1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Course Love Supreme. It's a production of iHeartRadio. Ladies and gentlemen, 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this is Quarantine Quest broadcasting live from the Kabbutz Upstate 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: New York. We welcome you to shall we say So 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: one's special version of QLs because the current COVID nineteen 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: reality we're living in the present not exactly idea conditions 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: with technology. Let's say we had slight issues with this 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: particular recording of John Legend this episode, but we promised 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: you guys that we're going to record a proper sequel 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: in the future, so we could deep die with all 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: those questions. But for now, please enjoy our conversation with 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: one and only John Legend or Quest Love Supreme. 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: Let's do it, Hi, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme. 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 3: Supreme. Latency has kicked in. 14 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: My name is a mirror, not when I'm now realizing 15 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: this roll call has to end first, As as you see, 16 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we we did not even bothered to 17 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: practice to see what if we would have latency issues. 18 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: It doesn't work. I've tried this music thing over the 19 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,199 Speaker 3: zoom call does not work. 20 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: That was a roll call fail. 21 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: Like I heard, I was getting my freestyle ready to. 22 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Brown and that what you what you drinking on? 23 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 4: It's actually pink. It's my rose. 24 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,079 Speaker 1: Rose, you mean your rose? 25 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: Like make me like I'm the proprietor. 26 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 4: Uh. We have l v E. 27 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 3: We have rose, we have. 28 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 4: Cabernet. 29 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: You know what's it called? 30 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 4: You know, l v E Legend Beingard Exclusives, l v 31 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: E wines dot Com. 32 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 5: You haven't made it. I'm done. 33 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: That's the show. 34 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 4: I make money on it. 35 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 3: Just so you know. 36 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: Everybody, So, how the beards going in nicely? 37 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, I'm trying to join the roots. 38 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: You truly lived in Philadelphia. Yeah, I can't wait for 39 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: a month from now to see how everyone's grooming. 40 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 6: We all gonna look like Tom Hanks and castaways. 41 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 5: Glad all of y'all have y'all hairlines? Look at that 42 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 5: beautiful hairlines. 43 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 1: Steve Man, Steve is the new quest Love of the 44 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 1: Crew Reality. So John, thank you for joining our second 45 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: live show of course Love Supreme here on YouTube. 46 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here. 47 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. I was well, Yeah, I want to know, 48 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: how are you coping or making the most of this 49 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: time period? 50 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: Well, my kids are probably happier than ever because we 51 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 3: are home and we are hanging out with them all 52 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 3: the time. 53 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: And are they holding you hostage right now? Are you 54 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: eating a ransom? Note? 55 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 4: They are napping right now. 56 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 3: I'm so lucky because otherwise maybe all over the house, 57 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 3: Luna likes to get in my zoom, calls, say hi 58 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: to everybody, whistle, whatever she can do to get your attention. 59 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 3: And yeah, they're non stop except when they're sleeping. So 60 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: this is a lucky rest. 61 00:03:59,320 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: This is the best. 62 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 5: Y'all started this whole kind of I G programming over 63 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 5: in your house, like I feel like after you guys 64 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 5: started singing songs live. 65 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 4: And then when we were early uh, we had talked 66 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 4: to Chris Martin. 67 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 3: My team and his team at the same time basically 68 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 3: had the same idea, we should start doing these IG 69 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 3: live concerts. And then we we both are affiliated with 70 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 3: Global Citizens, so we started working with them to get 71 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 3: the message out about staying home and raising money for 72 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: the World Health Organization. And he started it on the 73 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 3: Monday after everybody was in and I did it the 74 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 3: next day and it's just blossomed. We you know, Quest 75 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 3: DJ and D nine DJ, and we've seen so many 76 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 3: battles with the different producers and whatnot. You know, I 77 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 3: feel like we've gotten a lot of interesting content out 78 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: of this dope dope. 79 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: So what is your what are your? I guess your your? 80 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: I know everyone's winging this at the same time, but yeah, 81 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: what's coming up next for you? Because you know we 82 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: are it. 83 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: But we had music, so that was actually the fortunate 84 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 3: thing about the timing was that we basically had finished 85 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: the album for all intents and purposes right prior to 86 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 3: everything happening. 87 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 4: So there was just a few more. 88 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 3: Like horns and random you know, overdubs we had to do, 89 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 3: but I had done all my vocals, the songs were written, 90 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 3: so we have music ready to go. We've been releasing 91 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 3: a couple songs already and then we have more coming soon. 92 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 3: And we hoped to put the holbum out in June, 93 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 3: but you know, we were supposed to tour in July 94 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 3: in Europe and then in the US and Canada in 95 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: August and September, and we don't know, we don't know 96 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 3: what's gonna happen. 97 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: Be considered the bad due method. I mean, you're in 98 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: a position which you know you could be self contained 99 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: and just do it for delf. Would you ever consider 100 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: just hosting perform is just you yourself alone at your piano. 