WEBVTT - Happy New Year From The Questlove Show

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<v Speaker 1>Quest Left Show is a production of iHeartRadio. In twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six, I'm gonna do something that I never do. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>I started this exercise maybe six years ago. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>you know you're supposed to have a resolution. I'll say

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<v Speaker 1>around two thousand and twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, I would

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<v Speaker 1>write list out. Right now, I'm just in the daily

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<v Speaker 1>practice of twenty four hours at a time, so this

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<v Speaker 1>will probably be the first year in which I don't

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<v Speaker 1>write a list out. But literally one of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm known for is just writing lists. I will

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<v Speaker 1>say that the message of getting through and we shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have to give through a year. We should be thriving,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think the only way to get to that

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<v Speaker 1>is literally kind of do the things that we I

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<v Speaker 1>roll about, and that includes things like season the day,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and yeah, there's some days where I wake

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<v Speaker 1>up and I don't feel like doing affirmations or getting

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<v Speaker 1>out of bed, or I'm in a foul mood and whatnot.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's how I got through twenty twenty five. And

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<v Speaker 1>here's the weird thing. I kind of had a great

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five despite the times that we've lived in

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, a lot of tragedy has happened this year,

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<v Speaker 1>but you have to rigorously just fight for a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of peace and a sense of joy. And that's the

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<v Speaker 1>only advice I can give you, is you have to

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<v Speaker 1>do this one day at a time, waking up and

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<v Speaker 1>saying that this is going to be you know, every

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<v Speaker 1>day I wake up today is going to be the

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<v Speaker 1>best January blah blah blah blah blah of twenty twenty six,

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever date it is. That's my advice to you guys.

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<v Speaker 1>So in the pandemic in which I really got very

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<v Speaker 1>serious about, like therapy, whatnot, one particular year, I think

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty one, right when we were about to

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<v Speaker 1>release the movie Summer of Soul and whatnot, my therapist

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<v Speaker 1>decided to try a new exercise with me and made

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<v Speaker 1>me list the one hundred things that I fear the most,

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<v Speaker 1>or the one things that I don't like, or the

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred things that I am not cool with. And

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<v Speaker 1>somehow Jedi mind tricked me into kind of jumping in

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<v Speaker 1>head first, not knowing what's down there waiting for me

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<v Speaker 1>piranha or trampoline or whatever. And I got through that

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<v Speaker 1>list of one hundred by like August, and there's something

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<v Speaker 1>that happens to you when all the things that you

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<v Speaker 1>previously feared is behind you like this. This is almost

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<v Speaker 1>like an invincible feeling. The thing is a Jeff Bridges movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez were in a movie in

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<v Speaker 1>which I think he avoided an accident or he survived

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<v Speaker 1>a plane crash, whatever, and then suddenly he became like

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<v Speaker 1>a super daredevil like he had he was looking for

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<v Speaker 1>stuff to scare him and he couldn't find it. And

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<v Speaker 1>so that's kind of like what I've been on in

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<v Speaker 1>the last five years of this very puzzling decade. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>New Year's Eve. The roots are in Los Angeles at

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<v Speaker 1>Disney Hall. As promised, we are more than past the

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<v Speaker 1>halfway point of the new album as far as mixing

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<v Speaker 1>and creative and all those things to kind of speak

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<v Speaker 1>now forever hold your piece stage of the record. So

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<v Speaker 1>I pretty much plan on spending at least the first

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<v Speaker 1>four months of January, besides getting older, really just delving

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<v Speaker 1>into whatever maintenance clean up I have to do for

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<v Speaker 1>endgame so that it's ready to go in hands. Like

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<v Speaker 1>we're already planning like a major tour behind this record

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<v Speaker 1>every day. My managers like, so we're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>a record, right, because you know, like we plan this

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<v Speaker 1>tour based on an album coming out, right, Yeah, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to have it. Yeah, So the album will be

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<v Speaker 1>out now that I've finished earth Wind and Fire. The

