1
00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,240
Speaker 1: Courst Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic

2
00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,040
Speaker 1: episode was produced by the team at Pandora.

3
00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,800
Speaker 2: What Up, y'all? It's like It and this week's QLs classic.

4
00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:16,400
Speaker 3: Continues from last week Yeah Rooth's Picnic Live in New York.

5
00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,840
Speaker 2: This aired October twenty six.

6
00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,080
Speaker 3: Imagine It, Team Supreme hold up in a hotel across

7
00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,600
Speaker 3: the street from the venue. While everybody's performing, theyre run

8
00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,800
Speaker 3: across the street to talk to us. Even Questlove, so

9
00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,840
Speaker 3: make sure you pay attention to.

10
00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:30,760
Speaker 1: Hear when he pops in.

11
00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,599
Speaker 3: Featured in this episode appearances from The Jungle Brothers, Emily Wells,

12
00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,400
Speaker 3: Yuna Daniel Bambada, Marley Freeway, and Easy Mode Breezy from

13
00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:42,360
Speaker 3: Grits and Biscuits.

14
00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:54,120
Speaker 4: Enjoy, y'all, What's up, y'all?

15
00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,000
Speaker 1: Welcome to a very special edition of West Love Supreme

16
00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,720
Speaker 1: once again. This is a road trip, well not exactly

17
00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,560
Speaker 1: a road trip. We're kind of up the block from

18
00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,280
Speaker 1: Bryant Park in New York City. I'll say that twenty

19
00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,600
Speaker 1: years ago, when the Roots were first formed, we made

20
00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,920
Speaker 1: and cut our teeth on the festival circuit, and festivals

21
00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,360
Speaker 1: are like now a thing in America that back in

22
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,240
Speaker 1: the early nineties, it was like really unheard of to

23
00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,840
Speaker 1: have different genres together under one roof, like doing a festival.

24
00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,280
Speaker 1: We always said that we had enough pull and of

25
00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,200
Speaker 1: course enough finances, we were going to bring a festival

26
00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,600
Speaker 1: to whatever city that we chose to do. And of course,

27
00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,120
Speaker 1: I guess most of you guys are familiar with the

28
00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:39,679
Speaker 1: Root's Picnic. That's our Philadelphia homegrown festival event. So this

29
00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,800
Speaker 1: year we decided to take the Roots Picnic to Bryant

30
00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,080
Speaker 1: Park in New York City and entertained over twenty thousand

31
00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,120
Speaker 1: people for two days.

32
00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,680
Speaker 5: So many acts played the picnic.

33
00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:55,800
Speaker 1: David Byrne, Bu tang Quin, Dangelo, John Mayer, even Alicia Keys,

34
00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,880
Speaker 1: Dave Sappelle, Common of course the Roots were formed as well.

35
00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,120
Speaker 1: Uh we even Adnle Rogers and She's That's a lot.

36
00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,440
Speaker 5: Of line up. Anyway.

37
00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,120
Speaker 1: We recorded these special episodes in Quest Love Supreme Live

38
00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,200
Speaker 1: during the Roots Picnic. I was running around quite a

39
00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,079
Speaker 1: bit too. I popped up in the show occasionally when

40
00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,400
Speaker 1: I had a minute, but it was basically rehearsing. But

41
00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,520
Speaker 1: don't worry, Uh, the team Supreme held it down and

42
00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,600
Speaker 1: they really did an amazing job running the show with

43
00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:22,120
Speaker 1: my absent.

44
00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,000
Speaker 5: That's right. We got Fante, Boss.

45
00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,560
Speaker 1: Bill still there, Unpaid Bills there, Sugar Steeds there, Lai

46
00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,320
Speaker 1: is there, and a whole cast of others.

47
00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:31,600
Speaker 5: And during this.

48
00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,680
Speaker 6: Episode you will hear some great interviews with the Jungle Brothers,

49
00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,880
Speaker 6: you and Daniel Marley, the Freeway, the team behind Participar

50
00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,440
Speaker 6: Biscuits party An Emily Wells, and I really hope you

51
00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,160
Speaker 6: enjoyed the show.

52
00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,680
Speaker 1: This is part two of the Roots Picnic New York

53
00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,680
Speaker 1: edition of Quest Love Supreme.

54
00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:53,680
Speaker 5: Once one two y'all.

55
00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,720
Speaker 7: This is Questlove Supreme only on Pandora Sponte Fontigelo holding

56
00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,119
Speaker 7: it down for the boss Man and our coat leader,

57
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:01,959
Speaker 7: Quest Love.

58
00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,080
Speaker 5: Who is busy working today.

59
00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,640
Speaker 7: We're broadcasting live from the Roots Picnic in New York,

60
00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,480
Speaker 7: in New York, New York City, the city and the state.

61
00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:17,920
Speaker 7: We got, uh, we got lovely unpaid Bill Sherman, my

62
00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:23,360
Speaker 7: Man Sugar, Steve, my Man Scott Yo, Yo, Boss Bill,

63
00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,639
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. We're all in here, we're

64
00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:26,400
Speaker 7: having a good time.

65
00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:27,200
Speaker 5: Man.

66
00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,400
Speaker 7: I cannot say enough how much the brothers that we

67
00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,160
Speaker 7: are honored to have in this building today, how much

68
00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,560
Speaker 7: of an influence that they played on my life, on

69
00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,960
Speaker 7: my musical career. Just god, man, I don't know where

70
00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:49,840
Speaker 7: to start. Straight out the jungle the album man mess

71
00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,800
Speaker 7: my head up, done by the forces of nature, messed

72
00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,560
Speaker 7: my head up even more. Jesus christ Man, I'm gonna

73
00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,280
Speaker 7: just let these brothers tell their story, lads and women.

74
00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:06,640
Speaker 7: One of my biggest musical influences, the forefathers of the

75
00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,280
Speaker 7: Native Tongue movement, who just gave voice to so many

76
00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:15,040
Speaker 7: of us. I'm talking about Mike G, Sammy B Baby Bam,

77
00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:15,920
Speaker 7: bladies and gentlemen.

78
00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,800
Speaker 5: Give it up the Jungle Brothers.

79
00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,400
Speaker 7: Thousand you both and watch sound System State of the Odd.

80
00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,919
Speaker 5: Come on, man, man, thank you.

81
00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,800
Speaker 7: First off, let me say okay, me and Mike G.

82
00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,000
Speaker 7: We have been planning to get together for like the

83
00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,719
Speaker 7: past decade. Mike G lives probably like twenty minutes from me.

84
00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,480
Speaker 7: He's we're both North Carolina residents. I'm North Carolina born

85
00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,920
Speaker 7: and raised. He is pretty much he's been there, and

86
00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,200
Speaker 7: we are part of the growing community of rappers in

87
00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,679
Speaker 7: North Carolina. I think special ed, I think so Dot

88
00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,960
Speaker 7: is so that X's and well, I know at one

89
00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:02,880
Speaker 7: point he was in Greensboro.

90
00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,120
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's still there. I don't know.

91
00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,000
Speaker 8: I was on his tail somewhere in Raleigh. I got

92
00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,839
Speaker 8: a good friend down there, he says, Yeah, man, I

93
00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,200
Speaker 8: was just here, you know, as folks live down there, Raleigh,

94
00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,120
Speaker 8: got family down there, so yeah, yeah, yeah, you know

95
00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,320
Speaker 8: Caine is still in Durham.

96
00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,640
Speaker 5: I believe Drma Raleigh. I believe.

97
00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,640
Speaker 7: But but yeah, me and Mike g have been Yo. Man,

98
00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 7: let's get up, let's get dinner, let's do this, and

99
00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,159
Speaker 7: this is the first time I think we've been in

100
00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:30,000
Speaker 7: the same room. Yeah, I see him more on the

101
00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,520
Speaker 7: road than I do actually in the city we live in.

102
00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,040
Speaker 7: But but now, brothers, thank you'all so much for man, man,

103
00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,679
Speaker 7: I cannot thank you enough. I guess let's just start

104
00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,880
Speaker 7: with well, let's start kind of, let's.

105
00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,000
Speaker 5: Go before we go back.

106
00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,240
Speaker 7: Let's like start with one of my favorite records from y'all,

107
00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,479
Speaker 7: which is fitting since the founder and our cut leader

108
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,800
Speaker 7: actually played on it, bring Uh Off the Raal Deluxe album.

109
00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,080
Speaker 5: Tell us tell me about that record.

110
00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,200
Speaker 7: I remember at the time when it came out, it

111
00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,640
Speaker 7: just sounded new. It sounded like it was the Jungle

112
00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,360
Speaker 7: Brothers that I knew in love, but it just sounded like, man,

113
00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,599
Speaker 7: like this is a reinvention like my Boys is back,

114
00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,960
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, talk to us about that

115
00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,600
Speaker 7: and too. It came off of the first single, uh,

116
00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,200
Speaker 7: the How You Want It, which is just like some

117
00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:21,919
Speaker 7: raw just straight loops. But then y'all came with the

118
00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,400
Speaker 7: Brains and I was like, oh, this is like some

119
00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,320
Speaker 7: cool shit, like wow, So let's talk about that record

120
00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,840
Speaker 7: around the time y'all did it. Where were y'all at

121
00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,960
Speaker 7: mentally at that thing in your career, because that was

122
00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,480
Speaker 7: that was after the whole crazy Wisdom Masters situations.

123
00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,720
Speaker 9: He was the masters we had.

124
00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,160
Speaker 5: Uh.

125
00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,719
Speaker 8: We had got back together with John Baker at G Street,

126
00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,560
Speaker 8: who was uh real instrumental in our in the first

127
00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,440
Speaker 8: part of our career off of Straight Out the Jungle.

128
00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,400
Speaker 5: It's funny how that all came together, but he.

129
00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,160
Speaker 8: Was instrumental on the UK side, on the Europe side

130
00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,000
Speaker 8: for Jungle Brothers went Straight Out the Jungle and Uh,

131
00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,280
Speaker 8: we got together for the Raw Deluxe album, and I

132
00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,760
Speaker 8: want to say we were almost finished. We were probably

133
00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,760
Speaker 8: sixteen some of our songs, but we still needed that

134
00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,880
Speaker 8: that one, you know, really to help I guess capture

135
00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,360
Speaker 8: the soul of the new audience that was out there

136
00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:19,160
Speaker 8: and somehow the the link, the link came and got

137
00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,800
Speaker 8: us all in the studio. You know what I'm saying,

138
00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,760
Speaker 8: quest thought they was they started early. By the time

139
00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:34,400
Speaker 8: we got there, all it was, and I mean the

140
00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,680
Speaker 8: rest is history. I mean, I think, like I said,

141
00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,440
Speaker 8: as soon as we walked in it was. It was that,

142
00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,760
Speaker 8: and then the chorus came on and then we just

143
00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,920
Speaker 8: all split up, sat in the corner started.

144
00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,040
Speaker 7: Writing, that's dope. That's dope, man. To give out our

145
00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,040
Speaker 7: listeners a little backstory at this point in their career. Well,

146
00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,320
Speaker 7: just and if I misspeak, please correct me. First album,

147
00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,400
Speaker 7: Straight out the Jungle hip Hop Classic. This was nineteen

148
00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:02,600
Speaker 7: eighty seven, Well Warlock Rect eight. I'm sorry, Warlock Records.

149
00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,040
Speaker 7: I was nine years old, a long time ago. But

150
00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,160
Speaker 7: then the second album.

151
00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:17,960
Speaker 5: Wasn't born yet. That's real, man, listen.

152
00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,960
Speaker 7: So second album done by the Force of Nature ninety

153
00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:29,360
Speaker 7: one eighty nine, eight eighty nine. I remember I was

154
00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,680
Speaker 7: it was probably fifth grade, I think, if I'm not mistaken,

155
00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,480
Speaker 7: that record. So these were like two records that were,

156
00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,360
Speaker 7: I mean really just cemented these brothers as just one

157
00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,040
Speaker 7: of the most kind of forward thinking, forward moving groups

158
00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:49,320
Speaker 7: in hip hop. After the second album, there was another

159
00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,200
Speaker 7: record called Crazy Wisdom Masters, which was a record that

160
00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:59,240
Speaker 7: was never officially released, and by all accounts, by all

161
00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:04,400
Speaker 7: you know, the legend, everything, the record was incredible. I

162
00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,000
Speaker 7: want to talk about that a little bit and talk

163
00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,480
Speaker 7: about that record, kind of what happened to it and

164
00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,040
Speaker 7: kind of the aftermath of that.

165
00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,200
Speaker 8: Well, in the place of that record, the Crazy Wisdom

166
00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,920
Speaker 8: record came JJ Remedy year that was also on Warner

167
00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,040
Speaker 8: Brothers at the time. And you know, the time period

168
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,559
Speaker 8: was I think we were learning. You know, we had

169
00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,520
Speaker 8: just we came off of touring done by the forces

170
00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,480
Speaker 8: of nature. I mean we literally, I mean from straight

171
00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,040
Speaker 8: out to jungle. We literally went from his graduation to

172
00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:44,079
Speaker 8: touring Europe and then constantly touring. I mean we literally

173
00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,160
Speaker 8: didn't take a break for a very long time, for

174
00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:48,360
Speaker 8: a really long time.

175
00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:49,240
Speaker 5: And for guys, you.

176
00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:49,760
Speaker 4: Know we like.

177
00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,040
Speaker 8: Seventeen eighteen nineteen, I mean it's like who does that?

178
00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,560
Speaker 5: Who comes out of school? Get your passport? Travel of

179
00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,920
Speaker 5: the world. The Berlin Wall was still up at the time.

180
00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:10,679
Speaker 8: Wow, Wow, were doing crazy festivals. We're doing crazy festivals.

181
00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,560
Speaker 8: I mean it was nuts. I mean, who does that?

182
00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,079
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm haul and Brooklyn the Bronx. I mean

183
00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,680
Speaker 8: at that time, the eighties, late eighties, I mean it

184
00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,400
Speaker 8: was unheard of. You know, by the time we got

185
00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,800
Speaker 8: back to the studio to start that third record, it

186
00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,360
Speaker 8: was like, I mean it was it was vomit.

187
00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,680
Speaker 5: It was like, Yo, look what we brought home.

188
00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,160
Speaker 8: I mean, we got we got to build with the

189
00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:39,719
Speaker 8: likes of Bill Liaswell, Bootsy mud Bone, George. I mean,

190
00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,000
Speaker 8: it was just so much. We had so much that,

191
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:51,200
Speaker 8: I mean it was hard to interpret. Yeah, from the meters,

192
00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,000
Speaker 8: I mean all the cats. I mean, I mean you're artist,

193
00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,720
Speaker 8: I mean, where your soul comes from. I I mean

194
00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,440
Speaker 8: I have to I have to throw this on you.

195
00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,199
Speaker 8: When that Little Brother album came out, It's like it

196
00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,320
Speaker 8: was a cheery moment. It was a cheery moment, you

197
00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,240
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying, because you wouldn't think that that

198
00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,800
Speaker 8: type of soul was in the audience, was in our

199
00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,640
Speaker 8: you know, amongst our peers like that.

200
00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,440
Speaker 5: Wow. But it's like we so when we came back

201
00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,800
Speaker 5: and we we.

202
00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,400
Speaker 8: Got to literally rub elbows and tour and do shows

203
00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,079
Speaker 8: with the cast that we were sampling that we were

204
00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,600
Speaker 8: sitting up in the sitting up in the Bronxe River

205
00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,040
Speaker 8: Center listening to the Beach Jazzy and I'm going back

206
00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,320
Speaker 8: and forth and were chilling with them in the tent,

207
00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,599
Speaker 8: drinking bits.

208
00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,480
Speaker 5: And all of that. And I ain't gonna put us

209
00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,440
Speaker 5: in the studio right after that. Wow, Warner Brothers, they

210
00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,520
Speaker 5: couldn't understand that. And that was for the Crazy the Master.

211
00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,199
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it wasn't It wasn't originally named the Crazy

212
00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,240
Speaker 8: was the Master. It was I don't think we even

213
00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,959
Speaker 8: had a name to I don't think we had.

214
00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,120
Speaker 5: Lose the originals or something like that.

215
00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it was all it was all politics

216
00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,199
Speaker 8: in short. In short, we created a spaceship. We made

217
00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,840
Speaker 8: a spaceship. Warner Brothers ain't know how to fly. They

218
00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,920
Speaker 8: was like, not hold up, we just need four wheels

219
00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:11,680
Speaker 8: in the steering wheel.

220
00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,520
Speaker 9: They wanted four wheels in.

221
00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,360
Speaker 5: The steering wheel. They did the okie doke with the mix.

222
00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,360
Speaker 8: After we mastered it, they found, you know, they pulled

223
00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,720
Speaker 8: what they felt was you know, relatable to the audience.

224
00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,640
Speaker 8: They put out JB's with the Remedy and.

225
00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,120
Speaker 7: That was the forty blow Trooper. That was yeah that way,

226
00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,000
Speaker 7: And I liked that record. I mean it was it

227
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,760
Speaker 7: was funny because J the Remedy was one of those

228
00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:44,000
Speaker 7: records that for me personally, had I not known the backstory,

229
00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,319
Speaker 7: like I would have been like, Yo, this is dope.

230
00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,040
Speaker 5: Like had I had, I I remember like reading I.

231
00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,360
Speaker 7: Want to say it was in the source or something

232
00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,320
Speaker 7: with you guys where y'all were, you know, telling them

233
00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,280
Speaker 7: talking about the process and how disappointing it was and

234
00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 7: how the stuff y'all going through with the label and everything,

235
00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,240
Speaker 7: And I just remember reading I was like, man, I

236
00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,800
Speaker 7: had no clue, if you know. To me, it sounded

237
00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,880
Speaker 7: like a junk Brothers record, but it was disappointing to

238
00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,520
Speaker 7: hear that it wasn't you guys vision you know what

239
00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,719
Speaker 7: I'm saying. But just for me, I remember for the

240
00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,559
Speaker 7: blow truth came out.

241
00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:12,680
Speaker 5: I love that record.

242
00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,440
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was a there was I think

243
00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:20,080
Speaker 8: crazy wis the masters it held, I mean it held

244
00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,679
Speaker 8: the whole story. But I think it was just ahead

245
00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:25,640
Speaker 8: of a lot of people's time. They just wasn't ready.

246
00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,920
Speaker 8: Like I said, we built a spaceship, but they wasn't ready.

247
00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,160
Speaker 8: They weren't even they wouldn't even put out the test

248
00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,880
Speaker 8: for how do you drive a spaceships?

249
00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,320
Speaker 5: We don't know. Just keep making calls.

250
00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,880
Speaker 7: You know, that's what it was, you know, all right,

251
00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,760
Speaker 7: so we're gonna go into that. So coming out of

252
00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,480
Speaker 7: Crazy Wism Masters into JB's with the Remedy, this is

253
00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:44,600
Speaker 7: when you left JA.

254
00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,360
Speaker 5: It was ninety three, was it was it?

255
00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,120
Speaker 4: Yeah?

256
00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,080
Speaker 9: It was. It was probably like.

257
00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,760
Speaker 7: Coming out of that record, you guys leave Warner Brothers,

258
00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,760
Speaker 7: get with E Street and that brings us to the

259
00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,800
Speaker 7: Rather Lucks album, which brings us to Brain, which was

260
00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,080
Speaker 7: kind of like a reintroduction to you guys.

261
00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,000
Speaker 5: What year is that? That was nineteen ninety six? Seven?

262
00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,120
Speaker 5: It was ninety seven. It was ninety seven.

263
00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,720
Speaker 7: Man, everything's almost tweeny years ago, yeah, because I remember

264
00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,760
Speaker 7: that was like my twenty senior year of high school.

265
00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,200
Speaker 3: I'll say, and y'all about to have y'all thirtieth anniversary.

266
00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:20,640
Speaker 5: Yeap next year.

267
00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,240
Speaker 7: For I mean, that's like thirty years you guys are

268
00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,840
Speaker 7: coming up on what keeps you going?

269
00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,720
Speaker 5: I mean, thirty is a long fucking time, oh man.

270
00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,760
Speaker 10: Just you know, the love for the music, that's really

271
00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,480
Speaker 10: the love for the music in the chemistry chemistry too.

272
00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,040
Speaker 5: Question. I think we friends before music.

273
00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,600
Speaker 11: You know, we grew up together high school, playing in

274
00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,400
Speaker 11: the parks, going to the jams. I think that really

275
00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,160
Speaker 11: kept us together because a lot of groups money comes

276
00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,320
Speaker 11: in between them and all that kind of stuff. And

277
00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,480
Speaker 11: I think at this point it really don't even matter,

278
00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,120
Speaker 11: you know. I think that we're still friends and that

279
00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,720
Speaker 11: makes a big difference.

280
00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you guys feel like y'all were maybe more

281
00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,960
Speaker 7: like better equipped to handle it now than you were

282
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:05,720
Speaker 7: when you were younger?

283
00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,040
Speaker 5: I think so. Yeah, RelA so too.

284
00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:15,520
Speaker 10: Yeah, we came along so early, you know where it

285
00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,960
Speaker 10: was those pioneered years where you're just doing something in

286
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,960
Speaker 10: your circle or in your bedroom and not aware of

287
00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,600
Speaker 10: what's out there. And we got a chance to go

288
00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,120
Speaker 10: out there when no one saw us coming, you know,

289
00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,240
Speaker 10: to fifty two different countries and see people experience hip

290
00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:42,560
Speaker 10: hop for the first time and still be seventeen eighteen nineteen.

291
00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,760
Speaker 10: So we had like a early jump where you know,

292
00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,720
Speaker 10: you go from getting a radio in your room with

293
00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:55,520
Speaker 10: a cassette, plugging turntables into it, baking a little makeshift

294
00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,840
Speaker 10: studio and just doing it for yourself to actually being

295
00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:05,800
Speaker 10: broadcasting on the radio on Red Alert show a mixed

296
00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:11,680
Speaker 10: show that still was underground, to people taping you as

297
00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,720
Speaker 10: far as Japan, and then you arrived there and they

298
00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,880
Speaker 10: know who you are.

299
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,840
Speaker 5: But we still felt like we just stepped out of

300
00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:20,640
Speaker 5: our bedrooms.

301
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,240
Speaker 7: Yet when you talk about like the bedrooms, you know,

302
00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 7: the Straight Out the Jungle, that was one of the

303
00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,160
Speaker 7: albums that me and The Mirror have talked about as

304
00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,400
Speaker 7: being in like and we mean this like in the

305
00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,400
Speaker 7: best way. Technically it's like one of the worst mixed albums,

306
00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,400
Speaker 7: but that's what makes.

307
00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,280
Speaker 5: It well, there's a story behind that, Like Straight Out

308
00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:41,800
Speaker 5: the Jungle.

309
00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,960
Speaker 10: I used to first of all, that whole album was

310
00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,440
Speaker 10: made off turntables. Wow, So that's not there's no sp twelves,

311
00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:56,360
Speaker 10: there's no LINN drums, there's no NPC heads, there's no laptop.

312
00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,120
Speaker 10: Of course, that was just straight off the turntables. So

313
00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,880
Speaker 10: it's just straight r particularly Straight Out the Jungle. I

314
00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,360
Speaker 10: would come home from school. I those two records were

315
00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:11,560
Speaker 10: f from my dance record collection, okay, and I would backs.

316
00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,760
Speaker 5: I only had one copy of each record.

317
00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,320
Speaker 10: So the Bill Withers Break and I would play that

318
00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:22,720
Speaker 10: on one turntable and the Mandrels on the other, and

319
00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,359
Speaker 10: I only had eight bars. Wow, and I love the

320
00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,760
Speaker 10: way those two went together.

321
00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,440
Speaker 5: I would just play it over and over and over

322
00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,800
Speaker 5: and over, not even get a chance to write to

323
00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,200
Speaker 5: it yet, And I just.

324
00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,440
Speaker 10: Held that in my head until we finally got into

325
00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,760
Speaker 10: a studio situation. Cause we were in a couple of

326
00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,920
Speaker 10: studio situations where the producers would throw when the drum

327
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,560
Speaker 10: machine beat at us, and we was like, nah, that's

328
00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,800
Speaker 10: not really the sound we want. But a lot of

329
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:53,159
Speaker 10: hip hop records back then was drum machine heavy. And

330
00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,320
Speaker 10: then we got into the studio where there was turntables,

331
00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:02,840
Speaker 10: and I took that same technique of straight out the

332
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,679
Speaker 10: the breakbeat and then the groove.

333
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,600
Speaker 5: But now we have a tape machine.

334
00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:11,199
Speaker 10: So on track one, you play those eight bars punching.

335
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,480
Speaker 10: On track two, play those eight bars of Bill Withers drums,

336
00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,760
Speaker 10: and you keep doing that till you got five minutes.

337
00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,960
Speaker 5: And I'm geeking off of that cause.

338
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,680
Speaker 10: I was like, Okay, now I got a track machine

339
00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,640
Speaker 10: instead of a cassette, you know, or even just doing

340
00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,320
Speaker 10: it by hand. And then on track three and four

341
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,800
Speaker 10: you're throwing down the mandrills for five minutes.

342
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:30,399
Speaker 5: Yeah.

343
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,600
Speaker 10: So a lot of that stuff was just made on

344
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,760
Speaker 10: the fly, you know, And that was the process of

345
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,040
Speaker 10: the whole album, Like behind the Bush, you know.

346
00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,080
Speaker 5: We had insane the same process.

347
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,400
Speaker 10: I saw Sammy's standing there with the record we used

348
00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,480
Speaker 10: for the melody, which was a remaker of Marvin Gaye's

349
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,919
Speaker 10: What's going On and it was on forty five and

350
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,400
Speaker 10: we had to tape it to you know, a vinyl

351
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,600
Speaker 10: and then blend that or over the beat for five minutes,

352
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,880
Speaker 10: you know, and then go in the booth, and then

353
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,840
Speaker 10: Mike and I would be in another example of Jim Browski.

354
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,600
Speaker 5: Sammy Bold was.

355
00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,679
Speaker 10: In the control room with the two turntables, Mike and

356
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,640
Speaker 10: I was in the booth with our rhymes already rehearsed,

357
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,120
Speaker 10: and he had his mic, I had my mic.

358
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,719
Speaker 5: Sometimes we had one mic we shared together.

359
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,160
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do because that sounds like yeah, yeah, but

360
00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,920
Speaker 7: what you gotta understand the Jim Browski that was all

361
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 7: three of us.

362
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,399
Speaker 10: The way we're doing on stage. We did that in

363
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 10: the studio like a band. Like there's no you know,

364
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 10: sampling or putting it on tape first and over. There's

365
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,160
Speaker 10: no overdose, there's no overdubes. It's like, Okay, we're gonna

366
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,679
Speaker 10: press record, take one the old fashioned way, but in

367
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 10: the hip hop context, like we're gonna MC while he's

368
00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,800
Speaker 10: DJing you know what I mean, and then it's like, yeah,

369
00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,200
Speaker 10: let's listen down take two.

370
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, do take two and that's it.

371
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,119
Speaker 7: So just to give the listeners some understanding of just

372
00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,959
Speaker 7: this process when they say no over the Generally, when

373
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,119
Speaker 7: you go into the studio, everything is kind of pre done.

374
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,879
Speaker 7: So if you're recording over a beat, the beat is

375
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 7: already done and it is recorded and laid down, and

376
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,680
Speaker 7: then the singers of rappers come in on another track

377
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 7: and they do you know, they do whatever they do

378
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 7: to that prerecorded beat, and so forth and so on. Uh,

379
00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 7: what these buds were doing was just everything was live

380
00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 7: in one take.

381
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 10: So yeah, on stage they were doing put that. In

382
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,880
Speaker 10: the studio we were doing that. So at the end

383
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 10: of that, Andre de Borg, the engineer for Salt and

384
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 10: Pepper's records, and you know the quality of those records,

385
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 10: he pulls up and I remember this in a in

386
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:49,159
Speaker 10: an army truck.