101 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 4: I've done similar shows like that. 102 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: I used to do. We did this thing called the 103 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 3: All of Me Tour, was just basically me and a 104 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 3: couple other players, and it was most of the night 105 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 3: was me just telling stories and singing on the piano. 106 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 3: And so I'm definitely open to doing other shows like that, 107 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 3: but I'm not open to putting people in a room 108 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 3: together right now until we can do it safely. I'm 109 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 3: not trying to get people sick to come to the 110 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 3: John Legend Show because you read the news about you know, 111 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 3: people getting sick going to church, people getting sick, doing 112 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 3: all these other things, and we need to get to 113 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 3: the point where it's safe for people to even gather 114 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 3: like that before we can invite them into our shows 115 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 3: and expect them to show up. 116 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, I don't you know, 117 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people are kind of 118 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: defiantly trying to go to church. Don't do it Sunday 119 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: for Eastern They. 120 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 3: I was just listening to the news from last night 121 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: and Rachel Matta was going through the list of how 122 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 3: many vectors of infection have been literally at church alone. 123 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 3: She was just talking about how they can identify these 124 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: big clusters from people going to church, and they say, 125 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 3: I read another article they were saying something about singing 126 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 3: is more it was viral. 127 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more viral than just being around. 128 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: Somebody because you're crazy, you're pushing out your saliva and 129 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 3: all these other things, and so it's actually less safe 130 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: to be singing around people than it is to just 131 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: be around them in general. 132 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 4: So it's it's like, you can't be going to church 133 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 4: in those circumstances. 134 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, it's just it's 135 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: killing me watching people's reactions because you know, most of 136 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: them just like you know, I got the blood of 137 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: Jesus covering me. Yeah, no, he'll be protected. 138 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 5: And now the black numbers have come up this week, 139 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 5: crazy and a lot of our favorite cities. 140 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 3: And that's a problem, Yes it is. And we are 141 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 3: we are the we all of us are equally susceptible 142 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 3: to the disease. But when you have a community that's 143 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 3: already underserved in so many other ways, we are more 144 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: susceptible to getting the worst of it, to dying, to 145 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 3: having really severe outcomes. 146 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 4: Out of it. 147 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 5: In my mind, I imagine that you and I and 148 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 5: Christy watched the well, we we in this house, so 149 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 5: we watched the Daily briefing. 150 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: It's just we got to know some things. 151 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 4: You don't watch it. I've watched zero. 152 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: Angers like on the daily because I know you. 153 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 4: Like. Christy's rule is she does not listen to Trump's voice. 154 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 3: Okay, she will not if he's on the news, even 155 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: if he's on the news of an anchor that she likes, 156 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: she doesn't want to hear his voice, and we will 157 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 3: change the channel off his voice comes on. 158 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 5: What about doctor Fauci? 159 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: Though, I feel like I could read it later, and 160 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 3: Rachel Rachel Maddow summarizes it for me well enough, so 161 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 3: I'm like, I'll just listen to Rachel yog. 162 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: It's to the point where now even I mean, you know, 163 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: normally I would watch matt Ow without fail because you know, 164 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: but this this will be my second week without watching. Yeah, 165 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: I can't. 166 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,599 Speaker 3: You know, I'm one of those people that, like I 167 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 3: would always not watch the news if there was like 168 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 3: a disaster or any kind of thing where the press 169 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 3: was all kind of even even like a shooting, like 170 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 3: I couldn't watch it because I don't like I don't 171 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 3: like everybody gathering around a tragedy on the news, Like 172 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 3: I just something about my personality. I don't enjoy that 173 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 3: as news. I don't like it. I don't like being 174 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 3: around it. But for some reason, I've been watching this 175 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 3: because I do actually want to know what's going on. 176 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 3: And it's such a political story too, because it's about 177 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 3: leadership and it's about how leadership organizes people around a crisis, 178 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 3: and I think that's the thing that interests me about it. 179 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: Wow, one day I'll jump back into the fray, But now, 180 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: just from my mental health. 181 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 4: No, I get it. 182 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: That's how I am about most me and these chickens 183 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: on this forum. Man, I'm happy. 184 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 5: Can I just ask you and Fante a question real quick? 185 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 5: Since y'all are both a part of one of my 186 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 5: favorite shows on TV? Yeah, can we talk about Sherman 187 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 5: Showcase real quick? 188 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 4: Yes, let's talk about it, okay, and what's going on? 189 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: You know, I'm just you know, I'm just let. 190 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: Well, Fante, you want to tell her what we filmed 191 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: a couple of Yeah, Man, so we got a Black 192 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 3: History Month special, which, in Negro fashion. 193 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 6: Is coming late in June. 194 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 4: During Black Music Man, we got it we shot it. 195 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 6: We shot it in January, and I have I still 196 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 6: haven't seen the whole joint. 197 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: Diallo was kind of telling. 198 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 4: Me, Nope, I've seen that edits it looks great. 199 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, he said it's amazing. He said, he really is dope. 200 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That's coming June 201 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 7: and Sherman showcases on Hulu and Hulu just announced like 202 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 7: free subscription or free trials. 