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Speaker 3: This is cousin Jake from the Quest Love Show back
Speaker 3: with our very own open Mic Eagle, the two affiliates
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 2: Pod Mike, how is uh? How's your weekend?
Speaker 4: Man? It's weird. I'm about to go on tour, so
Speaker 4: everything seems like not enough time. But also I think
Speaker 4: I've done everything I gotta do already, like everything is
Speaker 4: out just needs to be packed. But I still feel
Speaker 4: the anxiety of needing to do things that I actually
Speaker 4: don't need to do.
Speaker 2: You're going to Europe Western Europe.
Speaker 4: Well, I go to the Northeast first. So I have
Speaker 4: a week where I'm doing Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto, Lansing, Michigan
Speaker 4: in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Then I come home for a week and then there's
Speaker 4: the European run.
Speaker 2: Ah got you got you?
Speaker 3: When this runs, those dates will be active. Is there
Speaker 3: anything you're especially looking forward to?
Speaker 4: Well, we sold out Toronto, so I'm really happy about that.
Speaker 4: I haven't I've realized I haven't been to Montreal or
Speaker 4: Toronto as a headliner before. I've been to both places
Speaker 4: and performed before, but it's my first time headliner. So
Speaker 4: I'm excited Toronto sold out and excited to see my
Speaker 4: Canadian homies.
Speaker 2: That is dope.
Speaker 3: I know you're in Philly several times a year. I
Speaker 3: would be saying what's up to you in person? If
Speaker 3: not this trip, but I'll catch you on the next
Speaker 3: That's what's up? Yeah, man, So one thing you and
Speaker 3: I have in common, and obviously we're here to talk
Speaker 3: about the Quest Love show, which you know, please make
Speaker 3: sure you are following, liking, subscribing, all of those things, telling.
Speaker 4: The engagement thing, the important engagement things everything.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean we've been doing these many episodes
Speaker 3: for the last almost six months, and I am so
Speaker 3: happy that not only have you gone from guests, which
Speaker 3: is still an ongoing conversation to you know, being one
Speaker 3: of the voices in the mix, and you and I
Speaker 3: and you and a Mir and Amir and I we
Speaker 3: have these different configurations of just trying to you know,
Speaker 3: unpack and you know, we had a really special episode
Speaker 3: that I think is near and dear to both you
Speaker 3: and I with past news. Yes, and I just want
Speaker 3: to begin right there, like, you know, talk to me
Speaker 3: about what daylas soul and maybe what pass means to you.
Speaker 4: I mean that in itself. That's the question that I
Speaker 4: could spend quite a long time answering. I am fruit
Speaker 4: from the Native Tongues tree, Like that was one of
Speaker 4: the things I always in the back of my head
Speaker 4: aspired to be one day is in Native Tongues because
Speaker 4: of what they're not only just their music, but their
Speaker 4: visual iconography and the way they dressed and the way
Speaker 4: they all seem to get along and the way they
Speaker 4: seem to not feel the need to to take on
Speaker 4: a hardcore identity that it has always been popular in
Speaker 4: hip hop, which seemed especially important at that time, Like
Speaker 4: it really seemed to be a big deal to have
Speaker 4: people who were going out of their way to not
Speaker 4: be that. And for me, whereas like I've always grown
Speaker 4: up in inner city environments during the eighties and the
Speaker 4: nineties when things were very dangerous outside, I didn't always
Speaker 4: want that in my rap music because I was just
Speaker 4: living in that. And so I was always so inspired
Speaker 4: by people who felt like they were bringing in a
Speaker 4: different perspective or trying to find something other than, you know,
Speaker 4: the world outside their window. So day La Soul Tribe,
Speaker 4: Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, leaders of the New School Queen Latia,
Speaker 4: Fomony Love, all of that stuff. That entire movement has
Speaker 4: just been incredibly important to me, and it's been my
Speaker 4: north start my whole career.
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, and you I really on your episode, you know,
Speaker 3: in late twenty twenty five you talked about that. I
Speaker 3: think that was even you know, kind of the quote
Speaker 3: unquote pold quote animation about you know, you wanting something
Speaker 3: different than what was outside of your window or your environment.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I've gone back and forth in
Speaker 3: my life. I've never I've never been an artists in
Speaker 3: a musical sense, but Dayla Soul in particular all the
Speaker 3: native tongues. Yes, but Dayla has always been.