387
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,200
Speaker 5: With all his outboard geary total like gear ahead.

388
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,479
Speaker 10: He pulls up, he comes downstairs in the basement and

389
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 10: he looks at the board and it goes, you made

390
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,160
Speaker 10: a record like this. There's wires everywhere, and he's like

391
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 10: he said, before I even mix this record and master it,

392
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 10: I have to take.

393
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 5: Apart the whole studio and put it back together again. Wow,

394
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 5: look at her face like that, what so trying to

395
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 5: make some extra money.

396
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 12: But basically, but basically it was about It's about a vibe,

397
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 12: going back to what you you re quest level saying

398
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,679
Speaker 12: like like, technically this sounds wrong, but the vibe was

399
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 12: captured and.

400
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 10: That was the most important thing on Girl, I House

401
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 10: you on Straight Out the Jungle on Jimbrowski.

402
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 5: All the background vocals, the whoa, why why baby.

403
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 10: And even bells ringing on my bracelet or tapping on

404
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 10: the window or you hit the mic by accident, and

405
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 10: the echoes, you know, all that stuff was captured live

406
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,199
Speaker 10: and that was the vibe and then the engineer just

407
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 10: had to work with it make it sound like something.

408
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, one of the one of the lines I want

409
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 7: to make the listeners aware of that is probably definitely

410
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 7: kind of seeming that you guys in history uh Q

411
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 7: tip from a ward tour her me and the eighty

412
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 7: jvs on the promo. Yeah, for those who do not

413
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 7: who don't know, uh Q tip from a trip called

414
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 7: Quest was on Straight Out the Jungle on a record

415
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 7: that was called the promo. The promo was essentially back

416
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 7: in the day like UH mcs would do promos for DJs,

417
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 7: and so it was essentially just like UH, it could

418
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,639
Speaker 7: be like a little you know, it could be a minute,

419
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 7: minute and a half thing of just you rhyming shouting.

420
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 5: Out to the DJ. So yet in that case it

421
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 5: was for red Alert.

422
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 7: But you know, all DJs were doing no Chuck chill

423
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 7: out had them, you know, every all the DJs at

424
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 7: that time. And q Tip was actually you guys actually

425
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 7: gave q Tip his start. How did all you guys

426
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 7: link up? And what was it that y'all heard in

427
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 7: him to make you say, you know what, we'll let

428
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 7: we'll let you get on.

429
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 5: This m You used the class, Well, we went to

430
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 5: school together. Yea, we were classes. Yeah, we were in

431
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 5: the same home room together. Yeah.

432
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know where you meet and then you go

433
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 10: out to your classes. We don't have all the same classes,

434
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 10: but we were in the same home room together. So

435
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 10: the in the what year was this this was.

436
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 5: Uh from eighty four to eighty eight.

437
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 10: If he would come with UH come to school with

438
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 10: rhymes and you know we all had a book of

439
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 10: rhymes and he'd come to school with rhymes and we

440
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 10: just kind of formed like a relationship through that.

441
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 5: Gotcha.

442
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 10: Actually, what actually happened is Mike was m that's my dude,

443
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 10: that's my jungle brother.

444
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 5: But he was a great ahead of me.

445
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,640
Speaker 10: Ah, and like what I liked to what I loved

446
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 10: about him is like he was well known in school,

447
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 10: but he still was to himself, stuck with himself, you know,

448
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 10: by himself.

449
00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 5: And I was the same.

450
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 10: I was well known in school in my grade, but

451
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 10: I wasn't in any circles. And we met because brother

452
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 10: Jay from x Clan oh man Em linked us up

453
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 10: for uh A talent show. M So, long story short,

454
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 10: he graduated before me and then I had one more

455
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 10: year left, so q tit would be around me, and

456
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 10: it was like, I don't know.

457
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 5: Space yeah, f f F for him, you know what

458
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 5: I mean?

459
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 10: Cause I wasn't around Mike as much and in school,

460
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 10: so he would be around me, and he know I

461
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 10: w at th he on the weekends, I'm going to

462
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 10: the studio and then he'd hear the records on the

463
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 10: way for promos we were doing.

464
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 5: He'd hear on the radio and stuff like that.

465
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 10: So then he'd come around and you know, rap to

466
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 10: me and stuff, do lyrics and he'd s you know,

467
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 10: like complain that.

468
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 5: People was comparing him to l School j and he

469
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 5: was Jane not at the time.

470
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 10: That trip was compared to Yeah, he was.

471
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 5: And he was wrapping, rapping like you know that I

472
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 5: need to be now though yeah, no, not that I

473
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 5: need no, no, no, no, no, that I need to beat

474
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 5: you know, all the big words from the dictionary.

475
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 10: Into a form of a battle rap where you know

476
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 10: you're outwitting the person you're battling.

477
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 5: So so I was just like, well.

478
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 10: That is the thing right now, so good, Like if

479
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 10: you're on that level, then that's cool. But slowly, but

480
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 10: surely he was like embracing what was becoming Jungle Brothers.

481
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 13: Slow down a little bit.

482
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 10: And slowed down a little bit and that and that

483
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 10: that was that. That was the era of the Boogie

484
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 10: Down productions where he was slowing it down and also

485
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 10: rock him where he was torn and the boys down

486
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 10: there and it wasn't all a yelling and Mike and

487
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 10: I that's how we rapped as well.

488
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 8: We was on some smooth MC ship, you know. That's

489
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 8: that's what it was about. You know, we wasn't really battling.

490
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 8: We was wasn't battling. We held were trying to get girls.

491
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 14: You know.

492
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 10: It was the smooth spoony G type rap me and

493
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 10: Mike Love spoony G.

494
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 5: And one of his first rhymes was like that, you know, so.

495
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 10: Slowly but surely, Jane Nice was coming into his own,

496
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 10: not into his own, but coming into the jungle brother

497
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 10: vibe and then going away with that and developing into

498
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 10: something that couldn't be compared to. And that's when I said, look,

499
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 10: come down to the studio and.

500
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 5: Let's do this promo joint.

501
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 7: Wow.

502
00:26:53,560 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 5: To know that q tit was compared to, that's just amazing, ladies, gentlemen.

503
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 5: He just walked out.

504
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: I've been here the whole time. I mean when I

505
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: heard this episode, y'all talked to Smack behind me as

506
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: Margaret always.

507
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Eli quest Love is back.

508
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 7: Ladies, gentlemen, Okay, so girl, I house you what made

509
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 7: y'all go? Because that was I mean, like you're said,

510
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 7: that was a very bold direction and it was something

511
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 7: that uh, at that time, I didn't know of any

512
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 7: other hip hop artists that were that were doing it.

513
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 7: It kind of kicked off the hip House movement, which.

514
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 5: That was the first house song I ever heard.

515
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 7: I didn't know same here and that really just kind

516
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 7: of you know, there are a lot of imitators.

517
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 5: That came in your way, and but that was still

518
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 5: the one that was like.

519
00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 7: I think Latifa got it right, but coming to my

520
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 7: house that she was dope, But I think was it

521
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 7: was it top Terry Yeah, and he did the house

522
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 7: did house?

523
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 5: Yeah? What made you guys do that? Like what was

524
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 5: that session?

525
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: Like, well, obviously did some hours at the at Larry

526
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: Levan's uh sparede Garage?

527
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 5: Yes, obviously, Oh yeah, I mean I did.

528
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 10: I think My mother was driving cabs when the Paradise

529
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 10: Garage was happening and she took.

530
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 5: Me there when I was twelve years old.

531
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 10: She took me there when I was twelve years old,

532
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 10: and I got a little taste of that crowd that early,

533
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 10: the whole.

534
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: You know, you know, the common denominators with all the

535
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: guests on the show.

536
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 5: To your parents.

537
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 10: My mom was driving cabs like late that night and

538
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 10: she was like, you're gonna come with me. I want

539
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 10: to show you this place where I get all my rides,

540
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 10: And it was it was Paradise.

541
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 7: Garage for the listeners. This was Larry Levaughn, who was

542
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 7: a incredible legend, legendary pioneer house. He laid everything open

543
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 7: format his best his best.

544
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 5: DJ gig was not playing records.

545
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: He played the Wizard of Oz movie once and they

546
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: said it was the most legendary night. I mean, he's

547
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: had legendary DJ stories, but him playing Jackson Five's ABC

548
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: his very last gig at the.

549
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 5: Studio fifty four.

550
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: It was defiantly playing ABC for three hours in a

551
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: row in defiance Tanya Garter's heartbeat. He forced them like

552
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: they they opposed to it. It was like too slow

553
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: for them. They hated it, and he forced them. He says,

554
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: I will, I will play this until y'all give me

555
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: the respect I dessert And he's single handedly like said,

556
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna dance to some down tempo ninety bpm ship.

557
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 5: So yeah, he's a monster.

558
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 10: That's a good backstory for our house because you said

559
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 10: it was a bold move, but we didn't see it

560
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 10: that way. Because of the environment here in New York City,

561
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 10: the birthplace of hip hop, you still had a strong

562
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 10: dance scene, you know, just go high, you know, and

563
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 10: downtown punk rock scene. So a lot and a lot

564
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 10: of things were crossing together and together those scenes were

565
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 10: linked together.

566
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 5: You know, hip hop was.

567
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 10: Still young, so it didn't have what it has now,

568
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 10: like its own click boundaries, you know, and with boundaries

569
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 10: and rigid formulae structures.

570
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 5: It was a jam. Everything was a jam everywhere.

571
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 10: You could get away with playing the Wizard of Ours

572
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 10: and Grand After Flash and get away with playing.

573
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 5: The Clash, you know. So but yeah, it was nothing.

574
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 5: It was. It was that's what we're supposed to do.

575
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: I mean, I was going to clubs.

576
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 10: I was going to clubs carrying records for Red Alert.

577
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 5: We all were playing, we all had a crate. But

578
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 5: then I would leave.

579
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 10: That club and go to our house club, like the

580
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 10: World or some club with no name, holding the wall

581
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 10: and being there till three four in the morning with

582
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,719
Speaker 10: just househeads, and at least four of the records they

583
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 10: were playing was Todd Terry's records, and I could hear

584
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 10: Todd Terry. It was a a is a producer from

585
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 10: Brooklyn who was making hip hop and really wasn't getting

586
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 10: that love and went into making house records and got

587
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 10: a lot of love. And so I was hearing the

588
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 10: hip hop samples in the house records he was making.

589
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 10: I was like, he's the only guy doing this, you know,

590
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 10: like all the house records were looping disco or having

591
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 10: somebody preach over the record or mixing Martin Luther King

592
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 10: or Malcolm XO. But Tod Terry was actually sampling breakbeats

593
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 10: from hip hop crates and putting it into house music.

594
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 8: So Chicago from the Chicago breaks, they was really the Chicago.

595
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 10: Scene, Fast Freddy, Tyree Cooper. These were the guys that

596
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 10: really they were setting it off because they were tired

597
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 10: of doing house music, so they started rapping over it.

598
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 5: But we didn't know about them. Uh you see what

599
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 5: I'm saying.

600
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 10: So one day we come in the studio at the

601
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 10: end of Straight out the Jungle, we get out of school.

602
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 10: We go to the studio and the studio that Todd

603
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 10: Terry worked in, we worked in, and the engineer, Tony

604
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 10: d said, do you guys want to make a house record?

605
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 10: We was like, yeah, sure, didn't even think of it

606
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 10: as a separate genre from hip hop.

607
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 5: He put the record on and it was Royal House party. People.

608
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 5: Now we used to see Royal House at the house,

609
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 5: go out and do shows.

610
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 10: Four people who were just dancers who worked on Wall Street,

611
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 10: and we were like, y'all don't rap and you go

612
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 10: out and do shows and you get five grand. So

613
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 10: he put the record on and I was like, yo,

614
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 10: I did I swept to that record party people by

615
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 10: Royal House. So I said, yeah, let's do it. So

616
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 10: we took the took the record, put it on the turnta.

617
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 10: Me said, I don't have instrumental turntable press record on

618
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 10: the eight track machine, recorded the whole record to the

619
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 10: eight track machine, and then I in twenty minutes, I

620
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 10: sang the hook girl, oule house shoe girl, loule house

621
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 10: shoot you and my hut now because at the time

622
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 10: we were saying and hip hop, we would say we're

623
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 10: gonna house househ you like I'll take tomorrow. And so

624
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 10: immediately I caught the double meaning of our house shoe

625
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 10: in house music, and so I was like buzzing off

626
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 10: of that cause I was like, one side is gonna

627
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 10: hear it and go that's legit. You know, hip hop's

628
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 10: gonna hear and say that's legit. And the other side,

629
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 10: the dance people was gonna hear and go yeah, house

630
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 10: music all like long, yeah, and so that set the

631
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 10: hook off and then I just kind of freestyled in.

632
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 5: The booth overdubbed the vocals.

633
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 10: Then Mike went in and you know, I guess two

634
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 10: hours later the record was done, and then we did

635
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 10: some cuts on it, and we felt like we broke

636
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 10: it down to a hip hop level. So we and

637
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 10: then I remember calling a leics Shahid, and I was like, yo,

638
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 10: I put the phone at the speaking I was like.

639
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 5: I was proud. I was like, yo, look at listen

640
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 5: to what we just did.

641
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 10: And and Tip was on the phone and you was

642
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 10: listening down. And then I took the phone back when

643
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 10: the record was over and I said, you heard that?

644
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 10: That is the jam and Ali was like, oh wow.

645
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 10: He was like, Yo, that sounded like a real house

646
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 10: record too.

647
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 5: That was crazy.

648
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 10: I repeat, that sounds like a real record too, you know,

649
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 10: like authentic, you know.

650
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: And I was like yeah.

651
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 10: And I was like, but you can hear the hip

652
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 10: hop in it too, you know, Sammy doing the cut.

653
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 5: Star Wars breakbeat. So it was just like an exciting time.

654
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 10: Now that record was given to the record company, they

655
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 10: laughed at it. They said, we're not putting it on

656
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 10: the vinyl. What, but we'll put it on the cassette.

657
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 5: Wow. And what did the DJs do?

658
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 10: From Limelight to Studio fifty four to Roseland to the Palladium,

659
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 10: to Milky Way to pay Day to Land, what did

660
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 10: all the DJs do? They took the cassette and at

661
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 10: the end of the night was the last record they.

662
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 5: Played, and they said, red, we need this record on vinyl.

663
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 5: We playing it on cassette.

664
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 4: Wow.

665
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 5: So they had to go back and remaster the album

666
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 5: and repress Wow, which.

667
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 8: Goes back to G Street because they was the first

668
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 8: one to actually take the song and preuss it on

669
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 8: the hour original.

670
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, was like what this is not an album.

671
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 8: It's like, yeah, we won't do the deal if that

672
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 8: record is not on the album.

673
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: So what was the reception like at the Latin Quarter

674
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: when they heard, Like, were they open to it? Like

675
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: could they play that at the Latin Quarter?

676
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 5: Yo? Not at Quarters? It was kind of passed, It

677
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 5: was pasted. Yeah, it was yeah, Latin Quarter.

678
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 10: I'm sorry sorry I mentioned Latin Quarter, but that reckon

679
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 10: wasn't recorded yet in the Latin Quarter years. Part of

680
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 10: me on that, but that audience was still in those

681
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 10: other clubs, especially Roseland And what was the.

682
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 5: Club that closed that They closed down a couple of.

683
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 10: Times that we did the final party for and they

684
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 10: had a freestyle night. You think about that your question

685
00:36:52,880 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 10: as your question, though I just wanted it was tramps.

686
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 15: No, no, it was it was the.

687
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 8: Rock eighteen team make the dream.

688
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 9: Work the dream Work.

689
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 5: Anyway, that record went down well with.

690
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 10: Hip hop and the dance audience so much so that

691
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 10: you had dudes that was like, yo, I hated house

692
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 10: music until I heard that.

693
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 5: I didn't like music until I heard that record. But yo,

694
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 5: y'all got one.

695
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 10: And then you start seeing those dudes at those clubs,

696
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 10: you know, the hardcore dudes that would be listening to

697
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 10: m w A be like, Yo, Jungle Brothers is playing

698
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 10: here tonight. Ten eighteen were up in here, five thousand

699
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 10: packed dudes in their first coach with the bottle of

700
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 10: them away. It's like as soon as they go, as

701
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 10: soon as that record come on, we're going straight.

702
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 8: That's that's That was the one that old girls girls out.

703
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 5: They caught on. They housed them, no doubt, but question.

704
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: It was an anomaly and you could see it. You

705
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 5: can see that people.

706
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 10: It broke through the whole genre of boundary thing because

707
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 10: it became just music.

708
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 5: People just danced to it and jammed to it.

709
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 10: Whether they was like I'm in the hip hop or

710
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 10: I'm in the house, they was everybody.

711
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 3: Was together a universal battle song to, like dance battle

712
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: song to. I always remember seeing people in the club

713
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,479
Speaker 3: and that must be crazy to see people dance battle

714
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 3: into your song like what they.

715
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: Do like house shoot, yeah, exactly. It worked like Baltimore places,

716
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 2: there you.

717
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 5: Go, there, you go exactly, oh man.

718
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 10: And then we go overseas and we think we're gonna

719
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 10: be doing like a hip hop tour, which we did

720
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 10: hip hop dates, but then we being.

721
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 16: Like raves raves, they didn't even call them ridiculous, and

722
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 16: sometimes they just be like, guys, here's eight thousand dollars,

723
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 16: just do this the one.

724
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 5: That's what they because I got it like that.

725
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 10: If we did a whole show of straight out the Jungle,

726
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 10: people people.

727
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 5: Will be just waiting for our house. Yeah. Sometimes wow.

728
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 10: So at the same we have that now at the

729
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 10: same time we was breaking straight out the Jungle and

730
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 10: that new vibe of hip hop, the whole rock chem

731
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 10: esque E P M D S vibe of hip hop

732
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 10: to a new audience in Berlin.

733
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 5: With the walls.

734
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 10: We were also breaking into the Acid House and we

735
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 10: were breaking grounds with.

736
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 5: All the raveheads that were doing the big festival.

737
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 3: Not for nothing you mentioned the wall coming down. I

738
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 3: just want to say, y'all did a festival at Wimbley

739
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 3: for Mandela like when he first got.

740
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, when the first release birthday, Yeah, when they released

741
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 8: it from President from Prins Yeah nice, Yeah, yes, us

742
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 8: that's a sonic Nana Cherry. Yeah, you two, you two.

743
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 8: That was probably the biggest date. That was the biggest

744
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 8: ever was at that time?

745
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 5: Yeah?

746
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: Wait was was I late for the recording techniques? And

747
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: yeah we missed the techniques for Straight Out the Jones.

748
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: So you guys got all the stories. We got the story,

749
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: all right. That's I have so many people, no, no, no,

750
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that you know, no doubt,

751
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: no doubt.

752
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 5: That some girlfriends where we right now and then and

753
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 5: there in their journey we are.

754
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 7: We talked about Rough Deluxe, we went Straight Out the Jones.

755
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 5: We talked about Crazy Wisdom Mass.

756
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 7: We talked Crazy Wisdom Mass, but I'm sure story.

757
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about how they ended up at the

758
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 2: root picnic.

759
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 5: But you know, well because.

760
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 8: But we was here, okay, okay, so we were in Japan, yeah,

761
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 8: showing performing on stage.

762
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 5: You already know the story.

763
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just one person, no, no, everybody else Okay.

764
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 5: Japan, performing on stage.

765
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 9: At the festival Soul Camp.

766
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 10: And Sean g who was tour manager for Jill Scott.

767
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the roots manager and the roots.

768
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 10: Manager was in the audience. And then after the show

769
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 10: he told me he was texting.

770
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 5: He showed me the show.

771
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: Sean was like, I was watching the show twelve hours behind,

772
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: like four in the morning.

773
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 5: That's technology is crazy.

774
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 10: I went, I went, I went into the catering to eat,

775
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 10: and Sean was like, yo, I was just texting quest

776
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 10: Love and telling him, you know the show. You guys

777
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 10: got to come to the picnic. And I was like, okay,

778
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 10: you know live Leap of Faith, because it's like that

779
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 10: was just a week agos two weeks ago. Yeah, you know,

780
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 10: we moved, were only in Japan. Made the Work show,

781
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 10: that MTV show, then one of the show after that,

782
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 10: and then I was still in Japan for two weeks.

783
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 5: After that. I just flew from Japan to Turkey to

784
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 5: London to here.

785
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 2: Because you don't live in this country.

786
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 5: Don't live in country. Where are you? Where are you living?

787
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 10: Don't ask me about politics, no clue.

788
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: I asked you about the Brexit that's where.

789
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm in Brexit world in London.

790
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, I live in London, but I've lived in a

791
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 10: lot of places, and I just recently been in London

792
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 10: for a year.

793
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 5: I've lived in Panama, moving around. But yeah, that's how.

794
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 5: That's how we arrived here. Thank you, Sean Cheefe, no doubt,

795
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 5: thank you for you're for the jungle. You don't do

796
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 5: a long ago. All right, So we're sitting here.

797
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: Right now, uh with really one of one of my

798
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people ever.

799
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 4: Uh.

800
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: You are a one human operating, just walking machine of

801
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: of of of of talent. I think the first time

802
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: I saw you in Brooklyn, you were doing h Biggie's. Yes,

803
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: you did Biggiest Juice and then I I haven't left

804
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: your side. We've been signed these twins ever since. Welcome

805
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: to the Court of Supreme Ladies and Gentlemen. Emily Wells, y'all.

806
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 3: The third roop picnic for Emily, right, like how many picnics?

807
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 15: Okay you did, Phil?

808
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, she's been am I like her. Her

809
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: and Chill Moody are just like the are our go

810
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 1: to always you know, give them.

811
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 5: Because you're cool.

812
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 13: Well you know, but you welcomed me with your love.

813
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

814
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 5: I feel like Barry White.

815
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 7: Now wait wait, wow, wait a minute, yes, now, why

816
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 7: was it so white?

817
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 3: You?

818
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 5: Wow?

819
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: Wait, that's the whitest thing you've ever thought thirty years

820
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: I've known you.

821
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, I'm assaulted because.

822
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: Because when she said it, it filtered to you as

823
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: a creed.

824
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 5: So but to me, I was going very white with it, Creed,

825
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 5: I know. Hey man, it's it's real. We already know

826
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 5: Sante is the is the Jedi Master?

827
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: No, but yeah you I well, first of all, how

828
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: was your set?

829
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 4: Uh?

830
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 13: It was really fun playing.

831
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 7: For me.

832
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 13: It's unusual play you know, stage.

833
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 17: In the day and watching people trying to figure out

834
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 17: what what does she do?

835
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 13: There's no computer.

836
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, they always get it in the third or fourth minute.

837
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: And that's how it was because when I you know,

838
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: because it takes you for those that don't know, I

839
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: guess what what is What is your go to device

840
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: that you do to loop?

841
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 5: Uh?

842
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 13: It's actually it's.

843
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 5: That green device on.

844
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 17: This you're talking about and samplennulas kind of it's kind

845
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 17: of like having like a really accessible quick like you know.

846
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: Four track, but like plus you know, so when you

847
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: do that, is there a click track inside of your ears?

848
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: Because when I watch you do this, you always start

849
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: off with this kind of long ethereal note. And I'm

850
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: trying to figure out if you're counting the metronome in

851
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: your head because you wind up, you loop everything perfect,

852
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: but it's just such a yello like moldless form of time,

853
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: but you always seem to catch it.

854
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 13: The strings.

855
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 17: I think they have that sort of femeral thing going

856
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 17: on by their very nature.

857
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 13: And I like to get a little and everything just

858
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 13: let everything swim. But yeah, I I.

859
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 18: It's a lot of practice for sure, And it's a

860
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 18: lot of yeah, just.

861
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 17: Just knowing where my one is, even if not obvious, it's.

862
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 5: A good lesson knowing where you want is one? Where

863
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 5: then is it? I wish.

864
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: Morning certain members of the roots hespired?

865
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 5: That's good? No, well, okay, so I.

866
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 13: Also have a.

867
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 17: On the stage with Okay, like I put some of

868
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 17: my beats in there. I put all sorts of random

869
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 17: simples that anything I want, So that really helped me

870
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 17: open up your arrangements so I'm not just stuck on

871
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 17: these loops.

872
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 13: So if I wanna go to a A B section or.

873
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: Whatever, I can just like yeah, I think at one

874
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: point I you were I don't know if you were

875
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: playing keyboard with your right hand and the the the

876
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: SPD drump pad with your left.

877
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 5: Hand and looping and sing.

878
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's you really have to see it like

879
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's next level uh performance.

880
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 5: How long did it take you to to figure that

881
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 5: all out?

882
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 19: Oh?

883
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 13: Well, it it took some time. I mean it started

884
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 13: really simple. I think I think it really started with.

885
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 17: Strings and the loop pedal for me because violin and

886
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 17: never knew how to incorporate that into a set, because

887
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 17: I I'm not gonna play like I can.

888
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 13: Schedule in the club, you know what I mean, like

889
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 13: oh what ll again? But that's not gonna.

890
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 5: Apply for an an hour and.

891
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,959
Speaker 17: So and strings are meant to you know, rub next

892
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 17: to each other, so I wanted that's so it kind

893
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 17: of started with that, and then oh can.

894
00:47:59,280 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 13: I just a.

895
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 4: I was.

896
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,760
Speaker 13: Stuf like stupid.

897
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: I was about to say, you're your own uh tech

898
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 1: as well, like what if it. What if the equipment

899
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: breaks down, then what you just go a cappella?

900
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 5: It can't it has it ever broken down?

901
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 18: I've had, But I don't, really, like I said, on

902
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 18: a computers, cause that stuff will break.

903
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 13: Down more than a day.

904
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: Really, I was about to say, you're you're you're one

905
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: of the the sh should I say the Brooklyn elite

906
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: that don't usually like when those Brooklyn act Brooklyn e

907
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: acts come on our show, I'll see more MacBook pros on.

908
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 5: Stage and yeah than anything else.

909
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I was about to say that you're

910
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: you're old school and your digital embrace. Sure, sure so

911
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: kind of like D'Angelo with floppy discs.

912
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 5: Oh so many.

913
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 4: That I love that.

914
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 14: And then yeah, uh it's like you can't even call

915
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 14: that analog. It's like what what what what did you

916
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 14: call that?

917
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: Well, it's yeah, it's I don't care about electronic. It's electronic.

918
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: It's not analoge. So a, So, how do you apply this?

919
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: I always wanted to know when when you're recording, uh

920
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: your music in the studio, how do you apply what

921
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: you do live on stage to your cause, y, your

922
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: music is more fleshed out in the studio than it

923
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: is uh on stage.

924
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 13: To try to bring that feeling of the live thing

925
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 13: as it is for anyone into a into a recording studio.

926
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 17: I mean, I I try to make it a mixture

927
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 17: of those samples.

928
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 13: And some things are just created in.

929
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 17: The moment, and I wanna take the moment I was

930
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 17: writing that song into the record then.

931
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 13: And let it be forever. Some things I wanna reperform

932
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 13: over and over again. Locks and lots of layers of strings.

933
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 17: I mean some of my records a viola, violin and

934
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 17: many like you know, twenty one layers or what you know.

935
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 5: Whatever, and then try to you can layer that much?

936
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,439
Speaker 13: Yeah, well I do it live. I just play it over.

937
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 13: I mean it's like this too.

938
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: Oh you just uh uh uh you know, to sound fuller, Okay,

939
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: make it sound.

940
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 13: Really really big and.

941
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 17: Yeah, I but some things are you know, are sampled

942
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 17: right into that little pedal. And and as I'm writing

943
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 17: the songs and I don't, I don't bring those samples

944
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 17: into I kind of treat them as though I couldn't

945
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 17: treat those samples like I was taking it off the

946
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 17: record or something like that.

