit, I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 1: Would ask a question, and then Snoop brought like gave
Speaker 1: us another like three minutes, but he just kept asking
Speaker 1: I guess, lion, and I just kept trying.
Speaker 4: To but his boy kept getting closer to me and
Speaker 4: a mirror like I know, y'all see me standing here, like.
Speaker 5: Wrap this shit up, and I had to and he
Speaker 5: had to bring me.
Speaker 4: I had old school radio flashbacks because I had to
Speaker 4: go outside and talk to that brother and be like yo, while.
Speaker 5: The interview, it's as like you on us and I
Speaker 5: can I'm supposed to be doing this and you right here.
Speaker 4: I wish, But Snoops House is really fun though, and
Speaker 4: we played a lot like kids. No.
Speaker 1: That was awesome. That was an awesome show. Yeah, it was fun,
Speaker 1: Like I wish we could have deep dove, but it
Speaker 1: was such a panic to keep him engaged, you know.
Speaker 1: And so all right, so there are some questions that
Speaker 1: our audience asked for us. The number one is, how
Speaker 1: have we individually evolved since QLs launched in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: How have we how have we evolved in the last
Speaker 1: almost ten years.
Speaker 3: Like professionally or personally?
Speaker 4: Well, because they now, so that's a beautiful evolution too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I guess and I can tie this
Speaker 1: into well one while we're doing this episode, which was
Speaker 1: I think back in twenty fifteen, you know, I took
Speaker 1: great pride in just working, work and work and work
Speaker 1: and working, doing a whole bunch of shit, doing the podcast,
Speaker 1: doing falling, DJing, and that's when I was doing like
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bowl Heavy and you know, I would do about
Speaker 1: maybe sixteen DJ gigs a month. I mean, roots were
Speaker 1: still doing shows, and you know, it was kind of
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the end of me scoring stuff.
Speaker 1: I was scoring movies. I thought that was going to
Speaker 1: be my entry into the world of you know, movies
Speaker 1: or whatever. And actually Summer Soul kind of first entered
Speaker 1: maybe in twenty seventeen, like a year later, but I
Speaker 1: never thought I would get tired or just like, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm doing too much, don't he do it? And it's yeah,
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's also like it costs and relationships, like
Speaker 1: you have two full grown sons, you got kids and
Speaker 1: different spouses than you did when you first started this
Speaker 1: jouring or what. I don't know. I think maybe in
Speaker 1: the last four or five years, that's where I was
Speaker 1: where I was just like I was living my dreams,
Speaker 1: but like coming home to the worst silence ever, like
Speaker 1: nothing pains me, Alexand quest's what.
Speaker 5: The lyric was, thank.
Speaker 7: You and you've learned to accept your flowers. I feel
Speaker 7: like that's the thing you've learned over these years we've
Speaker 7: been doing this. That's that you know how to accept
Speaker 7: the compliment now like you never have before.
Speaker 5: You know, and it's given to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, But also I will on the professional front, I
Speaker 1: listened to four early episodes all last week, and I
Speaker 1: have to say that I think all of us have
Speaker 1: done a remarkable job in our interviewing skills. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, like what we're doing now will still apply
Speaker 1: to where we are in our lives, but I would
Speaker 1: like to actually say that, yeah, I mean there were
Speaker 1: some episodes that were chaotic. Of course, you know Fante's
Speaker 1: I roll in at the small episode, Yo, classic, that
Speaker 1: ship was crazy.
Speaker 3: We had fun.
Speaker 1: It's not his favorite episode.
Speaker 11: It was I mean, it was fine, you know, it
Speaker 11: was cool.
Speaker 1: They were cool.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yes, he was so funny. I don't know
Speaker 5: what to do with him.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it was a special episode. I enjoyed it because
Speaker 1: it was just, you know, just hearing them scream on
Speaker 1: top of each other. But yes, it was chaotic funny.
Speaker 1: But I will say that in terms of interviewing and
Speaker 1: getting to know people and that sort of thing, that's
Speaker 1: what I felt that this this platform had given me.
Speaker 1: And also you know the fact that choosing you guys.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Sean G. Because you can't be saying
Speaker 5: you chose me because called me Yo.
Speaker 1: I just showed up. But who said it to Sea G.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I thought it was Sean G.
Speaker 1: I'm a person too. What you thought you was? Just
Speaker 1: like you arrived at the doors, stoped with it in
Speaker 1: a basket given to me by the fire department.
Speaker 5: Like an assignment, like so take this good luck.
Speaker 1: No, but Shawing heard the pilot. He was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of inside talk here. You guys don't
Speaker 1: explain you're talking over each other. You need someone experienced
Speaker 1: and you know, hide to stopterone. You need a lady,
Speaker 1: a woman in here to put you guys in line.
Speaker 1: And of course you know.
Speaker 5: The third person. I thought it was like.
Speaker 4: Two years before you started this podcast when I had
Speaker 4: first heard Q Tips podcast on Apple.
Speaker 5: And I was like, yo, we should do something like this.
Speaker 5: And do you know this fool said to me.
Speaker 4: You know I'm working on something, and it took know you.
Speaker 1: You already know that y'all taught me this. That there's
Speaker 1: Ronald McDonald and then there's Ray kroc u Less. Yes, indeed, we.
Speaker 5: Have talked about him.
Speaker 1: You know that I am Ronald McDonald no matter how
Speaker 1: you cut it. I know that in your eye rolling already.
Speaker 1: You know you always go to the very crock first
Speaker 1: instead of ron McDonald. When I want jay Z to
Speaker 1: do something, I don't go to jay Z to ask
Speaker 1: him to do I know who to ask to get
Speaker 1: him to be like, hey, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's just the name of the game.
Speaker 4: And by the way, that's shan Gee episode also one
Speaker 4: of our sleepers, like, yes, very good episode.
Speaker 3: James Boyser episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was great. So yeah, I will say that
Speaker 1: what I learned, especially like last year, and you know,
Speaker 1: the total transparency. We had a real talk last night
Speaker 1: at dinner as a family, as as friends without microphones
Speaker 1: and whatever, and basically I felt like, especially with last year,
Speaker 1: there was a commonality where, you know, I had nine
Speaker 1: businesses open with nine imagine what it takes to run
Speaker 1: this and know that there's eight other this world, like
Speaker 1: when I do my bookshit, there's eight of this in
Speaker 1: the food, shit, this shit, root stuff, movie stuff like.
Speaker 1: And I realized probably last year that yes, even though
Speaker 1: the businesses are up and running and thriving, but I'm
Speaker 1: also failing in the personal relationship one on one thing,
Speaker 1: which a lot of that is also just the reluctant leadership,
Speaker 1: which I had to work on a lot of it
Speaker 1: is also just not knowing how to communicate, which is
Speaker 1: like called for another therapist. I got two therapists. Oh no, brow,
Speaker 1: I had to get two therapists just.
