Speaker 1: Quest Left Show is a production of iHeartRadio. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, I'm gonna do something that I never do. Actually,
Speaker 1: I started this exercise maybe six years ago. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know you're supposed to have a resolution. I'll say
Speaker 1: around two thousand and twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, I would
Speaker 1: write list out. Right now, I'm just in the daily
Speaker 1: practice of twenty four hours at a time, so this
Speaker 1: will probably be the first year in which I don't
Speaker 1: write a list out. But literally one of the things
Speaker 1: that I'm known for is just writing lists. I will
Speaker 1: say that the message of getting through and we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to give through a year. We should be thriving,
Speaker 1: and I think the only way to get to that
Speaker 1: is literally kind of do the things that we I
Speaker 1: roll about, and that includes things like season the day,
Speaker 1: you know, and yeah, there's some days where I wake
Speaker 1: up and I don't feel like doing affirmations or getting
Speaker 1: out of bed, or I'm in a foul mood and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But that's how I got through twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 1: here's the weird thing. I kind of had a great
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five despite the times that we've lived in
Speaker 1: and you know, a lot of tragedy has happened this year,
Speaker 1: but you have to rigorously just fight for a sense
Speaker 1: of peace and a sense of joy. And that's the
Speaker 1: only advice I can give you, is you have to
Speaker 1: do this one day at a time, waking up and
Speaker 1: saying that this is going to be you know, every
Speaker 1: day I wake up today is going to be the
Speaker 1: best January blah blah blah blah blah of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: or whatever date it is. That's my advice to you guys.
Speaker 1: So in the pandemic in which I really got very
Speaker 1: serious about, like therapy, whatnot, one particular year, I think
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, right when we were about to
Speaker 1: release the movie Summer of Soul and whatnot, my therapist
Speaker 1: decided to try a new exercise with me and made
Speaker 1: me list the one hundred things that I fear the most,
Speaker 1: or the one things that I don't like, or the
Speaker 1: one hundred things that I am not cool with. And
Speaker 1: somehow Jedi mind tricked me into kind of jumping in
Speaker 1: head first, not knowing what's down there waiting for me
Speaker 1: piranha or trampoline or whatever. And I got through that
Speaker 1: list of one hundred by like August, and there's something
Speaker 1: that happens to you when all the things that you
Speaker 1: previously feared is behind you like this. This is almost
Speaker 1: like an invincible feeling. The thing is a Jeff Bridges movie.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez were in a movie in
Speaker 1: which I think he avoided an accident or he survived
Speaker 1: a plane crash, whatever, and then suddenly he became like
Speaker 1: a super daredevil like he had he was looking for
Speaker 1: stuff to scare him and he couldn't find it. And
Speaker 1: so that's kind of like what I've been on in
Speaker 1: the last five years of this very puzzling decade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. The roots are in Los Angeles at
Speaker 1: Disney Hall. As promised, we are more than past the
Speaker 1: halfway point of the new album as far as mixing
Speaker 1: and creative and all those things to kind of speak
Speaker 1: now forever hold your piece stage of the record. So
Speaker 1: I pretty much plan on spending at least the first
Speaker 1: four months of January, besides getting older, really just delving
Speaker 1: into whatever maintenance clean up I have to do for
Speaker 1: endgame so that it's ready to go in hands. Like
Speaker 1: we're already planning like a major tour behind this record
Speaker 1: every day. My managers like, so we're going to have
Speaker 1: a record, right, because you know, like we plan this
Speaker 1: tour based on an album coming out, right, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: going to have it. Yeah, So the album will be
Speaker 1: out now that I've finished earth Wind and Fire. The
Speaker 1: next project I'm about to do, which is a Mimith project,
Speaker 1: meaning it's going to be my first documentary, that's also
Speaker 1: going to be a multi episode, a four parter if
Speaker 1: you will. The only thing is that my producer shout
Speaker 1: out to the great Alyssa Payne, who hopefully is on
Speaker 1: the road to her first oscar. I highly recommend you
Speaker 1: watching the Netflix documentary called The Perfect Neighbor. She's the
Speaker 1: producer of that documentary. She is kind of right now
Speaker 1: doing the shuffle that I was doing back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty twenty one to get my oscar. And
Speaker 1: when she is done with that, then she will join
Speaker 1: me to start the dismantling or the putting together of
Speaker 1: this new project that I have coming. So that said,
Speaker 1: I have five months in which I have nothing to
Speaker 1: do but work on the roots. So this is where
Speaker 1: you all want me to be, right, You want me
Speaker 1: to just work on the Roots and the Roots only,
Speaker 1: so there's no distractions from any project. It's Roots time.
Speaker 1: What song best describes twenty twenty five. You know, it's weird.
Speaker 1: It hants me so much, man. But I wasn't ready
Speaker 1: emotionally or otherwise for the closing song on They Lost
Speaker 1: Soul's Cabin in the Sky. So just hearing how Dave
Speaker 1: closes that album and how they closed that album, for
Speaker 1: those that are like, hey, you problems, You're going to
Speaker 1: turn that roots album in in November, you didn't do it?
Speaker 1: Why I heard that and I was like, oh God,
Speaker 1: I don't have no song on this record that makes
Speaker 1: me want to just sit and cry or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. It's actually probably the most non
Speaker 1: emotional roots album ever. I mean, this is the closest
Speaker 1: that I believe that Treeka and I have gotten to
Speaker 1: capturing the spirit of the first five records, mainly because one,
Speaker 1: you know, a major component of roots albums, Richard Nichols
Speaker 1: isn't here right now. So I will say that the
Speaker 1: last album in which I'm not framing it like the
Speaker 1: Lion's Share of the work, but the last album that
Speaker 1: I really truly like micromanaged as in I got this,
Speaker 1: I got this, What's things fall Apart? You know, because
Speaker 1: also when you're in a group, I know, democracy is
Speaker 1: kind of a suggestible like illusion, and that theme is
Speaker 1: explored a lot in the Earthwind and Fire. Doc Philip
Speaker 1: Bailey makes it absolutely known that democracy in a group
Speaker 1: is not real at all. There's always one leader who
Speaker 1: says it and everyone else follows and you just cosplay
Speaker 1: like your group. But you know, for the greater good
Speaker 1: of us being here for thirty five years, you have
Speaker 1: to give agency and leeway, you know, for people's ideas.
Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of haven't really controlled a
Speaker 1: roots out in other words, like, yeah, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with this thing, you know, but I lost the vote,
Speaker 1: so it happens. So I will say that this is
Speaker 1: probably the album that will be the closest to you know,
Speaker 1: Ihladelph Half Life and Things Fall Apart, where somehow I
Speaker 1: a lot of my ideas made it to the fertilization,
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, y'all. Also, yeah, in general, let
Speaker 1: me know, hit me with the song that best described
Speaker 1: you're twenty twenty five, Mine, of course was Don't Push
Speaker 1: Me by day La Soul. Yeah, don't push Me because
Speaker 1: I'm close to the edge. Try not to lose my head.
Speaker 1: How apropos, But yeah, follow QLs and share and the
Speaker 1: comments and well we'll discuss those. Thank you.