Speaker 1: Of Course.
Speaker 2: Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic episode
Speaker 2: was produced by the team at Pandora. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: Welcome to QLs Classic Episode ninety seven with DJ Jazzy
Speaker 2: Jeff August twenty eighteen. What can I say, Jazzy Jeff
Speaker 2: is simply the best, most creative DJ of all time.
Speaker 2: There is no DJ today worth their grain of salt
Speaker 2: that doesn't worship from the altar of Jeff Towns.
Speaker 1: And you know you know, so, without.
Speaker 2: Further ado, I present you the goat of all DJs,
Speaker 2: straight out of Philadelphia, DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Supremo Sun Suprema Roll Call Suprema Sun Supreme, A roll
Speaker 3: call Suprema Sun Sun Supreme A roll call Suprema So Supreme.
Speaker 2: Roll another episode without Fonte Unpaid in Bostonville and I'm
Speaker 2: stuck with Stephen my ear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Suppreva Supreme, roll Call Suprema So Supreme, Rode.
Speaker 5: This dude can spin, yeah, this dude mixed tracks, yeah,
Speaker 5: this dude can cook, Yeah, this dude can act.
Speaker 4: Supreme Supremo Supremo roll.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And it's okay easy, oh Ship Jeff, Yeah, Jazz Love
Speaker 7: Hillary Supreme.
Speaker 4: SUPREMEA Rod Car Suppreva Son SUPREMEA Role call.
Speaker 6: My name is Fast, Yeah, my crew is new still Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's called the Trinity.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We don't fight like Drew Hill.
Speaker 4: Supreme Supreme Supreme Supprime Role.
Speaker 8: My name is Jeff, his name is Fest. Yeah, it's
Speaker 8: Stephen Laia. Yeah, and that's my brother Quest.
Speaker 4: Well Suprema Subprema Role, came Surema some SUPREMEA Role Calm
Speaker 4: Suprema Suprema Role Supreme Supreme Roll.
Speaker 2: Oh man, yo, I have to say that of I mean,
Speaker 2: we're not one hundred episodes yet, but we're at least
Speaker 2: at eighty something eighty something. Yeah, that is probably the
Speaker 2: quickest sneaking of the feat. I mean, I've had well
Speaker 2: renowned mcs just like.
Speaker 1: Dum you you might, I think your body should.
Speaker 9: I wrote that for him.
Speaker 1: I wrote that. That's my ghost racking right there.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another anemic episode of Quest
Speaker 2: Left Supreme, only on Pandora.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm still here with what's left of Team Supreme.
Speaker 9: Damn.
Speaker 7: You know when you gets hot outside, niggas start disappearing.
Speaker 1: Well, su Steve's still here, even though you know your
Speaker 1: your your network star.
Speaker 5: Now, Wes, I have every excuse to call him sick,
Speaker 5: you know, mentally ill, among other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see, well, thank you for still sticking.
Speaker 10: I never missed a shot.
Speaker 2: I assume that Fante is still working on his uh
Speaker 2: uh his basement counter Yeah, his countertops is week number
Speaker 2: five working on his miswork to work on your house,
Speaker 2: hey man, bathroom.
Speaker 1: Tiles are important, you know, it's extremely important.
Speaker 7: Mean, while both Bills have medical conditions, So.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 1: I thought Bill's not at Assessame Street right now.
Speaker 7: No, Bill's getting his wisdom teeth out.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess I can excuse that. All right, shout
Speaker 2: out to Boss Bill, who has a headache right now.
Speaker 2: So wait, I don't know because if something happens in
Speaker 2: the future, I don't want this to sound bite to
Speaker 2: be play.
Speaker 7: He has a severe headache right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, shout out to Boss Bill, and is a many headaches,
Speaker 2: so I just want to make sure that I'm not
Speaker 2: the source of the headache. So all right, less stressed
Speaker 2: in your life, Bill, I promise to be better, but
Speaker 2: you got admit I am improving since the beginning of
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: Love you have.
Speaker 7: But then you stop sugar and you back, so you.
Speaker 2: Know, oh okay, Yeah, Layah is claiming that I'm evil
Speaker 2: because I'm day fifty one without sugar.
Speaker 10: So I'm still here for it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. Is that possible if you want to
Speaker 1: live it? Is? I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2: You know, twenty twenty three, twenty four to twenty five,
Speaker 2: your concern was like getting shot at the club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the new getting shot at the club is that
Speaker 1: is getting the stroke. Yeah, like I don't want.
Speaker 7: To be I mean, you still got your boyhood figure,
Speaker 7: jeff So how you do it?
Speaker 10: Listen?
Speaker 8: I do one hundred and sixty dates a year and
Speaker 8: walk like nineteen miles through the airport.
Speaker 1: Wait.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, wait a minute, time out. Uh,
Speaker 2: we're doing this ass backwards, ladies and gentlemen. I forgot
Speaker 2: to introduce our actual guest of the show.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. It could be Jeffrey Osborne if we
Speaker 1: already he was.
Speaker 2: He was our last guests not bad yo. Did you
Speaker 2: know he played drums with Smokey Robinson. No, you know,
Speaker 2: we forgot to ask Jeffrey Osborne.
Speaker 1: And we do this often.
Speaker 2: We often rabbit hole ourselves and introduce like a half
Speaker 2: hour down the line. I forgot to even talk about
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston's didn't we almost have it all?
Speaker 1: He wrote that?
Speaker 9: Oh shit?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes he wrote that for it anyway, Uh
Speaker 2: lazy Okay. Introducing Joff. Uh yeah, if if God were DJ,
Speaker 2: he'd be named Jeffrey Towns. Uh and wow, that's all
Speaker 2: I have to say. It's gonna be the shortest intro ever.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: We have God himself of turntables Philly, his own DJ
Speaker 2: Jazz Jeff the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff on Quest left Supreme.
Speaker 1: I would also hate that.
Speaker 2: It would also uh uh be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 2: also mention that, uh, you're here with a very special guest. Yes,
Speaker 2: another guy in his right Grammy and Oscar Oscar Winner
Speaker 2: that was sermon now was paid Bill was here?
Speaker 7: We have somebody that yeah his O but his get.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because you know, well, I think what paid
Speaker 1: Bill is a.
Speaker 7: Right one of our co hosts. He has a Grammy,
Speaker 7: Emmy and a Tony, but he missing.
Speaker 1: He's missing.
Speaker 2: Oh so if he was chilling with uh paid Bill
Speaker 2: right now, we'd have a ghetto not an ron festers here,
Speaker 2: Lady John.
Speaker 1: The world uh. And also I should mention your.
Speaker 2: New project M three yes, uh in well right now
Speaker 2: digitally available, but when will it be in store?
Speaker 8: Will it be the stores? It's hard, hard U No
Speaker 8: hard copies are coming. Listen, I'm doing this all independence.
Speaker 8: I have to come a little bit later. They're they're
Speaker 8: on the way.
Speaker 1: Okay. Good, that's good dimension, that's good dimension. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you you were saying that you keep in shape
Speaker 2: because you just run across airports NonStop. See, but that's
Speaker 2: the thing, my Achilles hill is being on the road
Speaker 2: because you know, for every coffee shop in every airport, hotel, food.
Speaker 7: It is it is.
Speaker 1: So how do you resist that?
Speaker 2: And I know you live at home in Lynette's kitchen, yes,
Speaker 2: which you know, as far as I'm concerned, you guys
Speaker 2: catch your fish and all your seafood in the backyard
Speaker 2: of where you live.
Speaker 8: So, like, how just just remain inactive. It's not even
Speaker 8: an exercise thing, you know. It's really when you got
Speaker 8: sixty pounds on your back because you try to take
Speaker 8: every gadget in the world and you're pulling a little
Speaker 8: portable studio on a pull bag and you're in London
Speaker 8: Heathrow and your gait is thirty five minutes away.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that feeling.
Speaker 8: So it's a lot of walking. You know, you get
Speaker 8: mad when you first go out because you wind it
Speaker 8: and you're tired and you're mad. Your knee hurts. But
Speaker 8: by the time you come home, I would say, you're
Speaker 8: Oj Simpson. But you know what I mean, You know,
Speaker 8: I know what you mean.
Speaker 9: Yo.
Speaker 1: Wait have you ever.
Speaker 2: Have you ever successfully to me, like to successfully navigate
Speaker 2: through Heathrow without them thoroughly checking my back Like Heathrow
Speaker 2: is one of the yeah, most anal retentive airports in
Speaker 2: the world. Yes, Like you can have a piece of
Speaker 2: like gum in your bag and if you don't take
Speaker 2: it out to let them know that, then they're they're
Speaker 2: taking your whole entire fiber part of that bag.
Speaker 8: Or you just wait for your bag to go on
Speaker 8: that separate lane.
Speaker 1: It's the worst.
Speaker 8: Then that separate lane you realize that there's nineteen people
Speaker 8: in front of it, right, you're missing your flight.
Speaker 7: So y'all travel too much?
Speaker 1: That whole thing was like, no, it's.
Speaker 2: For real, Like he Throw is one of the most
Speaker 2: anal retentive, I mean most of them quality rhymed about
Speaker 2: that even even on their first record, like the first
Speaker 2: time I ever had to have.
Speaker 1: The check he throw.
Speaker 7: Has there been between the two of y'all? Y'all been
Speaker 7: around the world like fifty thousand times. Has there been
Speaker 7: anywhere you haven't been yet?
Speaker 8: I just went to Kenya? That was That was your
Speaker 8: worst time in Kenya? What was that?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 8: That was probably top three experience of my life? Why listen?
Speaker 8: First of all, I was, you know, I don't change.
Speaker 8: I don't change the way I play anywhere in this
Speaker 8: world at all. Because let me, let me give you
Speaker 8: my reasoning. You don't go to Africa and play Afro beat.
Speaker 8: That's the ship that they hear all the time. And
Speaker 8: that's the biggest mistake that I think a lot of DJs,
Speaker 8: because think about it when you get DJs that come
Speaker 8: to Philly and be like, oh, I'm about to play
Speaker 8: Crown Rulers and you kind of like, come on, dude,
Speaker 8: I came to see you play. I didn't come to
Speaker 8: hear you play how you think I want you to play.
Speaker 8: So I never changed the way that I play because people,
Speaker 8: you're a seasoning in the restaurant, you don't change the
Speaker 8: dish you.
Speaker 1: Called me out.
Speaker 7: I mean, listen, you know it's never too late though.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, but because you know what it is.
Speaker 8: It's kind of like imagine going to your favorite restaurant
Speaker 8: and they changed the menu every week. You upset, you like,
Speaker 8: I came for the fish. I want to fish in
Speaker 8: the corn bread. What what's the meat loaf?
Speaker 2: Okay, but I'm going to ask you about the Kansas incident.
Speaker 2: That's always my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what it is.
Speaker 8: Kansas was me walking into that didn't have anything to
Speaker 8: do with me playing. That had more to do with
Speaker 8: the wrong event in the wrong place, you know, Like
Speaker 8: you can't you know, because I had situations like that
Speaker 8: when you know DJ Am passed away. I did one
Speaker 8: of his memorials in Las Vegas, and I did it
Speaker 8: in a place that they didn't want you to play
Speaker 8: hip hop And I'm kind of like, how do you
Speaker 8: have me do a tribute to a hip hop DJ
Speaker 8: and not play hip hop? Like I'm kind of like, yo,
Speaker 8: so you're trying to do this ship.
Speaker 2: My name only wait that's still going on, Like, well
Speaker 2: not now, but it was what was the name of
Speaker 2: can you name? What was the name of the club?
Speaker 7: What's the situations.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to start with the bad DJ
Speaker 2: gig verse. I wanted to start with the early god
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 8: I was on tour with Sion and Sion was doing
Speaker 8: these parties all over and we went to Kansas City
Speaker 8: and played in the Power and Light District and it
Speaker 8: was funny because I got there. Z Trip went on
Speaker 8: before me and I came out and we started playing,
Speaker 8: like five thousand people outside we started playing and people
Speaker 8: are rocking, and you know, my sets are very eclectic,
Speaker 8: like I'm gona playing some hip hop, I'm gonna go here,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna do this. You know, at the end of
Speaker 8: the night, you're gonna get a little bit of everything.