Speaker 5: To are any of your therapists of color?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, Jaska. And so it's pretty much like
Speaker 1: I had to learn, especially for this platform. My decision
Speaker 1: thought decision was also the thought decision to kind of
Speaker 1: bring this to a closer land the plane was basically
Speaker 1: like what were my bottom like, what's my priority? Set
Speaker 1: you on fire? Like for me, the roots will always
Speaker 1: be my number one thing. Movies I have a passion
Speaker 1: for doing that. Book writing is not so on fire.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be the book company and people write there's
Speaker 1: shit just going down the list. But this, as far
Speaker 1: as this is concerned, even though I love nerding out
Speaker 1: on meeting people whatever, I just wasn't able to really
Speaker 1: give this the commitment that I felt it would deserve.
Speaker 1: And I felt like it was also putting a strain
Speaker 1: on us personally as people, and I love our camaraderie
Speaker 1: on and off the air. So that's my version of
Speaker 1: like landing the plane, at least as far as this
Speaker 1: episode's concerned. So I had a lot of learning to do,
Speaker 1: like last year, as people are concerned, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we all did.
Speaker 10: I think back to the personal the evolution question that
Speaker 10: I think one of the viewers asked, I think for me,
Speaker 10: this definitely everything you said one hundred percent. You know,
Speaker 10: we kind of watched from the sidelines. I guess there's
Speaker 10: like one of your homeboys becomes you know, famous.
Speaker 11: You know what I mean.
Speaker 10: And so for me, I just always kind of gave
Speaker 10: that grace of just understand. It's like, listen, this has
Speaker 10: got to be a total mindfucking I've said this. You know,
Speaker 10: it's got to be a mindfucker to go from drumming
Speaker 10: on South Street to now you got Obama in your phone,
Speaker 10: you know what I mean. And that's and to go
Speaker 10: through that kind of trajectory, and you know the amount
Speaker 10: of time that that happened, you know, I knew that
Speaker 10: was a lot. And so for me, because I do
Speaker 10: know some people that ask, like why you know I
Speaker 10: left the show, I only left. The first time I left,
Speaker 10: it was because I was have a cigarettes.
Speaker 11: I was not.
Speaker 1: I'm not out for fucking cigarettes.
Speaker 10: I was on tour with my group Little Brother, because
Speaker 10: we just came back. When I first known one album
Speaker 10: they a little Watch it number one, and I couldn't,
Speaker 10: you know, I couldn't. I couldn't do both. It was
Speaker 10: just you know, two times, you.
Speaker 1: Knew where I'm discovering now that you can't do both.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you get something's gotta give, yeah, you know, because
Speaker 10: it's gonna eventually that neglect is gonna show up.
Speaker 1: In your product, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: And so you know, man, so yeah, that was the
Speaker 10: first time, and then this last time, I think it
Speaker 10: was just kind of what you were saying.
Speaker 11: It just kind of definitely felt.
Speaker 1: Like the show.
Speaker 10: I just saw like kind of where your career is
Speaker 10: going to what you're involved in. It was just like, yeah,
Speaker 10: I think it's time. You know, for me, it was time.
Speaker 10: I had my own work to do. And uh, you know,
Speaker 10: we was our twenty anniversary of foreign exchange period, so
Speaker 10: you know, I was able to get nick you know
Speaker 10: on we you know, able to celebrate that. You know,
Speaker 10: we had a slew releases from our label and stuff.
Speaker 10: Last year, my son graduated high school and like.
Speaker 11: Winning the congratulations, thank you man.
Speaker 10: And and then you know, at the end of the year,
Speaker 10: I lost my best friend, Big Milk.
Speaker 11: He died in September.
Speaker 10: So you know, even if I had a stayed on,
Speaker 10: you know, it was still I didn't have room for it.
Speaker 10: I just didn't have like this because I had life
Speaker 10: shit that you know was happening. And you know, it
Speaker 10: was this thing where I think we did a good job,
Speaker 10: where I think we're all at now is that understanding.
Speaker 11: It's like, listen, man, everything ends.
Speaker 10: You just hope that in the best case scenario, you
Speaker 10: can sit and talk about it and it doesn't have
Speaker 10: to end in chaos. And I think that is the
Speaker 10: biggest part for me in terms of watching you know
Speaker 10: how I've seen certain entities end over my life as
Speaker 10: anyone has seen the LB DOT you know, it was lived.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 10: I like that we're all at a place where we
Speaker 10: can all decide like, hey, this is where it ends.
Speaker 10: We've told our story and our relationships are no less
Speaker 10: you know, no less, not any less stronger or any
Speaker 10: you know, any more love, loss or whatever.
Speaker 11: And that's what I'm most proud of.
Speaker 10: And you know, this has been an amazing journey man,
Speaker 10: like over nine years, like you know, I mean you
Speaker 10: was joking earlier, but it's them being divorces, it's being
Speaker 10: kids born, it's being like it's you know, real shit
Speaker 10: that happened, and uh, you know, outside of just the
Speaker 10: work that we do here, like y'all are all like
Speaker 10: my friends, Like I love y'all man like straight like that,
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, and so too, Yeah, thank
Speaker 10: you for all of you know, and and this is
Speaker 10: whatever you know a lot of times me and like
Speaker 10: you talked about last night, when you're doing times with friends,
Speaker 10: doing work with friends, you have to kind of stop
Speaker 10: sometimes and differentiate. It's like, Okay, I know there's not
Speaker 10: a malicious bone in this person's body.
Speaker 11: I know it's not malicious. So they're not.
Speaker 1: Being a shitty friend.
Speaker 10: They are just trying to navigate this business, and I
Speaker 10: have to give them that grace to say, Okay, bro,
Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's not their fault it sometimes the business is shitty,
Speaker 4: but they're still a good friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, right, It's it's like, yeah, it's cool and you know,
Speaker 11: but yeah, took.
Speaker 5: Me a minute.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, that took me a minute.
Speaker 4: See, my whole life has been a little different, like
Speaker 4: doing radio and Philadelphia and going being an advocate for
Speaker 4: you guys on my own. Now you never, nobody ever
Speaker 4: forced me to be an advocate for the Root, but
Speaker 4: it was just what I felt in my heart, and
Speaker 4: then the music and going into Shawn Gee's office at
Speaker 4: some point and being like I want to work with y'all.
Speaker 5: I have to.
Speaker 4: I want to do something because it's just something more here,
Speaker 4: which that was like that might have been fifteen years
Speaker 4: ago and fast forward to this being like the first
Speaker 4: time working with you guys.
Speaker 5: It's been an interesting journey and separate.
Speaker 4: Like Fante said, like, I'm just getting to the point
Speaker 4: now where i can separate the friendship from the business
Speaker 4: because it's been.
Speaker 5: About a rocky road.
