WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: John Legend (Part 1) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.600 Course Love Supreme. It's a production of iHeartRadio. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.680 this is Quarantine Quest broadcasting live from the Kabbutz Upstate 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.440 New York. We welcome you to shall we say So 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.520 one's special version of QLs because the current COVID nineteen 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:23.160 reality we're living in the present not exactly idea conditions 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.000 with technology. Let's say we had slight issues with this 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.520 particular recording of John Legend this episode, but we promised 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.120 you guys that we're going to record a proper sequel 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.440 in the future, so we could deep die with all 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.040 those questions. But for now, please enjoy our conversation with 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.040 one and only John Legend or Quest Love Supreme. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:54.400 Let's do it, Hi, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:07.679 Supreme. Latency has kicked in. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:16.319 My name is a mirror, not when I'm now realizing 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:30.400 this roll call has to end first, As as you see, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:36.840 ladies and gentlemen, we we did not even bothered to 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.440 practice to see what if we would have latency issues. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.680 It doesn't work. I've tried this music thing over the 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.199 zoom call does not work. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.600 That was a roll call fail. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.040 Like I heard, I was getting my freestyle ready to. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.480 Brown and that what you what you drinking on? 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.560 It's actually pink. It's my rose. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.079 Rose, you mean your rose? 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.840 Like make me like I'm the proprietor. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.079 Uh. We have l v E. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.760 We have rose, we have. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:16.919 Cabernet. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.400 You know what's it called? 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.480 You know, l v E Legend Beingard Exclusives, l v 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:24.560 E wines dot Com. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:26.760 You haven't made it. I'm done. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:28.880 That's the show. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:32.880 I make money on it. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:33.639 Just so you know. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.320 Everybody, So, how the beards going in nicely? 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.720 Oh? Yeah, I'm trying to join the roots. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:51.120 You truly lived in Philadelphia. Yeah, I can't wait for 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.120 a month from now to see how everyone's grooming. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.280 We all gonna look like Tom Hanks and castaways. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.040 Glad all of y'all have y'all hairlines? Look at that 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.160 beautiful hairlines. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.639 Steve Man, Steve is the new quest Love of the 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:13.519 Crew Reality. So John, thank you for joining our second 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.560 live show of course Love Supreme here on YouTube. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:19.920 I'm happy to be here. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.000 Thank you. I was well, Yeah, I want to know, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.040 how are you coping or making the most of this 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:27.960 time period? 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.440 Well, my kids are probably happier than ever because we 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.919 are home and we are hanging out with them all 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:34.480 the time. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.480 And are they holding you hostage right now? Are you 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:40.560 eating a ransom? Note? 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.040 They are napping right now. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.560 I'm so lucky because otherwise maybe all over the house, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.000 Luna likes to get in my zoom, calls, say hi 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.840 to everybody, whistle, whatever she can do to get your attention. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.720 And yeah, they're non stop except when they're sleeping. So 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:58.800 this is a lucky rest. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:03:59.800 This is the best. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.240 Y'all started this whole kind of I G programming over 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.240 in your house, like I feel like after you guys 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.040 started singing songs live. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.480 And then when we were early uh, we had talked 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:11.280 to Chris Martin. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.280 My team and his team at the same time basically 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.800 had the same idea, we should start doing these IG 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.280 live concerts. And then we we both are affiliated with 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.360 Global Citizens, so we started working with them to get 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.160 the message out about staying home and raising money for 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.200 the World Health Organization. And he started it on the 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.480 Monday after everybody was in and I did it the 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.080 next day and it's just blossomed. We you know, Quest 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.719 DJ and D nine DJ, and we've seen so many 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.920 battles with the different producers and whatnot. You know, I 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.040 feel like we've gotten a lot of interesting content out 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.880 of this dope dope. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:53.080 So what is your what are your? I guess your your? 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.960 I know everyone's winging this at the same time, but yeah, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.520 what's coming up next for you? Because you know we 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.400 are it. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.960 But we had music, so that was actually the fortunate 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.400 thing about the timing was that we basically had finished 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.760 the album for all intents and purposes right prior to 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.279 everything happening. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.599 So there was just a few more. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.920 Like horns and random you know, overdubs we had to do, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.040 but I had done all my vocals, the songs were written, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.120 so we have music ready to go. We've been releasing 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.040 a couple songs already and then we have more coming soon. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.719 And we hoped to put the holbum out in June, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.600 but you know, we were supposed to tour in July 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.120 in Europe and then in the US and Canada in 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.880 August and September, and we don't know, we don't know 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:42.520 what's gonna happen. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.480 Be considered the bad due method. I mean, you're in 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.120 a position which you know you could be self contained 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.920 and just do it for delf. Would you ever consider 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.240 just hosting perform is just you yourself alone at your piano. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.280 I've done similar shows like that. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.520 I used to do. We did this thing called the 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.960 All of Me Tour, was just basically me and a 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.200 couple other players, and it was most of the night 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.120 was me just telling stories and singing on the piano. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.640 And so I'm definitely open to doing other shows like that, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.920 but I'm not open to putting people in a room 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.480 together right now until we can do it safely. I'm 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.360 not trying to get people sick to come to the 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.160 John Legend Show because you read the news about you know, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.680 people getting sick going to church, people getting sick, doing 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.480 all these other things, and we need to get to 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.840 the point where it's safe for people to even gather 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.240 like that before we can invite them into our shows 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.280 and expect them to show up. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.400 Yeah, I was going to say, I don't you know, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.000 I know that a lot of people are kind of 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.680 defiantly trying to go to church. Don't do it Sunday 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.800 for Eastern They. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.200 I was just listening to the news from last night 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.320 and Rachel Matta was going through the list of how 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:10.960 many vectors of infection have been literally at church alone. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.240 She was just talking about how they can identify these 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.400 big clusters from people going to church, and they say, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.320 I read another article they were saying something about singing 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.560 is more it was viral. 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.920 Yeah, it's more viral than just being around. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.360 Somebody because you're crazy, you're pushing out your saliva and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.400 all these other things, and so it's actually less safe 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.280 to be singing around people than it is to just 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:40.520 be around them in general. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.000 So it's it's like, you can't be going to church 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.200 in those circumstances. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.200 Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, it's just it's 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.880 killing me watching people's reactions because you know, most of 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.400 them just like you know, I got the blood of 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.280 Jesus covering me. Yeah, no, he'll be protected. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.640 And now the black numbers have come up this week, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.480 crazy and a lot of our favorite cities. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.720 And that's a problem, Yes it is. And we are 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.600 we are the we all of us are equally susceptible 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.480 to the disease. But when you have a community that's 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.360 already underserved in so many other ways, we are more 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.560 susceptible to getting the worst of it, to dying, to 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.360 having really severe outcomes. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:21.160 Out of it. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.240 In my mind, I imagine that you and I and 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.600 Christy watched the well, we we in this house, so 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:28.760 we watched the Daily briefing. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.840 It's just we got to know some things. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.600 You don't watch it. I've watched zero. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.760 Angers like on the daily because I know you. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.240 Like. Christy's rule is she does not listen to Trump's voice. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.959 Okay, she will not if he's on the news, even 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.880 if he's on the news of an anchor that she likes, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.880 she doesn't want to hear his voice, and we will 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.400 change the channel off his voice comes on. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:53.600 What about doctor Fauci? 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.199 Though, I feel like I could read it later, and 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.719 Rachel Rachel Maddow summarizes it for me well enough, so 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.640 I'm like, I'll just listen to Rachel yog. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.199 It's to the point where now even I mean, you know, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.880 normally I would watch matt Ow without fail because you know, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.560 but this this will be my second week without watching. Yeah, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:18.080 I can't. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.599 You know, I'm one of those people that, like I 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.679 would always not watch the news if there was like 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.920 a disaster or any kind of thing where the press 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.199 was all kind of even even like a shooting, like 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.320 I couldn't watch it because I don't like I don't 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.199 like everybody gathering around a tragedy on the news, Like 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.040 I just something about my personality. I don't enjoy that 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.800 as news. I don't like it. I don't like being 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.679 around it. But for some reason, I've been watching this 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.520 because I do actually want to know what's going on. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.120 And it's such a political story too, because it's about 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:57.760 leadership and it's about how leadership organizes people around a crisis, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.400 and I think that's the thing that interests me about it. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.880 Wow, one day I'll jump back into the fray, But now, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.440 just from my mental health. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:11.839 No, I get it. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.440 That's how I am about most me and these chickens 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:15.640 on this forum. Man, I'm happy. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.360 Can I just ask you and Fante a question real quick? 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:22.640 Since y'all are both a part of one of my 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.160 favorite shows on TV? Yeah, can we talk about Sherman 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.080 Showcase real quick? 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.520 Yes, let's talk about it, okay, and what's going on? 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.280 You know, I'm just you know, I'm just let. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.560 Well, Fante, you want to tell her what we filmed 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.280 a couple of Yeah, Man, so we got a Black 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.040 History Month special, which, in Negro fashion. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.199 Is coming late in June. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.719 During Black Music Man, we got it we shot it. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.120 We shot it in January, and I have I still 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.240 haven't seen the whole joint. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.760 Diallo was kind of telling. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.160 Me, Nope, I've seen that edits it looks great. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.680 Yeah, he said it's amazing. He said, he really is dope. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.320 So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That's coming June 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.000 and Sherman showcases on Hulu and Hulu just announced like 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.360 free subscription or free trials. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.080 Yeah, check it now. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.000 From my. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.480 No, but everybody else in Mirror does not working every 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.160 night like you are. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.679 And and we were in the scene together, Me and 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.080 John did one scene together. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.320 With Trek and Iron, but we're the master at the time. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:38.439 And loaf of Jesus. Now, the show is the most 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.679 well reviewed thing we've ever done as a production company. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.800 I've never seen so many great reviews for something we've done. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.920 The New York Times, all these other lists you know 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.199 what to watch while you're one, like the shows on 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.640 all those lists too. So hopefully people will give it 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.520 a chance, because I think once you get into the world, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.360 you really get into it. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.160 I just I don't want to discount, though, your other 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.559 show that you had on wg. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.480 N Yes Underground, Y, Yes, What to deal with Underground. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.680 Now we couldn't bring it back. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.160 You know, the station was getting bought by that conservative 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.199 news organization, Saint Claire. Yeah, so they were buying the 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.640 station and they decided to go in a whole nother direction. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.959 Even though we were the most popular show and got 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 the most buzz for the network of any show that 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.720 they had on, they decided to go in a different direction. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.720 They're the same organization that bought all those local news stations, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:33.599 do you remember. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.160 That to do the Yeah, the news reporters, the news. 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.199 Reporters all reading the same script. Yeah, So they're the 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.000 same organization. So we didn't have much of a chance 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.440 to stay around. We tried to sell it to other 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.720 networks and it's it was a bit of an expensive 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.920 show to produce, and so a lot of networks didn't 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.360 want to take it because it was kind of like 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.080 secondhand and they didn't want to spend all that money 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.320 making a secondhand show. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.640 But as a show producer, how do you like, how 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.920 do you how do you figure that's different than music 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.679 working on music and whatnot. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.400 Well, it's less hands on for me because you're leaving 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.880 it in the other creator's hands. So you have writers, 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.640 You have directors, you have all these other people that 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.160 are involved, and they hopefully you hire people and you 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.520 work with people that are really good at what they do, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.480 and so it's not nearly as hands on as I 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.760 would be on my own record. I feel like it's 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:35.000 mostly about making good personnel decisions and then picking good 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.719 projects to be part of creatively. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.680 Are you going to. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.240 Organized the music? Music is a wild wild West? 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:45.480 It is. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:47.360 Music is. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.400 Yeah, you might get paid, you might not like TV everybody. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.719 It ain't no such thing as doing some off like 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:56.480 you're gonna get a check. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:57.240 Yeah. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.080 TV is better organized, Films better organized. Hollywood's just more 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.400 like corporate than the music world is. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.080 Now, what is theater not. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.319 Theater? Well, the theaters have the strong unions though, you know, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.959 so there's a lot of rules around how you do 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.680 things in the theater too. The unions are very strong 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.480 and so there's a lot of structure around that, and 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.440 so I feel like that's pretty you know, it's pretty 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:25.320 on point as well. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:33.200 Wow, you know, I have a wish to see the 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.560 I mean, you can weigh in on this bill or not. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.240 I mean, at the beginning of in the Heights in Hamilton, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.840 like did you feel as though, you know, the system 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.840 was pretty much stuck in its ways? Whatnot? 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.800 Funny too, I didn't know what the fuck the system 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.960 was or which way it was stuck in it, But yeah, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.840 something like that, I don't know. To me, theater has 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.160 the worst business plan ever. If it's a success, then 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.520 you make money. If it's anything success, it's a total disaster. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.400 Yeah, I see, I see. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.720 So it's a shitty business plan. It's a shitty business 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.320 plan there is. It's either you invest millions of dollars 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.200 and only if you're a humongous success do you make 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.400 the money back. If you don't, then it's a failure. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.280 Just the business plan doesn't make sense to me. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:20.800 So there's no middle ground. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.000 There's no such thing as a moderately successful theater show. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.760 Yeah, well just think about just think about real estate 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:30.520 in New York. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.240 And so part of it is you have to occupy 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.880 and pay for this real estate in New York and 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.040 get people to show up, and then you have to 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.200 pay everybody's salaries and everything based on the union you know, scale, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.960 and it's just the the original baseline nut that you 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.360 have to pay for is a lot of money. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:57.800 I'm scared to place starts in November, and like this 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.440 isn't like you know where you just put a little 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.320 bit of money and then your producer like, we're really 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.960 funding this joint so that but a mirror. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:07.920 Are you fearful now? 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.120 Because I mean not to put that on you, but 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.480 when are people going to feel comfortable and in theaters 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.080 and in New York and broad in New York and Broadway. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.840 The thing is is that you know, we after taking 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.240 a queue from Hamilton to see how radical that was. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:31.160 I mean, I just have this desire to really update Broadway. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:40.840 Broadways somehow stuck between this this post timpan Alley jazz 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:46.400 hands kind of Broadway like that that kind of era 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:53.800 where you know it could really use a refresh or redo. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.160 And you know, based on did you see and did 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.600 you see in Tarik's uh like any of the practice 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.920 I haven't. It's it's like it's it's just as mind 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.040 blowing to me is as Hamilton, but it's like the 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.440 complete opposite where you don't feel good about any of 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:18.240 the characters. It's like if Obama, if if Hamilton represented 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:23.080 everything that was beautiful about the Obama era, then this 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.720 is the trade for the play for the Trump era 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.760 and post and the thing was they wrote this, you know, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.680 during like the beginning of obama second term as a 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.080 as a kind of a a satire. But it's just 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.520 like it's real now, which makes it even more on point. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.840 So it is like idiocracy, dude, it's it's it's idiocracy 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.280 the play. That's what it is. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:50.520 Like. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:55.480 People are mind blowing, but it's black no more, okay, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.919 it's It's based on one of the very John Ridley, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.280 who did Twelve Years of Slave. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:02.960 Yeah, I know, John right. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.400 He wrote this back in twenty twelve, came to Tarik 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.240 around twenty thirteen, and they developed at the last four years. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.399 It's a scathing play. It's amazing, but no one's going 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:16.800 to feel good about themselves. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.800 They won't be congratulating themselves for going no, but I 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.560 mean yeah, I mean, the guilty aspect of it is 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.000 going to like it's a real It's a play about 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:35.800 kind of in the Harlem speakeasy era of Harlem, a 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:36.919 black man who. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.840 Meets a white girl a speakeasy who you know, they 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.840 flirt and whatnot, and she's sort of like, you know, 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.359 this ain't going any further than this basement because you know, 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.240 I could never take you home to my father, YadA, YadA, YadA. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.879 And this guy wishes kind of wishes that there was 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.280 a way that she could fall in love of them, 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.399 and he gets some sort of operation. This is based 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.720 on a book. He gets a he goes through a 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.800 process that turns him into a white man. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.919 And then reverse, which is like soul Man in reverse. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:18.800 Yeah. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.440 This, this book was written in nineteen thirty six as 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:22.480 a sat tire. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.919 And Eddie Murphy's SNL. 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.880 It's very much like that skit. Yeah, he just hits 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.760 the fan even crazier. So yeah, yeah, so yeah, let's 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:40.080 rack up the Tony's Let's go all of y'all get this. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:45.280 Got ghet him man, you get him? You get it? 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.879 The single is out now where streaming on now? Correct? 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:53.360 Yeah. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.000 So we have two singles out, once called Conversations in 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.400 the Dark. We put that out in January and then 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.880 Actions is the one wh just put out a couple 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.480 of weeks ago. You played it on your online Instagram 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:04.159 Love the Other Night. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.880 Do you have a title for the upcoming record yet? 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.800 Yeah, it's called Bigger Love, and the next single is 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.000 gonna be the title track called Bigger love and then. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.880 And we got joints. Man, I'm excited. I did. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.399 Raphael Sadiq exec produced the whole thing. He's done my 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.600 last couple albums, exec producing wise for the Christmas Album 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.840 and the Christmas Deluxe, and we were just in the 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:32.840 nice groove and we just kept working together on this. 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.199 But I worked with other producers and writers and uh 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.240 Oak produced the last single actions Oakfelder. He produced another 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.920 one on my album that's really crazy called Oulah and yeah, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.480 we've got some good stuff on there. Do you record 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.520 at the crib? John, and you still go to the studio? 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.320 I still go to the studio because I like to 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:54.320 feel like I'm going to work. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.280 I like to leave the house, be away from the kids, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.760 go to work, and then come home and be present 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:01.600 with the family. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.720 I did it. What studio did you record out of? 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.040 At Raphael's Blakesley up in North Hollywood. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:08.479 Oh? 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:09.960 Is Jerry still his engineer? 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:10.760 Yeah? 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:12.800 Jerry still mixed with the Christmas lights. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:14.960 Yeah, so Jerry mixed this. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.560 This guy named Alex is the recording engineer, but Jerry mix. 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:24.280 Yeah. Raphael's dude, Jerry like this atmospherical like Christmas. So 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:27.280 he always even when he is not at his studio 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.520 ahead of time, he'll send like all this this Christmas 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.320 decorations to the studio to get set up and he 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.080 wants it to look like Christmas when he's mixing. So 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:41.560 he's been doing that for like the last thirty years 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:42.159 with Rafael. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.639 His first record he did for me was My Christmas 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.000 Album though how perfect? 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:47.000 Oh yeah, okay. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:49.600 I thought he had it in there just for the 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.520 for the best of music. 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:57.440 Nah, Jerry uh engineer what they do on illadel faf Life, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.240 And was like, we had to wait an hour for 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.000