203 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, check it now. 204 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 3: From my. 205 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 5: No, but everybody else in Mirror does not working every 206 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 5: night like you are. 207 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 6: And and we were in the scene together, Me and 208 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 6: John did one scene together. 209 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: With Trek and Iron, but we're the master at the time. 210 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 4: And loaf of Jesus. Now, the show is the most 211 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 4: well reviewed thing we've ever done as a production company. 212 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 3: I've never seen so many great reviews for something we've done. 213 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: The New York Times, all these other lists you know 214 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 3: what to watch while you're one, like the shows on 215 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: all those lists too. So hopefully people will give it 216 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 3: a chance, because I think once you get into the world, 217 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 3: you really get into it. 218 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 5: I just I don't want to discount, though, your other 219 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 5: show that you had on wg. 220 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: N Yes Underground, Y, Yes, What to deal with Underground. 221 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 4: Now we couldn't bring it back. 222 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: You know, the station was getting bought by that conservative 223 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 3: news organization, Saint Claire. Yeah, so they were buying the 224 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 3: station and they decided to go in a whole nother direction. 225 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 3: Even though we were the most popular show and got 226 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 3: the most buzz for the network of any show that 227 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 3: they had on, they decided to go in a different direction. 228 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 3: They're the same organization that bought all those local news stations, 229 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:33,599 Speaker 3: do you remember. 230 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: That to do the Yeah, the news reporters, the news. 231 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 3: Reporters all reading the same script. Yeah, So they're the 232 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 3: same organization. So we didn't have much of a chance 233 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 3: to stay around. We tried to sell it to other 234 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: networks and it's it was a bit of an expensive 235 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: show to produce, and so a lot of networks didn't 236 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 3: want to take it because it was kind of like 237 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 3: secondhand and they didn't want to spend all that money 238 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: making a secondhand show. 239 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: But as a show producer, how do you like, how 240 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: do you how do you figure that's different than music 241 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 1: working on music and whatnot. 242 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 3: Well, it's less hands on for me because you're leaving 243 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 3: it in the other creator's hands. So you have writers, 244 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: You have directors, you have all these other people that 245 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 3: are involved, and they hopefully you hire people and you 246 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 3: work with people that are really good at what they do, 247 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 3: and so it's not nearly as hands on as I 248 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: would be on my own record. I feel like it's 249 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 3: mostly about making good personnel decisions and then picking good 250 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,719 Speaker 3: projects to be part of creatively. 251 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: Are you going to. 252 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 6: Organized the music? Music is a wild wild West? 253 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 3: It is. 254 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 4: Music is. 255 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, you might get paid, you might not like TV everybody. 256 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,719 Speaker 7: It ain't no such thing as doing some off like 257 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 7: you're gonna get a check. 258 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 259 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 3: TV is better organized, Films better organized. Hollywood's just more 260 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 3: like corporate than the music world is. 261 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 5: Now, what is theater not. 262 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 3: Theater? Well, the theaters have the strong unions though, you know, 263 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 3: so there's a lot of rules around how you do 264 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 3: things in the theater too. The unions are very strong 265 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 3: and so there's a lot of structure around that, and 266 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 3: so I feel like that's pretty you know, it's pretty 267 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 3: on point as well. 268 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: Wow, you know, I have a wish to see the 269 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you can weigh in on this bill or not. 270 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: I mean, at the beginning of in the Heights in Hamilton, 271 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: like did you feel as though, you know, the system 272 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: was pretty much stuck in its ways? Whatnot? 273 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 8: Funny too, I didn't know what the fuck the system 274 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 8: was or which way it was stuck in it, But yeah, 275 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 8: something like that, I don't know. To me, theater has 276 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 8: the worst business plan ever. If it's a success, then 277 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 8: you make money. If it's anything success, it's a total disaster. 278 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I see, I see. 279 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 8: So it's a shitty business plan. It's a shitty business 280 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 8: plan there is. It's either you invest millions of dollars 281 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 8: and only if you're a humongous success do you make 282 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 8: the money back. If you don't, then it's a failure. 283 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 8: Just the business plan doesn't make sense to me. 284 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: So there's no middle ground. 285 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 7: There's no such thing as a moderately successful theater show. 286 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, well just think about just think about real estate 287 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 4: in New York. 288 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 3: And so part of it is you have to occupy 289 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 3: and pay for this real estate in New York and 290 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 3: get people to show up, and then you have to 291 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: pay everybody's salaries and everything based on the union you know, scale, 292 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 3: and it's just the the original baseline nut that you 293 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 3: have to pay for is a lot of money. 294 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: I'm scared to place starts in November, and like this 295 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: isn't like you know where you just put a little 296 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: bit of money and then your producer like, we're really 297 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: funding this joint so that but a mirror. 298 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 3: Are you fearful now? 299 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 5: Because I mean not to put that on you, but 300 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 5: when are people going to feel comfortable and in theaters 301 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 5: and in New York and broad in New York and Broadway. 