947
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 13: I kind of create the loop.

948
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: That I would make that I would that you would

949
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: wanna take off of wan smart cause when I drama

950
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: do the same thing, I might work.

951
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,919
Speaker 5: Your own break. That's dope, exactly.

952
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: Make alright, God, so what's your future and t So

953
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 1: you just uh released your record?

954
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 5: Uh what three months ago?

955
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 17: Or yeah, well a few months ago, you promise?

956
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 20: Yeah, and I put it out on my own record label.

957
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 18: And yeah, I just just I have I have a

958
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 18: next the next and he has the next record. But

959
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 18: it's a hard right because it's it's kind of about.

960
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: And you mean, what will life be like after November?

961
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: I've seen the future and boys.

962
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 13: Rough, how do you make That's the question with a

963
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 13: lot of artists face.

964
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 5: So I'm it's gonna be great.

965
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what he's gonna do if he gets

966
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 2: he's not gonna get it though.

967
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, well uh on you know, once again, I thank

968
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: you for doing the Roots picnic and anytime you you

969
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: uh do anything with us collaborating whatever, you know, it's

970
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: a treat. We're probably gonna work on this next roots

971
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: album together because we've been we've been threatening to do

972
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: this for for three albums now, so we're gonna make

973
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: it happen. Em We wells, ladies and gentlemen, I want

974
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: to go to can we play? Oh we can.

975
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 4: Wake up?

976
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 5: Just seen it the entire room like we can. Glad.

977
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 2: Shout out to Emily and her class.

978
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 15: Thank you man.

979
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out for her being a trooper.

980
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 21: She on the couch, Oh, thank you.

981
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 5: So happy on the couch.

982
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 13: Of record.

983
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 17: That was and.

984
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 13: The idea. I have this idea in my head. I

985
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 13: will make it happy. I loved it so much.

986
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 5: That's what's up. That's good.

987
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to go to Passenger by Emily wells

988
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: Uh on Quest of Supreme only on Pandora.

989
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 5: We will be right back. We are lots from the

990
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 5: roach picnic in y C.

991
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 22: I'm my person, Jo, I'm gonna person. Jin give me

992
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 22: the keys. I'm a job, I'm a person. I'm the

993
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 22: person if.

994
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 5: You give me the keys.

995
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 4: You know, so.

996
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 23: Poll for its up throat and need it just to

997
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 23: go a kiddy, kiddy, say it ain't so.

998
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 4: I'm driving on tomorrow and.

999
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 23: Losing on my rope botom of the wall, and I've

1000
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 23: just lost the rope.

1001
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 9: I had a feeling this myn.

1002
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 13: Is so hard.

1003
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 20: So tell me, tell me that you know how to make.

1004
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 23: It's to give me a a you mad, just sing

1005
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 23: give me all your bills, your bed siding, just to

1006
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 23: kill my ls.

1007
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: Support for Quest Love Supreme and Pandora's provided by boost Mobile.

1008
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 5: Boost Mobile where you're at.

1009
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 7: This is Quest Love Supreme only on Pandora, Fonte Fontagelo, Sugar,

1010
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 7: Steve Lovely La, Boss, Bill Scott, motherfucking yea yo.

1011
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 5: That was passenger and lactating unpaid unpaid correction, we forgot it.

1012
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 7: Unpaid Bill is paid now, but we can still call

1013
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 7: my here.

1014
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 5: It's called continuity, so we gotta exactly.

1015
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 7: We were too far in the story to change it

1016
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 7: about underpaid.

1017
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 5: Under Okay, nicknames.

1018
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: My Maya Rudolph is still talking about the radio show,

1019
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: and she still calls you black Bill and white Bill.

1020
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 5: She said, wait, wait, who's some people like? I said,

1021
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 5: I've had nickname.

1022
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 2: She's like the only one that can do that because

1023
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: shepped both sides. But wait, so Boston.

1024
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: She was the first guest on our show. She still knows,

1025
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: but she was the first lady of She was the

1026
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:28,399
Speaker 1: first lady question.

1027
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 24: She was the first and fell asleep forget it.

1028
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 2: She still you know, she could play both.

1029
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: I was about to give you some love, Boss, because

1030
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 3: you've been busy the last few days them.

1031
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 7: The name of the jam though for yeah you did

1032
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 7: we did, I don't think we did well.

1033
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 5: That was Passenger five minutes fact. Okay, so Liaiah, you

1034
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 5: were saying, no, I'm just.

1035
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 3: Saying that I wanted the bosses about to leave because

1036
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 3: he got to go on stage the main show, which

1037
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 3: is tonight, D'Angelo, John Maye.

1038
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: Mayor, John Mayor, and uh, a friend of mine from

1039
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: Chicago is going to come by as well.

1040
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 14: By the time everybody here's this, you know, it'll the

1041
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 14: show be in the past. So you can go ahead

1042
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 14: and tell us.

1043
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 5: Now, let's keep it a mystery alone.

1044
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 24: Alchoh, Michael Jordan, I was going I wish it was

1045
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 24: going to be out shut off, asshole.

1046
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: Okay, So I just wanted to say, Kirby Bucket just rest.

1047
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: He's from Minneapolis, Steve doing what he missed, the irony

1048
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: of saying your joke from your joke.

1049
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, this is love supreme.

1050
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, So tonight is uh the roots and uh we

1051
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 1: got common we got uh.

1052
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 5: John Mayor, and we got D'Angelo.

1053
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: The reason why I'm like struggling to remember things is

1054
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: because I mean the way that I do business is

1055
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: I kind of I tend.

1056
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 5: To agree to things fourteen.

1057
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: Months ahead of time, like right now we are planning

1058
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: the Philly Roots Picnic right now eight and with a

1059
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: very monumental record that came out as of this taping.

1060
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: We're now talking to that particular young lady about headlining. Yeah,

1061
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: you just tend to plan things way ahead of time,

1062
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: and so at I don't know for me. Once it

1063
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: was proposed to me that we should do a Roots

1064
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: picnic on steroids and instead of the Roots back in

1065
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: the one act, why don't.

1066
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 7: We back like everybody, six of them?

1067
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, yeah, of course I'll do that.

1068
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: And then once crunch time comes, you know, man, just

1069
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: the daggers in the stairs of all the Roots family

1070
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: members looking at me, I feel horrible, like all of

1071
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: them are libras, or I guess they're still libras even

1072
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: with the addition of that.

1073
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 5: Unspoken the astrological sign.

1074
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, but all of them all their birthdays of this week,

1075
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: so most of them have had to uh not hang

1076
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: with their families and rehearse and wait and rehearse and wait.

1077
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 2: And he said they looked like zombie, like they.

1078
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 5: Were kung fu zombies. It just it just seems. It

1079
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 5: just seemed like I was in mood.

1080
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: But you know, I had a few triple espressos, so

1081
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: I was like normal while everyone else was like that's

1082
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: what you do.

1083
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, but no I don't sleep. Driver.

1084
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 2: It's like, no, you don't sleep.

1085
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: No, I do sleep. But I'm just saying that this

1086
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: this show is packed with a lot of cues and

1087
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: a lot of modulations and tricks and and and you know,

1088
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that I remember everything. It's going to be

1089
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: a monster show. But I just hope that I remember everything.

1090
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 7: I think even if you don't remember, everything will be noneththerwiser.

1091
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 7: I think the crowd would just be happy. I know,

1092
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 7: to you, you be like, fuck I missed that. Whatever,

1093
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 7: But I'm willing to let the small stuff slide.

1094
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: But just the kind of neurotic nature of the guests

1095
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,479
Speaker 1: that we had, like that are other show.

1096
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 7: You know they're gonna want it, like perfect note for

1097
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 7: note for note.

1098
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, but miss it.

1099
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah they're missing and like get over yourself, dude,

1100
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 7: Like I'm paying, I'm playing for eighteen other motherfuckers.

1101
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 5: Right, you know what I mean.

1102
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: But they never understand, they never understand that they never

1103
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: understand that she's witness to this stuff. Howard rehearsals. In

1104
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: your opinion, the first night of rehearsals with D'Angelo was

1105
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: probably that was the most beautiful thing I ever seen,

1106
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: because like common also happened to be rehearsal next door.

1107
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 5: That's how you post that on Instagram.

1108
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: And he had like his room was the epicenter collective

1109
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: of all like neo neo blackatism. We quoted new terms here,

1110
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: it was neo blackatism. Like it was like you know,

1111
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: Jamila of the mew and and and Ava and like

1112
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: all of class, yeah, Robert Glasper like just all the

1113
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: ensigns whining candles set of twenty fifteen sixty and it

1114
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: was like we were the pie piper. We we were

1115
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: going over the root from Voodoo and just one by one,

1116
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: like it was like all the children of you Voodoo

1117
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: just came like we looked up and then there was

1118
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: like at least like twenty of them, like it was

1119
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: a closed versal, but they all just came in, you know,

1120
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:51,439
Speaker 1: and family, it was less a family reunion and more

1121
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: like and Dangel has never seen that, like it's really

1122
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: hard for him to even imagine the foodoo effect because

1123
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,479
Speaker 1: he's so isolated from the world, so he doesn't get

1124
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: like he doesn't know what the dirty projectors are, and.

1125
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 5: How like their whole harmony game.

1126
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: Is based on you know, like Dave's hold Steeze is

1127
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: like Yo, Voodoo is how I stack my harmonies and

1128
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and like all these references that even

1129
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: I missed, So just to see, I mean, the collective

1130
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: story is always like, yeah, when I was eight, my

1131
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: older sister got that record, and I grew up on

1132
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: that record. So just to watch them as food grown

1133
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 1: adults watching D'Angelo do that shit like it was, it was,

1134
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: it was some beautiful.

1135
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 3: Well boss, speaking of d Angelo, I just got to

1136
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 3: call from the officials at Brian Park.

1137
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 5: You got to go, Yeah, I gotta go.

1138
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is not the question of supreme.

1139
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 7: So we're so completely happy and honor today to be

1140
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 7: joined by a young lady that I am a fan of,

1141
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 7: you know, looking at the photo right now, and she

1142
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 7: first captured my heart when she put out a record. God,

1143
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 7: I want to say, was it twenty twelve?

1144
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 5: Was it was that.

1145
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 9: When life came up?

1146
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 15: Yeah?

1147
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 20: Christ and two thousand and oh my.

1148
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 7: God, it was Oh man, wow, time, keep on slipping

1149
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 7: into the future. Nah Man, Live your Life. It was

1150
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 7: a record she put out, produced by Pharrell, and uh,

1151
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 7: it was just something that was just I was amazed

1152
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 7: just by the simplicity of it.

1153
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 5: It was something that drove.

1154
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 7: It was at a you know, very driving beat, very

1155
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 7: mellow uh you know, keyboard, you know, arrangement and her voice.

1156
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 7: The thing I liked about it was that it just

1157
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 7: sounded really pure. It was just not a lot of

1158
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 7: vocal tricks, not a whole lot of just not a

1159
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 7: whole lot of a dormant It was just really simple

1160
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 7: and it cut through and she just sang the song

1161
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 7: and the lyrically really spoke to me was a you know,

1162
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 7: live if you really want to, you know, and sess

1163
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 7: that's something that you know, living is is a choice,

1164
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 7: you know, and and that really spoke to me. So, uh,

1165
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 7: ladies and gentlemen, give a big quest love Supreme Team,

1166
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 7: Supreme Brown. Applause for incredibly talented Una ladies jumping bang

1167
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 7: bang bang when this joint stage fresh out stage, How

1168
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 7: was your performance?

1169
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 5: Time to go?

1170
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 19: It went really really well, like you know, the crowd

1171
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 19: was amazing and yeah, it was just kind of like

1172
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 19: we we drove from yesterday. Oh my god, we were

1173
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 19: from Rhode Island yesterday. Oh wow, Providence, Rhode Island. So

1174
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 19: I'm on tour right now, you know. So yeah, we've

1175
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 19: been on the road, so coming out here is like

1176
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 19: a like a treat and I've always like, I've been

1177
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 19: looking forward to perform at the Roots Picnic.

1178
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 20: So yeah, I had a lot of fun.

1179
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 5: That's dope. What so your show?

1180
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 7: I was unfortunate, you know, I wasn't able to see

1181
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 7: your show because I was stuck over here.

1182
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 5: Doing this ship.

1183
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 7: Our cult leader of Mirror Thompson had us locked up

1184
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 7: in here like like hostages. No food, no food we

1185
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 7: had had and we had to ask for the water

1186
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 7: we had to ask for.

1187
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 5: That's a cushy.

1188
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 7: Gig, you know what I'm saying. But not so, I

1189
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 7: wasn't able to see your show, unfortunately. What does your

1190
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 7: show for people that you know haven't had the fortune

1191
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 7: of singing? What is your show like? Do you of

1192
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 7: course you're singing? Do you playing the instruments?

1193
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 5: Like? What is your what's your state show?

1194
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 4: Oh?

1195
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 20: Well, I sing mostly, you know.

1196
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 19: I used to do a lot of acoustic performances, so

1197
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 19: I used to play a lot of the acoustic guitar

1198
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 19: and then you know, like I couldn't hire a guitar player,

1199
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 19: so I play electric guitar on my set. But now

1200
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 19: that I can finally do that, you know, like I

1201
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 19: would love to play the guitar my shows. Is just

1202
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 19: that I just feel like, you know, I'm not like

1203
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 19: exactly like it's a guitar guitar player. Yeah, I'm not

1204
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 19: there yet, So we'll just focus on just performing. And

1205
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 19: you know, like I've been touring for four years and

1206
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 19: it's really just I'm just growing into it a real artist,

1207
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 19: Like I never get to do that.

1208
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 20: I never got to do that back home in Malaysia

1209
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 20: where I'm from.

1210
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 19: Yeah, so coming out here was just like going on

1211
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 19: tour and kind of like just slowly learning how to

1212
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 19: you know, give a really good performance for the fans.

1213
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's sellous.

1214
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 7: So Malaysia, Like what is that like in this this

1215
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 7: what's the city's music scene?

1216
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 20: The music scene?

1217
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 19: Oh, it's like it's a small country, but it's constantly growing.

1218
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 19: Like we went from like having singers like just doing

1219
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 19: ballads and traditional Malay music like I'm Malay, so the

1220
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 19: traditional music is more kind of like you know, like

1221
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 19: a cross between like Indonesian and kind of like Thaie

1222
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 19: and so that the Southeast Asian sound, you know. And

1223
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 19: but now it's like slowly growing. Like the hip hop

1224
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 19: scene started like I think like twenty years ago or so,

1225
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 19: you know, so it was it's pretty interesting to see

1226
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 19: Like when I I kind of like grew up just

1227
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 19: watching like Okay, well there's a Malaysian hip hop artist.

1228
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 19: I'm like, oh, okay, there's a Malaysian like indie rock artists,

1229
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 19: and yeah, so I kind of like grew up in

1230
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 19: that setting.

1231
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 2: Any of them crossed over as much as you have.

1232
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 4: I feel.

1233
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 20: No to America.

1234
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 7: No, I think you're kind of like the first stop

1235
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 7: the limo, like you're the one's Charlie Mat. You're Charlie Mat,

1236
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 7: like thank you.

1237
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 5: You know that kind of is putting on.

1238
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 7: Do you feel any like in hip hop in you know, America,

1239
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 7: there is a big the big thing of putting on,

1240
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, I put

1241
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 7: on for my city, Like so.

1242
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 5: Wherever I come from, I'm gonna put on for wherever.

1243
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 5: Do you feel the need to put on for the LASiS,

1244
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 5: the whole country? Like I'm Yuna and I'm doing it, but.

1245
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 19: Everybody, I mean, you know, I started out in Malaysia,

1246
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 19: Like I was already doing music for three four years

1247
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 19: back home before I move out to Los Angeles. Did

1248
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 19: you when did you come to LA twenty eleven? Around

1249
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:10,439
Speaker 19: that time?

1250
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 2: The time is short.

1251
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 19: Yeah, So I started making music like two thousand and seven,

1252
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 19: two thousand and eight pretty much. So it's it's quite

1253
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 19: an interesting journey.

1254
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 7: You started making music in two thousand and seven, Yeah,

1255
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 7: that was when you really started.

1256
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 19: So writing, Yeah, writing songs and just kind of like

1257
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 19: producing my own album. Like I didn't want to sign

1258
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 19: to any labels back home. I don't know, like you know,

1259
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 19: inside I felt like inside I was just like in

1260
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 19: my heart, like okay, well I want to be a

1261
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 19: singer songwriter, but I don't want to be signed. I

1262
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 19: don't want to sign with any labels because I know

1263
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 19: if I do that, I'm like kind of like trapped

1264
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 19: in Malaysia for a long long time. So I didn't

1265
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 19: want to do that because I knew, like I want

1266
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 19: to get out of Malaysia. I want to come out

1267
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 19: to the UK or the US and really just make

1268
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 19: music out there.

1269
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 7: How does a person get because that's I mean, that's

1270
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 7: pretty amazing. How does a person get from making music

1271
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 7: starting off making music in two thousand and seven to

1272
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 7: working with for real Williams who is one of the

1273
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 7: biggest producers in the three years man, I mean four years.

1274
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 5: Man. How does the friend of a.

1275
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 2: Friend or like kind of a little bit like that.

1276
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 19: I think it's a little bit of kind of like

1277
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 19: when you work really hard and then you you know,

1278
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 19: like just meeting the right people, and I guess the

1279
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 19: mixture of both. Like I got really lucky, you know,

1280
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 19: like I was in Malaysia just doing my my music thing,

1281
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 19: and then my management from Los Angeles in deepop my

1282
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 19: manager Ben found me on my Space music.

1283
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 20: Oh yeah, that was that time.

1284
01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 15: Shout out, where is Tom these days?

1285
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 19: So I know our first friend, but yeah, so I

1286
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 19: don't know, like he hit me up and then emailed me.

1287
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 19: I didn't. I didn't respond to his emails for a

1288
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 19: long time because I thought it was a scam. It

1289
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 19: was just like all these things like I'm not gonna

1290
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 19: reply to an American dude, you know, like just like

1291
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 19: fly out to l A, not not doing what to do.

1292
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 19: But he came out to call a Lumpur, the city

1293
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 19: where I'm from, met up with me, and you know,

1294
01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 19: we got to know each other kind of talk about

1295
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 19: our the music career that could be, you know, like

1296
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 19: a potential music career out here. And I was like

1297
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 19: all for it, you know, okay, final, let's do it.

1298
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 19: And so Ben he's been in the music industry for

1299
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 19: a very long time. He just just started a music

1300
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 19: management like label, and he worked in radio for like

1301
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 19: a long long time time. So yeah, I mean, like

1302
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 19: I guess like I got really lucky that he was

1303
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 19: kind of like this fun, like nice and friendly person,

1304
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 19: you know as a manager, because like getting a good

1305
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 19: manager's car.

1306
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 20: Yeah, so yeah, that's dope.

1307
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 7: So when you guys were working on uh on the

1308
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 7: track the work you did with for real, was that

1309
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 7: you guys working together in the studio or was it

1310
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 7: like he did the track and then you came in

1311
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 7: and did it?

1312
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 5: Like how did that come together? Yeah?

1313
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 20: I know, I was.

1314
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 19: I was in the studio with him. Yeah, so we

1315
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:32,679
Speaker 19: were that magic.

1316
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 20: Yeah we Wow.

1317
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 19: I was traveling from Malaysia to Los Angeles and then

1318
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:40,719
Speaker 19: I took a flight to Miami and then from Miami

1319
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 19: like took the I remember this like from Miami Airport.

1320
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:46,600
Speaker 19: We took the taxi and I didn't like shower for

1321
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 19: three days and just like went to the studio and

1322
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 19: then I was like, okay, well maybe I get to

1323
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 19: put some makeup on and I nope. He comes out

1324
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 19: from his car. I'm just like all right, well to

1325
01:10:55,640 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 19: sit high. I'm you know, yeah, I haven't shot in

1326
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:00,759
Speaker 19: three days.

1327
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:02,679
Speaker 5: But he would.

1328
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 19: He was really sweet, you know, like we got into

1329
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 19: the studio, start working and live your life was like

1330
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 19: the song that kind of just like I was kind

1331
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,719
Speaker 19: of like afraid of moving forward with the music because

1332
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 19: he made that beat. Like I remember like maybe like

1333
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 19: we've been in the studio for five days and he

1334
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 19: was like do you like this? You know, he was

1335
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 19: working on something and I thought, I legit thought that

1336
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 19: he was doing that beat for someone else.

1337
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 20: And I'm like, oh no, this is dope.

1338
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 15: I love it.

1339
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 19: And he's like, okay, cool, write on this. I'm like

1340
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 19: wait what you know, Like how do I do this?

1341
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 19: But he guided me through it, you know, so it

1342
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 19: was fun, like it was a learning process, Like I've

1343
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 19: never worked with a hip hop producer before, so it

1344
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,679
Speaker 19: was it kind of like bought me to be more

1345
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 19: experimental if you can, you know, like or open to

1346
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 19: new genres, because back then I was really just doing acoustic.

1347
01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 19: I was in my own bubble, you know.

1348
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 7: So yeah, you're doing like when you're creative process, when

1349
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 7: you're writing, what comes first? Is it melody first? Or

1350
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 7: is it like lyrics words first? How does that come together?

1351
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,599
Speaker 19: It depends really like I can. I'm pretty much you know,

1352
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 19: flexible when it comes to songwriting. I've been doing I've

1353
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 19: been doing it for a long long time. So it's

1354
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 19: like either I'm like I come out with lyrics, I

1355
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 19: write down some words.

1356
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 7: Are you one of these people because I'm I do it?

1357
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 7: Do you keep notes in your phone?

1358
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,520
Speaker 20: Oh yeah, definitely.

1359
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 7: The albums with material in your phone.

1360
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 4: I have.

1361
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 19: I have like a lot of materials in my phone,

1362
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 19: like chapters for example my My the new album. Yeah,

1363
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 19: most of it was just like me writing on my

1364
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 19: my phone, like my notes.

1365
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 2: Yeah for all.

1366
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 3: It's like not the only like living legend that you

1367
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 3: work with. It's weird, this is a short career, but

1368
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 3: you're working with.

1369
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 5: Like great knocking down. It's like David Foster.

1370
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 14: You you have to have like twenty years under your

1371
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 14: So how did that?

1372
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 5: How did that happen?

1373
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 19: Well, So when I first came out to LA obviously

1374
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 19: we went to meet up with a lot of an

1375
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 19: R people, you know, like a lot of labels, like

1376
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 19: shopping for labels, and we met out with UH and

1377
01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 19: an R from Verth And at the time that was

1378
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 19: like five years ago. Like the first person that I

1379
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 19: met was this this lady from from Verve Records and

1380
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 19: Universal and she was she she was in love with me,

1381
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 19: you know that she really believed in my career. And uh,

1382
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 19: back then, like David Foster was not in the picture yet.

1383
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 19: So after a while, you know, like he joined Verth

1384
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 19: and he found out about me and then like he

1385
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:47,719
Speaker 19: was like, oh, you know, like why didn't we sign

1386
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 19: this girl like in the So it was really cool

1387
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 19: to be able to you know, come to see him

1388
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 19: and then like played some songs for him and you

1389
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 19: know like work with him, like for for a song

1390
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 19: on this album.

1391
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 5: So, yeah, did.

1392
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 7: You know that you're familiar of like who with who

1393
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 7: he was like before?

1394
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, definitely, he's huge in Malaysia. He would come out,

1395
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 19: he would come out and like do his own concerts?

1396
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 2: Do they go crazy over you? Yet when you go home?

1397
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 2: Did they yeah, and.

1398
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 3: You must get a lot of love too, because like you,

1399
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 3: you you haven't changed who you are. I'm sure at

1400
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 3: some point there was some resistance about you being of

1401
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 3: course the broad Muslim woman that you are, and how

1402
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 3: you dressed the way you dress, even though you had

1403
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 3: you funk it up to a level that is.

1404
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 2: Like, but was there ever any resistance to you being you?

1405
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 20: Oh?

1406
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 4: No not.

1407
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 19: I mean like I've never faced any like, you know,

1408
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 19: anything challenging like.

1409
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 2: That labels because people always.

1410
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, no, I mean, uh no, not at all. You

1411
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 19: know what's weird though, I went through that back home

1412
01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 19: in Malaysia because like, yeah, like covering up it was

1413
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 19: just something like weird, like if you want to be

1414
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 19: an artist, it's not it's something. That's another reason why

1415
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 19: I stayed independent for a very long time because Okay,

1416
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 19: well they're not going to accept me for who I am.

1417
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:13,799
Speaker 20: I gotta change. So I'm not going to change.

1418
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 19: I'm just going to do my thing. And but coming

1419
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 19: out here was surprisingly like super easy. Everyone was just

1420
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 19: like I you know, I was with the Fader label

1421
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 19: for for a while and they were super sweet, super

1422
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 19: supportive and really believed in like my my work and

1423
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 19: my talent and yeah, just like it was just easy

1424
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 19: for me.

1425
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 2: Are you doing anything in the fashion line?

1426
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 5: Uh?

1427
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 15: Yeah, I am a little bit, a little bit.

1428
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 2: I feel like I really want.

1429
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 5: You to.

1430
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 7: Know it seemed like it would be fit for you.

1431
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 7: Your newest record, Chapters. You were talking about how this

1432
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 7: was written. If I'm not mistaken, it was written after

1433
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 7: the end of a relationship or was it it was

1434
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 7: inspired by a breakup?

1435
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 13: You're like, you're not sure it was?

1436
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 10: No, no, no, I just want to I know, I know

1437
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 10: it was a record, every army record, I know, one

1438
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 10: of the motherfuckers.

1439
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, I just want to make you represent

1440
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 5: the right record.

1441
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 7: It was Chapters, and you were saying that you wanted

1442
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 7: to write a record. You know, previously you were in

1443
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 7: a relationship and you were I guess too dependent co

1444
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 7: dependent on that relationship that you're in, and so you said,

1445
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 7: you know, I want to write a record that you know,

1446
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 7: I was single, I'm free, and I want to write

1447
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 7: something in that state of mind.

1448
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 13: Yeah.

1449
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 7: What is the difference between those two states of mind

1450
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 7: in terms of creating from a place of I'm in

1451
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 7: this relationship and maybe I'm a little to dependent on

1452
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 7: it versus I'm free and you know, I let that go.

1453
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 19: I mean, I guess, like you being a singer, song

1454
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 19: do you just tend to write like obviously what you

1455
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 19: know best, you know, like you know what's in your heart.

1456
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,759
Speaker 19: And for me, at the time, I was going through

1457
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:07,799
Speaker 19: like you know, like a breakup and it was really hard,

1458
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 19: you know, And but now I'm kind of you know,

1459
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 19: like I've moved on obviously by the time, like I

1460
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:18,120
Speaker 19: was really in that moment, So like what do I do? Like, okay,

1461
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 19: like I'm in that moment, and then I have to

1462
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 19: write an album like duh, always like you'll end up

1463
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 19: just writing you know what you what you're feeling, and

1464
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 19: that's how it's supposed to be, you know, instead of

1465
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 19: just like writing happy songs or like you know, faking

1466
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 19: a song. And uh yeah, I guess it's a It

1467
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:43,160
Speaker 19: really depends. Like for chapters, I I wanted to write

1468
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 19: about okay, like at the time I was going through

1469
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 19: a breakup, and then in the present like I feel

1470
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 19: kind of like in the limbo, you know. So there's

1471
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 19: a song called Mannequin where I just kind of feel

1472
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 19: that way and then and the future is like best love,

1473
01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 19: like the kind of love that I want for the future,

1474
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:00,839
Speaker 19: you know, so you want for the future.

1475
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 20: That's kind of love.

1476
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,719
Speaker 7: Let everyone know because I mean, hey, this is Quess

1477
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 7: Love Supreme and you never know your best love could

1478
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 7: be listening right now.

