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Speaker 1: The quest Love Show is a production of iHeartRadio. What's Up,

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Speaker 1: Good people? This is quest Love. In addition to our

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Speaker 1: weekly interviews of The Quest Love Show, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be doing some things periodically where I'll tell you a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about a guest or what's going on

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Speaker 1: in my life. I think they call this musings. You know.

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Speaker 1: Another thing we want to do is take your feedback,

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Speaker 1: take your questions, and I will answer them to the

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Speaker 1: best of my ability. So I'm giving you the listeners

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Speaker 1: a chance to engage with me. You could DM me

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Speaker 1: the QLs account. Don't DM my account because I barely

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Speaker 1: check my own account. Okay, follow QLs on ig or

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Speaker 1: go through Questlove Supreme dot com. And you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: be recording these a few times a month where i'll basically,

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Speaker 1: you know, answer letters. Today we're talking about this week's

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Speaker 1: open Mic Eagle episode. All right. So when I did

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Speaker 1: the Open Mic Eagle episode, I think I discovered him

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Speaker 1: by accident. This was a period in which you could

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Speaker 1: not find day Lost Soul streaming. So for some reason

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Speaker 1: I went to the NEXTPEX thing which I was listening

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Speaker 1: to a bunch of Prince Paul stuff, and the next

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Speaker 1: thing I know, I saw what had happened was with

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Speaker 1: Prince Paul, and I decided, Okay, I'm gonna listen to it.

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Speaker 1: Mind you, this is also during the pandemic, and it's

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Speaker 1: in the pandemic in which I'm doing things on the

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Speaker 1: daily like walking three miles in the countryside, or sometimes

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Speaker 1: I'll just drive three to four hours upstate for no

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Speaker 1: reason at all. Like you remember how isolated and bare

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Speaker 1: bones it was, So that's kind of where I did

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Speaker 1: a lot of ketchup on podcasts I would otherwise not

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Speaker 1: have been privy to. So when I listened to the

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Speaker 1: entire Prince Paul episode of what had happened was dude,

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Speaker 1: I was just so mind blown. Of course, shortly after

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Speaker 1: that came the LP episodes and the Dante Ross episodes

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Speaker 1: as well. I don't know, I became instantly obsessed, and

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Speaker 1: I was hesitant to reach out to him because I

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Speaker 1: don't feel like I'm overexposed. But I almost feel as though,

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Speaker 1: because of the Okay Player website, that everyone knows everything

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Speaker 1: there is to know about me, Like what more could

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Speaker 1: I tell or share? But Mike actually got some crazy

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Speaker 1: stories for me to hear Mike say it. After the

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Speaker 1: third or fourth episode, he realized that he's only been

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Speaker 1: asking me maybe two or three questions of the twenty

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Speaker 1: questions he has prepared for me, because if you talk

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Speaker 1: to me, I'm gonna lead you down a rabbit hole,

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Speaker 1: which some say could be beneficial or detrimental to my career,

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Speaker 1: depending on what my publicist thinks. But pretty much at

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Speaker 1: that point, the reason why I was so open with

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Speaker 1: him literally about every step of those four albums, Organics,

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Speaker 1: all the way, do Things Fall Apart, was that at

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Speaker 1: the time I happened to be working on the Slide

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Speaker 1: doc the Slide in the Family Stone documentary, you know,

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Speaker 1: being as though at that time it was my second

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Speaker 1: film I was working on. I noticed that north of

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Speaker 1: sixty people start to forget things, and I didn't want

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Speaker 1: that to happen to me. So I never officially went

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Speaker 1: on record about what Mike himself says is the greatest

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Speaker 1: story in the history of that podcast, when I told

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Speaker 1: the infamous most death shown on d d Combe's Showdown story. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are the things that, like I think, with time,

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Speaker 1: I would have forgotten. So that podcast was probably the

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Speaker 1: perfect destination for all just the small detail things that

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Speaker 1: otherwise probably would not make a documentary or some sort

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Speaker 1: of memoir or whatever. So I mean, I think he

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Speaker 1: should be doctor Mike Eagle, like he should be hip

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Speaker 1: hop's official therapists. I think I've I've mentioned this on

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Speaker 1: previous QLs tapings, but you know, I've found out sort

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Speaker 1: of in retrospect that I would occasionally freak people out

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Speaker 1: because I don't ask casual questions like people will say,

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Speaker 1: you know, q tip will call me to ask a

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Speaker 1: casual question like yo, man, let's go get dinner, and

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Speaker 1: I will be like, hey, what was the two snares

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Speaker 1: that you used on Clap your Hands Back at Midnight Maradas?

