WEBVTT - QLS Classic: 2016 Roots Picnic Part 2 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.240 Courst Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.040 episode was produced by the team at Pandora. 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.800 What Up, y'all? It's like It and this week's QLs classic. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.400 Continues from last week Yeah Rooth's Picnic Live in New York. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.840 This aired October twenty six. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.080 Imagine It, Team Supreme hold up in a hotel across 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.600 the street from the venue. While everybody's performing, theyre run 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.800 across the street to talk to us. Even Questlove, so 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:29.840 make sure you pay attention to. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:30.760 Hear when he pops in. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.599 Featured in this episode appearances from The Jungle Brothers, Emily Wells, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:41.400 Yuna Daniel Bambada, Marley Freeway, and Easy Mode Breezy from 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:42.360 Grits and Biscuits. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:54.120 Enjoy, y'all, What's up, y'all? 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.000 Welcome to a very special edition of West Love Supreme 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.720 once again. This is a road trip, well not exactly 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.560 a road trip. We're kind of up the block from 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.280 Bryant Park in New York City. I'll say that twenty 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.600 years ago, when the Roots were first formed, we made 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.920 and cut our teeth on the festival circuit, and festivals 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.360 are like now a thing in America that back in 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.240 the early nineties, it was like really unheard of to 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.840 have different genres together under one roof, like doing a festival. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.280 We always said that we had enough pull and of 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.200 course enough finances, we were going to bring a festival 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.600 to whatever city that we chose to do. And of course, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.120 I guess most of you guys are familiar with the 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:39.679 Root's Picnic. That's our Philadelphia homegrown festival event. So this 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.800 year we decided to take the Roots Picnic to Bryant 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.080 Park in New York City and entertained over twenty thousand 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.120 people for two days. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.680 So many acts played the picnic. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:55.800 David Byrne, Bu tang Quin, Dangelo, John Mayer, even Alicia Keys, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.880 Dave Sappelle, Common of course the Roots were formed as well. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.120 Uh we even Adnle Rogers and She's That's a lot. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.440 Of line up. Anyway. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.120 We recorded these special episodes in Quest Love Supreme Live 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.200 during the Roots Picnic. I was running around quite a 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.079 bit too. I popped up in the show occasionally when 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.400 I had a minute, but it was basically rehearsing. But 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.520 don't worry, Uh, the team Supreme held it down and 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.600 they really did an amazing job running the show with 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:22.120 my absent. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.000 That's right. We got Fante, Boss. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.560 Bill still there, Unpaid Bills there, Sugar Steeds there, Lai 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.320 is there, and a whole cast of others. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:31.600 And during this. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.680 Episode you will hear some great interviews with the Jungle Brothers, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.880 you and Daniel Marley, the Freeway, the team behind Participar 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.440 Biscuits party An Emily Wells, and I really hope you 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.160 enjoyed the show. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.680 This is part two of the Roots Picnic New York 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.680 edition of Quest Love Supreme. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:53.680 Once one two y'all. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.720 This is Questlove Supreme only on Pandora Sponte Fontigelo holding 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.119 it down for the boss Man and our coat leader, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:01.959 Quest Love. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.080 Who is busy working today. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.640 We're broadcasting live from the Roots Picnic in New York, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.480 in New York, New York City, the city and the state. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:17.920 We got, uh, we got lovely unpaid Bill Sherman, my 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:23.360 Man Sugar, Steve, my Man Scott Yo, Yo, Boss Bill, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.639 you know what I'm saying. We're all in here, we're 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:26.400 having a good time. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.200 Man. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:32.400 I cannot say enough how much the brothers that we 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.160 are honored to have in this building today, how much 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.560 of an influence that they played on my life, on 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:43.960 my musical career. Just god, man, I don't know where 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:49.840 to start. Straight out the jungle the album man mess 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.800 my head up, done by the forces of nature, messed 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.560 my head up even more. Jesus christ Man, I'm gonna 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.280 just let these brothers tell their story, lads and women. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:06.640 One of my biggest musical influences, the forefathers of the 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.280 Native Tongue movement, who just gave voice to so many 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:15.040 of us. I'm talking about Mike G, Sammy B Baby Bam, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:15.920 bladies and gentlemen. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.800 Give it up the Jungle Brothers. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.400 Thousand you both and watch sound System State of the Odd. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.919 Come on, man, man, thank you. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.800 First off, let me say okay, me and Mike G. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.000 We have been planning to get together for like the 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.719 past decade. Mike G lives probably like twenty minutes from me. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.480 He's we're both North Carolina residents. I'm North Carolina born 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:52.920 and raised. He is pretty much he's been there, and 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.200 we are part of the growing community of rappers in 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.679 North Carolina. I think special ed, I think so Dot 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.960 is so that X's and well, I know at one 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:02.880 point he was in Greensboro. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.120 I don't know if he's still there. I don't know. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.000 I was on his tail somewhere in Raleigh. I got 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.839 a good friend down there, he says, Yeah, man, I 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.200 was just here, you know, as folks live down there, Raleigh, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.120 got family down there, so yeah, yeah, yeah, you know 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.320 Caine is still in Durham. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:17.640 I believe Drma Raleigh. I believe. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.640 But but yeah, me and Mike g have been Yo. Man, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.520 let's get up, let's get dinner, let's do this, and 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.159 this is the first time I think we've been in 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:30.000 the same room. Yeah, I see him more on the 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.520 road than I do actually in the city we live in. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.040 But but now, brothers, thank you'all so much for man, man, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.679 I cannot thank you enough. I guess let's just start 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.880 with well, let's start kind of, let's. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.000 Go before we go back. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.240 Let's like start with one of my favorite records from y'all, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.479 which is fitting since the founder and our cut leader 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.800 actually played on it, bring Uh Off the Raal Deluxe album. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.080 Tell us tell me about that record. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.200 I remember at the time when it came out, it 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.640 just sounded new. It sounded like it was the Jungle 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.360 Brothers that I knew in love, but it just sounded like, man, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.599 like this is a reinvention like my Boys is back, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.960 you know what I mean, talk to us about that 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.600 and too. It came off of the first single, uh, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.200 the How You Want It, which is just like some 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.919 raw just straight loops. But then y'all came with the 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.400 Brains and I was like, oh, this is like some 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.320 cool shit, like wow, So let's talk about that record 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.840 around the time y'all did it. Where were y'all at 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:31.960 mentally at that thing in your career, because that was 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.480 that was after the whole crazy Wisdom Masters situations. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.720 He was the masters we had. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:38.160 Uh. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.719 We had got back together with John Baker at G Street, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.560 who was uh real instrumental in our in the first 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.440 part of our career off of Straight Out the Jungle. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.400 It's funny how that all came together, but he. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.160 Was instrumental on the UK side, on the Europe side 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.000 for Jungle Brothers went Straight Out the Jungle and Uh, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.280 we got together for the Raw Deluxe album, and I 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.760 want to say we were almost finished. We were probably 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.760 sixteen some of our songs, but we still needed that 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.880 that one, you know, really to help I guess capture 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.360 the soul of the new audience that was out there 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:19.160 and somehow the the link, the link came and got 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.800 us all in the studio. You know what I'm saying, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.760 quest thought they was they started early. By the time 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:34.400 we got there, all it was, and I mean the 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.680 rest is history. I mean, I think, like I said, 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.440 as soon as we walked in it was. It was that, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.760 and then the chorus came on and then we just 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.920 all split up, sat in the corner started. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.040 Writing, that's dope. That's dope, man. To give out our 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.040 listeners a little backstory at this point in their career. Well, 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.320 just and if I misspeak, please correct me. First album, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.400 Straight out the Jungle hip Hop Classic. This was nineteen 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:02.600 eighty seven, Well Warlock Rect eight. I'm sorry, Warlock Records. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.040 I was nine years old, a long time ago. But 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.160 then the second album. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:17.960 Wasn't born yet. That's real, man, listen. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.960 So second album done by the Force of Nature ninety 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:29.360 one eighty nine, eight eighty nine. I remember I was 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.680 it was probably fifth grade, I think, if I'm not mistaken, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.480 that record. So these were like two records that were, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.360 I mean really just cemented these brothers as just one 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.040 of the most kind of forward thinking, forward moving groups 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.320 in hip hop. After the second album, there was another 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.200 record called Crazy Wisdom Masters, which was a record that 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:59.240 was never officially released, and by all accounts, by all 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.400 you know, the legend, everything, the record was incredible. I 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.000 want to talk about that a little bit and talk 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.480 about that record, kind of what happened to it and 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.040 kind of the aftermath of that. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.200 Well, in the place of that record, the Crazy Wisdom 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.920 record came JJ Remedy year that was also on Warner 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.040 Brothers at the time. And you know, the time period 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.559 was I think we were learning. You know, we had 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.520 just we came off of touring done by the forces 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.480 of nature. I mean we literally, I mean from straight 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.040 out to jungle. We literally went from his graduation to 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:44.079 touring Europe and then constantly touring. I mean we literally 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.160 didn't take a break for a very long time, for 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.360 a really long time. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:49.240 And for guys, you. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:49.760 Know we like. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.040 Seventeen eighteen nineteen, I mean it's like who does that? 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.560 Who comes out of school? Get your passport? Travel of 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.920 the world. The Berlin Wall was still up at the time. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:10.679 Wow, Wow, were doing crazy festivals. We're doing crazy festivals. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.560 I mean it was nuts. I mean, who does that? 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.079 I mean, I'm haul and Brooklyn the Bronx. I mean 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.680 at that time, the eighties, late eighties, I mean it 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.400 was unheard of. You know, by the time we got 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.800 back to the studio to start that third record, it 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.360 was like, I mean it was it was vomit. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.680 It was like, Yo, look what we brought home. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.160 I mean, we got we got to build with the 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:39.719 likes of Bill Liaswell, Bootsy mud Bone, George. I mean, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.000 it was just so much. We had so much that, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:51.200 I mean it was hard to interpret. Yeah, from the meters, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:56.000 I mean all the cats. I mean, I mean you're artist, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.720 I mean, where your soul comes from. I I mean 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.440 I have to I have to throw this on you. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.199 When that Little Brother album came out, It's like it 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.320 was a cheery moment. It was a cheery moment, you 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.240 know what I'm saying, because you wouldn't think that that 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.800 type of soul was in the audience, was in our 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.640 you know, amongst our peers like that. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.440 Wow. But it's like we so when we came back 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.800 and we we. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.400 Got to literally rub elbows and tour and do shows 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.079 with the cast that we were sampling that we were 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.600 sitting up in the sitting up in the Bronxe River 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.040 Center listening to the Beach Jazzy and I'm going back 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.320 and forth and were chilling with them in the tent, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:37.599 drinking bits. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.480 And all of that. And I ain't gonna put us 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.440 in the studio right after that. Wow, Warner Brothers, they 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.520 couldn't understand that. And that was for the Crazy the Master. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.199 Yeah, but it wasn't It wasn't originally named the Crazy 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.240 was the Master. It was I don't think we even 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.959 had a name to I don't think we had. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.120 Lose the originals or something like that. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.400 Yeah, you know, it was all it was all politics 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.199 in short. In short, we created a spaceship. We made 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.840 a spaceship. Warner Brothers ain't know how to fly. They 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.920 was like, not hold up, we just need four wheels 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:11.680 in the steering wheel. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.520 They wanted four wheels in. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.360 The steering wheel. They did the okie doke with the mix. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.360 After we mastered it, they found, you know, they pulled 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.720 what they felt was you know, relatable to the audience. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.640 They put out JB's with the Remedy and. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.120 That was the forty blow Trooper. That was yeah that way, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.000 And I liked that record. I mean it was it 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.760 was funny because J the Remedy was one of those 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:44.000 records that for me personally, had I not known the backstory, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.319 like I would have been like, Yo, this is dope. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.040 Like had I had, I I remember like reading I. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.360 Want to say it was in the source or something 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.320 with you guys where y'all were, you know, telling them 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.280 talking about the process and how disappointing it was and 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.200 how the stuff y'all going through with the label and everything, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.240 And I just remember reading I was like, man, I 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.800 had no clue, if you know. To me, it sounded 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.880 like a junk Brothers record, but it was disappointing to 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.520 hear that it wasn't you guys vision you know what 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.719 I'm saying. But just for me, I remember for the 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.559 blow truth came out. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:12.680 I love that record. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.440 Yeah, I mean it was a there was I think 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.080 crazy wis the masters it held, I mean it held 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.679 the whole story. But I think it was just ahead 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.640 of a lot of people's time. They just wasn't ready. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.920 Like I said, we built a spaceship, but they wasn't ready. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.160 They weren't even they wouldn't even put out the test 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.880 for how do you drive a spaceships? 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.320 We don't know. Just keep making calls. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.880 You know, that's what it was, you know, all right, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.760 so we're gonna go into that. So coming out of 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.480 Crazy Wism Masters into JB's with the Remedy, this is 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:44.600 when you left JA. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.360 It was ninety three, was it was it? 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:48.120 Yeah? 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.080 It was. It was probably like. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.760 Coming out of that record, you guys leave Warner Brothers, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.760 get with E Street and that brings us to the 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.800 Rather Lucks album, which brings us to Brain, which was 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.080 kind of like a reintroduction to you guys. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.000 What year is that? That was nineteen ninety six? Seven? 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.120 It was ninety seven. It was ninety seven. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.720 Man, everything's almost tweeny years ago, yeah, because I remember 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.760 that was like my twenty senior year of high school. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.200 I'll say, and y'all about to have y'all thirtieth anniversary. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:20.640 Yeap next year. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.240 For I mean, that's like thirty years you guys are 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.840 coming up on what keeps you going? 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.720 I mean, thirty is a long fucking time, oh man. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.760 Just you know, the love for the music, that's really 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.480 the love for the music in the chemistry chemistry too. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.040 Question. I think we friends before music. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.600 You know, we grew up together high school, playing in 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.400 the parks, going to the jams. I think that really 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.160 kept us together because a lot of groups money comes 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.320 in between them and all that kind of stuff. And 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.480 I think at this point it really don't even matter, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.120 you know. I think that we're still friends and that 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.720 makes a big difference. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.560 Yeah, do you guys feel like y'all were maybe more 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.960 like better equipped to handle it now than you were 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.720 when you were younger? 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.040 I think so. Yeah, RelA so too. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:15.520 Yeah, we came along so early, you know where it 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.960 was those pioneered years where you're just doing something in 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.960 your circle or in your bedroom and not aware of 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.600 what's out there. And we got a chance to go 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.120 out there when no one saw us coming, you know, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.240 to fifty two different countries and see people experience hip 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:42.560 hop for the first time and still be seventeen eighteen nineteen. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.760 So we had like a early jump where you know, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.720 you go from getting a radio in your room with 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.520 a cassette, plugging turntables into it, baking a little makeshift 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.840 studio and just doing it for yourself to actually being 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:05.800 broadcasting on the radio on Red Alert show a mixed 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:11.680 show that still was underground, to people taping you as 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.720 far as Japan, and then you arrived there and they 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:16.880 know who you are. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.840 But we still felt like we just stepped out of 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:20.640 our bedrooms. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.240 Yet when you talk about like the bedrooms, you know, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.720 the Straight Out the Jungle, that was one of the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.160 albums that me and The Mirror have talked about as 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.400 being in like and we mean this like in the 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:37.400 best way. Technically it's like one of the worst mixed albums, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.400 but that's what makes. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.280 It well, there's a story behind that, Like Straight Out 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:41.800 the Jungle. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.960 I used to first of all, that whole album was 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.440 made off turntables. Wow, So that's not there's no sp twelves, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:56.360 there's no LINN drums, there's no NPC heads, there's no laptop. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.120 Of course, that was just straight off the turntables. So 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.880 it's just straight r particularly Straight Out the Jungle. I 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.360 would come home from school. I those two records were 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:11.560 f from my dance record collection, okay, and I would backs. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.760 I only had one copy of each record. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.320 So the Bill Withers Break and I would play that 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:22.720 on one turntable and the Mandrels on the other, and 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.359 I only had eight bars. Wow, and I love the 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.760 way those two went together. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.440 I would just play it over and over and over 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.800 and over, not even get a chance to write to 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.200 it yet, And I just. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.440 Held that in my head until we finally got into 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.760 a studio situation. Cause we were in a couple of 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.920 studio situations where the producers would throw when the drum 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.560 machine beat at us, and we was like, nah, that's 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.800 not really the sound we want. But a lot of 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.159 hip hop records back then was drum machine heavy. And 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.320 then we got into the studio where there was turntables, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:02.840 and I took that same technique of straight out the 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.679 the breakbeat and then the groove. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.600 But now we have a tape machine. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:11.199 So on track one, you play those eight bars punching. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.480 On track two, play those eight bars of Bill Withers drums, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.760 and you keep doing that till you got five minutes. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:18.960 And I'm geeking off of that cause. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.680 I was like, Okay, now I got a track machine 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.640 instead of a cassette, you know, or even just doing 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.320 it by hand. And then on track three and four 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.800 you're throwing down the mandrills for five minutes. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:30.399 Yeah. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.600 So a lot of that stuff was just made on 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.760 the fly, you know, And that was the process of 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.040 the whole album, Like behind the Bush, you know. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.080 We had insane the same process. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.400 I saw Sammy's standing there with the record we used 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.480 for the melody, which was a remaker of Marvin Gaye's 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.919 What's going On and it was on forty five and 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.400 we had to tape it to you know, a vinyl 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.600 and then blend that or over the beat for five minutes, 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.880 you know, and then go in the booth, and then 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.840 Mike and I would be in another example of Jim Browski. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.600 Sammy Bold was. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.679 In the control room with the two turntables, Mike and 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.640 I was in the booth with our rhymes already rehearsed, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.120 and he had his mic, I had my mic. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.719 Sometimes we had one mic we shared together. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.160 I'm gonna do because that sounds like yeah, yeah, but 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.920 what you gotta understand the Jim Browski that was all 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:30.600 three of us. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.399 The way we're doing on stage. We did that in 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.919 the studio like a band. Like there's no you know, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.640 sampling or putting it on tape first and over. There's 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:44.160 no overdose, there's no overdubes. It's like, Okay, we're gonna 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.679 press record, take one the old fashioned way, but in 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.960 the hip hop context, like we're gonna MC while he's 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.800 DJing you know what I mean, and then it's like, yeah, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.200 let's listen down take two. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.560 You know what I mean, do take two and that's it. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.119 So just to give the listeners some understanding of just 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.959 this process when they say no over the Generally, when 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.119 you go into the studio, everything is kind of pre done. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.879 So if you're recording over a beat, the beat is 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.880 already done and it is recorded and laid down, and 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.680 then the singers of rappers come in on another track 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.280 and they do you know, they do whatever they do 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.399 to that prerecorded beat, and so forth and so on. Uh, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.760 what these buds were doing was just everything was live 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:28.520 in one take. 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.600 So yeah, on stage they were doing put that. In 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.880 the studio we were doing that. So at the end 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:41.280 of that, Andre de Borg, the engineer for Salt and 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.560 Pepper's records, and you know the quality of those records, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.040 he pulls up and I remember this in a in 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.159 an army truck. 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:54.200 With all his outboard geary total like gear ahead. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:58.479 He pulls up, he comes downstairs in the basement and 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.920 he looks at the board and it goes, you made 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.160 a record like this. There's wires everywhere, and he's like 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.679 he said, before I even mix this record and master it, 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:09.679 I have to take. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.480 Apart the whole studio and put it back together again. Wow, 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:21.399 look at her face like that, what so trying to 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:22.359 make some extra money. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:29.760 But basically, but basically it was about It's about a vibe, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.920 going back to what you you re quest level saying 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:37.679 like like, technically this sounds wrong, but the vibe was 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:38.760 captured and. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.320 That was the most important thing on Girl, I House 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:43.760 you on Straight Out the Jungle on Jimbrowski. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.160 All the background vocals, the whoa, why why baby. 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.840 And even bells ringing on my bracelet or tapping on 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.960 the window or you hit the mic by accident, and 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.720 the echoes, you know, all that stuff was captured live 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.199 and that was the vibe and then the engineer just 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.760 had to work with it make it sound like something. 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.080 Yeah, one of the one of the lines I want 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.679 to make the listeners aware of that is probably definitely 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.520 kind of seeming that you guys in history uh Q 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.400 tip from a ward tour her me and the eighty 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.879 jvs on the promo. Yeah, for those who do not 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.520 who don't know, uh Q tip from a trip called 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:25.160 Quest was on Straight Out the Jungle on a record 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:29.040 that was called the promo. The promo was essentially back 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:33.520 in the day like UH mcs would do promos for DJs, 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.720 and so it was essentially just like UH, it could 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:39.639 be like a little you know, it could be a minute, 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.040 minute and a half thing of just you rhyming shouting. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.159 Out to the DJ. So yet in that case it 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:45.919 was for red Alert. 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:49.280 But you know, all DJs were doing no Chuck chill 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.080 out had them, you know, every all the DJs at 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.680 that time. And q Tip was actually you guys actually 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:58.280 gave q Tip his start. How did all you guys 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.560 link up? And what was it that y'all heard in 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:02.639 him to make you say, you know what, we'll let 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:03.520 we'll let you get on. 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.240 This m You used the class, Well, we went to 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:09.879 school together. Yea, we were classes. Yeah, we were in 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.520 the same home room together. Yeah. 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:14.399 Yeah, you know where you meet and then you go 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.520 out to your classes. We don't have all the same classes, 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.119 but we were in the same home room together. So 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:19.880 the in the what year was this this was. 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.440 Uh from eighty four to eighty eight. 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.159 If he would come with UH come to school with 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.960 rhymes and you know we all had a book of 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:33.199 rhymes and he'd come to school with rhymes and we 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:35.400 just kind of formed like a relationship through that. 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:36.280 Gotcha. 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:42.160 Actually, what actually happened is Mike was m that's my dude, 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:43.280 that's my jungle brother. 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:44.920 But he was a great ahead of me. 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:49.640 Ah, and like what I liked to what I loved 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.520 about him is like he was well known in school, 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.280 but he still was to himself, stuck with himself, you know, 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:57.960 by himself. 0:23:58.560 --> 0:23:59.920 And I was the same. 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:03.080 I was well known in school in my grade, but 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:08.680 I wasn't in any circles. And we met because brother 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:13.159 Jay from x Clan oh man Em linked us up 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:19.440 for uh A talent show. M So, long story short, 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:23.399 he graduated before me and then I had one more 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:30.200 year left, so q tit would be around me, and 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.040 it was like, I don't know. 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:35.600 Space yeah, f f F for him, you know what 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:35.800 I mean? 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:39.840 Cause I wasn't around Mike as much and in school, 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.159 so he would be around me, and he know I 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:44.159 w at th he on the weekends, I'm going to 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:46.919 the studio and then he'd hear the records on the 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:48.160 way for promos we were doing. 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:50.479 He'd hear on the radio and stuff like that. 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.560 So then he'd come around and you know, rap to 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.359 me and stuff, do lyrics and he'd s you know, 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:57.280 like complain that. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:24:59.480 People was comparing him to l School j and he 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:00.880 was Jane not at the time. 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:07.080 That trip was compared to Yeah, he was. 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:12.960 And he was wrapping, rapping like you know that I 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:18.359 need to be now though yeah, no, not that I 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:20.560 need no, no, no, no, no, that I need to beat 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:24.800 you know, all the big words from the dictionary. 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.679 Into a form of a battle rap where you know 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:32.560 you're outwitting the person you're battling. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.320 So so I was just like, well. 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:39.400 That is the thing right now, so good, Like if 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.679 you're on that level, then that's cool. But slowly, but 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:47.440 surely he was like embracing what was becoming Jungle Brothers. 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:49.760 Slow down a little bit. 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:52.560 And slowed down a little bit and that and that 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:54.879 that was that. That was the era of the Boogie 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:58.639 Down productions where he was slowing it down and also 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:00.840 rock him where he was torn and the boys down 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:03.600 there and it wasn't all a yelling and Mike and 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.280 I that's how we rapped as well. 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:11.840 We was on some smooth MC ship, you know. That's 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:14.840 that's what it was about. You know, we wasn't really battling. 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:18.720 We was wasn't battling. We held were trying to get girls. 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:20.040 You know. 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:22.760 It was the smooth spoony G type rap me and 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:23.800 Mike Love spoony G. 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:28.320 And one of his first rhymes was like that, you know, so. 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:32.280 Slowly but surely, Jane Nice was coming into his own, 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.879 not into his own, but coming into the jungle brother 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:40.520 vibe and then going away with that and developing into 0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:44.680 something that couldn't be compared to. And that's when I said, look, 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.760 come down to the studio and. 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:51.240 Let's do this promo joint. 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:53.120 Wow. 0:26:53.560 --> 0:27:03.520 To know that q tit was compared to, that's just amazing, ladies, gentlemen. 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:07.520 He just walked out. 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:11.679 I've been here the whole time. I mean when I 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:17.240 heard this episode, y'all talked to Smack behind me as 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:18.119 Margaret always. 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:23.840 Oh my god, Eli quest Love is back. 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:28.840 Ladies, gentlemen, Okay, so girl, I house you what made 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.280 y'all go? Because that was I mean, like you're said, 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:34.159 that was a very bold direction and it was something 0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:38.080 that uh, at that time, I didn't know of any 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:40.320 other hip hop artists that were that were doing it. 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:44.200 It kind of kicked off the hip House movement, which. 0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:46.240 That was the first house song I ever heard. 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:51.680 I didn't know same here and that really just kind 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.119 of you know, there are a lot of imitators. 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:57.000 That came in your way, and but that was still 0:27:57.040 --> 0:27:58.000 the one that was like. 0:27:58.119 --> 0:27:59.720 I think Latifa got it right, but coming to my 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:02.320 house that she was dope, But I think was it 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:09.720 was it top Terry Yeah, and he did the house 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:10.360 did house? 0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:13.600 Yeah? What made you guys do that? Like what was 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:14.360 that session? 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:18.720 Like, well, obviously did some hours at the at Larry 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:20.560 Levan's uh sparede Garage? 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:23.680 Yes, obviously, Oh yeah, I mean I did. 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:27.840 I think My mother was driving cabs when the Paradise 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:29.920 Garage was happening and she took. 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.240 Me there when I was twelve years old. 0:28:32.160 --> 0:28:33.720 She took me there when I was twelve years old, 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:39.400 and I got a little taste of that crowd that early, 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:41.640 the whole. 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:44.840 You know, you know, the common denominators with all the 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:46.040 guests on the show. 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:51.640 To your parents. 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:54.360 My mom was driving cabs like late that night and 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:56.320 she was like, you're gonna come with me. I want 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:58.600 to show you this place where I get all my rides, 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:01.760 And it was it was Paradise. 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:05.760 Garage for the listeners. This was Larry Levaughn, who was 0:29:05.840 --> 0:29:13.880 a incredible legend, legendary pioneer house. He laid everything open 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:17.040 format his best his best. 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:18.880 DJ gig was not playing records. 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:22.000 He played the Wizard of Oz movie once and they 0:29:22.000 --> 0:29:26.000 said it was the most legendary night. I mean, he's 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:30.480 had legendary DJ stories, but him playing Jackson Five's ABC 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:34.840 his very last gig at the. 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:34.520 Studio fifty four. 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:38.480 It was defiantly playing ABC for three hours in a 0:29:38.560 --> 0:29:45.200 row in defiance Tanya Garter's heartbeat. He forced them like 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:47.200 they they opposed to it. It was like too slow 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:49.800 for them. They hated it, and he forced them. He says, 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:51.840 I will, I will play this until y'all give me 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:55.360 the respect I dessert And he's single handedly like said, 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:59.160 you're gonna dance to some down tempo ninety bpm ship. 0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:01.800 So yeah, he's a monster. 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:07.800 That's a good backstory for our house because you said 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:10.120 it was a bold move, but we didn't see it 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:16.040 that way. Because of the environment here in New York City, 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:19.360 the birthplace of hip hop, you still had a strong 0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:25.640 dance scene, you know, just go high, you know, and 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:29.280 downtown punk rock scene. So a lot and a lot 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.960 of things were crossing together and together those scenes were 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:34.000 linked together. 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:35.480 You know, hip hop was. 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:38.000 Still young, so it didn't have what it has now, 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:42.560 like its own click boundaries, you know, and with boundaries 0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:45.800 and rigid formulae structures. 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:49.800 It was a jam. Everything was a jam everywhere. 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:52.280 You could get away with playing the Wizard of Ours 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:55.960 and Grand After Flash and get away with playing. 0:30:56.360 --> 0:31:02.080 The Clash, you know. So but yeah, it was nothing. 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.400 It was. It was that's what we're supposed to do. 0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:06.000 I mean, I was going to clubs. 0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:10.160 I was going to clubs carrying records for Red Alert. 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:14.800 We all were playing, we all had a crate. But 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:15.800 then I would leave. 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.640 That club and go to our house club, like the 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:22.400 World or some club with no name, holding the wall 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:26.080 and being there till three four in the morning with 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:29.719 just househeads, and at least four of the records they 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:33.000 were playing was Todd Terry's records, and I could hear 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:37.440 Todd Terry. It was a a is a producer from 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:41.160 Brooklyn who was making hip hop and really wasn't getting 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:45.880 that love and went into making house records and got 0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:48.720 a lot of love. And so I was hearing the 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:52.000 hip hop samples in the house records he was making. 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:54.880 I was like, he's the only guy doing this, you know, 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:58.600 like all the house records were looping disco or having 0:31:58.640 --> 0:32:01.840 somebody preach over the record or mixing Martin Luther King 0:32:01.920 --> 0:32:06.800 or Malcolm XO. But Tod Terry was actually sampling breakbeats 0:32:07.800 --> 0:32:12.320 from hip hop crates and putting it into house music. 0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:19.400 So Chicago from the Chicago breaks, they was really the Chicago. 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:22.320 Scene, Fast Freddy, Tyree Cooper. These were the guys that 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:25.600 really they were setting it off because they were tired 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.000 of doing house music, so they started rapping over it. 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.560 But we didn't know about them. Uh you see what 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:31.080 I'm saying. 0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.840 So one day we come in the studio at the 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.520 end of Straight out the Jungle, we get out of school. 0:32:36.560 --> 0:32:40.640 We go to the studio and the studio that Todd 0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:43.240 Terry worked in, we worked in, and the engineer, Tony 0:32:43.320 --> 0:32:46.280 d said, do you guys want to make a house record? 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:50.600 We was like, yeah, sure, didn't even think of it 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:52.720 as a separate genre from hip hop. 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:56.400 He put the record on and it was Royal House party. People. 0:32:57.000 --> 0:33:00.280 Now we used to see Royal House at the house, 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:02.080 go out and do shows. 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:07.000 Four people who were just dancers who worked on Wall Street, 0:33:07.480 --> 0:33:09.360 and we were like, y'all don't rap and you go 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:13.760 out and do shows and you get five grand. So 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:15.640 he put the record on and I was like, yo, 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:18.920 I did I swept to that record party people by 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:23.000 Royal House. So I said, yeah, let's do it. So 0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:25.800 we took the took the record, put it on the turnta. 