Speaker 4: I think probably out of everybody sitting here, I've probably
Speaker 4: had a little bit of a more rockiest road.
Speaker 1: You know, because you have the longest history, like you would,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: The longest history. This is my profession. Nobody else makes
Speaker 4: money off of doing this but me. So I came
Speaker 4: in here also like hoping to, you know, get their
Speaker 4: respect in that way because I'm the person that has
Speaker 4: been doing broadcasting for all of their career and had
Speaker 4: to felt like I had to earn it in these
Speaker 4: eight years again, like I have really had to earn
Speaker 4: it and make my way and make my voice be
Speaker 4: heard and doubled and get in when you hit fit
Speaker 4: in and not talk. All the stuff that I've learned
Speaker 4: a long time ago. Now I'm experienced it with co
Speaker 4: hosts who've never been taught it. So between that and
Speaker 4: you know, just again separating the business from the friendship.
Speaker 4: Last night, was a real moment in that conversation Fonte
Speaker 4: where I really went like, you know, a mirror.
Speaker 5: He came through from me, and I.
Speaker 4: Didn't really see it because it was all this other
Speaker 4: stuff going on with other people. But when I needed him,
Speaker 4: he came through for me. When he first felt like
Speaker 4: this wasn't for him anymore, he called me that day like,
Speaker 4: I remember you called me when I was at Jeff's
Speaker 4: house and he was like, I'm and so for that,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna get emotional, but like, oh.
Speaker 5: This is the progress that I have made.
Speaker 4: I have to make for me, and no more other
Speaker 4: people saying like, yeah, you're the shit you deserve to
Speaker 4: be here.
Speaker 5: I don't see that anymore.
Speaker 1: Now. It's like, let me like that. I one hundred
Speaker 1: appreciate you and love you for I know. I don't
Speaker 1: want to just be a kryy jowing. She got the
Speaker 1: cry out. Good, just let her cry. It's fine.
Speaker 11: It's important.
Speaker 1: You said something when we when we talked that day,
Speaker 1: when I was like, look, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to continue to do this, and you gave an
Speaker 1: analogy where it was like, you're right. I didn't think
Speaker 1: of it as you know, we've been running this business
Speaker 1: as a corner store. We talked about it, right, We've
Speaker 1: always had a corner store community kind of you a
Speaker 1: corporation now, my boy, right, and we're basically Amazon now.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately it's like seven people running all of Amazon,
Speaker 1: and some shit's been very shitty, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: it pains me when my friends are paid because like
Speaker 1: all last year is where I'm just like, all right,
Speaker 1: take it a mirror, like you know, most people in
Speaker 1: my position will get defensive, petty and all it.
Speaker 5: And we're born on the same day, like.
Speaker 1: Right, and so I'm not saying it lightly. Like this
Speaker 1: is probably the most important lesson that I've learned in life,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you for bringing that to me. Fonte Layah, Bill,
Speaker 1: Damn Bill, I'm just realizing now I didn't even ask you,
Speaker 1: like what you learned? Bill, I'm good.
Speaker 7: No, I actually feel like I've noticed this being here
Speaker 7: at all, and I think I learned the most period.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, you're the person that's always
Speaker 1: said like you've learned the most from this show. Well,
Speaker 1: I thank you for joining the Fray, because you know,
Speaker 1: back then you were a guest but not to digress,
Speaker 1: let me pull it back. Yes, la Yah, I absolutely
Speaker 1: twelve thousand appreciate the work that you've done. You teach
Speaker 1: me everything from communication how to treat you as a person.
Speaker 1: We definitely had our rifts and our TIFs, and that
Speaker 1: hurt my feelings when you said that I didn't realize
Speaker 1: something out of line, and yeah, there's a lot on
Speaker 1: the editing floor, thank god, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 10: I ask, how do you know when it's over? You
Speaker 10: know what I'm saying, Like we talked about a little
Speaker 10: bit last night. How do you know when it's time
Speaker 10: to end the thing?
Speaker 1: You know? It's just I think in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is when okay, So what I realized about me was
Speaker 1: working was my numb thing. That was my avoidance, avoidance,
Speaker 1: And you only truly feel shit when you get to
Speaker 1: sit alone in silence and really you know understand it.
Speaker 1: So you know, kind of when the first business entity
Speaker 1: before this okay came to light was having issues, I
Speaker 1: was on my defensive, joining, well, they don't know if
Speaker 1: they talking about whatever, and you know, I'm doing nineteen
Speaker 1: things a day and never never, whatever. And then when
Speaker 1: it all all to twenty twenty four was just aspiral
Speaker 1: after spiral after spiral to spiral to spiral, and so
Speaker 1: you know, both coaches therapists were basically like, sit with that,
Speaker 1: and how did it feel when the person told you
Speaker 1: like you were being unconsidered about da da da da da,
Speaker 1: or that you're not a good listener or you're not
Speaker 1: a good communicator or that sort of thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I had to sit with it, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think what I did in twenty twenty four was
Speaker 1: pretty much I started to I did less numbing things
Speaker 1: and found my humanity or learn how to feel. And
Speaker 1: that's when And I joked yesterday.
Speaker 11: Like real boy, I'm a real boy.
Speaker 1: But that's the truth. And I joke yesterday at dinner
Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, the thing that scares me
Speaker 1: the most was like, I didn't know how much I
Speaker 1: like sleeping.
Speaker 5: It's so good. I don't know which one is better,
Speaker 5: sleeping or eating.
Speaker 4: But if you're sleeping, you don't have to eating again anyway,
Speaker 4: I think it's sleeping.
Speaker 1: I'd rather sleep, which you know, and I feel like
Speaker 1: even that's a part of the process of not being
Speaker 1: hyper aware of like, oh, I should be learning ten
Speaker 1: songs right now for the for the next DJ gig,
Speaker 1: I do seven months from now, or let me play
Speaker 1: on the roots picnic da let me And I was
Speaker 1: that eight month ahead, two year ahead person instead of
Speaker 1: being present. And I hate the fact. I hate the
Speaker 1: fact that, like twenty sixteen, the administration that we're dealing
Speaker 1: with now, especially right now, Yeah, has literally taught me
Speaker 1: how to live in the present. Like unfortunately, I said,
Speaker 1: like I want to learn how to live in the present.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like me putting out to the universe. Hey, okay,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 5: So now that's all we can do.
Speaker 1: We're literally now like twenty four hours a day. I
Speaker 1: have to go through the same affirmation process this morning,
Speaker 1: got up at eight o'clock in the morning, had to
Speaker 1: do literally living and pressing every day. So I mean
Speaker 1: that's yeah.