1479
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 5: So let the people know. You know.

1480
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 7: Let what what does the best love look like?

1481
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 20: You know, someone who's just like.

1482
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 19: Who have the best intentions for you, you know, like

1483
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 19: who just wants you to be happy inside out, like

1484
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 19: without expecting anything back. Not that I'm not going to

1485
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 19: give you anything back, you know, obviously there there will

1486
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 19: be like it's a two way thing. But someone someone

1487
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 19: who's just purely like like lovely.

1488
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 20: I just want someone lovely, you know.

1489
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:50,920
Speaker 7: And yeah, that was that was beautiful.

1490
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 5: In here.

1491
01:18:55,000 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 7: Man, Well you to thank you so much for taking

1492
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 7: time and coming through and chopping it up with us

1493
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:05,520
Speaker 7: about being lovely.

1494
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 20: And and everything.

1495
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 7: Ladies, gentlemen, give it up for un on Quest. This

1496
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 7: is Questlove Supreme. Fine Tivolo like EA unpaid Bill Boss Bill, Hello,

1497
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 7: Sugar Steve is not Scott Yayo in the building us

1498
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 7: Quest Love Supreme. Y'all team Supremes in the buildings.

1499
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 5: How we go down?

1500
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 7: Listen, we are here today this is We're live in

1501
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:37,799
Speaker 7: New York.

1502
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:38,759
Speaker 5: City at the Brouts Picnic.

1503
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 7: So if you hear any background noise or whatever, that

1504
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 7: is the noise from musicians doing what they do getting

1505
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 7: paid and uh.

1506
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,719
Speaker 5: From a few times we do actually get goddamn paid.

1507
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,600
Speaker 5: Really on your show, on your show, you know what

1508
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 5: I'm saying.

1509
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 7: But but nah, man, so listen, we're live here and

1510
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 7: we're here today while with the young man who is

1511
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 7: by birthright music Royalty, Royalty.

1512
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 5: Royalty.

1513
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, man, I'm not I mean, no, no,

1514
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:18,960
Speaker 7: no bullshit, no over selling.

1515
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 5: I mean, this is is actual facts.

1516
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 4: Bro.

1517
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,599
Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up, big question of supreme

1518
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 7: ra applause, mister Daniel Marley, y'all give.

1519
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 5: You man, Thank you for being here.

1520
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 15: Half human, half ninja ninjaja.

1521
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 5: Okay.

1522
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 7: For tell us tell us about because because the note

1523
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 7: that we got was that you know you're half human

1524
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 7: half ninja. You're saying your full ninja like yeah, I mean,

1525
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:55,679
Speaker 7: of course, okay, tell us about the life of a ninja.

1526
01:20:56,920 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 2: I mean we live this life. Okay, this bro, because

1527
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 2: Nina doubles.

1528
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 7: That is it's one of those words we can you know,

1529
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 7: half human also ninja.

1530
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 15: But I'm not half no ninja your ninja, okay, because

1531
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 15: I'm a ninja. You know, I'm very much into martial

1532
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 15: arts fully. You know, I grew up very into Bruce Lee,

1533
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,639
Speaker 15: into his philosophy, you know, into everything he says, into

1534
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 15: his trainer as well, and so that that culture of

1535
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 15: martial arts is is a big deal to me. And

1536
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 15: and how they live their life and you know Charlie

1537
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 15: monks and very spiritual folks, and that's pretty much, uh

1538
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 15: path that I would love to take. If I choice,

1539
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 15: I would have been in the Shanin Temple, like just training.

1540
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:48,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have a.

1541
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:53,719
Speaker 7: Usually just bought a pet I do, like pitbull labrador

1542
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 7: mixed a little baby named Shain.

1543
01:21:59,000 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 15: Young animal.

1544
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:01,839
Speaker 5: Nin you know that's dope.

1545
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 7: What what like the principles that they teach in that uh,

1546
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 7: what if any have you applied that to your music career?

1547
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 7: Like how do they mirror each other in any way?

1548
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 15: Well, mainly being like water, you know as in keeping

1549
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 15: a flow, you know, never never locking yourself into a

1550
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 15: corner like this bottle. It's filled with water. The water

1551
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 15: can't go anywhere else. If you put a hole in here,

1552
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 15: it's out and it keeps going wherever it wants to go.

1553
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 15: It just you know, and and always not to be

1554
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 15: never get phased by things. You know, And that's pretty

1555
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 15: much one of the main things where if you take

1556
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 15: that and apply it, it leads you to a lot

1557
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 15: of other aspects of it as well.

1558
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 7: Got you uh, at the beginning of the interview, I,

1559
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 7: you know, referred to you as being you know, royalty,

1560
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:52,600
Speaker 7: and that certainly is no you know, no overstatement.

1561
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:53,600
Speaker 5: Uh.

1562
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 7: He is Daniel, your dad, Ziggy Ziggy Marley, who is

1563
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 7: of course the sun Uh, legendary Bob Marley. When you

1564
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 7: talk about being like water and you know you do

1565
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 7: not want to be restricted. Was there every point in

1566
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 7: your life where you felt like being a son of

1567
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 7: such luminaries? Did you almost kind of feel like at

1568
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 7: times that like, man, I have to do music, like

1569
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 7: I have no other choice doing anything else?

1570
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 15: Well, I have no other choice because this is what

1571
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 15: I'm good at. It's not really you know, we tried

1572
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 15: a couple other things. Try to go to school, you know,

1573
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 15: you know what I'm saying, Like got picked out of that.

1574
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 15: You know, it wasn't for me. The school thing.

1575
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 5: What were you going to for?

1576
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,880
Speaker 15: I was going to school for music production and music

1577
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 15: orchestra orchestral music. I was really into classical and I

1578
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 15: wanted to basically just like take courses in that lane

1579
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 15: and learn how how that world went. And it just

1580
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 15: didn't work out.

1581
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't. It didn't work out.

1582
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 15: I couldn't afford the tuition man financial aid. They won't

1583
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 15: give me financial aid because of what you said earlier.

1584
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 5: They see that fast.

1585
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 15: You don't need no financial I'm like, yeah, I'm trying

1586
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 15: to go to school. Yeah, but life is what it is,

1587
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 15: you know. I grew up with my mom, so it's

1588
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,560
Speaker 15: a different it's a different thing. So the whole royalty

1589
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 15: side of it, you know, I look up to my

1590
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 15: granddad and my old man for what they're doing, what

1591
01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:24,240
Speaker 15: they do, what he's doing right now, what my granddad

1592
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 15: has done. But like my granddad does not. He never

1593
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 15: think of hisself in that way. And that's where I

1594
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:33,799
Speaker 15: take Like, when I talk about music and the whole mission,

1595
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 15: I go from his perspective. I don't really go from

1596
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:41,679
Speaker 15: the perspective of after his death and what people perceived,

1597
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 15: you know, I kind of still listen to his words

1598
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 15: and understand that it's not about that you know, we

1599
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 15: grew up knowing it's not about that. Some of us,

1600
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 15: me and my sister. That was the lessons we grew

1601
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:54,760
Speaker 15: up with. You know, it was never a silver spoon thing.

1602
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,719
Speaker 15: I grew up around studios, but they weren't. You couldn't

1603
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 15: just use the studio, you really you had to be good,

1604
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 15: you know what I mean, Like you had to first

1605
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 15: learn how to wrap the cables up, you know what

1606
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 15: I mean like all of that. Yeah you are, Yeah,

1607
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 15: pretty much like you couldn't use the studio just because

1608
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 15: and so and that was my uncle Steven growing me

1609
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 15: like that and pretty much grew around him uncle Damien

1610
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 15: in Florida, and you know it was like that.

1611
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,600
Speaker 5: So were you raised and where were you?

1612
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 15: I was raised in Jamaica. I moved to moved to

1613
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 15: Miami when I was fifteen. Oh okay, right, So I

1614
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 15: lived in Florida from fifteen to like i'd say, twenty one,

1615
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 15: and then I went to La So is.

1616
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 5: That where you are now right now? In La Now?

1617
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1618
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:36,559
Speaker 7: Yeah, man's that's so dope to hear you say about

1619
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 7: how you know, uh, you know, before you get in

1620
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 7: the studio you had to wrap the cables up.

1621
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, like learning that.

1622
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 15: Yeah, really you got to appreciate all parts of it

1623
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:48,640
Speaker 15: in order to really be about it. And I'm very

1624
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 15: passionate about it. So I do want to know how

1625
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 15: to do it, and I do it a lot. A

1626
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 15: lot of the things I do is by myself. So

1627
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:56,280
Speaker 15: I'm home and I you know, I hooked my whole

1628
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 15: plug up, plug up everything. You know, I break it

1629
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,439
Speaker 15: down when I need to, But I record my self

1630
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 15: all instruments usually, And that's really where it came from.

1631
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 15: That teaching of starting from the ground is really what

1632
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 15: my whole passion in my life is about. Like we

1633
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 15: start from zero, you know, we don't start from He's

1634
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 15: Bob Marley's grandson. We start from this is Bambata. What

1635
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 15: are you going to do?

1636
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 5: Who are you? You know? What are you about? Are

1637
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 5: you good enough?

1638
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying? So totally and so from there,

1639
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 15: that's what I say.

1640
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 5: That's dope, man. Thanks When you start off.

1641
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 7: You know when you first started making your early record,

1642
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 7: First of all, how old were you when you first

1643
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 7: started recording?

1644
01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 15: I'd say the first record I recorded, I was I'd

1645
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 15: say like eighteen, okay, yeah, was.

1646
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 5: That what records you did with your dad.

1647
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 15: No, I did that when I first got to La.

1648
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 15: So I was about twenty one when I did that,

1649
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 15: you know, And that happened right real random, you know

1650
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:56,639
Speaker 15: what I'm saying, Like, I went to La. He lives

1651
01:26:56,640 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 15: in LA. I was in Miami, me and my sister

1652
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 15: for years and years. I want to let you go

1653
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 15: check him. He was like, oh, you want to do

1654
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:07,799
Speaker 15: a song. I'm like, well, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Okay,

1655
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 15: why not? So then you know, he just asked me

1656
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 15: to write something down, like, you know, a little fifteen minute.

1657
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 15: I wrote a verse, did it, and I just went

1658
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:15,520
Speaker 15: back to the crib.

1659
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 5: And that was it.

1660
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 7: That was just wow, Yeah, that's dope.

1661
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:21,559
Speaker 5: Man.

1662
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 7: So like with when you were working with your dad,

1663
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:27,639
Speaker 7: you know, keeping you know, that spirit of you know

1664
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 7: how you're saying, just having to kind of work your

1665
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 7: way up. What was it like for you when when

1666
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 7: he was that kind of it was definitely kind of

1667
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 7: like no sign. It was to me, it was like,

1668
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 7: you know, this is a good time. Let's let's do

1669
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:42,760
Speaker 7: this right now. It's a good time.

1670
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 19: No.

1671
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:48,880
Speaker 15: I don't look for validation from family members. I'm really

1672
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 15: looking for y'all to like my stuff. You know, no,

1673
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 15: they could like it too, but that's my family. But

1674
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 15: really it's about the people, you know, the people. It's like,

1675
01:27:58,640 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 15: we can't hate him.

1676
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 3: Yesterday we had smashing hearts here and they're like the

1677
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 3: sons of Dwayne Wiggins, Tony. We're saying that Raphael is

1678
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 3: a dee and are very hard on us.

1679
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, it's not an easy thing when you

1680
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 15: come from a family of music, right, you know, it's

1681
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,600
Speaker 15: the pressure is applied. You know, you really have to

1682
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 15: live up to certain things. But I don't put that

1683
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 15: pressure on myself because I don't even do the same

1684
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,720
Speaker 15: sound like. You know, I'm a different being. I have

1685
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 15: I have different dreams because of how I grew up,

1686
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 15: and so the things that I'm looking to do and

1687
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 15: looking for are a little bit different than that.

1688
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 5: What is it that you're looking for? Like, what are

1689
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 5: your goal?

1690
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 15: Respect in music? First? This is a big deal. I

1691
01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 15: feel like a lot of people have to appreciate when

1692
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 15: someone really is doing it. We have a lot of

1693
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 15: cats that just do things, but some folks are actually

1694
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 15: doing it. They live it every day, you know, they

1695
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 15: want to get better every day. There's not a day

1696
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 15: that goes by where I'm not practicing something or trying

1697
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 15: to learn something new. When it comes to the guitar, drums, vocals,

1698
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 15: just always push myself. It's never like, yeah, I'm just

1699
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 15: going chill and then I'm gonna go to the studio.

1700
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying. Every day we're at it

1701
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,639
Speaker 15: like yo, we gotta write a better song. Let's keep pushing.

1702
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 15: So that that coming from the family like that too,

1703
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 15: is a part of that where it makes you, you know,

1704
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 15: hungry for it.

1705
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 7: Do you record with when you say you know you're

1706
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 7: working every day and it's really dope to hear that

1707
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 7: you record yourself because that's something that I think a

1708
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:27,000
Speaker 7: lot of artists, maybe a little bit more now they

1709
01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 7: do it because you know, you can actually have a

1710
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,599
Speaker 7: studio at home and get right down. But it's still,

1711
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 7: you know, you don't see too too many guys that

1712
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 7: really take the time to learn that stuff. Do you

1713
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:41,960
Speaker 7: collaborate mainly, you know with a band? Do you you

1714
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 7: say you play I'll.

1715
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:47,839
Speaker 15: Play like our program. Before before I started writing lyrics

1716
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 15: or singing or rapping, I used to just spell beats

1717
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 15: so I would make beats using reasons and drum machine,

1718
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 15: you know, so we just made beats. At first, it

1719
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 15: was just all producing stuff. So I grew up producing

1720
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 15: playing piano a bit. I don't know it like that,

1721
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:05,040
Speaker 15: I really know the drums. I grew up playing the drums,

1722
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:09,639
Speaker 15: and I picked up the guitar. Like I'd say from

1723
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 15: this point four years ago, three years ago, because I

1724
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:16,799
Speaker 15: went on a small tour. I had a dream, literal

1725
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:20,040
Speaker 15: sleep and had a dream like, yo, take all the

1726
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:22,400
Speaker 15: money you make from this run, go buy yourself a

1727
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:25,320
Speaker 15: guitar and start writing a whole bunch of different songs

1728
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 15: based on what was happening. Is like I was doing

1729
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 15: a lot of hip hop, but when you put it

1730
01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 15: out on a SoundCloud, people could take. They just take,

1731
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 15: you know what I'm saying. So I had to add

1732
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 15: situations where my music was just being taken and.

1733
01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 7: So and this is like full songs with vocals and

1734
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 7: everything on it, Like yeah, like somebody will take the hook,

1735
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 7: you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying,

1736
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,560
Speaker 7: Like you know, and I mean they'll do it on

1737
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:50,280
Speaker 7: the same beat, you know, because that's what you could

1738
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 7: do when you're talking about mixtape stuff, you know. And

1739
01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:56,599
Speaker 7: then I realized, like I have more love for this,

1740
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 7: so I have to do something that you can't just

1741
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:02,679
Speaker 7: RecA you can't just take it. And so I got

1742
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 7: the guitar and I just started teaching myself how to

1743
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:08,600
Speaker 7: play and just started writing different songs, songs that you know,

1744
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:11,519
Speaker 7: everything came came more from inside because when you have

1745
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 7: that connection to a live instrument, you can find more

1746
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 7: things inside of yourself.

1747
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 15: You know, it's so much more so that that helped.

1748
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 5: That's what happened.

1749
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:24,959
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, when you we were I was looking online.

1750
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:29,040
Speaker 7: We were like trying to find some music and what's

1751
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 7: the status of everything? Are you working on an album

1752
01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:35,640
Speaker 7: when you just have stuff like on soundclouds?

1753
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 15: So right now the album, the album is about i'd

1754
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 15: say ninety five percent finish. There's a few things I

1755
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 15: want to record while I'm out here, just to seal

1756
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,120
Speaker 15: it up, but the album is pretty much ready. It's

1757
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:54,919
Speaker 15: called UNX and the definition at this point is unknown.

1758
01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 15: That's the definition. I feel like we searched the things

1759
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:02,720
Speaker 15: we don't know in life. That's what we're all, you know,

1760
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 15: that's what we do. We're like, Yo, we don't know this,

1761
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 15: so we're gonna learn it. We don't know this, so

1762
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:07,880
Speaker 15: we're gonna you know what, I mean, so I call

1763
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 15: it unknown based on that that drive of seeking. You know,

1764
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 15: why are we here? What's my point?

1765
01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:14,680
Speaker 5: You know?

1766
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 15: Am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing and

1767
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:20,240
Speaker 15: really being connected to yourself to know if you're on

1768
01:32:20,280 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 15: the right track?

1769
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 5: You know?

1770
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 15: So I call it the unknown and it's basically open

1771
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:30,599
Speaker 15: space of unlimited possibilities. That's what the unknown is.

1772
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 7: Was there a moment with where you realize like or

1773
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 7: I mean, do you still do you maybe kind of oscillate?

1774
01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 7: Do you when you feel like, yo, I'm on the

1775
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 7: right track, Like, I know this is where I'm posting.

1776
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,679
Speaker 15: I'm definitely on the right track right now. The music

1777
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:48,120
Speaker 15: that's coming out, the things I'm talking about and singing

1778
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 15: are really really powerful to me. And you know, to

1779
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 15: the close friends around who know it, you know, they

1780
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:57,439
Speaker 15: give you, they'll give you more insurance, you know, your people,

1781
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 15: you know. But definitely I'm on the right track for sure.

1782
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 15: Come in here to play this gigas is the craziest thing,

1783
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 15: you know, Well is that? Like, I mean true? Yeah,

1784
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:12,200
Speaker 15: it's the first show like this, you know. First that's

1785
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 15: like in terms of in terms of in this vein,

1786
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 15: you know, in this lane of where what I'm trying

1787
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 15: to do. You know, this is pretty much like, Yo,

1788
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 15: this is what I'm trying to do. I played, I

1789
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 15: played a lot of shows. It's mainly reggae shows based

1790
01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 15: on the name, you know, but this shows what you

1791
01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:30,840
Speaker 15: want to Yeah, it's based on the music. Yeah, pretty much.

1792
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:34,479
Speaker 15: It's like this is the sound. It is a lot

1793
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 15: of different things. It's not one thing. There's influences of

1794
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 15: all types of music within it. But it's it's not reggae.

1795
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:45,120
Speaker 15: You know, it's not pop. It's not just hip hop.

1796
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 15: You know, it's it's rockets. So you know, it's funkus,

1797
01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 15: R and b's jazz.

1798
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 7: I heard, Yeah, I was surprised because I didn't because

1799
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:55,640
Speaker 7: I was walking up and I caught like maybe the

1800
01:33:55,720 --> 01:33:58,760
Speaker 7: last five ten minutes said, because I was we had

1801
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 7: to come up here to set up. And so I

1802
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,400
Speaker 7: was walking in and I saw it. I was like, well,

1803
01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 7: who's that on? And so I looked at the schedule,

1804
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 7: I was like, oh that's I was like, oh wow,

1805
01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:08,960
Speaker 7: that's and so you know, I saw you. I was like, man, like,

1806
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 7: it sounded really dope from here I was. But I

1807
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 7: had to come up and you know, get to work

1808
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 7: for us.

1809
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 5: But we're coming.

1810
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:21,720
Speaker 7: Man, I had to get up so but but but no, man,

1811
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 7: it's sounds.

1812
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 15: Did you was the thing to come upstairs?

1813
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 5: Many? Because there was? I'm sure it was like real life.

1814
01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 15: You're right right, That's why the name thing, you know,

1815
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:41,960
Speaker 15: I kind of that's why my name is African. You know,

1816
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:43,360
Speaker 15: by the African name.

1817
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:47,799
Speaker 2: You know, you better go straight by to know Daniel

1818
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 2: Marley at all.

1819
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:52,720
Speaker 15: Or yeah, it's my sound. It's me, you know, and

1820
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:54,479
Speaker 15: you know you get to know me. You know that

1821
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:55,720
Speaker 15: this this is him.

1822
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 5: How did you choose?

1823
01:34:56,920 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 15: That's my name? Like birth name, it's my middle name.

1824
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 2: See y'all like Margaret, She's like yeah. Another one.

1825
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 7: One of the things I think is dope about uh,

1826
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 7: the younger generation. You know when you say that your

1827
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 7: music is not just reggae, you know, it's a mixture

1828
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:29,280
Speaker 7: of a lot of things.

1829
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:31,799
Speaker 5: Uh. The thing about the younger.

1830
01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:33,960
Speaker 7: Generation, I think is that you guys seem to be

1831
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 7: open to a lot more indeed, a lot more music.

1832
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:41,759
Speaker 7: And I think, you know, I have a son that's fifteen,

1833
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 7: and he listens to everything. And I think largely in

1834
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 7: part because that generation now like there they can get

1835
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:49,240
Speaker 7: everything for free, I mean everything they can just go

1836
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:52,599
Speaker 7: to YouTube and look up whatever genre they want. Did

1837
01:35:52,640 --> 01:35:56,320
Speaker 7: you feel any kind of pushback from anyone.

1838
01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:56,559
Speaker 5: That you know?

1839
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 7: You said, you do the reggae festivals, but this is

1840
01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 7: kind of where you want be. Do you feel me

1841
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 7: pushback from people felt you should be doing more traditional everybody.

1842
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 15: A lot of people, once they first hear about me,

1843
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 15: they think I should only play reggae. I actually don't

1844
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 15: play any at all. I have some songs that are

1845
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 15: out from before, but everything I create it's just what

1846
01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:18,200
Speaker 15: I feel, you know, And I can't really I'm never

1847
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 15: gonna just feel what somebody else felt and do it,

1848
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 15: you know. And so this music that's coming out of

1849
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 15: me right now is how I feel. It is what

1850
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:30,040
Speaker 15: I feel. I can do a reggae song in ten years.

1851
01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 15: You know, you got people doing reggae songs right now,

1852
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 15: Drake and stuff. You know, people it's not about but

1853
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:36,640
Speaker 15: it's how I feel. And that's my goal is to

1854
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:41,599
Speaker 15: really put my feeling on wax and get it out there,

1855
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:44,559
Speaker 15: you know, and try to have people. I know, people

1856
01:36:44,640 --> 01:36:47,680
Speaker 15: feel the same way. We're singing about real things, you know,

1857
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,120
Speaker 15: We're singing about life like there's nothing that you didn't

1858
01:36:50,200 --> 01:36:52,080
Speaker 15: go through that I'm not singing about.

1859
01:36:53,280 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 7: And so, yeah, talk to me about some of your

1860
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 7: hip hop influences. I was reading about you, and I

1861
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 7: was like, man, like this kid, like really you know

1862
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 7: nas and you you had like a lot.

1863
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:07,880
Speaker 15: Of Yeah, you know, as far as hip hop goes,

1864
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:10,120
Speaker 15: it's like mainly East Coast for me, you know, Big

1865
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 15: L Guru, I usually wake up, I wake up, I

1866
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 15: wake up?

1867
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:19,080
Speaker 5: How did you? Okay, okay, just listen. You're how old?

1868
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 5: How old are you?

1869
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:20,559
Speaker 15: Twenty seven?

1870
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 5: You're twenty seven? Okay, Big L? How did you?

1871
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 15: How that happened? Just based on I love old school rap.

1872
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:31,479
Speaker 15: I love old school hip hop. For me, music like

1873
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:35,280
Speaker 15: like Jamaica and hip hop has a great relationship based

1874
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 15: on the starting of hip hop. You know, cool her

1875
01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:40,640
Speaker 15: coming through right exactly. So with that and and that

1876
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,559
Speaker 15: knowledge is the knowledge I use and take and applied

1877
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:46,240
Speaker 15: to my music where it's like we can do that.

1878
01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 15: It's all that reggae music is influenced by everything else too.

1879
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 15: That was happening James Brown Beatles, you know, the rock era,

1880
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 15: like it's all that come by, and then the Island flavor,

1881
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 15: which is you know, that's the feeling of the people,

1882
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 15: that's how they feel, and so that's why that is

1883
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 15: a different sound. But it's all music is all from

1884
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 15: it's all parts, you know, every genre is here for

1885
01:38:12,040 --> 01:38:13,679
Speaker 15: us to use. And like when you were saying about

1886
01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 15: your son being able to have access to any type

1887
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 15: of music, any sound he wants to put inside his brain,

1888
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:25,800
Speaker 15: is really an evolution that we're going through as people musicians,

1889
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:29,559
Speaker 15: you know, where you can't be blocked off because the

1890
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 15: world is so much bigger for us right now. You know,

1891
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 15: it's only natural that we're gonna apply. You know, it's

1892
01:38:34,920 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 15: like without without internet, all right, maybe you'll do what

1893
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 15: it's only happening in your community because that's what you got,

1894
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:42,640
Speaker 15: that's what you know, that's where you are. But you

1895
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:45,400
Speaker 15: have the whole world right now, so it's like, why

1896
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 15: why stop?

1897
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:46,960
Speaker 5: Why stop?

1898
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 7: We live from Bruce Picnic here in New York City,

1899
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 7: So if you hear any noise, it's just me and

1900
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,759
Speaker 7: the boys getting it all right now, ladies and gentlemen.

1901
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:03,360
Speaker 5: I'm so happy. It's funny. Me and his brother know a.

1902
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:04,720
Speaker 7: Lot of the same people's ran a lot of the

1903
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 7: same circles, but this is actually our first time meeting

1904
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 7: face to face and it's crazy. Uh, this brother is

1905
01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:16,519
Speaker 7: one of the the I would say, the the next

1906
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 7: school or the of Philly MC's.

1907
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 5: You know.

1908
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,559
Speaker 7: When I was coming up, you know, I was listening

1909
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 7: to you know, just the Ogs three times, the cool

1910
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:28,360
Speaker 7: see Steady, you know what I'm saying.

1911
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,360
Speaker 5: Of course, schooly d of course.

1912
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 7: And uh then once I guess college, Uh, this was

1913
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:40,160
Speaker 7: when you know, the rock took over and really it

1914
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 7: was Philly that.

1915
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 2: Was on the back of Philly.

1916
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, like totally. And you know, and this brother was

1917
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:50,040
Speaker 7: a cat. I always admired. He always had just really

1918
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 7: unconventional rhyme schemes, kind of unconventional in the way that

1919
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 7: he would kind of wrap around his rhymes, like he

1920
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 7: would start with one bar and then go on that

1921
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:00,000
Speaker 7: for a little while, but then break off and then

1922
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:01,879
Speaker 7: go back to another one, kind of like a boomerang

1923
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 7: kind of thing. And I always thought that was really dope. Yeah, man,

1924
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 7: And I'm such an honor to happen here with us

1925
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:10,920
Speaker 7: to days. And gentleman, give it up for my man's

1926
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:17,559
Speaker 7: freeway on question, how you feel man?

1927
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 5: How was it? How did it go today?

1928
01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 25: Oh? Man, I feel great, man, It's wonderful experience. Man,

1929
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,479
Speaker 25: you know, shout out Thereek, you know for bringing me out.

1930
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:25,439
Speaker 9: He was on stage.

1931
01:40:25,439 --> 01:40:30,120
Speaker 25: We just performed did a legendary cipher with all legends. Man,

1932
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 25: I'm still caught up in a moment right now. It

1933
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 25: was me, it was Black Thought, it was Smith and Wesson,

1934
01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:42,719
Speaker 25: it was Big Daddy King, it was oh my god,

1935
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 25: it was Royce five now wow, Pharaoh Munch and we

1936
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 25: were and were.

1937
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:52,800
Speaker 9: Stuck in and we at the end we did it.

1938
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 25: We did a cipher to the symphony. Coolie Rat came

1939
01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 25: and Craigey kicked the original verses.