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:33.000 Me said, I don't have instrumental turntable press record on 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.040 the eight track machine, recorded the whole record to the 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:39.200 eight track machine, and then I in twenty minutes, I 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:42.680 sang the hook girl, oule house shoe girl, loule house 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:45.640 shoot you and my hut now because at the time 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:48.640 we were saying and hip hop, we would say we're 0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:52.520 gonna house househ you like I'll take tomorrow. And so 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:57.000 immediately I caught the double meaning of our house shoe 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:00.640 in house music, and so I was like buzzing off 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:02.920 of that cause I was like, one side is gonna 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:05.760 hear it and go that's legit. You know, hip hop's 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:08.000 gonna hear and say that's legit. And the other side, 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.040 the dance people was gonna hear and go yeah, house 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.799 music all like long, yeah, and so that set the 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.400 hook off and then I just kind of freestyled in. 0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:19.320 The booth overdubbed the vocals. 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:23.359 Then Mike went in and you know, I guess two 0:34:23.400 --> 0:34:25.759 hours later the record was done, and then we did 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:28.480 some cuts on it, and we felt like we broke 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:32.000 it down to a hip hop level. So we and 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:34.680 then I remember calling a leics Shahid, and I was like, yo, 0:34:35.760 --> 0:34:37.560 I put the phone at the speaking I was like. 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:40.439 I was proud. I was like, yo, look at listen 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:41.359 to what we just did. 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:44.440 And and Tip was on the phone and you was 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.160 listening down. And then I took the phone back when 0:34:47.160 --> 0:34:50.560 the record was over and I said, you heard that? 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:54.280 That is the jam and Ali was like, oh wow. 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:56.440 He was like, Yo, that sounded like a real house 0:34:56.520 --> 0:34:57.080 record too. 0:34:59.200 --> 0:35:00.080 That was crazy. 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.880 I repeat, that sounds like a real record too, you know, 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:05.120 like authentic, you know. 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:07.000 And I was like yeah. 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:09.040 And I was like, but you can hear the hip 0:35:09.040 --> 0:35:11.640 hop in it too, you know, Sammy doing the cut. 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:16.520 Star Wars breakbeat. So it was just like an exciting time. 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:20.160 Now that record was given to the record company, they 0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:22.520 laughed at it. They said, we're not putting it on 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:25.320 the vinyl. What, but we'll put it on the cassette. 0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:27.680 Wow. And what did the DJs do? 0:35:28.640 --> 0:35:34.080 From Limelight to Studio fifty four to Roseland to the Palladium, 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:37.160 to Milky Way to pay Day to Land, what did 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:39.879 all the DJs do? They took the cassette and at 0:35:39.880 --> 0:35:42.400 the end of the night was the last record they. 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:46.240 Played, and they said, red, we need this record on vinyl. 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:48.480 We playing it on cassette. 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:49.600 Wow. 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:52.279 So they had to go back and remaster the album 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:55.680 and repress Wow, which. 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:57.279 Goes back to G Street because they was the first 0:35:57.280 --> 0:35:59.680 one to actually take the song and preuss it on 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:01.359 the hour original. 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:04.680 Yeah, was like what this is not an album. 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:06.200 It's like, yeah, we won't do the deal if that 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:07.320 record is not on the album. 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:12.160 So what was the reception like at the Latin Quarter 0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:14.680 when they heard, Like, were they open to it? Like 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:16.439 could they play that at the Latin Quarter? 0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:21.319 Yo? Not at Quarters? It was kind of passed, It 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:23.719 was pasted. Yeah, it was yeah, Latin Quarter. 0:36:23.800 --> 0:36:26.479 I'm sorry sorry I mentioned Latin Quarter, but that reckon 0:36:26.640 --> 0:36:30.120 wasn't recorded yet in the Latin Quarter years. Part of 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:33.879 me on that, but that audience was still in those 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:37.399 other clubs, especially Roseland And what was the. 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.120 Club that closed that They closed down a couple of. 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:43.000 Times that we did the final party for and they 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:52.200 had a freestyle night. You think about that your question 0:36:52.880 --> 0:37:01.040 as your question, though I just wanted it was tramps. 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:02.960 No, no, it was it was the. 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:10.640 Rock eighteen team make the dream. 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:12.319 Work the dream Work. 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:16.359 Anyway, that record went down well with. 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.520 Hip hop and the dance audience so much so that 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:27.680 you had dudes that was like, yo, I hated house 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:29.680 music until I heard that. 0:37:31.080 --> 0:37:34.279 I didn't like music until I heard that record. But yo, 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:35.239 y'all got one. 0:37:35.560 --> 0:37:39.440 And then you start seeing those dudes at those clubs, 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:43.800 you know, the hardcore dudes that would be listening to 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.359 m w A be like, Yo, Jungle Brothers is playing 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:50.200 here tonight. Ten eighteen were up in here, five thousand 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:54.279 packed dudes in their first coach with the bottle of 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:56.759 them away. It's like as soon as they go, as 0:37:56.760 --> 0:37:59.279 soon as that record come on, we're going straight. 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:04.399 That's that's That was the one that old girls girls out. 0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:07.560 They caught on. They housed them, no doubt, but question. 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.920 It was an anomaly and you could see it. You 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:11.960 can see that people. 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:16.720 It broke through the whole genre of boundary thing because 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.200 it became just music. 0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:20.560 People just danced to it and jammed to it. 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:23.319 Whether they was like I'm in the hip hop or 0:38:23.320 --> 0:38:25.440 I'm in the house, they was everybody. 0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:27.800 Was together a universal battle song to, like dance battle 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:29.480 song to. I always remember seeing people in the club 0:38:29.520 --> 0:38:31.479 and that must be crazy to see people dance battle 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:32.879 into your song like what they. 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:38.680 Do like house shoot, yeah, exactly. It worked like Baltimore places, 0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:39.399 there you. 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.560 Go, there, you go exactly, oh man. 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:45.560 And then we go overseas and we think we're gonna 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:47.319 be doing like a hip hop tour, which we did 0:38:47.480 --> 0:38:49.280 hip hop dates, but then we being. 0:38:49.200 --> 0:38:55.960 Like raves raves, they didn't even call them ridiculous, and 0:38:56.040 --> 0:39:02.680 sometimes they just be like, guys, here's eight thousand dollars, 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:04.160 just do this the one. 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:08.839 That's what they because I got it like that. 0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:13.560 If we did a whole show of straight out the Jungle, 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:15.480 people people. 0:39:15.280 --> 0:39:18.480 Will be just waiting for our house. Yeah. Sometimes wow. 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:22.400 So at the same we have that now at the 0:39:22.400 --> 0:39:24.719 same time we was breaking straight out the Jungle and 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:28.960 that new vibe of hip hop, the whole rock chem 0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:31.480 esque E P M D S vibe of hip hop 0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:35.120 to a new audience in Berlin. 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:36.680 With the walls. 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:40.480 We were also breaking into the Acid House and we 0:39:40.480 --> 0:39:41.799 were breaking grounds with. 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:46.800 All the raveheads that were doing the big festival. 0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:49.200 Not for nothing you mentioned the wall coming down. I 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:51.600 just want to say, y'all did a festival at Wimbley 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:53.600 for Mandela like when he first got. 0:39:53.560 --> 0:39:58.400 Yeah, when the first release birthday, Yeah, when they released 0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:03.200 it from President from Prins Yeah nice, Yeah, yes, us 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:08.040 that's a sonic Nana Cherry. Yeah, you two, you two. 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:12.040 That was probably the biggest date. That was the biggest 0:40:12.719 --> 0:40:14.879 ever was at that time? 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:15.640 Yeah? 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:19.000 Wait was was I late for the recording techniques? And 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:22.000 yeah we missed the techniques for Straight Out the Jones. 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:23.839 So you guys got all the stories. We got the story, 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:28.200 all right. That's I have so many people, no, no, no, 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:30.719 I just want to make sure that you know, no doubt, 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:33.640 no doubt. 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:34.320 That some girlfriends where we right now and then and 0:40:34.400 --> 0:40:35.799 there in their journey we are. 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:40.560 We talked about Rough Deluxe, we went Straight Out the Jones. 0:40:40.760 --> 0:40:41.920 We talked about Crazy Wisdom Mass. 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:46.520 We talked Crazy Wisdom Mass, but I'm sure story. 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:47.759 We didn't talk about how they ended up at the 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:48.320 root picnic. 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:50.280 But you know, well because. 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:56.560 But we was here, okay, okay, so we were in Japan, yeah, 0:40:56.640 --> 0:40:58.560 showing performing on stage. 0:40:58.719 --> 0:40:59.920 You already know the story. 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:02.840 Yeah, he's just one person, no, no, everybody else Okay. 0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:05.200 Japan, performing on stage. 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:07.000 At the festival Soul Camp. 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:11.720 And Sean g who was tour manager for Jill Scott. 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:14.120 Yeah, and the roots manager and the roots. 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:17.920 Manager was in the audience. And then after the show 0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:20.800 he told me he was texting. 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:21.719 He showed me the show. 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:26.680 Sean was like, I was watching the show twelve hours behind, 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:27.640 like four in the morning. 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:30.760 That's technology is crazy. 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:33.879 I went, I went, I went into the catering to eat, 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:37.760 and Sean was like, yo, I was just texting quest 0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:40.600 Love and telling him, you know the show. You guys 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:43.600 got to come to the picnic. And I was like, okay, 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:45.960 you know live Leap of Faith, because it's like that 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:50.480 was just a week agos two weeks ago. Yeah, you know, 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:53.200 we moved, were only in Japan. Made the Work show, 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.880 that MTV show, then one of the show after that, 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:59.319 and then I was still in Japan for two weeks. 0:41:59.360 --> 0:42:03.040 After that. I just flew from Japan to Turkey to 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:03.960 London to here. 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:05.360 Because you don't live in this country. 0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:07.560 Don't live in country. Where are you? Where are you living? 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:13.440 Don't ask me about politics, no clue. 0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:15.360 I asked you about the Brexit that's where. 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:19.280 Oh yeah, I'm in Brexit world in London. 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:21.600 Yeah, I live in London, but I've lived in a 0:42:21.600 --> 0:42:24.600 lot of places, and I just recently been in London 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:25.120 for a year. 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:32.879 I've lived in Panama, moving around. But yeah, that's how. 0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:38.279 That's how we arrived here. Thank you, Sean Cheefe, no doubt, 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:48.719 thank you for you're for the jungle. You don't do 0:42:48.760 --> 0:42:57.879 a long ago. All right, So we're sitting here. 0:42:57.920 --> 0:43:00.960 Right now, uh with really one of one of my 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:03.319 one of my favorite people ever. 0:43:03.840 --> 0:43:04.080 Uh. 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:12.840 You are a one human operating, just walking machine of 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.920 of of of of talent. I think the first time 0:43:15.920 --> 0:43:21.879 I saw you in Brooklyn, you were doing h Biggie's. Yes, 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:25.839 you did Biggiest Juice and then I I haven't left 0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:28.520 your side. We've been signed these twins ever since. Welcome 0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:32.000 to the Court of Supreme Ladies and Gentlemen. Emily Wells, y'all. 0:43:33.560 --> 0:43:37.200 The third roop picnic for Emily, right, like how many picnics? 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:38.640 Okay you did, Phil? 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:43.399 Yes, yes, yeah, she's been am I like her. Her 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.480 and Chill Moody are just like the are our go 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.439 to always you know, give them. 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:55.200 Because you're cool. 0:43:55.400 --> 0:43:59.920 Well you know, but you welcomed me with your love. 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:01.040 Yeah. 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:03.319 I feel like Barry White. 0:44:03.320 --> 0:44:11.719 Now wait wait, wow, wait a minute, yes, now, why 0:44:11.800 --> 0:44:12.520 was it so white? 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:12.719 You? 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:13.200 Wow? 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:17.680 Wait, that's the whitest thing you've ever thought thirty years 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:18.279 I've known you. 0:44:18.719 --> 0:44:21.600 Wait a minute, I'm assaulted because. 0:44:23.400 --> 0:44:26.640 Because when she said it, it filtered to you as 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:27.160 a creed. 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:31.160 So but to me, I was going very white with it, Creed, 0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:37.160 I know. Hey man, it's it's real. We already know 0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:40.920 Sante is the is the Jedi Master? 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:47.799 No, but yeah you I well, first of all, how 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:48.319 was your set? 0:44:48.680 --> 0:44:48.839 Uh? 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.200 It was really fun playing. 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:53.719 For me. 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:58.200 It's unusual play you know, stage. 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.680 In the day and watching people trying to figure out 0:45:02.800 --> 0:45:04.080 what what does she do? 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:06.440 There's no computer. 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:09.960 Yeah, they always get it in the third or fourth minute. 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:12.319 And that's how it was because when I you know, 0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:15.440 because it takes you for those that don't know, I 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:17.320 guess what what is What is your go to device 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:18.600 that you do to loop? 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:21.520 Uh? 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:27.640 It's actually it's. 0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:27.040 That green device on. 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:34.600 This you're talking about and samplennulas kind of it's kind 0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:37.319 of like having like a really accessible quick like you know. 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:44.600 Four track, but like plus you know, so when you 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:47.600 do that, is there a click track inside of your ears? 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:51.480 Because when I watch you do this, you always start 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:55.439 off with this kind of long ethereal note. And I'm 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:57.520 trying to figure out if you're counting the metronome in 0:45:57.560 --> 0:46:00.800 your head because you wind up, you loop everything perfect, 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:09.279 but it's just such a yello like moldless form of time, 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:10.719 but you always seem to catch it. 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:13.480 The strings. 0:46:13.520 --> 0:46:17.840 I think they have that sort of femeral thing going 0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:20.440 on by their very nature. 0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:23.440 And I like to get a little and everything just 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:28.480 let everything swim. But yeah, I I. 0:46:27.320 --> 0:46:30.160 It's a lot of practice for sure, And it's a 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:33.480 lot of yeah, just. 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:38.240 Just knowing where my one is, even if not obvious, it's. 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:40.560 A good lesson knowing where you want is one? Where 0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:42.480 then is it? I wish. 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:48.719 Morning certain members of the roots hespired? 0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:54.000 That's good? No, well, okay, so I. 0:46:53.960 --> 0:46:54.560 Also have a. 0:46:56.880 --> 0:47:01.040 On the stage with Okay, like I put some of 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:03.440 my beats in there. I put all sorts of random 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:06.239 simples that anything I want, So that really helped me 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:08.880 open up your arrangements so I'm not just stuck on 0:47:08.920 --> 0:47:09.520 these loops. 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:11.880 So if I wanna go to a A B section or. 0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:14.239 Whatever, I can just like yeah, I think at one 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:16.200 point I you were I don't know if you were 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:18.880 playing keyboard with your right hand and the the the 0:47:19.000 --> 0:47:20.680 SPD drump pad with your left. 0:47:20.480 --> 0:47:23.160 Hand and looping and sing. 0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:25.120 You know, it's you really have to see it like 0:47:25.160 --> 0:47:29.799 it's it's it's it's it's next level uh performance. 0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:31.719 How long did it take you to to figure that 0:47:31.760 --> 0:47:32.120 all out? 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:32.520 Oh? 0:47:32.560 --> 0:47:34.720 Well, it it took some time. I mean it started 0:47:34.760 --> 0:47:37.799 really simple. I think I think it really started with. 0:47:37.960 --> 0:47:40.880 Strings and the loop pedal for me because violin and 0:47:40.960 --> 0:47:43.480 never knew how to incorporate that into a set, because 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:45.439 I I'm not gonna play like I can. 0:47:45.400 --> 0:47:47.200 Schedule in the club, you know what I mean, like 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:49.920 oh what ll again? But that's not gonna. 0:47:49.680 --> 0:47:51.520 Apply for an an hour and. 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:54.959 So and strings are meant to you know, rub next 0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:56.799 to each other, so I wanted that's so it kind 0:47:56.800 --> 0:47:59.520 of started with that, and then oh can. 0:47:59.280 --> 0:47:59.719 I just a. 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:02.480 I was. 0:48:04.600 --> 0:48:06.760 Stuf like stupid. 0:48:06.920 --> 0:48:09.000 I was about to say, you're your own uh tech 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:11.280 as well, like what if it. What if the equipment 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:15.120 breaks down, then what you just go a cappella? 0:48:16.040 --> 0:48:19.879 It can't it has it ever broken down? 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:23.360 I've had, But I don't, really, like I said, on 0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:25.680 a computers, cause that stuff will break. 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:28.160 Down more than a day. 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:32.440 Really, I was about to say, you're you're you're one 0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:35.360 of the the sh should I say the Brooklyn elite 0:48:35.440 --> 0:48:39.239 that don't usually like when those Brooklyn act Brooklyn e 0:48:39.440 --> 0:48:43.240 acts come on our show, I'll see more MacBook pros on. 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:45.439 Stage and yeah than anything else. 0:48:45.560 --> 0:48:47.399 But uh, yeah, I was about to say that you're 0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:52.000 you're old school and your digital embrace. Sure, sure so 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:55.600 kind of like D'Angelo with floppy discs. 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:58.960 Oh so many. 0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:00.680 That I love that. 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:04.080 And then yeah, uh it's like you can't even call 0:49:04.120 --> 0:49:05.960 that analog. It's like what what what what did you 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:06.239 call that? 0:49:07.200 --> 0:49:10.640 Well, it's yeah, it's I don't care about electronic. It's electronic. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.960 It's not analoge. So a, So, how do you apply this? 0:49:15.040 --> 0:49:18.160 I always wanted to know when when you're recording, uh 0:49:18.239 --> 0:49:23.400 your music in the studio, how do you apply what 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.799 you do live on stage to your cause, y, your 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:30.279 music is more fleshed out in the studio than it 0:49:30.360 --> 0:49:31.640 is uh on stage. 0:49:32.560 --> 0:49:35.480 To try to bring that feeling of the live thing 0:49:35.600 --> 0:49:38.920 as it is for anyone into a into a recording studio. 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:41.400 I mean, I I try to make it a mixture 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:43.200 of those samples. 0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:45.000 And some things are just created in. 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:47.680 The moment, and I wanna take the moment I was 0:49:47.719 --> 0:49:50.640 writing that song into the record then. 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:53.319 And let it be forever. Some things I wanna reperform 0:49:53.320 --> 0:49:56.520 over and over again. Locks and lots of layers of strings. 0:49:56.560 --> 0:50:00.239 I mean some of my records a viola, violin and 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:03.840 many like you know, twenty one layers or what you know. 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:06.799 Whatever, and then try to you can layer that much? 0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:09.439 Yeah, well I do it live. I just play it over. 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:10.560 I mean it's like this too. 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:13.680 Oh you just uh uh uh you know, to sound fuller, Okay, 0:50:13.800 --> 0:50:14.719 make it sound. 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:15.879 Really really big and. 0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:20.160 Yeah, I but some things are you know, are sampled 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:22.480 right into that little pedal. And and as I'm writing 0:50:22.480 --> 0:50:24.600 the songs and I don't, I don't bring those samples 0:50:24.600 --> 0:50:27.280 into I kind of treat them as though I couldn't 0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:28.920 treat those samples like I was taking it off the 0:50:29.000 --> 0:50:30.000 record or something like that. 0:50:30.040 --> 0:50:32.279 I kind of create the loop. 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:34.279 That I would make that I would that you would 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:37.920 wanna take off of wan smart cause when I drama 0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:39.680 do the same thing, I might work. 0:50:39.480 --> 0:50:41.919 Your own break. That's dope, exactly. 0:50:41.719 --> 0:50:44.839 Make alright, God, so what's your future and t So 0:50:44.920 --> 0:50:46.760 you just uh released your record? 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:48.239 Uh what three months ago? 0:50:48.360 --> 0:50:50.760 Or yeah, well a few months ago, you promise? 0:50:51.000 --> 0:50:54.120 Yeah, and I put it out on my own record label. 0:50:53.960 --> 0:50:57.600 And yeah, I just just I have I have a 0:50:57.719 --> 0:51:00.880 next the next and he has the next record. But 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:06.680 it's a hard right because it's it's kind of about. 0:51:05.520 --> 0:51:09.560 And you mean, what will life be like after November? 