Speaker 8: And my road manager at the time came out and
Speaker 8: put a towel on my table and walked off. So
Speaker 8: I looked, and I'm looking at the tower that I
Speaker 8: already have, and I was just like, why did you
Speaker 8: bring a towel over? So he came out and brought
Speaker 8: a bottle of water, and I had water on the table,
Speaker 8: so I knew something wasn't right. So he ended up
Speaker 8: coming over the third time and he leaned down and
Speaker 8: he said, listen, they're about to cut you off because
Speaker 8: they're saying that you're playing too much hip hop. And
Speaker 8: before they cut you you off, I wanted to let
Speaker 8: you know so that you can make the decision. I said,
Speaker 8: oh shit, tell Skills, we're out of here. So he
Speaker 8: went and leaned and told Skills, and Skills turned and
Speaker 8: looked at me and was like word, and it was
Speaker 8: like yeah. So right in the middle of everybody rocking,
Speaker 8: I just said, so we were rocking. Oh listen, it's
Speaker 8: non stop, non stop, like I think I was playing
Speaker 8: Rihanna at that. So I hit the stop button and
Speaker 8: Skills said, hey, I'm sorry, Kansas City, but we just
Speaker 8: got word that they don't really want us playing hip
Speaker 8: hop in here, and they were about to cut Jeff off.
Speaker 1: So before we let.
Speaker 8: Them do that to us, we wanted to make the
Speaker 8: announcement to you that we apologized and we hope that
Speaker 8: we can come back and play for you soon. And
Speaker 8: took everything off and I walked our stage. Everybody thought
Speaker 8: it was a part of the show, so they still
Speaker 8: for about two minutes, and when the road managers started
Speaker 8: coming out and breaking my equipment down, people went off wow,
Speaker 8: And I went downstairs in the dressing room skills standing outside,
Speaker 8: and they kicked skills out the venue because they were mad,
Speaker 8: like they were this is the behind the scenes thing
Speaker 8: that you weren't supposed to pull a curtain back. So
Speaker 8: the hotel was across the street. I ended up walking
Speaker 8: across the street and had no idea how big this was.
Speaker 8: And I remember this is early Twitter. I posted Wow,
Speaker 8: right party, wrong place. I was like, this is the
Speaker 8: first time that I ever someone ever threatened to kick
Speaker 8: me off in twenty five years, and went and checked
Speaker 8: into the hotel. I called, you know, my manager at
Speaker 8: the time, and he was like, change your flight. You know,
Speaker 8: we had like a nine o'clock flight. He's like, get
Speaker 8: on the six o'clock flight, he said, because I guarantee
Speaker 8: you they're going to be pressing everybody at the airport.
Speaker 8: So I changed my flight and we got on the
Speaker 8: plane and flew at six o'clock and I landed. By
Speaker 8: the time I landed, Associated Press had called me like
Speaker 8: it hit everywhere, and I was just like, like, it
Speaker 8: got so bad that the owner of Power and Light
Speaker 8: was the owner of the land of forty forty cloud
Speaker 8: and it got so bad that he called Jay Z
Speaker 8: for Jay Z to call Will for Will to call
Speaker 8: me because he wanted to talk to me, and he
Speaker 8: was like, listen, I need to meet with you so
Speaker 8: I can officially apologize.
Speaker 7: Didn't you win the first Grammy for hip hop?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 7: Listen?
Speaker 8: They was trying to get me to come back, Like
Speaker 8: what did they?
Speaker 1: It was just the area of.
Speaker 8: No, No, it had nothing to do with that. It
Speaker 8: was kind of like, you know what par and Light
Speaker 8: is like, paring Light is kind of like I don't
Speaker 8: want to say Infinity Live. It's like one of those.
Speaker 8: But it was kind of like, we're not really trying
Speaker 8: to have that hip hop element because from what I
Speaker 8: heard after I left was they were like, you know,
Speaker 8: we don't normally come down here. They don't like you
Speaker 8: in sports jerseys and baseball hats. And it was one
Speaker 8: of the yeah, yeah, basically, let's setting that tone this
Speaker 8: code talk. But you know how it is you kind
Speaker 8: of times you skate under the radar because it's like
Speaker 8: that's Jazz from Fresh Prince of bel Air not knowing
Speaker 8: that I'm playing mob deep.
Speaker 1: But what was z Trip playing like?
Speaker 8: Because Trip was playing mash up, so he was sneaking.
Speaker 8: He was sneaking, but understand. No one said that, like
Speaker 8: all of these days that we did, no one said
Speaker 8: when you come here that you have to play like this,
Speaker 8: Like you know, a lot of times people tell you
Speaker 8: how you want to play. I'm like, I'm cool. Like
Speaker 8: if I can't do.
Speaker 1: Me, then how do you How do you handle it?
Speaker 1: Because I don't. I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't that. I don't accept that at all. Even
Speaker 8: at the most prestigious get I won't take them. If
Speaker 8: you don't want me, then don't book me.
Speaker 7: Always, your whole career.
Speaker 8: Always, if you don't want me, don't book me, man
Speaker 8: I because you know, you know how this is Vegas.
Speaker 8: Vegas got like that, you know, Vegas got to the
Speaker 8: point that it was kind of like where we kind
Speaker 8: of want this, Like I remember, do you Vegas?
Speaker 1: Listen?
Speaker 8: I don't do Vegas anymore?
Speaker 1: They listen.
Speaker 8: I get a million offers to do Vegas and I
Speaker 8: turn them down. But you remember, like we we you know, questioning.
Speaker 8: I had a resident residency at the same spot and
Speaker 8: I never forget the first time that I did it.
Speaker 8: When I was done, they came down or someone said, well,
Speaker 8: we'll have a report for you, and I was like
Speaker 8: a report I ain't never had a report. What's the report, Like,
Speaker 8: we're gonna give you a report, you know, And it
Speaker 8: got to a point that you know, oh yeah, you
Speaker 8: were great and this was cool, but it was kind
Speaker 8: of like, so you got people down here like checking
Speaker 8: on me, like I've been DJing in Vegas before. Everybody
Speaker 8: who works here, yeah, you know, but it's you know,
Speaker 8: I might at the end of the day, if everybody's
Speaker 8: having a good time and they buying drinks and everybody's cool,
Speaker 8: leave me alone.
Speaker 2: This is weird now because it's like the variety that
Speaker 2: you have that allows you to DJ in spaces that
Speaker 2: your average your your your your average guy. Okay, well
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, because I mean it's the white elephant
Speaker 2: in the room. Obviously, you and Cash are Philadelphia gods.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 2: Your level of celebrity has allowed you more oxygen and
Speaker 2: more leverage and where you are now. And it's also
Speaker 2: on how you you freak it and how you handle
Speaker 2: your business that part, you know, so I can't ignore that,
Speaker 2: but it's like, are you I'm the type of person
Speaker 2: that dreads when November comes around because in my head.
Speaker 1: Usually when December.
Speaker 2: Gigs come, I'm always like damn, January is coming, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be another year where someone born in
Speaker 2: two thousand and two or you know, someone born in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine who will be twenty one or whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, won't know what don't stop till you get
Speaker 2: enough is more.
Speaker 1: It's like those records that used to be instant, they changed,
Speaker 1: like you you remember how like you would play the.
Speaker 2: Opening horn riff of like Troy Yep and it was
Speaker 2: like chaos, and then the moment you mean when it stopped.
Speaker 8: You mean when that stopped, yo, when I had one
Speaker 8: of the worst incidents, well my first incident of that,
Speaker 8: I did it Howard's Homecoming. Oh no, And I remember
Speaker 8: when you do the whole you know, I remember when
Speaker 8: you would play all of the current stuff and then
Speaker 8: you would kind of into your ERICB for President and
Speaker 8: everybody would lose their mind. And I dropped Eric B
Speaker 8: for President and everybody just stood there and I was like, wow,
Speaker 8: like because now Eric B for President is the entrance
Speaker 8: to where I'm going. So I'm like, oh shit, you
Speaker 8: don't know the door that I just opened up. I
Speaker 8: don't know if I can go in the house now.
Speaker 8: So I was kind of you know, and I remember that,
Speaker 8: but that was the first time that I learned the
Speaker 8: lesson that you have to pay attention because every few
Speaker 8: years the timeline slides, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 8: it was I remember, you know, a couple of years
Speaker 8: ago going overseas playing and somebody dropped Eve who's that girl?
Speaker 8: And the club went crazy and I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 8: this is their classic? Now that was So you just
Speaker 8: have to keep you just have to keep your music
Speaker 8: set up in a way that you just have to
Speaker 8: slide it, slide it like you got to pay attention
Speaker 8: to who's out there?
Speaker 2: But are you ready to mint that front and by Pharrell?
Speaker 2: Is now the new message? By Graham Asters?
Speaker 8: Yeah, like that's old school now, well you know what
Speaker 8: it is. This also comes down to who are you
Speaker 8: playing for? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And so are you playing for yourself? Are you playing?
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, no, no, no listen. I do a
Speaker 8: very very good mixture of playing. I take enough met
Speaker 8: gigs to make to make me happy. But my job
Speaker 8: is to play for the people.
Speaker 7: So wait when you went to Kenya, because we started
Speaker 7: with Kenya, So now I want to know and reference
Speaker 7: to Kenya, like what made the what made the crowd
Speaker 7: go crazy?
Speaker 1: And what was there?
Speaker 7: Like they throw back down?
Speaker 8: So we where we played it was a restaurant, so
Speaker 8: we went and ate. Like when the club opened up.
Speaker 8: When I was telling you, they was playing Mary J.
Speaker 8: Blige album cuts like it was one hundred percent pure
Speaker 8: black music and deep black music. They appreciate it to
Speaker 8: the point that I was kind of like, oh, if
Speaker 8: that's where y'all go, oh, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 10: So you know it was.
Speaker 1: It was everything from.
Speaker 8: Some classic house stuff to mob deep to like they
Speaker 8: they I couldn't stump them.
Speaker 1: What were you saying about it?
Speaker 6: Like, you know, like so I danced a little bit,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, But when you go to Africa,
Speaker 6: like you're just insecure, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 6: you're like, man, it ain't no dance that I can
Speaker 6: do that's gonna impress nobody out here. And yeah, but
Speaker 6: when Jeff played that music, they're all it's like you're
Speaker 6: at You're in the home of where rhythm started. You're
Speaker 6: in the home like when you when you get I
Speaker 6: heard the black people in America was from West Africa,
Speaker 6: But when you go to Kenya, they'd be like welcome home,
Speaker 6: and you look around like really like you know, like
Speaker 6: this is amine too like and and you know, just
Speaker 6: the welcoming atmosphere. But you know they got like bodily
Speaker 6: and musical superpowers if they want, because that's where it starts.
Speaker 1: How many how many days or weeks were you guys there?
Speaker 8: We were there for three days? Really three days. We
Speaker 8: we played like the first day we got.
Speaker 2: There coming straight from America or no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: We were for a mom Okay, I was about to say,
Speaker 2: like for three days.
Speaker 1: It's like that lag do the gig.
Speaker 8: Have some food and well listen that. Yeah, it gets
Speaker 8: like that. We were in Dubai and we flew from
Speaker 8: Dubai to Kenya. Food was amazing, the seasoning to see. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, because everybody has this whole thing of when
Speaker 8: I'm going to Africa, I'm going to eat necessarily African food,
Speaker 8: like they have their food and then they have food
Speaker 8: that everybody eats.
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird.
Speaker 2: When I went to South Africa, there was a place
Speaker 2: that it's almost like they know what foreigners are looking.
Speaker 1: For, like that Africa.
Speaker 2: Africa, you know, like they're looking for that, and they
Speaker 2: actually made they have a restaurant that plays up to
Speaker 2: that whole thing.
Speaker 1: But I could tell it's just like for tourists.
