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

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Speaker 1: good people? This is quest Love.

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Speaker 2: In addition to our weekly interviews of The Quest Loft Show,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be doing some things periodically where I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you a little bit more about a guest or

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Speaker 2: what's going on in my life.

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

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Speaker 2: Another thing we want to do is take your feedback,

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Speaker 2: take your questions, and I will answer.

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Speaker 1: Them to the best of my abilities.

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Speaker 2: So I'm giving you the listeners a chance to engage

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Speaker 2: with me. You could DM me to either the QLs account.

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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, only dm the QLs account. Don't DM

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Speaker 2: my account because I barely check my own account. Okay,

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Speaker 2: follow QLs on ig or go through Questlove Supreme dot com.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we'll be recording these a few times

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Speaker 2: a month where I'll basically, you know, answer letters.

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Speaker 1: Okay, people, this is a first for me.

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Speaker 2: I am going to go through I guess it's like

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Speaker 2: letters to the editor or letters to the podcaster. And

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Speaker 2: we get a lot of email, and the last configuration

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Speaker 2: of the show, we have not answered fan mail or

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Speaker 2: fan email.

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Speaker 1: But we're going to change that and do a little

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Speaker 1: bit you know, one rule in life I have is

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Speaker 1: to never read the comments.

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Speaker 2: And I know y'all are never going to let me

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Speaker 2: live down the Open Mic Eagle episode.

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Speaker 1: Yes, people, I know you have to understand.

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Speaker 2: The taping of that episode happened at a very, very

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Speaker 2: kind of emotional time for me, so I kind of

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Speaker 2: went rogue that episode. But I promise you that open

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Speaker 2: Mic Egle is going to return to the Quest Left

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Speaker 2: show for a proper interview, and I I have read

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Speaker 2: the comments. I will I promise to improve. It's a

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Speaker 2: little new for me even though it's old, but it's

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Speaker 2: still new for me anyway. Probably the most asked question

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Speaker 2: is about the theme music. So as a Soul Aquarian unit,

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Speaker 2: people often ask have the four of us ever worked together?

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to say, well, I don't want to spoiler

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Speaker 2: alert it, but when the Dila dot comes out, even

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Speaker 2: I was shocked. Shout out to Waiji for just always

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Speaker 2: having the camera on, especially when I didn't know there

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Speaker 2: was a camera rolling so wellaied actually ask proof that

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Speaker 2: all four Soul Aquarians played together.

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Speaker 1: We've done.

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Speaker 2: I guess you can say maybe three to four songs together,

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Speaker 2: most notably time traveling on commons like Water for Chocolate album.

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Speaker 2: But I mean that was the one time where the

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Speaker 2: four of us are playing together at the same time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just to put in perspective, the Roots haven't

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Speaker 2: played in a studio together as a band since Do

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Speaker 2: You Want More. Actually, the newest Roots album, which is

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Speaker 2: Do You Want More? Live at Blue Note. Mostly just

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Speaker 2: for engineering reasons, I record separately, like I'll do my

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Speaker 2: theme song, people are like, yeah, it sounds like Jones

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Speaker 2: and my bones. DiAngelo's playing what he calls the Flying

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Speaker 2: when I say patch, when you buy a keyboard and

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Speaker 2: you want sounds like hey, let me get some bells

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Speaker 2: or offenders, or I want a piano sound or some strings,

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Speaker 2: you call those patches.

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Speaker 1: So d'An angelo is.

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Speaker 2: The only person I know that have the ingenuity to

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Speaker 2: not want to just use the factory settings. Actually, D'Angelo

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Speaker 2: quote unquote hook up their patch settings. So in other words,

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Speaker 2: So that particular Jones and my Bones patch is the

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Speaker 2: D'Angelo what he calls the Flying I don't know why

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Speaker 2: Flying j on that Dyla actually made that beat. He's

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Speaker 2: flipped Jones of My Bones a few times. If you

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Speaker 2: listen to You for You on Fantastic volume two, that

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Speaker 2: The night that Me d Dyla made that joint, we

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Speaker 2: di'angelo Flying j patches and hooked up a beat. Initially,

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Speaker 2: Common was going to rhyme to that on like water

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Speaker 2: I wanted it to be a full soul Querian affair.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, that's the long sort of history of the.