0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:12.879 I've seen the future and boys. 0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:18.880 Rough, how do you make That's the question with a 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:19.640 lot of artists face. 0:51:19.719 --> 0:51:24.640 So I'm it's gonna be great. 0:51:25.120 --> 0:51:26.839 Yeah, you know what he's gonna do if he gets 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:27.839 he's not gonna get it though. 0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:32.680 Yeah, well uh on you know, once again, I thank 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:38.080 you for doing the Roots picnic and anytime you you 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:41.759 uh do anything with us collaborating whatever, you know, it's 0:51:41.800 --> 0:51:45.719 a treat. We're probably gonna work on this next roots 0:51:45.719 --> 0:51:51.880 album together because we've been we've been threatening to do 0:51:51.920 --> 0:51:55.279 this for for three albums now, so we're gonna make 0:51:55.320 --> 0:51:59.839 it happen. Em We wells, ladies and gentlemen, I want 0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:02.960 to go to can we play? Oh we can. 0:52:05.360 --> 0:52:05.799 Wake up? 0:52:06.000 --> 0:52:10.520 Just seen it the entire room like we can. Glad. 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.279 Shout out to Emily and her class. 0:52:13.880 --> 0:52:15.280 Thank you man. 0:52:15.239 --> 0:52:16.800 Yeah, shout out for her being a trooper. 0:52:16.880 --> 0:52:20.840 She on the couch, Oh, thank you. 0:52:19.680 --> 0:52:21.279 So happy on the couch. 0:52:22.880 --> 0:52:25.600 Of record. 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:27.440 That was and. 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:31.719 The idea. I have this idea in my head. I 0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:37.160 will make it happy. I loved it so much. 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:40.080 That's what's up. That's good. 0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:43.040 Well, we're going to go to Passenger by Emily wells 0:52:43.280 --> 0:52:45.520 Uh on Quest of Supreme only on Pandora. 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:48.319 We will be right back. We are lots from the 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:49.840 roach picnic in y C. 0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:20.799 I'm my person, Jo, I'm gonna person. Jin give me 0:53:20.920 --> 0:53:26.680 the keys. I'm a job, I'm a person. I'm the 0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:29.040 person if. 0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:30.240 You give me the keys. 0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:31.719 You know, so. 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:36.400 Poll for its up throat and need it just to 0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:40.840 go a kiddy, kiddy, say it ain't so. 0:53:41.719 --> 0:53:44.000 I'm driving on tomorrow and. 0:53:44.120 --> 0:53:48.640 Losing on my rope botom of the wall, and I've 0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:49.880 just lost the rope. 0:53:50.719 --> 0:53:53.439 I had a feeling this myn. 0:53:53.400 --> 0:53:54.080 Is so hard. 0:53:54.600 --> 0:53:58.000 So tell me, tell me that you know how to make. 0:53:57.920 --> 0:54:01.160 It's to give me a a you mad, just sing 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:06.120 give me all your bills, your bed siding, just to 0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:23.840 kill my ls. 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:30.840 Support for Quest Love Supreme and Pandora's provided by boost Mobile. 0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:32.919 Boost Mobile where you're at. 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:39.080 This is Quest Love Supreme only on Pandora, Fonte Fontagelo, Sugar, 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:45.160 Steve Lovely La, Boss, Bill Scott, motherfucking yea yo. 0:54:45.840 --> 0:54:52.120 That was passenger and lactating unpaid unpaid correction, we forgot it. 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:54.000 Unpaid Bill is paid now, but we can still call 0:54:54.080 --> 0:54:57.520 my here. 0:54:57.920 --> 0:55:00.480 It's called continuity, so we gotta exactly. 0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:02.840 We were too far in the story to change it 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:04.200 about underpaid. 0:55:03.960 --> 0:55:06.000 Under Okay, nicknames. 0:55:07.160 --> 0:55:10.799 My Maya Rudolph is still talking about the radio show, 0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:13.120 and she still calls you black Bill and white Bill. 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:16.200 She said, wait, wait, who's some people like? I said, 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:17.240 I've had nickname. 0:55:17.920 --> 0:55:19.279 She's like the only one that can do that because 0:55:19.280 --> 0:55:21.200 shepped both sides. But wait, so Boston. 0:55:22.160 --> 0:55:24.799 She was the first guest on our show. She still knows, 0:55:25.239 --> 0:55:27.719 but she was the first lady of She was the 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:28.399 first lady question. 0:55:28.400 --> 0:55:31.640 She was the first and fell asleep forget it. 0:55:31.719 --> 0:55:32.960 She still you know, she could play both. 0:55:36.040 --> 0:55:38.480 I was about to give you some love, Boss, because 0:55:38.480 --> 0:55:41.279 you've been busy the last few days them. 0:55:41.160 --> 0:55:43.600 The name of the jam though for yeah you did 0:55:44.040 --> 0:55:45.640 we did, I don't think we did well. 0:55:45.760 --> 0:55:51.560 That was Passenger five minutes fact. Okay, so Liaiah, you 0:55:51.600 --> 0:55:52.919 were saying, no, I'm just. 0:55:52.840 --> 0:55:54.759 Saying that I wanted the bosses about to leave because 0:55:54.760 --> 0:55:57.320 he got to go on stage the main show, which 0:55:57.360 --> 0:56:00.120 is tonight, D'Angelo, John Maye. 0:56:00.120 --> 0:56:03.359 Mayor, John Mayor, and uh, a friend of mine from 0:56:03.440 --> 0:56:05.040 Chicago is going to come by as well. 0:56:06.560 --> 0:56:08.719 By the time everybody here's this, you know, it'll the 0:56:08.800 --> 0:56:09.960 show be in the past. So you can go ahead 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:10.359 and tell us. 0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:13.799 Now, let's keep it a mystery alone. 0:56:14.520 --> 0:56:20.200 Alchoh, Michael Jordan, I was going I wish it was 0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:22.440 going to be out shut off, asshole. 0:56:23.440 --> 0:56:26.280 Okay, So I just wanted to say, Kirby Bucket just rest. 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:32.840 He's from Minneapolis, Steve doing what he missed, the irony 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:34.640 of saying your joke from your joke. 0:56:35.280 --> 0:56:42.320 Yes, okay, this is love supreme. 0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:50.560 Yeah, So tonight is uh the roots and uh we 0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:55.400 got common we got uh. 0:56:54.440 --> 0:56:56.440 John Mayor, and we got D'Angelo. 0:56:56.760 --> 0:56:59.319 The reason why I'm like struggling to remember things is 0:56:59.360 --> 0:57:02.880 because I mean the way that I do business is 0:57:04.160 --> 0:57:05.680 I kind of I tend. 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:08.760 To agree to things fourteen. 0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:12.080 Months ahead of time, like right now we are planning 0:57:13.000 --> 0:57:17.720 the Philly Roots Picnic right now eight and with a 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:21.280 very monumental record that came out as of this taping. 0:57:21.480 --> 0:57:27.920 We're now talking to that particular young lady about headlining. Yeah, 0:57:28.280 --> 0:57:30.160 you just tend to plan things way ahead of time, 0:57:30.280 --> 0:57:35.480 and so at I don't know for me. Once it 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:38.000 was proposed to me that we should do a Roots 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:40.680 picnic on steroids and instead of the Roots back in 0:57:40.680 --> 0:57:42.120 the one act, why don't. 0:57:41.920 --> 0:57:44.320 We back like everybody, six of them? 0:57:44.800 --> 0:57:46.520 And I was like, yeah, yeah, of course I'll do that. 0:57:46.600 --> 0:57:50.760 And then once crunch time comes, you know, man, just 0:57:50.840 --> 0:57:54.560 the daggers in the stairs of all the Roots family 0:57:54.600 --> 0:57:59.560 members looking at me, I feel horrible, like all of 0:57:59.600 --> 0:58:02.600 them are libras, or I guess they're still libras even 0:58:02.640 --> 0:58:03.560 with the addition of that. 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.320 Unspoken the astrological sign. 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:10.439 Yeah, but all of them all their birthdays of this week, 0:58:10.520 --> 0:58:14.800 so most of them have had to uh not hang 0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:19.040 with their families and rehearse and wait and rehearse and wait. 0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:23.120 And he said they looked like zombie, like they. 0:58:23.000 --> 0:58:26.520 Were kung fu zombies. It just it just seems. It 0:58:26.640 --> 0:58:29.680 just seemed like I was in mood. 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:33.320 But you know, I had a few triple espressos, so 0:58:33.520 --> 0:58:36.720 I was like normal while everyone else was like that's 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:37.080 what you do. 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:39.320 Yeah, but no I don't sleep. Driver. 0:58:39.400 --> 0:58:41.120 It's like, no, you don't sleep. 0:58:42.040 --> 0:58:45.880 No, I do sleep. But I'm just saying that this 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:49.000 this show is packed with a lot of cues and 0:58:49.040 --> 0:58:54.320 a lot of modulations and tricks and and and you know, 0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:59.000 I'm hoping that I remember everything. It's going to be 0:58:59.000 --> 0:59:03.480 a monster show. But I just hope that I remember everything. 0:59:03.760 --> 0:59:07.400 I think even if you don't remember, everything will be noneththerwiser. 0:59:07.400 --> 0:59:09.400 I think the crowd would just be happy. I know, 0:59:09.520 --> 0:59:12.120 to you, you be like, fuck I missed that. Whatever, 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:15.440 But I'm willing to let the small stuff slide. 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:20.240 But just the kind of neurotic nature of the guests 0:59:20.280 --> 0:59:22.479 that we had, like that are other show. 0:59:23.160 --> 0:59:25.480 You know they're gonna want it, like perfect note for 0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:26.560 note for note. 0:59:26.480 --> 0:59:28.800 Yeah, but miss it. 0:59:28.920 --> 0:59:31.320 Yeah yeah they're missing and like get over yourself, dude, 0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:34.280 Like I'm paying, I'm playing for eighteen other motherfuckers. 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:35.080 Right, you know what I mean. 0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:37.600 But they never understand, they never understand that they never 0:59:37.680 --> 0:59:41.000 understand that she's witness to this stuff. Howard rehearsals. In 0:59:41.040 --> 0:59:43.880 your opinion, the first night of rehearsals with D'Angelo was 0:59:43.920 --> 0:59:46.800 probably that was the most beautiful thing I ever seen, 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:51.280 because like common also happened to be rehearsal next door. 0:59:51.800 --> 0:59:53.120 That's how you post that on Instagram. 0:59:53.440 --> 0:59:56.720 And he had like his room was the epicenter collective 0:59:56.800 --> 1:00:04.480 of all like neo neo blackatism. We quoted new terms here, 1:00:06.480 --> 1:00:08.800 it was neo blackatism. Like it was like you know, 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:12.240 Jamila of the mew and and and Ava and like 1:00:12.360 --> 1:00:17.720 all of class, yeah, Robert Glasper like just all the 1:00:17.840 --> 1:00:23.360 ensigns whining candles set of twenty fifteen sixty and it 1:00:23.440 --> 1:00:26.160 was like we were the pie piper. We we were 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:31.320 going over the root from Voodoo and just one by one, 1:00:31.600 --> 1:00:34.160 like it was like all the children of you Voodoo 1:00:34.240 --> 1:00:35.840 just came like we looked up and then there was 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:38.880 like at least like twenty of them, like it was 1:00:38.920 --> 1:00:45.240 a closed versal, but they all just came in, you know, 1:00:45.840 --> 1:00:51.439 and family, it was less a family reunion and more 1:00:51.560 --> 1:00:54.400 like and Dangel has never seen that, like it's really 1:00:54.440 --> 1:00:58.040 hard for him to even imagine the foodoo effect because 1:00:58.040 --> 1:01:01.479 he's so isolated from the world, so he doesn't get 1:01:01.720 --> 1:01:04.880 like he doesn't know what the dirty projectors are, and. 1:01:04.680 --> 1:01:07.400 How like their whole harmony game. 1:01:07.280 --> 1:01:10.080 Is based on you know, like Dave's hold Steeze is 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:13.080 like Yo, Voodoo is how I stack my harmonies and 1:01:13.120 --> 1:01:15.439 all this stuff, and like all these references that even 1:01:15.480 --> 1:01:21.560 I missed, So just to see, I mean, the collective 1:01:21.600 --> 1:01:24.640 story is always like, yeah, when I was eight, my 1:01:24.880 --> 1:01:26.640 older sister got that record, and I grew up on 1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:28.840 that record. So just to watch them as food grown 1:01:28.880 --> 1:01:33.000 adults watching D'Angelo do that shit like it was, it was, 1:01:33.040 --> 1:01:34.160 it was some beautiful. 1:01:33.760 --> 1:01:35.640 Well boss, speaking of d Angelo, I just got to 1:01:35.680 --> 1:01:37.000 call from the officials at Brian Park. 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:40.280 You got to go, Yeah, I gotta go. 1:01:40.480 --> 1:01:45.320 I'm sorry, this is not the question of supreme. 1:01:45.400 --> 1:01:49.520 So we're so completely happy and honor today to be 1:01:49.680 --> 1:01:52.960 joined by a young lady that I am a fan of, 1:01:53.880 --> 1:01:56.520 you know, looking at the photo right now, and she 1:01:56.680 --> 1:02:02.120 first captured my heart when she put out a record. God, 1:02:02.160 --> 1:02:03.920 I want to say, was it twenty twelve? 1:02:04.080 --> 1:02:05.120 Was it was that. 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:06.120 When life came up? 1:02:06.280 --> 1:02:06.480 Yeah? 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:11.040 Christ and two thousand and oh my. 1:02:10.960 --> 1:02:15.240 God, it was Oh man, wow, time, keep on slipping 1:02:15.600 --> 1:02:18.760 into the future. Nah Man, Live your Life. It was 1:02:18.800 --> 1:02:22.000 a record she put out, produced by Pharrell, and uh, 1:02:22.040 --> 1:02:24.640 it was just something that was just I was amazed 1:02:24.680 --> 1:02:26.000 just by the simplicity of it. 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:27.960 It was something that drove. 1:02:28.120 --> 1:02:30.080 It was at a you know, very driving beat, very 1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:35.400 mellow uh you know, keyboard, you know, arrangement and her voice. 1:02:35.680 --> 1:02:37.440 The thing I liked about it was that it just 1:02:37.480 --> 1:02:39.800 sounded really pure. It was just not a lot of 1:02:40.600 --> 1:02:44.360 vocal tricks, not a whole lot of just not a 1:02:44.440 --> 1:02:46.560 whole lot of a dormant It was just really simple 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:48.360 and it cut through and she just sang the song 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:50.240 and the lyrically really spoke to me was a you know, 1:02:50.280 --> 1:02:53.080 live if you really want to, you know, and sess 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:55.840 that's something that you know, living is is a choice, 1:02:55.920 --> 1:02:58.840 you know, and and that really spoke to me. So, uh, 1:02:58.920 --> 1:03:03.520 ladies and gentlemen, give a big quest love Supreme Team, 1:03:03.600 --> 1:03:10.520 Supreme Brown. Applause for incredibly talented Una ladies jumping bang 1:03:11.360 --> 1:03:16.200 bang bang when this joint stage fresh out stage, How 1:03:16.280 --> 1:03:16.840 was your performance? 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:17.200 Time to go? 1:03:17.920 --> 1:03:21.040 It went really really well, like you know, the crowd 1:03:21.120 --> 1:03:24.720 was amazing and yeah, it was just kind of like 1:03:25.080 --> 1:03:28.360 we we drove from yesterday. Oh my god, we were 1:03:28.360 --> 1:03:32.400 from Rhode Island yesterday. Oh wow, Providence, Rhode Island. So 1:03:32.440 --> 1:03:36.160 I'm on tour right now, you know. So yeah, we've 1:03:36.160 --> 1:03:38.120 been on the road, so coming out here is like 1:03:38.160 --> 1:03:41.360 a like a treat and I've always like, I've been 1:03:41.400 --> 1:03:43.480 looking forward to perform at the Roots Picnic. 1:03:43.600 --> 1:03:45.160 So yeah, I had a lot of fun. 1:03:45.040 --> 1:03:46.680 That's dope. What so your show? 1:03:46.720 --> 1:03:49.760 I was unfortunate, you know, I wasn't able to see 1:03:49.760 --> 1:03:51.800 your show because I was stuck over here. 1:03:51.640 --> 1:03:52.320 Doing this ship. 1:03:54.200 --> 1:03:56.520 Our cult leader of Mirror Thompson had us locked up 1:03:56.560 --> 1:04:01.040 in here like like hostages. No food, no food we 1:04:01.120 --> 1:04:02.800 had had and we had to ask for the water 1:04:03.920 --> 1:04:04.600 we had to ask for. 1:04:04.640 --> 1:04:05.720 That's a cushy. 1:04:05.400 --> 1:04:07.240 Gig, you know what I'm saying. But not so, I 1:04:07.280 --> 1:04:09.920 wasn't able to see your show, unfortunately. What does your 1:04:09.920 --> 1:04:13.360 show for people that you know haven't had the fortune 1:04:13.360 --> 1:04:16.520 of singing? What is your show like? Do you of 1:04:16.560 --> 1:04:18.240 course you're singing? Do you playing the instruments? 1:04:18.280 --> 1:04:20.080 Like? What is your what's your state show? 1:04:20.320 --> 1:04:20.680 Oh? 1:04:20.720 --> 1:04:22.680 Well, I sing mostly, you know. 1:04:22.720 --> 1:04:25.640 I used to do a lot of acoustic performances, so 1:04:25.720 --> 1:04:28.480 I used to play a lot of the acoustic guitar 1:04:28.840 --> 1:04:34.120 and then you know, like I couldn't hire a guitar player, 1:04:34.200 --> 1:04:37.520 so I play electric guitar on my set. But now 1:04:37.560 --> 1:04:40.200 that I can finally do that, you know, like I 1:04:40.200 --> 1:04:42.920 would love to play the guitar my shows. Is just 1:04:42.920 --> 1:04:46.000 that I just feel like, you know, I'm not like 1:04:46.080 --> 1:04:49.000 exactly like it's a guitar guitar player. Yeah, I'm not 1:04:49.040 --> 1:04:52.280 there yet, So we'll just focus on just performing. And 1:04:52.360 --> 1:04:56.240 you know, like I've been touring for four years and 1:04:56.360 --> 1:04:59.920 it's really just I'm just growing into it a real artist, 1:05:00.200 --> 1:05:01.640 Like I never get to do that. 1:05:01.720 --> 1:05:03.680 I never got to do that back home in Malaysia 1:05:03.720 --> 1:05:04.280 where I'm from. 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:07.440 Yeah, so coming out here was just like going on 1:05:07.520 --> 1:05:11.200 tour and kind of like just slowly learning how to 1:05:12.320 --> 1:05:15.960 you know, give a really good performance for the fans. 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:17.240 So yeah, it's sellous. 1:05:17.240 --> 1:05:20.200 So Malaysia, Like what is that like in this this 1:05:20.440 --> 1:05:21.880 what's the city's music scene? 1:05:22.240 --> 1:05:23.600 The music scene? 1:05:23.640 --> 1:05:28.080 Oh, it's like it's a small country, but it's constantly growing. 1:05:28.120 --> 1:05:32.280 Like we went from like having singers like just doing 1:05:32.520 --> 1:05:37.960 ballads and traditional Malay music like I'm Malay, so the 1:05:38.040 --> 1:05:40.480 traditional music is more kind of like you know, like 1:05:40.680 --> 1:05:43.280 a cross between like Indonesian and kind of like Thaie 1:05:43.480 --> 1:05:46.680 and so that the Southeast Asian sound, you know. And 1:05:47.200 --> 1:05:50.920 but now it's like slowly growing. Like the hip hop 1:05:51.000 --> 1:05:55.720 scene started like I think like twenty years ago or so, 1:05:55.920 --> 1:05:59.920 you know, so it was it's pretty interesting to see 1:06:00.120 --> 1:06:02.800 Like when I I kind of like grew up just 1:06:02.840 --> 1:06:06.280 watching like Okay, well there's a Malaysian hip hop artist. 1:06:06.320 --> 1:06:10.880 I'm like, oh, okay, there's a Malaysian like indie rock artists, 1:06:10.960 --> 1:06:14.520 and yeah, so I kind of like grew up in 1:06:14.560 --> 1:06:15.560 that setting. 1:06:16.000 --> 1:06:18.200 Any of them crossed over as much as you have. 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:18.840 I feel. 1:06:20.680 --> 1:06:21.880 No to America. 1:06:22.000 --> 1:06:24.560 No, I think you're kind of like the first stop 1:06:24.600 --> 1:06:28.720 the limo, like you're the one's Charlie Mat. You're Charlie Mat, 1:06:28.760 --> 1:06:30.480 like thank you. 1:06:30.480 --> 1:06:32.040 You know that kind of is putting on. 1:06:32.120 --> 1:06:35.640 Do you feel any like in hip hop in you know, America, 1:06:35.760 --> 1:06:39.120 there is a big the big thing of putting on, 1:06:39.320 --> 1:06:40.480 you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, I put 1:06:40.560 --> 1:06:41.920 on for my city, Like so. 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:44.840 Wherever I come from, I'm gonna put on for wherever. 1:06:46.240 --> 1:06:48.280 Do you feel the need to put on for the LASiS, 1:06:48.920 --> 1:06:51.440 the whole country? Like I'm Yuna and I'm doing it, but. 1:06:52.040 --> 1:06:57.160 Everybody, I mean, you know, I started out in Malaysia, 1:06:57.400 --> 1:07:00.880 Like I was already doing music for three four years 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:04.920 back home before I move out to Los Angeles. Did 1:07:04.960 --> 1:07:09.960 you when did you come to LA twenty eleven? Around 1:07:10.040 --> 1:07:10.439 that time? 1:07:11.200 --> 1:07:12.160 The time is short. 1:07:12.440 --> 1:07:17.760 Yeah, So I started making music like two thousand and seven, 1:07:17.800 --> 1:07:23.040 two thousand and eight pretty much. So it's it's quite 1:07:23.480 --> 1:07:24.880 an interesting journey. 1:07:25.560 --> 1:07:28.400 You started making music in two thousand and seven, Yeah, 1:07:28.400 --> 1:07:30.120 that was when you really started. 1:07:30.040 --> 1:07:34.440 So writing, Yeah, writing songs and just kind of like 1:07:34.560 --> 1:07:37.360 producing my own album. Like I didn't want to sign 1:07:37.400 --> 1:07:40.480 to any labels back home. I don't know, like you know, 1:07:40.560 --> 1:07:45.680 inside I felt like inside I was just like in 1:07:45.720 --> 1:07:47.920 my heart, like okay, well I want to be a 1:07:48.080 --> 1:07:50.920 singer songwriter, but I don't want to be signed. I 1:07:50.920 --> 1:07:52.760 don't want to sign with any labels because I know 1:07:52.800 --> 1:07:54.560 if I do that, I'm like kind of like trapped 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:57.040 in Malaysia for a long long time. So I didn't 1:07:57.040 --> 1:07:59.680 want to do that because I knew, like I want 1:07:59.720 --> 1:08:01.840 to get out of Malaysia. I want to come out 1:08:02.120 --> 1:08:06.800 to the UK or the US and really just make 1:08:06.880 --> 1:08:08.320 music out there. 1:08:08.720 --> 1:08:11.320 How does a person get because that's I mean, that's 1:08:11.360 --> 1:08:14.480 pretty amazing. How does a person get from making music 1:08:14.600 --> 1:08:17.400 starting off making music in two thousand and seven to 1:08:17.479 --> 1:08:20.040 working with for real Williams who is one of the 1:08:20.080 --> 1:08:25.080 biggest producers in the three years man, I mean four years. 1:08:25.120 --> 1:08:26.800 Man. How does the friend of a. 1:08:26.720 --> 1:08:28.760 Friend or like kind of a little bit like that. 1:08:28.800 --> 1:08:32.360 I think it's a little bit of kind of like 1:08:32.880 --> 1:08:35.479 when you work really hard and then you you know, 1:08:35.640 --> 1:08:40.880 like just meeting the right people, and I guess the 1:08:40.920 --> 1:08:43.080 mixture of both. Like I got really lucky, you know, 1:08:43.160 --> 1:08:46.960 like I was in Malaysia just doing my my music thing, 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:50.439 and then my management from Los Angeles in deepop my 1:08:50.479 --> 1:08:53.080 manager Ben found me on my Space music. 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:55.160 Oh yeah, that was that time. 1:08:56.680 --> 1:09:01.080 Shout out, where is Tom these days? 1:09:01.120 --> 1:09:08.280 So I know our first friend, but yeah, so I 1:09:08.280 --> 1:09:12.240 don't know, like he hit me up and then emailed me. 1:09:12.320 --> 1:09:14.840 I didn't. I didn't respond to his emails for a 1:09:14.840 --> 1:09:17.280 long time because I thought it was a scam. It 1:09:17.360 --> 1:09:19.320 was just like all these things like I'm not gonna 1:09:19.320 --> 1:09:21.880 reply to an American dude, you know, like just like 1:09:21.920 --> 1:09:24.439 fly out to l A, not not doing what to do. 1:09:25.320 --> 1:09:27.840 But he came out to call a Lumpur, the city 1:09:27.880 --> 1:09:32.200 where I'm from, met up with me, and you know, 1:09:32.280 --> 1:09:34.200 we got to know each other kind of talk about 1:09:34.240 --> 1:09:39.080 our the music career that could be, you know, like 1:09:39.200 --> 1:09:42.720 a potential music career out here. And I was like 1:09:42.760 --> 1:09:44.559 all for it, you know, okay, final, let's do it. 1:09:44.720 --> 1:09:49.800 And so Ben he's been in the music industry for 1:09:49.840 --> 1:09:53.200 a very long time. He just just started a music 1:09:53.320 --> 1:09:59.439 management like label, and he worked in radio for like 1:09:59.439 --> 1:10:02.360 a long long time time. So yeah, I mean, like 1:10:02.400 --> 1:10:04.320 I guess like I got really lucky that he was 1:10:04.400 --> 1:10:07.639 kind of like this fun, like nice and friendly person, 1:10:07.760 --> 1:10:11.439 you know as a manager, because like getting a good 1:10:11.479 --> 1:10:12.400 manager's car. 1:10:12.800 --> 1:10:15.120 Yeah, so yeah, that's dope. 1:10:15.760 --> 1:10:18.880 So when you guys were working on uh on the 1:10:18.960 --> 1:10:21.439 track the work you did with for real, was that 1:10:21.479 --> 1:10:24.280 you guys working together in the studio or was it 1:10:24.360 --> 1:10:26.040 like he did the track and then you came in 1:10:26.200 --> 1:10:26.600 and did it? 1:10:26.720 --> 1:10:28.120 Like how did that come together? Yeah? 1:10:28.160 --> 1:10:28.880 I know, I was. 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:31.680 I was in the studio with him. Yeah, so we 1:10:31.680 --> 1:10:32.679 were that magic. 1:10:33.040 --> 1:10:34.400 Yeah we Wow. 1:10:34.600 --> 1:10:38.360 I was traveling from Malaysia to Los Angeles and then 1:10:38.400 --> 1:10:40.719 I took a flight to Miami and then from Miami 1:10:40.960 --> 1:10:44.400 like took the I remember this like from Miami Airport. 1:10:44.560 --> 1:10:46.600 We took the taxi and I didn't like shower for 1:10:46.680 --> 1:10:49.880 three days and just like went to the studio and 1:10:49.920 --> 1:10:51.400 then I was like, okay, well maybe I get to 1:10:51.400 --> 1:10:53.720 put some makeup on and I nope. He comes out 1:10:53.760 --> 1:10:55.600 from his car. I'm just like all right, well to 1:10:55.640 --> 1:11:00.200 sit high. I'm you know, yeah, I haven't shot in 1:11:00.240 --> 1:11:00.759 three days. 1:11:01.720 --> 1:11:02.679 But he would. 1:11:04.360 --> 1:11:06.559 He was really sweet, you know, like we got into 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:11.439 the studio, start working and live your life was like 1:11:11.520 --> 1:11:13.920 the song that kind of just like I was kind 1:11:13.920 --> 1:11:17.719 of like afraid of moving forward with the music because 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:20.880 he made that beat. Like I remember like maybe like 1:11:20.880 --> 1:11:23.280 we've been in the studio for five days and he 1:11:23.479 --> 1:11:24.920 was like do you like this? You know, he was 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:27.640 working on something and I thought, I legit thought that 1:11:27.720 --> 1:11:29.599 he was doing that beat for someone else. 1:11:29.760 --> 1:11:31.240 And I'm like, oh no, this is dope. 1:11:31.320 --> 1:11:31.840 I love it. 1:11:31.880 --> 1:11:34.000 And he's like, okay, cool, write on this. I'm like 1:11:34.000 --> 1:11:36.400 wait what you know, Like how do I do this? 1:11:36.520 --> 1:11:41.559 But he guided me through it, you know, so it 1:11:41.640 --> 1:11:44.040 was fun, like it was a learning process, Like I've 1:11:44.080 --> 1:11:46.519 never worked with a hip hop producer before, so it 1:11:46.600 --> 1:11:49.679 was it kind of like bought me to be more 1:11:50.479 --> 1:11:53.280 experimental if you can, you know, like or open to 1:11:53.600 --> 1:11:57.320 new genres, because back then I was really just doing acoustic. 1:11:57.400 --> 1:11:58.760 I was in my own bubble, you know. 1:11:58.800 --> 1:12:02.760 So yeah, you're doing like when you're creative process, when 1:12:02.800 --> 1:12:06.160 you're writing, what comes first? Is it melody first? Or 1:12:06.240 --> 1:12:09.320 is it like lyrics words first? How does that come together? 1:12:10.439 --> 1:12:13.599 It depends really like I can. I'm pretty much you know, 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:17.000 flexible when it comes to songwriting. I've been doing I've 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:19.559 been doing it for a long long time. So it's 1:12:19.640 --> 1:12:22.880 like either I'm like I come out with lyrics, I 1:12:22.880 --> 1:12:23.960 write down some words. 1:12:24.800 --> 1:12:26.760 Are you one of these people because I'm I do it? 1:12:26.800 --> 1:12:28.439 Do you keep notes in your phone? 1:12:28.479 --> 1:12:30.520 Oh yeah, definitely. 1:12:30.240 --> 1:12:32.000 The albums with material in your phone. 1:12:33.160 --> 1:12:33.439 I have. 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:36.080 I have like a lot of materials in my phone, 1:12:37.240 --> 1:12:42.400 like chapters for example my My the new album. Yeah, 1:12:42.520 --> 1:12:44.840 most of it was just like me writing on my 1:12:44.840 --> 1:12:46.400 my phone, like my notes. 1:12:46.439 --> 1:12:47.080 Yeah for all. 1:12:47.080 --> 1:12:49.120 It's like not the only like living legend that you 1:12:49.200 --> 1:12:51.120 work with. It's weird, this is a short career, but 1:12:51.160 --> 1:12:51.920 you're working with. 