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Speaker 1: Quest Love Show is a production of iHeart Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, people, You know I can't have this moniker,

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Speaker 2: this name Questlove and not display my mastery of what

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Speaker 2: it is that I really really do. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I know, I'm all things to all people. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, I'm a curator.

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Speaker 1: I'm a pruner.

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Speaker 2: I'm a farmer of music at heart, meaning having grown

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Speaker 2: up in a household with three thousand records, currently owning

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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand records. I will say that I believe

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Speaker 2: that I know a finger or two around the kitchen,

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Speaker 2: if you will, when it comes to curating music. And

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Speaker 2: of course there are various times out the year where

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Speaker 2: a lot of my friends will tap me to make

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Speaker 2: them a mixtape right quick. Thanksgiving I'm always asked to

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Speaker 2: put together to four hour Thanksgiving mix, which is harder

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Speaker 2: than you think because you want something that fills the

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Speaker 2: room with music, but you don't want it too wordy.

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Speaker 2: So often, for like dinner requests, I do instrumental jazz,

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Speaker 2: but like vibrant because you know, if you play something

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Speaker 2: too mellow, then that'll bring the mood down. Of course

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Speaker 2: I'll get the birthday request or you know, the office

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Speaker 2: party request, or some of my chef friends will have

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Speaker 2: a opening and need a five hour playlist. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I do playlists like most people do the New York

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Speaker 2: Times puzzles, like I just I got to challenge myself

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Speaker 2: to discover new songs. But I will say that February

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Speaker 2: fourteenth of every year of my life is probably the busiest.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Back when I was in the do you want more

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Speaker 2: elodelf Half Life Days, yeah, I would make customize mixtapes,

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Speaker 2: meaning individual cassettes specifically for that person and make a

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Speaker 2: pretty penny doing it.

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Speaker 1: Nowadays, I just I want to share the love and

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Speaker 2: So Valentine's Days represents two types of playlists for me,

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Speaker 2: playlist of people in love and play list for people

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Speaker 2: who are depressed.

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Speaker 1: Because they lost love. And the thing is with slow jams.

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Speaker 2: I find that when I do these two playlists, oftentimes

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Speaker 2: the depressing playlist is the most popular one. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: my most high file client couple, the female half of this,

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Speaker 2: has gotten word back to me that the breakup Heartbreak

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Speaker 2: one is our favorite because that has the most jams

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Speaker 2: on it. So, you know, toxic love and us just

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Speaker 2: mixing it up. That's nothing new spoiler alert. When I

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Speaker 2: do the Earth Wind and Fire podcast, Philip Bailey, in

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Speaker 2: a very humorous way, breaks down the song Reasons because

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Speaker 1: Are like, oh, that's my song, that's my song, and.

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Speaker 2: Reasons is about an affair like earth Wind and Fire

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Speaker 2: famously turned down two million dollars to play Reasons at

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Speaker 2: a wedding, only because Philip Bailey had to tell the

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Speaker 2: bride and groom like, dude, you do not want your

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Speaker 2: wedding to be ruined by a song about a couple

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Speaker 2: to make toxic songs about affairs like Whitney Houston saving

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Speaker 2: All My Love for You, or Sweet Thing by Rufus

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Speaker 2: and Chaka Khan, or even Reasons by Earth Went and Fire.

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Speaker 1: Those are our jams.

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Speaker 2: But I decided to make two playlists, like one that's

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Speaker 2: sort of affirmational love, real true love, and the other

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Speaker 2: So usually when I make a playlist, I start with

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Speaker 2: either an interlude or in this case, a poem.

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Speaker 2: With Me and Mind is almost like as many times

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Speaker 2: Marie with Me and Mind. Another song that I love

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Speaker 2: is uh, you know, I'm always in Michelle and Deoceella's ear.

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Speaker 2: One of her most brilliant projects she's ever done is

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Speaker 2: the Grammy nominated album Van Triloquism, which I know is

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Speaker 2: it's like an interpretation of songs that we've known and love,

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Speaker 2: do part two of Van Triloquism, and I think it's

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Speaker 2: people that don't know what I mean, if you are

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Speaker 2: a lover of Brian McKnight's song anytime.

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Speaker 2: You know that song is essentially just outside your Door

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Speaker 2: you should redo anytime Brian McKnight as outside your Door

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Speaker 2: Like you know, I love when an artist takes the

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Speaker 2: And I also appreciate the fact that she did not

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Speaker 1: Which every R and B artist does anyway.

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Speaker 2: Next up, think of al Green's many classics, Simply Beautiful

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Speaker 2: playing guitar on it. I didn't know he was playing

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Speaker 2: But simply Beautiful by al Green expresses love and intimacy

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Speaker 2: Beautiful by Algreen be my third song. My fourth song

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Speaker 2: is Sensuality by the Isisley Brothers. You know Isley Brothers

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Speaker 2: And if your parents were the house party type, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, nowadays people hit me up, yo, just stream

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Speaker 2: Sensuality by the AlSi Brothers is one of those songs

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Speaker 2: fact for you Soul Aquarium fans. When James Poyser and

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Speaker 2: I worked on Balau's Queen of Sanity, we literally I

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Speaker 2: primarily known for guitar playing, but Ernie Eisley also played

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Speaker 2: But in Sensuality, his tom tom work, he would have

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Speaker 2: Number five is a group from the seventies called Brainstorm

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Speaker 2: late seventies, that song was a mainstay on quiet Storm,

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Speaker 2: Black Radio and escapable and it still works to this day.

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Speaker 2: the zodiac signs. But no, This Must Be Heaven is

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Speaker 2: to me quintessential seventies kind of just atmospheric, beautiful soul.

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Speaker 1: Ballads that are unsung.

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Speaker 2: Number six, I will say is by one of my

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Speaker 1: Maya Rudolph's mama.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Minnie Ripperton had a cult classic of a

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Speaker 2: And you know, Stevie Wonder was such a fan that

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Speaker 2: I believe Maya Rudolph told us on the very first

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Speaker 2: Minnie Ripperton was stopping by Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles to

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Speaker 2: knocking on her door. Hi, I'm Stevie Wonder, and instead

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Speaker 2: chickens like I love your voice and any who. He

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Speaker 2: wanted to produce Mini Rippleton, and Motown blocked this order.

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Speaker 2: him producing Mini Ripleton, but he did it anyway. So

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Speaker 2: I believe that the album which is called Perfect Angel

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