Speaker 2: Like I asked the guy, I'm like, Africans wouldn't eat
Speaker 2: the spot, right, And he laughed like, no, this is
Speaker 2: just for tourists.
Speaker 1: Like they went. How they took They took us to
Speaker 1: the real deal.
Speaker 8: We ate at a restaurant that was overlooking an African
Speaker 8: preserve that if you sat at your table and squint
Speaker 8: it you could see a giraffe.
Speaker 1: What it was deep? It was deep, Like I asked.
Speaker 8: There was a big security guard that was with us,
Speaker 8: and I was like, let me ask you a question,
Speaker 8: like how close are we to the lions? Like and
Speaker 8: he was like not so far, Like he said yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: like they they'll come in the hood.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They told stories about gorillas that crossed the road and
Speaker 6: if one of them get hurt, the cars got to stop.
Speaker 6: And if you try to ride past the gorillas to
Speaker 6: jump on the car bang your window that you have to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you gotta stop and let them. It was, oh, listen,
Speaker 8: we went to a we went to an African animal. Yeah,
Speaker 8: that was first of all. Let me explain it, Michael Jack.
Speaker 8: He The guy was telling us that when a lion
Speaker 8: roars in full voice, you can hear him ten miles away.
Speaker 8: Said the lion will roar into the ground and vibrate
Speaker 8: the gout. That's how he lets everybody know. Get out
Speaker 8: my way. But that's a dear Listen, they were feeding
Speaker 8: the lion, and the female lion came over to try
Speaker 8: to grab a piece of meat from the male lion,
Speaker 8: and the roar.
Speaker 1: That he let out.
Speaker 8: I let a little bit go, That's all I'm gonna say. Like,
Speaker 8: I ain't never heard no ship like that piece of chicken.
Speaker 8: Listen like that roar. I was kind of like, I'm cool,
Speaker 8: I'll take my lions in the zoo.
Speaker 1: That was a little deep.
Speaker 10: I gotta I gotta got experience.
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out way to get over that.
Speaker 8: Anyway, I'm glad that I'm here because they are greatly
Speaker 8: wanting you to come down. I greatly want you to
Speaker 8: come down and play.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that no one has ever carried on a
Speaker 2: string teased me more than the entire continent of Africa.
Speaker 7: But you've been a couple of places in the South.
Speaker 1: I've been to South South. It's different.
Speaker 8: I've been to South South. He's in South Africa. You
Speaker 8: almost don't get cool points from going.
Speaker 1: To South Africa, North America.
Speaker 8: Where you're going, I'm going to South Africa. Yeah, okay whatever,
Speaker 8: Like I got props when it was like I'm going
Speaker 8: to Kenya right over they just called really called, was
Speaker 8: like listen, and it was crazy because once I accepted Kenya,
Speaker 8: then Tanzania, card and all these other people, and it was.
Speaker 1: Just like it was it was a little too late
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: Now that I know what I know, I gotta you know,
Speaker 2: you need to go like going to beIN or my
Speaker 2: what Nigeria?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 8: I will tell you you will absolutely body that. Like
Speaker 8: they asked, They were like who who who?
Speaker 10: Who?
Speaker 8: Do you want to come down and play we Love Premiere.
Speaker 8: It was like we would love quest Love. We don't
Speaker 8: know if we can get him. I was like, I'll
Speaker 8: talk to him because I'm like, oh, he's.
Speaker 1: Not that I don't want to go. You will matter
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 2: Well, wait a minute, I know you're meticulous about your
Speaker 2: back line, So do you just take do you now
Speaker 2: just travel with all of your equipment?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: I just so they have Pioneer turntables there or Pioneer
Speaker 1: just ships them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they have Pioneer turntables, had an s no mixer
Speaker 8: what yeah that.
Speaker 7: Man? Okay, well yeah listen hown I.
Speaker 1: Said when I was there, they had the Flintstone Bird.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, back in two thousand a date, you know,
Speaker 2: if I had just send a carrier pits and send
Speaker 2: a few break beats over to me, Yeah, now they
Speaker 2: were they were okay, they were cool.
Speaker 8: They gave me a bunch of music too, Okay, So
Speaker 8: you know, I go down there, I was.
Speaker 2: Getting tired of people giving you, like all their twelve
Speaker 2: inches and the forty five's and everything.
Speaker 8: You can't say that outright because you know, just you
Speaker 8: almost need to carry a bag for the stuff that
Speaker 8: people give you on a tour exactly because you just
Speaker 8: kind of come home and it's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 8: and I will really really appreciate this T shirt, just
Speaker 8: like I appreciate the twenty two thousand T shirts. I
Speaker 8: get that you want me to take the T shirt
Speaker 8: with your album cover artwork home.
Speaker 2: What It's almost like you can travel like a Navy
Speaker 2: seal now like you probably could just you know, live
Speaker 2: off the swag.
Speaker 1: That's given to you on the road.
Speaker 8: Pretty much and pretty much.
Speaker 10: That's that.
Speaker 1: I will kill myself.
Speaker 2: But I don't start the way I always out like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we always started the beginning. But it's also been a
Speaker 2: long time since we had an episode of.
Speaker 1: So Jeff. As as as as the.
Speaker 2: Music extraordinary that you are and being one of the
Speaker 2: many one of one of the first pioneers to actually
Speaker 2: introduce jazz samples to hip hop. Uh. We do a
Speaker 2: game called but You Guessed It, in which I will
Speaker 2: play a quarter of a second of a particular song
Speaker 2: and you have to even guess.
Speaker 1: The artist or the song he said.
Speaker 7: A quarter of a second, yes, quarter of a.
Speaker 1: Second, quarter of a second, yes, some are easy, some
Speaker 1: or not. There is no you. This is this is
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this. This is round one of Okay,
Speaker 1: can you name this break.
Speaker 8: Bracket in the pocket?
Speaker 1: You are correct?
Speaker 10: This, I know it.
Speaker 8: That's the who who makes it. It's the original. I
Speaker 8: don't want to be a player.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 7: The first Monday.
Speaker 8: I might need help because I may not know the names,
Speaker 8: but you don't know that I know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 8: all right?
Speaker 1: Number three?
Speaker 8: Yeah, brand new or a bouncy lady.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love how you just that pleasure break.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Do that one more time?
Speaker 10: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Yeah that's do do.
Speaker 1: Together? Do the message by yes, me and the beers.
Speaker 1: You ready? Number five? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Oh one more time? Yeah, you might stamp me with
Speaker 8: that one. Wait a minute, one more time?
Speaker 1: No, one last time?
Speaker 8: Yeah, nope, mhm.
Speaker 1: Uh that was Ohio players singing in the morning.
Speaker 8: See yeah, yeah, he got biggies.
Speaker 1: Uh ready to up? All right, you're allowed to strike?
Speaker 1: Number six?
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Is that Parlem with Funkadelic, Yes, the number seven? Oh,
Speaker 1: that is it.
Speaker 8: The bird is playing Johnny Guitar.
Speaker 1: Watson Superman Lover. Yes, number eight.
Speaker 7: Mm hm.
Speaker 8: That is the original be a Father to your child
Speaker 8: EDLG and the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: You're close wrong single? Yeah? Yeah, not be a father
Speaker 1: to your child? Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: I gotta have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah bo Hannon burn that song singing.
Speaker 7: A song from my mother being five to your child?
Speaker 9: Was that ship?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 1: Two more left? Two more left? Last one? All right?
Speaker 1: Second and last one.
Speaker 8: The original dre ship? Yeah, chick moaning I want to
Speaker 8: do something freak.
Speaker 1: Uh. Side note, I actually thought that was my mom.
Speaker 2: Oh no, only because Dre uses my parents sample and
Speaker 2: that ship too, So I thought that you.
Speaker 7: Knew your mama were weird.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mom, the like, sorry, my mom has a
Speaker 1: similar s side.
Speaker 2: I'm not that oxygen oxygen technique tale on her record, Yeah,
Speaker 2: excel on her record. So yeah, I was very relieved
Speaker 2: to find out that, no, that wasn't my mom, but yeah,
Speaker 2: she does something something anyway.
Speaker 11: Your last song all right, this this is the comic
Speaker 11: kaze one more Time, M one more Time.
Speaker 1: That's not h one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eleven twelve.
Speaker 2: Only did that because of your connection with Jill Scott
Speaker 2: and getting in the way and her dropping.
Speaker 1: That anyway, Uh, even though I know it.
Speaker 2: Uh, Sir Jeff Towns, could you please tell our audience,
Speaker 2: almost three hours into the show, where you were born
Speaker 2: in what city?
Speaker 8: Osborn in West Philadelphia?
Speaker 2: We're in West Philadelphia, Like, are you allowed to talk
Speaker 2: about your old neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Now that you don't live there?
Speaker 8: I am. I'm from fifty seventh and Rodman, which which
Speaker 8: is right next to fifty seventh and Cedar, which is
Speaker 8: between Baltimore Avenue and Market Street. Which is funny because
Speaker 8: you know the north side is basically the north side
Speaker 8: of Market Street south side is south of Market Street,
Speaker 8: but before Baltimore Avenue, so not southwest past Baltimore Avenue southwest.
Speaker 1: So in eighty five, how close were you to that
Speaker 1: move fire? Oh man, behind those sage.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was. I was about five blocks away, like
Speaker 8: literally heard the gunshots. Like the night before. You know,
Speaker 8: everybody in the neighborhood was just like, yo, something's going
Speaker 8: on because you knew move were there, you know, just
Speaker 8: going on a block. I went there, be outside with
Speaker 8: the ballhome.
Speaker 1: Jack Junes was like yeah, crawling on the floor and it.
Speaker 8: Was crazy because that night they were like, Yo, something
Speaker 8: is gonna happen. And we went up to Kyles Creek
Speaker 8: Parkway and it was I've never seen as many cops.
Speaker 8: I've never seen a swat team, you know, in real life,
Speaker 8: and they all were out there the big flood lights,
Speaker 8: and you know, we stayed up there for about two hours.
Speaker 8: I mean you couldn't get but three blocks close to it.
Speaker 8: And then we went home and I never forget it
Speaker 8: had to be about five o'clock in the morning. I
Speaker 8: have never in my life heard twenty minutes of sub
Speaker 8: automatic weapons being fired in your neighborhood. Like it was
Speaker 8: nine stop and you you know, you didn't know, like
Speaker 8: you're hearing this through your window, not knowing what's going on,
Speaker 8: and you turn on the news and you know, so.
Speaker 2: You had no clue that in twenty four hours entire
Speaker 2: blocks will be burnt.
Speaker 1: No exact.
Speaker 8: Like we saw the helicopter fly over, and we saw
Speaker 8: when it dropped it, and we didn't know what it was.
Speaker 8: We saw when it dropped it and you heard this
Speaker 8: incredibly loud boom that shook everything in the neighborhood and
Speaker 8: we were just kind of like, what was that? And
Speaker 8: they were just like they must have dropped some kind
Speaker 8: of explosive and then fire started, and like to realize
Speaker 8: this might have been three o'clock in the afternoon, and
Speaker 8: no one came, like, there wasn't a fire truck around
Speaker 8: for a good five to six hours. So to watch
Speaker 8: it burn a complete blockdown, and you know how the
Speaker 8: blocks are that they're connected, So it burned a blockdown,
Speaker 8: it went through the alley to another block and burned
Speaker 8: one side of another blockdown.
Speaker 7: As a whole cider. I'm still surprised how y'all let
Speaker 7: this go down, But I'm just gonna say that I
Speaker 7: don't understand Philly, y'all you are a Philadelphia I am,
Speaker 7: but I was in DC at the time, and I
Speaker 7: just know I felt like if it would have happened
Speaker 7: in DC, a bunch of black people would have took hands,
Speaker 7: went grew and got around the neighborhood and been like,
Speaker 7: I'll be damned if you go out to bomb these
Speaker 7: black people and these babies.
Speaker 1: No, you didn't know.