302 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: The thing is is that you know, we after taking 303 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: a queue from Hamilton to see how radical that was. 304 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I just have this desire to really update Broadway. 305 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: Broadways somehow stuck between this this post timpan Alley jazz 306 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: hands kind of Broadway like that that kind of era 307 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: where you know it could really use a refresh or redo. 308 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: And you know, based on did you see and did 309 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: you see in Tarik's uh like any of the practice 310 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: I haven't. It's it's like it's it's just as mind 311 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: blowing to me is as Hamilton, but it's like the 312 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: complete opposite where you don't feel good about any of 313 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: the characters. It's like if Obama, if if Hamilton represented 314 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: everything that was beautiful about the Obama era, then this 315 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: is the trade for the play for the Trump era 316 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: and post and the thing was they wrote this, you know, 317 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: during like the beginning of obama second term as a 318 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: as a kind of a a satire. But it's just 319 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: like it's real now, which makes it even more on point. 320 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: So it is like idiocracy, dude, it's it's it's idiocracy 321 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: the play. That's what it is. 322 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: Like. 323 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: People are mind blowing, but it's black no more, okay, 324 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: it's It's based on one of the very John Ridley, 325 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: who did Twelve Years of Slave. 326 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, John right. 327 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: He wrote this back in twenty twelve, came to Tarik 328 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: around twenty thirteen, and they developed at the last four years. 329 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: It's a scathing play. It's amazing, but no one's going 330 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: to feel good about themselves. 331 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 3: They won't be congratulating themselves for going no, but I 332 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 3: mean yeah, I mean, the guilty aspect of it is 333 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 3: going to like it's a real It's a play about 334 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 3: kind of in the Harlem speakeasy era of Harlem, a 335 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 3: black man who. 336 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: Meets a white girl a speakeasy who you know, they 337 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: flirt and whatnot, and she's sort of like, you know, 338 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: this ain't going any further than this basement because you know, 339 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: I could never take you home to my father, YadA, YadA, YadA. 340 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: And this guy wishes kind of wishes that there was 341 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: a way that she could fall in love of them, 342 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: and he gets some sort of operation. This is based 343 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: on a book. He gets a he goes through a 344 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: process that turns him into a white man. 345 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 6: And then reverse, which is like soul Man in reverse. 346 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. 347 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: This, this book was written in nineteen thirty six as 348 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: a sat tire. 349 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 4: And Eddie Murphy's SNL. 350 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: It's very much like that skit. Yeah, he just hits 351 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: the fan even crazier. So yeah, yeah, so yeah, let's 352 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: rack up the Tony's Let's go all of y'all get this. 353 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: Got ghet him man, you get him? You get it? 354 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: The single is out now where streaming on now? Correct? 355 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 4: Yeah. 356 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 3: So we have two singles out, once called Conversations in 357 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 3: the Dark. We put that out in January and then 358 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 3: Actions is the one wh just put out a couple 359 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 3: of weeks ago. You played it on your online Instagram 360 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 3: Love the Other Night. 361 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: Do you have a title for the upcoming record yet? 362 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called Bigger Love, and the next single is 363 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 3: gonna be the title track called Bigger love and then. 364 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 4: And we got joints. Man, I'm excited. I did. 365 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 3: Raphael Sadiq exec produced the whole thing. He's done my 366 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 3: last couple albums, exec producing wise for the Christmas Album 367 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 3: and the Christmas Deluxe, and we were just in the 368 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 3: nice groove and we just kept working together on this. 369 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 3: But I worked with other producers and writers and uh 370 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 3: Oak produced the last single actions Oakfelder. He produced another 371 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 3: one on my album that's really crazy called Oulah and yeah, 372 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 3: we've got some good stuff on there. Do you record 373 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: at the crib? John, and you still go to the studio? 374 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 4: I still go to the studio because I like to 375 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 4: feel like I'm going to work. 376 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 3: I like to leave the house, be away from the kids, 377 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 3: go to work, and then come home and be present 378 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: with the family. 379 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: I did it. What studio did you record out of? 380 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 4: At Raphael's Blakesley up in North Hollywood. 381 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 5: Oh? 382 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: Is Jerry still his engineer? 383 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? 384 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: Jerry still mixed with the Christmas lights. 385 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, so Jerry mixed this. 386 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 3: This guy named Alex is the recording engineer, but Jerry mix. 387 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. Raphael's dude, Jerry like this atmospherical like Christmas. So 388 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: he always even when he is not at his studio 389 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: ahead of time, he'll send like all this this Christmas 390 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: decorations to the studio to get set up and he 391 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: wants it to look like Christmas when he's mixing. So 392 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: he's been doing that for like the last thirty years 393 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: with Rafael. 394 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 4: His first record he did for me was My Christmas 395 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 4: Album though how perfect? 396 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay. 397 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 4: I thought he had it in there just for the 398 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 4: for the best of music. 399 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: Nah, Jerry uh engineer what they do on illadel faf Life, 400 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: And was like, we had to wait an hour for 401 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: him to get like the Christmas decorations up. Now he's 402 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: been doing that forever. He's been doing that forever. 