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<v Speaker 1>next project I'm about to do, which is a Mimith project,

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<v Speaker 1>meaning it's going to be my first documentary, that's also

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<v Speaker 1>going to be a multi episode, a four parter if

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<v Speaker 1>you will. The only thing is that my producer shout

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<v Speaker 1>out to the great Alyssa Payne, who hopefully is on

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<v Speaker 1>the road to her first oscar. I highly recommend you

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<v Speaker 1>watching the Netflix documentary called The Perfect Neighbor. She's the

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<v Speaker 1>producer of that documentary. She is kind of right now

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<v Speaker 1>doing the shuffle that I was doing back in twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty and twenty twenty one to get my oscar. And

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<v Speaker 1>when she is done with that, then she will join

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<v Speaker 1>me to start the dismantling or the putting together of

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<v Speaker 1>this new project that I have coming. So that said,

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<v Speaker 1>I have five months in which I have nothing to

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<v Speaker 1>do but work on the roots. So this is where

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<v Speaker 1>you all want me to be, right, You want me

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<v Speaker 1>to just work on the Roots and the Roots only,

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<v Speaker 1>so there's no distractions from any project. It's Roots time.

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<v Speaker 1>What song best describes twenty twenty five. You know, it's weird.

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<v Speaker 1>It hants me so much, man. But I wasn't ready

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<v Speaker 1>emotionally or otherwise for the closing song on They Lost

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<v Speaker 1>Soul's Cabin in the Sky. So just hearing how Dave

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<v Speaker 1>closes that album and how they closed that album, for

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<v Speaker 1>those that are like, hey, you problems, You're going to

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<v Speaker 1>turn that roots album in in November, you didn't do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Why I heard that and I was like, oh God,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have no song on this record that makes

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<v Speaker 1>me want to just sit and cry or whatever. And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that. It's actually probably the most non

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<v Speaker 1>emotional roots album ever. I mean, this is the closest

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<v Speaker 1>that I believe that Treeka and I have gotten to

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<v Speaker 1>capturing the spirit of the first five records, mainly because one,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, a major component of roots albums, Richard Nichols

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<v Speaker 1>isn't here right now. So I will say that the

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<v Speaker 1>last album in which I'm not framing it like the

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<v Speaker 1>Lion's Share of the work, but the last album that

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<v Speaker 1>I really truly like micromanaged as in I got this,

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<v Speaker 1>I got this, What's things fall Apart? You know, because

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<v Speaker 1>also when you're in a group, I know, democracy is

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<v Speaker 1>kind of a suggestible like illusion, and that theme is

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<v Speaker 1>explored a lot in the Earthwind and Fire. Doc Philip

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<v Speaker 1>Bailey makes it absolutely known that democracy in a group

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<v Speaker 1>is not real at all. There's always one leader who

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<v Speaker 1>says it and everyone else follows and you just cosplay

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<v Speaker 1>like your group. But you know, for the greater good

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<v Speaker 1>of us being here for thirty five years, you have

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<v Speaker 1>to give agency and leeway, you know, for people's ideas.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, I kind of haven't really controlled a

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<v Speaker 1>roots out in other words, like, yeah, I don't agree

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<v Speaker 1>with this thing, you know, but I lost the vote,

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<v Speaker 1>so it happens. So I will say that this is

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<v Speaker 1>probably the album that will be the closest to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Ihladelph Half Life and Things Fall Apart, where somehow I

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of my ideas made it to the fertilization,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. So yeah, y'all. Also, yeah, in general, let

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<v Speaker 1>me know, hit me with the song that best described

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<v Speaker 1>you're twenty twenty five, Mine, of course was Don't Push

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<v Speaker 1>Me by day La Soul. Yeah, don't push Me because

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<v Speaker 1>I'm close to the edge. Try not to lose my head.

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<v Speaker 1>How apropos, But yeah, follow QLs and share and the

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<v Speaker 1>comments and well we'll discuss those. Thank you.