1940
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:04,920
Speaker 14: Wow, Okay, I'm.

1941
01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:08,400
Speaker 9: Over here. I don't know what y'all doing over here.

1942
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:10,439
Speaker 9: What y'all missed it?

1943
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:13,479
Speaker 5: We're over here failing at life. Apparently we don't know

1944
01:41:13,479 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 5: what Welcome to quest supream. That's dope, man, that's really dope.

1945
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:26,880
Speaker 25: I was happy birthday, Black Thought many and I want

1946
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 25: to take my hat off to him because the brother

1947
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:32,080
Speaker 25: really put it together, and he had the most craziest

1948
01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:35,040
Speaker 25: job because he did versus like before before we did

1949
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:37,519
Speaker 25: the actual cipher. He bought each of us out and

1950
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:39,639
Speaker 25: we did some of our records and he like actually

1951
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 25: did a couple verses to each person's record.

1952
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 9: And that's hard.

1953
01:41:43,680 --> 01:41:46,000
Speaker 25: You know, it's hard enough just remembering your own ship,

1954
01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 25: you know what I'm saying.

1955
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:49,559
Speaker 9: So because then that man, hats off to that man.

1956
01:41:49,800 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 7: One of the greatest, one of the greatest. Definitely one

1957
01:41:53,200 --> 01:41:55,000
Speaker 7: thing I wanted to wrap about. Man. It was it

1958
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 7: was interesting. I had was doing some work. This is

1959
01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 7: a couple of years back. Uh, my man, brother I leave.

1960
01:42:00,160 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 7: Rom says, yeah. Man and me and him, we actually

1961
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 7: toured together, the first Little Brother tour that we went

1962
01:42:07,600 --> 01:42:08,600
Speaker 7: on with Hieroglyphics.

1963
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 5: We toured. Uh. We did a couple of dates with

1964
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 5: Brother a Lee in the atmosphere.

1965
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 7: And so he was telling me at the time, he

1966
01:42:14,600 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 7: was like, Yo, man, I got this new record about

1967
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 7: to come out with Freeway.

1968
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 5: She's gonna be crazy. I was like, well, we didn't

1969
01:42:19,360 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 5: take ship. It's gonna be crazy because he don't.

1970
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 7: Brother Ali is like the coolest, like most is in

1971
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 7: like dude ever.

1972
01:42:26,320 --> 01:42:27,600
Speaker 5: But he was like, yo, it's crazy. He's like I

1973
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:28,639
Speaker 5: got to join. I was like cool.

1974
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 7: And so later out it came out. It was the record,

1975
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 7: the truth. It was the truth record. It was talk

1976
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:38,639
Speaker 7: to me about that with you and being with Rom says,

1977
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 7: I thought it was so dope. How someone like you

1978
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:44,040
Speaker 7: that was on you know, the rock and like was

1979
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:47,720
Speaker 7: on like that major major you know label could then

1980
01:42:48,280 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 7: fuck with someone like ry Sayers. That's like yo, for

1981
01:42:51,320 --> 01:42:55,480
Speaker 7: those who don't know Rhyme Sayers is like a great experience.

1982
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:58,160
Speaker 25: Great experience working with them. Man, you know, they really

1983
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 25: care about the music. You know, me and Jake put

1984
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 25: the album together, and it's like a critically claimed album,

1985
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:05,680
Speaker 25: like everybody let the album. And you know, when a

1986
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:08,439
Speaker 25: whole rock split up came, I just went back to

1987
01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 25: what I normally do, and that's worked hard, you know

1988
01:43:10,320 --> 01:43:10,800
Speaker 25: what I'm saying.

1989
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:12,880
Speaker 9: I was trying whatever I could do.

1990
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:15,240
Speaker 25: Like before I did the project with Jake One and

1991
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:18,200
Speaker 25: rom Sais, I did something called Month of Madness where

1992
01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:20,599
Speaker 25: I dropped a record every day for the whole month.

1993
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,559
Speaker 25: Like I just went hard. Like you know what I'm saying.

1994
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:25,240
Speaker 25: I'm like, man, I can't go back to doing what

1995
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:27,599
Speaker 25: I was doing before this, so I gotta go hard.

1996
01:43:27,720 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 25: And you know, by the grace of God, I've been

1997
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:32,680
Speaker 25: able to maintain a successful career throughout the whole time

1998
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 25: I've been doing it.

1999
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 5: So what blessed a transition?

2000
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 7: Like, man, going from you know when you say, like

2001
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:41,120
Speaker 7: once the Rock split up and then saying, Okay, well

2002
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:41,559
Speaker 7: I got.

2003
01:43:41,400 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 5: To go back to doing what it is I normally do.

2004
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:47,439
Speaker 7: What is that transition like going from working like being

2005
01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:49,719
Speaker 7: with the major to then kind of being more independent

2006
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 7: than having to do things on your own.

2007
01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 5: What was that a big transition for?

2008
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 9: I mean, everybody can't do it, like you know, a lot.

2009
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:57,679
Speaker 5: Of people didn't. A lot of people could get.

2010
01:43:57,600 --> 01:43:58,439
Speaker 9: Fucked up in the head.

2011
01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 25: But you gotta understand where I'm coming from and the

2012
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:02,639
Speaker 25: type of person that I am.

2013
01:44:02,760 --> 01:44:04,479
Speaker 9: Like in the middle of.

2014
01:44:06,160 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 25: Me being super successful, like in the middle of rock

2015
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 25: the Mic, what we do when them Jonkers getting like

2016
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 25: five thousand spinds a week. I went to Mecca, I

2017
01:44:14,880 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 25: went to Saudi Arabia, made my pilgrimage. I went with

2018
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 25: like twenty o her brothers. I was sleeping on the floor.

2019
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 25: I was doing everything everybody else was doing. So just

2020
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 25: taking that trip in general, just getting here. It takes

2021
01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:27,360
Speaker 25: a lot of patients because we had to switch a

2022
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 25: couple of flights. We had to wait in the airport

2023
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:32,360
Speaker 25: six seven hours, like you know. So I'm used to

2024
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 25: having patients and dealing with certain situations, So when a

2025
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:38,840
Speaker 25: breakup first happened, it probably took me like a couple

2026
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:41,679
Speaker 25: of weeks just to get myself together and just dig

2027
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:43,640
Speaker 25: what's really going on with everything. And then I just

2028
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 25: went back to what I normally do, and that's worked

2029
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:47,160
Speaker 25: hard and grind, you know.

2030
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 9: So I'm still here.

2031
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 5: Man, you know.

2032
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, I wanted to speak with you. I was this

2033
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 7: was I mean a couple I was reading on. It

2034
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 7: might have been on an Okay player, I believe, or

2035
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:01,720
Speaker 7: I might be an okay player. In terms of your

2036
01:45:01,760 --> 01:45:04,439
Speaker 7: health right now with your kidneys, speak to us a

2037
01:45:04,479 --> 01:45:06,640
Speaker 7: little bit about that, what kind of led to it

2038
01:45:06,680 --> 01:45:07,960
Speaker 7: and how was that changed life.

2039
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 25: On September of twenty fifteen, I was diagnosed with in

2040
01:45:11,240 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 25: stage renal failure that's kidney fire. So as of right now,

2041
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 25: I gotta do dialysis three times a week, four hours

2042
01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:20,760
Speaker 25: a day. I'm actually active on a transplant list, so

2043
01:45:20,800 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 25: they could call me any time with a new kidney

2044
01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:24,400
Speaker 25: and I gotta go to the hospital and they gonna

2045
01:45:24,439 --> 01:45:27,640
Speaker 25: do the operation. Just like with the Rock break up,

2046
01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:30,760
Speaker 25: Like when it first happened, fucked me up. I got

2047
01:45:30,760 --> 01:45:33,080
Speaker 25: the call from my doctor. It was like, you need

2048
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:34,960
Speaker 25: to get to the emergency room right now. So the

2049
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:37,040
Speaker 25: first thing I did, you know, I'm a devote Muslim,

2050
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 25: So the first thing I did was I went to

2051
01:45:38,479 --> 01:45:41,640
Speaker 25: the mass jed. I prayed, asked God to help me

2052
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,720
Speaker 25: deal with whatever the situation is is. I didn't really

2053
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 25: know to what extent it was, you know. I did that,

2054
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 25: went to the hospital. They diagnosed me with kidney failure.

2055
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:54,519
Speaker 25: That day, they kept my chest open, put a cafe

2056
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 25: in my chest, and the next day I was doing

2057
01:45:56,960 --> 01:46:01,040
Speaker 25: dialysis and I've been doing it ever since then. Any differences. Now,

2058
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:04,360
Speaker 25: I got a fistula in my arm, which is when

2059
01:46:04,360 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 25: they take your main vein from the bottom of your

2060
01:46:06,400 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 25: arm and bring it up to the top of your

2061
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:10,680
Speaker 25: arm so they can access it. Then they tie the

2062
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:13,480
Speaker 25: artery off and that's how they access my dialysis.

2063
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:15,679
Speaker 9: They put two needles in each in my arm. Each

2064
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:16,240
Speaker 9: time I go.

2065
01:46:16,840 --> 01:46:19,479
Speaker 25: One needle drains the blood out, putting the machine cleans

2066
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 25: the blood, and the other needle pumps the blood back in.

2067
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 9: It's a four hour process and everything is going good,

2068
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:24,720
Speaker 9: you know.

2069
01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:28,479
Speaker 25: So, but what led up to it was in like

2070
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:32,840
Speaker 25: twenty twelve, eyes diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes

2071
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,559
Speaker 25: with your two of the leading risk factors for kidney failure.

2072
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:37,639
Speaker 9: I actually have three risk factors.

2073
01:46:38,040 --> 01:46:41,960
Speaker 25: One is being African American, the other is high blood pressure.

2074
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:43,520
Speaker 9: The other is diabetes.

2075
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:46,160
Speaker 25: You know, so anybody out there to have any of

2076
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,360
Speaker 25: those risk factors, just being black is.

2077
01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 5: A risk factor.

2078
01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:55,120
Speaker 9: So you need to keyboard with your routine physicals.

2079
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:55,360
Speaker 4: Man.

2080
01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 25: Make sure you see the doctor at least once a year,

2081
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:02,600
Speaker 25: check get checked up. And you know, because once I

2082
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:05,080
Speaker 25: was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes. I took

2083
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 25: it serious in the beginning, but just like with everything else,

2084
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 25: you know, as time passes, you tend to like not

2085
01:47:11,200 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 25: pay as much attention to it, Like I was taking

2086
01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:15,599
Speaker 25: my medicine. But then I remember, like when I first

2087
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 25: got on, when I first got it, I was like,

2088
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:20,639
Speaker 25: I remember one day I went to go see beans

2089
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 25: and beans beans. He got high blood pressure and diabetes.

2090
01:47:23,840 --> 01:47:27,000
Speaker 9: Also he was eating a cheese steak. I'm like, what

2091
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:28,080
Speaker 9: you're doing, steak?

2092
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:29,800
Speaker 5: Cheese steak.

2093
01:47:30,439 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 9: Like three months later, I was eating cheese steaks.

2094
01:47:32,360 --> 01:47:35,160
Speaker 25: So you know, it's just about being aware and standing

2095
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 25: and staying on point and you know, taking care of

2096
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:39,480
Speaker 25: yourself and keeping up with your routine physical.

2097
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 5: That's dope, man.

2098
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 7: In terms of like during you know, because I mean

2099
01:47:43,560 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 7: being MCS, anyone, not just MCS, but being anyone working

2100
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:49,600
Speaker 7: in the business will tell you traveling is like the

2101
01:47:49,680 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 7: biggest diet killer. Like anything you're trying to do right,

2102
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 7: being on the road just fucks that up.

2103
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:56,639
Speaker 25: Come, I'm gonna tell you some real shit, like when

2104
01:47:56,640 --> 01:47:59,000
Speaker 25: we like with the first tour, first couple of tours

2105
01:47:59,000 --> 01:47:59,639
Speaker 25: with Jay.

2106
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:05,280
Speaker 9: Jay was eating crab cakes, fish sticks. I'm not even

2107
01:48:05,320 --> 01:48:05,920
Speaker 9: paying attention.

2108
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:10,160
Speaker 25: I'm fucking burgers up steaks, eating whatever I want. Like, man,

2109
01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:13,120
Speaker 25: I'm telling you better eat right, and you know you

2110
01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:16,280
Speaker 25: see what happens. Man, You know you it's more than

2111
01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:19,120
Speaker 25: just rat. You gotta take care of everything. You gotta

2112
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 25: make sure everything is up the park.

2113
01:48:21,120 --> 01:48:23,200
Speaker 5: Man. That's how it is with you.

2114
01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 7: Do you have a family like kids, wife, Yeah, yep.

2115
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:31,879
Speaker 25: Yep, everything, family, kids, everything, two kids fifteen and sixteen.

2116
01:48:32,120 --> 01:48:34,200
Speaker 9: Oh wow, you know so they well.

2117
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:37,720
Speaker 3: Aware it was dope children too, winning awards and what Yeah, yeah, you.

2118
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:40,040
Speaker 5: Know, brag on your children.

2119
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:43,360
Speaker 25: Please my daughter, you know she she women was that

2120
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:45,080
Speaker 25: like last year of the year before she won the

2121
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:49,200
Speaker 25: award for for a poem that she made and like

2122
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 25: she uh, she read the poem like in front of

2123
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:53,599
Speaker 25: the commissioner and the marror and a bunch of different

2124
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 25: people in the city, which was real good for me.

2125
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 25: And she get good, great grades in school, like you know,

2126
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 25: so I'm very proud of her. My son, you know,

2127
01:49:01,320 --> 01:49:05,080
Speaker 25: her a little knucklehead, but he tries be you know,

2128
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,200
Speaker 25: he trying to do his rap thing too, so you know,

2129
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:08,599
Speaker 25: I let him do his thing a little bit.

2130
01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 7: Does he like, are your kids because you know, we

2131
01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:14,320
Speaker 7: asked a lot of guests that have kids. You know,

2132
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 7: I have boys myself. I was fifteen and ten. Do

2133
01:49:18,080 --> 01:49:20,880
Speaker 7: they know like who their dad is or they aware.

2134
01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:21,920
Speaker 9: They've been they've been aware.

2135
01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:23,400
Speaker 2: It's not a choice.

2136
01:49:23,560 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 9: You gotta think about what we do.

2137
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 25: They was on my lap in that joint, so you

2138
01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:29,479
Speaker 25: know they they already was gone.

2139
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:32,560
Speaker 9: We'll see my son. You can't tell him he in

2140
01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:33,000
Speaker 9: a star.

2141
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 5: Oh wow?

2142
01:49:34,680 --> 01:49:37,120
Speaker 7: So he do they like come to you for like

2143
01:49:37,160 --> 01:49:38,639
Speaker 7: your son? You know you say he wants to rap?

2144
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:40,400
Speaker 7: Does he come to you for advice or does he.

2145
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:42,760
Speaker 25: Look at you like he do now? Like he tried

2146
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:44,759
Speaker 25: to do his thing on his own in the beginning,

2147
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 25: like you know, he was he was making a look

2148
01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:50,040
Speaker 25: like his homies love his music and everybody like his

2149
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:51,160
Speaker 25: little friends love his music.

2150
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:54,519
Speaker 9: But you know, I know how to do it, and

2151
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:55,600
Speaker 9: I know you know the.

2152
01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 25: Route that you gotta take and everything you gotta do.

2153
01:49:57,800 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 25: And he tried not to listen to me in the beginning,

2154
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:01,160
Speaker 25: but now you know he on point.

2155
01:50:01,320 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 5: He learned, He learned. That's dope. Man.

2156
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:05,120
Speaker 9: You know, kids think they know everything.

2157
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:09,720
Speaker 25: I'm like, man, I'm a whole successful role model and

2158
01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 25: you're talking about you think you know.

2159
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:14,559
Speaker 5: More than me. I like that. There's always one good

2160
01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:16,639
Speaker 5: one in one knucklehead. It doesn't matter what there's two,

2161
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:17,800
Speaker 5: there's always yeah.

2162
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,599
Speaker 7: Because your daughter is like you got one daughter that's

2163
01:50:19,640 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 7: like the cool daughter and then the other one's knucklehead.

2164
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,280
Speaker 5: That's a great word. What is That's what's up?

2165
01:50:25,320 --> 01:50:25,479
Speaker 13: Man?

2166
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:25,920
Speaker 5: That's up?

2167
01:50:26,120 --> 01:50:28,800
Speaker 7: So in terms of right now, what what are you

2168
01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 7: working on? What's coming up?

2169
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:31,400
Speaker 9: All right now?

2170
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:34,000
Speaker 25: You know, I got a new situation on the table

2171
01:50:34,040 --> 01:50:36,360
Speaker 25: that I'm working out, which is gonna be great for

2172
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:37,599
Speaker 25: me and for hip hop.

2173
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:40,120
Speaker 2: So something looks laid.

2174
01:50:40,120 --> 01:50:43,040
Speaker 25: Something something to look forward to, something I'm very excited about.

2175
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:48,680
Speaker 25: You know, you know, I just you know, since my

2176
01:50:48,760 --> 01:50:51,880
Speaker 25: situation instead of like hot in what I'm going through,

2177
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:54,160
Speaker 25: I chose to stand in front of it.

2178
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:54,400
Speaker 5: You know.

2179
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:55,840
Speaker 25: So I've been doing a lot of work with different

2180
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:59,680
Speaker 25: kidney foundations. In March tenth, for twenty sixteen, I was

2181
01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:03,719
Speaker 25: a ordered the Patient Advocacy Award by the National Kidney Foundation,

2182
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 25: which was great for me, you know, at the.

2183
01:51:06,040 --> 01:51:07,000
Speaker 5: D n C this year.

2184
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:08,599
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was at the d n C this year.

2185
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:11,840
Speaker 9: I just just was at the White House last week.

2186
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 3: Wowal Museum African American No.

2187
01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:19,640
Speaker 25: I was there for the Actually they actually did a

2188
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 25: health summit, Millennial Outreach Health Summit. It was last Tuesday,

2189
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:26,639
Speaker 25: you know, so I uh participated in that.

2190
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:27,000
Speaker 5: You know.

2191
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:29,720
Speaker 25: I just was with uh Michelle when she came to

2192
01:51:29,720 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 25: Philly last Wednesday, first name. You know, I was with

2193
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 25: Bill Clinton Made in America and I performed two days

2194
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 25: in a row in Maine in America too, which is

2195
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:47,080
Speaker 25: a huge accomplishment for me. I actually performed Maine America

2196
01:51:47,600 --> 01:51:49,960
Speaker 25: exists for five years. I performed four out of the

2197
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 25: five years.

2198
01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,560
Speaker 3: For the first announcement of Made in America to Philadelphia,

2199
01:51:53,720 --> 01:51:54,840
Speaker 3: so as it should.

2200
01:51:54,520 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 9: Be, yes, sir.

2201
01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:58,320
Speaker 25: So you know, I'm just I'm just trying my best

2202
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 25: to do as much as I can and get act

2203
01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:00,840
Speaker 25: as much as I.

2204
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 9: Can, you know.

2205
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 7: So that's what I'm That's dope, man, that's dope.

2206
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:04,800
Speaker 5: We for y'all.

2207
01:52:04,840 --> 01:52:07,040
Speaker 7: We appreciate you taking this time to come through man

2208
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:09,479
Speaker 7: after the performance anytime, and chop it up with us.

2209
01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:12,559
Speaker 7: And I really salute you, just, you know, for everything

2210
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 7: you've done, and also just for like you said, getting

2211
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 7: in front of.

2212
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:17,280
Speaker 5: You know, that health issue.

2213
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:22,800
Speaker 7: You know, I've lost relatives to you know, diabetes and

2214
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:25,880
Speaker 7: high blood pressure, and we've seen, particularly twenty sixteen, a

2215
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:30,880
Speaker 7: lot of people going, yeah, rest in peace, fightd out

2216
01:52:31,320 --> 01:52:33,320
Speaker 7: and you know, man, just for you to be out

2217
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:35,000
Speaker 7: there and to be an advocate for it and bring

2218
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 7: more awareness to it, and just to really you know,

2219
01:52:37,680 --> 01:52:39,840
Speaker 7: let brothers know. I mean, your health is something that

2220
01:52:39,960 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 7: is you know, that's everything.

2221
01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:41,799
Speaker 5: That's the basis.

2222
01:52:41,960 --> 01:52:45,040
Speaker 25: Yeah, you know it's important man, you know, because it's

2223
01:52:45,080 --> 01:52:48,560
Speaker 25: so many people is just unaware, you know, and awareness

2224
01:52:48,600 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 25: is the key.

2225
01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 5: Man.

2226
01:52:49,400 --> 01:52:52,400
Speaker 9: Like if I would have been aware of how serious.

2227
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 25: It was when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure

2228
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:58,479
Speaker 25: and diabetes, I couldn't avoid getting getting Kenny Fuller because

2229
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 25: it was already.

2230
01:52:59,640 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 9: In a world.

2231
01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:01,640
Speaker 25: But I could have prolonged it, you know, if I

2232
01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:03,360
Speaker 25: would have been more aware of what was going on

2233
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:06,519
Speaker 25: in my body. So awareness is the key man, you know,

2234
01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 25: and just me being here and being able to perform

2235
01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:11,800
Speaker 25: for the people, and and just them seeing me out

2236
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,320
Speaker 25: here still going hardest motivation. I just want people to

2237
01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:16,960
Speaker 25: know like, even though I have a disease, I have

2238
01:53:17,080 --> 01:53:20,000
Speaker 25: kidney failure, it's not a death sentence. I'm still living

2239
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:22,559
Speaker 25: a productive life, still doing. Like I told you, I

2240
01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:24,960
Speaker 25: performed two days in a row Made in America, just

2241
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:27,760
Speaker 25: shut it down at the Roof's picnic. If I never

2242
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:30,920
Speaker 25: told y'all was sick, nobody would never know. And I'm

2243
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:33,559
Speaker 25: about to go back to Philly six o'clock tomorrow morning.

2244
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 25: I'm right back on the Diallasi's machine.

2245
01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:36,840
Speaker 3: Take care of yourself because when you when you drop

2246
01:53:36,880 --> 01:53:39,960
Speaker 3: that Instagram with you in the hospital on the first day, I.

2247
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:44,080
Speaker 2: Don't cry over Instagram. But the teachers was like, while

2248
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 2: it's free in the hospital.

2249
01:53:49,479 --> 01:53:51,599
Speaker 9: I'm good, I'm good. God willing not be here for

2250
01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:52,000
Speaker 9: a minute.

2251
01:53:52,160 --> 01:53:52,640
Speaker 5: That what's up?

2252
01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 7: We all love you, brother, Thank you, pleasure me and

2253
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:58,760
Speaker 7: YouTube Yeah sure, yeah for sure, and yo, thanks for

2254
01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:01,479
Speaker 7: coming through. And when you know, whenever you whenever your

2255
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,120
Speaker 7: situation is final, you know that once it's done soon

2256
01:54:04,120 --> 01:54:05,000
Speaker 7: you gotta come back and.

2257
01:54:04,920 --> 01:54:06,719
Speaker 9: We can talk about I got problem.

2258
01:54:07,160 --> 01:54:13,000
Speaker 7: Lazy gentlemen, free way get it up. Yes all, it's

2259
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:13,800
Speaker 7: a lazy.

2260
01:54:13,560 --> 01:54:15,320
Speaker 5: Gentlemen boys and girls.

2261
01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 7: Give a big quest love supreme round applause to Easy

2262
01:54:18,120 --> 01:54:22,439
Speaker 7: Moore Breezy, the founders and creators of grits and biscuits.

2263
01:54:24,560 --> 01:54:26,960
Speaker 5: That's going on part.

2264
01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 26: In this thing like a chicken wing on the string

2265
01:54:30,040 --> 01:54:30,840
Speaker 26: in the middle of the spring.

2266
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:37,800
Speaker 7: Damn right listen, Okay, so okay, So there are three

2267
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:39,840
Speaker 7: of you in this collective. Easy more Breeze is then

2268
01:54:39,840 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 7: able to collective and individually.

2269
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 5: It's also.

2270
01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 7: Erica DJ squib is. Yes, sir, Okay, Erica. I'm gonna

2271
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,280
Speaker 7: start with you because me and you have some some ties,

2272
01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 7: uh in that you had the misfortune of going to

2273
01:55:00,160 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 7: North Carolina Anti State University, which is which is a

2274
01:55:04,560 --> 01:55:05,839
Speaker 7: great online college.

2275
01:55:10,280 --> 01:55:12,040
Speaker 5: I didn't even go to an T I went to

2276
01:55:12,080 --> 01:55:14,520
Speaker 5: another HBCU. But I'm gonna have to square.

2277
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:21,560
Speaker 21: My partner like that, you know, appreciate.

2278
01:55:21,720 --> 01:55:26,080
Speaker 26: Just so you got your associates University of Phoenix.

2279
01:55:28,600 --> 01:55:29,080
Speaker 4: I was the.

2280
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:35,360
Speaker 21: Carolina Central Central College, Central Central College.

2281
01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 5: I got you go from Central and she's a. She's

2282
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:40,120
Speaker 5: an They gave degrees then.

2283
01:55:40,200 --> 01:55:46,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, all the division is stepping up. Yeah, man,

2284
01:55:46,920 --> 01:55:49,280
Speaker 7: but no, she's a she's a she's an age. I'm

2285
01:55:49,280 --> 01:55:51,480
Speaker 7: an eagle, So I give her a joke a little bit.

2286
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:53,520
Speaker 7: I actually grew up like right down the street from.

2287
01:55:55,360 --> 01:55:56,840
Speaker 5: It was too much. It was just like, dude, I'm

2288
01:55:56,840 --> 01:55:58,600
Speaker 5: going to school in my back yard. I can't yet.

2289
01:55:58,720 --> 01:56:01,480
Speaker 7: I was at every homecoming up until I graduated.

2290
01:56:01,200 --> 01:56:02,240
Speaker 21: And you were there last year too.

2291
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:12,800
Speaker 5: I was the last year I.

2292
01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:10,640
Speaker 2: Was when the last time you've been.

2293
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:13,000
Speaker 5: I haven't been a Central home coming a long time

2294
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:15,240
Speaker 5: because I'll be working.

2295
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:19,080
Speaker 7: I'm always I'm always on tour, and so the one

2296
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 7: time I'm home and I go, I went to grits

2297
01:56:21,480 --> 01:56:21,840
Speaker 7: and biscuits.

2298
01:56:21,920 --> 01:56:24,760
Speaker 5: Let me, I wasn't at the homecoming.

2299
01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:27,360
Speaker 2: I don't even know who's at the game they played

2300
01:56:27,360 --> 01:56:28,000
Speaker 2: against Central?

2301
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:32,680
Speaker 26: They did Central only played flag football.

2302
01:56:35,160 --> 01:56:39,400
Speaker 7: So all right, So all HBCU slander aside Erica. She

2303
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:42,640
Speaker 7: is a graduate of North Carolina Anti State University. And

2304
01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:45,000
Speaker 7: you were, as I understand it, pretty much the kind

2305
01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:45,839
Speaker 7: of the creator.

2306
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:48,600
Speaker 21: Oh no, it wasn't just me. It was definitely a

2307
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 21: collective unit. So okay, but we were all three of

2308
01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:54,000
Speaker 21: us were living in Brooklyn, but we're all from the

2309
01:56:54,040 --> 01:56:57,440
Speaker 21: South originally, and so the concept of the party really

2310
01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:00,800
Speaker 21: came up out of just a friendly friends first, a

2311
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 21: friendly conversation about at the time two thousand and nine, Yeah,

2312
01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 21: you didn't hear a lot of Southern hip hop music

2313
01:57:07,320 --> 01:57:10,160
Speaker 21: the way you do now in New York, and at

2314
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:12,680
Speaker 21: the time, the majority of the parties that we you know,

2315
01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 21: you saw in New York were very different in that

2316
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:17,960
Speaker 21: it was velvet rope and bottle service, and so we

2317
01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 21: decided just to come together and throw one party for

2318
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 21: friends and a party we would want to go to.