Speaker 10: Man, And it's and it's you know, and this, and
Speaker 10: I mean I hope people like when they listen to this,
Speaker 10: I hope they take away you know, I'm so thankful
Speaker 10: that we had a chance to bring this to the
Speaker 10: world and like bring joy to so many people. And
Speaker 10: you know, they enjoyed the show and everything. But we
Speaker 10: are literally figuring this shit out on the fly, you
Speaker 10: know what I mean, Like even with you know, you
Speaker 10: said like it like you had the radio experience, but
Speaker 10: coming into this, it's like it's a totally different thing.
Speaker 10: I mean a lot of it does apply, but it's
Speaker 10: still just a different landscape and not even.
Speaker 5: Used to people wanting to hear you talk for more
Speaker 5: than two minutes, right.
Speaker 10: Right, yeah, because radio is you know, so yeah, and
Speaker 10: so it's a big difference. And you know, I think,
Speaker 10: you know, and listening to your story, you know, I
Speaker 10: kind of saw a lot of things just kind of
Speaker 10: from the back, you know, just watching how you navigate
Speaker 10: and you know, navigating just doing directing and falling and
Speaker 10: all of this. And I think it was one of
Speaker 10: the biggest lessons I learned was just kind of seeing
Speaker 10: the difference between management versus leadership.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about leadership.
Speaker 10: Management is just kind of just kind of cattle call
Speaker 10: you just kind of just you know, a task master.
Speaker 10: But leadership speaks more to people's personal development, and that's
Speaker 10: where the personal relationships come in. Like if I know
Speaker 10: that Bill likes this, or I think I was like,
Speaker 10: hey man, I think you'll be good in this role.
Speaker 11: Let me get you over here and speak to that.
Speaker 10: But you really have to have those conversations with your
Speaker 10: people in order to know that. And you know, that
Speaker 10: was one of the biggest things I saw and just
Speaker 10: kind of y'all's I guess, you know if you say
Speaker 10: from mom and pop to Amazon, that was one of
Speaker 10: the things you kind of you kind of got to
Speaker 10: have as a leader. And you talk about being a
Speaker 10: reluctant leader. I get it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: It's certainly things that I've struggled with, certainly, things that
Speaker 10: I you know, I just want to make music and
Speaker 10: just you know, you just want to do the thing,
Speaker 10: but there's doing the thing. But then you got to
Speaker 10: be the guy, like you said, like Ron McDonald versus
Speaker 10: Ray Kroc. It's like, yo, I just want to cook burgers,
Speaker 10: dog That's all I love to do. But now I
Speaker 10: gotta go be the guy to sell the burgers.
Speaker 11: You know what I mean?
Speaker 10: And uh yeah, And it just gets to a point
Speaker 10: which is like, yeah, I'm tired of that ship.
Speaker 1: I just want to make burgers. Let's let me also,
Speaker 1: uh let's let's give gratitude to the team that also
Speaker 1: helps us. You run things goes without saying uh, you
Speaker 1: know with Brittany and cousin Jake, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for uh your your keeping the train patients and contributions and.
Speaker 11: Yeah, immaculate notes because.
Speaker 1: Listen, yes, come on. But also many animators who have
Speaker 1: made our animation for our I g all the countless
Speaker 1: of engineers who have edit uh sudes and whatnot, you too,
Speaker 1: Steve Camera, and even a shout out to iHeart thank
Speaker 1: you you know for for making this our home.
Speaker 4: And our producers like the old and new, from Scottie
Speaker 4: Riggs to Evan Yeah.
Speaker 1: Open Scotty, Let's go. Scotty still pages us.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you recall Scott was our only producer that
Speaker 4: you actually saw all the time and was on Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Scott, it was yeah part of the Mike too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Litle Chris Rock Yeah st yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: Also respond to text messages within seconds.
Speaker 13: Scott is a great If you are a woman who
Speaker 13: are texting Scott Riggs and he don't hit you back quick,
Speaker 13: he don't get out of there you don't like it,
Speaker 13: he would like your Instagram post immediately.
Speaker 5: Also, did you doing this?
Speaker 4: Can we just have a moment for the great studios
Speaker 4: that we've been in. I mean we started in the
Speaker 4: East Coast and we I mean from Reservoir, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: Reservoir Reservoir, Electric Lady Hints and Sunset initially our first
Speaker 4: l a trip. These were hand picked by Steve. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of new were hand picked, Like Steve was like,
Speaker 4: can we go here?
Speaker 5: Can we go there? We recorded in Capitol Records, the.
Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra Room, Sunset Sound, Yeah, Sunset, the Prince the
Speaker 1: Prince Beaver Room in Sunset Sound. Uh oh, where did
Speaker 1: they do the bad album? Where we went to Bubbles
Speaker 1: is uh nursery West Westlake?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I forgot about West west Lake Studio where they still
Speaker 1: had Michael Jackson's uh nursery for Bubbles and his uh
Speaker 1: his crib.
Speaker 4: And the few home recordings because I can only remember
Speaker 4: Jimmy jam Linda Perry.
Speaker 11: Perry was dope Quincy.
Speaker 5: Sorry, y'all.
Speaker 3: Shout out to No Brown and Brian Calhoun.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the unbothered Brian Calhoun.
Speaker 5: He missed his last episode.
Speaker 11: So unbothered.
Speaker 1: I didn't bother the right.
Speaker 11: Shout man.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been we've been rather diplomatic in terms
Speaker 1: of not letting family uh grievances or or business out
Speaker 1: there like that. So I will respectfully, no, I will
Speaker 1: respectfully give Boss Bill a shoutout absolutely because you know
Speaker 1: about him, I wouldn't be here, you know, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: he's part of the you know, part of the foundation.
Speaker 3: Anyway, say you have self address stamp.
Speaker 1: Give you that number. I also learned that you know,
Speaker 1: it's a clean slate and when you hold strife in, yes,
Speaker 1: that's the important thing. That's the important thing. Like and
Speaker 1: I know we live now and I told you so.
Speaker 1: I never thought the tigers would eat my face time.
Speaker 1: I told you yeah. And redemption and you know is key,
Speaker 1: but you know.
Speaker 3: We'll do a reunion episode.
Speaker 1: Therapy.
Speaker 5: There you got through one fan question.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Abody asked something about what is elaborate on
Speaker 4: the statement witness protection jam and Lewis been super curious
Speaker 4: about that since it was said.
Speaker 1: When you say witness protection program, that was the name
Speaker 1: of the me bulou glasper like our yeah boom pitgeess
Speaker 1: like our our fake group name called the witness Protection program.
Speaker 3: But is there another question?
Speaker 5: What was it?
Speaker 4: What was a conversation for everybody just answered us? What
Speaker 4: was an interview that we did that was really hard
Speaker 4: for you to get through.
Speaker 10: Let me see, which I wouldn't say, Frankie Beverley, that
Speaker 10: wasn't hard to get through.
Speaker 11: It wasn't hard, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: But it definitely that was another thing too that we learned.