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:58.880 Like great knocking down. It's like David Foster. 1:12:59.000 --> 1:13:01.800 You you have to have like twenty years under your 1:13:02.479 --> 1:13:02.960 So how did that? 1:13:03.200 --> 1:13:03.960 How did that happen? 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:09.479 Well, So when I first came out to LA obviously 1:13:09.520 --> 1:13:11.320 we went to meet up with a lot of an 1:13:11.479 --> 1:13:13.479 R people, you know, like a lot of labels, like 1:13:13.479 --> 1:13:18.200 shopping for labels, and we met out with UH and 1:13:18.479 --> 1:13:21.240 an R from Verth And at the time that was 1:13:21.280 --> 1:13:23.320 like five years ago. Like the first person that I 1:13:23.360 --> 1:13:26.320 met was this this lady from from Verve Records and 1:13:27.240 --> 1:13:30.439 Universal and she was she she was in love with me, 1:13:30.479 --> 1:13:34.280 you know that she really believed in my career. And uh, 1:13:34.320 --> 1:13:37.960 back then, like David Foster was not in the picture yet. 1:13:38.360 --> 1:13:41.400 So after a while, you know, like he joined Verth 1:13:42.040 --> 1:13:45.519 and he found out about me and then like he 1:13:45.640 --> 1:13:47.719 was like, oh, you know, like why didn't we sign 1:13:47.800 --> 1:13:50.439 this girl like in the So it was really cool 1:13:50.479 --> 1:13:55.160 to be able to you know, come to see him 1:13:55.240 --> 1:13:57.800 and then like played some songs for him and you 1:13:57.840 --> 1:14:01.280 know like work with him, like for for a song 1:14:01.439 --> 1:14:02.200 on this album. 1:14:02.320 --> 1:14:03.200 So, yeah, did. 1:14:03.160 --> 1:14:06.439 You know that you're familiar of like who with who 1:14:06.520 --> 1:14:07.639 he was like before? 1:14:08.360 --> 1:14:11.800 Oh yeah, definitely, he's huge in Malaysia. He would come out, 1:14:11.920 --> 1:14:14.920 he would come out and like do his own concerts? 1:14:15.000 --> 1:14:16.960 Do they go crazy over you? Yet when you go home? 1:14:17.000 --> 1:14:22.920 Did they yeah, and. 1:14:22.880 --> 1:14:24.360 You must get a lot of love too, because like you, 1:14:24.680 --> 1:14:26.920 you you haven't changed who you are. I'm sure at 1:14:26.920 --> 1:14:29.920 some point there was some resistance about you being of 1:14:29.960 --> 1:14:32.960 course the broad Muslim woman that you are, and how 1:14:33.000 --> 1:14:34.840 you dressed the way you dress, even though you had 1:14:34.920 --> 1:14:36.599 you funk it up to a level that is. 1:14:36.600 --> 1:14:41.760 Like, but was there ever any resistance to you being you? 1:14:42.400 --> 1:14:43.479 Oh? 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:44.519 No not. 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:48.559 I mean like I've never faced any like, you know, 1:14:48.600 --> 1:14:49.760 anything challenging like. 1:14:49.680 --> 1:14:51.280 That labels because people always. 1:14:51.040 --> 1:14:55.080 Yeah, no, I mean, uh no, not at all. You 1:14:55.120 --> 1:14:57.519 know what's weird though, I went through that back home 1:14:57.560 --> 1:15:00.200 in Malaysia because like, yeah, like covering up it was 1:15:00.240 --> 1:15:02.080 just something like weird, like if you want to be 1:15:02.240 --> 1:15:05.720 an artist, it's not it's something. That's another reason why 1:15:05.760 --> 1:15:08.639 I stayed independent for a very long time because Okay, 1:15:08.680 --> 1:15:11.240 well they're not going to accept me for who I am. 1:15:11.720 --> 1:15:13.799 I gotta change. So I'm not going to change. 1:15:14.000 --> 1:15:16.479 I'm just going to do my thing. And but coming 1:15:16.520 --> 1:15:19.760 out here was surprisingly like super easy. Everyone was just 1:15:19.800 --> 1:15:22.400 like I you know, I was with the Fader label 1:15:22.520 --> 1:15:25.519 for for a while and they were super sweet, super 1:15:25.520 --> 1:15:29.320 supportive and really believed in like my my work and 1:15:29.320 --> 1:15:33.519 my talent and yeah, just like it was just easy 1:15:33.560 --> 1:15:33.840 for me. 1:15:34.120 --> 1:15:36.160 Are you doing anything in the fashion line? 1:15:37.040 --> 1:15:37.439 Uh? 1:15:37.520 --> 1:15:40.080 Yeah, I am a little bit, a little bit. 1:15:40.680 --> 1:15:41.679 I feel like I really want. 1:15:41.640 --> 1:15:42.000 You to. 1:15:43.439 --> 1:15:46.320 Know it seemed like it would be fit for you. 1:15:46.320 --> 1:15:50.240 Your newest record, Chapters. You were talking about how this 1:15:50.400 --> 1:15:53.360 was written. If I'm not mistaken, it was written after 1:15:53.400 --> 1:15:56.439 the end of a relationship or was it it was 1:15:56.439 --> 1:15:57.639 inspired by a breakup? 1:15:59.120 --> 1:16:00.519 You're like, you're not sure it was? 1:16:00.720 --> 1:16:02.519 No, no, no, I just want to I know, I know 1:16:02.600 --> 1:16:07.080 it was a record, every army record, I know, one 1:16:07.120 --> 1:16:07.840 of the motherfuckers. 1:16:08.040 --> 1:16:10.639 I'm just saying, I just want to make you represent 1:16:10.680 --> 1:16:11.400 the right record. 1:16:11.880 --> 1:16:15.200 It was Chapters, and you were saying that you wanted 1:16:15.240 --> 1:16:19.040 to write a record. You know, previously you were in 1:16:19.080 --> 1:16:23.080 a relationship and you were I guess too dependent co 1:16:23.200 --> 1:16:26.720 dependent on that relationship that you're in, and so you said, 1:16:26.720 --> 1:16:29.080 you know, I want to write a record that you know, 1:16:29.280 --> 1:16:31.439 I was single, I'm free, and I want to write 1:16:31.439 --> 1:16:32.639 something in that state of mind. 1:16:32.960 --> 1:16:33.160 Yeah. 1:16:34.000 --> 1:16:38.200 What is the difference between those two states of mind 1:16:38.200 --> 1:16:40.800 in terms of creating from a place of I'm in 1:16:40.840 --> 1:16:42.519 this relationship and maybe I'm a little to dependent on 1:16:42.560 --> 1:16:47.000 it versus I'm free and you know, I let that go. 1:16:49.080 --> 1:16:53.680 I mean, I guess, like you being a singer, song 1:16:53.840 --> 1:16:57.519 do you just tend to write like obviously what you 1:16:57.600 --> 1:17:00.000 know best, you know, like you know what's in your heart. 1:17:00.240 --> 1:17:02.759 And for me, at the time, I was going through 1:17:02.880 --> 1:17:07.799 like you know, like a breakup and it was really hard, 1:17:08.040 --> 1:17:10.200 you know, And but now I'm kind of you know, 1:17:10.280 --> 1:17:14.160 like I've moved on obviously by the time, like I 1:17:14.280 --> 1:17:18.120 was really in that moment, So like what do I do? Like, okay, 1:17:18.160 --> 1:17:20.200 like I'm in that moment, and then I have to 1:17:20.320 --> 1:17:23.760 write an album like duh, always like you'll end up 1:17:23.840 --> 1:17:26.479 just writing you know what you what you're feeling, and 1:17:26.520 --> 1:17:29.280 that's how it's supposed to be, you know, instead of 1:17:29.360 --> 1:17:32.800 just like writing happy songs or like you know, faking 1:17:33.240 --> 1:17:39.240 a song. And uh yeah, I guess it's a It 1:17:39.280 --> 1:17:43.160 really depends. Like for chapters, I I wanted to write 1:17:43.200 --> 1:17:45.960 about okay, like at the time I was going through 1:17:45.960 --> 1:17:48.240 a breakup, and then in the present like I feel 1:17:48.320 --> 1:17:50.880 kind of like in the limbo, you know. So there's 1:17:50.920 --> 1:17:52.920 a song called Mannequin where I just kind of feel 1:17:52.920 --> 1:17:57.040 that way and then and the future is like best love, 1:17:57.240 --> 1:17:59.360 like the kind of love that I want for the future, 1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:00.839 you know, so you want for the future. 1:18:01.920 --> 1:18:02.719 That's kind of love. 1:18:04.640 --> 1:18:06.719 Let everyone know because I mean, hey, this is Quess 1:18:06.760 --> 1:18:09.680 Love Supreme and you never know your best love could 1:18:09.680 --> 1:18:10.400 be listening right now. 1:18:11.000 --> 1:18:13.240 So let the people know. You know. 1:18:13.320 --> 1:18:16.880 Let what what does the best love look like? 1:18:18.800 --> 1:18:21.599 You know, someone who's just like. 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:26.320 Who have the best intentions for you, you know, like 1:18:26.360 --> 1:18:29.160 who just wants you to be happy inside out, like 1:18:29.240 --> 1:18:31.800 without expecting anything back. Not that I'm not going to 1:18:31.880 --> 1:18:35.080 give you anything back, you know, obviously there there will 1:18:35.120 --> 1:18:38.559 be like it's a two way thing. But someone someone 1:18:38.600 --> 1:18:43.960 who's just purely like like lovely. 1:18:44.080 --> 1:18:45.920 I just want someone lovely, you know. 1:18:46.080 --> 1:18:50.920 And yeah, that was that was beautiful. 1:18:54.720 --> 1:18:54.960 In here. 1:18:55.000 --> 1:19:00.800 Man, Well you to thank you so much for taking 1:19:00.840 --> 1:19:03.960 time and coming through and chopping it up with us 1:19:04.040 --> 1:19:05.520 about being lovely. 1:19:05.400 --> 1:19:08.559 And and everything. 1:19:09.160 --> 1:19:18.040 Ladies, gentlemen, give it up for un on Quest. This 1:19:18.160 --> 1:19:26.080 is Questlove Supreme. Fine Tivolo like EA unpaid Bill Boss Bill, Hello, 1:19:26.320 --> 1:19:30.360 Sugar Steve is not Scott Yayo in the building us 1:19:30.439 --> 1:19:32.920 Quest Love Supreme. Y'all team Supremes in the buildings. 1:19:32.960 --> 1:19:33.559 How we go down? 1:19:33.720 --> 1:19:37.200 Listen, we are here today this is We're live in 1:19:37.240 --> 1:19:37.799 New York. 1:19:37.640 --> 1:19:38.759 City at the Brouts Picnic. 1:19:39.080 --> 1:19:42.320 So if you hear any background noise or whatever, that 1:19:42.520 --> 1:19:45.040 is the noise from musicians doing what they do getting 1:19:45.080 --> 1:19:46.439 paid and uh. 1:19:47.439 --> 1:19:49.719 From a few times we do actually get goddamn paid. 1:19:49.800 --> 1:19:52.600 Really on your show, on your show, you know what 1:19:52.600 --> 1:19:53.040 I'm saying. 1:19:53.360 --> 1:19:57.160 But but nah, man, so listen, we're live here and 1:19:57.360 --> 1:20:00.800 we're here today while with the young man who is 1:20:02.479 --> 1:20:11.360 by birthright music Royalty, Royalty. 1:20:12.240 --> 1:20:12.760 Royalty. 1:20:13.680 --> 1:20:17.439 You know what I'm saying, man, I'm not I mean, no, no, 1:20:17.600 --> 1:20:18.960 no bullshit, no over selling. 1:20:19.040 --> 1:20:20.639 I mean, this is is actual facts. 1:20:20.640 --> 1:20:20.800 Bro. 1:20:21.920 --> 1:20:24.599 Ladies and gentlemen, give it up, big question of supreme 1:20:24.640 --> 1:20:27.080 ra applause, mister Daniel Marley, y'all give. 1:20:31.160 --> 1:20:32.920 You man, Thank you for being here. 1:20:33.880 --> 1:20:39.160 Half human, half ninja ninjaja. 1:20:40.760 --> 1:20:41.320 Okay. 1:20:43.280 --> 1:20:46.240 For tell us tell us about because because the note 1:20:46.240 --> 1:20:48.439 that we got was that you know you're half human 1:20:48.479 --> 1:20:51.000 half ninja. You're saying your full ninja like yeah, I mean, 1:20:51.160 --> 1:20:55.679 of course, okay, tell us about the life of a ninja. 1:20:56.920 --> 1:21:02.960 I mean we live this life. Okay, this bro, because 1:21:03.080 --> 1:21:03.880 Nina doubles. 1:21:05.720 --> 1:21:07.920 That is it's one of those words we can you know, 1:21:09.000 --> 1:21:10.960 half human also ninja. 1:21:11.000 --> 1:21:15.880 But I'm not half no ninja your ninja, okay, because 1:21:15.880 --> 1:21:19.880 I'm a ninja. You know, I'm very much into martial 1:21:20.000 --> 1:21:23.439 arts fully. You know, I grew up very into Bruce Lee, 1:21:23.600 --> 1:21:26.639 into his philosophy, you know, into everything he says, into 1:21:26.680 --> 1:21:30.320 his trainer as well, and so that that culture of 1:21:30.400 --> 1:21:33.240 martial arts is is a big deal to me. And 1:21:33.240 --> 1:21:36.120 and how they live their life and you know Charlie 1:21:36.200 --> 1:21:40.400 monks and very spiritual folks, and that's pretty much, uh 1:21:41.760 --> 1:21:44.280 path that I would love to take. If I choice, 1:21:44.280 --> 1:21:47.559 I would have been in the Shanin Temple, like just training. 1:21:48.000 --> 1:21:48.720 Yeah, you have a. 1:21:48.920 --> 1:21:53.719 Usually just bought a pet I do, like pitbull labrador 1:21:53.840 --> 1:21:56.920 mixed a little baby named Shain. 1:21:59.000 --> 1:21:59.719 Young animal. 1:21:59.800 --> 1:22:01.839 Nin you know that's dope. 1:22:02.200 --> 1:22:06.040 What what like the principles that they teach in that uh, 1:22:07.320 --> 1:22:10.960 what if any have you applied that to your music career? 1:22:11.280 --> 1:22:13.599 Like how do they mirror each other in any way? 1:22:14.040 --> 1:22:17.599 Well, mainly being like water, you know as in keeping 1:22:17.600 --> 1:22:20.280 a flow, you know, never never locking yourself into a 1:22:20.320 --> 1:22:23.479 corner like this bottle. It's filled with water. The water 1:22:23.520 --> 1:22:25.360 can't go anywhere else. If you put a hole in here, 1:22:26.240 --> 1:22:29.080 it's out and it keeps going wherever it wants to go. 1:22:29.200 --> 1:22:31.040 It just you know, and and always not to be 1:22:31.920 --> 1:22:35.360 never get phased by things. You know, And that's pretty 1:22:35.439 --> 1:22:37.559 much one of the main things where if you take 1:22:37.600 --> 1:22:40.080 that and apply it, it leads you to a lot 1:22:40.080 --> 1:22:42.360 of other aspects of it as well. 1:22:42.600 --> 1:22:44.880 Got you uh, at the beginning of the interview, I, 1:22:45.320 --> 1:22:48.080 you know, referred to you as being you know, royalty, 1:22:48.280 --> 1:22:52.600 and that certainly is no you know, no overstatement. 1:22:53.080 --> 1:22:53.600 Uh. 1:22:53.680 --> 1:22:58.519 He is Daniel, your dad, Ziggy Ziggy Marley, who is 1:22:58.560 --> 1:23:02.960 of course the sun Uh, legendary Bob Marley. When you 1:23:02.960 --> 1:23:05.040 talk about being like water and you know you do 1:23:05.240 --> 1:23:08.200 not want to be restricted. Was there every point in 1:23:08.240 --> 1:23:11.720 your life where you felt like being a son of 1:23:11.800 --> 1:23:14.800 such luminaries? Did you almost kind of feel like at 1:23:14.840 --> 1:23:17.280 times that like, man, I have to do music, like 1:23:17.320 --> 1:23:19.040 I have no other choice doing anything else? 1:23:19.160 --> 1:23:21.160 Well, I have no other choice because this is what 1:23:21.200 --> 1:23:26.280 I'm good at. It's not really you know, we tried 1:23:26.520 --> 1:23:29.680 a couple other things. Try to go to school, you know, 1:23:29.880 --> 1:23:32.160 you know what I'm saying, Like got picked out of that. 1:23:32.360 --> 1:23:35.120 You know, it wasn't for me. The school thing. 1:23:35.320 --> 1:23:36.200 What were you going to for? 1:23:36.360 --> 1:23:38.880 I was going to school for music production and music 1:23:39.280 --> 1:23:43.040 orchestra orchestral music. I was really into classical and I 1:23:43.080 --> 1:23:46.000 wanted to basically just like take courses in that lane 1:23:46.400 --> 1:23:49.080 and learn how how that world went. And it just 1:23:49.080 --> 1:23:49.960 didn't work out. 1:23:50.320 --> 1:23:52.040 You know, I didn't. It didn't work out. 1:23:52.040 --> 1:23:55.400 I couldn't afford the tuition man financial aid. They won't 1:23:55.439 --> 1:23:57.479 give me financial aid because of what you said earlier. 1:24:02.320 --> 1:24:03.600 They see that fast. 1:24:04.600 --> 1:24:07.760 You don't need no financial I'm like, yeah, I'm trying 1:24:07.800 --> 1:24:11.200 to go to school. Yeah, but life is what it is, 1:24:11.240 --> 1:24:13.360 you know. I grew up with my mom, so it's 1:24:13.360 --> 1:24:16.560 a different it's a different thing. So the whole royalty 1:24:16.640 --> 1:24:17.840 side of it, you know, I look up to my 1:24:17.880 --> 1:24:21.439 granddad and my old man for what they're doing, what 1:24:21.479 --> 1:24:24.240 they do, what he's doing right now, what my granddad 1:24:24.320 --> 1:24:27.280 has done. But like my granddad does not. He never 1:24:27.360 --> 1:24:30.120 think of hisself in that way. And that's where I 1:24:30.240 --> 1:24:33.799 take Like, when I talk about music and the whole mission, 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:37.599 I go from his perspective. I don't really go from 1:24:37.600 --> 1:24:41.679 the perspective of after his death and what people perceived, 1:24:41.720 --> 1:24:44.360 you know, I kind of still listen to his words 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:46.960 and understand that it's not about that you know, we 1:24:46.960 --> 1:24:48.840 grew up knowing it's not about that. Some of us, 1:24:49.200 --> 1:24:52.040 me and my sister. That was the lessons we grew 1:24:52.120 --> 1:24:54.760 up with. You know, it was never a silver spoon thing. 1:24:55.080 --> 1:24:57.719 I grew up around studios, but they weren't. You couldn't 1:24:57.720 --> 1:24:59.960 just use the studio, you really you had to be good, 1:25:00.560 --> 1:25:01.920 you know what I mean, Like you had to first 1:25:02.000 --> 1:25:04.880 learn how to wrap the cables up, you know what 1:25:04.880 --> 1:25:07.040 I mean like all of that. Yeah you are, Yeah, 1:25:07.120 --> 1:25:09.240 pretty much like you couldn't use the studio just because 1:25:10.400 --> 1:25:13.160 and so and that was my uncle Steven growing me 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:16.519 like that and pretty much grew around him uncle Damien 1:25:17.120 --> 1:25:18.800 in Florida, and you know it was like that. 1:25:19.320 --> 1:25:21.600 So were you raised and where were you? 1:25:21.760 --> 1:25:23.720 I was raised in Jamaica. I moved to moved to 1:25:23.760 --> 1:25:26.760 Miami when I was fifteen. Oh okay, right, So I 1:25:26.800 --> 1:25:29.519 lived in Florida from fifteen to like i'd say, twenty one, 1:25:29.560 --> 1:25:31.880 and then I went to La So is. 1:25:31.800 --> 1:25:33.760 That where you are now right now? In La Now? 1:25:33.840 --> 1:25:34.000 Yeah? 1:25:34.080 --> 1:25:36.559 Yeah, man's that's so dope to hear you say about 1:25:36.560 --> 1:25:39.280 how you know, uh, you know, before you get in 1:25:39.280 --> 1:25:40.840 the studio you had to wrap the cables up. 1:25:41.080 --> 1:25:42.360 Yeah, like learning that. 1:25:42.880 --> 1:25:45.840 Yeah, really you got to appreciate all parts of it 1:25:45.920 --> 1:25:48.640 in order to really be about it. And I'm very 1:25:48.680 --> 1:25:50.280 passionate about it. So I do want to know how 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:51.640 to do it, and I do it a lot. A 1:25:51.680 --> 1:25:54.160 lot of the things I do is by myself. So 1:25:54.200 --> 1:25:56.280 I'm home and I you know, I hooked my whole 1:25:56.320 --> 1:25:58.720 plug up, plug up everything. You know, I break it 1:25:58.760 --> 1:26:00.439 down when I need to, But I record my self 1:26:01.920 --> 1:26:05.960 all instruments usually, And that's really where it came from. 1:26:06.000 --> 1:26:10.360 That teaching of starting from the ground is really what 1:26:10.560 --> 1:26:13.040 my whole passion in my life is about. Like we 1:26:13.120 --> 1:26:15.960 start from zero, you know, we don't start from He's 1:26:15.960 --> 1:26:19.840 Bob Marley's grandson. We start from this is Bambata. What 1:26:19.880 --> 1:26:20.559 are you going to do? 1:26:20.680 --> 1:26:23.920 Who are you? You know? What are you about? Are 1:26:23.960 --> 1:26:24.759 you good enough? 1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:27.960 You know what I'm saying? So totally and so from there, 1:26:27.960 --> 1:26:28.519 that's what I say. 1:26:28.680 --> 1:26:30.920 That's dope, man. Thanks When you start off. 1:26:31.040 --> 1:26:33.920 You know when you first started making your early record, 1:26:34.000 --> 1:26:35.519 First of all, how old were you when you first 1:26:35.520 --> 1:26:37.000 started recording? 1:26:38.120 --> 1:26:41.519 I'd say the first record I recorded, I was I'd 1:26:41.560 --> 1:26:45.360 say like eighteen, okay, yeah, was. 1:26:45.320 --> 1:26:46.639 That what records you did with your dad. 1:26:47.000 --> 1:26:49.280 No, I did that when I first got to La. 1:26:49.320 --> 1:26:50.680 So I was about twenty one when I did that, 1:26:51.800 --> 1:26:54.040 you know, And that happened right real random, you know 1:26:54.080 --> 1:26:56.639 what I'm saying, Like, I went to La. He lives 1:26:56.640 --> 1:26:59.639 in LA. I was in Miami, me and my sister 1:26:59.680 --> 1:27:01.519 for years and years. I want to let you go 1:27:01.640 --> 1:27:03.519 check him. He was like, oh, you want to do 1:27:03.560 --> 1:27:07.799 a song. I'm like, well, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Okay, 1:27:08.000 --> 1:27:09.720 why not? So then you know, he just asked me 1:27:09.760 --> 1:27:12.200 to write something down, like, you know, a little fifteen minute. 1:27:12.200 --> 1:27:14.479 I wrote a verse, did it, and I just went 1:27:14.520 --> 1:27:15.520 back to the crib. 1:27:16.880 --> 1:27:17.519 And that was it. 1:27:17.600 --> 1:27:21.400 That was just wow, Yeah, that's dope. 1:27:21.400 --> 1:27:21.559 Man. 1:27:21.640 --> 1:27:23.760 So like with when you were working with your dad, 1:27:25.600 --> 1:27:27.639 you know, keeping you know, that spirit of you know 1:27:27.720 --> 1:27:29.439 how you're saying, just having to kind of work your 1:27:29.439 --> 1:27:32.040 way up. What was it like for you when when 1:27:32.080 --> 1:27:35.680 he was that kind of it was definitely kind of 1:27:35.720 --> 1:27:38.160 like no sign. It was to me, it was like, 1:27:39.040 --> 1:27:41.400 you know, this is a good time. Let's let's do 1:27:41.520 --> 1:27:42.760 this right now. It's a good time. 1:27:44.800 --> 1:27:44.840 No. 1:27:45.040 --> 1:27:48.880 I don't look for validation from family members. I'm really 1:27:48.880 --> 1:27:51.680 looking for y'all to like my stuff. You know, no, 1:27:52.520 --> 1:27:54.880 they could like it too, but that's my family. But 1:27:55.040 --> 1:27:58.040 really it's about the people, you know, the people. It's like, 1:27:58.640 --> 1:27:59.599 we can't hate him. 1:28:01.560 --> 1:28:04.040 Yesterday we had smashing hearts here and they're like the 1:28:04.160 --> 1:28:08.040 sons of Dwayne Wiggins, Tony. We're saying that Raphael is 1:28:08.080 --> 1:28:11.519 a dee and are very hard on us. 1:28:11.760 --> 1:28:13.280 Yeah, you know, it's not an easy thing when you 1:28:13.320 --> 1:28:15.000 come from a family of music, right, you know, it's 1:28:15.160 --> 1:28:17.600 the pressure is applied. You know, you really have to 1:28:17.640 --> 1:28:20.000 live up to certain things. But I don't put that 1:28:20.040 --> 1:28:22.519 pressure on myself because I don't even do the same 1:28:22.600 --> 1:28:25.720 sound like. You know, I'm a different being. I have 1:28:26.000 --> 1:28:29.400 I have different dreams because of how I grew up, 1:28:29.600 --> 1:28:31.720 and so the things that I'm looking to do and 1:28:31.760 --> 1:28:34.240 looking for are a little bit different than that. 1:28:34.760 --> 1:28:36.640 What is it that you're looking for? Like, what are 1:28:36.680 --> 1:28:37.840 your goal? 1:28:38.200 --> 1:28:41.200 Respect in music? First? This is a big deal. I 1:28:41.200 --> 1:28:43.280 feel like a lot of people have to appreciate when 1:28:43.320 --> 1:28:46.280 someone really is doing it. We have a lot of 1:28:46.320 --> 1:28:49.679 cats that just do things, but some folks are actually 1:28:49.720 --> 1:28:51.280 doing it. They live it every day, you know, they 1:28:51.320 --> 1:28:53.080 want to get better every day. There's not a day 1:28:53.120 --> 1:28:55.519 that goes by where I'm not practicing something or trying 1:28:55.520 --> 1:28:59.160 to learn something new. When it comes to the guitar, drums, vocals, 1:28:59.240 --> 1:29:02.360 just always push myself. It's never like, yeah, I'm just 1:29:02.360 --> 1:29:04.640 going chill and then I'm gonna go to the studio. 1:29:04.880 --> 1:29:06.800 You know what I'm saying. Every day we're at it 1:29:06.840 --> 1:29:09.639 like yo, we gotta write a better song. Let's keep pushing. 1:29:09.680 --> 1:29:13.320 So that that coming from the family like that too, 1:29:13.479 --> 1:29:15.519 is a part of that where it makes you, you know, 1:29:15.760 --> 1:29:16.519 hungry for it. 1:29:16.840 --> 1:29:19.080 Do you record with when you say you know you're 1:29:19.080 --> 1:29:21.439 working every day and it's really dope to hear that 1:29:21.479 --> 1:29:24.800 you record yourself because that's something that I think a 1:29:24.800 --> 1:29:27.000 lot of artists, maybe a little bit more now they 1:29:27.040 --> 1:29:29.000 do it because you know, you can actually have a 1:29:29.000 --> 1:29:32.599 studio at home and get right down. But it's still, 1:29:32.680 --> 1:29:34.920 you know, you don't see too too many guys that 1:29:35.080 --> 1:29:38.200 really take the time to learn that stuff. Do you 1:29:38.400 --> 1:29:41.960 collaborate mainly, you know with a band? Do you you 1:29:41.960 --> 1:29:43.960 say you play I'll. 1:29:43.840 --> 1:29:47.839 Play like our program. Before before I started writing lyrics 1:29:48.479 --> 1:29:51.439 or singing or rapping, I used to just spell beats 1:29:51.479 --> 1:29:54.479 so I would make beats using reasons and drum machine, 1:29:54.520 --> 1:29:56.280 you know, so we just made beats. At first, it 1:29:56.320 --> 1:29:59.559 was just all producing stuff. So I grew up producing 1:29:59.640 --> 1:30:02.200 playing piano a bit. I don't know it like that, 1:30:02.320 --> 1:30:05.040 I really know the drums. I grew up playing the drums, 1:30:05.600 --> 1:30:09.639 and I picked up the guitar. Like I'd say from 1:30:09.640 --> 1:30:13.720 this point four years ago, three years ago, because I 1:30:13.760 --> 1:30:16.799 went on a small tour. I had a dream, literal 1:30:17.120 --> 1:30:20.040 sleep and had a dream like, yo, take all the 1:30:20.080 --> 1:30:22.400 money you make from this run, go buy yourself a 1:30:22.439 --> 1:30:25.320 guitar and start writing a whole bunch of different songs 1:30:25.360 --> 1:30:28.120 based on what was happening. Is like I was doing 1:30:28.160 --> 1:30:30.479 a lot of hip hop, but when you put it 1:30:30.479 --> 1:30:33.280 out on a SoundCloud, people could take. They just take, 1:30:33.840 --> 1:30:35.200 you know what I'm saying. So I had to add 1:30:35.240 --> 1:30:39.160 situations where my music was just being taken and. 1:30:39.120 --> 1:30:41.320 So and this is like full songs with vocals and 1:30:41.360 --> 1:30:43.800 everything on it, Like yeah, like somebody will take the hook, 1:30:44.120 --> 1:30:46.080 you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying, 1:30:46.080 --> 1:30:47.560 Like you know, and I mean they'll do it on 1:30:47.640 --> 1:30:50.280 the same beat, you know, because that's what you could 1:30:50.320 --> 1:30:53.479 do when you're talking about mixtape stuff, you know. And 1:30:53.520 --> 1:30:56.599 then I realized, like I have more love for this, 1:30:57.000 --> 1:30:59.439 so I have to do something that you can't just 1:30:59.560 --> 1:31:02.679 RecA you can't just take it. And so I got 1:31:02.680 --> 1:31:04.800 the guitar and I just started teaching myself how to 1:31:04.800 --> 1:31:08.600 play and just started writing different songs, songs that you know, 1:31:08.720 --> 1:31:11.519 everything came came more from inside because when you have 1:31:11.560 --> 1:31:15.200 that connection to a live instrument, you can find more 1:31:15.320 --> 1:31:16.519 things inside of yourself. 1:31:16.560 --> 1:31:20.000 You know, it's so much more so that that helped. 1:31:20.640 --> 1:31:21.559 That's what happened. 1:31:21.640 --> 1:31:24.959 Yeah, Yeah, when you we were I was looking online. 1:31:25.360 --> 1:31:29.040 We were like trying to find some music and what's 1:31:29.080 --> 1:31:33.040 the status of everything? Are you working on an album 1:31:33.160 --> 1:31:35.640 when you just have stuff like on soundclouds? 1:31:35.720 --> 1:31:38.800 So right now the album, the album is about i'd 1:31:38.840 --> 1:31:44.880 say ninety five percent finish. There's a few things I 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:47.400 want to record while I'm out here, just to seal 1:31:47.439 --> 1:31:50.120 it up, but the album is pretty much ready. It's 1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:54.919 called UNX and the definition at this point is unknown. 1:31:55.920 --> 1:32:00.439 That's the definition. I feel like we searched the things 1:32:00.439 --> 1:32:02.720 we don't know in life. That's what we're all, you know, 1:32:02.720 --> 1:32:04.479 that's what we do. We're like, Yo, we don't know this, 1:32:04.560 --> 1:32:06.320 so we're gonna learn it. We don't know this, so 1:32:06.360 --> 1:32:07.880 we're gonna you know what, I mean, so I call 1:32:07.920 --> 1:32:12.040 it unknown based on that that drive of seeking. You know, 1:32:12.080 --> 1:32:14.240 why are we here? What's my point? 1:32:14.479 --> 1:32:14.680 You know? 1:32:15.240 --> 1:32:17.400 Am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing and 1:32:17.760 --> 1:32:20.240 really being connected to yourself to know if you're on 1:32:20.280 --> 1:32:20.920 the right track? 1:32:20.960 --> 1:32:21.160 You know? 1:32:21.640 --> 1:32:26.280 So I call it the unknown and it's basically open 1:32:26.360 --> 1:32:30.599 space of unlimited possibilities. That's what the unknown is. 1:32:31.160 --> 1:32:34.360 Was there a moment with where you realize like or 1:32:34.800 --> 1:32:37.160 I mean, do you still do you maybe kind of oscillate? 1:32:37.439 --> 1:32:39.200 Do you when you feel like, yo, I'm on the 1:32:39.280 --> 1:32:41.280 right track, Like, I know this is where I'm posting. 1:32:41.439 --> 1:32:44.679 I'm definitely on the right track right now. The music 1:32:44.720 --> 1:32:48.120 that's coming out, the things I'm talking about and singing 1:32:48.640 --> 1:32:52.000 are really really powerful to me. And you know, to 1:32:52.040 --> 1:32:54.240 the close friends around who know it, you know, they 1:32:54.280 --> 1:32:57.439 give you, they'll give you more insurance, you know, your people, 1:32:57.479 --> 1:33:01.960 you know. But definitely I'm on the right track for sure. 1:33:02.080 --> 1:33:04.599 Come in here to play this gigas is the craziest thing, 1:33:05.280 --> 1:33:08.559 you know, Well is that? Like, I mean true? Yeah, 1:33:08.560 --> 1:33:12.200 it's the first show like this, you know. First that's 1:33:11.600 --> 1:33:14.400 like in terms of in terms of in this vein, 1:33:14.479 --> 1:33:16.479 you know, in this lane of where what I'm trying 1:33:16.479 --> 1:33:18.920 to do. You know, this is pretty much like, Yo, 1:33:19.000 --> 1:33:21.880 this is what I'm trying to do. I played, I 1:33:21.920 --> 1:33:24.200 played a lot of shows. It's mainly reggae shows based 1:33:24.240 --> 1:33:27.920 on the name, you know, but this shows what you 1:33:27.960 --> 1:33:30.840 want to Yeah, it's based on the music. Yeah, pretty much. 1:33:30.840 --> 1:33:34.479 It's like this is the sound. It is a lot 1:33:34.560 --> 1:33:38.080 of different things. It's not one thing. There's influences of 1:33:38.120 --> 1:33:41.280 all types of music within it. But it's it's not reggae. 