Speaker 2: You know, my favorite.
Speaker 3: And I've seen the three of them in a number
Speaker 3: of different places and spaces, and you know, have gotten
Speaker 3: to work with them in limited capacity. I did a
Speaker 3: bio for them in twenty nineteen when they were originally
Speaker 3: going to do the relaunch with Tommy Boy, and I
Speaker 3: didn't know what I was stepping into with that job. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a conversation for another day. But these guys mean
Speaker 3: everything to me, probably overlapping with you just in terms
Speaker 3: of you know, I feel like people act like hip
Speaker 3: hop started getting vulnerable in the last you know, fifteen years.
Speaker 2: And to me, you know.
Speaker 3: Even that line of you know, fbing hard posted news
Speaker 3: is complicated. Yes, love that I Miib is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite versus period, favorite songs period, And so to
Speaker 3: have an audience, and I got to sit in when
Speaker 3: Amir had the conversation with Pass and you know, a
Speaker 3: few folks have asked too, and I know the backstory.
Speaker 3: I've only been part of the QLs orbit since twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, but there is a Day Last Soul interview
Speaker 3: that was taped somewhere between albums Not Long After and
Speaker 3: the Anonymous Nobody, And you know, there's one or two
Speaker 3: QLs interviews that Heaven run.
Speaker 2: There's some that it was like a paperwork thing. This one.
Speaker 3: Everyone on the team is looking for the tape and
Speaker 3: the questlov Supreme kind of finale reunion episode. There's some
Speaker 3: allusions to it, but my hope is that it turns
Speaker 3: up somewhere.
Speaker 4: I don't even know there was a lost tape. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of fascinating. I had no idea about that.
Speaker 3: There is, and I hear it was really good, but
Speaker 3: it was in the early Days of QLs audio only
Speaker 3: taped in I believe Amir's the roots dressing room of
Speaker 3: thirty Rock in a cramp space, and I believe Maco,
Speaker 3: Dave and Poss were all there, And yeah, I I
Speaker 3: hope it comes up, but there was no motive from
Speaker 3: my understanding as far as why Maco wasn't here. Instead,
Speaker 3: I think that episode will have its own moment. It
Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet, but it will. I think Amir really
Speaker 3: wanted to isolate Pause. I mean, they are great friends.
Speaker 3: And also, I'll say this for me, I don't like
Speaker 3: the top five question, but if if somebody finds out
Speaker 3: my passion or what I do for a living, if
Speaker 3: you ask me a top five post, news is squarely
Speaker 3: in it every single time. And I think Amir really
Speaker 3: wanted to put a light specifically on him.
Speaker 4: And I think that was really important to do too,
Speaker 4: because as you sort of allude to when you talk
Speaker 4: about you having worked with them, and then there's the
Speaker 4: sense that the story was more complicated then you might
Speaker 4: have imagined going in. From my understanding of Day Last
Speaker 4: Soul's journey, there's a lot this gone on underneath the surface,
Speaker 4: a lot that's gone on behind the scenes that is
Speaker 4: a little more complicated than people might expect. The dynamics
Speaker 4: are not always pretty, and I think like we've seen
Speaker 4: tips of that iceberg over the years. Even in a
Speaker 4: song like I Am ib we can hear oh things
Speaker 4: inside native tongues. Like for us on the consumer side,
Speaker 4: it looks rosy and we think everything still all good
Speaker 4: because you know, we see one of them in a
Speaker 4: video here and another one is doing a cameo there.
Speaker 4: But the actual human beings involved in this have had
Speaker 4: some tension, and I think that over the years day
Speaker 4: La Soul because they've started out being so against the
Speaker 4: grain in terms of hardcore, and they had to fight
Speaker 4: being looked at as almost overly positive on Daylight Soul
Speaker 4: is dead. But there's always been this inclination for US
Speaker 4: fans to think that everything is rosy over there, you know,
Speaker 4: because we don't hear about scandal. We don't hear about
Speaker 4: a lot of public scuffles or them being involved in
Speaker 4: anything violent, you know, like you hear about other rappers.
Speaker 4: I think we assume that everything is all good and rosie,
Speaker 4: but when you scratch the surface, I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot of story to tell and That's one of the
Speaker 4: things that was interested in this episode was just to
Speaker 4: hear you can hear the years when you listen to
Speaker 4: pause talk about these things starting a journey from where
Speaker 4: they started in hip hop and what eighty eight to
Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, and to still be vibrant and active
Speaker 4: and having weathered so many storms. It's really an incredible story.