Speaker 10: You learned patience, you know what I'm saying, because, like
Speaker 10: you said, with radio, it's like, just give me the
Speaker 10: quick thirty second sound bite. But you know with this one,
Speaker 10: you know, you really sitting with the masters and the elders,
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, and so you have to
Speaker 10: give them space to tell their story.
Speaker 11: They may remember some stuff they might not.
Speaker 1: It made.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like, oh wow, it made us all
Speaker 4: more conscious in that way we were dealing with elders.
Speaker 5: Even when we dealt with Wayne.
Speaker 4: Shorter, like I noticed, everybody kind of figured out, okay, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Let it breathe, Let it breathe. That part I didn't
Speaker 1: know about the game, like the selective memory part or
Speaker 1: the you know, just did.
Speaker 3: You forget what you were going to say?
Speaker 1: Just exactly.
Speaker 3: What about your one on ones? What was the most
Speaker 3: difficult one on one for you?
Speaker 1: They weren't difficult, actually, you know, I had a lot
Speaker 1: of Fear was my first one.
Speaker 3: Willow Falling by Yourself.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that was the first one.
Speaker 1: See I don't I forgot about the Michelle Obama episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that really didn't count. Andre Steve Farrooon was great. I
Speaker 1: just the inside joke of met us never being in
Speaker 1: the same room, because of course, the story is that
Speaker 1: I went to Madison Square Garden to watch him drum
Speaker 1: in person finally, and I took a bunch of adult
Speaker 1: fruit shoes and.
Speaker 7: Can we can we talk about that night for one second? Yeah,
Speaker 7: because I was there and that was one of the
Speaker 7: craziest experiences as a musician I've ever seen my life.
Speaker 7: We were in your car thing and you were making
Speaker 7: charts of John Mayer tunes as we drove to Madison's
Speaker 7: Wear Garden and learning the song, learning the songs at
Speaker 7: the same time, and then you went on and just
Speaker 7: crushed it for what was supposed to be what like
Speaker 7: two songs, and he stayed played the whole set.
Speaker 1: I think, well, initially it was like the whole show,
Speaker 1: and I was like, there's no way I can learn
Speaker 1: all this. So he came up with the eleventh hour
Speaker 1: idea of just let me unplug the first nine songs
Speaker 1: and then Amere comes in and play the second half.
Speaker 1: And but the thing was, I took the adult fruit.
Speaker 7: Choose I remember way before started the show.
Speaker 1: I know, but I like calling adult fruits. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was when I was a newly micro dooser of mushrooms
Speaker 1: and so.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I took them. And then Piano's like and
Speaker 1: I was like, uh so not. I mean, I wasn't
Speaker 1: out of my mind, but I was definitely stimulated. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, you and John Mayer come.
Speaker 5: Through for each other, because this is a call back
Speaker 5: to root.
Speaker 4: You know, that's reach Picnic where him and Daved pel
Speaker 4: came in on the clinch for you because it was
Speaker 4: the end Angelo.
Speaker 1: That was that was a special day man, all of us.
Speaker 10: That was the first time we also around and the
Speaker 10: freestyle oh right yeo.
Speaker 1: Anyway we talked about that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got a question for everybody to Okay, who
Speaker 4: do you wish we would have just got on before
Speaker 4: we ended this thing.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start it. God damn Anderson Pack and I
Speaker 5: wanted him so bad. I wanted I wanted.
Speaker 1: I hate to tell you this, boy.
Speaker 5: What would you do? What did you do. You did
Speaker 5: a show? What did you do?
Speaker 1: No? I finally connected with Debbie Allen.
Speaker 5: Mother motherfucker?
Speaker 1: No I met her? How did I meet her?
Speaker 5: My other person?
Speaker 1: By the way, I randomly.
Speaker 11: Saw oh boy, uh nom Nixon.
Speaker 1: It's not Quest Left Supreme episode unless I do twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars Pyramids. Uh director twet beef with Dame
Speaker 1: Dash director.
Speaker 4: Oh Lee Daniels, Thank you twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: No. I saw him at the was it the Denzel
Speaker 1: Fellow joined? Okay, I saw him. She was just plus one.
Speaker 5: Oh that's cute.
Speaker 1: And I thought I was introducing myself and she's like, child,
Speaker 1: I know you are, And I was like.
Speaker 4: Ah, I didn't send her like three.
Speaker 10: So yeah, yeah, we didn't get Latifa. I really I
Speaker 10: really wanted to get Latifa. Angela Wimbush was another one
Speaker 10: that I really really Yeah.
Speaker 11: Man, I I want to talk to man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So Yeahea Wimbush was that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, didn't even tell you about the five funeral,
Speaker 1: all right. The thing is it's like a funeral. I
Speaker 1: don't think one should hold the same standards of performance excellence.
Speaker 10: Yeah, as you're bandaging emotions, you're holding right, and the
Speaker 10: thing was I was just sold last minute, like, Yo,
Speaker 10: can you play Angel real quick?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can play it? So F five Suneral. It
Speaker 1: was at the Apollo, and I guess the default band
Speaker 1: was Me di'angelo, James Poyser the rest of the roots,
Speaker 1: I guess. So we did some ship with d it
Speaker 1: came off, we did another song. I forget what it was,
Speaker 1: and then someone yelled like angel Win wants to do Angel.
Speaker 1: These always like the King of I won't say what
Speaker 1: would be modern liquor house classics, like things that only
Speaker 1: like you know, flirt by cameo or like your uncle
Speaker 1: plays in the cassette. No, so he played it with her,
Speaker 1: But I mean it's always the moment where a singer
Speaker 1: is singing, especially without rehearsal. The one thing I'm trying
Speaker 1: to control is to keep them from turning back. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You never want that. And oh god, she got me
Speaker 1: at at like like and then like he's not playing
Speaker 1: it right, you missed a hit?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, like my song is my song and
Speaker 4: I mean y'all supposed to be the best that ever
Speaker 4: done it.
Speaker 1: Yeah that I immediately left after that because.
Speaker 11: That was a third Uh Stevie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, people did that Cartney.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got close. We got really close, really close.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did, we did. We did years ago.
Speaker 1: His name is Wow.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's what's just like we got close with Grace Jones.
Speaker 11: I mean she's you know, yeah, she.
Speaker 5: Was like, as long if you want ever come to London,
Speaker 5: you live in London. In Paris, they were like, if.
Speaker 1: You ever come pull up?
Speaker 5: All right, so what about y'all give all y'all people?
Speaker 7: And you're thinking, I don't know.
Speaker 5: We didn't do Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: Were we actually supposed to interview the Muppets as themselves?
Speaker 7: That was floated at some point, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you think that would have came off?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So my experience of doing that show was that when
Speaker 1: they would yell cut, they would still talk in that
Speaker 1: muppet voice for like a long timen't really end ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And even when I and even when I talked to them,
Speaker 1: they talking that character voice and I was like, wait
Speaker 1: the cameras to stop all why are you're still talking
Speaker 1: to me? Grover?