1:33:41.800 --> 1:33:45.120 You know, it's not pop. It's not just hip hop. 1:33:45.160 --> 1:33:48.559 You know, it's it's rockets. So you know, it's funkus, 1:33:48.720 --> 1:33:49.559 R and b's jazz. 1:33:49.680 --> 1:33:52.280 I heard, Yeah, I was surprised because I didn't because 1:33:52.320 --> 1:33:55.640 I was walking up and I caught like maybe the 1:33:55.720 --> 1:33:58.760 last five ten minutes said, because I was we had 1:33:58.800 --> 1:34:00.080 to come up here to set up. And so I 1:34:00.080 --> 1:34:02.400 was walking in and I saw it. I was like, well, 1:34:02.400 --> 1:34:03.880 who's that on? And so I looked at the schedule, 1:34:03.880 --> 1:34:06.080 I was like, oh that's I was like, oh wow, 1:34:06.160 --> 1:34:08.960 that's and so you know, I saw you. I was like, man, like, 1:34:09.200 --> 1:34:11.080 it sounded really dope from here I was. But I 1:34:11.080 --> 1:34:12.920 had to come up and you know, get to work 1:34:12.960 --> 1:34:14.439 for us. 1:34:15.720 --> 1:34:18.559 But we're coming. 1:34:18.760 --> 1:34:21.720 Man, I had to get up so but but but no, man, 1:34:21.840 --> 1:34:23.120 it's sounds. 1:34:24.600 --> 1:34:28.880 Did you was the thing to come upstairs? 1:34:28.880 --> 1:34:35.639 Many? Because there was? I'm sure it was like real life. 1:34:36.760 --> 1:34:39.439 You're right right, That's why the name thing, you know, 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:41.960 I kind of that's why my name is African. You know, 1:34:42.000 --> 1:34:43.360 by the African name. 1:34:44.320 --> 1:34:47.799 You know, you better go straight by to know Daniel 1:34:47.800 --> 1:34:48.439 Marley at all. 1:34:48.640 --> 1:34:52.720 Or yeah, it's my sound. It's me, you know, and 1:34:52.840 --> 1:34:54.479 you know you get to know me. You know that 1:34:54.800 --> 1:34:55.720 this this is him. 1:34:55.800 --> 1:34:56.599 How did you choose? 1:34:56.920 --> 1:35:01.439 That's my name? Like birth name, it's my middle name. 1:35:02.479 --> 1:35:13.040 See y'all like Margaret, She's like yeah. Another one. 1:35:19.120 --> 1:35:21.400 One of the things I think is dope about uh, 1:35:21.760 --> 1:35:25.400 the younger generation. You know when you say that your 1:35:25.479 --> 1:35:28.559 music is not just reggae, you know, it's a mixture 1:35:28.600 --> 1:35:29.280 of a lot of things. 1:35:29.640 --> 1:35:31.799 Uh. The thing about the younger. 1:35:31.640 --> 1:35:33.960 Generation, I think is that you guys seem to be 1:35:34.040 --> 1:35:38.160 open to a lot more indeed, a lot more music. 1:35:38.280 --> 1:35:41.759 And I think, you know, I have a son that's fifteen, 1:35:41.840 --> 1:35:44.200 and he listens to everything. And I think largely in 1:35:44.200 --> 1:35:47.439 part because that generation now like there they can get 1:35:47.479 --> 1:35:49.240 everything for free, I mean everything they can just go 1:35:49.280 --> 1:35:52.599 to YouTube and look up whatever genre they want. Did 1:35:52.640 --> 1:35:56.320 you feel any kind of pushback from anyone. 1:35:56.080 --> 1:35:56.559 That you know? 1:35:56.640 --> 1:35:59.280 You said, you do the reggae festivals, but this is 1:35:59.360 --> 1:36:00.720 kind of where you want be. Do you feel me 1:36:00.760 --> 1:36:03.920 pushback from people felt you should be doing more traditional everybody. 1:36:04.200 --> 1:36:06.200 A lot of people, once they first hear about me, 1:36:06.240 --> 1:36:08.439 they think I should only play reggae. I actually don't 1:36:08.439 --> 1:36:12.240 play any at all. I have some songs that are 1:36:12.280 --> 1:36:15.120 out from before, but everything I create it's just what 1:36:15.200 --> 1:36:18.200 I feel, you know, And I can't really I'm never 1:36:18.280 --> 1:36:20.920 gonna just feel what somebody else felt and do it, 1:36:21.000 --> 1:36:23.559 you know. And so this music that's coming out of 1:36:23.560 --> 1:36:26.360 me right now is how I feel. It is what 1:36:26.439 --> 1:36:30.040 I feel. I can do a reggae song in ten years. 1:36:30.160 --> 1:36:31.840 You know, you got people doing reggae songs right now, 1:36:31.920 --> 1:36:34.519 Drake and stuff. You know, people it's not about but 1:36:34.560 --> 1:36:36.640 it's how I feel. And that's my goal is to 1:36:36.760 --> 1:36:41.599 really put my feeling on wax and get it out there, 1:36:41.760 --> 1:36:44.559 you know, and try to have people. I know, people 1:36:44.640 --> 1:36:47.680 feel the same way. We're singing about real things, you know, 1:36:47.680 --> 1:36:50.120 We're singing about life like there's nothing that you didn't 1:36:50.200 --> 1:36:52.080 go through that I'm not singing about. 1:36:53.280 --> 1:36:56.360 And so, yeah, talk to me about some of your 1:36:56.479 --> 1:36:59.920 hip hop influences. I was reading about you, and I 1:37:00.160 --> 1:37:02.360 was like, man, like this kid, like really you know 1:37:02.760 --> 1:37:05.080 nas and you you had like a lot. 1:37:04.920 --> 1:37:07.880 Of Yeah, you know, as far as hip hop goes, 1:37:07.920 --> 1:37:10.120 it's like mainly East Coast for me, you know, Big 1:37:10.320 --> 1:37:14.880 L Guru, I usually wake up, I wake up, I 1:37:14.920 --> 1:37:15.360 wake up? 1:37:15.560 --> 1:37:19.080 How did you? Okay, okay, just listen. You're how old? 1:37:19.080 --> 1:37:19.960 How old are you? 1:37:20.000 --> 1:37:20.559 Twenty seven? 1:37:20.640 --> 1:37:23.240 You're twenty seven? Okay, Big L? How did you? 1:37:23.600 --> 1:37:28.479 How that happened? Just based on I love old school rap. 1:37:28.520 --> 1:37:31.479 I love old school hip hop. For me, music like 1:37:31.479 --> 1:37:35.280 like Jamaica and hip hop has a great relationship based 1:37:35.280 --> 1:37:37.320 on the starting of hip hop. You know, cool her 1:37:37.400 --> 1:37:40.640 coming through right exactly. So with that and and that 1:37:40.800 --> 1:37:43.559 knowledge is the knowledge I use and take and applied 1:37:43.640 --> 1:37:46.240 to my music where it's like we can do that. 1:37:46.760 --> 1:37:51.200 It's all that reggae music is influenced by everything else too. 1:37:51.320 --> 1:37:55.519 That was happening James Brown Beatles, you know, the rock era, 1:37:55.680 --> 1:37:59.280 like it's all that come by, and then the Island flavor, 1:37:59.320 --> 1:38:02.080 which is you know, that's the feeling of the people, 1:38:02.320 --> 1:38:04.960 that's how they feel, and so that's why that is 1:38:04.960 --> 1:38:08.920 a different sound. But it's all music is all from 1:38:09.000 --> 1:38:11.960 it's all parts, you know, every genre is here for 1:38:12.040 --> 1:38:13.679 us to use. And like when you were saying about 1:38:13.920 --> 1:38:18.200 your son being able to have access to any type 1:38:18.240 --> 1:38:21.080 of music, any sound he wants to put inside his brain, 1:38:21.800 --> 1:38:25.800 is really an evolution that we're going through as people musicians, 1:38:25.880 --> 1:38:29.559 you know, where you can't be blocked off because the 1:38:29.600 --> 1:38:31.640 world is so much bigger for us right now. You know, 1:38:31.640 --> 1:38:34.840 it's only natural that we're gonna apply. You know, it's 1:38:34.920 --> 1:38:37.280 like without without internet, all right, maybe you'll do what 1:38:37.720 --> 1:38:40.320 it's only happening in your community because that's what you got, 1:38:40.360 --> 1:38:42.640 that's what you know, that's where you are. But you 1:38:42.680 --> 1:38:45.400 have the whole world right now, so it's like, why 1:38:45.439 --> 1:38:46.080 why stop? 1:38:46.439 --> 1:38:46.960 Why stop? 1:38:51.800 --> 1:38:53.880 We live from Bruce Picnic here in New York City, 1:38:53.920 --> 1:38:56.160 So if you hear any noise, it's just me and 1:38:56.160 --> 1:38:59.759 the boys getting it all right now, ladies and gentlemen. 1:39:00.240 --> 1:39:03.360 I'm so happy. It's funny. Me and his brother know a. 1:39:03.280 --> 1:39:04.720 Lot of the same people's ran a lot of the 1:39:04.800 --> 1:39:07.519 same circles, but this is actually our first time meeting 1:39:07.560 --> 1:39:11.200 face to face and it's crazy. Uh, this brother is 1:39:12.080 --> 1:39:16.519 one of the the I would say, the the next 1:39:16.720 --> 1:39:20.160 school or the of Philly MC's. 1:39:21.200 --> 1:39:21.400 You know. 1:39:21.560 --> 1:39:23.559 When I was coming up, you know, I was listening 1:39:23.600 --> 1:39:26.120 to you know, just the Ogs three times, the cool 1:39:26.160 --> 1:39:28.360 see Steady, you know what I'm saying. 1:39:28.439 --> 1:39:30.360 Of course, schooly d of course. 1:39:31.000 --> 1:39:35.000 And uh then once I guess college, Uh, this was 1:39:35.040 --> 1:39:40.160 when you know, the rock took over and really it 1:39:40.200 --> 1:39:41.639 was Philly that. 1:39:41.800 --> 1:39:43.000 Was on the back of Philly. 1:39:43.400 --> 1:39:46.720 Yeah, like totally. And you know, and this brother was 1:39:47.600 --> 1:39:50.040 a cat. I always admired. He always had just really 1:39:50.160 --> 1:39:53.200 unconventional rhyme schemes, kind of unconventional in the way that 1:39:53.240 --> 1:39:55.479 he would kind of wrap around his rhymes, like he 1:39:55.479 --> 1:39:58.120 would start with one bar and then go on that 1:39:58.200 --> 1:40:00.000 for a little while, but then break off and then 1:40:00.120 --> 1:40:01.879 go back to another one, kind of like a boomerang 1:40:01.960 --> 1:40:05.240 kind of thing. And I always thought that was really dope. Yeah, man, 1:40:05.560 --> 1:40:09.040 And I'm such an honor to happen here with us 1:40:09.040 --> 1:40:10.920 to days. And gentleman, give it up for my man's 1:40:10.960 --> 1:40:17.559 freeway on question, how you feel man? 1:40:17.560 --> 1:40:18.559 How was it? How did it go today? 1:40:18.600 --> 1:40:21.519 Oh? Man, I feel great, man, It's wonderful experience. Man, 1:40:21.600 --> 1:40:24.479 you know, shout out Thereek, you know for bringing me out. 1:40:24.600 --> 1:40:25.439 He was on stage. 1:40:25.439 --> 1:40:30.120 We just performed did a legendary cipher with all legends. Man, 1:40:31.520 --> 1:40:34.400 I'm still caught up in a moment right now. It 1:40:34.520 --> 1:40:37.360 was me, it was Black Thought, it was Smith and Wesson, 1:40:38.720 --> 1:40:42.719 it was Big Daddy King, it was oh my god, 1:40:42.760 --> 1:40:48.360 it was Royce five now wow, Pharaoh Munch and we 1:40:48.439 --> 1:40:50.479 were and were. 1:40:49.920 --> 1:40:52.800 Stuck in and we at the end we did it. 1:40:52.960 --> 1:40:59.920 We did a cipher to the symphony. Coolie Rat came 1:41:00.200 --> 1:41:02.080 and Craigey kicked the original verses. 1:41:02.360 --> 1:41:04.920 Wow, Okay, I'm. 1:41:06.200 --> 1:41:08.400 Over here. I don't know what y'all doing over here. 1:41:09.400 --> 1:41:10.439 What y'all missed it? 1:41:11.160 --> 1:41:13.479 We're over here failing at life. Apparently we don't know 1:41:13.479 --> 1:41:22.080 what Welcome to quest supream. That's dope, man, that's really dope. 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:26.880 I was happy birthday, Black Thought many and I want 1:41:26.920 --> 1:41:28.519 to take my hat off to him because the brother 1:41:28.920 --> 1:41:32.080 really put it together, and he had the most craziest 1:41:32.200 --> 1:41:35.040 job because he did versus like before before we did 1:41:35.040 --> 1:41:37.519 the actual cipher. He bought each of us out and 1:41:37.560 --> 1:41:39.639 we did some of our records and he like actually 1:41:39.640 --> 1:41:41.920 did a couple verses to each person's record. 1:41:42.680 --> 1:41:43.400 And that's hard. 1:41:43.680 --> 1:41:46.000 You know, it's hard enough just remembering your own ship, 1:41:46.280 --> 1:41:46.920 you know what I'm saying. 1:41:47.000 --> 1:41:49.559 So because then that man, hats off to that man. 1:41:49.800 --> 1:41:53.200 One of the greatest, one of the greatest. Definitely one 1:41:53.200 --> 1:41:55.000 thing I wanted to wrap about. Man. It was it 1:41:55.040 --> 1:41:57.160 was interesting. I had was doing some work. This is 1:41:57.200 --> 1:41:59.720 a couple of years back. Uh, my man, brother I leave. 1:42:00.160 --> 1:42:04.360 Rom says, yeah. Man and me and him, we actually 1:42:04.400 --> 1:42:07.559 toured together, the first Little Brother tour that we went 1:42:07.600 --> 1:42:08.600 on with Hieroglyphics. 1:42:08.640 --> 1:42:11.080 We toured. Uh. We did a couple of dates with 1:42:11.200 --> 1:42:13.040 Brother a Lee in the atmosphere. 1:42:12.760 --> 1:42:14.519 And so he was telling me at the time, he 1:42:14.600 --> 1:42:16.519 was like, Yo, man, I got this new record about 1:42:16.560 --> 1:42:17.400 to come out with Freeway. 1:42:17.520 --> 1:42:19.360 She's gonna be crazy. I was like, well, we didn't 1:42:19.360 --> 1:42:20.840 take ship. It's gonna be crazy because he don't. 1:42:21.040 --> 1:42:25.080 Brother Ali is like the coolest, like most is in 1:42:25.320 --> 1:42:26.120 like dude ever. 1:42:26.320 --> 1:42:27.600 But he was like, yo, it's crazy. He's like I 1:42:27.640 --> 1:42:28.639 got to join. I was like cool. 1:42:28.960 --> 1:42:31.559 And so later out it came out. It was the record, 1:42:31.600 --> 1:42:36.280 the truth. It was the truth record. It was talk 1:42:36.320 --> 1:42:38.639 to me about that with you and being with Rom says, 1:42:38.640 --> 1:42:40.960 I thought it was so dope. How someone like you 1:42:41.080 --> 1:42:44.040 that was on you know, the rock and like was 1:42:44.080 --> 1:42:47.720 on like that major major you know label could then 1:42:48.280 --> 1:42:51.280 fuck with someone like ry Sayers. That's like yo, for 1:42:51.320 --> 1:42:55.480 those who don't know Rhyme Sayers is like a great experience. 1:42:55.160 --> 1:42:58.160 Great experience working with them. Man, you know, they really 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:00.400 care about the music. You know, me and Jake put 1:43:00.400 --> 1:43:02.960 the album together, and it's like a critically claimed album, 1:43:03.000 --> 1:43:05.680 like everybody let the album. And you know, when a 1:43:05.720 --> 1:43:08.439 whole rock split up came, I just went back to 1:43:08.479 --> 1:43:10.280 what I normally do, and that's worked hard, you know 1:43:10.320 --> 1:43:10.800 what I'm saying. 1:43:10.800 --> 1:43:12.880 I was trying whatever I could do. 1:43:13.160 --> 1:43:15.240 Like before I did the project with Jake One and 1:43:15.360 --> 1:43:18.200 rom Sais, I did something called Month of Madness where 1:43:18.200 --> 1:43:20.599 I dropped a record every day for the whole month. 1:43:20.720 --> 1:43:23.559 Like I just went hard. Like you know what I'm saying. 1:43:23.560 --> 1:43:25.240 I'm like, man, I can't go back to doing what 1:43:25.240 --> 1:43:27.599 I was doing before this, so I gotta go hard. 1:43:27.720 --> 1:43:29.800 And you know, by the grace of God, I've been 1:43:29.840 --> 1:43:32.680 able to maintain a successful career throughout the whole time 1:43:32.720 --> 1:43:33.320 I've been doing it. 1:43:33.360 --> 1:43:35.120 So what blessed a transition? 1:43:35.280 --> 1:43:37.920 Like, man, going from you know when you say, like 1:43:37.960 --> 1:43:41.120 once the Rock split up and then saying, Okay, well 1:43:41.160 --> 1:43:41.559 I got. 1:43:41.400 --> 1:43:42.960 To go back to doing what it is I normally do. 1:43:43.760 --> 1:43:47.439 What is that transition like going from working like being 1:43:47.439 --> 1:43:49.719 with the major to then kind of being more independent 1:43:49.760 --> 1:43:50.920 than having to do things on your own. 1:43:50.960 --> 1:43:52.080 What was that a big transition for? 1:43:52.200 --> 1:43:55.200 I mean, everybody can't do it, like you know, a lot. 1:43:55.040 --> 1:43:57.679 Of people didn't. A lot of people could get. 1:43:57.600 --> 1:43:58.439 Fucked up in the head. 1:43:58.479 --> 1:44:01.519 But you gotta understand where I'm coming from and the 1:44:01.560 --> 1:44:02.639 type of person that I am. 1:44:02.760 --> 1:44:04.479 Like in the middle of. 1:44:06.160 --> 1:44:09.360 Me being super successful, like in the middle of rock 1:44:09.400 --> 1:44:11.320 the Mic, what we do when them Jonkers getting like 1:44:11.400 --> 1:44:14.840 five thousand spinds a week. I went to Mecca, I 1:44:14.880 --> 1:44:17.360 went to Saudi Arabia, made my pilgrimage. I went with 1:44:17.479 --> 1:44:20.040 like twenty o her brothers. I was sleeping on the floor. 1:44:20.080 --> 1:44:22.960 I was doing everything everybody else was doing. So just 1:44:23.040 --> 1:44:25.240 taking that trip in general, just getting here. It takes 1:44:25.240 --> 1:44:27.360 a lot of patients because we had to switch a 1:44:27.360 --> 1:44:29.120 couple of flights. We had to wait in the airport 1:44:29.200 --> 1:44:32.360 six seven hours, like you know. So I'm used to 1:44:32.840 --> 1:44:36.120 having patients and dealing with certain situations, So when a 1:44:36.360 --> 1:44:38.840 breakup first happened, it probably took me like a couple 1:44:38.880 --> 1:44:41.679 of weeks just to get myself together and just dig 1:44:41.720 --> 1:44:43.640 what's really going on with everything. And then I just 1:44:43.720 --> 1:44:46.120 went back to what I normally do, and that's worked 1:44:46.120 --> 1:44:47.160 hard and grind, you know. 1:44:47.360 --> 1:44:49.040 So I'm still here. 1:44:49.000 --> 1:44:50.360 Man, you know. 1:44:50.840 --> 1:44:53.439 Yeah, I wanted to speak with you. I was this 1:44:53.560 --> 1:44:56.920 was I mean a couple I was reading on. It 1:44:57.000 --> 1:44:58.840 might have been on an Okay player, I believe, or 1:44:58.880 --> 1:45:01.720 I might be an okay player. In terms of your 1:45:01.760 --> 1:45:04.439 health right now with your kidneys, speak to us a 1:45:04.479 --> 1:45:06.640 little bit about that, what kind of led to it 1:45:06.680 --> 1:45:07.960 and how was that changed life. 1:45:08.000 --> 1:45:11.120 On September of twenty fifteen, I was diagnosed with in 1:45:11.240 --> 1:45:14.240 stage renal failure that's kidney fire. So as of right now, 1:45:14.760 --> 1:45:17.320 I gotta do dialysis three times a week, four hours 1:45:17.320 --> 1:45:20.760 a day. I'm actually active on a transplant list, so 1:45:20.800 --> 1:45:22.519 they could call me any time with a new kidney 1:45:22.520 --> 1:45:24.400 and I gotta go to the hospital and they gonna 1:45:24.439 --> 1:45:27.640 do the operation. Just like with the Rock break up, 1:45:27.720 --> 1:45:30.760 Like when it first happened, fucked me up. I got 1:45:30.760 --> 1:45:33.080 the call from my doctor. It was like, you need 1:45:33.080 --> 1:45:34.960 to get to the emergency room right now. So the 1:45:35.000 --> 1:45:37.040 first thing I did, you know, I'm a devote Muslim, 1:45:37.040 --> 1:45:38.479 So the first thing I did was I went to 1:45:38.479 --> 1:45:41.640 the mass jed. I prayed, asked God to help me 1:45:41.680 --> 1:45:43.720 deal with whatever the situation is is. I didn't really 1:45:43.760 --> 1:45:47.120 know to what extent it was, you know. I did that, 1:45:47.200 --> 1:45:50.559 went to the hospital. They diagnosed me with kidney failure. 1:45:51.760 --> 1:45:54.519 That day, they kept my chest open, put a cafe 1:45:54.520 --> 1:45:56.920 in my chest, and the next day I was doing 1:45:56.960 --> 1:46:01.040 dialysis and I've been doing it ever since then. Any differences. Now, 1:46:02.080 --> 1:46:04.360 I got a fistula in my arm, which is when 1:46:04.360 --> 1:46:06.280 they take your main vein from the bottom of your 1:46:06.400 --> 1:46:08.880 arm and bring it up to the top of your 1:46:08.960 --> 1:46:10.680 arm so they can access it. Then they tie the 1:46:10.760 --> 1:46:13.480 artery off and that's how they access my dialysis. 1:46:13.479 --> 1:46:15.679 They put two needles in each in my arm. Each 1:46:15.720 --> 1:46:16.240 time I go. 1:46:16.840 --> 1:46:19.479 One needle drains the blood out, putting the machine cleans 1:46:19.520 --> 1:46:21.439 the blood, and the other needle pumps the blood back in. 1:46:22.000 --> 1:46:24.400 It's a four hour process and everything is going good, 1:46:24.479 --> 1:46:24.720 you know. 1:46:24.920 --> 1:46:28.479 So, but what led up to it was in like 1:46:28.600 --> 1:46:32.840 twenty twelve, eyes diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes 1:46:33.280 --> 1:46:35.559 with your two of the leading risk factors for kidney failure. 1:46:35.560 --> 1:46:37.639 I actually have three risk factors. 1:46:38.040 --> 1:46:41.960 One is being African American, the other is high blood pressure. 1:46:42.000 --> 1:46:43.520 The other is diabetes. 1:46:43.560 --> 1:46:46.160 You know, so anybody out there to have any of 1:46:46.160 --> 1:46:48.360 those risk factors, just being black is. 1:46:48.360 --> 1:46:49.080 A risk factor. 1:46:49.120 --> 1:46:55.120 So you need to keyboard with your routine physicals. 1:46:55.160 --> 1:46:55.360 Man. 1:46:55.800 --> 1:46:58.400 Make sure you see the doctor at least once a year, 1:46:59.240 --> 1:47:02.600 check get checked up. And you know, because once I 1:47:02.720 --> 1:47:05.080 was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes. I took 1:47:05.120 --> 1:47:08.040 it serious in the beginning, but just like with everything else, 1:47:08.080 --> 1:47:11.160 you know, as time passes, you tend to like not 1:47:11.200 --> 1:47:13.080 pay as much attention to it, Like I was taking 1:47:13.080 --> 1:47:15.599 my medicine. But then I remember, like when I first 1:47:15.680 --> 1:47:18.439 got on, when I first got it, I was like, 1:47:18.880 --> 1:47:20.639 I remember one day I went to go see beans 1:47:20.640 --> 1:47:23.800 and beans beans. He got high blood pressure and diabetes. 1:47:23.840 --> 1:47:27.000 Also he was eating a cheese steak. I'm like, what 1:47:27.040 --> 1:47:28.080 you're doing, steak? 1:47:29.280 --> 1:47:29.800 Cheese steak. 1:47:30.439 --> 1:47:32.320 Like three months later, I was eating cheese steaks. 1:47:32.360 --> 1:47:35.160 So you know, it's just about being aware and standing 1:47:35.280 --> 1:47:37.200 and staying on point and you know, taking care of 1:47:37.240 --> 1:47:39.480 yourself and keeping up with your routine physical. 1:47:39.280 --> 1:47:39.960 That's dope, man. 1:47:40.400 --> 1:47:43.519 In terms of like during you know, because I mean 1:47:43.560 --> 1:47:46.880 being MCS, anyone, not just MCS, but being anyone working 1:47:46.920 --> 1:47:49.600 in the business will tell you traveling is like the 1:47:49.680 --> 1:47:52.800 biggest diet killer. Like anything you're trying to do right, 1:47:53.520 --> 1:47:54.960 being on the road just fucks that up. 1:47:55.000 --> 1:47:56.639 Come, I'm gonna tell you some real shit, like when 1:47:56.640 --> 1:47:59.000 we like with the first tour, first couple of tours 1:47:59.000 --> 1:47:59.639 with Jay. 1:48:00.360 --> 1:48:05.280 Jay was eating crab cakes, fish sticks. I'm not even 1:48:05.320 --> 1:48:05.920 paying attention. 1:48:06.040 --> 1:48:10.160 I'm fucking burgers up steaks, eating whatever I want. Like, man, 1:48:10.160 --> 1:48:13.120 I'm telling you better eat right, and you know you 1:48:13.120 --> 1:48:16.280 see what happens. Man, You know you it's more than 1:48:16.360 --> 1:48:19.120 just rat. You gotta take care of everything. You gotta 1:48:19.160 --> 1:48:20.519 make sure everything is up the park. 1:48:21.120 --> 1:48:23.200 Man. That's how it is with you. 1:48:23.240 --> 1:48:27.160 Do you have a family like kids, wife, Yeah, yep. 1:48:27.080 --> 1:48:31.879 Yep, everything, family, kids, everything, two kids fifteen and sixteen. 1:48:32.120 --> 1:48:34.200 Oh wow, you know so they well. 1:48:34.000 --> 1:48:37.720 Aware it was dope children too, winning awards and what Yeah, yeah, you. 1:48:37.680 --> 1:48:40.040 Know, brag on your children. 1:48:40.320 --> 1:48:43.360 Please my daughter, you know she she women was that 1:48:43.520 --> 1:48:45.080 like last year of the year before she won the 1:48:45.160 --> 1:48:49.200 award for for a poem that she made and like 1:48:49.280 --> 1:48:51.760 she uh, she read the poem like in front of 1:48:51.760 --> 1:48:53.599 the commissioner and the marror and a bunch of different 1:48:53.600 --> 1:48:55.360 people in the city, which was real good for me. 1:48:55.960 --> 1:48:58.400 And she get good, great grades in school, like you know, 1:48:58.600 --> 1:49:01.280 so I'm very proud of her. My son, you know, 1:49:01.320 --> 1:49:05.080 her a little knucklehead, but he tries be you know, 1:49:05.400 --> 1:49:07.200 he trying to do his rap thing too, so you know, 1:49:07.200 --> 1:49:08.599 I let him do his thing a little bit. 1:49:09.200 --> 1:49:11.880 Does he like, are your kids because you know, we 1:49:12.280 --> 1:49:14.320 asked a lot of guests that have kids. You know, 1:49:15.120 --> 1:49:17.880 I have boys myself. I was fifteen and ten. Do 1:49:18.080 --> 1:49:20.880 they know like who their dad is or they aware. 1:49:20.720 --> 1:49:21.920 They've been they've been aware. 1:49:22.600 --> 1:49:23.400 It's not a choice. 1:49:23.560 --> 1:49:25.120 You gotta think about what we do. 1:49:25.160 --> 1:49:27.120 They was on my lap in that joint, so you 1:49:27.160 --> 1:49:29.479 know they they already was gone. 1:49:30.880 --> 1:49:32.560 We'll see my son. You can't tell him he in 1:49:32.640 --> 1:49:33.000 a star. 1:49:33.520 --> 1:49:34.160 Oh wow? 1:49:34.680 --> 1:49:37.120 So he do they like come to you for like 1:49:37.160 --> 1:49:38.639 your son? You know you say he wants to rap? 1:49:38.680 --> 1:49:40.400 Does he come to you for advice or does he. 1:49:40.360 --> 1:49:42.760 Look at you like he do now? Like he tried 1:49:42.800 --> 1:49:44.759 to do his thing on his own in the beginning, 1:49:45.120 --> 1:49:47.840 like you know, he was he was making a look 1:49:47.920 --> 1:49:50.040 like his homies love his music and everybody like his 1:49:50.080 --> 1:49:51.160 little friends love his music. 1:49:51.200 --> 1:49:54.519 But you know, I know how to do it, and 1:49:54.600 --> 1:49:55.600 I know you know the. 1:49:55.880 --> 1:49:57.760 Route that you gotta take and everything you gotta do. 1:49:57.800 --> 1:49:59.439 And he tried not to listen to me in the beginning, 1:49:59.439 --> 1:50:01.160 but now you know he on point. 1:50:01.320 --> 1:50:03.479 He learned, He learned. That's dope. Man. 1:50:03.520 --> 1:50:05.120 You know, kids think they know everything. 1:50:05.720 --> 1:50:09.720 I'm like, man, I'm a whole successful role model and 1:50:09.760 --> 1:50:10.800 you're talking about you think you know. 1:50:10.840 --> 1:50:14.559 More than me. I like that. There's always one good 1:50:14.560 --> 1:50:16.639 one in one knucklehead. It doesn't matter what there's two, 1:50:16.680 --> 1:50:17.800 there's always yeah. 1:50:17.800 --> 1:50:19.599 Because your daughter is like you got one daughter that's 1:50:19.640 --> 1:50:22.360 like the cool daughter and then the other one's knucklehead. 1:50:22.920 --> 1:50:25.280 That's a great word. What is That's what's up? 1:50:25.320 --> 1:50:25.479 Man? 1:50:25.479 --> 1:50:25.920 That's up? 1:50:26.120 --> 1:50:28.800 So in terms of right now, what what are you 1:50:28.840 --> 1:50:30.280 working on? What's coming up? 1:50:30.600 --> 1:50:31.400 All right now? 1:50:31.479 --> 1:50:34.000 You know, I got a new situation on the table 1:50:34.040 --> 1:50:36.360 that I'm working out, which is gonna be great for 1:50:36.520 --> 1:50:37.599 me and for hip hop. 1:50:37.720 --> 1:50:40.120 So something looks laid. 1:50:40.120 --> 1:50:43.040 Something something to look forward to, something I'm very excited about. 1:50:44.560 --> 1:50:48.680 You know, you know, I just you know, since my 1:50:48.760 --> 1:50:51.880 situation instead of like hot in what I'm going through, 1:50:52.960 --> 1:50:54.160 I chose to stand in front of it. 1:50:54.240 --> 1:50:54.400 You know. 1:50:54.439 --> 1:50:55.840 So I've been doing a lot of work with different 1:50:55.880 --> 1:50:59.680 kidney foundations. In March tenth, for twenty sixteen, I was 1:50:59.760 --> 1:51:03.719 a ordered the Patient Advocacy Award by the National Kidney Foundation, 1:51:03.880 --> 1:51:06.000 which was great for me, you know, at the. 1:51:06.040 --> 1:51:07.000 D n C this year. 1:51:07.120 --> 1:51:08.599 Yeah, I was at the d n C this year. 1:51:08.800 --> 1:51:11.840 I just just was at the White House last week. 1:51:12.400 --> 1:51:17.120 Wowal Museum African American No. 1:51:17.160 --> 1:51:19.640 I was there for the Actually they actually did a 1:51:19.680 --> 1:51:24.000 health summit, Millennial Outreach Health Summit. It was last Tuesday, 1:51:24.080 --> 1:51:26.639 you know, so I uh participated in that. 1:51:26.760 --> 1:51:27.000 You know. 1:51:27.160 --> 1:51:29.720 I just was with uh Michelle when she came to 1:51:29.720 --> 1:51:37.599 Philly last Wednesday, first name. You know, I was with 1:51:37.640 --> 1:51:41.360 Bill Clinton Made in America and I performed two days 1:51:41.400 --> 1:51:43.040 in a row in Maine in America too, which is 1:51:43.200 --> 1:51:47.080 a huge accomplishment for me. I actually performed Maine America 1:51:47.600 --> 1:51:49.960 exists for five years. I performed four out of the 1:51:50.000 --> 1:51:50.599 five years. 1:51:51.080 --> 1:51:53.560 For the first announcement of Made in America to Philadelphia, 1:51:53.720 --> 1:51:54.840 so as it should. 1:51:54.520 --> 1:51:55.320 Be, yes, sir. 1:51:55.439 --> 1:51:58.320 So you know, I'm just I'm just trying my best 1:51:58.320 --> 1:52:00.240 to do as much as I can and get act 1:52:00.240 --> 1:52:00.840 as much as I. 1:52:00.800 --> 1:52:01.240 Can, you know. 1:52:01.360 --> 1:52:04.040 So that's what I'm That's dope, man, that's dope. 1:52:04.240 --> 1:52:04.800 We for y'all. 1:52:04.840 --> 1:52:07.040 We appreciate you taking this time to come through man 1:52:07.080 --> 1:52:09.479 after the performance anytime, and chop it up with us. 1:52:09.520 --> 1:52:12.559 And I really salute you, just, you know, for everything 1:52:12.680 --> 1:52:15.360 you've done, and also just for like you said, getting 1:52:15.400 --> 1:52:16.240 in front of. 1:52:16.240 --> 1:52:17.280 You know, that health issue. 1:52:17.800 --> 1:52:22.800 You know, I've lost relatives to you know, diabetes and 1:52:23.000 --> 1:52:25.880 high blood pressure, and we've seen, particularly twenty sixteen, a 1:52:26.000 --> 1:52:30.880 lot of people going, yeah, rest in peace, fightd out 1:52:31.320 --> 1:52:33.320 and you know, man, just for you to be out 1:52:33.360 --> 1:52:35.000 there and to be an advocate for it and bring 1:52:35.000 --> 1:52:37.479 more awareness to it, and just to really you know, 1:52:37.680 --> 1:52:39.840 let brothers know. I mean, your health is something that 1:52:39.960 --> 1:52:41.040 is you know, that's everything. 1:52:41.040 --> 1:52:41.799 That's the basis. 1:52:41.960 --> 1:52:45.040 Yeah, you know it's important man, you know, because it's 1:52:45.080 --> 1:52:48.560 so many people is just unaware, you know, and awareness 1:52:48.600 --> 1:52:49.040 is the key. 1:52:49.080 --> 1:52:49.280 Man. 1:52:49.400 --> 1:52:52.400 Like if I would have been aware of how serious. 1:52:52.080 --> 1:52:54.000 It was when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure 1:52:54.000 --> 1:52:58.479 and diabetes, I couldn't avoid getting getting Kenny Fuller because 1:52:59.000 --> 1:53:00.000 it was already. 1:52:59.640 --> 1:52:59.960 In a world. 1:53:00.160 --> 1:53:01.640 But I could have prolonged it, you know, if I 1:53:01.640 --> 1:53:03.360 would have been more aware of what was going on 1:53:03.360 --> 1:53:06.519 in my body. So awareness is the key man, you know, 1:53:06.600 --> 1:53:09.120 and just me being here and being able to perform 1:53:09.200 --> 1:53:11.800 for the people, and and just them seeing me out 1:53:11.800 --> 1:53:14.320 here still going hardest motivation. I just want people to 1:53:14.360 --> 1:53:16.960 know like, even though I have a disease, I have 1:53:17.080 --> 1:53:20.000 kidney failure, it's not a death sentence. I'm still living 1:53:20.000 --> 1:53:22.559 a productive life, still doing. Like I told you, I 1:53:22.600 --> 1:53:24.960 performed two days in a row Made in America, just 1:53:25.000 --> 1:53:27.760 shut it down at the Roof's picnic. If I never 1:53:27.840 --> 1:53:30.920 told y'all was sick, nobody would never know. And I'm 1:53:30.960 --> 1:53:33.559 about to go back to Philly six o'clock tomorrow morning. 