Speaker 4: It's unique, like who else that started in eighty eight
Speaker 4: has that type of catalog and still current output with
Speaker 4: no you know, no ten to fifteen year gap.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, not even I mean, other than the
Speaker 3: tragedy of losing course, Dave, I don't really think I
Speaker 3: mean even their liberation you know from Tommy Boy, and
Speaker 3: you know, their pursuit of owning their own music. You know,
Speaker 3: amazing story. I don't think there's a blemish. You know,
Speaker 3: I've never you know, you speak of, you know, addressing
Speaker 3: each other. And I love that they've always been able
Speaker 3: to do that, whether it's the Native Tongues or day
Speaker 3: Lah without drastic consequences, Like it's a group that feels
Speaker 3: to me like life and so yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 3: so much in this two hour interview, and it was
Speaker 3: really cool just to be a fly on the wall
Speaker 3: and pass.
Speaker 2: Was so generous, you know.
Speaker 3: I will say, even in the biocapacity, I've interviewed the
Speaker 3: guys over the years, but I've never felt like I've
Speaker 3: had a great dayla interview. And I've never looked at
Speaker 3: that as certainly not their fault, and I never really
Speaker 3: looked at it as my own. I think what I
Speaker 3: see is the trusted peerhood of AMR and Posse and
Speaker 3: why that allows just such an open discussion because you know,
Speaker 3: it comes from a place of love and trust.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's what I was getting at earlier,
Speaker 4: and I think a better way for me to say
Speaker 4: it is that or another aspect of it is that
Speaker 4: they have been like a closed system, you know, the
Speaker 4: three of them like, and I've heard it described as
Speaker 4: impenetrable for some people trying to work with them on
Speaker 4: different things. It's not always easy. And I do think
Speaker 4: that what you keep in on there in terms of
Speaker 4: trust is really important because to be on that unique
Speaker 4: of a journey and to have seen the things they've seen,
Speaker 4: I bet they've been burned, you know. I bet they've
Speaker 4: been burned before. I bet you know, people have wanted
Speaker 4: to exploit them. People have wanted to manipulate them, and
Speaker 4: you know, I'll say one of the things that I
Speaker 4: thought was, like, it's like an interesting through line through
Speaker 4: the conversation was how many times pods would explain something
Speaker 4: as being done out of spite, but in.
Speaker 2: A way that we would have never know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like the oodles thing going directly at
Speaker 4: run DMC or uh yeah, well no, no, no, it's the
Speaker 4: it was the after connections at the High five because
Speaker 4: of yeah, oodles of O's.
Speaker 2: And you heard any of that story before?
Speaker 4: No, I'd never heard me, neither me neither heard that.
Speaker 3: And I love I mean, it's just such a fun
Speaker 3: moment of delight where a mire goes, you know, are
Speaker 3: you if I ask real nice like will you tell
Speaker 3: that story here? And Boss was like yeah, He's like
Speaker 3: are you sure? And Poss was like yeah.
Speaker 2: And then he tells it and it's funny too.
Speaker 3: I mean, the beautiful thing is is like Poss understates
Speaker 3: not only you know was DMC and Jim Aster j
Speaker 3: like fans and they kind of laugh at where Revron
Speaker 3: was at that point in time. But it's it's clearly
Speaker 3: a full circle of respect and all the things. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that either, and there's allusions to it online
Speaker 3: I found in my research, but never told as completely.
Speaker 3: So just you and I both being fans. My first
Speaker 3: question to you is is there a world where you
Speaker 3: can imagine run DMC on the noodles of ospete?
Speaker 4: I did try to think of that when it was said,
Speaker 4: and I can kind of hear it. But it also
Speaker 4: makes me think about where you know, run DMC was
Speaker 4: around that time, and this is what like ninety one
Speaker 4: is this is like down with the King era like
Speaker 4: around then. Yeah, so they were trying to, you know,
Speaker 4: get on different sounds, like jump on stuff that was
Speaker 4: more modern, like them wrapping over Pete Rock, like like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is interesting. I'm not sure if it fits perfect,
Speaker 4: but it seems interesting. So I think I could hear
Speaker 4: I could hear DMC on it a little more comfortably
Speaker 4: in my mind, but maybe that was the issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, It's one of those questions.