Speaker 7: You had a whole Grover bit that was That was
Speaker 7: a good day.
Speaker 1: You know, they showed I went to the Nets game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and they chose that as they're a bit
Speaker 1: you know, like who's sitting in the audience they went
Speaker 1: to that it was a rather a random choice.
Speaker 4: But oh wait, I'm sorry. Somebody asks a really good
Speaker 4: question for Bill. Can I ask this real quick? It
Speaker 4: says Bill on video, you're a really active listener, even
Speaker 4: when you weren't asking questions or talking much. Can you
Speaker 4: speak about knowing when to jump in as a personality
Speaker 4: as opposed to when others drive a discussion?
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7: Basically, I think one of the greatest lessons I've learned
Speaker 7: being on the show is when to shut the fuck up.
Speaker 7: And I think that that's a very important listen that
Speaker 7: anyone should know. And I say that because I feel
Speaker 7: like my touchstones of race and culture and life and
Speaker 7: everything have sort of moved around a lot since I've
Speaker 7: been a part of this, and I think that I've
Speaker 7: learned so much just by sitting near you guys and
Speaker 7: listening to you talk, and like, you know, I I'd
Speaker 7: like to say that growing up as a white kid
Speaker 7: on Long Island, you don't really get the sort of
Speaker 7: like house of Prayers and all the fucking nonsense and
Speaker 7: so and so it's been. I think years from now,
Speaker 7: if I look back on this, it will be it's.
Speaker 7: First of all, it's one of my favorite things to
Speaker 7: talk about. And I have a lot of crazy things
Speaker 7: in my life, but this is definitely one of the
Speaker 7: top two. And so I think years from now, I'll
Speaker 7: look back and just be like, that was the fucking
Speaker 7: craziest shit ever, Like just for all those who may
Speaker 7: or may not remember. Like Amir Lynn called me and
Speaker 7: said the Roots are going to produce the Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Record with you.
Speaker 7: I was like, great, that's a thing, Okay. I was terrified.
Speaker 7: And then you walked in and then I said Sesame
Speaker 7: Street and you said holy shit. And then you called
Speaker 7: me on a Tuesday and you said, hey, what are
Speaker 7: you doing tomorrow? And I said, I don't know what
Speaker 7: am I doing tomorrow? And you said you want to
Speaker 7: be the first guest on my podcast and I said, oh,
Speaker 7: clearly someone canceled.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, I'm totally And then my life's been so
Speaker 7: fucking weird ever since that day. And then and then
Speaker 7: you remember that it went on for like six hours.
Speaker 7: I thought I was gonna be there for like twenty
Speaker 7: minutes and then and then, and then he called me
Speaker 7: the week after he goes, listen, we can't pay you anything,
Speaker 7: just but just keep showing up. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 7: and I've just kept showing up. And that's my entire
Speaker 7: that's that's here we are. That that was ten years ago, years.
Speaker 10: Ago, even working with you man, I was I had
Speaker 10: a new respect for musicals because I never what else.
Speaker 1: Have y'all done together? Oh?
Speaker 11: We should have Ganglo assessed me? So we did.
Speaker 10: I was hiking boot in a rap battle, That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I was in the Almo rap bats.
Speaker 11: I was a hiking boot. And then there was another.
Speaker 1: Muppet, your boye nice I was.
Speaker 11: I was a hiking boot.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 11: I was a rapping banana. I've been.
Speaker 1: I was the banana. Like what do you say?
Speaker 11: It was?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 11: What was what was my banana?
Speaker 1: Which is use?
Speaker 10: Because I was like my whole thing. I was like
Speaker 10: I wanted it. It was like a Gzy tribute. So I
Speaker 10: was like, wouldn't be funny if it was like a
Speaker 10: trapping banana? So he was, God, what was my what
Speaker 10: was my bars?
Speaker 1: Having that live? Oh yeah?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah yeah, like it was.
Speaker 1: I was doing the old Jesus thing. Yeah shouts and jeezu.
Speaker 11: It was funny. But yeah, man, so done.
Speaker 1: We did that and stay tuned.
Speaker 7: There's an original.
Speaker 1: It'll be out by the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was out front to wrote a song for Sissa
Speaker 7: that's on Test Me Street Study fucking kill.
Speaker 1: Yeah man shout shouts My production partner zold Man. That
Speaker 1: joint was. That joint was crazy.
Speaker 11: That was another call so kind of like how you
Speaker 11: got on this show.
Speaker 10: I get a call from Bill Sherman or text It's like, hey, man,
Speaker 10: so if I needed a Sissor song in twenty four hours,
Speaker 10: you think you was so y'all can pull that off.
Speaker 10: Like I said, it's the only one way to find out, like,
Speaker 10: send me what you got. And he sent me like
Speaker 10: a little script, like a little you know, kind of
Speaker 10: blurb whatever. And we turned around and you know, normally
Speaker 10: a lot of that stuff. Man, you don't know if
Speaker 10: it's gonna go. I'm like, I think this will work.
Speaker 10: It feels good to us, but you know who knows
Speaker 10: and her people. She came back and she was like
Speaker 10: your best song ever, like we you know, she loved it.
Speaker 10: She did a great job. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 10: That joint was amazing man.
Speaker 4: So yes, okay, okay, one, one, Okay, this is I'm
Speaker 4: going to remix this question that you yes, the question
Speaker 4: as the Steve question, but go ahead.
Speaker 1: What is the future of Sesame Street?
Speaker 7: We'll always start shooting in two weeks season fifty six.
Speaker 7: So even though there was some shake up amongst the
Speaker 7: corporate business, I think they don't have a distribution partner
Speaker 7: quite yet, but we are making new episodes in a
Speaker 7: couple of weeks. Okay, so you're moving on Faith Faith,
Speaker 7: Faith Newman, We're moving on there you.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Okay, Steve, I know you didn't want the direct question,
Speaker 4: but I do want to know how to answer it.
Speaker 4: Is somebody asked, was The Roots the first hip hop
Speaker 4: act you ever worked with as an engineer? The question
Speaker 4: is who was the first person that you ever worked
Speaker 4: as an engineer? And can you speak to what made
Speaker 4: you and a mirror click? Because this relationship started whatsoever?
Speaker 4: And now it is twenty five years later?
Speaker 1: Bacon, thirty thirty years later?
Speaker 14: Excuse me, Bacon, I'll answer the second part first, would.
Speaker 3: I'm probably not going to answer the first part because.
Speaker 1: You don't know your first client.
Speaker 14: Was it's irrelevant to what we're talking about, but you know,
Speaker 14: it led to a better question. Well, I was randomly
Speaker 14: assigned as an assistant engineer to the Voodoo record after
Speaker 14: the first two or three assistant engineers.