2319
01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:26,040
Speaker 21: That was very reminiscent of the black college experience because

2320
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:27,440
Speaker 21: we all went to HBCUs.

2321
01:57:27,680 --> 01:57:30,560
Speaker 7: Okay, so you went to you went to t Out,

2322
01:57:30,600 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 7: So where'd you go?

2323
01:57:31,360 --> 01:57:34,640
Speaker 5: Priview and m University?

2324
01:57:36,280 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 26: Right, that's where that's no. DJ Premier his pops was

2325
01:57:40,040 --> 01:57:41,960
Speaker 26: my dean of science.

2326
01:57:42,000 --> 01:57:42,839
Speaker 5: That are you serious?

2327
01:57:43,080 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 13: Me?

2328
01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 5: And it was tight, that's dope, that's dope. Shout out

2329
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:46,160
Speaker 5: DJ Premier.

2330
01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:48,280
Speaker 7: I'm working with him on the breaks right now, that's dope.

2331
01:57:48,280 --> 01:57:50,320
Speaker 7: And where'd you go when the fam.

2332
01:57:50,320 --> 01:57:51,920
Speaker 2: Okay common dropped out of there?

2333
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:55,000
Speaker 5: Yep, no.

2334
01:57:56,960 --> 01:58:00,240
Speaker 7: Fam, Yeah, Fam, I think FAM. That was one of

2335
01:58:00,280 --> 01:58:00,720
Speaker 7: my choices.

2336
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:03,720
Speaker 5: Actually it was. I was that you went to Central Central.

2337
01:58:03,840 --> 01:58:06,920
Speaker 3: What's funny Central my high school counselor, because I went

2338
01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:09,080
Speaker 3: to academic high school but I got real bad grades.

2339
01:58:09,240 --> 01:58:10,960
Speaker 3: And she was like, I said, so what colleges can

2340
01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:12,400
Speaker 3: I get into? And she was like, have you heard

2341
01:58:12,440 --> 01:58:13,040
Speaker 3: a Prairie View?

2342
01:58:13,440 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 5: I feel like that up here. No, seriously, I was.

2343
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:31,440
Speaker 7: I was looking at FM and the reason why I

2344
01:58:31,480 --> 01:58:33,480
Speaker 7: wanted to go to FAM at the time it was

2345
01:58:34,440 --> 01:58:35,400
Speaker 7: it was it was the.

2346
01:58:35,360 --> 01:58:36,600
Speaker 9: Band and it was Luke.

2347
01:58:37,160 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was a Loop.

2348
01:58:39,520 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 7: Fan and so kind of cap d coming come on

2349
01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:45,200
Speaker 7: what and so yeah, so as a kind of I

2350
01:58:45,200 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 7: guess as a partying gift. So I didn't go to Fan.

2351
01:58:48,720 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 7: But my first year at Central, our homecoming show was Luke.

2352
01:58:53,440 --> 01:58:56,440
Speaker 7: He came, he closed, and then they never let him

2353
01:58:56,440 --> 01:58:56,880
Speaker 7: come back.

2354
01:58:57,440 --> 01:58:58,360
Speaker 5: It was over.

2355
01:58:59,640 --> 01:59:03,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, like girls dancing, they were stripping and that was okay,

2356
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 7: just to show you, like how life can come at

2357
01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:06,120
Speaker 7: you fast.

2358
01:59:06,160 --> 01:59:10,000
Speaker 5: Okay. So this was ninety seven. Jay Z was there.

2359
01:59:10,720 --> 01:59:11,480
Speaker 5: This is jay Z.

2360
01:59:11,720 --> 01:59:14,480
Speaker 7: He performed at that homecoming show and he was just

2361
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:17,840
Speaker 7: off of in My Lifetime Volume one. Volume one was

2362
01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,960
Speaker 7: out and so just to kind of show you how

2363
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 7: stuff we changed hip up. At the time, he wasn't

2364
01:59:22,400 --> 01:59:24,360
Speaker 7: even the guy. He was doing his show and it

2365
01:59:24,480 --> 01:59:32,240
Speaker 7: was cool. He brought out Aconnellynlly.

2366
01:59:29,160 --> 01:59:33,160
Speaker 5: Shut ship down. He bodied it, he did, but put

2367
01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:35,480
Speaker 5: it in your mouth to all of the people, to.

2368
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:41,440
Speaker 7: Scott, to people, to to just those just now tuning in,

2369
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:44,400
Speaker 7: to give you kind of the the lineage of the

2370
01:59:44,440 --> 01:59:48,280
Speaker 7: Southern in a tradition applied.

2371
01:59:47,960 --> 01:59:51,720
Speaker 5: To a number of black He said, apply.

2372
01:59:54,400 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 2: But back to you can lick it, you can stick it,

2373
01:59:55,880 --> 01:59:56,400
Speaker 2: you can yeah.

2374
01:59:56,480 --> 02:00:00,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was Yeah.

2375
02:00:00,240 --> 02:00:03,360
Speaker 7: Jay Z was like the guy, but he wasn't the guy.

2376
02:00:03,560 --> 02:00:06,680
Speaker 7: Just then he was becoming the guy. So acon Nelly

2377
02:00:06,800 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 7: came in on his set, who was a rapper at

2378
02:00:08,480 --> 02:00:09,920
Speaker 7: the time, had a big hit put it in your

2379
02:00:09,920 --> 02:00:13,040
Speaker 7: mouth and also the B side fucked me for free.

2380
02:00:13,520 --> 02:00:17,360
Speaker 7: Another another another negro spiritual.

2381
02:00:19,920 --> 02:00:22,560
Speaker 5: Drake draken call, Oh that's right, it happen. That's right,

2382
02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:23,200
Speaker 5: that's right, you're right.

2383
02:00:23,240 --> 02:00:25,080
Speaker 7: So yeah man, but but yeah, so that was at

2384
02:00:25,120 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 7: the time my black college spirits. So so back to

2385
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 7: back to you guys with grits and biscuits. So you

2386
02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:35,680
Speaker 7: wanted to bring the black college experience to it was

2387
02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:37,720
Speaker 7: that that was where the idea came from, wanting to

2388
02:00:37,760 --> 02:00:38,680
Speaker 7: bring that kind.

2389
02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:39,440
Speaker 5: Of up here up north.

2390
02:00:40,360 --> 02:00:43,360
Speaker 26: Yeah, yeah, to a certain extent, like it was, you know,

2391
02:00:43,560 --> 02:00:46,200
Speaker 26: to Erica's point, it was like the bougie dress code,

2392
02:00:46,200 --> 02:00:48,720
Speaker 26: bottle service, sparklers, all that, you know, and if you

2393
02:00:48,800 --> 02:00:51,760
Speaker 26: were if you if you were there with your homeboy,

2394
02:00:51,760 --> 02:00:53,480
Speaker 26: you couldn't get in the club unless you had ten

2395
02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:57,400
Speaker 26: seemingly good looking girls, you know, seemingly unattracted women couldn't

2396
02:00:57,400 --> 02:00:59,200
Speaker 26: get in the club, you know. And then if you

2397
02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:01,760
Speaker 26: did get in and nobody was dancing, they in heels

2398
02:01:01,800 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 26: and dresses and stuff. And then the other extreme was

2399
02:01:04,480 --> 02:01:07,920
Speaker 26: like the super duper bohemian house parties, which is dope.

2400
02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:10,040
Speaker 26: You know, they playing Feliu, which is amazing, you know

2401
02:01:10,080 --> 02:01:12,120
Speaker 26: what I'm saying. And those are the folks that's in there.

2402
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:14,240
Speaker 26: They you know, they're trying to save the world and

2403
02:01:14,280 --> 02:01:16,000
Speaker 26: all that, but every once in a while.

2404
02:01:18,720 --> 02:01:19,720
Speaker 5: We don't save it to night.

2405
02:01:20,080 --> 02:01:22,560
Speaker 26: You know, there's a lot of stress trying to save

2406
02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:24,160
Speaker 26: the world. So when sometimes we need to take a

2407
02:01:24,160 --> 02:01:26,600
Speaker 26: break and get loose, you know, and so we create

2408
02:01:26,640 --> 02:01:28,320
Speaker 26: you know, we created a party we want to go to.

2409
02:01:28,360 --> 02:01:30,680
Speaker 26: And who knew that other folks want to come to

2410
02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:33,240
Speaker 26: it too. And six years fast forward and we sitting

2411
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:39,360
Speaker 26: here talking to y'all clowns.

2412
02:01:40,320 --> 02:01:42,880
Speaker 7: One of the things I think is so beautiful about

2413
02:01:42,920 --> 02:01:44,960
Speaker 7: you guys, party man is that, you know, a lot

2414
02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:48,360
Speaker 7: of times hip hop it gets the rep of you know,

2415
02:01:48,400 --> 02:01:50,160
Speaker 7: when you talk about the parties that win the city

2416
02:01:50,200 --> 02:01:52,840
Speaker 7: and you talk about how you know they would be

2417
02:01:53,120 --> 02:01:58,040
Speaker 7: very subtly racist ship that they would do like no

2418
02:01:58,200 --> 02:02:01,960
Speaker 7: ball caps, no like no hoodies, no hoodies, like you know,

2419
02:02:02,080 --> 02:02:03,880
Speaker 7: little shit that It's like, Okay, we know who the

2420
02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:04,640
Speaker 7: fuck y'all talking to.

2421
02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:06,120
Speaker 5: But you know what I mean.

2422
02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:08,880
Speaker 7: So, because there's this stigma that hip hop creates ute

2423
02:02:08,920 --> 02:02:11,080
Speaker 7: unquote violence, I would say, I've been to three of

2424
02:02:11,080 --> 02:02:15,280
Speaker 7: you guys parties, and this is a you know, Southern

2425
02:02:15,360 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 7: rap part so all the violence inciting rap songs so

2426
02:02:20,600 --> 02:02:22,960
Speaker 7: like a knuck if you buck, or like any club

2427
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:26,480
Speaker 7: tet a club up, those songs go off and there

2428
02:02:26,560 --> 02:02:29,200
Speaker 7: has never been I've never seen any fight in the

2429
02:02:29,200 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 7: parties I've been through. There's never been any kind of foolishness.

2430
02:02:33,240 --> 02:02:36,840
Speaker 7: It's never been Just as you say, it's very much

2431
02:02:36,840 --> 02:02:37,800
Speaker 7: as a come as you are.

2432
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:39,120
Speaker 5: I mean, it is a party.

2433
02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:40,360
Speaker 7: You can walk up in if you just got on

2434
02:02:40,360 --> 02:02:42,560
Speaker 7: your jeans and a T shirt, then you can rock

2435
02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:45,480
Speaker 7: like that. And it's the parties I've been to. There

2436
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:49,360
Speaker 7: has never been just a more just easy going, just

2437
02:02:49,440 --> 02:02:53,440
Speaker 7: it's very familiar atmosphere and I really appreciate.

2438
02:02:53,080 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 5: You guys for doing that.

2439
02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:57,960
Speaker 7: When you first started off, What was it like trying

2440
02:02:58,000 --> 02:03:00,360
Speaker 7: to bring that here?

2441
02:03:00,160 --> 02:03:02,480
Speaker 5: Were in New York or in the North? Was it

2442
02:03:02,520 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 5: any difficulty with that?

2443
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:05,840
Speaker 27: Erica is okay talk about that because they were trying

2444
02:03:05,840 --> 02:03:08,360
Speaker 27: to go to the different venues and getting no love.

2445
02:03:09,520 --> 02:03:11,360
Speaker 21: Yeah, no, I think at first it was just people

2446
02:03:11,400 --> 02:03:14,240
Speaker 21: weren't It was they didn't understand the concept. And then

2447
02:03:14,360 --> 02:03:17,040
Speaker 21: we also got the question like, are you guys party

2448
02:03:17,040 --> 02:03:17,960
Speaker 21: promoters in New York?

2449
02:03:18,080 --> 02:03:18,680
Speaker 4: No?

2450
02:03:18,560 --> 02:03:20,560
Speaker 21: No, were you guys throwing parties in New York before?

2451
02:03:20,760 --> 02:03:21,040
Speaker 5: No?

2452
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:24,640
Speaker 21: So you know, really it was just like one venue,

2453
02:03:25,080 --> 02:03:27,200
Speaker 21: the guy was like, oh, I like your vibe, you know,

2454
02:03:27,360 --> 02:03:29,960
Speaker 21: we'll give you a shot. And the first party, they

2455
02:03:29,960 --> 02:03:32,160
Speaker 21: asked us before the doors opened, they were like, how

2456
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 21: many people you are going to show up? And we

2457
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:35,720
Speaker 21: were like, we hope two hundred.

2458
02:03:35,800 --> 02:03:35,920
Speaker 4: Now.

2459
02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:37,640
Speaker 21: The funny thing is the only thing we did to

2460
02:03:37,680 --> 02:03:41,200
Speaker 21: promote was we created a really fly flyer and we

2461
02:03:41,280 --> 02:03:44,040
Speaker 21: sent it out via email and then we announced it

2462
02:03:44,040 --> 02:03:45,160
Speaker 21: at our Bible study.

2463
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:56,560
Speaker 7: You announced the party, no I, no I do? Okay, okay,

2464
02:03:56,600 --> 02:03:58,720
Speaker 7: So do we need to give the listeners some context?

2465
02:03:58,880 --> 02:03:59,280
Speaker 5: Probably?

2466
02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:01,720
Speaker 7: Okay, Bible study? Do I think to break down what

2467
02:04:01,760 --> 02:04:02,680
Speaker 7: Bible study?

2468
02:04:03,240 --> 02:04:07,600
Speaker 5: Jesus, We're good, all right, okay.

2469
02:04:07,640 --> 02:04:12,000
Speaker 7: So in the in the in the South, uh, there

2470
02:04:12,200 --> 02:04:15,040
Speaker 7: is you know, church folks. You know, there's this Saturday

2471
02:04:15,080 --> 02:04:18,480
Speaker 7: night is the club and then Sunday Sunday morning is church.

2472
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:20,320
Speaker 7: Sunday morning, you pray with all the su you pray

2473
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:22,160
Speaker 7: with all the rest is that you did the night before.

2474
02:04:22,280 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 7: And these audiences very much overlapped. So I mean, so

2475
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:28,560
Speaker 7: that's I never would have thought of that.

2476
02:04:28,560 --> 02:04:29,080
Speaker 5: That's genius.

2477
02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:32,440
Speaker 7: That's almost like that's almost like on Breaking Bad when

2478
02:04:32,560 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 7: Jesse went to narcotics and to sell man.

2479
02:04:36,200 --> 02:04:44,040
Speaker 5: Wow, that is that is you know, did you just

2480
02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:50,160
Speaker 5: compare our guess you know, we ain't gonna tolerate too much.

2481
02:04:54,280 --> 02:04:55,600
Speaker 5: You know, this ship is a genius.

2482
02:04:55,600 --> 02:04:58,520
Speaker 7: I never would have thought because because seriously, no real

2483
02:04:59,040 --> 02:05:01,720
Speaker 7: most people wouldn't even say like the people that are

2484
02:05:01,760 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 7: like qute unquote church folk, they kind of keep that

2485
02:05:04,320 --> 02:05:05,160
Speaker 7: ship to the side.

2486
02:05:05,320 --> 02:05:06,120
Speaker 5: They don't say that.

2487
02:05:06,200 --> 02:05:11,120
Speaker 3: So no, don't as many people show up the Bible

2488
02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:13,360
Speaker 3: Study as they do the actual service. So that's interesting

2489
02:05:13,400 --> 02:05:15,280
Speaker 3: too because it's like, why not just you know, put it.

2490
02:05:17,440 --> 02:05:21,960
Speaker 14: This is what I'm curious, but this is this is

2491
02:05:22,040 --> 02:05:23,560
Speaker 14: very fascinating.

2492
02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:26,240
Speaker 21: This was it was a Bible study for young people,

2493
02:05:26,800 --> 02:05:29,160
Speaker 21: and so we announced it at the Bible Study and

2494
02:05:29,200 --> 02:05:31,440
Speaker 21: we also, you know, the first party, we said we'd

2495
02:05:31,440 --> 02:05:33,640
Speaker 21: have two hundred people. We were like, we'll do We're

2496
02:05:33,640 --> 02:05:35,360
Speaker 21: gonna do it like old school, like we did in college.

2497
02:05:35,400 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 21: We're gonna have first hour five dollars. After that it's

2498
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 21: ten dollars. We were like, for fun, we made church

2499
02:05:41,280 --> 02:05:42,560
Speaker 21: fans because we were like, we need to have things

2500
02:05:42,600 --> 02:05:46,920
Speaker 21: that represent the South. Had no signage, had no website,

2501
02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:49,120
Speaker 21: had no nothing, and this is all we did. And

2502
02:05:49,160 --> 02:05:50,680
Speaker 21: when they asked us how many people are gonna show,

2503
02:05:50,760 --> 02:05:52,120
Speaker 21: we said, hopefully two hundred.

2504
02:05:52,360 --> 02:05:54,440
Speaker 5: First people in the doorway the manager.

2505
02:05:54,880 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 26: We told that to the manager and the manager was like, yo,

2506
02:05:57,680 --> 02:05:59,280
Speaker 26: if you get two hundred people to hear, that would

2507
02:05:59,280 --> 02:05:59,839
Speaker 26: be amaze.

2508
02:06:02,280 --> 02:06:05,920
Speaker 21: And we were like, okay, hopefully and then doors open.

2509
02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:11,360
Speaker 21: First people at the party Bible Study yeah, wow, five dollars.

2510
02:06:11,440 --> 02:06:12,920
Speaker 21: And then by the end of the night there were

2511
02:06:12,960 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 21: like five hundred people the majority. We did not know

2512
02:06:15,480 --> 02:06:17,320
Speaker 21: when we realized that, and at the end they were

2513
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 21: asking when's the next one? When's the next one? We

2514
02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:22,680
Speaker 21: had no idea because we only planned for one.

2515
02:06:22,880 --> 02:06:24,520
Speaker 5: When I used to DJ, my my answer to that

2516
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:25,800
Speaker 5: question was talk to the manager.

2517
02:06:27,480 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 26: Well, the manager was like, can y'all come back next week?

2518
02:06:29,640 --> 02:06:30,880
Speaker 26: We was like, whoa bro?

2519
02:06:31,360 --> 02:06:32,480
Speaker 5: Is it tiger? Easy?

2520
02:06:32,680 --> 02:06:34,960
Speaker 3: So are y'all somebody completely different in the daytime or

2521
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:37,000
Speaker 3: were y'all somebody still?

2522
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 5: Yeah? We all have we all have jobs. This is

2523
02:06:40,560 --> 02:06:42,160
Speaker 5: what are your What are your day jobs? What are you?

2524
02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:43,680
Speaker 5: I work at rock Nation?

2525
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 21: Okay, I work at Viacom.

2526
02:06:55,080 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 5: These day jobs are amazing.

2527
02:06:57,040 --> 02:07:00,800
Speaker 26: And you I'm advertising for talk for and I teached

2528
02:07:00,800 --> 02:07:03,920
Speaker 26: for lots of fell Wow. I teached philosophy at the

2529
02:07:03,920 --> 02:07:05,600
Speaker 26: college in New Rochhale Brooklyn Campus.

2530
02:07:05,800 --> 02:07:07,560
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'm an adjunct professor.

2531
02:07:08,640 --> 02:07:10,120
Speaker 2: What a essence? A marked article?

2532
02:07:13,920 --> 02:07:14,400
Speaker 5: That's dope?

2533
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:17,800
Speaker 7: So so d square is with you as a DJ?

2534
02:07:18,040 --> 02:07:20,000
Speaker 7: Was this your how long? How long you been DJing?

2535
02:07:20,200 --> 02:07:22,480
Speaker 27: Was this your I was fifteen or sixteen years?

2536
02:07:22,760 --> 02:07:23,240
Speaker 5: Oh wow?

2537
02:07:23,360 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 27: Okay, to stay out of trouble thanks to so Actually,

2538
02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:27,840
Speaker 27: my brother.

2539
02:07:27,440 --> 02:07:28,800
Speaker 5: I always got like real brothers.

2540
02:07:28,840 --> 02:07:30,880
Speaker 27: Like, okay, So I was like messing up in school

2541
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:32,680
Speaker 27: and I met one of his friends and he taught

2542
02:07:32,680 --> 02:07:35,040
Speaker 27: me how to dj, and I wanted turntables bad. My

2543
02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:37,040
Speaker 27: mom was like, if you get your grades right, if

2544
02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:39,680
Speaker 27: you stopped acting up in school, you can get your turntables.

2545
02:07:39,680 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 27: And then my brother taught me how to dj. Once

2546
02:07:41,160 --> 02:07:43,520
Speaker 27: I got my turntable, so it was cool. So where

2547
02:07:43,560 --> 02:07:45,440
Speaker 27: you guys, where were you raised that? Where were all

2548
02:07:45,520 --> 02:07:46,480
Speaker 27: texas and texts?

2549
02:07:46,720 --> 02:07:46,840
Speaker 4: Oh?

2550
02:07:46,960 --> 02:07:48,840
Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, yeah, gotch you got you gotcha.

2551
02:07:49,040 --> 02:07:49,520
Speaker 5: That's dope.

2552
02:07:49,560 --> 02:07:52,360
Speaker 7: So in terms of when you first started DJing, what

2553
02:07:52,440 --> 02:07:53,960
Speaker 7: kind of stuff were you first playing?

2554
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:56,080
Speaker 5: Like, what was your first I.

2555
02:07:56,080 --> 02:07:59,320
Speaker 27: Was really in like early on, when I was like fifteen.

2556
02:07:59,360 --> 02:08:01,720
Speaker 27: I was really into like hip hop, hip hop, like

2557
02:08:02,040 --> 02:08:05,920
Speaker 27: sugar Hill Game, Grand Master Flash Run fifteen because my

2558
02:08:05,960 --> 02:08:12,400
Speaker 27: brother Beastie Boys, like Beastie Boys, Lords of the Underground Tribe,

2559
02:08:13,120 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 27: day so especially Daylight, so outcast for sure.

2560
02:08:16,440 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 14: So I was the older of the two. Yeah yeah, no,

2561
02:08:19,000 --> 02:08:21,240
Speaker 14: the trickle down effect that we're always talking yeah yeah.

2562
02:08:21,480 --> 02:08:23,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, the older siblings a lot of times will set

2563
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 7: the tone and because what ma would be.

2564
02:08:25,720 --> 02:08:28,080
Speaker 5: Playing it out? Oh yeah, she was Luther Van Draws.

2565
02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:31,640
Speaker 27: And so my brother was raised in Florida while I

2566
02:08:31,720 --> 02:08:33,520
Speaker 27: was like until I was until I was nine. Then

2567
02:08:33,560 --> 02:08:36,000
Speaker 27: he moved to Texas to go to school. Okay, So

2568
02:08:36,600 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 27: from zero to nine it was Luther Van Drass, Anita Baker,

2569
02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:43,000
Speaker 27: Marvin Gaye like throughout the house. And then my brother

2570
02:08:43,080 --> 02:08:44,960
Speaker 27: was like, yo, you should listen to this hip hop thing.

2571
02:08:45,080 --> 02:08:47,280
Speaker 27: And I was like what he put it in? Like

2572
02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:49,360
Speaker 27: he was playing Lords of the Underground Tribe called quest.

2573
02:08:49,440 --> 02:08:54,880
Speaker 5: I was like, what is this? What is this? From there?

2574
02:08:55,040 --> 02:08:55,560
Speaker 5: Like took off?

2575
02:08:55,600 --> 02:08:57,320
Speaker 27: It took off and then like Chris Cross was like

2576
02:08:57,360 --> 02:08:58,280
Speaker 27: my favorite.

2577
02:09:00,120 --> 02:09:06,320
Speaker 14: Oh man, it's not no yo, Okay, Chriss Cross had jams.

2578
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:06,960
Speaker 5: No they did.

2579
02:09:08,160 --> 02:09:12,840
Speaker 7: I missed the No, that's something again that she was

2580
02:09:12,880 --> 02:09:16,520
Speaker 7: so traumatic missing the bus because you were missing because

2581
02:09:16,600 --> 02:09:18,640
Speaker 7: what is you missed the bus? It was you miss

2582
02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:20,120
Speaker 7: it And then you know you got to go in

2583
02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:25,480
Speaker 7: and tell you she gotta take you to Now, I

2584
02:09:25,480 --> 02:09:25,840
Speaker 7: gotta go.

2585
02:09:26,480 --> 02:09:27,960
Speaker 5: Now, I go put on my house coat and take

2586
02:09:28,000 --> 02:09:30,440
Speaker 5: you to school. My mother wouldn't take me to school.

2587
02:09:30,440 --> 02:09:32,880
Speaker 21: She'd find a bus and drive around and city.

2588
02:09:32,920 --> 02:09:36,440
Speaker 5: Look at that bus. They go to your school. I

2589
02:09:36,560 --> 02:09:39,440
Speaker 5: like your mother. That's awesome. That's that's that's the kind

2590
02:09:39,480 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 5: of parandim.

2591
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 21: Wait where are you from North Carolina?

2592
02:09:43,600 --> 02:09:45,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's a men. I live in the city.

2593
02:09:46,520 --> 02:09:49,080
Speaker 7: I live in the city now that she was, she's

2594
02:09:49,080 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 7: from and she went to school where I was in Greensboro.

2595
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:56,200
Speaker 5: So that's that's that's what's up. So this is.

2596
02:09:56,120 --> 02:10:01,080
Speaker 7: Going on six years and six years? What keep y'all in?

2597
02:10:02,360 --> 02:10:04,160
Speaker 7: This seems to be a recurring thing. Who else were

2598
02:10:04,160 --> 02:10:06,480
Speaker 7: talking to? Guess he was talking about how they kind

2599
02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:10,480
Speaker 7: of kept their day job until it was mom it

2600
02:10:10,520 --> 02:10:13,120
Speaker 7: was a moment another DJ. He was saying that, So

2601
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:17,480
Speaker 7: when do you, guys, do you ever feel that you

2602
02:10:17,520 --> 02:10:20,920
Speaker 7: will one day say, okay, grits and biscuits one hundred percent,

2603
02:10:21,080 --> 02:10:23,839
Speaker 7: I'm leaving my day job. I'm leaving philosophy these kids.

2604
02:10:25,760 --> 02:10:29,680
Speaker 7: Do you ever do you ever feel that one day

2605
02:10:30,880 --> 02:10:32,760
Speaker 7: that one day y'all would just make the full leap

2606
02:10:32,840 --> 02:10:35,840
Speaker 7: into doing Christ and biscuits one hundred.

2607
02:10:36,480 --> 02:10:37,720
Speaker 5: That is the question.

2608
02:10:38,320 --> 02:10:39,560
Speaker 9: I don't know the job.

2609
02:10:40,640 --> 02:10:46,360
Speaker 7: I know, good job, I mean with benefits. Oh I

2610
02:10:46,360 --> 02:10:48,160
Speaker 7: got I got a cavity. I can go handle that.

2611
02:10:50,280 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 26: Yeah, I think I think if like it have to,

2612
02:10:52,280 --> 02:10:55,480
Speaker 26: we we expanded to something beyond grits and biscuits, because

2613
02:10:55,640 --> 02:10:57,680
Speaker 26: you know, to leave your job to just be a

2614
02:10:57,720 --> 02:11:00,560
Speaker 26: party promoter, that's not that's not how was raised.

2615
02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:05,760
Speaker 5: Real shit, that's really fun. Yeah.

2616
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:09,760
Speaker 7: I was surprised because when I found out that you

2617
02:11:09,960 --> 02:11:12,400
Speaker 7: that you still do all this and still do a job.