403 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 6: John, I always wanted to ask, you, man, who is Maxine? 404 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 6: Because she had you going down through that bro. 405 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 3: Oh you know what max was truth? 406 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 6: Really this? 407 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 4: You know. 408 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: I was writing that song with the guys from Sarah Yeah. 409 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 3: Uh so you know, the whole crew, including O Mas 410 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 3: and Taz and everybody. So we're we're in l a 411 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 3: at there they had that house studio in Los Felis 412 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 3: or somewhere around there, Silver late and we were. 413 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 4: Just hanging out and we were writing the song and 414 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 4: I had just listened to Guess who I saw today, 415 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 4: my love Nancy Wilson. 416 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 5: Uh. 417 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 3: So, Nancy used to sing that song, and it was 418 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 3: about it kind of goes through the whole story of 419 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 3: you know, I was hanging out at this lovely bar and. 420 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, and I saw this beautiful couple and 421 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 4: blah blah. 422 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 3: Blah, and oh it was your Nigga. 423 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 6: Jones. 424 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 3: And so I had listened to that not long before that, 425 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 3: and we were we were just singing. Uh, we were 426 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 3: just playing around on the instruments, and I started singing, 427 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 3: she may. 428 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 4: Not be you, but she looks just like you, and 429 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 4: we wrote. 430 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: I was like, we should write a song kind of 431 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 3: in that same lyrical vein where I described this whole 432 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 3: setup of these two beautiful people hanging out with each 433 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 3: other looking like they're so in love. 434 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: And it was her the whole time I'm like, she 435 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 4: may not be you was. 436 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 3: She looked awful lot like you. And then uh, we 437 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 3: decided at the end we should call her name. 438 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 9: And we just made up a name that sounded good, Maxine, 439 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 9: and so every Maxine the age of sixty, and. 440 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 4: We wanted it to sound quaint and like old school 441 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 4: and then. 442 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 3: It turns out, and I did not notice at the 443 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: time my grandmother's middle name is Maxine, and so she 444 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 3: thought I had written it Maxine because of her name, 445 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 3: but I had no idea that was her middle name 446 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 3: at the time. 447 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: You don't wing it. I love that song. 448 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 6: I love that record, that who once again out here 449 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 6: that's I love it once again. 450 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 3: It is my favorite, Like, it's one of my favorite 451 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 3: things I've done. Wake Up is one of them too, 452 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 3: when I did with the Roots and then h once Again, 453 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 3: it is like my heart, I don't know, that's my 454 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 3: favorite one. 455 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 4: That's yeah, it showed me's on there. 456 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the one. 457 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,439 Speaker 3: That's a lot of them. 458 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 4: Hey, John, Yeah, Diet has a question over there. 459 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 3: It's me, sugar. 460 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 4: Have you written any new songs since the quarantine started? 461 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: Anything at home? I have not, And part of it, 462 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 3: I think is just kind of feeling like, oh, I'm 463 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 3: done with my album and I can relax for a 464 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 3: while and have to write something. But also I don't 465 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 3: like writing at home, so it's the perfect storm of 466 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 3: me not getting anything done at home. 467 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: So wait a minute, when you're home, that's not your 468 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 1: creative hub at all. 469 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 4: No, I almost never write at home. I like to 470 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 4: schedule time go in. 471 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll sing stuff into my phone at home, like, 472 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 3: oh I have an idea. I'm almost singing this into 473 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 3: my phone and then finish it at the studio because 474 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 3: I like to go towards. 475 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: Your separation of church and state. I get it, because, 476 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: if anything, I would figure that this time period is 477 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: probably the best time period for all songwriters and all 478 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: screenwriters and book writers like, but it's really not. 479 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 4: Though if you have kids, if you don't have kids, 480 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 4: maybe if you don't have. 481 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: Kids, maybe so you just can't get three hours of 482 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: complete doing shit. 483 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 4: Oh hell no. 484 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: So the middle road is just hell nah too. And 485 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: we got one of those home ship dually know it, 486 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: about to buy a crib, won't have a separate batcave 487 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: for myself. I got it now, Okay, I get it. 488 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 7: I just don't think now, like in the middle of 489 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 7: what everybody dealing with, just the stress of the pandemic, 490 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 7: I don't think that really lends itself. 491 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 3: To creativity very much, you know what I mean? 492 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 7: So much of at least for me, so much of 493 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 7: what you pull from comes from outside sources. 494 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 2: Either. 495 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 7: You know, if you go out and you see a 496 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 7: couple and you think something or you you know, you 497 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 7: kind of go out and pull from these different experiences 498 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 7: when you. 499 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 6: Don't really have that anymore. 500 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 7: And on top of not having that, but you're constantly 501 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 7: watching people that you know or or know of get 502 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 7: or die. 503 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 4: I mean, I ain't thinking about no goddamn rap music, 504 00:26:59,400 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. 