Speaker 1: To fail out.
Speaker 14: And as far as what we bonded over, I think
Speaker 14: I've always pointed to the fact that we were both
Speaker 14: bringing different things to the table with regards to musical tastes,
Speaker 14: but there were there was some crossover, and I always
Speaker 14: point to pet Sounds as the crossover thing that we
Speaker 14: both kind of obsessed over for a long time, and
Speaker 14: and just everything since. You know, I think maybe out
Speaker 14: of all of us, because of the length of time
Speaker 14: that I've been working with him, have learned the most
Speaker 14: with regards to music that I didn't know about it
Speaker 14: before I met him. I had some I have the
Speaker 14: same experience with black music essentially that Amir had with
Speaker 14: white music, which was we heard what was on the radio,
Speaker 14: which was kind of the most mediocre stuff, you know
Speaker 14: when it comes down to it, So we all we
Speaker 14: kind of share that love for I guess kitchen poppy
Speaker 14: stuff from the eighties.
Speaker 10: As evidenced by your wonderful rendition of is this the end?
Speaker 10: You have to have that as a standalone. I feel
Speaker 10: like to release that. So yeah, you have just put
Speaker 10: it on soundclouds.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 14: Well, my love for what you keep calling I guess
Speaker 14: black yat rock is you.
Speaker 5: Said white music. I'm like, that's just music. They just
Speaker 5: call that music these days. That's what they do black music.
Speaker 1: They music music.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and shout out to the Jeffrey Osborne episode while
Speaker 14: we were there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I learned a lot from that episode. All right,
Speaker 1: So before we wrap, is there an artist that you
Speaker 1: had a positive experience with that you didn't expect would
Speaker 1: be good not to be good? Okay, I will start
Speaker 1: by saying, and I still maintained if we had to
Speaker 1: put a top ten list of all time episodes, the
Speaker 1: way we laughed during the Family Stand episode.
Speaker 10: Damn, I forgot about that, my girl, and she was
Speaker 10: that I was on tour for that.
Speaker 5: That was a reservoir to family Family Stand.
Speaker 11: So it was that was Sondra Saint Victor was Peter Yeah, okay, wow.
Speaker 1: If there ever was a I don't mean I got
Speaker 1: you journalists episode, but it was almost like them as
Speaker 1: the interviewers were. You know, I was trying to be whatever,
Speaker 1: like the amount probably why we didn't get Miss Roon.
Speaker 5: That was one that she said yes years yes, her
Speaker 5: and Susan to pass.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of smoke for Oh okay, Atlantic Records.
Speaker 11: I gotta go back and listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Electric Records.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I gotta go back and listen to that one.
Speaker 1: It's a master like compared to the Christmas episodes, which
Speaker 1: were always funny, say.
Speaker 7: The Christmas the Twelve Days of Fante, Like, do you
Speaker 7: remember the Christmas?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, early yeah, where I was like, next year, I
Speaker 4: gotta find my girl at work and do say we
Speaker 4: need some mope?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, So literally I'll say the family stand.
Speaker 5: Probably holds up, thanks Tyler.
Speaker 1: Next to uh, the Gina Christmas episode, as you know,
Speaker 1: where I laughed so hard that possibly added like a
Speaker 1: stomach although.
Speaker 4: A mirror I will counter that. And I'm sorry, Fante,
Speaker 4: this is another one you missed. But I feel like
Speaker 4: we died laughing in this room, small room. Johnny Gill
Speaker 4: was busting section sections, busting sessions.
Speaker 5: Well this is not gonna sound right, but luth the
Speaker 5: vand draws. Let me just stop.
Speaker 1: Uh they been playing the dozen.
Speaker 5: You That's what I'm I go home.
Speaker 1: Yes, I got you.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 14: I don't remember what the what the question is, but
Speaker 14: I want to bring up some of the.
Speaker 1: Well what guests surprised you? I didn't expect the family
Speaker 1: staying episode.
Speaker 3: The politicians that we interviewed.
Speaker 14: Clinton was awesome in Atlanta and a lot of the
Speaker 14: journalists definitely.
Speaker 10: Him exchanged gamer doing PS five Ah, but we exchanged gaming.
Speaker 4: I got to bring up a guests that I know
Speaker 4: made y'all feel kind of crazy, but I found it
Speaker 4: were her, so well, May she forever rest in peace,
Speaker 4: Ali Willis.
Speaker 5: Oh, Yeah, cause she.
Speaker 4: I mean the fact that she invited me over her
Speaker 4: house multiple times and we just key keyed and she
Speaker 4: gave me a tour of all of that black kitch.
Speaker 3: She's got a bobblehead of you now in the might.
Speaker 4: Be over there smoking out of watermelon papers and drinking
Speaker 4: cold for that five.
Speaker 1: The fact that we found out that she was part
Speaker 1: of just come running to me right right, yeah, by accident.
Speaker 1: That that was crazy. Is there any other guests that
Speaker 1: like Steve Miller and Miller him inventing the in ere Yeah,
Speaker 1: and using FM radio McDonalds.
Speaker 4: Michael McDonald's ferguson South Saint Louis. Yes, Michael McDonald was
Speaker 4: pretty awesome, and so was Hooty.
Speaker 1: Darius.
Speaker 5: Hoody really was greater than I would have thought he
Speaker 5: would have been.
Speaker 1: So what what I'll say to our listeners is and
Speaker 1: the prime reason and much of the cagrene of the
Speaker 1: publicists that would have their guests or like, our show
Speaker 1: was always a retrospect of a career and a journey
Speaker 1: less about not just the album, which is why I
Speaker 1: feel as though these episodes will still be timeless because
Speaker 1: its history in the future.
Speaker 5: And I know he was loud, but y'all, Billy Porter
Speaker 5: change life. I don't care.
Speaker 1: He told you.
Speaker 14: Yes, speaking of people listening to these episodes into the future,
Speaker 14: which I assume they're all going to be available, I
Speaker 14: just want to point to our wiki page, which was
Speaker 14: recently updated and nice and made nice with the help
Speaker 14: of Jake by a friend doth your cousin Jake, and
Speaker 14: Dorothy Howard who's Dorothy out wikipedian who's helped out greatly
Speaker 14: with the page. So all the shows are listed now
Speaker 14: and eventually they'll be links that will take you directly
Speaker 14: from from the wiki page.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna reach out to you for that, we're
Speaker 1: getting the treatment, all right, So let me let me
Speaker 1: just say this, so, Steve, I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for really planting the seed that this could be done.
Speaker 1: Because as much as we joked back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand and one, two thousand and two, listen
Speaker 1: to studio rats and all your little side projects and whatever.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to talk about it, but you're definitely
Speaker 1: a person who quietly will push me to do something
Speaker 1: that I didn't think was possible. And sometimes you know
Speaker 1: when to push me. A great example in game. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that later, but still in game. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: still at the end. Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's real
Speaker 1: and the guys leading the charge. Yes, in ways that
Speaker 1: I never imagined.