2618
02:11:12,480 --> 02:11:16,000
Speaker 7: I mean, how do y'all find time for yourself? Like

2619
02:11:16,160 --> 02:11:17,880
Speaker 7: is there any personal time?

2620
02:11:18,960 --> 02:11:22,480
Speaker 5: Right? She was like, what is that? That's my job?

2621
02:11:22,560 --> 02:11:24,200
Speaker 27: Is kind of cool with it. They kind of see

2622
02:11:24,200 --> 02:11:26,120
Speaker 27: it as like an add on to like what I do.

2623
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:28,560
Speaker 27: Gotcha is like you know when we when we throw

2624
02:11:28,600 --> 02:11:32,160
Speaker 27: on parties or doing stuff, it kind of gives me

2625
02:11:32,320 --> 02:11:34,680
Speaker 27: a name or a leverage when I'm talking to artists,

2626
02:11:34,720 --> 02:11:37,520
Speaker 27: like like I know how to sell out a venue

2627
02:11:37,640 --> 02:11:40,200
Speaker 27: because this is what we do with grits and biscuits.

2628
02:11:40,240 --> 02:11:41,840
Speaker 27: I know how to put on the performance because that's

2629
02:11:41,840 --> 02:11:43,120
Speaker 27: what we do with grits and biscuits. So when I

2630
02:11:43,160 --> 02:11:45,640
Speaker 27: talk to artists, they kind of see me as someone

2631
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:47,840
Speaker 27: who has the knowledge already to kind of tell them

2632
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:49,840
Speaker 27: nothing like a player coach type of thing.

2633
02:11:49,880 --> 02:11:51,520
Speaker 5: Totally totally what about your Erica?

2634
02:11:53,200 --> 02:11:55,600
Speaker 21: No, I mean, I definitely think the job I'm in now,

2635
02:11:55,680 --> 02:11:57,280
Speaker 21: I made it very clear from the beginning that this

2636
02:11:57,320 --> 02:11:59,320
Speaker 21: is what I do on the side, so they've been

2637
02:11:59,400 --> 02:12:04,000
Speaker 21: very understand I think, Yeah, I mean, it hasn't been

2638
02:12:04,400 --> 02:12:06,320
Speaker 21: as far as finding balance. I mean, you just have

2639
02:12:06,360 --> 02:12:09,240
Speaker 21: to force yourself to do it, you know, and sometimes

2640
02:12:09,240 --> 02:12:11,640
Speaker 21: it's you know, not going to be able to make

2641
02:12:11,680 --> 02:12:14,680
Speaker 21: every show. I mean, this is kind of a new

2642
02:12:14,720 --> 02:12:17,800
Speaker 21: reality as we continue to grow, and it's something that

2643
02:12:17,840 --> 02:12:20,400
Speaker 21: we haven't talked about before. But for me, like the

2644
02:12:20,480 --> 02:12:22,880
Speaker 21: role I play, I'm very much behind the scenes, and

2645
02:12:22,960 --> 02:12:25,840
Speaker 21: so if someone else is in my place, then I

2646
02:12:25,840 --> 02:12:27,840
Speaker 21: mean that may just have how it may have to

2647
02:12:27,880 --> 02:12:28,280
Speaker 21: play out.

2648
02:12:28,480 --> 02:12:30,400
Speaker 9: And then you know, the other times.

2649
02:12:30,200 --> 02:12:33,320
Speaker 21: It's just like we are very you know, deliberate and

2650
02:12:33,400 --> 02:12:35,480
Speaker 21: like blocking out time. Like we have a calendar and

2651
02:12:35,520 --> 02:12:38,320
Speaker 21: if someone's like, I am not available for this week,

2652
02:12:38,680 --> 02:12:41,080
Speaker 21: and we don't schedule anything for that week because that

2653
02:12:41,120 --> 02:12:42,120
Speaker 21: person needs their time.

2654
02:12:42,240 --> 02:12:44,800
Speaker 7: So we y'all might need to give some lessons to

2655
02:12:44,880 --> 02:12:46,040
Speaker 7: quest Love support.

2656
02:12:47,640 --> 02:12:48,240
Speaker 5: Organization.

2657
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:52,680
Speaker 3: They don't have as many jobs, well has a lot

2658
02:12:52,720 --> 02:12:53,080
Speaker 3: of jobs.

2659
02:12:53,120 --> 02:12:55,520
Speaker 5: I wonder what my employer thinks about what I do here?

2660
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:58,640
Speaker 7: Man, Yeah, Okay, Bill Sean works for Sesame Street.

2661
02:12:58,680 --> 02:13:02,280
Speaker 5: He does.

2662
02:13:02,520 --> 02:13:05,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so he goes from el Mo to put

2663
02:13:05,640 --> 02:13:06,160
Speaker 7: it in your mouth.

2664
02:13:09,800 --> 02:13:11,360
Speaker 5: So what about you? What about you?

2665
02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:13,640
Speaker 26: You think you know? Well, I don't. I don't have

2666
02:13:13,680 --> 02:13:16,720
Speaker 26: a full time job. So like I'm a freelance photographer.

2667
02:13:16,800 --> 02:13:19,120
Speaker 26: I'm an adjunct professor. I just teach once a week.

2668
02:13:19,280 --> 02:13:23,400
Speaker 26: I hadn't really worked for anybody since I was twenty four.

2669
02:13:23,800 --> 02:13:26,440
Speaker 26: Twenty yeah, so I realized a long time ago that

2670
02:13:26,560 --> 02:13:29,240
Speaker 26: I don't make a good employee. I don't like people

2671
02:13:29,240 --> 02:13:30,560
Speaker 26: telling me what to do, so I have to figure

2672
02:13:30,600 --> 02:13:32,960
Speaker 26: out on my own. And so like I think, you know,

2673
02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:36,920
Speaker 26: in terms of balance, like these these guys like they

2674
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:39,360
Speaker 26: figured it out like out of balance. And for me,

2675
02:13:40,520 --> 02:13:43,680
Speaker 26: it's just about negotiating the relationship between all of the

2676
02:13:43,720 --> 02:13:44,760
Speaker 26: different things that I do.

2677
02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:45,280
Speaker 5: You know.

2678
02:13:45,360 --> 02:13:48,680
Speaker 26: So if I'm teaching, I teach every Thursday, so you know,

2679
02:13:48,760 --> 02:13:50,440
Speaker 26: if it's a party on Thursday night, we got to

2680
02:13:50,440 --> 02:13:52,120
Speaker 26: get to as soon as I finish class, I want

2681
02:13:52,120 --> 02:13:55,080
Speaker 26: a plane. And it's interesting how like sometimes my students

2682
02:13:55,400 --> 02:13:57,560
Speaker 26: think they figured out a secret, like, oh, we know

2683
02:13:57,680 --> 02:14:00,560
Speaker 26: that you throw parties. I'm like, can we come, Sure,

2684
02:14:00,560 --> 02:14:02,680
Speaker 26: you can come, but just know that your paper on

2685
02:14:03,120 --> 02:14:06,600
Speaker 26: emanual con will be due next Thursday morning. You know

2686
02:14:06,640 --> 02:14:08,080
Speaker 26: what I'm saying, That's what's up.

2687
02:14:09,120 --> 02:14:10,760
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, what I was just gonna say.

2688
02:14:10,760 --> 02:14:12,360
Speaker 3: It's interesting because you said I hop on a plane

2689
02:14:12,480 --> 02:14:15,080
Speaker 3: and y'all are on another level. Y'all aren't just party

2690
02:14:15,120 --> 02:14:18,320
Speaker 3: promoters like y'all take this around the country, right, Yeah,

2691
02:14:18,640 --> 02:14:20,680
Speaker 3: And so at this point where of some of the

2692
02:14:20,720 --> 02:14:23,520
Speaker 3: cities that y'all touched with Grits and Briskets.

2693
02:14:23,720 --> 02:14:28,720
Speaker 26: La, Chicago, d C, Detroit, Philly, Houston, Atlanta. We're going

2694
02:14:28,760 --> 02:14:32,640
Speaker 26: to the Bay Area this year or next year, Charlotte,

2695
02:14:32,680 --> 02:14:35,560
Speaker 26: Greensboro Movement done.

2696
02:14:36,000 --> 02:14:37,840
Speaker 7: Have you done overseas? Have you been out of the

2697
02:14:37,840 --> 02:14:38,520
Speaker 7: country to.

2698
02:14:38,520 --> 02:14:40,640
Speaker 5: Go for next for twenty seventeen?

2699
02:14:40,800 --> 02:14:43,240
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, Yeah, it's one of the things. I think

2700
02:14:43,280 --> 02:14:46,400
Speaker 7: it's dope when I go to the parties I've been to.

2701
02:14:46,640 --> 02:14:48,840
Speaker 7: I've been looking enough to catch the party in a.

2702
02:14:48,520 --> 02:14:49,480
Speaker 5: Few different cities.

2703
02:14:49,840 --> 02:14:53,360
Speaker 7: And the guy was he when I was at the

2704
02:14:53,400 --> 02:14:55,840
Speaker 7: show Charlotte, when I saw you guys in Charlotte a

2705
02:14:55,880 --> 02:14:57,880
Speaker 7: couple of weeks ago, and when my homies he was like, Yo,

2706
02:14:57,920 --> 02:14:59,560
Speaker 7: this show is crazy, and I was like, Yo, man,

2707
02:14:59,720 --> 02:15:06,760
Speaker 7: this this is crazy. Chicago House of blue nothing.

2708
02:15:06,920 --> 02:15:08,560
Speaker 5: And the thing about it is like I was.

2709
02:15:08,680 --> 02:15:12,280
Speaker 27: Lost my mind in the Yeah, I literally lost it

2710
02:15:12,400 --> 02:15:14,200
Speaker 27: was bad. It was I had to be taking off

2711
02:15:14,280 --> 02:15:17,400
Speaker 27: the I literally lost my mind.

2712
02:15:17,920 --> 02:15:19,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I turned into big Brother that moment.

2713
02:15:19,760 --> 02:15:24,000
Speaker 2: I was yeah, Yeah, that might have been the one

2714
02:15:24,040 --> 02:15:24,480
Speaker 2: you were there.

2715
02:15:24,760 --> 02:15:25,400
Speaker 5: It might have been.

2716
02:15:25,400 --> 02:15:26,000
Speaker 9: It might have been.

2717
02:15:27,160 --> 02:15:29,480
Speaker 7: The party was So they did two nights the House

2718
02:15:29,480 --> 02:15:31,080
Speaker 7: of Blues, and I want to say maybe I was

2719
02:15:31,240 --> 02:15:33,160
Speaker 7: the second night. I can't remember the second night. It

2720
02:15:33,200 --> 02:15:35,840
Speaker 7: was the second night, So this is total. I mean,

2721
02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:38,680
Speaker 7: it was a pandemonium. And the thing that's so interesting

2722
02:15:38,680 --> 02:15:41,160
Speaker 7: about it is that how when you play the records

2723
02:15:41,200 --> 02:15:43,640
Speaker 7: in the South like a Charlotte, like people are having fun,

2724
02:15:43,640 --> 02:15:47,840
Speaker 7: But it seems like the records get an even bigger response.

2725
02:15:47,560 --> 02:15:52,080
Speaker 5: Outside of the South because all the time, all the time,

2726
02:15:52,120 --> 02:15:55,440
Speaker 5: and all the transplants. Yeah, right, right, right, right right, yes,

2727
02:15:55,600 --> 02:15:57,600
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean the Chicago was retarded.

2728
02:15:57,920 --> 02:16:01,800
Speaker 7: One particular joint that I want to talk about because

2729
02:16:01,800 --> 02:16:05,160
Speaker 7: I feel that y'all are single handedly responsible for reviving

2730
02:16:05,760 --> 02:16:08,560
Speaker 7: this song. And I wonder if the people who made it,

2731
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:12,040
Speaker 7: if God, I can't remember the name, but the song Swagsurfing.

2732
02:16:13,200 --> 02:16:19,360
Speaker 7: It was the group's name. Fly Fly Fly Fly, swag Surfing.

2733
02:16:19,520 --> 02:16:21,800
Speaker 7: This was a song that it was. This was a

2734
02:16:21,840 --> 02:16:24,040
Speaker 7: song that came out in the height of what I

2735
02:16:24,040 --> 02:16:25,600
Speaker 7: would kind of call like.

2736
02:16:25,560 --> 02:16:27,240
Speaker 5: The ring Tone era.

2737
02:16:27,640 --> 02:16:31,560
Speaker 7: So this is like, oh my god, yeah, oh six

2738
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:33,960
Speaker 7: right as I dropped an album called The Minstter Show.

2739
02:16:35,480 --> 02:16:39,440
Speaker 7: But right right, perfect timing and terrible time at the

2740
02:16:39,440 --> 02:16:41,920
Speaker 7: same time. But nah, man, it was a guy like

2741
02:16:41,959 --> 02:16:43,720
Speaker 7: shop Boy. It's probably like a rock star. And just

2742
02:16:43,760 --> 02:16:46,520
Speaker 7: like all these records that were at the time, Defour

2743
02:16:46,640 --> 02:16:49,120
Speaker 7: l Laughing Taffy, all those records, and so these were

2744
02:16:49,600 --> 02:16:51,959
Speaker 7: records that were used, I mean in a lot of

2745
02:16:51,959 --> 02:16:54,720
Speaker 7: ways that they sold Ringtones when Ringtones were hot.

2746
02:16:54,760 --> 02:16:56,000
Speaker 5: I mean that was the thing.

2747
02:16:55,879 --> 02:16:57,600
Speaker 7: I remember La was telling us like, yo, y'all need

2748
02:16:57,600 --> 02:16:59,200
Speaker 7: a song. We can sell some Ringtones for it. I

2749
02:16:59,200 --> 02:17:03,560
Speaker 7: remember that. But anyway, this song swag Surfing, y'all have

2750
02:17:03,720 --> 02:17:08,000
Speaker 7: like reignited that song. And so swag Surfing for the

2751
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:11,160
Speaker 7: people who have never been to Biscuits party, that is

2752
02:17:11,280 --> 02:17:15,560
Speaker 7: like the come to Jesus moment of biscuits.

2753
02:17:15,680 --> 02:17:18,280
Speaker 5: We all come together as a family.

2754
02:17:19,000 --> 02:17:20,600
Speaker 7: I want you all to talk about it, like tell

2755
02:17:20,640 --> 02:17:24,600
Speaker 7: them like the essence of the swag surf, Like take

2756
02:17:24,680 --> 02:17:25,240
Speaker 7: us there.

2757
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:30,959
Speaker 5: Now you yea. And also this he is on the mic,

2758
02:17:31,000 --> 02:17:42,640
Speaker 5: and this is like he is so right, he makes

2759
02:17:42,680 --> 02:17:43,160
Speaker 5: you feel.

2760
02:17:45,800 --> 02:17:48,720
Speaker 26: So we all have different roles, right and that and

2761
02:17:48,840 --> 02:17:51,160
Speaker 26: uh so this is how we say it. So my

2762
02:17:51,240 --> 02:17:53,240
Speaker 26: reason that was what to play. I know what to say,

2763
02:17:53,280 --> 02:17:56,360
Speaker 26: and Erica knows who to pay right, that is so

2764
02:17:56,640 --> 02:17:59,279
Speaker 26: and so on the the in the parties, my brothers

2765
02:17:59,280 --> 02:18:02,320
Speaker 26: obviously play, you know, spinning the records, and I'm on

2766
02:18:02,360 --> 02:18:03,920
Speaker 26: the mic just to make sure the crowd is where

2767
02:18:03,959 --> 02:18:06,240
Speaker 26: they need to be, creating a certain energy that we

2768
02:18:06,400 --> 02:18:09,400
Speaker 26: like to think is hospitable. But like the swag surf

2769
02:18:09,560 --> 02:18:12,840
Speaker 26: is one of those things where it's the epitome of

2770
02:18:13,680 --> 02:18:16,600
Speaker 26: the energy of our party that we want to create

2771
02:18:16,680 --> 02:18:17,320
Speaker 26: and maintain.

2772
02:18:17,520 --> 02:18:18,879
Speaker 5: Right, So we we.

2773
02:18:18,840 --> 02:18:20,440
Speaker 26: Don't care, like we say, we don't care if you

2774
02:18:20,480 --> 02:18:22,360
Speaker 26: bow legg is, slew foot of a pigeon. Told, we

2775
02:18:22,400 --> 02:18:24,920
Speaker 26: don't care if you talk short, gaze, straight, fat ugly,

2776
02:18:25,040 --> 02:18:26,920
Speaker 26: It doesn't matter. Like if you come to have a

2777
02:18:26,959 --> 02:18:29,600
Speaker 26: good time, you in the right place. And so you

2778
02:18:29,640 --> 02:18:33,000
Speaker 26: could be standing next to somebody you don't even know, right,

2779
02:18:33,040 --> 02:18:34,879
Speaker 26: and we ask you to put your arms out and

2780
02:18:34,879 --> 02:18:37,160
Speaker 26: you put your arms around on people and then once

2781
02:18:37,200 --> 02:18:39,920
Speaker 26: my brother drops the track, we start swaying from side

2782
02:18:39,959 --> 02:18:42,360
Speaker 26: to side. Right, we start swinging from side to side,

2783
02:18:42,440 --> 02:18:44,920
Speaker 26: and then right before the beat drops, we just got

2784
02:18:44,920 --> 02:18:47,280
Speaker 26: to let everybody know to get your motherfucking hands up.

2785
02:18:52,080 --> 02:18:56,160
Speaker 5: And it's not a request, a demand. Yeah.

2786
02:18:56,200 --> 02:18:58,160
Speaker 7: Every time, like I've seen, I've seen it, you know,

2787
02:18:58,360 --> 02:19:00,600
Speaker 7: in a few different places, and every every time, the

2788
02:19:00,800 --> 02:19:03,119
Speaker 7: energy is just through the fucking group. And the thing

2789
02:19:03,160 --> 02:19:06,959
Speaker 7: that's so dope about it, man, is like, well, for

2790
02:19:07,040 --> 02:19:09,920
Speaker 7: one thing, white people, our listeners, I need y'all to

2791
02:19:09,920 --> 02:19:13,200
Speaker 7: stop butchering the swag surf. I was watching something on

2792
02:19:13,440 --> 02:19:16,640
Speaker 7: It was some white university. It was a huge they

2793
02:19:16,640 --> 02:19:19,240
Speaker 7: were doing it. They tried the swag surf and it

2794
02:19:19,480 --> 02:19:21,920
Speaker 7: just there was no swag or surf at all.

2795
02:19:22,240 --> 02:19:22,520
Speaker 5: It was.

2796
02:19:22,560 --> 02:19:31,280
Speaker 7: It was totally swag, body board, swag kayak but no,

2797
02:19:31,440 --> 02:19:31,640
Speaker 7: it was.

2798
02:19:31,680 --> 02:19:33,200
Speaker 5: It was so bad. But now you guys have.

2799
02:19:33,840 --> 02:19:37,000
Speaker 7: Just created a brand that is you know, coming from

2800
02:19:37,080 --> 02:19:39,480
Speaker 7: you know HBCU. I mean we joking, joke, but uh,

2801
02:19:39,760 --> 02:19:42,160
Speaker 7: just to see three of you guys from a fellow

2802
02:19:42,280 --> 02:19:45,480
Speaker 7: HBCUH attendees, just the stuff that y'all are doing, I

2803
02:19:45,520 --> 02:19:46,800
Speaker 7: just applaud you guys man, and just.

2804
02:19:46,760 --> 02:19:48,440
Speaker 21: Thank out so much.

2805
02:19:48,480 --> 02:19:50,600
Speaker 7: The party is a great time. If they're ever in

2806
02:19:50,680 --> 02:19:54,440
Speaker 7: your city, go like go. And I was seeing clips.

2807
02:19:54,520 --> 02:19:56,200
Speaker 7: We was in here working, so I couldn't even come

2808
02:19:56,240 --> 02:19:58,480
Speaker 7: out there to get my swagsurf on.

2809
02:19:58,920 --> 02:19:59,959
Speaker 5: But did.

2810
02:20:01,440 --> 02:20:05,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw someone g I saw some of the

2811
02:20:05,600 --> 02:20:15,360
Speaker 7: videos was going down. So so now, man, ladies, gentlemen, man,

2812
02:20:15,520 --> 02:20:19,720
Speaker 7: this has been an incredible uh two day affair of

2813
02:20:19,800 --> 02:20:26,880
Speaker 7: quest Love Supreme fantee of myself lovely ea uh boss

2814
02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:29,720
Speaker 7: Bill unpaid Bill Scott yeo up in here.

2815
02:20:29,760 --> 02:20:32,120
Speaker 5: And also I must it's never gonna not make me laugh.

2816
02:20:34,320 --> 02:20:37,400
Speaker 7: And also in the background we got Chilling, the mother

2817
02:20:37,680 --> 02:20:39,600
Speaker 7: of this whole movie. We must, I mean, we must

2818
02:20:39,600 --> 02:20:43,200
Speaker 7: shot her out because she has been responsible in many

2819
02:20:43,200 --> 02:20:46,960
Speaker 7: ways for bringing us all together with the like okay

2820
02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:54,200
Speaker 7: player Angela, yeah, how many it's like six e's at

2821
02:20:54,200 --> 02:20:56,520
Speaker 7: the end of that the screen.

2822
02:20:57,080 --> 02:20:57,880
Speaker 5: She's laughing right now.

2823
02:20:58,640 --> 02:21:00,960
Speaker 7: You knew, I knew, Like, okay, let me explain it. Okay,

2824
02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:02,600
Speaker 7: So all the people out there and listen were okay.

2825
02:21:02,640 --> 02:21:06,760
Speaker 7: So so you know on social media now, when you

2826
02:21:06,840 --> 02:21:08,840
Speaker 7: get if you're on Twitter and you get like the

2827
02:21:08,840 --> 02:21:11,400
Speaker 7: blue check, that's like you were verified.

2828
02:21:11,480 --> 02:21:13,680
Speaker 5: Like that's like, okay, you're the fucking man.

2829
02:21:13,959 --> 02:21:18,840
Speaker 7: Right before the verification, there was Okay Player, and there

2830
02:21:18,920 --> 02:21:22,119
Speaker 7: was the okay that was beside your screen. Now when

2831
02:21:22,200 --> 02:21:24,760
Speaker 7: you got the okay, like I was tay gravy, I'm

2832
02:21:24,800 --> 02:21:26,800
Speaker 7: still take gravy, Okay player, and like.

2833
02:21:26,760 --> 02:21:27,600
Speaker 5: I'm take gravy.

2834
02:21:27,600 --> 02:21:29,400
Speaker 7: And it was like, all right, whatever, I'm take gravy.

2835
02:21:29,480 --> 02:21:33,000
Speaker 7: When I became take gravy. Okay, you made it?

2836
02:21:33,360 --> 02:21:34,040
Speaker 4: What yo?

2837
02:21:34,640 --> 02:21:34,760
Speaker 5: What?

2838
02:21:35,120 --> 02:21:36,200
Speaker 2: I still don't know the criteria.

2839
02:21:36,520 --> 02:21:41,440
Speaker 7: Okay, we can't talk about it as part of our

2840
02:21:41,480 --> 02:21:42,920
Speaker 7: Illuminati package.

2841
02:21:43,480 --> 02:21:46,160
Speaker 5: But it was part of it. Was we can't you

2842
02:21:46,200 --> 02:21:47,320
Speaker 5: can't speak on none of that.

2843
02:21:47,879 --> 02:21:48,120
Speaker 18: It was.

2844
02:21:48,200 --> 02:21:50,480
Speaker 5: It was a part of our Illuminati NDA that we

2845
02:21:50,520 --> 02:21:51,000
Speaker 5: had to sign.

2846
02:21:51,080 --> 02:21:56,279
Speaker 7: But okay, but but nah man. Shout out to Angie

2847
02:21:56,440 --> 02:21:58,920
Speaker 7: Okay player for bringing us all together. It has been

2848
02:21:58,959 --> 02:22:03,320
Speaker 7: an incredible and fellas, ladies and gents, I start to

2849
02:22:03,320 --> 02:22:07,280
Speaker 7: my left with lovely, what have you learned?

2850
02:22:07,280 --> 02:22:09,280
Speaker 5: What do we learn this over this two day period?

2851
02:22:10,240 --> 02:22:12,320
Speaker 5: Picnicas work?

2852
02:22:12,560 --> 02:22:13,480
Speaker 2: That's what I have learned.

2853
02:22:13,520 --> 02:22:14,959
Speaker 3: I have learned that as much as I like to

2854
02:22:15,000 --> 02:22:18,400
Speaker 3: tease our boss and you know, leader Fearless, Leader re quest.

2855
02:22:18,200 --> 02:22:20,199
Speaker 20: Love, that nigga works hard.

2856
02:22:23,040 --> 02:22:26,520
Speaker 2: And I don't know what kind of vitamins you know

2857
02:22:26,680 --> 02:22:29,040
Speaker 2: he takes. But it's good. It's got to be something

2858
02:22:29,040 --> 02:22:29,879
Speaker 2: he's keeping from us.

2859
02:22:29,920 --> 02:22:32,160
Speaker 5: Cocaine. It's got to be something.

2860
02:22:32,200 --> 02:22:33,720
Speaker 2: But I wish that he took drugs.

2861
02:22:33,800 --> 02:22:38,400
Speaker 14: I really don't know what the man is. Superhuman. He's

2862
02:22:38,440 --> 02:22:38,720
Speaker 14: got to be.

2863
02:22:39,440 --> 02:22:40,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's all I'm saying.

2864
02:22:40,480 --> 02:22:42,400
Speaker 3: And I've learned that I can be in a room

2865
02:22:42,400 --> 02:22:45,320
Speaker 3: with y'all for over eight hours, and especially you know,

2866
02:22:46,080 --> 02:22:48,240
Speaker 3: I paid bill here ship.

2867
02:22:50,240 --> 02:22:52,920
Speaker 5: You liked it the whole time next to me? Stop,

2868
02:22:53,080 --> 02:22:56,960
Speaker 5: I think that, like what well you said you liked

2869
02:22:57,000 --> 02:22:57,560
Speaker 5: it the whole time.

2870
02:22:57,600 --> 02:22:59,520
Speaker 7: That and like you were talking about being trapped in

2871
02:22:59,560 --> 02:22:59,959
Speaker 7: a room.

2872
02:22:59,800 --> 02:23:03,720
Speaker 5: With that sounds bad? Yeah, that sound I'm sure that

2873
02:23:03,800 --> 02:23:05,680
Speaker 5: was like the same thing that Rick James said to

2874
02:23:05,760 --> 02:23:11,199
Speaker 5: that girl. You know what, maybe it's like an episode

2875
02:23:11,200 --> 02:23:15,440
Speaker 5: of Breaking Bad. So I want unpaid bill. What have

2876
02:23:15,520 --> 02:23:19,400
Speaker 5: you learned? Brother? Days? Man, I've had to really surreal

2877
02:23:19,480 --> 02:23:20,280
Speaker 5: fucking days man.

2878
02:23:20,600 --> 02:23:25,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, so your whole phase updated? Yeah, yes, apparently

2879
02:23:25,680 --> 02:23:26,680
Speaker 7: something went down last night.

2880
02:23:26,800 --> 02:23:27,600
Speaker 5: I went down last night.

2881
02:23:29,680 --> 02:23:30,080
Speaker 4: He wasn't.

2882
02:23:33,240 --> 02:23:38,440
Speaker 5: I you know, Uh, everything is good. That's how you're

2883
02:23:38,440 --> 02:23:39,039
Speaker 5: supposed to do it.

2884
02:23:39,040 --> 02:23:43,840
Speaker 14: That's how you're supposed to do.