Speaker 3: And again it's a beautiful thing of Amir's curiosity because
Speaker 3: I would never think to ask them who they were
Speaker 3: talking about. Hey, that's a brazen question for a journal
Speaker 3: to ask, Like you better be you know, I think
Speaker 3: there's a lot of armchair folks that just come out
Speaker 3: the gate with these heavy asks. But my infinite respect
Speaker 3: for these guys. I would feel some type of way
Speaker 3: asking them, like, who were you getting at in that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: The interesting thing to me is as a listener, I
Speaker 4: don't know that I ever thought that they were talking
Speaker 4: about anybody in particular, because this whole album was them
Speaker 4: sort of going at groups of people, you know, mostly
Speaker 4: people who whose perception of them was wrong. I didn't
Speaker 4: know that they had a particular act in mind when
Speaker 4: they were saying it, And honestly, that never crossed my
Speaker 4: mind that it might have been somebody in particular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's funny for me, like my genesis
Speaker 3: into hip hop was you know, in ninety five, ninety four,
Speaker 3: ninety five, But like at one hand I was listening
Speaker 3: to Tribe, On another I was listening to Tupac. So
Speaker 3: part of me and I was very much in my
Speaker 3: early adolescence at that point, was getting you know, used
Speaker 3: to controversy and to you know, things meaning you know,
Speaker 3: everything has a target and you learn nuanced later and
Speaker 3: then over time you realize like I don't really you know,
Speaker 3: like I don't need to know, but it was funny
Speaker 3: to listen to all that, indeed, and a lot of
Speaker 3: people really gravitated onto that. I know that became the
Speaker 3: animation Amir called that in episode like this is this
Speaker 3: is what I want to go with, and let's let's
Speaker 3: bleep the names and get folks in the door. What
Speaker 3: else to you just as a fan of your magnitude
Speaker 3: stuck to you in this episode?
Speaker 4: Okay, so my fan hood is obviously a component here.
Speaker 4: I think that my previous interviews of Prince Paul and
Speaker 4: Dante Ross also give me an interesting perspective into things too,
Speaker 4: like when pas Is talked talking about the Turtles lawsuit,
Speaker 4: like I talked to Dante Ross and found out that
Speaker 4: what paus was describing was the frustration not only of
Speaker 4: having been in the lawsuit, but feeling like, oh, we
Speaker 4: told Tommy Boy what was what these samples were, and
Speaker 4: they didn't clear them, and now we're getting sued and
Speaker 4: Tommy Boy is trying to settle the lawsuit out of
Speaker 4: our money, like and I can feel that frustration, And
Speaker 4: I remember Dante Ross telling me that yes, they did
Speaker 4: tell them all of the samples. But what Dante Ross
Speaker 4: and Tom Silverman, I think thought was that they only
Speaker 4: needed to clear samples in the songs. Ok, they didn't
Speaker 4: think they needed to clear the samples in the interludes.
Speaker 4: And that's that was the gap where the whole thing
Speaker 4: fell through.
Speaker 3: That was interesting too, and I appreciated that a mirror
Speaker 3: pointed to the two kind of landmark lawsuits as I
Speaker 3: understand as a student. You know Bismarcky and Gilbert O'Sullivan
Speaker 3: and then you know Daylight Soul in the Turtles, and
Speaker 3: it was it was funny to imagine, and posted really
Speaker 3: quality voices of the legal team, you know, and explaining
Speaker 3: it that there was at one point like, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe we can do something together and settle this. And
Speaker 3: I like Pass's point, and again it speaks to that
Speaker 3: that humanity of them of also just like we all
Speaker 3: go through things, we all have opportunities to be chippy
Speaker 3: or petty or whatever the word is. But they were like,
Speaker 3: if that was what it was about, that's not how
Speaker 3: you would have approached it to begin with. And honestly,
Speaker 3: to imagine a world where there's a Dayla remix of
Speaker 3: Flowing Eddie or Turtles.