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Speaker 1: Theme song I'm using.

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Speaker 2: I wanted the soul Quarians to represent, So that's what

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Speaker 2: it is, all right.

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Speaker 1: What else we got we got.

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Speaker 2: James Bradley, a tenth grade student at wild Lake High

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Speaker 2: School in Maryland. Shout out to wild Lake High School

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Speaker 2: thoughts and wax poetic on the subject of drumming. You know,

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Speaker 2: we know that two of the most universal forms of

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Speaker 2: communication and language. Numbers are one thing, and music is

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Speaker 2: the other. The sound of the drum is sort of

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Speaker 2: how Africans communicated. That was the original cell phone, That

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Speaker 2: was the original Social media to me, are really important.

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Speaker 2: There was a point in the early aughts where I

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Speaker 2: Some of DJ Premier's Premiere actually confessed to me that

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Speaker 2: it was my very own platform of OK player that

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Speaker 2: was ragging him about his high hats and so thus

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Speaker 2: premiered for the last twenty five years, decided no more

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Speaker 2: high hats, which is kind of weird. I didn't know

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Speaker 2: the things that I celebrated with the new Premier NAS

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Speaker 1: In a long time. But yeah, you know, drumming is.

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Speaker 2: A communal kind of exercise and communication and rhythm speaks

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Speaker 2: to your chakra. It's a metronome, it's a traffic cop.

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Speaker 2: I highly recommend it. Shout out to Wild Lake High

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Speaker 2: School in Maryland. All right, Scott Steinhardt wrote, I mentioned

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Speaker 2: in passing interviews on the podcast and in other places

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Speaker 2: I would probably say minus the scarcity marketing, which kind

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Speaker 2: of frustrates me a little bit. But you know, what's

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Speaker 2: good for the goose might be good for the gander,

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Speaker 2: and that person to me, I think inflow just what

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Speaker 2: he's doing now with community, I mean, I love the

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Speaker 2: idea of community. Of course, one of the first examples

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Speaker 2: Bismarquis mc shan, Roxy and Chante g Rap collectives you know,

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Speaker 1: Salt one of my favorite groups right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is their tenth year and they're using

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Speaker 2: scarcity marketing to the hilt. All their album covers look

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Speaker 2: the same. We barely know who's in the group, you know.

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Speaker 2: Imagine my shock. I was at dinner one night with

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Speaker 2: the sault and imagine my shock when she's like a mirror.

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Speaker 1: That's my group.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Melissa aka Kid's sister who you know

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Speaker 2: pretty much known that Salt is a collective featuring an Inflo,

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Speaker 2: don't know. You know. Again, I think as a as

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Speaker 2: an initial marketing plan, it's genius based on no video,

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Speaker 2: no visuals whatsoever. Like Cleo Soul sold out Radio City

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Speaker 1: So that shows me the power of music and that

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Speaker 2: To subject yourself to silly marketing schemes or whatever like.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the music can speak for itself. So it encourages me.

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Speaker 2: But right now, you know, the world needs Salt more

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Speaker 2: than ever, So I wish that Inflo had my mojo

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Speaker 2: in terms of wanting to tour and get out there.

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Speaker 2: Oftentimes studio geniuses want to stay just in the studio

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Speaker 2: but sometimes you need to go out and preach the gospel.

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Speaker 2: And I consider Salt really a gospel group, and gospel

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean religion, just more spiritual and based on how

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Speaker 2: for people. People need a soundtrack of healing right now.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Also, Scott says, PS, sorry I rushed you at thirty

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Speaker 2: Where I can ask you for a selfie thirteen years ago?

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Speaker 2: I don't remember, but okay, you're forgiven. I mean everything

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Speaker 2: I said about Game Theory fantastic record and simply underrated.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that Game Theory is kind of a sad

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Speaker 2: Raining, and it destroyed the two cribs that we were

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Speaker 2: Besides, you know, I would do like maybe an occasional

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad you like it, Scott, thank you. Okay.

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Speaker 2: to me, I said that me, Christian and Kurt Rosenmrinkle need.

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Speaker 1: A project together. Any chance, I would love nothing better.

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