2885
02:23:41,840 --> 02:23:43,560
Speaker 5: Don't leave me hanging over there. I'm sorry, I didn't

2886
02:23:43,600 --> 02:23:45,280
Speaker 5: see that I was laughing and I closed my eyes

2887
02:23:45,320 --> 02:23:46,280
Speaker 5: that I was supposed to do it.

2888
02:23:46,440 --> 02:23:48,080
Speaker 3: Can you at least tell your wool story, because it

2889
02:23:48,120 --> 02:23:50,640
Speaker 3: was funny.

2890
02:23:50,720 --> 02:23:52,320
Speaker 5: Oh my wool story? Okay, all right.

2891
02:23:53,440 --> 02:23:55,760
Speaker 24: So so the Wu Tank Plan are playing at the

2892
02:23:55,840 --> 02:23:57,560
Speaker 24: Ruth picnic, and so I went to the rehearsal today

2893
02:23:57,720 --> 02:24:00,280
Speaker 24: because I had some time to kill between the end

2894
02:24:00,320 --> 02:24:02,279
Speaker 24: of my whole phase in the beginning of the afternoon

2895
02:24:02,320 --> 02:24:06,080
Speaker 24: exactly if you will, just for just understand time in

2896
02:24:06,080 --> 02:24:08,520
Speaker 24: relation to me, all right. So I got into the

2897
02:24:08,560 --> 02:24:11,280
Speaker 24: WU thing, and I was there, and they were all there.

2898
02:24:11,320 --> 02:24:13,280
Speaker 24: But there's you know how many guys, There's nine of

2899
02:24:13,320 --> 02:24:15,000
Speaker 24: them or eight of them, right, and there was like

2900
02:24:15,120 --> 02:24:18,680
Speaker 24: forty people there, forty other dudes with like shoolin woo

2901
02:24:18,680 --> 02:24:21,440
Speaker 24: shit happening. And I fit right in, as I off

2902
02:24:21,480 --> 02:24:24,400
Speaker 24: do in these situations. Clearly, I'm a plaid. So I

2903
02:24:24,440 --> 02:24:29,000
Speaker 24: sat there for a while. So I sitting there with Steve,

2904
02:24:29,280 --> 02:24:31,920
Speaker 24: and and all of a sudden they're getting the songs together.

2905
02:24:31,920 --> 02:24:34,039
Speaker 24: So Rizza gets up and he starts to rap, and

2906
02:24:34,040 --> 02:24:35,800
Speaker 24: then and then a few of the guys get up

2907
02:24:35,959 --> 02:24:38,000
Speaker 24: to do whatever song they were doing.

2908
02:24:38,200 --> 02:24:40,039
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, two of them.

2909
02:24:39,760 --> 02:24:42,760
Speaker 24: Are set up a chess board and just start playing chess,

2910
02:24:42,800 --> 02:24:44,640
Speaker 24: like that's what you do during rehearsal. That's what you

2911
02:24:44,640 --> 02:24:47,840
Speaker 24: do during rehearsal, absolutely every time. So and I thought like,

2912
02:24:47,840 --> 02:24:49,520
Speaker 24: oh man, they're gonna get up and like get on stage,

2913
02:24:49,560 --> 02:24:52,040
Speaker 24: because that's what you do in rehearsal. But lo and behold,

2914
02:24:52,080 --> 02:24:54,000
Speaker 24: it got to like Jesus verse and he was playing chess,

2915
02:24:54,040 --> 02:24:56,520
Speaker 24: and he just rapped while he was playing chess. He

2916
02:24:56,600 --> 02:25:00,080
Speaker 24: was like, chess move, Chess move. And I was like,

2917
02:25:00,120 --> 02:25:02,480
Speaker 24: that's the most surreal thing I've seen in a really

2918
02:25:02,480 --> 02:25:02,920
Speaker 24: long time.

2919
02:25:03,080 --> 02:25:04,840
Speaker 5: They didn't have to get up. Oh and there was

2920
02:25:04,879 --> 02:25:07,720
Speaker 5: a teleprompter because you know, they forgot all that. They thought.

2921
02:25:07,920 --> 02:25:09,440
Speaker 24: They thought it was the funniest thing ever, because they

2922
02:25:09,440 --> 02:25:11,640
Speaker 24: don't when those kind of words are written on it

2923
02:25:11,720 --> 02:25:13,240
Speaker 24: tell it was very very funny to them.

2924
02:25:13,280 --> 02:25:16,320
Speaker 7: Wowverybody else shout out to the making chess moves and

2925
02:25:16,400 --> 02:25:18,000
Speaker 7: rap moves at the same time.

2926
02:25:17,840 --> 02:25:20,760
Speaker 5: Simultaneously happened such a big catalog.

2927
02:25:20,800 --> 02:25:23,879
Speaker 24: You got the mystery of chess wrapping it was and

2928
02:25:23,920 --> 02:25:25,800
Speaker 24: then and then Steve tried to make a joke about

2929
02:25:25,840 --> 02:25:28,480
Speaker 24: Bobby Fisher, but he called them Bobby Fisher Stein or

2930
02:25:28,480 --> 02:25:30,280
Speaker 24: something like that, and so then the joke fell on

2931
02:25:30,320 --> 02:25:33,200
Speaker 24: his face. That's Steve, Steve screwed up a joke, Yes,

2932
02:25:33,240 --> 02:25:35,280
Speaker 24: Steve not geting jokes man, it's the weed, it's the

2933
02:25:35,320 --> 02:25:40,440
Speaker 24: West that it doesn't it doesn't work for him.

2934
02:25:40,520 --> 02:25:43,560
Speaker 5: So anyway, Scotty, what did you learn?

2935
02:25:43,800 --> 02:25:44,280
Speaker 15: Must have learned?

2936
02:25:44,560 --> 02:25:48,840
Speaker 14: Okay, man, And we're not talking about the QLs after

2937
02:25:48,920 --> 02:25:52,680
Speaker 14: Dark session. The conversations which I missed.

2938
02:25:53,360 --> 02:25:55,880
Speaker 5: QULS after Dot was so real. It was so real.

2939
02:25:55,959 --> 02:25:57,520
Speaker 5: What makes that its own radio show? Yeah?

2940
02:25:57,840 --> 02:26:03,880
Speaker 7: Ql S fe Q Talk's like, yeah, who's been offs?

2941
02:26:04,560 --> 02:26:05,320
Speaker 5: A couple of things.

2942
02:26:05,360 --> 02:26:07,840
Speaker 28: One, the roots are really creative when they need to

2943
02:26:07,959 --> 02:26:08,879
Speaker 28: stall for time.

2944
02:26:10,920 --> 02:26:14,520
Speaker 5: Story. Yes, yes, Chappelle loved that five minutes. I'm sure

2945
02:26:14,560 --> 02:26:17,039
Speaker 5: he did. He looked very enthus to be up there.

2946
02:26:17,040 --> 02:26:17,920
Speaker 2: That forget about.

2947
02:26:19,080 --> 02:26:21,800
Speaker 7: Oh yeah we had Rosel got fa noise. That was

2948
02:26:22,200 --> 02:26:25,560
Speaker 7: seeing Rosell in a long time. Yeah, shut up, you know,

2949
02:26:25,640 --> 02:26:27,080
Speaker 7: I'm just saying that was one the first time seeing

2950
02:26:27,120 --> 02:26:27,720
Speaker 7: him in a long time.

2951
02:26:27,720 --> 02:26:30,879
Speaker 14: I see him there was Yeah, you missed it.

2952
02:26:31,200 --> 02:26:32,000
Speaker 5: Rose showed up.

2953
02:26:32,120 --> 02:26:37,400
Speaker 7: We know, Oh he was whole fas I know, he

2954
02:26:37,480 --> 02:26:40,360
Speaker 7: was whole phasing, but it was he was old phasing.

2955
02:26:40,400 --> 02:26:42,760
Speaker 7: But Roselle showed up and did his thing.

2956
02:26:44,280 --> 02:26:47,760
Speaker 5: What else? The biggest thing I learned is that.

2957
02:26:49,320 --> 02:26:51,840
Speaker 28: I had a really good time spending time with you guys,

2958
02:26:51,920 --> 02:26:55,080
Speaker 28: especially this whole weekend. And what people may or may

2959
02:26:55,120 --> 02:26:57,160
Speaker 28: not know is doing a radio show is really hard,

2960
02:26:57,240 --> 02:26:58,640
Speaker 28: and you guys make it look easy.

2961
02:26:58,720 --> 02:27:01,800
Speaker 5: So I think you guys all just thank you, thank you,

2962
02:27:01,800 --> 02:27:02,080
Speaker 5: thank you.

2963
02:27:03,080 --> 02:27:09,920
Speaker 24: I just think three months ago we had no idea dance.

2964
02:27:10,440 --> 02:27:16,080
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he can also teach dance. You need to

2965
02:27:16,120 --> 02:27:20,959
Speaker 5: check the QLs instagram seven eight and ship time was

2966
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:22,160
Speaker 5: impressed you.

2967
02:27:22,160 --> 02:27:24,000
Speaker 14: You guys will need to check the QLs instagram and

2968
02:27:24,120 --> 02:27:29,520
Speaker 14: see the video of Fonticelo and stepping in the name

2969
02:27:29,560 --> 02:27:30,199
Speaker 14: of Questlove.

2970
02:27:30,320 --> 02:27:33,240
Speaker 1: In the name of Questlove, people filming it, we have

2971
02:27:33,280 --> 02:27:34,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of together.

2972
02:27:36,080 --> 02:27:36,840
Speaker 5: There's all kinds of.

2973
02:27:36,800 --> 02:27:39,200
Speaker 3: Competition on the subject of Fante. Real quick, can I

2974
02:27:39,240 --> 02:27:41,840
Speaker 3: just do another thing I learned. I learned that Fante

2975
02:27:42,040 --> 02:27:43,119
Speaker 3: was in the color.

2976
02:27:42,840 --> 02:27:46,920
Speaker 14: Purple, right, man, you can tell everybody about that because

2977
02:27:46,959 --> 02:27:47,960
Speaker 14: that was off off Mike.

2978
02:27:48,440 --> 02:27:53,440
Speaker 7: It was off Mike, Okay, So for the people who care, everybody, everybody,

2979
02:27:53,480 --> 02:27:55,959
Speaker 7: I was an extra in the color Purple uh, long

2980
02:27:56,040 --> 02:27:56,480
Speaker 7: time ago.

2981
02:27:57,120 --> 02:27:57,640
Speaker 5: What it was.

2982
02:27:57,680 --> 02:27:59,920
Speaker 7: My uncle at the time, he was the film was

2983
02:28:00,040 --> 02:28:02,680
Speaker 7: shot in North Carolina, and so my uncle at the

2984
02:28:02,720 --> 02:28:05,000
Speaker 7: time was working my uncle Mike shot at my uncle Mike,

2985
02:28:05,320 --> 02:28:08,959
Speaker 7: he was working at ants in Tech which was the

2986
02:28:09,000 --> 02:28:12,280
Speaker 7: county they shot it in Anson County, and so he

2987
02:28:12,400 --> 02:28:14,760
Speaker 7: was working in ants in Tech as like a financial

2988
02:28:14,840 --> 02:28:18,840
Speaker 7: aid advisor, and so they that's where they were having

2989
02:28:18,840 --> 02:28:20,840
Speaker 7: the auditions. So he hits us, he hits my mom.

2990
02:28:20,920 --> 02:28:23,800
Speaker 7: He's like, hey, they're having auditions for this movie. And

2991
02:28:23,920 --> 02:28:26,560
Speaker 7: at the time, the movie, the code name or the

2992
02:28:26,560 --> 02:28:29,840
Speaker 7: production name was called moon Song, and they were kind

2993
02:28:29,840 --> 02:28:31,840
Speaker 7: of you know, keeping it under wraps whatever, and so

2994
02:28:32,640 --> 02:28:34,320
Speaker 7: they was like, they were having auditions for this movie.

2995
02:28:34,320 --> 02:28:36,200
Speaker 7: You should come down. So my mother came down. She's

2996
02:28:36,240 --> 02:28:37,520
Speaker 7: like cool. She brought me with me. And it was

2997
02:28:37,560 --> 02:28:40,600
Speaker 7: in the summer of eighty five. I want to say

2998
02:28:40,640 --> 02:28:42,120
Speaker 7: I was six years old. I was about to go

2999
02:28:42,160 --> 02:28:46,080
Speaker 7: to first grade, I think. But anyway, so we go down.

3000
02:28:46,120 --> 02:28:48,200
Speaker 7: We auditioned and at the time, and during the audition

3001
02:28:48,280 --> 02:28:50,720
Speaker 7: I remember specifically, I had to I was going up

3002
02:28:50,760 --> 02:28:51,400
Speaker 7: against this girl.

3003
02:28:51,480 --> 02:28:53,800
Speaker 5: I was six years old and the girl was nine,

3004
02:28:54,280 --> 02:28:54,840
Speaker 5: and the.

3005
02:28:54,840 --> 02:28:57,440
Speaker 7: Audition was we had to pretend that we were angry

3006
02:28:57,920 --> 02:29:00,959
Speaker 7: and we were hungry and we wanted a mother whoever

3007
02:29:01,000 --> 02:29:04,200
Speaker 7: to make us some jam. Sandwiches make a jam sound,

3008
02:29:04,320 --> 02:29:07,440
Speaker 7: so you had to act like I'm hungry, I want

3009
02:29:07,480 --> 02:29:10,120
Speaker 7: some jam. Like that was the I remember specifically, that

3010
02:29:10,200 --> 02:29:12,400
Speaker 7: was it. I'm hungry, I want some jam. And so,

3011
02:29:13,440 --> 02:29:16,400
Speaker 7: you know, the girl was older than me, and she

3012
02:29:16,600 --> 02:29:19,760
Speaker 7: was big, and she was fucking like, I mean, she

3013
02:29:19,920 --> 02:29:20,720
Speaker 7: was really scary.

3014
02:29:20,840 --> 02:29:23,040
Speaker 5: I was scared of shit, but she was really like,

3015
02:29:23,080 --> 02:29:23,920
Speaker 5: give me some jam.

3016
02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:26,640
Speaker 7: Like she really hadn't ate, like maybe like her wik

3017
02:29:26,720 --> 02:29:30,520
Speaker 7: vouchers hadn't appeared that month, she really might have been hungry.

3018
02:29:30,840 --> 02:29:32,640
Speaker 5: It was real, so you know what I mean.

3019
02:29:32,680 --> 02:29:34,240
Speaker 7: So she did her thing or whatever, and I was

3020
02:29:34,280 --> 02:29:36,320
Speaker 7: just like, man, so I did mine, and I was

3021
02:29:36,440 --> 02:29:39,720
Speaker 7: kind of shook. So I remember leaving auditions just thinking like, man,

3022
02:29:39,800 --> 02:29:41,000
Speaker 7: I don't think they're gonna choose me.

3023
02:29:41,240 --> 02:29:43,520
Speaker 5: Can you like how you did it a little bit?

3024
02:29:43,680 --> 02:29:44,400
Speaker 5: Give me some jam.

3025
02:29:44,440 --> 02:29:45,000
Speaker 9: I'm hungry.

3026
02:29:47,400 --> 02:29:49,360
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have gave you the PU. Yeah I wouldn't. Yeah,

3027
02:29:49,400 --> 02:29:50,640
Speaker 5: I would have been I lost it.

3028
02:29:50,680 --> 02:29:52,280
Speaker 7: So h I thought it was I figured that I

3029
02:29:52,280 --> 02:29:55,199
Speaker 7: had fucking bombed or whatever, and so I just came home.

3030
02:29:55,560 --> 02:29:58,959
Speaker 7: We left, come home one night to my grandmother's house

3031
02:29:59,040 --> 02:30:01,360
Speaker 7: phone rings and and my mother answers it, and I'm

3032
02:30:01,360 --> 02:30:03,840
Speaker 7: in the other room and I hear her just start screaming.

3033
02:30:04,920 --> 02:30:07,320
Speaker 7: But it wasn't like a bad scream. It wasn't like

3034
02:30:07,320 --> 02:30:10,160
Speaker 7: a somebody died scream. It was like a shit we

3035
02:30:10,280 --> 02:30:13,840
Speaker 7: hit the lottery screen. Yeah, she was like happy, and

3036
02:30:13,879 --> 02:30:15,119
Speaker 7: so I came out. I was like, what is it?

3037
02:30:15,320 --> 02:30:18,200
Speaker 7: So she was telling me. She was like, yo, you

3038
02:30:18,280 --> 02:30:20,320
Speaker 7: got a part in The Color Purple. So that was

3039
02:30:20,320 --> 02:30:22,320
Speaker 7: when they let her know that it was The Color

3040
02:30:22,360 --> 02:30:25,160
Speaker 7: Purple was the movie. And we went down the next day,

3041
02:30:25,360 --> 02:30:28,760
Speaker 7: and you know, I remember getting fitted for everything, like

3042
02:30:28,840 --> 02:30:31,520
Speaker 7: I remember meeting Oprah. And the only reason I knew

3043
02:30:31,520 --> 02:30:33,879
Speaker 7: she was Oprah was because at the time she used

3044
02:30:33,879 --> 02:30:36,000
Speaker 7: to be in the Jet magazine, and like when you

3045
02:30:36,000 --> 02:30:37,199
Speaker 7: go to the barber shops.

3046
02:30:37,120 --> 02:30:38,720
Speaker 5: Like barber shops always used to have a Jet.

3047
02:30:39,240 --> 02:30:41,640
Speaker 7: So like I was read like the albums and then

3048
02:30:41,680 --> 02:30:43,120
Speaker 7: see the Beauty of the Week, and then like a

3049
02:30:43,120 --> 02:30:45,600
Speaker 7: few other pages after that. It was like Oprah. She

3050
02:30:45,720 --> 02:30:48,800
Speaker 7: was on the bottom of like top ten influential.

3051
02:30:48,800 --> 02:30:51,680
Speaker 5: Square in the Black Squares.

3052
02:30:52,040 --> 02:30:54,560
Speaker 7: She was one of the Black square implorant people. And

3053
02:30:54,640 --> 02:30:57,840
Speaker 7: so I remember seeing her and we met at No

3054
02:30:57,879 --> 02:31:00,320
Speaker 7: Old joke, like we were at the Daily Tray and

3055
02:31:00,480 --> 02:31:05,279
Speaker 7: we met and we met at craft services and uh

3056
02:31:05,360 --> 02:31:07,760
Speaker 7: yeah her, I remember me whoopee. I remember all that stuff.

3057
02:31:07,760 --> 02:31:10,120
Speaker 7: And so it wasn't until afterwards when the movie came out.

3058
02:31:10,600 --> 02:31:12,280
Speaker 7: My mother took me to see it, and it was

3059
02:31:12,360 --> 02:31:16,680
Speaker 7: then I understood this while we shot a fucking.

3060
02:31:16,400 --> 02:31:18,440
Speaker 5: Movie, like I got it. But uh, yeah, it was

3061
02:31:18,440 --> 02:31:19,160
Speaker 5: a fun experience.

3062
02:31:19,440 --> 02:31:21,640
Speaker 7: Steven Spielberg at the time, he was married to Amy Irving,

3063
02:31:22,160 --> 02:31:25,039
Speaker 7: and I remember she was breastfeeding and that was the

3064
02:31:25,040 --> 02:31:27,360
Speaker 7: first time I've ever seen that stuff. Yeah, because it's

3065
02:31:27,400 --> 02:31:28,920
Speaker 7: just white women putting their titties out, like.

3066
02:31:28,840 --> 02:31:32,000
Speaker 5: You just don't see that shular. I mean, I was like,

3067
02:31:32,040 --> 02:31:35,160
Speaker 5: what the fuck? And so I remember my mom.

3068
02:31:35,000 --> 02:31:36,680
Speaker 7: Like y'all was like, Mama, that woman's got up titt

3069
02:31:36,760 --> 02:31:38,760
Speaker 7: out and she's like, boy, put you don't point at them.

3070
02:31:38,600 --> 02:31:39,520
Speaker 5: People like it was crazy.

3071
02:31:39,560 --> 02:31:41,920
Speaker 7: So it was just totally different being like a small

3072
02:31:42,160 --> 02:31:45,039
Speaker 7: southern like kid, you know, small town southern kid being

3073
02:31:45,040 --> 02:31:47,039
Speaker 7: around all these like la people like.

3074
02:31:46,959 --> 02:31:48,920
Speaker 5: That was of my boy, and your actual careers just

3075
02:31:49,000 --> 02:31:49,879
Speaker 5: jumped off since then.

3076
02:31:50,000 --> 02:31:53,879
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have since been in Uh what have I been?

3077
02:31:53,920 --> 02:31:56,360
Speaker 7: I've been in the Breaks on v H one. I

3078
02:31:56,480 --> 02:32:03,800
Speaker 7: was also in the gospel production Mama, please don't it's

3079
02:32:03,879 --> 02:32:06,400
Speaker 7: grown by leaps and bounds. But no, man, that was

3080
02:32:06,440 --> 02:32:08,959
Speaker 7: that was my story And I may post some pics.

3081
02:32:09,000 --> 02:32:13,039
Speaker 7: Maybe I'll post some pics on QLs like that a.

3082
02:32:13,040 --> 02:32:15,039
Speaker 2: Little boy running through the street, running through the sheets

3083
02:32:15,040 --> 02:32:15,840
Speaker 2: that hit Sealy.

3084
02:32:16,400 --> 02:32:17,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they was.

3085
02:32:17,800 --> 02:32:19,520
Speaker 7: I ran through and tumbled so you can see me.

3086
02:32:19,600 --> 02:32:22,760
Speaker 7: But I'll post I'll send pictures to uh like we

3087
02:32:22,800 --> 02:32:25,000
Speaker 7: can put it up on the QLs Instagram.

3088
02:32:25,160 --> 02:32:26,640
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.

3089
02:32:26,879 --> 02:32:29,800
Speaker 5: We Uh, boss Bill? What you What have you learned? Man?

3090
02:32:29,840 --> 02:32:30,280
Speaker 5: What have you learned?

3091
02:32:30,320 --> 02:32:30,360
Speaker 19: This?

3092
02:32:30,800 --> 02:32:34,440
Speaker 14: I learned that everybody that we talked to today was

3093
02:32:34,600 --> 02:32:37,560
Speaker 14: very intelligent, h had Everybody had their head on straight

3094
02:32:37,959 --> 02:32:39,160
Speaker 14: like that was refreshing.

3095
02:32:39,280 --> 02:32:39,920
Speaker 5: It was very.

3096
02:32:39,800 --> 02:32:42,280
Speaker 14: Refreshing because I've talked to a lot of people, you know,

3097
02:32:42,640 --> 02:32:46,400
Speaker 14: in various capacities in the industry, and not.

3098
02:32:46,480 --> 02:32:50,800
Speaker 5: Everybody is all there. Yeah, but everybody we talked.

3099
02:32:50,600 --> 02:32:54,560
Speaker 14: To this weekend, I have I have a going to

3100
02:32:54,600 --> 02:32:55,400
Speaker 14: do big things and.

3101
02:32:55,360 --> 02:32:57,199
Speaker 7: I have hope for the future. Like all the people,

3102
02:32:57,320 --> 02:32:59,520
Speaker 7: like millennials, I think get a very bad rap. And

3103
02:32:59,560 --> 02:33:02,720
Speaker 7: it's just old millenniums, this, millenniums, this, but the young

3104
02:33:03,120 --> 02:33:06,520
Speaker 7: people that we spoke to over this past week, yeah,

3105
02:33:06,600 --> 02:33:10,160
Speaker 7: y'all right with me, particularly like tis just specifically saying

3106
02:33:10,520 --> 02:33:12,920
Speaker 7: like Lean is some bullshit and you know, to hear

3107
02:33:13,600 --> 02:33:16,039
Speaker 7: I've been body to hear Damn Marley talking about you know,

3108
02:33:16,879 --> 02:33:18,879
Speaker 7: you know I write, you know who I am. I'm

3109
02:33:18,879 --> 02:33:20,600
Speaker 7: not gonna try to I want to work my I'm

3110
02:33:20,640 --> 02:33:22,080
Speaker 7: not going to coast all my name. You know what

3111
02:33:22,120 --> 02:33:25,440
Speaker 7: I'm saying. Yeah, Una saying the same thing. So yeah,

3112
02:33:25,480 --> 02:33:27,840
Speaker 7: the uh, the young artist that y'all giving me hope.

3113
02:33:27,879 --> 02:33:29,720
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, y'all ain't just all bouncing

3114
02:33:29,720 --> 02:33:30,680
Speaker 7: and shooting and killing.

3115
02:33:30,440 --> 02:33:31,760
Speaker 5: The ship, y'all.

3116
02:33:34,640 --> 02:33:38,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, yah yah, gotchas on straight. I'm hopeful, thank you.

3117
02:33:38,920 --> 02:33:39,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

3118
02:33:39,160 --> 02:33:43,240
Speaker 7: Man, Well, y'all, this has been yet another fun field

3119
02:33:43,280 --> 02:33:46,640
Speaker 7: episode of Quest Love Supreme in this two day haul.

3120
02:33:47,360 --> 02:33:49,800
Speaker 7: Good god man, we've been This has been nuts, but

3121
02:33:50,280 --> 02:33:56,320
Speaker 7: we got through it on behalf of myself, Fonticoelo, Lovely Boss, Bill,

3122
02:33:56,520 --> 02:34:02,080
Speaker 7: Unpaid Bill Scott, ya Yo, Sugar Steve, and our absent

3123
02:34:02,520 --> 02:34:05,000
Speaker 7: cult leader Massa Thompson.

3124
02:34:07,400 --> 02:34:07,720
Speaker 5: Thank you.

3125
02:34:08,280 --> 02:34:12,080
Speaker 7: I've our slave Motisa, the Motiza Trial.

3126
02:34:12,320 --> 02:34:14,720
Speaker 5: I heard the Motsasa.

3127
02:34:16,080 --> 02:34:17,800
Speaker 2: It's not funny, say yeah.

3128
02:34:17,600 --> 02:34:19,360
Speaker 5: It was real, it was funny. Yeah.

3129
02:34:19,520 --> 02:34:23,720
Speaker 7: We're gonna rename this podcast, this radio show twelve years

3130
02:34:23,720 --> 02:34:24,200
Speaker 7: of Tompson.

3131
02:34:28,560 --> 02:34:30,320
Speaker 5: Listen, he's gonna hate this up.

3132
02:34:30,520 --> 02:34:32,120
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, he gonna be he'll be cussing all this

3133
02:34:32,240 --> 02:34:35,120
Speaker 7: funk out, but it's all good. Listen on behalf of

3134
02:34:35,160 --> 02:34:38,240
Speaker 7: all of us Team Supreme here at Question of Supreme. Man,

3135
02:34:38,280 --> 02:34:40,320
Speaker 7: thank all of y'all for checking us, and we'll be

3136
02:34:40,360 --> 02:34:41,480
Speaker 7: back next week on Yall.

3137
02:34:41,480 --> 02:34:44,400
Speaker 5: Another episode of Question Love Supreme with an all new

3138
02:34:44,400 --> 02:34:49,199
Speaker 5: Team Supremes. All yeah, last one A good run, man. Yeah,

3139
02:34:49,440 --> 02:34:50,040
Speaker 5: it's been real.

3140
02:34:50,160 --> 02:34:52,560
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I'll see y'all letting up the blumbing line

3141
02:34:52,560 --> 02:34:57,279
Speaker 7: together Quest Love Supreme only on Pandora.

3142
02:34:57,280 --> 02:34:58,080
Speaker 5: We'll see y'all next week.

3143
02:34:58,120 --> 02:35:08,800
Speaker 1: Pe of Course, Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

3144
02:35:09,280 --> 02:35:16,480
Speaker 1: This classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora.

3145
02:35:17,840 --> 02:35:22,240
Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

3146
02:35:22,720 --> 02:35:24,720
Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.