Speaker 8: You didn't like understand this is all news media, and
Speaker 8: this is after all of this gunfire, and what happened
Speaker 8: was people didn't know, which I personally believe that I
Speaker 8: don't think anybody from move shot. I think this was
Speaker 8: the least shooting at each other because all it takes
Speaker 8: is one shot, and and it was just gunfire that
Speaker 8: no one was kind of like known to have shot
Speaker 8: somebody you didn't know, So it was just kind of
Speaker 8: like nobody moved. You didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 2: black Christian Conservative outlook was was hot and black Christian Conservative.
Speaker 2: I think it's almost a step ahead of racist, redneck
Speaker 2: Southern Bible Christian Conservative. It's almost like, you know, I remember,
Speaker 2: like practically everyone in the neighborhood saw the move people
Speaker 2: as heathens. Yep, they eat raw meat, they homeschooled their kids.
Speaker 1: But I remember the move.
Speaker 8: My brother used to live on forty fourth from Paltain,
Speaker 8: so I remember the first move with seventy seven Yeah naked,
Speaker 8: so you you you know, you knew about the organization
Speaker 8: and what it was, and they had a standoff there.
Speaker 8: I was just a little bit too young to really
Speaker 8: understand what it was. So when they kind of moved
Speaker 8: up in the neighborhood, you kind of it was still
Speaker 8: the same chatter, and you know, you're getting the information
Speaker 8: off of television.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I was also that was I was heartbroken
Speaker 2: that day. I just got dumped by like my first
Speaker 2: high school girl.
Speaker 7: The only time a bomb been dropped in the country
Speaker 7: you talk about.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, man, none of that. She's like I
Speaker 1: had a bomb dropped on my heart. Yeah, man, Like
Speaker 1: I came home.
Speaker 2: Seriously, like the second they dropped that bomb in like
Speaker 2: three thirty, I was right on my porch and I
Speaker 2: was just.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, let me go watch the last Cosby episode.
Speaker 5: For those of us who weren't there, can somebody just
Speaker 5: give us a brief about move not only about move,
Speaker 5: but about this bomb that was dropped.
Speaker 10: I've never heard.
Speaker 1: Loost Bill will be played by Steve Mandel. All Right,
Speaker 1: so basically move, I wouldn't know how to how to
Speaker 1: exactly I kind of get to move.
Speaker 7: Or he's asking about the correlation between the bomb.
Speaker 1: And the bomb there. Okay, so according.
Speaker 7: How Philadelphia people really explain this, this is not a mirror.
Speaker 1: He's don't I don't want I don't want to leave that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the all sides guy.
Speaker 2: But so basically, I guess there was tension between the
Speaker 2: neighbors of the fifty eight one hundred block of Osage
Speaker 2: Avenue and the Africa family, which all their last names
Speaker 2: were Africa, similar to like having an X. They all
Speaker 2: took the last name of the Africa and it was
Speaker 2: like fifteen people in the house. Everyone had a similar
Speaker 2: look dreadlocks. They were more like a primitive I mean,
Speaker 2: the thing is that it would be totally normal now
Speaker 2: in the times that we live in, but back then
Speaker 2: you saw someone dreadlocks, you were just like snakes in
Speaker 2: your head and you must move drugs like Bob Marley
Speaker 2: and you know. And they didn't believe in They just
Speaker 2: didn't really believe in the westernized colonization of where America
Speaker 2: was their education system and all, so they want to
Speaker 2: homeschool their kids.
Speaker 7: They armed themselves.
Speaker 1: Well right, yeah, they armed themselves. So it was like
Speaker 1: part part uh uh, part black.
Speaker 2: Panther ideology, educate your kids live like vegetarians. It's I
Speaker 2: think the complaint was mainly a noise complaint. And then
Speaker 2: they would they would they were us on the roof
Speaker 2: with a bullhorn and just preached their message.
Speaker 1: And they occupied homes. They didn't boy the home.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, like and see, I think one of the
Speaker 8: things that was different was this was in a residential
Speaker 8: neighborhood like so they were in the middle of the
Speaker 8: block like this. It wasn't like they were in the
Speaker 8: suburbs or had a farm. They were your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2: And not to mention, they were already targeted because in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven, our mayor Frank Rizzo, who was like,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think like Giuliani era New York
Speaker 2: mixed with Donald Trump mixed with I mean, just think
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Worst racist police state mayor you could have.
Speaker 2: They had an incident on forty fourth and Palatain where
Speaker 2: it was like because of a disturbance there, and then
Speaker 2: there was a shootout and he made them all come outside.
Speaker 2: I just remember the picture of them all naked, like
Speaker 2: twenty of them, hands in their naked and.
Speaker 1: Some of them died.
Speaker 2: And so there was already tension between the Philadelphia police
Speaker 2: and the Africa family. So once once complaints and protest
Speaker 2: uh were happening with the residents, the cops were sort
Speaker 2: of like, you know, and get out the house and
Speaker 2: they're like, no, this is our property, YadA YadA, yadda,
Speaker 2: And there was a standoff. It was like a four
Speaker 2: or five days standoff where they just seal off the
Speaker 2: block and you saw news cameras and news people like
Speaker 2: bending on their knees like you know this Jack Jones live.
Speaker 2: Oh no, k y w N Now we're outside of
Speaker 2: the Africa home. And and then on May thirteenth, man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the commissioner decided to just fly in helicopter right over
Speaker 2: their rooftop. I'm trying to figure out, like what was
Speaker 2: so distinctive about their rooftop.
Speaker 7: They had something on top, they had a bunker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've realized how precise your aim has to
Speaker 2: be to drop like, so they basically I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's a grenade or whatever, but they dropped some
Speaker 2: sort of device that just they dropped a bomb. It
Speaker 2: was a it was a legit bomb.
Speaker 7: First and last time ever on the United States story.
Speaker 8: So they dropped a bomb.
Speaker 2: And you see how like row homes are in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: so it's not like there's a separation.
Speaker 1: And so they let this house. They tried. They were like,
Speaker 1: we're going to burn you out the house. So they
Speaker 1: burned them.
Speaker 2: Well, they literally killed them all but two, but then
Speaker 2: the fire spread and then the next two houses, and
Speaker 2: then two hours later the entire block was dummies. But
Speaker 2: then five hours later that one big ass block hit
Speaker 2: the next block, and then that entire block hit the
Speaker 2: block across the street, and then that spread. So at
Speaker 2: some point around nine o'clock we gotta knock saying there
Speaker 2: was like the block. Captain was sort of like, okay,
Speaker 2: just be prepared to I lived on the fifty second
Speaker 2: block and this is the eight hundred blocks. So around
Speaker 2: like nine pm, even though we thought they would contain
Speaker 2: the fire, there was like concern that the ship just
Speaker 2: might spread and spread and spread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just it was.
Speaker 8: It's crazy that I'm asked that anywhere I go in
Speaker 8: the world, because everybody's kind of like, yo, didn't weren't
Speaker 8: you guys that the people that dropped the bomb on
Speaker 8: a residential area. Yeah, it ain't like some ship you
Speaker 8: want to be known for.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So records, yeah, yeah, no, So how did you
Speaker 1: how did you.
Speaker 2: How did you start your your I guess that even
Speaker 2: before DJ you have to love records. So what was
Speaker 2: the first record you ever purchased? Or were you like
Speaker 2: the youngest I was?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, well, you know what it is, like
Speaker 8: my brother played bass for the Intruders, So they would
Speaker 8: actually rehearse in our basement, which was a little deep
Speaker 8: because you know, you're so young that you're not allowed
Speaker 8: in the basement. That I would sit on the top
Speaker 8: step and they would rehearse, and then I would slide
Speaker 8: down to the next step and slide down to the
Speaker 8: next step till they finally see me and let's say
Speaker 8: get back up, you know, get back upstairs. But then
Speaker 8: my dad was an MC for count Basie, So yeah,
Speaker 8: like my dad, like I grew up with seventy eights
Speaker 8: in the house, West Montgomery. Jimmy Smith and Arthur Price sock,
Speaker 8: so you had those. So it was almost like being
Speaker 8: the youngest, I had the best of everything. I had
Speaker 8: the seventy eights. You know, my brothers were you know,
Speaker 8: my brother was the weather report, Maha Vish New orchestra person,
Speaker 8: and then of course your sisters how many years older.
Speaker 8: I'm oh man, I was the mistake, okay, Like I
Speaker 8: was the one that was a little bit of farther
Speaker 8: gap that it was kind of like, yeah, this was
Speaker 8: a hot and every night with my mont and dad,
Speaker 8: because everybody was like, you know, one person was this
Speaker 8: you know, you know, forty nine and fifty one, fifty three,
Speaker 8: and you know, it got to the point that it
Speaker 8: was kind of like, yo, there was like an eight
Speaker 8: year gap with me, Like I wasn't supposed to be
Speaker 8: his right, right, but you know, but I was. I
Speaker 8: was the sponge, so you know, and and what I
Speaker 8: give more credit to was my you know, at about
Speaker 8: seven years old, my brother showed me how to take
Speaker 8: records in and out of the sleeve. Don't put your
Speaker 8: hands on the records. You hold your thumb at the end,
Speaker 8: you put your finger in the middle, bring it out,
Speaker 8: don't don't touch touch the vinyl like that, and he
Speaker 8: had you know, he had a set, he had a
Speaker 8: receiver records now now like we've used I think I
Speaker 8: think that ship out the window.
Speaker 7: My parents were like that.
Speaker 8: But he, you know, he was kind of like, listen,
Speaker 8: if if you, if you take care of it, I
Speaker 8: will let you use my stere system when he was
Speaker 8: at work, what like seven years old. But what I'm
Speaker 8: gonna tell you was crazy. I'm seven years old and
Speaker 8: I'm making chick corea tapes cassettes, like he gave me
Speaker 8: a blank cassette and I'm listening to music, not really
Speaker 8: understanding what is attracting me to this music. But I'm like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, I want this chick career song and
Speaker 8: oh look, you know, return it forever and I want that.
Speaker 8: And because the his music was my music, and I
Speaker 8: would make these, make these tapes, and I got sucked in,
Speaker 8: like I didn't understand it was the chorus structure. I
Speaker 8: didn't understand what it was. It was just the it
Speaker 8: was a pure attraction of music. And then the Stevie
Speaker 8: Wondering and Marvin Gay.
Speaker 2: So that's what makes you different. You didn't have the
Speaker 2: don't touch my stereo. Oh no, I had the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: I had the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: See, I had.
Speaker 2: Don't touch my stereo. But I also lived in the
Speaker 2: house with three collectors that hove the stereo. So I
Speaker 2: was forced by will too, you know, by force. I
Speaker 2: had to listen to their music and don't touch my
Speaker 2: stereo on the car and none of that stuff. So
Speaker 2: I was that music was forced upon me. And then
Speaker 2: I guess Stockholm syndrome.
Speaker 8: I just like I used to do this weird thing
Speaker 8: that this is probably the first time that I'm ever
Speaker 8: admitting admitting this. But I would have a radio and
Speaker 8: I would go and take a bath, and I would
Speaker 8: take the radio in the bathroom and I plug it
Speaker 8: up and I would sit the radio on top of
Speaker 8: the toilet and I would grab the plunger because you
Speaker 8: got to understand a plunger microphone, it's a microphone, it's
Speaker 8: a horn, it's a bass, it's a guitar. Oh, I
Speaker 8: would mimic every but you know what I did. It
Speaker 8: made me memorize every guitar solo, lick for lick, every horn.
Speaker 8: So listen, I was switched. I would have that ship
Speaker 8: out playing.
Speaker 1: Look the whole entire room just turned against.
Speaker 7: The first thing. He says, I use a plunger for
Speaker 7: a mic, like but no, no, no, listen, what was that?
Speaker 2: Literally everything everyone in this room, the people across the street,
Speaker 2: that froker.
Speaker 8: Listen, man, you know your imagination and music is basically
Speaker 8: while I'm sitting here, because you.
Speaker 1: Look ill meant the same thing.
Speaker 2: When James Brown was on Dinah Shore doing body Heat
Speaker 2: and that's the first time I saw him do the
Speaker 2: microphone tricks.
Speaker 1: I got the toilet punch and start doing the microphone tricks.
Speaker 1: And then my mom was like, so.