505 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: It's just realizing. 506 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 3: I think some people will will be inspired by and 507 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: write some dope ship from it. It will it will 508 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 3: fit into certain people's style of writing and their worldview, 509 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 3: and it'll it'll propel them to write some dope stuff. 510 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: I really believe that's possible. But it's just it ain't 511 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 3: inspired me at all. 512 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: Don't making me feel bad now, man, I'm like, I 513 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: don't know five chapters. No, I got dude, having kids 514 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: like I got responsibility. I know it's not the same 515 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: as having kids. 516 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 5: Single people. I mean, I'm just saying, but I also 517 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 5: know that when you have two children in the home 518 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 5: every day, all day, that's the different situation. And I 519 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 5: appreciate my privilege. 520 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when you, I think, maybe why you 521 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 7: kind of getting stuff done in that way is because 522 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 7: you've finally been now, so you know, you would writing 523 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 7: and stuff like that. It's like, I, you know, you 524 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 7: finally have a chance to really buckle down and do it, 525 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 7: all right, and which is different than a lot of people. 526 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 3: But I'm just not feeling like writing songs right now. 527 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: You're thinking about writing a book and at some. 528 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 3: Point in the future. 529 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 4: I had always thought about it, but I I have 530 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 4: to at some point. 531 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 5: But you right one on finance, John Legend, No. 532 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 3: I'm not enough. 533 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: Seriously, John, Save everything, Like, don't you know, save everything? 534 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: Just put in storage what like it'll you'll need it. 535 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: You'll need it for your memoir. Trust me. 536 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 4: I got to write one at some point. 537 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: There's stuff I wish I saved for, you know, memoirs 538 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: that notes that I wrote old lyrics, sheet to that 539 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: sort of thing. 540 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 7: Save everything, yo, all right. So two questions. One, is 541 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 7: there a full version of Angel with you and Stacey? 542 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 4: Yes there is. 543 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 3: We put it on her It was on her record EP. Yes, 544 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 3: we put it on Stacey's EP. Stacy Bart she's a 545 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 3: dope singer and songwriter. She's written a lot of songs 546 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 3: for big artists, and she was signed to my production 547 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 3: company for a while as an artist, and she put 548 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 3: out a couple of EPs and we had her guest 549 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 3: on Love in the Future. 550 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 4: We did a short version of Angel on. 551 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 6: That's my favorite version. 552 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 3: I like that. 553 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: One. 554 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's on if you you can find it. 555 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 4: But Stacey put it on her EP. 556 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 6: And also Okay, Segie Poison hold on Longer, talk to 557 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 6: me about that one. 558 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 10: I love that. 559 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 3: For the song that was Oh that was font LeRoy's idea. 560 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 3: So he wrote a couple of those songs with us, 561 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 3: and uh, you know, you know his zone. It was 562 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 3: right in his zone. 563 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 4: He wrote a couple of those type of joints with 564 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 4: us for the album. 565 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: I love that record, man. 566 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 6: And also since it's Q Tip's birthday tomorrow, talk about. 567 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 4: Don't Wait till to. 568 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 3: That was me and Kanye is like sleeper favorite on 569 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: the album because Kanye was exect producing that album. And 570 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 3: I went in over to Kamal's house in Jersey and 571 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 3: we just jammed for a little while and we came 572 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 3: up with that song, and that's our sleeper favorite on 573 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 3: Love in the Future. It didn't get a lot of buzz, 574 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 3: but it's something about it, just that group. 575 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 6: It's a good step for song too. 576 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly. 577 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 4: I have a question. 578 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: Yes, in the wake of Bill Withers passing and your 579 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: great re recording of his his song I can't right 580 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: left handed? 581 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 3: Can you just comment on the recording of that song? 582 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 4: And yeah, here's one of the things I did say, question, 583 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 4: where's that email? I have it. I'm gonna pull it 584 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 4: up right now, hold on. 585 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: Like, did I imagine an email? Did I make that up? 586 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 10: Yeah? 587 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 4: He wrote it for real. I resent it to my 588 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 4: manager and that was with me back then, and he 589 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 4: had sent it to me. 590 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 3: This is from October sixth, twenty ten, and here's an 591 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 3: email from Bill Withers. I'm gonna read it to y'all. 592 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: Exclusive exclusive. 593 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 3: Okay, here we go. 594 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 4: Alex. 595 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 3: Some time ago, you contacted Marsha regarding John Legend's recently 596 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 3: recorded album and offered to introduce her to Greg, one 597 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 3: of the guys who managed me at the time. She 598 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 3: probably attempted to forward the message to me or meant 599 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 3: to afford it to me. Quite possibly. It was doing 600 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,719 Speaker 3: one of those periods where I was in Marsha, Alex 601 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 3: and everyone else overload and just ignored all incoming information 602 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 3: for a while. Anyway, I just found out about the 603 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,479 Speaker 3: John Legend recording yesterday and a much more interesting fashion. 604 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 3: Having sat down to watch a documentary on Louis Armstrong. 605 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 3: The phone rang fifteen minutes into it and the voice 606 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 3: on the other end says, in this stilted tone, did 607 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 3: I awaken you, sir? 608 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 4: Just as I was about to hang up on whoever 609 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 4: this clown. 