WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Dallas Austin Part 1 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.280 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. All Right, 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.480 my verse might be weak. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:18.440 Supremo Supremo, Roll Call, Supremo, Supremo, Role Called Supremo, Something Supremo, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.080 Roll Call, Suprema So Supremo roll Call. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:29.000 I'm out of ideas. Yeah, I'm so afraid. Yeah, somebody help. Yeah, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:39.000 I ain't too proud Supreme So Supreme, Roll Supremo. Roll 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.280 My name is Fante. Yeah, I ain't trying to be funny. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:42.880 Yeah. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.360 If I'm just gonna keep it real, yeah, I like 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:46.000 must be the. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:54.920 Money Supremo Roll Suprema Supremo roll Call. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.160 My name is Sugar. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.760 Yeah, and I got my booster. Yeah, so I could 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:00.320 be here. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.200 Yeah with this great producer. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:10.880 Suprema Supreme, Roll Suprema Supremo roll Call. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.120 It's like yeah and Jesus Christ. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.280 Yeah that was Austin's music. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.160 Yeah, change my life. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:28.080 Roll Call Supremo, Supremo, Roll Call Suprema Names Dallas. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:33.119 Yeah, I'm here for show. Yeah, I love Yeah, gonna 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:33.759 give you some more. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:42.040 Roll card Supreme sun Supremo, roll Call, Suprema Some Supremo, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:48.400 roll Call, Supremo Supremo, Roll Call Supreme. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.480 Supremo Roll Call all right, ladies and gentlemen, this quest love. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.200 That's Fane, that's like you, and that's a sugar Steve. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.000 And I'm being built somewhere else to me street. Look, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.080 I could take twelve minutes. Look, ain't you proud to 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:05.279 bait sweak? 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.400 Just one of them days. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:15.680 After the back hit him up style Aisha. I like them, Yo, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.480 Sammy got like a yeah yeah dog. I was not 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.280 ready for that because he still has his baby face troops. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:28.720 I will always love you. The fucking motown Philly must 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:35.560 be the money, must be, must playground beyond playground. Where 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.720 did you get that little squeaky thing? I'm gonna ask 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.320 you all your production. I just know that this show 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.600 is more about the creative process. Please don't go wait 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:50.359 for my Baby's got a secret. Yo. I need some justice. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 I need some justice for silly ho. I think that 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:01.399 that guy raftic. I'm sorry the boys mine. They don't 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.760 care about us. It's all that ship. I have so 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.359 many questions about Too Bad Man, But Yo, I was 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.000 two seconds year old. I could have sworn. I remember 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.119 when I brought Tasty and I was like, oh damn, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.000 okay for real, yell y'all y'all, y'all hooking up. I'll 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.480 get more mature to Jawin. I didn't know he did 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:26.600 trick me, dude, I'm pretty What about I can go on? 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.240 What about your friends, Ladies and gentlemen. This doesn't happen often. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.880 Is going to be a super producer episode, one of 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.280 the greatest producers. Just how do you get here? We 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.960 don't know? Did you that? This is literally no? I'm sorry. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.000 I normally do all these long accolades take twelve minutes, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.400 but you know that's for the seven hour Jimmy Jam episode. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.200 You lucky. He's definitely about to do five hours. He 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:59.560 just don't know it yet. Anyway, Ladies and gentle right out. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.000 That's why I'm rushing. Ladies and gentlemen. Dallas Austin is 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:04.920 left supreme. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.560 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.040 We are here. This is our Atlanta series and uh 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.360 we we've been here for a while and just wearing 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:19.400 the same clothes every five weeks. How how are you, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.240 mister Austin. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.120 I'm good man, I'm really good. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.360 I gotta say. The day that we're speaking is the 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.400 twenty sixth anniversary of the ill adelph Half Life release, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.680 of which the very song we worked on was at 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:40.720 Dark Studios. Yeah, we did Panic and started episodes at 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.320 Dark Yep. We were just and we cold knocked. I 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.960 think we just knocked and it was like, you know, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.880 can we get a studio room real quick? And all 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.000 I remember was you were there recording the Fishbone record, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.000 and Joy was there too, And this is the first 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.800 time that I saw Angelo. He was very much in 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.520 love with that Therman. Oh my god, dog, if you 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.760 if you can hear, like if I had the stems 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.320 to Panic on Tarik's vocal track, you can still hear 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:17.760 like the bleeding through the wall, that's my memories of Dark. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.440 But now, thank you very much for doing this with 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.000 this man. And we couldn't I didn't know what to 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.760 do with that thing. It was like you couldn't control 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:23.240 the there man. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:24.159 So and he was just. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.800 He was determined to use it on the record. It's 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.120 almost impossible to put it into him, dude. And that's 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.400 bleeding over into this session, dude. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.440 Like he would just be in the hallway and like 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:41.000 it was like he was doing like that's just like 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.000 four hours straight your legacy. N Steep said, we're just 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.040 gonna dive right into it. Where's your first musical memory. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.360 My stepdad played for James Brown, who was Jimmy Nolan. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:56.119 And Nolan is mother. That's the show. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.120 So this is crazy, So I'll wake up with him. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.520 Jimmy Chank no one, Yeah, does Wynney Melboy nor this does. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.600 I don't know have you ever mentioned this. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.880 I don't know if I mentioned do Windy before. But 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.960 every morning I would wake up in third grade and 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.200 play guitar with him, and he would teach me to 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.920 play with my fingers like this, think think it, you know, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.160 and I would probably smoke a little bit of a 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.600 joint and then go to school because it was it was, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.640 you know, seventies and stuff. So my mom, my mom 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.160 owned the nightclub and in Columbus, Georgia, and during the 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.719 sixties it was segregated so that when Tina Turner, James Brown, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.320 anybody came to town, they had to come perform, you know, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.679 in my dad's party club, stay in that area, eating 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.400 the soul food restaurant that's right there, and you know, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.279 so I came up kind of in the nightclub restaurant 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.920 business first. And there's a lot of seventies you know, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.080 wanna be bands and blue shag carpet and clavinet horners, 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.360 and you know, so my mom doing books. I'm running 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.080 around playing on their equipment every day. And Jimmy would 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.560 be on the road and whenever he would come back, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.920 then I would sit and play guitar with him, and 0:06:58.960 --> 0:06:59.960 then I would go on the road with the Jay 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.320 Bees like when I was, when I was like sevens. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.120 Everything literally this literally took every question out of my head. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.559 I'm still fed up that I'm sitting next to someone 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.320 that knew Jimmy Chank Nolan. Yeah, man like hurl and 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:19.920 cheese and Jimmy Chank Nolan. Are I mean, the the 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.520 wonder twins of syncopated rhythm. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.600 They're just and and I don't know why. Oh no, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:29.200 I'm a mom. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:29.720 You know. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:31.880 I was just so so into music, you know, so 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.360 crazy about music. But uh yeah, I went on the 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.480 road with the JB's one summer and I rode the 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.440 bus with them the whole time. And we see Charles 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:45.200 Sinclair Maceio. I would be under the organ while Charles 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.640 is rehearsing, right while they're practicing, I would be under 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.480 the organ playing with cars or like you know, playing 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.480 a little pianos and stuff and this is how crazy 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.800 this is that it goes full circle. So Captain Bruton 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.800 had a thing of B and my. When she first 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.240 got to being My, she says, was going to honor 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.320 James Brown and we want you Pharrell, Chad Rodney Jerkins all, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:05.800 y'all going to be the JB's. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:12.120 Wowharrell got on drums and started for What it Is 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.480 YO called the night before. The said, y'all, I'm about 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.400 to do mind power with James Brown. This is that nice? 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.080 Is that night? So we all in rehearsal, and for 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.280 one everybody's like, that's going to be impossible to getting together. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.920 So we all in rehearsal doing it. What it is 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.520 is what it is. I'm playing the same chinky notes 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.280 I was playing in third grade, right you know, I'm like, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.920 this is getting surreal. It's giving me a trip. And 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.120 so by the time we hit the stage with James 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.199 and I didn't you know, I was little, so I 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:39.920 didn't know how much you remember me or not to 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.880 follow my history of music or not. But soon he 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.640 saw me on the stage, he goes to me, that's 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.360 Jim and Nolan's boy right there. And then they started 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:47.880 talking about how he knew me since I was little 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.599 used to see me under the organ and all this 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.280 kind of stuff. And but it was a trip going 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.959 on the road with them because I remember this one 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.760 time where you know, they were all lined up, the 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.319 band was the JB's and then when James in the 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.360 dress room get ready to come out, and they out 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.920 there just talking doing that thing you spoke a cigarettes 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.920 s talking trash whatever, and this dude comes out and 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.800 he walks out and he slapped the hell out of 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.360 all of them, and I was so terrified. I didn't 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.360 know what to do. I was just like, what just happened? 