Speaker 8: See I didn't do it in front of my mouth.
Speaker 8: I had a lock on the door.
Speaker 1: Oh you knew better? Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And I didn't put the plunger near my mouth.
Speaker 7: You know you plunge, slash, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: You listen, But but the top like, I wasn't doing
Speaker 8: it the rubber part, which was the horn, and you know,
Speaker 8: you would grab a roll of toilet paper and that
Speaker 8: would be your muzzle on your on your trumpet. So listen,
Speaker 8: I went to what was Steve was just like, wow.
Speaker 1: Where were you busy in the bathroom? When were you
Speaker 1: allowed to curate.
Speaker 2: The first backyard barbecue or like what you consider your
Speaker 2: first DJ gig.
Speaker 8: I started making mixtapes for all of the dancers, not
Speaker 8: necessarily mixtapes. If you had a cassette that had a
Speaker 8: spring loaded pause button that it did it instantly. You
Speaker 8: could like you know how sometimes you would have the
Speaker 8: pause buttons that you would hit it and then it
Speaker 8: would engage. If you had a spring loaded pause button,
Speaker 8: it would stop automatic. So I would just make the
Speaker 8: love the Life you Live break that all of the
Speaker 8: dancers would dance off of. I was the one that
Speaker 8: had it that went for ten minutes. Yeah, so I
Speaker 8: would go to the end, and you got known for that.
Speaker 8: And then it just turned into you know what, I'm
Speaker 8: gonna steal some of my brother's records and not eat
Speaker 8: lunch the whole time. I'm in school and I'm going
Speaker 8: downtown because you remember funkal Mart had three five for
Speaker 8: you know, two dollars, and I would just I started
Speaker 8: a record collection like that's I realized that the record
Speaker 8: collection is the most important thing as a DJ.
Speaker 2: What was the first because I did when Rappers a
Speaker 2: Light came out, I begged I think twenty people for
Speaker 2: a dime mm because there's like seventeen.
Speaker 8: So yeah, listen, I had, like, what was the first
Speaker 8: record that you like, bar Kay's Holy Ghosts Moving by
Speaker 8: Brass Construction because I was a little pre hip hop.
Speaker 8: So that's what they play at the block parties. I
Speaker 8: just want to make your dream come try by mass production,
Speaker 8: and you know, it was it was all of that.
Speaker 8: It was the funk and soul bands.
Speaker 1: When did you play your first block party?
Speaker 8: Probably about eighty seventy nine eighty. I know, I was
Speaker 8: still in school.
Speaker 2: Too, so I know Philly is known for these DJ
Speaker 2: crews like astrou Oh yeah, this was this was way
Speaker 2: before that.
Speaker 8: This was super before that, like enough to go off
Speaker 8: the block, so let alone have a crew. But it
Speaker 8: was it was older DJ's on the block, and you know,
Speaker 8: and that's the first time that you got in front
Speaker 8: of two turntables and a mixer with headphones mix.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I had nothing, and they trusted you. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, listen, I was the guy that when they
Speaker 8: had to go pee, I played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were like, I was gonna say, have you
Speaker 1: ever been someone's record? Dude?
Speaker 8: Always? That's all I was to all of the older guys,
Speaker 8: and it was just you know, I don't remember what happened,
Speaker 8: but I gotten to a point that I would do
Speaker 8: stuff by myself. And you I know from growing up
Speaker 8: in West Philly that we have an iconic public enemy
Speaker 8: type flavor flave figure named Crazy D that if Crazy
Speaker 8: D was at your block party, your block party was
Speaker 8: guaranteed to be a success. So people would go and
Speaker 8: recruit him. And they had a block party on fifty
Speaker 8: seven Cedar, which is a big block to two Way Street.
Speaker 8: And I remember looking at all of the DJs in
Speaker 8: the neighborhood. You had Disco Doc, you had Disco Rat,
Speaker 8: you had Email Disco, and all of them had no
Speaker 8: block parties. They were all there. So it was kind
Speaker 8: of like when you don't have any other competition and
Speaker 8: they're all they're watching you and you're fourteen fifteen years
Speaker 8: old in the street with four or five hundred people
Speaker 8: and you're controlling them. That was the That was the signal.
Speaker 8: That was the signal in the neighborhood that that he
Speaker 8: got it.
Speaker 9: Like that was it.
Speaker 8: It was that one block party.
Speaker 1: So how long was it before you were able to.
Speaker 2: Because I know turned, I mean I had to get
Speaker 2: a record budget to buy my turntables and my mixer
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing.
Speaker 8: So like I was in a lot of crews that
Speaker 8: had equipment, so one guy, you know, it was kind
Speaker 8: of like you practice, though I would mentally practice, no, Jeff, listen,
Speaker 8: I'm I'm dead that serious. I would practice in my head.
Speaker 8: That was the only way that I can get ten
Speaker 8: spent in my head project. Well that was before that.
Speaker 8: That was before that, but you know what it was.
Speaker 8: What helped was if you cut Grand Master Flash super
Speaker 8: Wrapping at a party and you killed it. The next week,
Speaker 8: the DJ in your crew is going to cut that record.
Speaker 8: He's not gonna leave it for you. There wasn't there
Speaker 8: wasn't favoritism or any of that. So what happened then
Speaker 8: you learned how to cut at the party by Treacher's Three,
Speaker 8: and then the next week he would cut Grand Master
Speaker 8: Flash and the Treacher's Three. So you systematically kept going
Speaker 8: through records finding root teens to do off of these
Speaker 8: records because it was it was that competitive, you know,
Speaker 8: you you know the back in the day parties, you know,
Speaker 8: Grand Master Flash super Wrapping was paid twenty times because
Speaker 8: everybody had a routine off.
Speaker 1: Of it, right, who who was the first? Like did
Speaker 1: you pioneer the whole let's dance of the drummers beat?
Speaker 9: Like what that was?
Speaker 1: That was a classic?
Speaker 8: Like I don't think anybody necessary like that's what was
Speaker 8: the record that the drummers beat?
Speaker 1: Like that to me is is that's Philly?
Speaker 8: Like that was one of the things that I would say,
Speaker 8: like that didn't belong to any DJ specifically, that was Philly.
Speaker 8: That was DJ Spinbad, Lightning Rich, that was every DJ
Speaker 8: and Philly cut pumped me Up, they cut dances, drummers beat,
Speaker 8: they cut, it's time, they cut, you know, clear they
Speaker 8: cut Like there was just a staple of Philly records
Speaker 8: that all of the DJs cut.
Speaker 2: But I mean, who was the first cat that was
Speaker 2: just like, yo, just pump me up normal, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: bump the bump up, bump, bump me out like.
Speaker 8: Ways to every You know what was funny? I think
Speaker 8: when I saved up enough money and got twelve hundred,
Speaker 8: because I understand all of this early stuff was done
Speaker 8: on belt drive turntables, which I think helped me a.
Speaker 1: Lot because the record goes fat okay, but you know
Speaker 1: what it.
Speaker 8: Was, it helped your hands. You know that's my hands
Speaker 8: got light because they had no choice but to be
Speaker 8: like because I was on the wackiest equipment in the world.
Speaker 2: So so without butter rugs, how were you able to
Speaker 2: wax records under wax paper?
Speaker 8: You would go in your moms and pull out some
Speaker 8: wax paper, put a record down, you cut it out
Speaker 8: and poked a hole in. You start scratching too much.
Speaker 8: The wax paper would get too big and start sliding off,
Speaker 8: and you gotta get some new wax paper. There wasn't
Speaker 8: We didn't have any of those tools. We didn't have
Speaker 8: butter rugs. Felt mattch You. You know, you bought a turntable,
Speaker 8: you had the big rubber mat on it that you
Speaker 8: just tossed away, and you know, forty five made the
Speaker 8: record wobble, which you had to have really light hands because.
Speaker 1: You would cut forty five's too.
Speaker 8: Well, No, you would put a forty five underneath the twelve,
Speaker 8: and oh but that didn't work. So the wax paper
Speaker 8: was it. Or you would cut an album cover and
Speaker 8: try to use that. You try to get a glossy
Speaker 8: one because it was a lot more. He would spray
Speaker 8: WD forty in your mixer, which I know Steve is
Speaker 8: just like, oh, my god, you would spray it in
Speaker 8: the mixure. You knew it was going to destroy your mixer,
Speaker 8: but it would make your crossfader cool. So you know,
Speaker 8: it was kind of like listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 8: kill it for about three weeks and then the here
Speaker 8: comes the static and it's time to retire, and you
Speaker 8: would just sit it on the cell shelf and let
Speaker 8: it dry out. By time to dry it out, you
Speaker 8: could do it all over again.
Speaker 7: Can I ask you all a question, just in a
Speaker 7: DJ culture question, like what is Philly DJ culture and
Speaker 7: history mean to hip hop versus other cities? Well, of
Speaker 7: course people would say New York, But what do y'all
Speaker 7: think that it really means to the culture.
Speaker 2: Well that leads to my next question, because I think
Speaker 2: that yes or no, did you invent the Transformer scratch?
Speaker 8: I don't. I don't give that. If I had to
Speaker 8: give that credit to anybody, I would give that credit
Speaker 8: to DJ Spinbad, the original spin Bad who used to
Speaker 8: DJ Forbell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's from Philly, Yes he was.
Speaker 8: He was the first person to do something that sounded
Speaker 8: like that. There was no name.
Speaker 1: He was doing it with the up and down. It
Speaker 1: was no rhythm to it.
Speaker 8: But he was the first person that did it forward
Speaker 8: and did it backwards and then basically.
Speaker 1: It did the light bulb go off in your headlight?
Speaker 8: Oh completely, But you know what it was when you
Speaker 8: think about it, what Graham was the Theodore invented. You
Speaker 8: took and you said, okay, Flash added some rhythm to it,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean? Okay, who decided to use
Speaker 8: the crossfrader and cut the scratch on and off? Like
Speaker 8: it was all of these add ons that people did.
Speaker 8: So when he did it, it was kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 8: he did it.
Speaker 1: That was dope.
Speaker 8: But he didn't put any kind of rhythm to it
Speaker 8: like everybody. You know, everybody's rhythm is syncopated. Nobody was
Speaker 8: like everybody's that that.
Speaker 7: Okay, So see that right there. So if I was
Speaker 7: to say what alt Philly DJ's hip hop would be,
Speaker 7: what it would be something like that, Like it would.
Speaker 1: Be technique is something that Philly is definitely invented.
Speaker 2: Technique Like most people credit spendbad Uh you cash money?
Speaker 1: There's a fourth one. Uh, we don't play what is miss?
Speaker 2: I would say that, well, okay, I'll ask you who
Speaker 2: without hurting people's feelings who's in your Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 1: Oh you're already there.
Speaker 8: Who Now is this Mount Rushmore in Philly or just
Speaker 8: in general Philly?
Speaker 1: Cash?
Speaker 8: Absolutely crazy thing. It would be cash grand Master Neell
Speaker 8: and Cosmic keV.
Speaker 7: Well, I knew you was gonna say keV, but I was,
Speaker 7: that's wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 8: Like and it's ken my idol. Listen, keV keV.
Speaker 1: keV.
Speaker 8: keV was incredible. Cosmic keV is the fastest DJ ever
Speaker 8: heard him? Like he was he was, he was incredible.
Speaker 8: Like I like, we get mad at keV because keV
Speaker 8: don't beat keV no more. And I'm like, come on, dude,
Speaker 8: I know you got that ship that don't.
Speaker 10: Ever go nowhere.
Speaker 1: Wait he doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 8: No, No, I ain't saying like that. I'm saying like, listen,
Speaker 8: like I said, I get mad that this generation of
Speaker 8: people who know Cosmic keV don't know the cosmic keV
Speaker 8: that I know. Oh you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 8: you know, keV grand Astonell, like everybody kind of had
Speaker 8: something and it was you know, and it was really
Speaker 8: dope because you know, when cash wasn't necessarily from Philly,
Speaker 8: cash from Yaton and you know, we brought Cash into
Speaker 8: Philly and introduced him to all of the promoters and
Speaker 8: all the rest of that.