610 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 10: Was, the voice said Bill Withers, this is William Felton Russell, 611 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 10: which of course was followed by the unmistakable cackle of 612 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 10: Bill Russell laughing on the other end of the line. 613 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 4: He then proceeded to read me the titles of. 614 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 3: The songs on a John Legend album that he was 615 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 3: listening to and informed me that I can't right left hand. 616 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 3: It was included in the list of songs that were 617 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,239 Speaker 3: recorded with the Roots band for the album. We then 618 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 3: proceeded to share stories of the people that it had 619 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 3: impacted our lives, such as Jackie Robinson, Joe Lewis, Jesse Owens, etc. 620 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 3: We continued on to have the obligatory conversation about Obama 621 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 3: and whatever else two seventy plus year olds ilk might 622 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 3: run their mouths about in catch up conversations. An hour 623 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 3: and a half later, having purged ourselves of all current 624 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 3: topics worthy of chit chat for the moment we ended 625 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 3: our conversation, I hit play to resume watching the Louis 626 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,479 Speaker 3: Armstrong tape as I digested the conversation that I had 627 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 3: just had with my old friend and lifelong he wrote. 628 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 3: When the Louis Armstrong story finished, I went to my 629 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 3: computer and watched the session with John and the Roots 630 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 3: on YouTube. While digesting the pleasure of witnessing the heartfelt 631 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 3: and caring interpretation of this song by John and the 632 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 3: Band that Ray Jackson and I had written probably before 633 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 3: he and most of the band were born, it occurred 634 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 3: to me that it had indeed been a day spent 635 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 3: in the company of legends, conversation about legends with the legend, 636 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 3: while watching the story of a legend capped off by 637 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 3: the flattery of John Legend taking the time to revisit 638 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 3: and revive an old song written with a dear friend 639 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 3: what had actually gotten me into the music business and 640 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 3: who left us much too soon. 641 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 4: Ray Jackson passed away some years ago. 642 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 3: I'm sure that Ray Jackson would have joined me in 643 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 3: thanking John and the Roots for their attention to this 644 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 3: song and the congratulating them on a job well done. 645 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 4: Since they put me in such a. 646 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 3: Good mood, I will find it in my heart to 647 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 3: not hold a grudge against Questlove for making me sound 648 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 3: so ancient. In his otherwise flattering, introductory and explanatory comments 649 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 3: on the video smiles. 650 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,720 Speaker 4: I was further sued by the fact that Bill Russell 651 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 4: is really old. 652 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 3: Congratulations to John appropriately named legend for all the work 653 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 3: he does in education and for projecting a good, wholesome 654 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 3: image for us all to appreciate. I would appreciate it 655 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 3: if you, whoever you is, would share this letter with 656 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,240 Speaker 3: John and the Roots. 657 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 4: I would further advise you to avoid contact with me 658 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 4: in the future if. 659 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 3: You don't rendered grumpy by the rare rainy, cloudy, yucky 660 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 3: weather here in La today, but boyd revived and sustained 661 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 3: by my day with the Legends yesterday. Bill Withers, Wow, 662 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 3: that's a letter. 663 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 1: This dude can tell A sorry man, Yo. He's the 664 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: musical uncle we never had his emails. 665 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 3: His emails were legendary because every time he wrote one, 666 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 3: he had all those extra little colors and flavors in 667 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,240 Speaker 3: there that you normally I'm just like a yes, because 668 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 3: I'm always like approving something. 669 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: Like Okay, great, nice thanks. 670 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 4: He would write such such great emails. Wow. Man. 671 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, when when he when he came to the show, Yeah, 672 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: to see his performance, he was just it was everything 673 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: I ever wanted. And that was the point in which like, 674 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: I was really kind of not you know, I was 675 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: a little gun shy with meeting idols by that point 676 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: because so many had let me down before. Yeah, but 677 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 1: he lived up to everything. Like he was full of stories, 678 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:01,760 Speaker 1: like and humor and seemed like he did not seem 679 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,919 Speaker 1: or act like he was in his seventies. I thought 680 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 1: he was like, oh he might be fifty nine, maybe 681 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 1: sixty maybe. Yeah, that's one of my regrets, man, Like 682 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: I was, I was gunning for him for at least 683 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: twelve years to try to try to work with him. 684 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 3: But Yo, so he heard he heard the live version 685 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 3: of that too. That was the first thing you heard 686 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 3: was the YouTube. We had made a YouTube video. I 687 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 3: think that was actually in the studio. It was like 688 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 3: one of those promo things we shot in the studio, 689 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 3: but it was a live performance though. It was like 690 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 3: it wasn't like edited, it was you know, it was 691 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 3: a straight up live performance, but there was an audience there. 692 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, And Oh, I forgot. We did something with Spike 693 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 1: Lee as well. 694 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 3: I told you about about that that thing in the 695 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 3: one of those buildings in New York something five terminal 696 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 3: five shot five. 697 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 5: John, You know how long we've been trying to get 698 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 5: this to happen. You know this is just a preview, right, 699 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 5: like you know at some point when we all come 700 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 5: back together in real life. 701 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: This is not the room love that. Yeah, That's why 702 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: I'm not asking like the questions I normally ask request 703 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 1: because I'm trying to say that for the real episode. 