Speaker 5: Black thought episode one of the greatest of all.
Speaker 1: But I will say, Steve, thank you for being the
Speaker 1: person that pushes me to do things. Fante. You are
Speaker 1: the heart of this show and thank you. I think
Speaker 1: keeping it Real has been so overused that it's almost
Speaker 1: doesn't mean much anymore. But you know, I think everyone
Speaker 1: will universally agree that all the episodes that you're on
Speaker 1: that you provided.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about all the times when you were look
Speaker 4: at me for gotcha questions and Fante would ask them.
Speaker 1: Episode is one of the great episode.
Speaker 7: Music that kid open that door, right though, Oh.
Speaker 10: My god, yeah yeah, fun times tis.
Speaker 1: Like Fante would boldy go where no question will.
Speaker 14: Your publicist told us that you don't want to talk
Speaker 14: about your relationships, So what's going on with reship?
Speaker 1: Hey, shoot a shoot, there you go. She was gonna shoot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the stowaway of the crew and you you know,
Speaker 1: you wrote with us, but thank you for consistently riding
Speaker 1: with us, and you know you definitely come through the
Speaker 1: clutch also with like your fandom and your fascination for
Speaker 1: guests that have come on the show.
Speaker 5: And thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I totally forgot he was. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of episodes I forgot about. Thank you people, and also
Speaker 1: you know, like help make my dream come true because
Speaker 1: I was. You made fun of the fact that I
Speaker 1: still actively watched Sesame Street long after me.
Speaker 3: It is for children.
Speaker 1: Long after.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 1: Right, right, you got it, And like, yes, you hold
Speaker 1: all of our feet to the fire and and our toes.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to go after that, And everything
Speaker 1: I said I absolutely meant. I love you all dearly,
Speaker 1: and I think love you, to love you, to yes,
Speaker 1: I love you. That's all the reasons be here. Thank
Speaker 1: you man, you know we really we appreciate this seriously.
Speaker 5: Thank you and your evolution. Look at you all grown
Speaker 5: up now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going and scared to death to be growing
Speaker 1: love on behalf of the entire staff that brings this
Speaker 1: to you, Uh, Brittany and Jake, all everyone behind Manart
Speaker 1: and Bryan and Sean and everyone that you mentioned, everyone
Speaker 1: who films our show, you who watched the show. Brittany,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, all the.
Speaker 4: Record reps, all the publicists that repeatedly came back.
Speaker 5: I just want to shout them out to Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, shouts to Nicole and rap a big pool. Yeah,
Speaker 10: little brother we ever have a little brother and for
Speaker 10: an exchange on the show, and get your.
Speaker 1: Tickets to the Little Brothers last year. All right? Any
Speaker 1: projects coming up, Bill, Steve.
Speaker 11: Fuck it?
Speaker 7: Raising kids?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, we got t shirts coming out.
Speaker 1: That's important.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 1: Listen the way we came and y'all let's do it.
Speaker 9: Supreme Up, up, up, Supremo, roll, Supremo, Supremo, suprema, supremo role.
Speaker 5: It's like you and I believe it's time. Yeah for
Speaker 5: me to go, Yeah, for me to ride.
Speaker 9: Whareema su su supremo role suprema.
Speaker 7: No, I'm unpaid bill. Yeah it was episode one. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but I'm still here. Yeah, and now we're done.
Speaker 9: Up breva sup s subscreen roll suprema shut suppree My role.
Speaker 3: My name was Sugar.
Speaker 14: Yeah, big announcement to make. Yeah, I'm starting my own show.
Speaker 14: Yeah where I just get paked.
Speaker 9: Noma su su Suprema roll call Suprema, shut Suprema.
Speaker 11: My name is Fante. Yeah, y'all all my friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: By time on, this show has come to an e.
Speaker 1: Roll apprima s sprea. Thank you to the people. That's
Speaker 1: a great place to start and I love you all
Speaker 1: in the bottom of my iHeart.
Speaker 9: Up Bravo, Roll up, Bravo, sup sup up pre roll suprema.
Speaker 1: Thank you people, You're bye. Hey, what's up y'all? It's
Speaker 1: Quest left here And finally, after hearing that finale part
Speaker 1: two episodes, I want to thank you all so much.
Speaker 1: I see how much you guys have loved and supported
Speaker 1: the shows throughout the year, especially all the socials, and
Speaker 1: you've showed up for Quest Love Supreme time and time again.
Speaker 1: That's Steve's phone. What's up, Steve? It's good anyway. Basically,
Speaker 1: you know, this is the one time that I can
Speaker 1: freely speak for Maya Fonte on Playbill and Sugar. Can
Speaker 1: I speak for you all right? Well, anyway, I'm speaking
Speaker 1: for true. We want to thank you all for making
Speaker 1: QLL as possible these past ten seasons. And if you've
Speaker 1: been rocking with Quest Love Supreme since the beginning, or
Speaker 1: even if you just pulled up yesterday, you know it's
Speaker 1: been a labor of love, and it's been a space
Speaker 1: for music nerds, cultural heads, and curious minds to get
Speaker 1: deep into the stories behind the sound. And over the years,
Speaker 1: ah Man conversations, we've had too many to mention, but
Speaker 1: so legendary.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: We've had laughs and tangents and rabbit holes and deep
Speaker 1: dives and all those good things. But you know, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The greatest grooves always need to evolve. We
Speaker 1: know that, and we are pivoting. So Quest Love Supreme
Speaker 1: has reached its finale, but don't you worry. We're gonna
Speaker 1: develop something fresh and different in the future. You'll soon
Speaker 1: know something a little different, something that still fees the soul,
Speaker 1: but with just a new flavor to it. And I
Speaker 1: want to be clear, this is not entirely goodbye. We're
Speaker 1: just turning the page and figuring out what the next
Speaker 1: chapter of this podcast is going to be. And uh,
Speaker 1: it'll come soon, and I promise it's gonna be worth
Speaker 1: the wait. It's gonna happen right here. So stay tuned,
Speaker 1: stay curious, stay supreme. All right, thank you, Love you guys,
Speaker 1: You're still gonna pass. Thank you for listening to Quest
Speaker 1: Love Supreme. Hosted by Amir quest Love Thompson, Why You,
Speaker 1: Saint Claire Fonte, Coleman, Sugar, Steve Mandell, and unpaid Bill Sherman.
Speaker 1: Executive producers are Mara quest Love, Thompson, Sean g and
Speaker 1: Brian Calhoun. Produced by Britney, Benjamin Cousin, Jake Payne, Eliah
Speaker 1: Saint Clair. Edited by Alex Convoy. Produced by iHeart by
Speaker 1: Noel Brown. Questlove Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. For
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