1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: Quest Left Show is a production of iHeartRadio. In twenty 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: twenty six, I'm gonna do something that I never do. Actually, 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: I started this exercise maybe six years ago. Of course, 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: you know you're supposed to have a resolution. I'll say 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: around two thousand and twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, I would 6 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: write list out. Right now, I'm just in the daily 7 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: practice of twenty four hours at a time, so this 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: will probably be the first year in which I don't 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: write a list out. But literally one of the things 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: that I'm known for is just writing lists. I will 11 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: say that the message of getting through and we shouldn't 12 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: have to give through a year. We should be thriving, 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: and I think the only way to get to that 14 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: is literally kind of do the things that we I 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: roll about, and that includes things like season the day, 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: you know, and yeah, there's some days where I wake 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: up and I don't feel like doing affirmations or getting 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: out of bed, or I'm in a foul mood and whatnot. 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: But that's how I got through twenty twenty five. And 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: here's the weird thing. I kind of had a great 21 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five despite the times that we've lived in 22 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: and you know, a lot of tragedy has happened this year, 23 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: but you have to rigorously just fight for a sense 24 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: of peace and a sense of joy. And that's the 25 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: only advice I can give you, is you have to 26 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: do this one day at a time, waking up and 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: saying that this is going to be you know, every 28 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: day I wake up today is going to be the 29 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: best January blah blah blah blah blah of twenty twenty six, 30 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: or whatever date it is. That's my advice to you guys. 31 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: So in the pandemic in which I really got very 32 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: serious about, like therapy, whatnot, one particular year, I think 33 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, right when we were about to 34 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: release the movie Summer of Soul and whatnot, my therapist 35 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: decided to try a new exercise with me and made 36 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: me list the one hundred things that I fear the most, 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: or the one things that I don't like, or the 38 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: one hundred things that I am not cool with. And 39 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: somehow Jedi mind tricked me into kind of jumping in 40 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: head first, not knowing what's down there waiting for me 41 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: piranha or trampoline or whatever. And I got through that 42 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: list of one hundred by like August, and there's something 43 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: that happens to you when all the things that you 44 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: previously feared is behind you like this. This is almost 45 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: like an invincible feeling. The thing is a Jeff Bridges movie. 46 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez were in a movie in 47 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: which I think he avoided an accident or he survived 48 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: a plane crash, whatever, and then suddenly he became like 49 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: a super daredevil like he had he was looking for 50 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: stuff to scare him and he couldn't find it. And 51 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: so that's kind of like what I've been on in 52 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: the last five years of this very puzzling decade. Yeah, 53 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. The roots are in Los Angeles at 54 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: Disney Hall. As promised, we are more than past the 55 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: halfway point of the new album as far as mixing 56 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: and creative and all those things to kind of speak 57 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: now forever hold your piece stage of the record. So 58 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: I pretty much plan on spending at least the first 59 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: four months of January, besides getting older, really just delving 60 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: into whatever maintenance clean up I have to do for 61 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: endgame so that it's ready to go in hands. Like 62 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: we're already planning like a major tour behind this record 63 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: every day. My managers like, so we're going to have 64 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: a record, right, because you know, like we plan this 65 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: tour based on an album coming out, right, Yeah, you're 66 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: going to have it. Yeah, So the album will be 67 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: out now that I've finished earth Wind and Fire. The 68 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: next project I'm about to do, which is a Mimith project, 69 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: meaning it's going to be my first documentary, that's also 70 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: going to be a multi episode, a four parter if 71 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: you will. The only thing is that my producer shout 72 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: out to the great Alyssa Payne, who hopefully is on 73 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: the road to her first oscar. I highly recommend you 74 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: watching the Netflix documentary called The Perfect Neighbor. She's the 75 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,799 Speaker 1: producer of that documentary. She is kind of right now 76 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: doing the shuffle that I was doing back in twenty 77 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: twenty and twenty twenty one to get my oscar. And 78 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: when she is done with that, then she will join 79 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: me to start the dismantling or the putting together of 80 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: this new project that I have coming. So that said, 81 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: I have five months in which I have nothing to 82 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: do but work on the roots. So this is where 83 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: you all want me to be, right, You want me 84 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: to just work on the Roots and the Roots only, 85 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: so there's no distractions from any project. It's Roots time. 86 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: What song best describes twenty twenty five. You know, it's weird. 87 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: It hants me so much, man. But I wasn't ready 88 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: emotionally or otherwise for the closing song on They Lost 89 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: Soul's Cabin in the Sky. So just hearing how Dave 90 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: closes that album and how they closed that album, for 91 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: those that are like, hey, you problems, You're going to 92 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: turn that roots album in in November, you didn't do it? 93 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: Why I heard that and I was like, oh God, 94 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: I don't have no song on this record that makes 95 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: me want to just sit and cry or whatever. And 96 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. It's actually probably the most non 97 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: emotional roots album ever. I mean, this is the closest 98 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: that I believe that Treeka and I have gotten to 99 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: capturing the spirit of the first five records, mainly because one, 100 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: you know, a major component of roots albums, Richard Nichols 101 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: isn't here right now. So I will say that the 102 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: last album in which I'm not framing it like the 103 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: Lion's Share of the work, but the last album that 104 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: I really truly like micromanaged as in I got this, 105 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: I got this, What's things fall Apart? You know, because 106 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: also when you're in a group, I know, democracy is 107 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: kind of a suggestible like illusion, and that theme is 108 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: explored a lot in the Earthwind and Fire. Doc Philip 109 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Bailey makes it absolutely known that democracy in a group 110 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: is not real at all. There's always one leader who 111 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: says it and everyone else follows and you just cosplay 112 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: like your group. But you know, for the greater good 113 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: of us being here for thirty five years, you have 114 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: to give agency and leeway, you know, for people's ideas. 115 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of haven't really controlled a 116 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: roots out in other words, like, yeah, I don't agree 117 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: with this thing, you know, but I lost the vote, 118 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: so it happens. So I will say that this is 119 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: probably the album that will be the closest to you know, 120 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: Ihladelph Half Life and Things Fall Apart, where somehow I 121 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: a lot of my ideas made it to the fertilization, 122 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, y'all. Also, yeah, in general, let 123 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: me know, hit me with the song that best described 124 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: you're twenty twenty five, Mine, of course was Don't Push 125 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: Me by day La Soul. Yeah, don't push Me because 126 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: I'm close to the edge. Try not to lose my head. 127 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: How apropos, But yeah, follow QLs and share and the 128 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: comments and well we'll discuss those. Thank you.