Speaker 1: Wait, you don't consider Yayden, Well, well I do, I do.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, it's kind of like you you
Speaker 8: kind of count Sharon Hill as Philly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, back in the day, used to think that
Speaker 1: was a suburb. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 8: But you know, but you know, like you know, Nell
Speaker 8: used to bring us to South Philly because you wouldn't
Speaker 8: go to South Philly without knowing somebody. You wouldn't, damn it,
Speaker 8: trying to go down there and DJ.
Speaker 10: So you.
Speaker 8: Listen, it wasn't like that, Like I listen, I remember
Speaker 8: keV bringing me to Mount Airy to DJ at a
Speaker 8: block party, and someone snatched this guy's glasses right next
Speaker 8: to me. He had a pair of Neil Styles on
Speaker 8: just like I did. And they snatched his glasses and
Speaker 8: didn't snatch mine because I was up there with keV.
Speaker 1: I forgot you grew up in the era of snatching.
Speaker 8: Listen Gazelle's Space Invader hats I remember, Yeah, I forgot
Speaker 8: about that era. It was rough, you know, and and
Speaker 8: I understand I needed glasses. So my ship wasn't for show.
Speaker 7: You got transitions before we even had transitions.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 8: So somebody snatched my glasses. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 8: a beer fire. I got robbed too, and somebody took
Speaker 8: my gazelle. They took my glasses, took my sneaks.
Speaker 1: What at?
Speaker 6: Noah?
Speaker 8: Listen, I was coming home, coming home, and you saw it.
Speaker 8: You saw the whole thing being set up. We were walking.
Speaker 8: Funny is I was with a friend of mine and
Speaker 8: we stopped and was talking to this girl and these
Speaker 8: two guys walked past, and they walked back past. So
Speaker 8: it's kind of like the second pass was kind of
Speaker 8: like that's when you kind of cut your eye, and
Speaker 8: the third past they came back and we kind of
Speaker 8: looked at each other like okay, you know what this is.
Speaker 8: So as they walked left, we walked right. And what
Speaker 8: he did is he looped around and came through the
Speaker 8: alley and jumped out the alley with a gun and
Speaker 8: was just like give me your glasses. And I'll just
Speaker 8: repeat did everything that he said because it was in
Speaker 8: broad daylight. So he's like, give me your glasses. I
Speaker 8: was like, glasses, Like give me a chain, give me
Speaker 8: my chain because I'm like, I'm stalling because my man broke.
Speaker 10: He broke.
Speaker 8: I mean, listen, I wasn't mad shit he had a gun.
Speaker 8: I would have broke too, damn it will I'm playing,
Speaker 8: but he broke, and you know I was. I was
Speaker 8: two seconds away from like, Okay, he doesn't look too
Speaker 8: confident with his gun, so I'm about to suckle punch
Speaker 8: the ship out of him and run. And what happened.
Speaker 8: Then his man came up, So now it's two people.
Speaker 8: So it was kind of like, okay, all right, let
Speaker 8: me just give my glasses and give you my watch,
Speaker 8: and and it got caught.
Speaker 1: Oh they did.
Speaker 8: Long story short. He came to court with my sneakers on.
Speaker 8: You You remember how you used to lace the sneakers up,
Speaker 8: that how all one side would be red and one
Speaker 8: side would be blue.
Speaker 2: I knew how to lace my sneakers to New York
Speaker 2: strings in the same suit.
Speaker 8: I knew how to lace my sneaks up, that this
Speaker 8: whole side will be red, this whole side to be blue.
Speaker 8: He came in to sneakkers that he wribbed me in.
Speaker 8: I let the judge know. He said they were his sneakers.
Speaker 8: I told him take the laces out and let him
Speaker 8: lace them up, and.
Speaker 10: Did he do it?
Speaker 2: And he couldn't do it. Wait, the judge made the
Speaker 2: judge made him do it. He couldn't do it, and
Speaker 2: it gave me the sneakers back, and I took the
Speaker 2: sneaks and throw.
Speaker 9: Him in the fass.
Speaker 8: It's just like, I just don't want you.
Speaker 10: To have Yeah, it'd be such a great episode.
Speaker 9: Of C S I or l A Law Like you're
Speaker 9: so old, you said, l A.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 1: No, I get it.
Speaker 10: That is you should sell that episode.
Speaker 1: How did you first hear about the d mcs?
Speaker 8: Oh man?
Speaker 1: How many? How many belts? Is that a real thing?
Speaker 1: Or just where is that? Folk Awards?
Speaker 8: It wasn't belt. I got a cup. I didn't get
Speaker 8: a belt.
Speaker 1: Was it the very first one?
Speaker 8: No, it wasn't the first one, but I got I
Speaker 8: got a cup.
Speaker 1: What year did you win yours?
Speaker 8: Eighty six?
Speaker 1: Okay? And how many years were they in existence?
Speaker 8: Oh man?
Speaker 10: It was?
Speaker 8: It was there for a couple of years before that.
Speaker 8: But it was funny because when I got in, fifty
Speaker 8: percent of the DJs were mixers. So they got really
Speaker 8: really mad at me because I kind of changed the
Speaker 8: whole landscape of the DMC. So before you can listen,
Speaker 8: before listen, the dude was playing and he I need
Speaker 8: Love and he's mixing the next record, and I came
Speaker 8: in like no technique lass Lassan, and it was just like,
Speaker 8: we can't keep up with that.
Speaker 10: What's the d MCS DIC mixed Club?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never knew that's what.
Speaker 2: DMCs do think about it just mix, Yes, But so
Speaker 2: you're saying that before you came in, Before you came in,
Speaker 2: it was just about who had the hottest mix in
Speaker 2: five minutes pretty much?
Speaker 1: Who were the previous winners before? I don't know, so
Speaker 1: who was going up against you now?
Speaker 8: I want to say, well, because it was two it
Speaker 8: was the New Music Seminar and it was the Disco
Speaker 8: Mixed Club, Disco Mixed Club. I remember Van dy C
Speaker 8: was in it, and it was a couple other dejits.
Speaker 8: I think wiz Kid was in it. I don't know
Speaker 8: the mixer. The mixer guys it was from Philly as well.
Speaker 8: He's not from Philly, he's from Jersey.
Speaker 1: He was he was, he was.
Speaker 8: I was in the New Music Seminar with him. He
Speaker 8: was the he was the d m C World champ
Speaker 8: at the time, and.
Speaker 1: How did you defeat him?
Speaker 8: What do you mean how I was better?
Speaker 1: Okay, but you know what, like listen and and and
Speaker 1: he's he's he's cool.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 8: I love that brother. It was just funny at that
Speaker 8: point in time. I was never really I never really
Speaker 8: considered myself a competition guy like listen, I like, I
Speaker 8: like to do it. I was just kind of like, damn,
Speaker 8: I'm really mad that everybody's trying to put this person
Speaker 8: up against you. It's just like I enjoyed doing this.
Speaker 8: I ain't playing basketball to win the dunk contest. I
Speaker 8: just like playing ball. But that was a way to
Speaker 8: get your name out. So when I got into the
Speaker 8: new music seminar, being from Philly, what did you cut with?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 8: That was when I did the bought a mansion for
Speaker 8: your mother thing and broke it down. But it was
Speaker 8: kind of like he right before we went on, I
Speaker 8: went to shake his hand and he didn't shake mine.
Speaker 8: I was just like, hey, man, what's up. Good luck?
Speaker 8: You know, because I was like, man, I like you
Speaker 8: got the King cut record out, and he didn't. He
Speaker 8: wouldn't shake my hand, you know. But it was just
Speaker 8: it was literally one of those things that I'm kind
Speaker 8: of like, listen, the equipment was messing up. I realized
Speaker 8: that nobody was using their own needles. Nobody was using
Speaker 8: I won that with technology because the equipment that everybody
Speaker 8: was using, everybody lost on the side, like it was
Speaker 8: two setups to set up on the left. Everybody lost
Speaker 8: because it was jumping. And when he didn't shake my hand,
Speaker 8: I deliberately walked to the left side. You know, I
Speaker 8: was like, no, I'm going to show you that. I'm
Speaker 8: going to show you completely. And I reached.
Speaker 1: I purposely took the bad side.
Speaker 8: Like Will was pissed off because everybody was like, when
Speaker 8: you go out there, go to the right side.
Speaker 1: And I walked up and.
Speaker 8: Went to the left side, and I reached in my
Speaker 8: bag and I put my own needles on. I had
Speaker 8: some ADC needles with quarters on top. And I reached
Speaker 8: and I put my wax paper on and I put
Speaker 8: my record on. And the funny thing with Steve was
Speaker 8: gonna kill me. I reached in my bag and while
Speaker 8: everybody was looking, I took the long straw and said crossfader,
Speaker 8: and as soon as it got loose, I went my
Speaker 8: headphones and I tested the left turntable and I tested
Speaker 8: the right one, and I looked out at the crowded
Speaker 8: Will and I was like.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: I was like, like, none of those DJs even thought
Speaker 2: knew none to wait their ship, not or balance none.
Speaker 2: Only you were doing that just me. And once I knew,
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, I'm good.
Speaker 8: And I started breaking breaking stuff down, doing rhythm scratches
Speaker 8: with job rhythm scratch and you know, just stuff that
Speaker 8: people hadn't seen or heard before.
Speaker 1: And that's how you won. That was it? I see,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I gotta get to your your production phase.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: Jeff was like, this is got We're gonna have to
Speaker 5: have him back for an whole mon like production phase.
Speaker 7: I told you before he got here, I was like,
Speaker 7: I don't know how we're gonna do this.
Speaker 5: This is a two parter that's waiting to happen. I'm
Speaker 5: not stopping the story is no, I'm just I'm I'm
Speaker 5: just saying.
Speaker 1: I see he's let's go.
Speaker 7: You know, we're gon we can get and then we're
Speaker 7: gonna make him come back again.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So how did you partner with Will?
Speaker 8: You know every day everybody had a rap group, everybody
Speaker 8: had an MC, everybody had a DJ.
Speaker 2: Wait before I asked that, how did I heard a
Speaker 2: mixtape once of you battling Victor do play.
Speaker 9: Dick.
Speaker 1: It wasn't who put that mistake one.
Speaker 8: It wasn't a battle. It was people just recorded. But
Speaker 8: it was kind of like people used to do calling
Speaker 8: responses with records.
Speaker 1: But I thought he was your record dude.
Speaker 8: No, you know, Vic, Vic was the young guy that
Speaker 8: used to come over the house and I would show
Speaker 8: him stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then what happened with this thing like your
Speaker 1: battle with Jeff and Vic.
Speaker 7: The dick.
Speaker 1: Telling that title.
Speaker 8: What happened was Vic when on at a Central High
Speaker 8: party and as a joke, he took a he took
Speaker 8: a jab at me with records because we're all cool, right,
Speaker 8: he took a jab at me with records. So it
Speaker 8: was kind of like, Okay, you're gonna take a jab
Speaker 8: at me. You don't understand that I got this laundry
Speaker 8: list of things that I can do to you. And
Speaker 8: and Ice, my MC at the time was the one
Speaker 8: that was like Victor Dick. So now to show you,
Speaker 8: because it came out on a mix tape, you don't
Speaker 8: get a chance to see what actually happened. You only
Speaker 8: hear it, so everybody's like, oh my god, you killed
Speaker 8: Vic and it was like it wasn't like that stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Can I give a millennial footnote real quick to all
Speaker 7: the millennials Victor Dick aka Victor Cook aka Victor to
Speaker 7: do play. You may know him from a party called
Speaker 7: Kissing Grind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go, the god Kissing Grind. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: that's come up with the.
Speaker 7: Century and one of the producers, one of my favorite,
Speaker 7: Eric Eric green Eyes. I always like to put that
Speaker 7: in there.
Speaker 1: Victor Cook, Victor Victor, I'm a call him Cook. I'm
Speaker 1: no he.
Speaker 2: Wait, Actually you mentioned something very crucial, uh for Philadelphia
Speaker 2: hip hop heads. The the high school jams. How were
Speaker 2: they booked? Because those were like on level of college jams.