Speaker 4: I dig it, man, because I'm you know, I messed
Speaker 4: with flowing Eddie on the Frank Zappa stuff too, Like
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, that would have been kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: That would have been kind of crazy to marry those
Speaker 4: two sounds. To see what happened is funny. It reminds
Speaker 4: me like the Judgment Night Sounds track, like interesting, you know,
Speaker 4: but even an even probably more musically interesting thing than
Speaker 4: what ended up happened in his part of that soundtrack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I something that stood out to me, and it
Speaker 3: was just a few seconds of the conversation, but like,
Speaker 3: you know, in a different way than Fife and Q Tip,
Speaker 3: or a different way than Big Boy and Andre three thousand,
Speaker 3: you know, Dave and Poss have always seemed to me,
Speaker 3: and maybe because I fell in love with Daylas Soul
Speaker 3: again when I was you know, twelve or thirteen, but
Speaker 3: a unified front. I mean, they had very distinct voices,
Speaker 3: but they always seemed in my mind to share the
Speaker 3: same thesis on each song in a beautiful way, really
Speaker 3: harmonious way. And I loved in two places where Pass
Speaker 3: really broke down the contrast. I mean, he said, you know,
Speaker 3: the entire stakes is high recording. You know that Dave
Speaker 3: was really into focus on the industry Yeah, in a
Speaker 3: way that poss is inspired and focused on life, and
Speaker 3: you know, realizing they're both you know, family men, they're
Speaker 3: both you know, going through all of that, I just
Speaker 3: thought that, like that that compelled me to want to
Speaker 3: replay the album and just see what that information does
Speaker 3: to me and listening again.
Speaker 4: Right, running it back and seeing it through that perspective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I really also appreciated, you know, he spoke
Speaker 3: about in focus.
Speaker 2: And Dave being at I don't.
Speaker 3: It's not fair for me, but like I'm paraphrasing, but
Speaker 3: just at a kind of maybe a checked out place,
Speaker 3: you know, not feeling the way things were going.
Speaker 4: Because he was mentioning a lot of interviews that they
Speaker 4: have done over the past few years when Dave was
Speaker 4: still with us, what they were talking about that era,
Speaker 4: and I keep wanted to call him rse now because
Speaker 4: he kept be friends to himself. Yeah, he was talking
Speaker 4: about hearing Dave talk about that time and it being
Speaker 4: even revealing to him him not necessarily knowing how checked
Speaker 4: out Dave was. But I read those interviews too, and
Speaker 4: those interviews were like heartbreaking for me because Balloon Mind
Speaker 4: State is such an important album to me. It was
Speaker 4: like really tough for me to hear that Dave doesn't
Speaker 4: like that album or his idea of what the legacy
Speaker 4: of that album is. The reason I love it is
Speaker 4: because it's so far away from what everybody else was doing.
Speaker 4: But that's like the same thing he doesn't like about
Speaker 4: it because he feels like at that point them as
Speaker 4: Daylight Soul was too far away from what everything else
Speaker 4: was doing in hip hop, you know. So that was
Speaker 4: a tough thing for me to wrap my head around
Speaker 4: when he was doing those interviews.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's interesting, I mean during the pandemic when
Speaker 3: you spoke with Prince Paul on what had happened was
Speaker 3: talking I love that album too, and if you I
Speaker 3: go back and forth personally between Daylight Soul Is Dead
Speaker 3: and Blue Mind State.
Speaker 4: Same here.
Speaker 3: And it's interesting to hear Paul's perspective too, because that
Speaker 3: came at a time when they pass were diverging, and
Speaker 3: Paul spoke about that in a way on your podcast
Speaker 3: that was super just like I remember where I was
Speaker 3: when I was listening to that episode, and I was like,
Speaker 3: that's and then to realize that all of these guys
Speaker 3: were going through different things while each and the same orbit.
Speaker 3: It just it comes back to beautiful art. It makes
Speaker 3: me want to play it again and consider what we
Speaker 3: know now when we're still learning. Yeah, was there any
Speaker 3: moment in the Questlam show conversation that made you throw
Speaker 3: on a song, hit pause and focus?
