WEBVTT - QLS Classic: Doug E. Fresh Part 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.560 Questlove Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.440 This is Part two. Doug describes a journey to becoming 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.080 hip hop star and one of the world's greatest entertainers. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:22.880 I really like this episode and you will too. I 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.200 have a question about the Oh my God record. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:26.520 Now. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:31.200 I know that we're in a whole different time period now, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:39.960 So having grown up in Reagan's America, which was heavily Christian, conservative, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.360 more you know, moral majority, all those things, I can 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.920 see I had a different opinion of it when I 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.599 first heard it, and of course thirty years later, opinions 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.120 have changed, and we now live in a time period 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.120 where like we believe that you know, in his choice 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.160 and whatnot. But you know, even before Common did retrospect 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:12.240 for life, I remember like how big the abortion song 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:17.840 was on your first album. So what was the what 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.360 was the what was the because the thing is like 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.880 on that on that debut record of yours. The two 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.119 things that my two takeaways was definitely you know, play 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.480 this only at night really truly could have been given 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.800 Moments in Love a run for its money. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.760 But like the first New. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:43.240 Jack kind of you know, slow join right, and I 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.240 just at that point I never heard a rapper really 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:54.200 get topical about anything that wasn't just street conditions or 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.960 you know, violence on you know, like day to day violence. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.760 Like you just never heard the rapper rapping about abortion? 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:08.000 What what prompted you? What prompted you to even go there? 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.080 Wow? 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:10.440 You know because back then. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:16.680 It was you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well well I'm 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.120 gonna tell you two things. And that's a beautiful question. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.120 I like how you slipped that, And I like how 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:21.760 you did that. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.920 That was so stupid, and I haven't forgot about. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:31.520 You know, we get to trust me, no, no, no, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.120 but look what happened was, as you know hip hop, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.839 the expression is raw. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.359 All the Way to Heaven is the first song ever 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:40.480 dedicated to God. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.399 That's before Jesus walk, that's before anybody ever did it. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.560 It was a chance, it was. All the Way to 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.520 Heaven was created because we were happy. We were happy 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.560 about what God has given to us. So so when 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.480 I'm saying different, can. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.280 I can I just briefly issue if you for one 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.000 second and maybe you could double this answer, because I 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.120 swear to God I would I would have killed myself 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.600 if I didn't ask this question. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.919 Speaking of All the Way to Heaven can you please. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.120 I think I heard you explain this once on a 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.600 radio show back in like eighty six, and I. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.240 Could not never find this quote. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.240 Can you explain the the the the the logic you 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.280 had with creating the show as far as its spiritual element, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.639 Like I think I heard you say one time where 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:36.000 you like, so no, no, no, you mentioned something about like like, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.600 oh my god, like he purposely chows, oh my god, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.400 sound body with a six six six six minutes thing, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.720 even like is he real? 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.640 Like it's I thought I read this. I don't know 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:51.440 if I dreamed or. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:57.720 Not if you say is it real? Fast? Right? So 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.000 that's that's right. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.320 That was how and and oh my god, you know 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.560 and kind of like you know a lot of things 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.120 for me hopping through dreams, Like even the show came 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.760 to me in a dream. It was like I woke 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.400 up and something told me to do it, the same 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.880 way I just did this new project about Chuck Brown. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.440 It's like this is happened to me, No, but it happens. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.080 It's a real interesting way that artists create. So what 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.280 I did, oh my God is a real I told 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.040 Barer and Will and they was like, how you're going 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.360 to have us cut these two things at the same time. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.440 I said, trust me, it's going to work. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.160 And when they started cutting it, it just became that 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.080 was I consciously thinking about the creator. I can't really 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.240 say I was. It was just something that was making 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.839 me do this. Now, a lot of people thought that 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.000 when it was saying six minutes, it was worshiping the devil, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.120 but it wasn't none of that. It was just that 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.920 it was a kind of a cool thing in a 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.719 way where if you listen. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.440 I'm more of a rhyme style list. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:05.000 So when I'm doing something, it's never gonna be what 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.720 you believe it should be. I'm not trying to be 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.760 the greatest rapp up. I'm trying to convey an idea 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.120 and that's. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.080 My main focus. So six minutes, six minutes, six minutes, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:18.840 Doggi versa. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.160 It's it became kind of like or like no no, no, no, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.040 no no, we didn't no no no. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.000 No no no no no. See, like it's not a rhyme. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.240 And then and then if you're think about the show 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.200 when it's going on and in the back you can hear. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:34.280 Right. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.640 But because because all of these different pieces. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.760 Kind of like it was more it was changing the 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.960 way and a hip hop artists were to approach things. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.920 I was changing what you considered to be hip hop. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.240 I wanted you to expand. I wanted you to think 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.040 that you can't. You don't need just one DJ. You 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.919 can use two, you can use three. I wanted you 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.320 to think about listen to the rom it's all because 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.119 put a song in a rock me shall like, let's 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.279 do something different, because you gotta be flashed to rock 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.640 with and I'm known for the not like, let's let's 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.760 play at the end of the song. I'm doing as 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.480 you can see most definitely, I'm not rhyming. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.240 I'm talking to you. We are like like it's it's 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:31.200 it's changing. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.200 A spiritual song is like the show hip hop's first 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.440 spiritual song or with see. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.760 I think that in its own way, organically it probably 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:50.720 was without without consciously doing it, okay. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.360 And I wouldn't. I wouldn't. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.039 I wouldn't say that I consciously did everything that way. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.320 I just feel like I was driven to do that, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.520 you know, and then all the way to heaven, me 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.400 and Rick was going to do together. So when I 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.880 made on my guard, I was in a very I 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:14.120 was in a state where I was feeling bad because 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.920 of the way I had to keep this thing going, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.920 because I thought me and them together was really good, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.400 and I felt like I was disappointing a lot of 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.480 the people who loved the chemistry. So I was in 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.360 a position where I felt like I had to keep moving, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.520 and I know that some people would would take it 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:34.520 a different way. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:40.080 But I also felt all the way to Heaven was important. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.160 Because I felt like, how can I go from this 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.880 point forward and not give thanks to the creator for 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.800 what was done. I'm a guy that saved up this money, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.720 went in there, made these records. A dude owed me money. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.200 I went to the studio at my friend's house. I 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.640 made this up and it exploded, and it's one of 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.960 those stories that nobody would ever believe is true. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.960 So I'm thankful. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.640 And even though me and Rick got our issues or 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.560 things wasn't working out, I'm still thankful. So then I 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.120 also felt that a song like abortion, the baby on 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.800 that record is being born, and that's Banard's right, that's 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:31.160 Banard writes Son. He went into the room, he was 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.120 in the room when his wife had the baby, and 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:37.400 I said recorded, I said recorded, I want that on 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.720 my record. He said, I'm coming back with it. He 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.680 went in there with the recorder. The baby was crying, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.240 and I put it on the top of the song. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.280 Now why did I do that? 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.400 I did that because I felt at that particular time 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.520 that this is the most beautiful thing in the world. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.360 This is my son. You know, I'm here because of this. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:10.040 So I felt that that topic and that thought process 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.480 was one that I felt very strong about. And then 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.960 I had a girlfriend and that happened, and when it happened, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.600 it affected me. And when it affected me, I wrote 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.800 about it the same way. I wrote she was that 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.120 type of girl. I wrote about it same way. All 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.400 the Way to Heaven I wrote about it same way. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.400 Nothing is about people smoking crack and things happening in 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:36.119 the community. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.920 I wrote about it. Play this only at night was 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.600 the condition that I seen Harlem. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.560 Harlem was like night of the living bass heads on steroids, bro. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.040 So I wrote about it. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.760 So the music was was was explaining what was going on, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.800 and I didn't I didn't think nobody might get it 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.920 like I got it, But I felt like I. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.680 Needed to give it to him, you know what I mean. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.840 And even with loving every minute, I think that was 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.720 my first introduction to seeing Chuck Brown live at the 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.960 Capital Center. So I was so influenced by that energy. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.600 I came back and wrote loving every minute of it 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.960 with the Go Go track in it. So I was 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.079 just once again. But see, it goes back to honesty. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:30.240 I know that honesty. You know, honesty is not always appreciated, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.959 and it's not always good, and it's not always good 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.319 when when the timming is off, sometimes it can callt 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.480 I tell people truth out of season can be destructive. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:44.120 You know what I mean. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.160 But then there's a fearlessness in telling truth. So when 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.480 I was putting records together, it was my truth, and 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.280 it was a fearlessness that I felt I'm gonna deal 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.320 with with coming When I would play the records at 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.600 the party or something and they get to that record 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.280 of Bots, I'm like, man, I. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.640 Know they hate me for this song. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.840 I know they are, I said, but I said, but 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.440 you know what I said, But yoe, man, this is 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:09.559 where I'm not with it. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.080 This is how I feel. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.800 I appreciate your honesty. And also, you know, sometimes as 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.480 fans we have to allow our artists to evolve, especially 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.880 if they started young. We did it for common so. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.720 Right right, I mean, back back in eighty five. That 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.040 was the modus operandi. Wait, I have one more show question, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:32.360 and again I got it. This the intro to the show. Right, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:38.720 was your inspiration behind that? The whiz the gold, yellow Green? 