Speaker 8: But you know what, all of the DJs were from
Speaker 8: Central High Like Vic went to Central Where did you
Speaker 8: go to high school? I was, but you know I was, yeah,
Speaker 8: I was out of school by then. Oh, but it
Speaker 8: was just kind of like I got booked because of
Speaker 8: my affiliation with Vic and everybody else.
Speaker 1: So you was there an agent that just had y'all
Speaker 1: going on to high school was an agent. An agent six,
Speaker 1: I thought an agent was a guy that you know
Speaker 1: did these things.
Speaker 8: Now you just you know, you knew that you knew
Speaker 8: the guy who was throwing a party, and you wanted
Speaker 8: to kind of be his favorite because he would, you know,
Speaker 8: and then if he knew that people followed you, you
Speaker 8: know they were they were booking.
Speaker 2: But you never desired to be on like Lady b
Speaker 2: Street beat on Power ninety nine or like like what
Speaker 2: was your goal?
Speaker 8: I got the radio one, you know what, I didn't know.
Speaker 8: I didn't know, Like this was weird because this was
Speaker 8: at a point in time when I'm out of school
Speaker 8: and I don't tell anybody that I'm a DJ, Like
Speaker 8: what kind of DJ?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 9: You were?
Speaker 8: You were a radio DJ then, so you know, my
Speaker 8: mom's friends come to.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jeff, you at of school.
Speaker 9: What are you doing now?
Speaker 1: You kind of like a college or you didn't okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 8: Kind of like what are you doing now? It's like
Speaker 8: I'm a DJ and you don't tell somebody I do
Speaker 8: block parties and you know, house parties that I'm setting
Speaker 8: up on people's washing machines and all of that.
Speaker 2: Like that that wasn't a viable. So back then, if
Speaker 2: I wanted to book Jazzy Jeff, Oh, listen, I had.
Speaker 1: My cool in eighty three or eighty.
Speaker 8: Listen, you find your man who worked at the printing store,
Speaker 8: and you would get the car and then somebody would
Speaker 8: design it and you would put your home number on it.
Speaker 1: So in eighty three, how much could I book you for?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: Man, I was a cool thirty five hours?
Speaker 1: Wait what come on?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 1: We was just trying to five bucks.
Speaker 8: We was trying to get money to go to McDonald's
Speaker 8: on Fortier Street.
Speaker 7: Like a COAE episode.
Speaker 2: University like you wasn't getting I got to pay you
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 8: Man, I wish somebody paid me two hundred fifty bucks.
Speaker 7: But you wear and your kicks was right.
Speaker 1: I mean listen, because I had a job. I worked
Speaker 1: at Roy Rogers.
Speaker 7: Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1: You worked where? Which street?
Speaker 9: How do you think I know?
Speaker 1: I lived at Roy Rogers? Come on, I was, I was.
Speaker 8: I was the chicken cook. Makes a lot of sense, now,
Speaker 8: don't it you?
Speaker 1: Yes, it totally there you goes, Oh my god, this.
Speaker 2: Totally makes sense. This absolutely makes sense. Now wait, you
Speaker 2: worked at that that? Yes, dude, I guarantee you, I've sixty.
Speaker 1: Five percent of all my nutrition.
Speaker 9: Was a ship.
Speaker 8: I worked at the Roy Rogers, and then I moved
Speaker 8: up the street and started working for Steve's ice Cream.
Speaker 1: Ice Cream. Yeah, with the mixed man.
Speaker 8: I was the king of the mixing.
Speaker 7: So y'all knew each other, but y'all don't know each
Speaker 7: other obviously.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you.
Speaker 7: Ever asking for some free ice cream, He's like, no.
Speaker 2: You know you all right, wait, let me let me
Speaker 2: bring the move down real quick. Uh side note Philadelphia tribute.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Gary Heidnick used to oh damn you guys started frowning already.
Speaker 2: Gary Heidnick uh would often lord his the women inside.
Speaker 1: Of that Roy Rogers on forties? Really to do?
Speaker 7: What? Who is he?
Speaker 9: What to do?
Speaker 1: Disorder? Are Who's Milwaukee? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I hate to do that.
Speaker 8: Noise, yeah, silence and lamb dude.
Speaker 1: Who's Milwaukee? Yeah? Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not.
Speaker 1: David Banner, David David.
Speaker 7: He got killed in jail. David the blonde everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he liked it. He liked it.
Speaker 1: Brown his name. We had a we had we had
Speaker 1: a version of that in Philly. I didn't know he
Speaker 1: lived at eighth and Butler at that and he in
Speaker 1: the he used the bar to Jeff.
Speaker 2: So Gary was our Jeffrey Domer side note at his trial,
Speaker 2: you know his key hip hop history, you know it
Speaker 2: was a key witness at his trial.
Speaker 1: At Gary Hidnik's.
Speaker 8: Trial said G from Ultra Magnetic for.
Speaker 2: Some reird, weird reason either said, G used to talk
Speaker 2: to this girl in Philly, but he lived.
Speaker 1: Crashed in North Philly.
Speaker 2: Uh eighty six eighty seven, like between his ultramatenetic gears
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But he had to for some reason. He was testifying
Speaker 1: in the in that Gary hiding truck.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a little weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why I just bring the mood down.
Speaker 7: No, it's fine.
Speaker 8: Just completely destroyed my Rory Roger days. I gave oh man, Gary, Wow,
Speaker 8: I'm fixing chicken.
Speaker 1: This is not funny. Just killing chicken.
Speaker 7: I heard you good?
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, from doing those those central This is
Speaker 2: weird because this actually takes us back to the beginning
Speaker 2: of this conversation with pleasing yourself musically and serving.
Speaker 1: The crowd musically. I noticed that, uh, there's there's sort
Speaker 1: of a running theme with most of the.
Speaker 2: Guests that are on QLs in which high pressured dj
Speaker 2: uh uh scenarios make better producers. Jimmy Jam would often
Speaker 2: talk about having to DJ for two thousand kids in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: but that made him more in tune to become Jimmy
Speaker 2: Jam And of course Doctor Dre his story.
Speaker 1: Is that you know, if you played the wrong record,
Speaker 1: you could get shot.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know that part, So.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in such a privileged era because like,
Speaker 2: my celebrity allows me to do silly shit, like I
Speaker 2: could play a Sesame Street record if I want to,
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, of course, loves you know, I'll
Speaker 2: play the Curly Shuffle, three Stooges, shit whatever. But it's like,
Speaker 2: how are you able to experiment or is it just
Speaker 2: like yo, I got to play the hottest record right
Speaker 2: now and that's it. You got, Like I assume these
Speaker 2: gigs are like three to four hours, correct, No, you do.
Speaker 8: Three to four hours. I do two. I'll do you
Speaker 8: can make a point in two hours, yes, Like I
Speaker 8: can make a point however long. But it's one of
Speaker 8: the most important things is for me to know how long,
Speaker 8: because for me to tell the story, I have to end.
Speaker 8: I get absolutely pissed off. I am not able to
Speaker 8: end because everything, you know, it has a beginning of
Speaker 8: middle and an end and you just you once I
Speaker 8: know how long it is, I kind of know where
Speaker 8: to go.
Speaker 1: But how can you tell that story in two hours?
Speaker 8: Though, because it's so it's possible to tell that story
Speaker 8: in thirty minutes, like it all depends.
Speaker 9: You know, it might not like it.
Speaker 1: It's not easy.
Speaker 8: It's like it's actually harder to do it in a
Speaker 8: shorter amount of time. Yes, it's hard to tell, you know,
Speaker 8: because you you don't get a chance to build up,
Speaker 8: you don't get a chance to kind of get into it.
Speaker 1: You only so when you do these gigs around the world,
Speaker 1: it's only for two hours. Yep, got even three?
Speaker 8: Well, see, you know what it is. You got to
Speaker 8: keep in mind. I play really really high impact. When
Speaker 8: you play high impact, you can't high impact people for
Speaker 8: over two hours. Like, there was so many lessons that
Speaker 8: I've learned. I remember doing an MSU homecoming and it
Speaker 8: was one of those things that I just was hitting
Speaker 8: them and hitting them and hitting them, and I remember
Speaker 8: paying attention to this guy. He was a little bit
Speaker 8: heavy and he was dancing and it was almost like
Speaker 8: you were trying to get off the floor and I
Speaker 8: keep playing something that and when I tell you, he
Speaker 8: was dripping and soaking wet. And it got to a
Speaker 8: point that I was like, you're not enjoying yourself anymore,
Speaker 8: Like you're at a fucking health reason, You're You're at
Speaker 8: a point that you're not enjoying. And it was kind
Speaker 8: of like, wow, Jeff, you know what you have to do.
Speaker 8: You gotta take people on a roller coaster ride. You
Speaker 8: got like it's cool to send people to the bar.
Speaker 8: You know what I realized a long time, like I
Speaker 8: didn't come up playing reggae because like, and I'm gonna
Speaker 8: tell you why, there was so many me reggae records
Speaker 8: you get. You know, I'm coming from funk, soul rock,
Speaker 8: all the rest of this. I couldn't add reggae into
Speaker 8: my set because it was way too much and it
Speaker 8: was so many rhythms that changed that it was just
Speaker 8: kind of like, you know what, I'm gonna leave that
Speaker 8: to someone else. But what I realized is if I
Speaker 8: didn't play reggae, people didn't leave who wanted to hear reggae?
Speaker 8: Once you get them in, nobody's leaving. That's the first
Speaker 8: lesson as a DJ that you have to understand, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm not paying twenty dollars and a DJ suck to
Speaker 8: the point that I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna be mad
Speaker 8: at you, but I'm gonna stay so because I know
Speaker 8: that you're there. My job is, you know what, if
Speaker 8: you satisfy everybody in the room for forty five minutes,
Speaker 8: they walk out saying I had a great time. So
Speaker 8: it gives me the ability to satisfy three different groups
Speaker 8: of people for forty five minutes. Everybody walks out like, yo,
Speaker 8: he killed it, because you can't think. Case in point,
Speaker 8: how long do people dance at a wedding reception? Twenty minutes? Yeah, tops,
Speaker 8: a boy, get on the floor with the bride and
Speaker 8: the groom. You boom boom, boom, boom boom, and it's
Speaker 8: kind of like, okay, cut the cake and we out,
Speaker 8: and I'm good, like we not at the You know,
Speaker 8: this ain't dance materia because people who went to those
Speaker 8: marathon dance things they went there to dance all night.
Speaker 2: That's not the average club. The average club is I'm
Speaker 2: a drink, I'm gonna find a girl, and I'm ana dance.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not the whole thing.
Speaker 7: And as I'm just gonna say, as the person dancing
Speaker 7: on the floor, we appreciate the break to go get
Speaker 7: the drink, to not mess up your hair and sweat
Speaker 7: your hair out and shit and be like, oh good,
Speaker 7: he's gonna let take it.
Speaker 2: Oh good.
Speaker 7: I can breathe for a second, like we just appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You know what, It's funny you said about reggae because
Speaker 2: I feel as though reggae is the one genre that
Speaker 2: will never die and that.
Speaker 1: Is universally loved by everyone. Yep.
Speaker 2: My first ten records are always the reggae records because
Speaker 2: I have to test the room. That's the one like murder,
Speaker 2: she will will never die in my lifetime, So that's
Speaker 2: usually like my first record. And with the stuff that
Speaker 2: Drake is doing now, that's sort of like close that
Speaker 2: it fits in. So usually my first ten records of that,
Speaker 2: and it buys me time to see. Now it's weird
Speaker 2: because I used to be the DJ that like came
Speaker 2: out the box hit hit, hit, hit, but then I learned,
Speaker 2: like after.
Speaker 1: Seventeen, there's fatigue yep.
Speaker 2: And then I started feeling myself to the point where
Speaker 2: I got off with playing the worst shit.
Speaker 1: Ever, No, only because I knew what I had around
Speaker 1: the corner.
Speaker 8: But how great is that feeling? I tell people, it's amazing.