1:53:33.600 --> 1:53:35.120 I'm right back on the Diallasi's machine. 1:53:35.200 --> 1:53:36.840 Take care of yourself because when you when you drop 1:53:36.880 --> 1:53:39.960 that Instagram with you in the hospital on the first day, I. 1:53:39.880 --> 1:53:44.080 Don't cry over Instagram. But the teachers was like, while 1:53:44.080 --> 1:53:45.680 it's free in the hospital. 1:53:49.479 --> 1:53:51.599 I'm good, I'm good. God willing not be here for 1:53:51.640 --> 1:53:52.000 a minute. 1:53:52.160 --> 1:53:52.640 That what's up? 1:53:52.680 --> 1:53:55.880 We all love you, brother, Thank you, pleasure me and 1:53:55.920 --> 1:53:58.760 YouTube Yeah sure, yeah for sure, and yo, thanks for 1:53:58.760 --> 1:54:01.479 coming through. And when you know, whenever you whenever your 1:54:01.479 --> 1:54:04.120 situation is final, you know that once it's done soon 1:54:04.120 --> 1:54:05.000 you gotta come back and. 1:54:04.920 --> 1:54:06.719 We can talk about I got problem. 1:54:07.160 --> 1:54:13.000 Lazy gentlemen, free way get it up. Yes all, it's 1:54:13.040 --> 1:54:13.800 a lazy. 1:54:13.560 --> 1:54:15.320 Gentlemen boys and girls. 1:54:15.439 --> 1:54:18.080 Give a big quest love supreme round applause to Easy 1:54:18.120 --> 1:54:22.439 Moore Breezy, the founders and creators of grits and biscuits. 1:54:24.560 --> 1:54:26.960 That's going on part. 1:54:28.080 --> 1:54:30.000 In this thing like a chicken wing on the string 1:54:30.040 --> 1:54:30.840 in the middle of the spring. 1:54:33.080 --> 1:54:37.800 Damn right listen, Okay, so okay, So there are three 1:54:37.840 --> 1:54:39.840 of you in this collective. Easy more Breeze is then 1:54:39.840 --> 1:54:42.400 able to collective and individually. 1:54:42.400 --> 1:54:43.480 It's also. 1:54:44.760 --> 1:54:49.760 Erica DJ squib is. Yes, sir, Okay, Erica. I'm gonna 1:54:49.760 --> 1:54:53.280 start with you because me and you have some some ties, 1:54:54.080 --> 1:54:59.040 uh in that you had the misfortune of going to 1:55:00.160 --> 1:55:04.520 North Carolina Anti State University, which is which is a 1:55:04.560 --> 1:55:05.839 great online college. 1:55:10.280 --> 1:55:12.040 I didn't even go to an T I went to 1:55:12.080 --> 1:55:14.520 another HBCU. But I'm gonna have to square. 1:55:17.800 --> 1:55:21.560 My partner like that, you know, appreciate. 1:55:21.720 --> 1:55:26.080 Just so you got your associates University of Phoenix. 1:55:28.600 --> 1:55:29.080 I was the. 1:55:30.560 --> 1:55:35.360 Carolina Central Central College, Central Central College. 1:55:35.400 --> 1:55:38.000 I got you go from Central and she's a. She's 1:55:38.000 --> 1:55:40.120 an They gave degrees then. 1:55:40.200 --> 1:55:46.760 Yeah, yeah, all the division is stepping up. Yeah, man, 1:55:46.920 --> 1:55:49.280 but no, she's a she's a she's an age. I'm 1:55:49.280 --> 1:55:51.480 an eagle, So I give her a joke a little bit. 1:55:51.480 --> 1:55:53.520 I actually grew up like right down the street from. 1:55:55.360 --> 1:55:56.840 It was too much. It was just like, dude, I'm 1:55:56.840 --> 1:55:58.600 going to school in my back yard. I can't yet. 1:55:58.720 --> 1:56:01.480 I was at every homecoming up until I graduated. 1:56:01.200 --> 1:56:02.240 And you were there last year too. 1:56:02.280 --> 1:56:12.800 I was the last year I. 1:56:04.280 --> 1:56:10.640 Was when the last time you've been. 1:56:11.360 --> 1:56:13.000 I haven't been a Central home coming a long time 1:56:14.400 --> 1:56:15.240 because I'll be working. 1:56:15.280 --> 1:56:19.080 I'm always I'm always on tour, and so the one 1:56:19.120 --> 1:56:21.480 time I'm home and I go, I went to grits 1:56:21.480 --> 1:56:21.840 and biscuits. 1:56:21.920 --> 1:56:24.760 Let me, I wasn't at the homecoming. 1:56:24.760 --> 1:56:27.360 I don't even know who's at the game they played 1:56:27.360 --> 1:56:28.000 against Central? 1:56:28.160 --> 1:56:32.680 They did Central only played flag football. 1:56:35.160 --> 1:56:39.400 So all right, So all HBCU slander aside Erica. She 1:56:40.000 --> 1:56:42.640 is a graduate of North Carolina Anti State University. And 1:56:42.680 --> 1:56:45.000 you were, as I understand it, pretty much the kind 1:56:45.040 --> 1:56:45.839 of the creator. 1:56:46.160 --> 1:56:48.600 Oh no, it wasn't just me. It was definitely a 1:56:48.960 --> 1:56:51.520 collective unit. So okay, but we were all three of 1:56:51.560 --> 1:56:54.000 us were living in Brooklyn, but we're all from the 1:56:54.040 --> 1:56:57.440 South originally, and so the concept of the party really 1:56:57.520 --> 1:57:00.800 came up out of just a friendly friends first, a 1:57:00.800 --> 1:57:04.760 friendly conversation about at the time two thousand and nine, Yeah, 1:57:04.960 --> 1:57:06.720 you didn't hear a lot of Southern hip hop music 1:57:07.320 --> 1:57:10.160 the way you do now in New York, and at 1:57:10.160 --> 1:57:12.680 the time, the majority of the parties that we you know, 1:57:12.720 --> 1:57:14.640 you saw in New York were very different in that 1:57:14.720 --> 1:57:17.960 it was velvet rope and bottle service, and so we 1:57:18.040 --> 1:57:20.880 decided just to come together and throw one party for 1:57:21.000 --> 1:57:23.240 friends and a party we would want to go to. 1:57:23.320 --> 1:57:26.040 That was very reminiscent of the black college experience because 1:57:26.040 --> 1:57:27.440 we all went to HBCUs. 1:57:27.680 --> 1:57:30.560 Okay, so you went to you went to t Out, 1:57:30.600 --> 1:57:31.240 So where'd you go? 1:57:31.360 --> 1:57:34.640 Priview and m University? 1:57:36.280 --> 1:57:40.040 Right, that's where that's no. DJ Premier his pops was 1:57:40.040 --> 1:57:41.960 my dean of science. 1:57:42.000 --> 1:57:42.839 That are you serious? 1:57:43.080 --> 1:57:43.120 Me? 1:57:43.200 --> 1:57:45.480 And it was tight, that's dope, that's dope. Shout out 1:57:45.560 --> 1:57:46.160 DJ Premier. 1:57:46.200 --> 1:57:48.280 I'm working with him on the breaks right now, that's dope. 1:57:48.280 --> 1:57:50.320 And where'd you go when the fam. 1:57:50.320 --> 1:57:51.920 Okay common dropped out of there? 1:57:52.000 --> 1:57:55.000 Yep, no. 1:57:56.960 --> 1:58:00.240 Fam, Yeah, Fam, I think FAM. That was one of 1:58:00.280 --> 1:58:00.720 my choices. 1:58:00.720 --> 1:58:03.720 Actually it was. I was that you went to Central Central. 1:58:03.840 --> 1:58:06.920 What's funny Central my high school counselor, because I went 1:58:06.960 --> 1:58:09.080 to academic high school but I got real bad grades. 1:58:09.240 --> 1:58:10.960 And she was like, I said, so what colleges can 1:58:11.000 --> 1:58:12.400 I get into? And she was like, have you heard 1:58:12.440 --> 1:58:13.040 a Prairie View? 1:58:13.440 --> 1:58:29.000 I feel like that up here. No, seriously, I was. 1:58:29.080 --> 1:58:31.440 I was looking at FM and the reason why I 1:58:31.480 --> 1:58:33.480 wanted to go to FAM at the time it was 1:58:34.440 --> 1:58:35.400 it was it was the. 1:58:35.360 --> 1:58:36.600 Band and it was Luke. 1:58:37.160 --> 1:58:39.640 Oh yeah, I was a Loop. 1:58:39.520 --> 1:58:42.280 Fan and so kind of cap d coming come on 1:58:42.320 --> 1:58:45.200 what and so yeah, so as a kind of I 1:58:45.200 --> 1:58:48.600 guess as a partying gift. So I didn't go to Fan. 1:58:48.720 --> 1:58:53.040 But my first year at Central, our homecoming show was Luke. 1:58:53.440 --> 1:58:56.440 He came, he closed, and then they never let him 1:58:56.440 --> 1:58:56.880 come back. 1:58:57.440 --> 1:58:58.360 It was over. 1:58:59.640 --> 1:59:03.360 Yeah, like girls dancing, they were stripping and that was okay, 1:59:03.600 --> 1:59:05.760 just to show you, like how life can come at 1:59:05.760 --> 1:59:06.120 you fast. 1:59:06.160 --> 1:59:10.000 Okay. So this was ninety seven. Jay Z was there. 1:59:10.720 --> 1:59:11.480 This is jay Z. 1:59:11.720 --> 1:59:14.480 He performed at that homecoming show and he was just 1:59:14.600 --> 1:59:17.840 off of in My Lifetime Volume one. Volume one was 1:59:17.880 --> 1:59:19.960 out and so just to kind of show you how 1:59:20.000 --> 1:59:22.360 stuff we changed hip up. At the time, he wasn't 1:59:22.400 --> 1:59:24.360 even the guy. He was doing his show and it 1:59:24.480 --> 1:59:32.240 was cool. He brought out Aconnellynlly. 1:59:29.160 --> 1:59:33.160 Shut ship down. He bodied it, he did, but put 1:59:33.160 --> 1:59:35.480 it in your mouth to all of the people, to. 1:59:39.000 --> 1:59:41.440 Scott, to people, to to just those just now tuning in, 1:59:41.720 --> 1:59:44.400 to give you kind of the the lineage of the 1:59:44.440 --> 1:59:48.280 Southern in a tradition applied. 1:59:47.960 --> 1:59:51.720 To a number of black He said, apply. 1:59:54.400 --> 1:59:55.880 But back to you can lick it, you can stick it, 1:59:55.880 --> 1:59:56.400 you can yeah. 1:59:56.480 --> 2:00:00.920 Yeah, this was Yeah. 2:00:00.240 --> 2:00:03.360 Jay Z was like the guy, but he wasn't the guy. 2:00:03.560 --> 2:00:06.680 Just then he was becoming the guy. So acon Nelly 2:00:06.800 --> 2:00:08.480 came in on his set, who was a rapper at 2:00:08.480 --> 2:00:09.920 the time, had a big hit put it in your 2:00:09.920 --> 2:00:13.040 mouth and also the B side fucked me for free. 2:00:13.520 --> 2:00:17.360 Another another another negro spiritual. 2:00:19.920 --> 2:00:22.560 Drake draken call, Oh that's right, it happen. That's right, 2:00:22.600 --> 2:00:23.200 that's right, you're right. 2:00:23.240 --> 2:00:25.080 So yeah man, but but yeah, so that was at 2:00:25.120 --> 2:00:29.800 the time my black college spirits. So so back to 2:00:30.000 --> 2:00:32.080 back to you guys with grits and biscuits. So you 2:00:32.160 --> 2:00:35.680 wanted to bring the black college experience to it was 2:00:35.720 --> 2:00:37.720 that that was where the idea came from, wanting to 2:00:37.760 --> 2:00:38.680 bring that kind. 2:00:38.520 --> 2:00:39.440 Of up here up north. 2:00:40.360 --> 2:00:43.360 Yeah, yeah, to a certain extent, like it was, you know, 2:00:43.560 --> 2:00:46.200 to Erica's point, it was like the bougie dress code, 2:00:46.200 --> 2:00:48.720 bottle service, sparklers, all that, you know, and if you 2:00:48.800 --> 2:00:51.760 were if you if you were there with your homeboy, 2:00:51.760 --> 2:00:53.480 you couldn't get in the club unless you had ten 2:00:53.600 --> 2:00:57.400 seemingly good looking girls, you know, seemingly unattracted women couldn't 2:00:57.400 --> 2:00:59.200 get in the club, you know. And then if you 2:00:59.480 --> 2:01:01.760 did get in and nobody was dancing, they in heels 2:01:01.800 --> 2:01:04.480 and dresses and stuff. And then the other extreme was 2:01:04.480 --> 2:01:07.920 like the super duper bohemian house parties, which is dope. 2:01:08.000 --> 2:01:10.040 You know, they playing Feliu, which is amazing, you know 2:01:10.080 --> 2:01:12.120 what I'm saying. And those are the folks that's in there. 2:01:12.120 --> 2:01:14.240 They you know, they're trying to save the world and 2:01:14.280 --> 2:01:16.000 all that, but every once in a while. 2:01:18.720 --> 2:01:19.720 We don't save it to night. 2:01:20.080 --> 2:01:22.560 You know, there's a lot of stress trying to save 2:01:22.600 --> 2:01:24.160 the world. So when sometimes we need to take a 2:01:24.160 --> 2:01:26.600 break and get loose, you know, and so we create 2:01:26.640 --> 2:01:28.320 you know, we created a party we want to go to. 2:01:28.360 --> 2:01:30.680 And who knew that other folks want to come to 2:01:30.720 --> 2:01:33.240 it too. And six years fast forward and we sitting 2:01:33.240 --> 2:01:39.360 here talking to y'all clowns. 2:01:40.320 --> 2:01:42.880 One of the things I think is so beautiful about 2:01:42.920 --> 2:01:44.960 you guys, party man is that, you know, a lot 2:01:44.960 --> 2:01:48.360 of times hip hop it gets the rep of you know, 2:01:48.400 --> 2:01:50.160 when you talk about the parties that win the city 2:01:50.200 --> 2:01:52.840 and you talk about how you know they would be 2:01:53.120 --> 2:01:58.040 very subtly racist ship that they would do like no 2:01:58.200 --> 2:02:01.960 ball caps, no like no hoodies, no hoodies, like you know, 2:02:02.080 --> 2:02:03.880 little shit that It's like, Okay, we know who the 2:02:03.880 --> 2:02:04.640 fuck y'all talking to. 2:02:05.400 --> 2:02:06.120 But you know what I mean. 2:02:06.160 --> 2:02:08.880 So, because there's this stigma that hip hop creates ute 2:02:08.920 --> 2:02:11.080 unquote violence, I would say, I've been to three of 2:02:11.080 --> 2:02:15.280 you guys parties, and this is a you know, Southern 2:02:15.360 --> 2:02:20.480 rap part so all the violence inciting rap songs so 2:02:20.600 --> 2:02:22.960 like a knuck if you buck, or like any club 2:02:23.200 --> 2:02:26.480 tet a club up, those songs go off and there 2:02:26.560 --> 2:02:29.200 has never been I've never seen any fight in the 2:02:29.200 --> 2:02:32.960 parties I've been through. There's never been any kind of foolishness. 2:02:33.240 --> 2:02:36.840 It's never been Just as you say, it's very much 2:02:36.840 --> 2:02:37.800 as a come as you are. 2:02:37.880 --> 2:02:39.120 I mean, it is a party. 2:02:38.880 --> 2:02:40.360 You can walk up in if you just got on 2:02:40.360 --> 2:02:42.560 your jeans and a T shirt, then you can rock 2:02:42.680 --> 2:02:45.480 like that. And it's the parties I've been to. There 2:02:45.520 --> 2:02:49.360 has never been just a more just easy going, just 2:02:49.440 --> 2:02:53.440 it's very familiar atmosphere and I really appreciate. 2:02:53.080 --> 2:02:54.120 You guys for doing that. 2:02:54.560 --> 2:02:57.960 When you first started off, What was it like trying 2:02:58.000 --> 2:03:00.360 to bring that here? 2:03:00.160 --> 2:03:02.480 Were in New York or in the North? Was it 2:03:02.520 --> 2:03:03.600 any difficulty with that? 2:03:03.920 --> 2:03:05.840 Erica is okay talk about that because they were trying 2:03:05.840 --> 2:03:08.360 to go to the different venues and getting no love. 2:03:09.520 --> 2:03:11.360 Yeah, no, I think at first it was just people 2:03:11.400 --> 2:03:14.240 weren't It was they didn't understand the concept. And then 2:03:14.360 --> 2:03:17.040 we also got the question like, are you guys party 2:03:17.040 --> 2:03:17.960 promoters in New York? 2:03:18.080 --> 2:03:18.680 No? 2:03:18.560 --> 2:03:20.560 No, were you guys throwing parties in New York before? 2:03:20.760 --> 2:03:21.040 No? 2:03:21.960 --> 2:03:24.640 So you know, really it was just like one venue, 2:03:25.080 --> 2:03:27.200 the guy was like, oh, I like your vibe, you know, 2:03:27.360 --> 2:03:29.960 we'll give you a shot. And the first party, they 2:03:29.960 --> 2:03:32.160 asked us before the doors opened, they were like, how 2:03:32.200 --> 2:03:34.000 many people you are going to show up? And we 2:03:34.000 --> 2:03:35.720 were like, we hope two hundred. 2:03:35.800 --> 2:03:35.920 Now. 2:03:35.960 --> 2:03:37.640 The funny thing is the only thing we did to 2:03:37.680 --> 2:03:41.200 promote was we created a really fly flyer and we 2:03:41.280 --> 2:03:44.040 sent it out via email and then we announced it 2:03:44.040 --> 2:03:45.160 at our Bible study. 2:03:48.960 --> 2:03:56.560 You announced the party, no I, no I do? Okay, okay, 2:03:56.600 --> 2:03:58.720 So do we need to give the listeners some context? 2:03:58.880 --> 2:03:59.280 Probably? 2:03:59.520 --> 2:04:01.720 Okay, Bible study? Do I think to break down what 2:04:01.760 --> 2:04:02.680 Bible study? 2:04:03.240 --> 2:04:07.600 Jesus, We're good, all right, okay. 2:04:07.640 --> 2:04:12.000 So in the in the in the South, uh, there 2:04:12.200 --> 2:04:15.040 is you know, church folks. You know, there's this Saturday 2:04:15.080 --> 2:04:18.480 night is the club and then Sunday Sunday morning is church. 2:04:18.520 --> 2:04:20.320 Sunday morning, you pray with all the su you pray 2:04:20.400 --> 2:04:22.160 with all the rest is that you did the night before. 2:04:22.280 --> 2:04:26.440 And these audiences very much overlapped. So I mean, so 2:04:26.960 --> 2:04:28.560 that's I never would have thought of that. 2:04:28.560 --> 2:04:29.080 That's genius. 2:04:29.160 --> 2:04:32.440 That's almost like that's almost like on Breaking Bad when 2:04:32.560 --> 2:04:35.880 Jesse went to narcotics and to sell man. 2:04:36.200 --> 2:04:44.040 Wow, that is that is you know, did you just 2:04:44.040 --> 2:04:50.160 compare our guess you know, we ain't gonna tolerate too much. 2:04:54.280 --> 2:04:55.600 You know, this ship is a genius. 2:04:55.600 --> 2:04:58.520 I never would have thought because because seriously, no real 2:04:59.040 --> 2:05:01.720 most people wouldn't even say like the people that are 2:05:01.760 --> 2:05:04.280 like qute unquote church folk, they kind of keep that 2:05:04.320 --> 2:05:05.160 ship to the side. 2:05:05.320 --> 2:05:06.120 They don't say that. 2:05:06.200 --> 2:05:11.120 So no, don't as many people show up the Bible 2:05:11.120 --> 2:05:13.360 Study as they do the actual service. So that's interesting 2:05:13.400 --> 2:05:15.280 too because it's like, why not just you know, put it. 2:05:17.440 --> 2:05:21.960 This is what I'm curious, but this is this is 2:05:22.040 --> 2:05:23.560 very fascinating. 2:05:23.960 --> 2:05:26.240 This was it was a Bible study for young people, 2:05:26.800 --> 2:05:29.160 and so we announced it at the Bible Study and 2:05:29.200 --> 2:05:31.440 we also, you know, the first party, we said we'd 2:05:31.440 --> 2:05:33.640 have two hundred people. We were like, we'll do We're 2:05:33.640 --> 2:05:35.360 gonna do it like old school, like we did in college. 2:05:35.400 --> 2:05:38.680 We're gonna have first hour five dollars. After that it's 2:05:38.760 --> 2:05:41.240 ten dollars. We were like, for fun, we made church 2:05:41.280 --> 2:05:42.560 fans because we were like, we need to have things 2:05:42.600 --> 2:05:46.920 that represent the South. Had no signage, had no website, 2:05:46.960 --> 2:05:49.120 had no nothing, and this is all we did. And 2:05:49.160 --> 2:05:50.680 when they asked us how many people are gonna show, 2:05:50.760 --> 2:05:52.120 we said, hopefully two hundred. 2:05:52.360 --> 2:05:54.440 First people in the doorway the manager. 2:05:54.880 --> 2:05:57.640 We told that to the manager and the manager was like, yo, 2:05:57.680 --> 2:05:59.280 if you get two hundred people to hear, that would 2:05:59.280 --> 2:05:59.839 be amaze. 2:06:02.280 --> 2:06:05.920 And we were like, okay, hopefully and then doors open. 2:06:06.000 --> 2:06:11.360 First people at the party Bible Study yeah, wow, five dollars. 2:06:11.440 --> 2:06:12.920 And then by the end of the night there were 2:06:12.960 --> 2:06:15.440 like five hundred people the majority. We did not know 2:06:15.480 --> 2:06:17.320 when we realized that, and at the end they were 2:06:17.360 --> 2:06:19.280 asking when's the next one? When's the next one? We 2:06:20.960 --> 2:06:22.680 had no idea because we only planned for one. 2:06:22.880 --> 2:06:24.520 When I used to DJ, my my answer to that 2:06:24.600 --> 2:06:25.800 question was talk to the manager. 2:06:27.480 --> 2:06:29.600 Well, the manager was like, can y'all come back next week? 2:06:29.640 --> 2:06:30.880 We was like, whoa bro? 2:06:31.360 --> 2:06:32.480 Is it tiger? Easy? 2:06:32.680 --> 2:06:34.960 So are y'all somebody completely different in the daytime or 2:06:34.960 --> 2:06:37.000 were y'all somebody still? 2:06:37.080 --> 2:06:39.080 Yeah? We all have we all have jobs. This is 2:06:40.560 --> 2:06:42.160 what are your What are your day jobs? What are you? 2:06:42.720 --> 2:06:43.680 I work at rock Nation? 2:06:47.200 --> 2:06:50.480 Okay, I work at Viacom. 2:06:55.080 --> 2:06:56.600 These day jobs are amazing. 2:06:57.040 --> 2:07:00.800 And you I'm advertising for talk for and I teached 2:07:00.800 --> 2:07:03.920 for lots of fell Wow. I teached philosophy at the 2:07:03.920 --> 2:07:05.600 college in New Rochhale Brooklyn Campus. 2:07:05.800 --> 2:07:07.560 Oh okay, I'm an adjunct professor. 2:07:08.640 --> 2:07:10.120 What a essence? A marked article? 2:07:13.920 --> 2:07:14.400 That's dope? 2:07:14.760 --> 2:07:17.800 So so d square is with you as a DJ? 2:07:18.040 --> 2:07:20.000 Was this your how long? How long you been DJing? 2:07:20.200 --> 2:07:22.480 Was this your I was fifteen or sixteen years? 2:07:22.760 --> 2:07:23.240 Oh wow? 2:07:23.360 --> 2:07:26.040 Okay, to stay out of trouble thanks to so Actually, 2:07:26.200 --> 2:07:27.840 my brother. 2:07:27.440 --> 2:07:28.800 I always got like real brothers. 2:07:28.840 --> 2:07:30.880 Like, okay, So I was like messing up in school 2:07:31.200 --> 2:07:32.680 and I met one of his friends and he taught 2:07:32.680 --> 2:07:35.040 me how to dj, and I wanted turntables bad. My 2:07:35.080 --> 2:07:37.040 mom was like, if you get your grades right, if 2:07:37.040 --> 2:07:39.680 you stopped acting up in school, you can get your turntables. 2:07:39.680 --> 2:07:41.120 And then my brother taught me how to dj. Once 2:07:41.160 --> 2:07:43.520 I got my turntable, so it was cool. So where 2:07:43.560 --> 2:07:45.440 you guys, where were you raised that? Where were all 2:07:45.520 --> 2:07:46.480 texas and texts? 2:07:46.720 --> 2:07:46.840 Oh? 2:07:46.960 --> 2:07:48.840 Oh wow, okay, yeah, gotch you got you gotcha. 2:07:49.040 --> 2:07:49.520 That's dope. 2:07:49.560 --> 2:07:52.360 So in terms of when you first started DJing, what 2:07:52.440 --> 2:07:53.960 kind of stuff were you first playing? 2:07:54.040 --> 2:07:56.080 Like, what was your first I. 2:07:56.080 --> 2:07:59.320 Was really in like early on, when I was like fifteen. 2:07:59.360 --> 2:08:01.720 I was really into like hip hop, hip hop, like 2:08:02.040 --> 2:08:05.920 sugar Hill Game, Grand Master Flash Run fifteen because my 2:08:05.960 --> 2:08:12.400 brother Beastie Boys, like Beastie Boys, Lords of the Underground Tribe, 2:08:13.120 --> 2:08:16.200 day so especially Daylight, so outcast for sure. 2:08:16.440 --> 2:08:18.600 So I was the older of the two. Yeah yeah, no, 2:08:19.000 --> 2:08:21.240 the trickle down effect that we're always talking yeah yeah. 2:08:21.480 --> 2:08:23.240 Yeah, the older siblings a lot of times will set 2:08:23.280 --> 2:08:25.800 the tone and because what ma would be. 2:08:25.720 --> 2:08:28.080 Playing it out? Oh yeah, she was Luther Van Draws. 2:08:28.080 --> 2:08:31.640 And so my brother was raised in Florida while I 2:08:31.720 --> 2:08:33.520 was like until I was until I was nine. Then 2:08:33.560 --> 2:08:36.000 he moved to Texas to go to school. Okay, So 2:08:36.600 --> 2:08:40.240 from zero to nine it was Luther Van Drass, Anita Baker, 2:08:40.440 --> 2:08:43.000 Marvin Gaye like throughout the house. And then my brother 2:08:43.080 --> 2:08:44.960 was like, yo, you should listen to this hip hop thing. 2:08:45.080 --> 2:08:47.280 And I was like what he put it in? Like 2:08:47.280 --> 2:08:49.360 he was playing Lords of the Underground Tribe called quest. 2:08:49.440 --> 2:08:54.880 I was like, what is this? What is this? From there? 2:08:55.040 --> 2:08:55.560 Like took off? 2:08:55.600 --> 2:08:57.320 It took off and then like Chris Cross was like 2:08:57.360 --> 2:08:58.280 my favorite. 2:09:00.120 --> 2:09:06.320 Oh man, it's not no yo, Okay, Chriss Cross had jams. 2:09:06.440 --> 2:09:06.960 No they did. 2:09:08.160 --> 2:09:12.840 I missed the No, that's something again that she was 2:09:12.880 --> 2:09:16.520 so traumatic missing the bus because you were missing because 2:09:16.600 --> 2:09:18.640 what is you missed the bus? It was you miss 2:09:18.680 --> 2:09:20.120 it And then you know you got to go in 2:09:20.200 --> 2:09:25.480 and tell you she gotta take you to Now, I 2:09:25.480 --> 2:09:25.840 gotta go. 2:09:26.480 --> 2:09:27.960 Now, I go put on my house coat and take 2:09:28.000 --> 2:09:30.440 you to school. My mother wouldn't take me to school. 2:09:30.440 --> 2:09:32.880 She'd find a bus and drive around and city. 2:09:32.920 --> 2:09:36.440 Look at that bus. They go to your school. I 2:09:36.560 --> 2:09:39.440 like your mother. That's awesome. That's that's that's the kind 2:09:39.480 --> 2:09:39.920 of parandim. 2:09:40.400 --> 2:09:42.200 Wait where are you from North Carolina? 2:09:43.600 --> 2:09:45.600 Yeah, she's a men. I live in the city. 2:09:46.520 --> 2:09:49.080 I live in the city now that she was, she's 2:09:49.080 --> 2:09:52.200 from and she went to school where I was in Greensboro. 2:09:52.520 --> 2:09:56.200 So that's that's that's what's up. So this is. 2:09:56.120 --> 2:10:01.080 Going on six years and six years? What keep y'all in? 2:10:02.360 --> 2:10:04.160 This seems to be a recurring thing. Who else were 2:10:04.160 --> 2:10:06.480 talking to? Guess he was talking about how they kind 2:10:06.520 --> 2:10:10.480 of kept their day job until it was mom it 2:10:10.520 --> 2:10:13.120 was a moment another DJ. He was saying that, So 2:10:13.720 --> 2:10:17.480 when do you, guys, do you ever feel that you 2:10:17.520 --> 2:10:20.920 will one day say, okay, grits and biscuits one hundred percent, 2:10:21.080 --> 2:10:23.839 I'm leaving my day job. I'm leaving philosophy these kids. 2:10:25.760 --> 2:10:29.680 Do you ever do you ever feel that one day 2:10:30.880 --> 2:10:32.760 that one day y'all would just make the full leap 2:10:32.840 --> 2:10:35.840 into doing Christ and biscuits one hundred. 2:10:36.480 --> 2:10:37.720 That is the question. 2:10:38.320 --> 2:10:39.560 I don't know the job. 2:10:40.640 --> 2:10:46.360 I know, good job, I mean with benefits. Oh I 2:10:46.360 --> 2:10:48.160 got I got a cavity. I can go handle that. 2:10:50.280 --> 2:10:52.240 Yeah, I think I think if like it have to, 2:10:52.280 --> 2:10:55.480 we we expanded to something beyond grits and biscuits, because 2:10:55.640 --> 2:10:57.680 you know, to leave your job to just be a 2:10:57.720 --> 2:11:00.560 party promoter, that's not that's not how was raised. 2:11:03.480 --> 2:11:05.760 Real shit, that's really fun. Yeah. 2:11:06.400 --> 2:11:09.760 I was surprised because when I found out that you 2:11:09.960 --> 2:11:12.400 that you still do all this and still do a job. 2:11:12.480 --> 2:11:16.000 I mean, how do y'all find time for yourself? Like 2:11:16.160 --> 2:11:17.880 is there any personal time? 2:11:18.960 --> 2:11:22.480 Right? She was like, what is that? That's my job? 2:11:22.560 --> 2:11:24.200 Is kind of cool with it. They kind of see 2:11:24.200 --> 2:11:26.120 it as like an add on to like what I do. 2:11:26.240 --> 2:11:28.560 Gotcha is like you know when we when we throw 2:11:28.600 --> 2:11:32.160 on parties or doing stuff, it kind of gives me 2:11:32.320 --> 2:11:34.680 a name or a leverage when I'm talking to artists, 2:11:34.720 --> 2:11:37.520 like like I know how to sell out a venue 2:11:37.640 --> 2:11:40.200 because this is what we do with grits and biscuits. 2:11:40.240 --> 2:11:41.840 I know how to put on the performance because that's 2:11:41.840 --> 2:11:43.120 what we do with grits and biscuits. So when I 2:11:43.160 --> 2:11:45.640 talk to artists, they kind of see me as someone 2:11:45.680 --> 2:11:47.840 who has the knowledge already to kind of tell them 2:11:47.840 --> 2:11:49.840 nothing like a player coach type of thing. 2:11:49.880 --> 2:11:51.520 Totally totally what about your Erica? 2:11:53.200 --> 2:11:55.600 No, I mean, I definitely think the job I'm in now, 2:11:55.680 --> 2:11:57.280 I made it very clear from the beginning that this 2:11:57.320 --> 2:11:59.320 is what I do on the side, so they've been 2:11:59.400 --> 2:12:04.000 very understand I think, Yeah, I mean, it hasn't been 2:12:04.400 --> 2:12:06.320 as far as finding balance. I mean, you just have 2:12:06.360 --> 2:12:09.240 to force yourself to do it, you know, and sometimes 2:12:09.240 --> 2:12:11.640 it's you know, not going to be able to make 2:12:11.680 --> 2:12:14.680 every show. I mean, this is kind of a new 2:12:14.720 --> 2:12:17.800 reality as we continue to grow, and it's something that 2:12:17.840 --> 2:12:20.400 we haven't talked about before. But for me, like the 2:12:20.480 --> 2:12:22.880 role I play, I'm very much behind the scenes, and 2:12:22.960 --> 2:12:25.840 so if someone else is in my place, then I 2:12:25.840 --> 2:12:27.840 mean that may just have how it may have to 2:12:27.880 --> 2:12:28.280 play out. 2:12:28.480 --> 2:12:30.400 And then you know, the other times. 2:12:30.200 --> 2:12:33.320 It's just like we are very you know, deliberate and 2:12:33.400 --> 2:12:35.480 like blocking out time. Like we have a calendar and 2:12:35.520 --> 2:12:38.320 if someone's like, I am not available for this week, 2:12:38.680 --> 2:12:41.080 and we don't schedule anything for that week because that 2:12:41.120 --> 2:12:42.120 person needs their time. 2:12:42.240 --> 2:12:44.800 So we y'all might need to give some lessons to 2:12:44.880 --> 2:12:46.040 quest Love support. 2:12:47.640 --> 2:12:48.240 Organization. 2:12:48.720 --> 2:12:52.680 They don't have as many jobs, well has a lot 2:12:52.720 --> 2:12:53.080 of jobs. 2:12:53.120 --> 2:12:55.520 I wonder what my employer thinks about what I do here? 2:12:56.080 --> 2:12:58.640 Man, Yeah, Okay, Bill Sean works for Sesame Street. 2:12:58.680 --> 2:13:02.280 He does. 2:13:02.520 --> 2:13:05.640 Yeah, yeah, so he goes from el Mo to put 2:13:05.640 --> 2:13:06.160 it in your mouth. 2:13:09.800 --> 2:13:11.360 So what about you? What about you? 2:13:11.360 --> 2:13:13.640 You think you know? Well, I don't. I don't have 2:13:13.680 --> 2:13:16.720 a full time job. So like I'm a freelance photographer. 2:13:16.800 --> 2:13:19.120 I'm an adjunct professor. I just teach once a week. 2:13:19.280 --> 2:13:23.400 I hadn't really worked for anybody since I was twenty four. 2:13:23.800 --> 2:13:26.440 Twenty yeah, so I realized a long time ago that 2:13:26.560 --> 2:13:29.240 I don't make a good employee. I don't like people 2:13:29.240 --> 2:13:30.560 telling me what to do, so I have to figure 2:13:30.600 --> 2:13:32.960 out on my own. And so like I think, you know, 2:13:33.000 --> 2:13:36.920 in terms of balance, like these these guys like they 2:13:37.000 --> 2:13:39.360 figured it out like out of balance. And for me, 2:13:40.520 --> 2:13:43.680 it's just about negotiating the relationship between all of the 2:13:43.720 --> 2:13:44.760 different things that I do. 2:13:45.080 --> 2:13:45.280 You know. 2:13:45.360 --> 2:13:48.680 So if I'm teaching, I teach every Thursday, so you know, 2:13:48.760 --> 2:13:50.440 if it's a party on Thursday night, we got to 2:13:50.440 --> 2:13:52.120 get to as soon as I finish class, I want 2:13:52.120 --> 2:13:55.080 a plane. And it's interesting how like sometimes my students 2:13:55.400 --> 2:13:57.560 think they figured out a secret, like, oh, we know 2:13:57.680 --> 2:14:00.560 that you throw parties. I'm like, can we come, Sure, 2:14:00.560 --> 2:14:02.680 you can come, but just know that your paper on 2:14:03.120 --> 2:14:06.600 emanual con will be due next Thursday morning. You know 2:14:06.640 --> 2:14:08.080 what I'm saying, That's what's up. 2:14:09.120 --> 2:14:10.760 Sorry, no, what I was just gonna say. 2:14:10.760 --> 2:14:12.360 It's interesting because you said I hop on a plane 2:14:12.480 --> 2:14:15.080 and y'all are on another level. Y'all aren't just party 2:14:15.120 --> 2:14:18.320 promoters like y'all take this around the country, right, Yeah, 2:14:18.640 --> 2:14:20.680 And so at this point where of some of the 2:14:20.720 --> 2:14:23.520 cities that y'all touched with Grits and Briskets. 2:14:23.720 --> 2:14:28.720 La, Chicago, d C, Detroit, Philly, Houston, Atlanta. We're going 2:14:28.760 --> 2:14:32.640 to the Bay Area this year or next year, Charlotte, 2:14:32.680 --> 2:14:35.560 Greensboro Movement done. 2:14:36.000 --> 2:14:37.840 Have you done overseas? Have you been out of the 2:14:37.840 --> 2:14:38.520 country to. 2:14:38.520 --> 2:14:40.640 Go for next for twenty seventeen? 