704 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,240 Speaker 7: Well, just in case we don't get the real lepisode 705 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 7: and I got another music, we'll get. 706 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 3: It, all right, So I'm gonna be there. I don't know, Hey, 707 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 3: we all might not be there all right. 708 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:30,760 Speaker 6: So hey, your first uh on again on once again? 709 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 3: Uh huh. 710 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 7: The leak version of it was just acoustic, and then 711 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 7: the album version you added. 712 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 3: Drums and what made you change? Oh? No, I mean 713 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 3: I had always thought we were gonna put a little 714 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 3: instrumentation on it. So sometimes I'll record a demo of 715 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 3: it and I don't know who leaked it. I'm trying 716 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 3: to remember how that came out. Also did a version 717 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 3: on Death poetry Jam. They kind of let me half 718 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 3: sing sing, half sing on death pet you John. That 719 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 3: was the first time anybody actually heard any of it 720 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 3: was on the fork And remember that. 721 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 6: I mean I didn't miss that my first time hearing it. 722 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,479 Speaker 6: It was the leak version. 723 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 7: Yeah, this is back when albums would leak, you know 724 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 7: what I mean, the album Eleak and that version of Again. 725 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,760 Speaker 1: It was just it was just you and piano. 726 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 4: And I'm not even sure if I knew it leaked. Honestly, 727 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 4: I'm not even sure just even piano. 728 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, now I gotta go back and revisit. 729 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: Thank you. That's a goblet of like South Carolina, North Carolina. 730 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:50,320 Speaker 4: What is that? 731 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: This is What's up? What's up? 732 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 4: Steve is again that joined you samples for doing it again? 733 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's again. Okay. 734 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 5: I was singing in my head and doing it again, 735 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 5: yes again. 736 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 3: Yeah. And then I had another song on a record 737 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 3: called another again again. 738 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 4: John. 739 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 5: I still remember that first album where you were sing 740 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 5: the beach in your Lena outfit when you were back 741 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 5: in the Philly days. 742 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy. 743 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: Yeah. I still have to actually wait, did you sang 744 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: because that the early record even before uh, your first 745 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: album is up your version of Burning Down the House. 746 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was when we did live at UH 747 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 4: S O B S O B S. 748 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,319 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I was from like oh two, I think. 749 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:57,879 Speaker 1: Yeah. 750 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 3: I got my deal in a four, So it was, 751 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,480 Speaker 3: you know, a couple of years before everything popped off. 752 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,320 Speaker 6: I remember listening to that. You had that album, you 753 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,359 Speaker 6: were selling it. This is back in like old three. 754 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 6: It was a little brother and Kanye. 755 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 3: We was on tour together. Yeah, we did the Norfolk 756 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 3: and yeah, I remember them in Norfolk, yeah, yeah, and 757 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,399 Speaker 3: we were selling that joint and I remember those shows man, 758 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 3: And I remember I would sell those CDs out of 759 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 3: my you know, out of my trunk, you know, every 760 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 3: everywhere we would go. I would do gigs in uh 761 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 3: New York and Philly by myself for a while. I 762 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,359 Speaker 3: would play it like S O B. S and UH 763 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 3: Knitting Factory, north By, Northwest fire Spot all these places 764 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 3: UH in Philly and New York and. 765 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 4: UH and I would just sell them. 766 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,480 Speaker 3: And and I was my own web person, so I 767 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 3: would like I didn't program the site, but I would uh, 768 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,239 Speaker 3: I would. 769 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 4: I would handle all. 770 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 3: The CD seal so I would be like chipping them 771 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 3: off to people I would go to the post office 772 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,000 Speaker 3: every couple of days and ship some more CDs off 773 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,800 Speaker 3: the people that order them online. Can you believe we 774 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,320 Speaker 3: actually buy CDs their. 775 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,279 Speaker 1: Own distribution something? 776 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:11,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. 777 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: I feel like it's time for a sequel now, John, 778 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: where we are like, we we. 779 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 4: Gotta do it. We gotta do it. We always say 780 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 4: we gotta do it, but we. 781 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 3: Gotta do it. Wait which sequel? 782 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 5: Y'all get together making music. 783 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 4: The roots and the roots coming back. 784 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, real protest songs man. Yeah, man, I like that. 785 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 5: I like the y'all vow to do that on tape 786 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 5: right here in front of everybody. 787 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, we really need to do it. 788 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 3: It's true. 789 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:42,640 Speaker 1: I mean all we do is work. So as long 790 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:47,479 Speaker 1: a time a collaborator that's willing and shows up, let's work. 791 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm down, you know what I'm saying. Now, Thank you, 792 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 1: Thank you, John. I appreciate you doing our U our 793 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: live YouTube uh broadcast of course, Love Supreme. I want 794 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 1: to be Layah Ship, Steve Unpaid, Bill Fan Diagelo and 795 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,719 Speaker 1: John Legend. Thank you very much. This is a quest 796 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,400 Speaker 1: Love Supreme. We'll see you on the next show. 797 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:09,400 Speaker 3: Now see everybody. 798 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 4: Thanks well, y'all right, M. 799 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: Question Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 800 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,759 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 801 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,880 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.