Speaker 4: Okay, but on in Focus in the middle of that
Speaker 4: and the middle of them talking about in Focus. I
Speaker 4: put it on because I was like, there's a bunch
Speaker 4: of songs on Blue Mindset that I know that album
Speaker 4: front to back. I don't always know the names of
Speaker 4: all the songs, so I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: what is in Focus? And what is this sort of
Speaker 4: attitude that they're describing that's in that song. And as
Speaker 4: soon as it became an R remember and I'm like,
Speaker 4: this is the one where I remember PAS talking about
Speaker 4: people acting like they don't know Dayla soul anymore because
Speaker 4: Black Sheep is hot now. And I remember viscerally taking
Speaker 4: that in when I was listening to it when I
Speaker 4: was young, and I just I loved even I just
Speaker 4: love the sort of MC that would put that in
Speaker 4: the song. Yeah, Like I love that because it's not
Speaker 4: a course, it's not a disc to the person he's
Speaker 4: in a crew with it's sort of this. It is
Speaker 4: really accessing a vulnerable feeling about what it means to
Speaker 4: be at a certain place in the industry and sort
Speaker 4: of watch things come and go, and you know, at
Speaker 4: that point you don't know if dey La Soul is
Speaker 4: ever going to be back on top of the mountain.
Speaker 4: You might it could be black Sheep now forever, right,
Speaker 4: So I always just thought it was so cool that
Speaker 4: he spoke on that feeling and put it in that song.
Speaker 4: I think in the conversation I sort of realized, oh,
Speaker 4: like that sort of frustration is in the entire song
Speaker 4: in ways that I wasn't really keyed into before.
Speaker 2: That's dope.
Speaker 3: I had a similar experience, And yeah, I mean it
Speaker 3: dovetails of what you're saying, but a mere asked, you know,
Speaker 3: in regard to you know, the nowadays we don't even
Speaker 3: speak lyric And it was interesting to hear Paus and
Speaker 3: I've heard this in other interviews where you know, they
Speaker 3: would play those.
Speaker 2: Songs for each other.
Speaker 4: That was so surprising to me.
Speaker 3: I think that so often now when people when MC's
Speaker 3: or when artists say provocative things about peers, we imagine
Speaker 3: this like throwing pebbles at the window to try to
Speaker 3: get attention and what is so unique to native tongues
Speaker 3: and you know, I know Outcast has done this too,
Speaker 3: when other people was like no, it's like I'm going
Speaker 3: to address what's on my mind and I'm going to
Speaker 3: have the dignity to show you what I have to say,
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna let We're gonna draw the curtain
Speaker 3: back and show the world. And to me, that's just
Speaker 3: what makes that's why, you know, Lord Willing, I'll be
Speaker 3: eighty five years old to listen to Blue Mind State
Speaker 3: in the Rocking Chair.
Speaker 4: You know, it's that kind of album like I remember
Speaker 4: I listened first listened to when I was thirteen, and
Speaker 4: I'll never forget like when I first heard that album.
Speaker 4: It's one of those ones you can always come back
Speaker 4: to it. It's timeless.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that album before you heard the two
Speaker 2: before it?
Speaker 4: Or no? I think I heard them all. Okay, I
Speaker 4: definitely had heard Three Feet High and Rise of First,
Speaker 4: but not in a way where I was like conscious
Speaker 4: of it really at all. I would say around the
Speaker 4: time I got my hands on Ballue Mind State, that
Speaker 4: is like the beginning of my peak hip hop love
Speaker 4: so all that ninety three stuff, so Ballue Mind State,
Speaker 4: Midnight Marauders, even like JB's with the remedy. Like, I
Speaker 4: was just really big on all the ninety three stuff,
Speaker 4: and so I think I heard the ninety three stuff
Speaker 4: and the ninety one stuff around the same time. But
Speaker 4: the sound quality, these lush soundscapes and all of the
Speaker 4: ninety three stuff, I feel like so much of that
Speaker 4: is Bob Power too. That was really where I sort
Speaker 4: of settled in and rooted it, like this is my
Speaker 4: favorite stuff ever, but I can't remember the order in
Speaker 4: which I heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just you know, another thing that stuff
Speaker 3: to me is the Bob Power part of the discussion
Speaker 3: of you know, plug one wonder why And like I've
Speaker 3: I stood next to Bob Power one time at one
Speaker 3: of Amer's birthdays, and I didn't It was one of
Speaker 3: those things where it's just like other people were talking
Speaker 3: to him and having a high level conversation and I
Speaker 3: wanted to let them be. You know, it's like Dan
Speaker 3: Charnas and Bob Powers different folks.
Speaker 4: That's the hell of a conversation exactly.
Speaker 3: And you know, I didn't want to just see my
Speaker 3: way into that. And of course these given what's transpired,
Speaker 3: I wish, you know, I had listened a little more closely,
Speaker 3: but I thought it was a really human thing for
Speaker 3: past to share of just what Bob brought to the
Speaker 3: group and to his life and the type of human
Speaker 3: being that he was.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know what a huge loss.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I encourage everyone to listen to the episode.