Speaker 8: If I got two thousand people in front of me
Speaker 8: and I know I got you, I know what the
Speaker 8: next five records are going to do to you? Like
Speaker 8: you don't know, Like I'm sitting there like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: my ass like fast when we were in when we
Speaker 8: were in Africa. And because I have this thing that
Speaker 8: I play the original of Annie Up the Soul System,
Speaker 8: so you know it's fast.
Speaker 1: And Soul System.
Speaker 8: So everybody's kind of have this look because it's kind
Speaker 8: of like you just changed the tempo, like it's almost
Speaker 8: like damn, did he fuck up?
Speaker 1: And I'm playing it and you.
Speaker 8: Gotta sell it like we're selling it. That's over there
Speaker 8: dancing Dane dancing, and when it when it morphs into it,
Speaker 8: the look on everybody's face, oh oh shit, oh and
Speaker 8: it's pandemonium. But so when I drop that, I'm excited
Speaker 8: because I'm kind of like I'm looking at the dude
Speaker 8: just kind of like, what's he doing? Man, this dude?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, and I'm just staring straight in his face.
Speaker 8: Just wait because you know, Annie up is kind of
Speaker 8: like with all the ladies, and right, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 8: the be say.
Speaker 2: For dudes, I'm sitting there like, okay, go ahead, stand
Speaker 2: there with that stone face.
Speaker 7: And then he loses his mind.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, okay, so listen. Dis inclosing because I also
Speaker 2: want to get listen. You said for the record, we
Speaker 2: are doing part two.
Speaker 7: Okay, but part two gonna be real long too. We're
Speaker 7: talking touch of jazz, We're.
Speaker 2: Talking we gotta get to the production stuff and then
Speaker 2: but I do want to talk about the M three project.
Speaker 1: Explained to me how it came to be.
Speaker 8: I wanted this to be the last installment of the
Speaker 8: Magnificent Series, not the last record that I'm gonna do.
Speaker 8: The Magnificent Series was always a trilogy to me. I
Speaker 8: wanted to be the Magnificent return of Magnificent M three.
Speaker 8: I needed to let the music industry kind of get
Speaker 8: completely out of my way. There's certain ship that just
Speaker 8: didn't make sense to me that I wanted to kind
Speaker 8: of You know, the first thing that I fixed was
Speaker 8: having your own studio. Because now I can control the
Speaker 8: creative process. I can make whatever I want. Nobody can
Speaker 8: tell me that I just didn't have it down to
Speaker 8: how to release your music and get it to everybody.
Speaker 8: So social media and just the changing world that we
Speaker 8: live in allowed all of that to happen, and that's
Speaker 8: why I was eleven year gap between the Return of
Speaker 8: the Magnificent to this one. But I also wanted to
Speaker 8: do a record because I made the mistake by making
Speaker 8: the prototypical let me have all of these guests on
Speaker 8: my record, only to realize that there's no way humanly
Speaker 8: possible that we're ever going to do a show.
Speaker 1: Isn't that frustrating?
Speaker 8: Wow? So it just got to a point that it
Speaker 8: was kind of like, listen, I'm you know, as many
Speaker 8: dates as we're doing, how can I make this record
Speaker 8: to the point that we can go out and support you?
Speaker 7: But did you do that with the other Magnificence?
Speaker 8: Oh listen, I had method man cls move and everybody.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: It was just kind of like, yeah, so this will
Speaker 1: never be live, That's what I meant, Like the tour ever.
Speaker 8: And yeah, so you know, it was kind of like,
Speaker 8: you know, me and Dane have been on the road
Speaker 8: for six seven years. I've made fest was on the
Speaker 8: Return of the Magnificent. The funny thing was when I
Speaker 8: made the Return of the Magnificent, my son Amyra was five,
Speaker 8: so you know, it was all and then just sitting
Speaker 8: down kind of piecing it together. You know, I was
Speaker 8: kind of like, listen, you know what I want to do.
Speaker 8: First of all, I want to bring back the era
Speaker 8: of Cold Crush. I want to bring back the era
Speaker 8: of tried, bring back the era of Day Last Soul
Speaker 8: of MC's going back and forth with each other because
Speaker 8: one of the things that I realized, especially being in DJ,
Speaker 8: is when you've been around doing a cycle. When AM
Speaker 8: and I would DJ together and we would do two
Speaker 8: by four sets, which basically both of us are playing
Speaker 8: at the same time, people would lose their mind. And
Speaker 8: I'm like, I did this twenty five years ago with
Speaker 8: cash money, Like it's not new.
Speaker 1: Wait, you DJ with cash money before? Yeah, we would
Speaker 1: do two by four style. I never knew that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: That's why I never asked the question, Yeah, we would
Speaker 1: do that, but it's just what it did.
Speaker 8: Is it kind of let me know, when you have
Speaker 8: when the cycle has repeated itself, everything starts over.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: It's kind of like the person who's like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: transformers and you're kind of like, oh, wow, you completely
Speaker 8: missed the cartoon. Huh, like you think it started now.
Speaker 8: So it's from knowing that. From the DJ side, I'm
Speaker 8: kind of like, you know, migos don't actually tag team
Speaker 8: when they rap, like they're not doing day La Sola
Speaker 8: cold Crush stuff, so no one understands about that. So
Speaker 8: I was like, yo, I'm just reinventing the wheel that
Speaker 8: what I think is really dope is I had three
Speaker 8: generations of MC's that I have Fest who's forty, Dame
Speaker 8: who's twenty, and am Here who's eighteen, but they all
Speaker 8: are MC's.
Speaker 7: They all spit and you can hear their different perspectives
Speaker 7: and the songs I was listening to it, I was like,
Speaker 7: this is.
Speaker 8: Kind of like everybody's kind of like, oh man, you
Speaker 8: know is it that this is? This is kind of
Speaker 8: like I hate categorizing music. I got two categories. There's
Speaker 8: good music and bad music. I don't care the genres
Speaker 8: all the rest of that ship, because you know, you
Speaker 8: would go into a tower records and you couldn't find
Speaker 8: a ship that you wanted because you classified it as
Speaker 8: one thing and they classified it as something else. And
Speaker 8: I just kind of wish that the entire store was
Speaker 8: in alphabetical order, because I could probably find everything that
Speaker 8: I wanted. So it's just it wasn't genre specific, you know.
Speaker 8: I took two weeks and we came in and we
Speaker 8: made all of the music. All of the music on
Speaker 8: the album is live instrumentation, and I did it in
Speaker 8: a way because it was kind of like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 8: I don't necessarily want you to know. I want you
Speaker 8: to feel the music. I'm not I don't want you
Speaker 8: to dissect it. And then invited Dane ron Fest and
Speaker 8: I'm Mayr to come in and Aaron Camper and we,
Speaker 8: you know, recorded all the vocals and it was like
Speaker 8: that was it.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Aaron Camp.
Speaker 8: Shout out to Aaron Camp. So I'm about to say
Speaker 8: and then we cheat because traveling around the world, if
Speaker 8: you watch any of the videos that we put out,
Speaker 8: we cheat and shoot videos and all of the places
Speaker 8: that we go. So the first video, Skaters Paradise, which
Speaker 8: is actually about traveling around the world and how some
Speaker 8: people would rather spend a thousand dollars on the strip
Speaker 8: of the dance instead of spending one thousand dollars on
Speaker 8: a trip to Japan. You know, we we cheated and
Speaker 8: shot the video all over the world.
Speaker 1: That's good business.
Speaker 10: That's good business.
Speaker 1: Good business. Well, Jeff, I'm holding.
Speaker 10: You to.
Speaker 7: Yes, we have two actually we have two extra episodes
Speaker 7: to do. We have to do Jeff, and then Ryan
Speaker 7: Fast he got to come back to his own episode
Speaker 7: talk about how he be trying to say the world
Speaker 7: and shit exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Fest, I take Fest around the world with me
Speaker 8: because he saves the world as we go.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't.
Speaker 8: I've never been that person that just kind of ventures
Speaker 8: off and we would come down and I'll say, dang,
Speaker 8: where's Fest And he was like, I don't know, and
Speaker 8: Fests just be like, yo, I just got with some
Speaker 8: people and they took me out and Kenya, and I'm
Speaker 8: kind of like, yeah, I wouldn't have did that. But
Speaker 8: Fest comes back and listen. We we were in Bali
Speaker 8: and Fest came back after being gone all day that
Speaker 8: we're almost about to send a search party out, and
Speaker 8: Fest was like, yeah, I went to a brothel and
Speaker 8: I was sitting outside talking to three prostitutes and a cop. Yes,
Speaker 8: And he had like a five hour conversation, but came
Speaker 8: back with the entire information on the country of Bali, Indonesia, Indonesia,
Speaker 8: potato potato patata. So yeah, you know, fest is our culture.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how's Obama doing? I just figure you know him.
Speaker 6: You know, actually we were having some issues in Chicago
Speaker 6: because you know, they got the the the Obama Library.
Speaker 1: It's coming to the South Side.
Speaker 6: It's a five hundred million dollar project, is gonna projected
Speaker 6: three billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars for the for the South Side of Chicago.
Speaker 6: But Obama, who was a community organizer, wouldn't sign a
Speaker 6: community benefits agreement and that that community benefits agreement that
Speaker 6: makes sure people don't get harlemed out and brooke them out,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. Like when you see what's
Speaker 6: happening in New York, it's coming to your neighborhood soon.
Speaker 7: I'm from Dcy.
Speaker 6: It didn't already happen in Chicago because where did the
Speaker 6: council voted on it today and pushed it through and
Speaker 6: so like, you know, basically, you know, the preachers and Obama,
Speaker 6: they got to get like it's Obama, just trust them.
Speaker 6: And the community is like, hold on, wait this three
Speaker 6: billion dollars, we need this in writing, and they're like, nah,
Speaker 6: you're not getting it in writing a lot of times too.
Speaker 6: You know what's interesting when you this is what black
Speaker 6: people got to be careful of when we make big
Speaker 6: money and do big projects.
Speaker 1: Who's in the middle of us in the community. It's
Speaker 1: always the middle man.
Speaker 7: He usually don't look like the man.
Speaker 6: He don't look like the one at the bottom of
Speaker 6: the at the top.
Speaker 10: Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I mean Steve Cools, No,
Speaker 1: he is right now.
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm going to get him an endorsement deal with
Speaker 10: w T forty.
Speaker 8: Okay, don't but you know my mix is no more
Speaker 8: because now they got a nob to make it tight
Speaker 8: or loose.
Speaker 7: I heard you Ryan over there. Watch out for the
Speaker 7: middle man. You know he talks to rich people. I'm
Speaker 7: not there yet, but for you and Jeff, y'all should
Speaker 7: watch out for the middle man.
Speaker 1: If you see a rich person. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I couldn't say wealthy, at least rich. Come on, Negroes,
Speaker 7: don't try to play a player.
Speaker 1: Got wind this episode so I can go to my job.
Speaker 1: You can be rich with culture.
Speaker 7: Goodbye. I can't look.
Speaker 1: I'm just spending on my mama house.
Speaker 7: That's okay.
Speaker 2: On behalf of j DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ron fest Sugar,
Speaker 2: Steve Fantigolo and his countertops.
Speaker 7: Oh man, I love we speak like he real salty
Speaker 7: day he didn't, Yeah he real salty is he?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: His countertops exactly should have been here, but Ron that's
Speaker 7: coming back. So there you go.
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, And also Unpaid Bill on
Speaker 2: Testamont Street and uh uh Boss Billy Steve. Yeah, everyone,
Speaker 2: this Questbow Supreme and this Quest Love only on Pandora.
Speaker 10: We will see him the next go round.
Speaker 1: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: You hate to hear it happen, but you know that's
Speaker 2: part one of the Great Jazzy Jeff. Stay tuned for
Speaker 2: Part two, where we get more stories of his life
Speaker 2: with Will Smith making records, DJing, making music, Follownists, Passion,
Speaker 2: the Greatest Ever Jazzy Jeff QLs Classic Part two coming
Speaker 2: up next time. Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: This classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora.
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