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.079 You know what I'm saying. All of a sudden, it 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.240 was just like he walked right through and went straight 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.720 to the stage, and then they went to the stage 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.800 and started playing. And so afterwards, you know, as a kid, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.640 you're still just like in your own version of shock, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:32.320 like what just happened? Right, And Jimmy said to me said, man, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.760 you know he does that to get attention, so almost 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:36.280 like the face. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:37.840 I'm sorry, we say, slapped on the face. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:38.520 Yeah it was. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.040 You know, I feel like, you know, get your attention 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.480 off the bat if you feel like he's playing too 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.440 much or you're not serious about what's about to happen. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.320 You don't know what he'll do. He'll leave you if 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.720 somebody mess up. He lead a whole band. He wasn't 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:56.400 playing Soma back then. You could nobody, nobody Internet back then, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.920 but it was it was part of what really started me. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.199 He started shaping me into playing. You know, I started 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.640 on guitar, and then the guitar started hurting my fingers, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.240 so I started playing keyboards. And then from that point 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:07.520 I was. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.920 Just and you all self taught, like no formal lessons 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:10.280 or none of that. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.559 Self taught about Cassio started with the Casio calculator and 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.000 man asked my mom to get me a big one 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.640 every Christmas, and then worked my way up to it 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.240 rolling j X three. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.000 P went to Big Boy. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.120 Well, it took me a while. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:23.880 Sk one. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.600 I was at the skate one, but I couldn't play 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.400 in the local bands. And if I didn't have a 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.719 keyboard for it, a real keyboard, right. Yeah, So my 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.040 brother financed it. Was twelve hundred dollars. He financed it 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:33.640 for five years. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.920 Wow, he played ten thousand dollars for that. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:37.360 Yeah. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.160 He would sneaking in concerts, like because my mom's restaurant 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.880 in Columbus was down the street from the auditorium. Then 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.280 I went to every concert, so I seen the Mothership Land. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:46.400 That was one of my first concerts. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.079 Yeah, tell me about the conscerts you saw when you're 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:48.320 a kid. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:49.880 That's one of the first ones. Because I said, Mom, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.240 you know George Clinton, They're coming to town and probably 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.360 mean funka delic and the roof is going to open 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.640 up and the Spaceship's going to come in. And she said, well, honey, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.040 I don't think that's going to happen. I said, you 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.120 didn't see the commercials. Look at the marcial on TV. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.679 The space Ship's coming in. I gotta see this. So 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.360 she's like, all right, well, I just don't want you 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.839 to be disappointed. So I go to the concert. My 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.720 brother would always take me to the concerts. He would 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.319 sneak me in with a snare drum that was mid 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.360 from school, like saying it was a Zapp's drummer, and 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.640 you know, yeah, my brother was always everybody was in 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.760 with all their music. So so like when we got 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.960 to the concert and I'm watching the show and all 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.080 of a sudden start doing the swinging down with chariot 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.400 stop and I'm like, here comes, here comes gonna open up. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.720 And I didn't realize as a kid how it was happening, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.400 but I know the spaceship came down on the stage, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.760 you know, and I was just like blown away from 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.000 it and all the costumes and watching Bootsye and watching 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.120 like the whole you know, I was able. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.719 To see you got to see Glenn Goins call down 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:41.600 you heard. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.520 Seeing the whole thing bro like the same one you 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.280 can watch on the old seventies fields to see it. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.760 And when George comes out with the whole cane and 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.000 that happened, you know, And think about my Mom's restaurant, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.000 was that I was able to meet all these people 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.120 before I ever ever worked with them and knew them. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.280 So they would come to the restaurant afterwards, they. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.240 Would go before and because the soul Food restaur run 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.600 and then that was the closest restaurant to the venue, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.760 to the auditorium. It was only one place. So every 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.439 time he's Roger zapped line of Richie Commodore's wing and 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.960 fire all these people. I've seen him when I was little. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.520 My Mom's restaurant, did. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.880 You ever is it ever a circle back to some 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:15.800 of these fos. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.360 Was a little boy, especially George. You know George has 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.160 been since the times you were there. George was around then. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.960 That's when he was really starting to hang around us. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:30.280 He worked, right, Yeah, I did Hollywood but him, Lionel, Richie, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.160 all of them. I got Natalie Cole. They must be 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.240 so proud of you, like damn, yeah, it was. It's 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.080 a full circle trip. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.400 You know, what was your favorite Parliament album? 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.360 I was in the Cosmic Slops album first with Maggie 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.839 Brain and you know, just because my brothers and that 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.280 was just playing over and over and over. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.080 How much older were your brothers in you like five 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.760 years you know, so like you the middle or your baby? 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:54.520 I'm the baby. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:01.760 Yeah, I thought that who's the hype man for another 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:02.320 bad creation? 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:03.760 Yeah? 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.840 That's that was your brother. Okay, I'm sorry, I thought 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:08.280 that was your brother. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.240 That's your that's my cousin aunt son. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.240 That was like an urban legend when we was younger, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:13.559 like you know this, okay. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.760 Right, all of us was down in Columbus, Man and 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.439 then my brother who brought the keyboard end up breaking 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.079 my off plane. Get it up one day from the time, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:23.880 over and over and over and over again, because that's 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.920 how we learned how to play right. And my brother 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.559 came in one day some months they cleaned up the 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.280 room and I wasn't listening, so he picked the keyboard 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.040 up through it broke it. I tripped out, flipped. My 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.559 mom's restaurant was connected to the house we stayed in 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.920 that at that time, so it was like soul food 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.760 restaurant and downtown Columbus. So everything was going down, like 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.360 everything was going down, and it was just bad. It 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:44.560 was just just dark. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.599 And so he broke your keyboard, the one he paid for. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:55.040 Yeah, I tried to kill him, but I was so little, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.439 you know, when you're little, you don't know better. So 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.240 you know, I ran down stairs my one restaurant and 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.040 get a knife, run upstairs and crying what was going on? 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.240 Because that keyboard was the only thing that got me 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.599 into bands with people that was like bigger, you know, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.920 like Kevin Bradshaw and now who ended up being like 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.839 Basic Black. They had bands, you know, So I wanted 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.160 to play in the band and be like doctor Fink 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.080 forar real, like Jimmy Jay and for real and now 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:15.960 you just ruin my dream. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.200 So and how old are you now are you talking about. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.560 Twelve, Speaking of which, we found this out recently that 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:28.440 Prince initially wrote Get It Up Brick for Brick. They 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.640 didn't like it. Episode. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.200 Oh my god, I was. I was a straight up fanatic. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.720 I was a Prince time fanatic. I was such a 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.840 fanatic that that's how I learned to play everything, because 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.000 I would go home every day and learn get it 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.960 Up Solo. I'll go home every day and learn cool, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:51.360 go home every day like girl and all this stuff. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.960 And I was so little that, you know, you just 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.400 sat there and did it over and over and over 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.280 and over and over again. And by the time I 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.760 got to be twelve, you know, I was really good. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.440 By the time broke my keyboard, That's what made me 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.680 move to Atlanta, because I told my mom. I was like, yo, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.840 it's a Greyhound bus station around the street. So he 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.200 broke my keyboard. I went to the bus station. I'm like, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:11.680 I'm going to Atlanta twelve. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.920 I don't understand how that well, she. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:14.960 Didn't need At first. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.840 You ran away with you announced that you're running away 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 from home, and then stop you. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.200 I went to the bus station. I'm waiting on the 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.520 bus like and it's late at night. So my mom 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.600 was like, yo, what are you doing? Like he broke 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.680 my keyboard. I can't be a big producer. I got 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.040 to get to Atlanta, and. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.080 She was like what and what you're getting too in 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.320 Atlanta for because at the time because my auntie, but 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.720 my auntie lived up here and it was still not there, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.640 and I knew something else could happen here, you know, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.040 like you still had Brick and still had Cameo, and 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.840 you still had sos BN and like, you know, Atlanta 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.040 Rhythm sections and all this stuff was going on back there. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:54.320 In your mind. Like at least if I'm twelve, you 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.280 know what I knew of Atlanta pre Like when Bobby 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.560 Brown came down then I was like, Okay, something's about 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.880 to happen. But before then, the only person I knew 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.040 that like bragged about Atlanta back then was people bricing. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.640 People bricon a cameo. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.400 Right, But I didn't know even like not even reading 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:17.520 the labels, Like you know, I'm just saying that. Why again, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.600 you're twelve, So I'm glad you kind of went next 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.200 door instead of like, yeah, two thousand miles away. Why 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.040 was in New York or Hollywood not on your. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.320 Radar, because I've been to Atlanta. We would come up 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.480 on the weekends and they had the biggest music store, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.680 like Rhythm City or something was called, and like so 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.360 you look at the Yellow Pages and it was like 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.520 that was the closest dream I could see for real. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.760 You know, It's like, if I get up there, I 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.320 can go to the music shop, so I can do this. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.360 I can do that. But I just knew that Columbus 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.120 wasn't the place for it. And so my mom came 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.280 the next day. She came said, look, okay, it's late 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.640 at night. I know you're stubborn, I know you're mad. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.720 Just come on back to the house and we talk 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.880 about it. And no busses are leaving the night anyway, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.080 so you know, come on back home. It's fine, we 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.320 can we can do it tomorrow. So I went back home, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.800 woke up the next day. Was he there, Oh yeah, no, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.720 he was going drinking, but wises by then he was like. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:06.639 He know that. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.439 He realized at that point, how you know what that happened? 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:09.679 Right? 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.199 And so the next day I got up during the daytime, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.680 I went down to my mom's cash register in the restaurant, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.320 got me like twenty forty bucks, went back to Grayund 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.760 bus station and then now it was full long. Now 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.920 it was daytime. The buses are leaving. So she comes 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.159 back around again and she was like, yo, what are 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.320 you doing. I'm like, I'm going to Atlanta. I can't 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.159 I can't say down here, who broke my keyboard? All 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:30.879 my brothers are like, you know, in jail a lot 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.719 like we had a lot of just jail and darkness. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:33.879 So as me and my mom were really. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.440 Close and it's absolutely not repairable. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.960 It was reparable, it just didn't look like it. The 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.920 two first the two keys came off the beginning. You know, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.399 oh you mean the keyboard. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:44.480 I thought you meant the relationship. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.080 Yeah, the keyboard. Well well then you know, my mom 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.760 was like, well, look, if you're not determined, you that stubborn, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.439 then give me some time to sell the restaurant. I'm 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.399 going with you. You're not leaving me. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.399 Wait time out. She's willing to do that for you. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.800 She did that. That's your best face. That's how I 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.000 got to Atlanta. So she came up sold the restaurants. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.640 My dad was really he was really prominent in Columbus. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.119 He did a lot of stuff with the city, did 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.560 a lot of stuff with the streets, and you know, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.720 gangsters and all this stuff. He was just that guy. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.159 So you know, I was just like, nothing's down here 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.520 for us except for legacy. He left and some problems 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.200 with police and all this kind of stuff. Let's just go. 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.440 And so we left, came to Atlanta. She got a 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.280 job at po Folks on Old National. I moved to 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.719 College Park, and she she didn't even know how much 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.919 money to ask for because she was always self employing 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.119 a little restaurant. So she started making twelve thousand a 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.920 year and I started going to school sometimes. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:36.240 How long was that. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.600 Period between the bus station and y'all actually moving. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.840 About about almost eighty eight months to a year. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:42.240 Oh wow. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.120 By time when she was like, all right, let me situated, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:46.680