Speaker 3: I know we're like talking about the movie if you
Speaker 3: haven't listen, and that's what this is about. But I'll
Speaker 3: why don't we close the episode? And I know these
Speaker 3: sorts of questions changed with the day, So I'm going
Speaker 3: to ask you open Mike Eagle today, what is your
Speaker 3: favorite daylast soul song or if you like, if you prefer,
Speaker 3: what's your favorite past news verse?
Speaker 4: Man, it's you know, given having sat with that interview
Speaker 4: and just where I sit right now with my own music,
Speaker 4: that's like about my life, I can't help but think
Speaker 4: about I am I b I just like that that.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm really happy about too, that that
Speaker 4: is one of Patz's favorite songs. That's what I'm happy
Speaker 4: about me too.
Speaker 3: I love that And you made my answer easier because
Speaker 3: that's that's arguably at times my favorite just song.
Speaker 2: In the Cannon period.
Speaker 3: But I'll say Trying People because I know a lot
Speaker 3: of our discussion and a lot of a mirrors discussion
Speaker 3: focused on.
Speaker 4: The earlier stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nineties day Last.
Speaker 3: Soul, and you know, I love AOI, I love grinding,
Speaker 3: I love it all, you know. I mean to me,
Speaker 3: it's a group that got on base every time they
Speaker 3: got up to the plate. To use a shitty sports analogy,
Speaker 3: but Trying People, you know, I think of that lyric
Speaker 3: from Dave where is just as I cry a lot
Speaker 3: like to me, you get to two thousand and nine
Speaker 3: and a lot of people act like, you know what,
Speaker 3: what certain individuals were adding to hip hop was new
Speaker 3: and raw and crazy, and it's not. I mean, you
Speaker 3: can go even back to the eighties of vulnerability and
Speaker 3: things like that. But I think of all of the
Speaker 3: bold things that you can say on a record, and
Speaker 3: Trying People is a perfect having a complicated season of
Speaker 3: life for a weird day hip hop song.
Speaker 4: Am I remembering correctly that on that song? Because I
Speaker 4: know it's a song. I don't know if it's that
Speaker 4: song where Pat says I got fans all over the world,
Speaker 4: but my girls not one of them. That Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's on that, but that line always yeah,
Speaker 4: Like that's the that to me, Like that's the definition
Speaker 4: of like indie hip hop, like underground hip hop, like
Speaker 4: where you can have that sort of fandom, but sometimes
Speaker 4: that people that are closest to you just aren't into it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's not necessarily for your friends and family. It's
Speaker 4: for people who are into this particular thing, which is
Speaker 4: not everybody, right, And so like that was just one
Speaker 4: of them little statements like, oh I feel that so deeply.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that's a great lyric and also I mean
Speaker 3: it came out of the interview. I always knew that
Speaker 3: for all of the great you know production that day
Speaker 3: Law did themselves, and that it's really interesting in the
Speaker 3: interview to hear some of the singular attributions of posspying,
Speaker 3: like Dave did that beat, or Mace did that beat
Speaker 3: or I did that beat, you know, and of course
Speaker 3: Prince Paul, but that that was I think it's one
Speaker 3: of their brothers.
Speaker 4: I think it was yeah, Lucky Yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 4: didn't know who that was until this interview exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's one of those things where I just was
Speaker 3: imagining especially in that era of like day Law is
Speaker 3: probably getting some beat submissions, but like who it just
Speaker 3: just that colonel in passing, You know that that sends
Speaker 3: the mind wondering. So I appreciate this discussion. Thank you
Speaker 3: everyone that's supporting these Quest Love Show minis. We are
Speaker 3: trying to do them between episodes. Talk about things that
Speaker 3: stand out to us. Definitely, this is a three sixty conversation.
Speaker 3: So you know, folks, if you have you know, questions
Speaker 3: or things you want talked about, we always try to
Speaker 3: get the questions over to a mirror. But go to
Speaker 3: questlovesupreme dot com. There's a contact us or you can
Speaker 3: direct message QLs. That's the best place and we try to,
Speaker 3: you know, make this an organic conversation.
Speaker 2: But Mike, thank you, man, of course, thank you.
Speaker 4: This is amazing.
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