2:14:40.800 --> 2:14:43.240 Okay, okay, Yeah, it's one of the things. I think 2:14:43.280 --> 2:14:46.400 it's dope when I go to the parties I've been to. 2:14:46.640 --> 2:14:48.840 I've been looking enough to catch the party in a. 2:14:48.520 --> 2:14:49.480 Few different cities. 2:14:49.840 --> 2:14:53.360 And the guy was he when I was at the 2:14:53.400 --> 2:14:55.840 show Charlotte, when I saw you guys in Charlotte a 2:14:55.880 --> 2:14:57.880 couple of weeks ago, and when my homies he was like, Yo, 2:14:57.920 --> 2:14:59.560 this show is crazy, and I was like, Yo, man, 2:14:59.720 --> 2:15:06.760 this this is crazy. Chicago House of blue nothing. 2:15:06.920 --> 2:15:08.560 And the thing about it is like I was. 2:15:08.680 --> 2:15:12.280 Lost my mind in the Yeah, I literally lost it 2:15:12.400 --> 2:15:14.200 was bad. It was I had to be taking off 2:15:14.280 --> 2:15:17.400 the I literally lost my mind. 2:15:17.920 --> 2:15:19.760 Yeah, I turned into big Brother that moment. 2:15:19.760 --> 2:15:24.000 I was yeah, Yeah, that might have been the one 2:15:24.040 --> 2:15:24.480 you were there. 2:15:24.760 --> 2:15:25.400 It might have been. 2:15:25.400 --> 2:15:26.000 It might have been. 2:15:27.160 --> 2:15:29.480 The party was So they did two nights the House 2:15:29.480 --> 2:15:31.080 of Blues, and I want to say maybe I was 2:15:31.240 --> 2:15:33.160 the second night. I can't remember the second night. It 2:15:33.200 --> 2:15:35.840 was the second night, So this is total. I mean, 2:15:36.000 --> 2:15:38.680 it was a pandemonium. And the thing that's so interesting 2:15:38.680 --> 2:15:41.160 about it is that how when you play the records 2:15:41.200 --> 2:15:43.640 in the South like a Charlotte, like people are having fun, 2:15:43.640 --> 2:15:47.840 But it seems like the records get an even bigger response. 2:15:47.560 --> 2:15:52.080 Outside of the South because all the time, all the time, 2:15:52.120 --> 2:15:55.440 and all the transplants. Yeah, right, right, right, right right, yes, 2:15:55.600 --> 2:15:57.600 I mean, I mean the Chicago was retarded. 2:15:57.920 --> 2:16:01.800 One particular joint that I want to talk about because 2:16:01.800 --> 2:16:05.160 I feel that y'all are single handedly responsible for reviving 2:16:05.760 --> 2:16:08.560 this song. And I wonder if the people who made it, 2:16:08.640 --> 2:16:12.040 if God, I can't remember the name, but the song Swagsurfing. 2:16:13.200 --> 2:16:19.360 It was the group's name. Fly Fly Fly Fly, swag Surfing. 2:16:19.520 --> 2:16:21.800 This was a song that it was. This was a 2:16:21.840 --> 2:16:24.040 song that came out in the height of what I 2:16:24.040 --> 2:16:25.600 would kind of call like. 2:16:25.560 --> 2:16:27.240 The ring Tone era. 2:16:27.640 --> 2:16:31.560 So this is like, oh my god, yeah, oh six 2:16:32.000 --> 2:16:33.960 right as I dropped an album called The Minstter Show. 2:16:35.480 --> 2:16:39.440 But right right, perfect timing and terrible time at the 2:16:39.440 --> 2:16:41.920 same time. But nah, man, it was a guy like 2:16:41.959 --> 2:16:43.720 shop Boy. It's probably like a rock star. And just 2:16:43.760 --> 2:16:46.520 like all these records that were at the time, Defour 2:16:46.640 --> 2:16:49.120 l Laughing Taffy, all those records, and so these were 2:16:49.600 --> 2:16:51.959 records that were used, I mean in a lot of 2:16:51.959 --> 2:16:54.720 ways that they sold Ringtones when Ringtones were hot. 2:16:54.760 --> 2:16:56.000 I mean that was the thing. 2:16:55.879 --> 2:16:57.600 I remember La was telling us like, yo, y'all need 2:16:57.600 --> 2:16:59.200 a song. We can sell some Ringtones for it. I 2:16:59.200 --> 2:17:03.560 remember that. But anyway, this song swag Surfing, y'all have 2:17:03.720 --> 2:17:08.000 like reignited that song. And so swag Surfing for the 2:17:08.000 --> 2:17:11.160 people who have never been to Biscuits party, that is 2:17:11.280 --> 2:17:15.560 like the come to Jesus moment of biscuits. 2:17:15.680 --> 2:17:18.280 We all come together as a family. 2:17:19.000 --> 2:17:20.600 I want you all to talk about it, like tell 2:17:20.640 --> 2:17:24.600 them like the essence of the swag surf, Like take 2:17:24.680 --> 2:17:25.240 us there. 2:17:27.520 --> 2:17:30.959 Now you yea. And also this he is on the mic, 2:17:31.000 --> 2:17:42.640 and this is like he is so right, he makes 2:17:42.680 --> 2:17:43.160 you feel. 2:17:45.800 --> 2:17:48.720 So we all have different roles, right and that and 2:17:48.840 --> 2:17:51.160 uh so this is how we say it. So my 2:17:51.240 --> 2:17:53.240 reason that was what to play. I know what to say, 2:17:53.280 --> 2:17:56.360 and Erica knows who to pay right, that is so 2:17:56.640 --> 2:17:59.279 and so on the the in the parties, my brothers 2:17:59.280 --> 2:18:02.320 obviously play, you know, spinning the records, and I'm on 2:18:02.360 --> 2:18:03.920 the mic just to make sure the crowd is where 2:18:03.959 --> 2:18:06.240 they need to be, creating a certain energy that we 2:18:06.400 --> 2:18:09.400 like to think is hospitable. But like the swag surf 2:18:09.560 --> 2:18:12.840 is one of those things where it's the epitome of 2:18:13.680 --> 2:18:16.600 the energy of our party that we want to create 2:18:16.680 --> 2:18:17.320 and maintain. 2:18:17.520 --> 2:18:18.879 Right, So we we. 2:18:18.840 --> 2:18:20.440 Don't care, like we say, we don't care if you 2:18:20.480 --> 2:18:22.360 bow legg is, slew foot of a pigeon. Told, we 2:18:22.400 --> 2:18:24.920 don't care if you talk short, gaze, straight, fat ugly, 2:18:25.040 --> 2:18:26.920 It doesn't matter. Like if you come to have a 2:18:26.959 --> 2:18:29.600 good time, you in the right place. And so you 2:18:29.640 --> 2:18:33.000 could be standing next to somebody you don't even know, right, 2:18:33.040 --> 2:18:34.879 and we ask you to put your arms out and 2:18:34.879 --> 2:18:37.160 you put your arms around on people and then once 2:18:37.200 --> 2:18:39.920 my brother drops the track, we start swaying from side 2:18:39.959 --> 2:18:42.360 to side. Right, we start swinging from side to side, 2:18:42.440 --> 2:18:44.920 and then right before the beat drops, we just got 2:18:44.920 --> 2:18:47.280 to let everybody know to get your motherfucking hands up. 2:18:52.080 --> 2:18:56.160 And it's not a request, a demand. Yeah. 2:18:56.200 --> 2:18:58.160 Every time, like I've seen, I've seen it, you know, 2:18:58.360 --> 2:19:00.600 in a few different places, and every every time, the 2:19:00.800 --> 2:19:03.119 energy is just through the fucking group. And the thing 2:19:03.160 --> 2:19:06.959 that's so dope about it, man, is like, well, for 2:19:07.040 --> 2:19:09.920 one thing, white people, our listeners, I need y'all to 2:19:09.920 --> 2:19:13.200 stop butchering the swag surf. I was watching something on 2:19:13.440 --> 2:19:16.640 It was some white university. It was a huge they 2:19:16.640 --> 2:19:19.240 were doing it. They tried the swag surf and it 2:19:19.480 --> 2:19:21.920 just there was no swag or surf at all. 2:19:22.240 --> 2:19:22.520 It was. 2:19:22.560 --> 2:19:31.280 It was totally swag, body board, swag kayak but no, 2:19:31.440 --> 2:19:31.640 it was. 2:19:31.680 --> 2:19:33.200 It was so bad. But now you guys have. 2:19:33.840 --> 2:19:37.000 Just created a brand that is you know, coming from 2:19:37.080 --> 2:19:39.480 you know HBCU. I mean we joking, joke, but uh, 2:19:39.760 --> 2:19:42.160 just to see three of you guys from a fellow 2:19:42.280 --> 2:19:45.480 HBCUH attendees, just the stuff that y'all are doing, I 2:19:45.520 --> 2:19:46.800 just applaud you guys man, and just. 2:19:46.760 --> 2:19:48.440 Thank out so much. 2:19:48.480 --> 2:19:50.600 The party is a great time. If they're ever in 2:19:50.680 --> 2:19:54.440 your city, go like go. And I was seeing clips. 2:19:54.520 --> 2:19:56.200 We was in here working, so I couldn't even come 2:19:56.240 --> 2:19:58.480 out there to get my swagsurf on. 2:19:58.920 --> 2:19:59.959 But did. 2:20:01.440 --> 2:20:05.520 Yeah, I saw someone g I saw some of the 2:20:05.600 --> 2:20:15.360 videos was going down. So so now, man, ladies, gentlemen, man, 2:20:15.520 --> 2:20:19.720 this has been an incredible uh two day affair of 2:20:19.800 --> 2:20:26.880 quest Love Supreme fantee of myself lovely ea uh boss 2:20:27.000 --> 2:20:29.720 Bill unpaid Bill Scott yeo up in here. 2:20:29.760 --> 2:20:32.120 And also I must it's never gonna not make me laugh. 2:20:34.320 --> 2:20:37.400 And also in the background we got Chilling, the mother 2:20:37.680 --> 2:20:39.600 of this whole movie. We must, I mean, we must 2:20:39.600 --> 2:20:43.200 shot her out because she has been responsible in many 2:20:43.200 --> 2:20:46.960 ways for bringing us all together with the like okay 2:20:47.000 --> 2:20:54.200 player Angela, yeah, how many it's like six e's at 2:20:54.200 --> 2:20:56.520 the end of that the screen. 2:20:57.080 --> 2:20:57.880 She's laughing right now. 2:20:58.640 --> 2:21:00.960 You knew, I knew, Like, okay, let me explain it. Okay, 2:21:01.000 --> 2:21:02.600 So all the people out there and listen were okay. 2:21:02.640 --> 2:21:06.760 So so you know on social media now, when you 2:21:06.840 --> 2:21:08.840 get if you're on Twitter and you get like the 2:21:08.840 --> 2:21:11.400 blue check, that's like you were verified. 2:21:11.480 --> 2:21:13.680 Like that's like, okay, you're the fucking man. 2:21:13.959 --> 2:21:18.840 Right before the verification, there was Okay Player, and there 2:21:18.920 --> 2:21:22.119 was the okay that was beside your screen. Now when 2:21:22.200 --> 2:21:24.760 you got the okay, like I was tay gravy, I'm 2:21:24.800 --> 2:21:26.800 still take gravy, Okay player, and like. 2:21:26.760 --> 2:21:27.600 I'm take gravy. 2:21:27.600 --> 2:21:29.400 And it was like, all right, whatever, I'm take gravy. 2:21:29.480 --> 2:21:33.000 When I became take gravy. Okay, you made it? 2:21:33.360 --> 2:21:34.040 What yo? 2:21:34.640 --> 2:21:34.760 What? 2:21:35.120 --> 2:21:36.200 I still don't know the criteria. 2:21:36.520 --> 2:21:41.440 Okay, we can't talk about it as part of our 2:21:41.480 --> 2:21:42.920 Illuminati package. 2:21:43.480 --> 2:21:46.160 But it was part of it. Was we can't you 2:21:46.200 --> 2:21:47.320 can't speak on none of that. 2:21:47.879 --> 2:21:48.120 It was. 2:21:48.200 --> 2:21:50.480 It was a part of our Illuminati NDA that we 2:21:50.520 --> 2:21:51.000 had to sign. 2:21:51.080 --> 2:21:56.279 But okay, but but nah man. Shout out to Angie 2:21:56.440 --> 2:21:58.920 Okay player for bringing us all together. It has been 2:21:58.959 --> 2:22:03.320 an incredible and fellas, ladies and gents, I start to 2:22:03.320 --> 2:22:07.280 my left with lovely, what have you learned? 2:22:07.280 --> 2:22:09.280 What do we learn this over this two day period? 2:22:10.240 --> 2:22:12.320 Picnicas work? 2:22:12.560 --> 2:22:13.480 That's what I have learned. 2:22:13.520 --> 2:22:14.959 I have learned that as much as I like to 2:22:15.000 --> 2:22:18.400 tease our boss and you know, leader Fearless, Leader re quest. 2:22:18.200 --> 2:22:20.199 Love, that nigga works hard. 2:22:23.040 --> 2:22:26.520 And I don't know what kind of vitamins you know 2:22:26.680 --> 2:22:29.040 he takes. But it's good. It's got to be something 2:22:29.040 --> 2:22:29.879 he's keeping from us. 2:22:29.920 --> 2:22:32.160 Cocaine. It's got to be something. 2:22:32.200 --> 2:22:33.720 But I wish that he took drugs. 2:22:33.800 --> 2:22:38.400 I really don't know what the man is. Superhuman. He's 2:22:38.440 --> 2:22:38.720 got to be. 2:22:39.440 --> 2:22:40.400 Yeah, that's all I'm saying. 2:22:40.480 --> 2:22:42.400 And I've learned that I can be in a room 2:22:42.400 --> 2:22:45.320 with y'all for over eight hours, and especially you know, 2:22:46.080 --> 2:22:48.240 I paid bill here ship. 2:22:50.240 --> 2:22:52.920 You liked it the whole time next to me? Stop, 2:22:53.080 --> 2:22:56.960 I think that, like what well you said you liked 2:22:57.000 --> 2:22:57.560 it the whole time. 2:22:57.600 --> 2:22:59.520 That and like you were talking about being trapped in 2:22:59.560 --> 2:22:59.959 a room. 2:22:59.800 --> 2:23:03.720 With that sounds bad? Yeah, that sound I'm sure that 2:23:03.800 --> 2:23:05.680 was like the same thing that Rick James said to 2:23:05.760 --> 2:23:11.199 that girl. You know what, maybe it's like an episode 2:23:11.200 --> 2:23:15.440 of Breaking Bad. So I want unpaid bill. What have 2:23:15.520 --> 2:23:19.400 you learned? Brother? Days? Man, I've had to really surreal 2:23:19.480 --> 2:23:20.280 fucking days man. 2:23:20.600 --> 2:23:25.680 Yeah, okay, so your whole phase updated? Yeah, yes, apparently 2:23:25.680 --> 2:23:26.680 something went down last night. 2:23:26.800 --> 2:23:27.600 I went down last night. 2:23:29.680 --> 2:23:30.080 He wasn't. 2:23:33.240 --> 2:23:38.440 I you know, Uh, everything is good. That's how you're 2:23:38.440 --> 2:23:39.039 supposed to do it. 2:23:39.040 --> 2:23:43.840 That's how you're supposed to do. 2:23:41.840 --> 2:23:43.560 Don't leave me hanging over there. I'm sorry, I didn't 2:23:43.600 --> 2:23:45.280 see that I was laughing and I closed my eyes 2:23:45.320 --> 2:23:46.280 that I was supposed to do it. 2:23:46.440 --> 2:23:48.080 Can you at least tell your wool story, because it 2:23:48.120 --> 2:23:50.640 was funny. 2:23:50.720 --> 2:23:52.320 Oh my wool story? Okay, all right. 2:23:53.440 --> 2:23:55.760 So so the Wu Tank Plan are playing at the 2:23:55.840 --> 2:23:57.560 Ruth picnic, and so I went to the rehearsal today 2:23:57.720 --> 2:24:00.280 because I had some time to kill between the end 2:24:00.320 --> 2:24:02.279 of my whole phase in the beginning of the afternoon 2:24:02.320 --> 2:24:06.080 exactly if you will, just for just understand time in 2:24:06.080 --> 2:24:08.520 relation to me, all right. So I got into the 2:24:08.560 --> 2:24:11.280 WU thing, and I was there, and they were all there. 2:24:11.320 --> 2:24:13.280 But there's you know how many guys, There's nine of 2:24:13.320 --> 2:24:15.000 them or eight of them, right, and there was like 2:24:15.120 --> 2:24:18.680 forty people there, forty other dudes with like shoolin woo 2:24:18.680 --> 2:24:21.440 shit happening. And I fit right in, as I off 2:24:21.480 --> 2:24:24.400 do in these situations. Clearly, I'm a plaid. So I 2:24:24.440 --> 2:24:29.000 sat there for a while. So I sitting there with Steve, 2:24:29.280 --> 2:24:31.920 and and all of a sudden they're getting the songs together. 2:24:31.920 --> 2:24:34.039 So Rizza gets up and he starts to rap, and 2:24:34.040 --> 2:24:35.800 then and then a few of the guys get up 2:24:35.959 --> 2:24:38.000 to do whatever song they were doing. 2:24:38.200 --> 2:24:40.039 Meanwhile, two of them. 2:24:39.760 --> 2:24:42.760 Are set up a chess board and just start playing chess, 2:24:42.800 --> 2:24:44.640 like that's what you do during rehearsal. That's what you 2:24:44.640 --> 2:24:47.840 do during rehearsal, absolutely every time. So and I thought like, 2:24:47.840 --> 2:24:49.520 oh man, they're gonna get up and like get on stage, 2:24:49.560 --> 2:24:52.040 because that's what you do in rehearsal. But lo and behold, 2:24:52.080 --> 2:24:54.000 it got to like Jesus verse and he was playing chess, 2:24:54.040 --> 2:24:56.520 and he just rapped while he was playing chess. He 2:24:56.600 --> 2:25:00.080 was like, chess move, Chess move. And I was like, 2:25:00.120 --> 2:25:02.480 that's the most surreal thing I've seen in a really 2:25:02.480 --> 2:25:02.920 long time. 2:25:03.080 --> 2:25:04.840 They didn't have to get up. Oh and there was 2:25:04.879 --> 2:25:07.720 a teleprompter because you know, they forgot all that. They thought. 2:25:07.920 --> 2:25:09.440 They thought it was the funniest thing ever, because they 2:25:09.440 --> 2:25:11.640 don't when those kind of words are written on it 2:25:11.720 --> 2:25:13.240 tell it was very very funny to them. 2:25:13.280 --> 2:25:16.320 Wowverybody else shout out to the making chess moves and 2:25:16.400 --> 2:25:18.000 rap moves at the same time. 2:25:17.840 --> 2:25:20.760 Simultaneously happened such a big catalog. 2:25:20.800 --> 2:25:23.879 You got the mystery of chess wrapping it was and 2:25:23.920 --> 2:25:25.800 then and then Steve tried to make a joke about 2:25:25.840 --> 2:25:28.480 Bobby Fisher, but he called them Bobby Fisher Stein or 2:25:28.480 --> 2:25:30.280 something like that, and so then the joke fell on 2:25:30.320 --> 2:25:33.200 his face. That's Steve, Steve screwed up a joke, Yes, 2:25:33.240 --> 2:25:35.280 Steve not geting jokes man, it's the weed, it's the 2:25:35.320 --> 2:25:40.440 West that it doesn't it doesn't work for him. 2:25:40.520 --> 2:25:43.560 So anyway, Scotty, what did you learn? 2:25:43.800 --> 2:25:44.280 Must have learned? 2:25:44.560 --> 2:25:48.840 Okay, man, And we're not talking about the QLs after 2:25:48.920 --> 2:25:52.680 Dark session. The conversations which I missed. 2:25:53.360 --> 2:25:55.880 QULS after Dot was so real. It was so real. 2:25:55.959 --> 2:25:57.520 What makes that its own radio show? Yeah? 2:25:57.840 --> 2:26:03.880 Ql S fe Q Talk's like, yeah, who's been offs? 2:26:04.560 --> 2:26:05.320 A couple of things. 2:26:05.360 --> 2:26:07.840 One, the roots are really creative when they need to 2:26:07.959 --> 2:26:08.879 stall for time. 2:26:10.920 --> 2:26:14.520 Story. Yes, yes, Chappelle loved that five minutes. I'm sure 2:26:14.560 --> 2:26:17.039 he did. He looked very enthus to be up there. 2:26:17.040 --> 2:26:17.920 That forget about. 2:26:19.080 --> 2:26:21.800 Oh yeah we had Rosel got fa noise. That was 2:26:22.200 --> 2:26:25.560 seeing Rosell in a long time. Yeah, shut up, you know, 2:26:25.640 --> 2:26:27.080 I'm just saying that was one the first time seeing 2:26:27.120 --> 2:26:27.720 him in a long time. 2:26:27.720 --> 2:26:30.879 I see him there was Yeah, you missed it. 2:26:31.200 --> 2:26:32.000 Rose showed up. 2:26:32.120 --> 2:26:37.400 We know, Oh he was whole fas I know, he 2:26:37.480 --> 2:26:40.360 was whole phasing, but it was he was old phasing. 2:26:40.400 --> 2:26:42.760 But Roselle showed up and did his thing. 2:26:44.280 --> 2:26:47.760 What else? The biggest thing I learned is that. 2:26:49.320 --> 2:26:51.840 I had a really good time spending time with you guys, 2:26:51.920 --> 2:26:55.080 especially this whole weekend. And what people may or may 2:26:55.120 --> 2:26:57.160 not know is doing a radio show is really hard, 2:26:57.240 --> 2:26:58.640 and you guys make it look easy. 2:26:58.720 --> 2:27:01.800 So I think you guys all just thank you, thank you, 2:27:01.800 --> 2:27:02.080 thank you. 2:27:03.080 --> 2:27:09.920 I just think three months ago we had no idea dance. 2:27:10.440 --> 2:27:16.080 Oh yeah, he can also teach dance. You need to 2:27:16.120 --> 2:27:20.959 check the QLs instagram seven eight and ship time was 2:27:21.000 --> 2:27:22.160 impressed you. 2:27:22.160 --> 2:27:24.000 You guys will need to check the QLs instagram and 2:27:24.120 --> 2:27:29.520 see the video of Fonticelo and stepping in the name 2:27:29.560 --> 2:27:30.199 of Questlove. 2:27:30.320 --> 2:27:33.240 In the name of Questlove, people filming it, we have 2:27:33.280 --> 2:27:34.800 a bunch of together. 2:27:36.080 --> 2:27:36.840 There's all kinds of. 2:27:36.800 --> 2:27:39.200 Competition on the subject of Fante. Real quick, can I 2:27:39.240 --> 2:27:41.840 just do another thing I learned. I learned that Fante 2:27:42.040 --> 2:27:43.119 was in the color. 2:27:42.840 --> 2:27:46.920 Purple, right, man, you can tell everybody about that because 2:27:46.959 --> 2:27:47.960 that was off off Mike. 2:27:48.440 --> 2:27:53.440 It was off Mike, Okay, So for the people who care, everybody, everybody, 2:27:53.480 --> 2:27:55.959 I was an extra in the color Purple uh, long 2:27:56.040 --> 2:27:56.480 time ago. 2:27:57.120 --> 2:27:57.640 What it was. 2:27:57.680 --> 2:27:59.920 My uncle at the time, he was the film was 2:28:00.040 --> 2:28:02.680 shot in North Carolina, and so my uncle at the 2:28:02.720 --> 2:28:05.000 time was working my uncle Mike shot at my uncle Mike, 2:28:05.320 --> 2:28:08.959 he was working at ants in Tech which was the 2:28:09.000 --> 2:28:12.280 county they shot it in Anson County, and so he 2:28:12.400 --> 2:28:14.760 was working in ants in Tech as like a financial 2:28:14.840 --> 2:28:18.840 aid advisor, and so they that's where they were having 2:28:18.840 --> 2:28:20.840 the auditions. So he hits us, he hits my mom. 2:28:20.920 --> 2:28:23.800 He's like, hey, they're having auditions for this movie. And 2:28:23.920 --> 2:28:26.560 at the time, the movie, the code name or the 2:28:26.560 --> 2:28:29.840 production name was called moon Song, and they were kind 2:28:29.840 --> 2:28:31.840 of you know, keeping it under wraps whatever, and so 2:28:32.640 --> 2:28:34.320 they was like, they were having auditions for this movie. 2:28:34.320 --> 2:28:36.200 You should come down. So my mother came down. She's 2:28:36.240 --> 2:28:37.520 like cool. She brought me with me. And it was 2:28:37.560 --> 2:28:40.600 in the summer of eighty five. I want to say 2:28:40.640 --> 2:28:42.120 I was six years old. I was about to go 2:28:42.160 --> 2:28:46.080 to first grade, I think. But anyway, so we go down. 2:28:46.120 --> 2:28:48.200 We auditioned and at the time, and during the audition 2:28:48.280 --> 2:28:50.720 I remember specifically, I had to I was going up 2:28:50.760 --> 2:28:51.400 against this girl. 2:28:51.480 --> 2:28:53.800 I was six years old and the girl was nine, 2:28:54.280 --> 2:28:54.840 and the. 2:28:54.840 --> 2:28:57.440 Audition was we had to pretend that we were angry 2:28:57.920 --> 2:29:00.959 and we were hungry and we wanted a mother whoever 2:29:01.000 --> 2:29:04.200 to make us some jam. Sandwiches make a jam sound, 2:29:04.320 --> 2:29:07.440 so you had to act like I'm hungry, I want 2:29:07.480 --> 2:29:10.120 some jam. Like that was the I remember specifically, that 2:29:10.200 --> 2:29:12.400 was it. I'm hungry, I want some jam. And so, 2:29:13.440 --> 2:29:16.400 you know, the girl was older than me, and she 2:29:16.600 --> 2:29:19.760 was big, and she was fucking like, I mean, she 2:29:19.920 --> 2:29:20.720 was really scary. 2:29:20.840 --> 2:29:23.040 I was scared of shit, but she was really like, 2:29:23.080 --> 2:29:23.920 give me some jam. 2:29:24.000 --> 2:29:26.640 Like she really hadn't ate, like maybe like her wik 2:29:26.720 --> 2:29:30.520 vouchers hadn't appeared that month, she really might have been hungry. 2:29:30.840 --> 2:29:32.640 It was real, so you know what I mean. 2:29:32.680 --> 2:29:34.240 So she did her thing or whatever, and I was 2:29:34.280 --> 2:29:36.320 just like, man, so I did mine, and I was 2:29:36.440 --> 2:29:39.720 kind of shook. So I remember leaving auditions just thinking like, man, 2:29:39.800 --> 2:29:41.000 I don't think they're gonna choose me. 2:29:41.240 --> 2:29:43.520 Can you like how you did it a little bit? 2:29:43.680 --> 2:29:44.400 Give me some jam. 2:29:44.440 --> 2:29:45.000 I'm hungry. 2:29:47.400 --> 2:29:49.360 I wouldn't have gave you the PU. Yeah I wouldn't. Yeah, 2:29:49.400 --> 2:29:50.640 I would have been I lost it. 2:29:50.680 --> 2:29:52.280 So h I thought it was I figured that I 2:29:52.280 --> 2:29:55.199 had fucking bombed or whatever, and so I just came home. 2:29:55.560 --> 2:29:58.959 We left, come home one night to my grandmother's house 2:29:59.040 --> 2:30:01.360 phone rings and and my mother answers it, and I'm 2:30:01.360 --> 2:30:03.840 in the other room and I hear her just start screaming. 2:30:04.920 --> 2:30:07.320 But it wasn't like a bad scream. It wasn't like 2:30:07.320 --> 2:30:10.160 a somebody died scream. It was like a shit we 2:30:10.280 --> 2:30:13.840 hit the lottery screen. Yeah, she was like happy, and 2:30:13.879 --> 2:30:15.119 so I came out. I was like, what is it? 2:30:15.320 --> 2:30:18.200 So she was telling me. She was like, yo, you 2:30:18.280 --> 2:30:20.320 got a part in The Color Purple. So that was 2:30:20.320 --> 2:30:22.320 when they let her know that it was The Color 2:30:22.360 --> 2:30:25.160 Purple was the movie. And we went down the next day, 2:30:25.360 --> 2:30:28.760 and you know, I remember getting fitted for everything, like 2:30:28.840 --> 2:30:31.520 I remember meeting Oprah. And the only reason I knew 2:30:31.520 --> 2:30:33.879 she was Oprah was because at the time she used 2:30:33.879 --> 2:30:36.000 to be in the Jet magazine, and like when you 2:30:36.000 --> 2:30:37.199 go to the barber shops. 2:30:37.120 --> 2:30:38.720 Like barber shops always used to have a Jet. 2:30:39.240 --> 2:30:41.640 So like I was read like the albums and then 2:30:41.680 --> 2:30:43.120 see the Beauty of the Week, and then like a 2:30:43.120 --> 2:30:45.600 few other pages after that. It was like Oprah. She 2:30:45.720 --> 2:30:48.800 was on the bottom of like top ten influential. 2:30:48.800 --> 2:30:51.680 Square in the Black Squares. 2:30:52.040 --> 2:30:54.560 She was one of the Black square implorant people. And 2:30:54.640 --> 2:30:57.840 so I remember seeing her and we met at No 2:30:57.879 --> 2:31:00.320 Old joke, like we were at the Daily Tray and 2:31:00.480 --> 2:31:05.279 we met and we met at craft services and uh 2:31:05.360 --> 2:31:07.760 yeah her, I remember me whoopee. I remember all that stuff. 2:31:07.760 --> 2:31:10.120 And so it wasn't until afterwards when the movie came out. 2:31:10.600 --> 2:31:12.280 My mother took me to see it, and it was 2:31:12.360 --> 2:31:16.680 then I understood this while we shot a fucking. 2:31:16.400 --> 2:31:18.440 Movie, like I got it. But uh, yeah, it was 2:31:18.440 --> 2:31:19.160 a fun experience. 2:31:19.440 --> 2:31:21.640 Steven Spielberg at the time, he was married to Amy Irving, 2:31:22.160 --> 2:31:25.039 and I remember she was breastfeeding and that was the 2:31:25.040 --> 2:31:27.360 first time I've ever seen that stuff. Yeah, because it's 2:31:27.400 --> 2:31:28.920 just white women putting their titties out, like. 2:31:28.840 --> 2:31:32.000 You just don't see that shular. I mean, I was like, 2:31:32.040 --> 2:31:35.160 what the fuck? And so I remember my mom. 2:31:35.000 --> 2:31:36.680 Like y'all was like, Mama, that woman's got up titt 2:31:36.760 --> 2:31:38.760 out and she's like, boy, put you don't point at them. 2:31:38.600 --> 2:31:39.520 People like it was crazy. 2:31:39.560 --> 2:31:41.920 So it was just totally different being like a small 2:31:42.160 --> 2:31:45.039 southern like kid, you know, small town southern kid being 2:31:45.040 --> 2:31:47.039 around all these like la people like. 2:31:46.959 --> 2:31:48.920 That was of my boy, and your actual careers just 2:31:49.000 --> 2:31:49.879 jumped off since then. 2:31:50.000 --> 2:31:53.879 Yeah, I have since been in Uh what have I been? 2:31:53.920 --> 2:31:56.360 I've been in the Breaks on v H one. I 2:31:56.480 --> 2:32:03.800 was also in the gospel production Mama, please don't it's 2:32:03.879 --> 2:32:06.400 grown by leaps and bounds. But no, man, that was 2:32:06.440 --> 2:32:08.959 that was my story And I may post some pics. 2:32:09.000 --> 2:32:13.039 Maybe I'll post some pics on QLs like that a. 2:32:13.040 --> 2:32:15.039 Little boy running through the street, running through the sheets 2:32:15.040 --> 2:32:15.840 that hit Sealy. 2:32:16.400 --> 2:32:17.560 Yeah, yeah, they was. 2:32:17.800 --> 2:32:19.520 I ran through and tumbled so you can see me. 2:32:19.600 --> 2:32:22.760 But I'll post I'll send pictures to uh like we 2:32:22.800 --> 2:32:25.000 can put it up on the QLs Instagram. 2:32:25.160 --> 2:32:26.640 That's all I'm saying. 2:32:26.879 --> 2:32:29.800 We Uh, boss Bill? What you What have you learned? Man? 2:32:29.840 --> 2:32:30.280 What have you learned? 2:32:30.320 --> 2:32:30.360 This? 2:32:30.800 --> 2:32:34.440 I learned that everybody that we talked to today was 2:32:34.600 --> 2:32:37.560 very intelligent, h had Everybody had their head on straight 2:32:37.959 --> 2:32:39.160 like that was refreshing. 2:32:39.280 --> 2:32:39.920 It was very. 2:32:39.800 --> 2:32:42.280 Refreshing because I've talked to a lot of people, you know, 2:32:42.640 --> 2:32:46.400 in various capacities in the industry, and not. 2:32:46.480 --> 2:32:50.800 Everybody is all there. Yeah, but everybody we talked. 2:32:50.600 --> 2:32:54.560 To this weekend, I have I have a going to 2:32:54.600 --> 2:32:55.400 do big things and. 2:32:55.360 --> 2:32:57.199 I have hope for the future. Like all the people, 2:32:57.320 --> 2:32:59.520 like millennials, I think get a very bad rap. And 2:32:59.560 --> 2:33:02.720 it's just old millenniums, this, millenniums, this, but the young 2:33:03.120 --> 2:33:06.520 people that we spoke to over this past week, yeah, 2:33:06.600 --> 2:33:10.160 y'all right with me, particularly like tis just specifically saying 2:33:10.520 --> 2:33:12.920 like Lean is some bullshit and you know, to hear 2:33:13.600 --> 2:33:16.039 I've been body to hear Damn Marley talking about you know, 2:33:16.879 --> 2:33:18.879 you know I write, you know who I am. I'm 2:33:18.879 --> 2:33:20.600 not gonna try to I want to work my I'm 2:33:20.640 --> 2:33:22.080 not going to coast all my name. You know what 2:33:22.120 --> 2:33:25.440 I'm saying. Yeah, Una saying the same thing. So yeah, 2:33:25.480 --> 2:33:27.840 the uh, the young artist that y'all giving me hope. 2:33:27.879 --> 2:33:29.720 You know what I'm saying, y'all ain't just all bouncing 2:33:29.720 --> 2:33:30.680 and shooting and killing. 2:33:30.440 --> 2:33:31.760 The ship, y'all. 2:33:34.640 --> 2:33:38.840 Yeah, yah yah, gotchas on straight. I'm hopeful, thank you. 2:33:38.920 --> 2:33:39.120 Yeah. 2:33:39.160 --> 2:33:43.240 Man, Well, y'all, this has been yet another fun field 2:33:43.280 --> 2:33:46.640 episode of Quest Love Supreme in this two day haul. 2:33:47.360 --> 2:33:49.800 Good god man, we've been This has been nuts, but 2:33:50.280 --> 2:33:56.320 we got through it on behalf of myself, Fonticoelo, Lovely Boss, Bill, 2:33:56.520 --> 2:34:02.080 Unpaid Bill Scott, ya Yo, Sugar Steve, and our absent 2:34:02.520 --> 2:34:05.000 cult leader Massa Thompson. 2:34:07.400 --> 2:34:07.720 Thank you. 2:34:08.280 --> 2:34:12.080 I've our slave Motisa, the Motiza Trial. 2:34:12.320 --> 2:34:14.720 I heard the Motsasa. 2:34:16.080 --> 2:34:17.800 It's not funny, say yeah. 2:34:17.600 --> 2:34:19.360 It was real, it was funny. Yeah. 2:34:19.520 --> 2:34:23.720 We're gonna rename this podcast, this radio show twelve years 2:34:23.720 --> 2:34:24.200 of Tompson. 2:34:28.560 --> 2:34:30.320 Listen, he's gonna hate this up. 2:34:30.520 --> 2:34:32.120 Yeah yeah, he gonna be he'll be cussing all this 2:34:32.240 --> 2:34:35.120 funk out, but it's all good. Listen on behalf of 2:34:35.160 --> 2:34:38.240 all of us Team Supreme here at Question of Supreme. Man, 2:34:38.280 --> 2:34:40.320 thank all of y'all for checking us, and we'll be 2:34:40.360 --> 2:34:41.480 back next week on Yall. 2:34:41.480 --> 2:34:44.400 Another episode of Question Love Supreme with an all new 2:34:44.400 --> 2:34:49.199 Team Supremes. All yeah, last one A good run, man. Yeah, 2:34:49.440 --> 2:34:50.040 it's been real. 2:34:50.160 --> 2:34:52.560 Yeah yeah, I'll see y'all letting up the blumbing line 2:34:52.560 --> 2:34:57.279 together Quest Love Supreme only on Pandora. 2:34:57.280 --> 2:34:58.080 We'll see y'all next week. 2:34:58.120 --> 2:35:08.800 Pe of Course, Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 2:35:09.280 --> 2:35:16.480 This classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora. 2:35:17.840 --> 2:35:22.240 For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 2:35:22.720 --> 2:35:24.720 or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.