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Speaker 1: Like things that he's not thinking about. And because I'm

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Speaker 1: such a technical sponge for information and uh park Griot,

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Speaker 1: I guess storing that information. I figured this was the

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Speaker 1: safest way for me to bond with my peers in

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Speaker 1: a professional setting, because everything that you've heard on QLs

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Speaker 1: like I would probably do in real life. Like basically,

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Speaker 1: as much as I talk about the Jimmy Jam episode,

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Speaker 1: I will say once a week I've added five additional

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Speaker 1: questions to Jimmy Jam and now I'm to the point

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Speaker 1: where Jimmy Jam and I are on like one am status,

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Speaker 1: Like I won't hesitate at all to text him at

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Speaker 1: two am to ask about how come whenever you write

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Speaker 1: a rap for Janet Jackson and never rhymes or just

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Speaker 1: like things I soon be asking on a podcast. So

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Speaker 1: that's just the nature. I'm a curious cat. I would

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Speaker 1: definitely like to go further into our cannon. You know,

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Speaker 1: The Roots Come Alive. Oh god, there's I probably have

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Speaker 1: more stories behind The Roots Come Alive the first round

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Speaker 1: than I do and with any Roots album whatsoever, only

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Speaker 1: because like I specifically remember certain things happening, like, for instance,

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Speaker 1: I think I warn't havoc about this on social media.

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Speaker 1: I used to pack in my suitcase doctor Bonner's peppermint

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Speaker 1: soap like the gallon, the big gallon thing, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not thinking about the fact that when it gets in

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Speaker 1: an airplane, the air pressure will cause that thing to explode.

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Speaker 1: And of course three of those songs on The Roots

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Speaker 1: Come Alive were actually it at at least a momont

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Speaker 1: in Paris that Dareique Brahm's about and you got me.

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Speaker 1: So the thing is is that with maybe two hours

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Speaker 1: on the clock before we hit the stage. I had

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Speaker 1: quick decisions to make and there was no laundry met

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Speaker 1: so I was like, okay, let me just take my boxers,

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Speaker 1: which is all drenched with peppermint soap. Let me hang

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Speaker 1: it out on the balcony of my hotel and of

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Speaker 1: course on there for two hours or whatever. It was dry,

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Speaker 1: right wrong. So we get to hot ass Elisi Moman

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Speaker 1: the summertime and buy song too, a sweat conversation like

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Speaker 1: has now gotten to my boxers? And when I tell

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Speaker 1: you you've not, it's basically like putting ghost pepper on your genitals.

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Speaker 1: To this day, the roots say the best drum solo

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Speaker 1: I ever done in life was at that show. And

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Speaker 1: that wasn't because of skill, It's because the pain I

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Speaker 1: was in getting stung by peppermint soap. So stories like that, man,

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest shakras of this year, a pleasant shaker,

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Speaker 1: was seeing might get an eight point five and pitchfork.

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Speaker 1: I know, and I'm a man of my word, like

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Speaker 1: when I tell you that after creating Summer of Soul,

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Speaker 1: I've decided to stop my obsession with any critical algorithm.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've joked, not joked very truthful that I

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Speaker 1: used to almost not hourly, but least daily look up

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Speaker 1: our Metacritic score, metacritics like the rotten Tomatoes of music,

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Speaker 1: and you know, like there's a as far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 1: as long as the roots are above and eighty, that's

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Speaker 1: like straight a's especially for a group with seventeen records,

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Speaker 1: like most people have like six really good records and

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Speaker 1: the rest is just like whatever. But I realized that

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Speaker 1: my obsession with looking at our critical analysis from music

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Speaker 1: that we only had the record deal to depend on,

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Speaker 1: and you know, our survival really depends on us having

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Speaker 1: a record deal. Well that is not the case now,

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Speaker 1: you know, if anything, making records is now just a

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Speaker 1: luxury to me. And so while I'm in that state

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Speaker 1: of luxury, I've not read as much reviews as I

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Speaker 1: normally used to. But I got admit that I had to. Look.

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Speaker 1: I saw someone congratulate Mike forgetting an eight point five,

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Speaker 1: and I was like what, and I read it, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm just so like I was

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Speaker 1: happy the way that de Niro was happy that Joe

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Speaker 1: PESHI was getting made in Goodfellas, you know, one of

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Speaker 1: us made it. It's just important because, especially from that

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Speaker 1: particular digital publication. You know, true art isn't for the

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Speaker 1: critical gaze, and some of the most critically claimed people

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Speaker 1: I know never read their reviews. They you know, like

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Speaker 1: purely create it. But for me, just to see somebody

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Speaker 1: get over the very hard to police hump of that

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Speaker 1: digital publication meant a lot to me. Like so, I

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Speaker 1: think maybe vicariously I read it, as you know, that's

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Speaker 1: how I used to look at reviews, like read the

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Speaker 1: review first and look at the number. Okay, got another chance,

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Speaker 1: you know, well, you know, until then, this is Quest

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Speaker 1: Love and I'll catch you next on the Quest Love Show,

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Speaker 1: all right,