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:43.240 Absolutely? I knew, absolutely no question. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.839 And when I did it, I said, I said, I said, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.320 but I wanted to be better. I said, I want 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.800 to feel that. I said, but I used to love 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.000 when Richard prob Gold is the I changed my gold 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.480 color colored. Now children, when every time you get received right? 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.920 And so after I said, I wanted to be big, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:05.880 you know. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.280 And one of the things that I felt with a 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.440 lot of hip hop songs was they never I always 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.040 felt like and I guess maybe the influence came from 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.920 super rapping, but it was a Friday night everybody like 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.240 I felt like, if a song is coming on, it 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.880 has to make me feel like like you taking. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.760 Me someplace, you know what I mean. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.679 So the show was the first record that I was 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.840 able to get out all of my ideas the way 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.800 I wanted to. And because I went through so many, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.200 you know, situations with not being able. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.600 To express my ideas to the fullest, it was. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.920 Like I'm gonna put up my own money and I'm 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.880 gonna express my ideas my own way, and that horn 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:55.120 in the beginning was inspired definitely by the waiz Man. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.360 Okay, so question, here's the fact that I did not know. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.199 Because if you're not getting the record, at least in 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.440 nineteen eighty eight, if you're not buying the album, this 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.760 is before the CD generation, causetts really aren't giving you 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:16.040 liner notes. So I think maybe he revealed this to 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:21.160 me four years ago. I had no idea that the 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:26.400 Bomb Squad was kind of the production unit behind your 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.360 second album, World's Greatest Entertainer on two songs. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.240 Well even there period, and if you look at it, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.120 keep rising to the top. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:43.560 Really isn't when you get squad soundy right because different samples, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.040 though it is kind of you know. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.760 Well, I mean no, I'm gonna tell you the song 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.360 once again, the same way I acknowledged Seddi Roley, I 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.240 acknowledged the Bomb Squad, and I met Chuck d on 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:58.680 tour and I would and I would help them with 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.880 the performance when Public Enemy was performing, because they was 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.120 opening up for us, so I would help him with 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.120 his performance. I would say, Yo, you gotta let the 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.320 s one w's move. You gotta get you in flavored. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.400 I to exchange the energy. So we started. He was 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.120 just listening to me and he would try it out, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.880 and I said, Griff could do this part. And I 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.200 was sitting there and we'd come together. And then he 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.120 started telling me how he was a part of this 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.880 bomb squad and he said, Yo, you should get with 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.320 us and talk with us a little bit. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:31.400 I said, I got this. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.240 Joint that I want to do, man, and it's I 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.160 don't know, it's in hip hop. Nobody's ever really done 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.960 a joint like this. I said, but I think it's 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.200 going to take it to another place. And he said, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:41.880 all right, well. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.840 Why did you hook up with us? So I came 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:44.480 to him. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.120 I came to Hank Shockley with rising to the top, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.520 and then I said, let me hear some drum sounds 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.320 the same way I did at Teddy's house. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.000 So I banged out the beat. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.240 So I took the samp and he had all the 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.640 right stock sounds because their sounds was incredible. And then 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.240 Eric Sidler, when I was I said, I said, I 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.040 wanted to hear. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.680 To Doom to Doom to Doom to Doom right right 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.240 and I wanted that kind of. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.320 Feeling that that I honestly got to say, I got 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.120 inspired by when I heard Nobody Beat the Biz. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.200 When I heard. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:28.080 Thoomommom Tom Tom Tomy that came on. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.160 That was crazy. That was crazy. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.800 And then I said, I want to put chords at 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.560 the end of it. And then I remember everybody was 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.160 laughing at me in the studio. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.480 They said, Yo, people are gonna be coming. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:47.240 Out with their smoking jackets. Yo. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.080 Rising to the Top is the first. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.160 That's the first forty five that I bought, like with 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.240 my own money for myself, I think. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:57.120 So. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.720 My grandmother took me to the record store. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.400 I bought Tougher than Leather and the Rising to the 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.320 Top forty five, and I ended up because on the 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.120 forty five it was Rising to the Top was on 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.720 the A and then on the other side it was 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:16.000 the instrumental. Right, And so I without doing I'll just 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.280 say I listened to Rising to the Top way more 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:18.560 than I. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:19.440 Listened to. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.120 That is. I love that song, man, I love that record. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.040 Why do I The first time I seen like Dougie, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.720 do your dance to that song? Right? 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:37.400 That's yeah. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.360 Look, that's when I introduced that's but because I because 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.920 I came up with the Dougie and I didn't call 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.960 it that. I was just doing it right, and he 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.000 was I was just doing Douggie. And then that was 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.560 the introduction to the dance that turned into a whole 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.640 nother situation which I can't even I mean out of the. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.040 Field even had the White House. I'm cool to see 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.480 that dance get to the White House. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.200 Yo. Let me tell you quest. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.800 I was up there taking a picture with the first 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.840 Lady and I said, very nice to meet you, first Lady. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.240 She said, I just want to ask you one question. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.320 Am I doing the Dougie? 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:24.480 Yes? Because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I said, I said, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.000 I said, I never seen it done better. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.760 I never seen it done better. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.000 And you want to go, You've been to the White 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.040 House a few times doing that doing that that era 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.320 because I feel like a White House doing Easter. And 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.560 I saw Dougie Fresh walking out like I live here. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:44.240 I'm right right right because I was doing I got 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.000 this foundation called Hip Hop Public Health, so we was 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.000 performing and and and then I did the song for 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.200 Michelle Obama Let's Move the whole campaign, So I did 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.720 the theme song for that, and that our Organization team 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.119 in with him for we did. We started fighting childhood 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.720 o B City high blood fresher seeing the symptoms of 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.879 when a person has a stroke. And we've been doing 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.119 this work for the past thirteen to fifteen years, like 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.600 teaching people how to eat, you know, trying to give 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.560 them some kind of understanding of you know, watching what 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.800 you eat and the effects of it. You if you're 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.280 eating stuff that's not right. So you know, Michelle Obama 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.800 when she said she was going to do it, hey, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:31.520 I said, where do I sign up? 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.440 And then I just started to do the song. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.480 So you know that's what it's all about, you know 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:37.920 what I mean. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.000 That made me think when you said you was talking 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.199 to Biz about his health, you was really talking to 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.160 Biz about his health. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.040 I went hard on him, meaning just not not hard 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:52.320 in a bad way, but I kept telling them, you know, Biz, yo, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.000 we got to make sure that you know, you watch 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.680 what you eat, and you know, these starches turn the 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.720 sugar and sugar turns the fact if you get diabetes, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.479 it's gonna be tough. And I say, you know, and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.360 I would take him out and he would be DJing 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.439 sometime and he would be right. He would almost pass 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.280 out on the set and we would have to catch him, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.800 and then I'd be like, bizz, you gotta stop this, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.240 you gotta get And then he started getting controlled and 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.240 I posted something where he lost on stage. He lost 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.480 like seventy five eighty pounds, and then after he did that, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:26.200 I was. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.000 Like, yeah, non, now this is what I'm talking about. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.359 And then when the pandemic happened and he sat home 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.200 for a while, you know, like most people, they sat 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.760 home and they just started to you know, snack here 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.640 not then soil he wasn't paying attention right, And then 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.000 what he did is he caught a diabetic stroke. He 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.639 caught a seizure, and he got a diabetic stroke. And 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.960 then when he went to the hospital when he had 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.280 the stroke, you know, his stroke is the number one 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.760 disabilitating disease in the world. So he wasn't able to 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.520 talk or he wasn't able to to move, like he 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.639 couldn't move. So we kept trying to send them flyers. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.520 I would get on there, telling them jokes. Me and 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.119 his wife would be up there snapping with him and 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.320 doing the things that we normally would do to pull 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.480 him out of it. And then he would show signs 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.800 that he's coming out of it, and then there would 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.680 be times when he goes down. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.200 And and it really bothered me. Man. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.960 But you know, I'm hoping that what happened to him 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.400 is making everybody aware of it can happen to any 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:34.440 one of us, you know what I mean. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:39.800 And everybody loved this. This was such a bright spirit, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.000 right personality, you know. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.639 So to see him leave at such a you know, 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.399 a young age, it bothered me. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.879 That's why I'm glad that these two brothers on this show, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.080 they talk about health all the time and they held 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:53.440 help each other accountable. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.879 So I love it. You love it. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:57.280 I love it. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.600 When I heard y'all talk, and I was loving it, bro, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.080 I was loving on some real conversation. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.080 I know it's about me, but it's really about y'all. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:05.800 You know. 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.400 I was loving it, and I like. I like how 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.159 y'all are supporting each other, because that's where we go wrong. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.160 We believe, we believe. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.440 That we got to go through this by ourselves. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.000 And we don't. We don't. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.320 Sometimes sometimes you need your man to check you a 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.000 little bit or you know, or challenge you and turn 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.760 it into a game so it's not so so serious, 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.000 you know what I mean? And you know and looking 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.159 sometimes even if you fall off on something, you know, 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.639 if you got a good team of people around you, 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:39.440 you can. 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:40.240 Get yourself back on it. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.840 But I just think that diabetes is such a bizarre 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:49.440 disease because you don't really realize when your sugar's up 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.080 and you're not checking it, and your sugar could be 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:56.000