Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: It's your birthday, well not technically, but you know, for real,
Speaker 2: for real, but people, listen.
Speaker 3: I'm not looked at the calendar yet.
Speaker 2: So oh okay, all right, well listen.
Speaker 3: What day is it? Wednesday? Thursday?
Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, your birthday? I wait, wait, isn't it?
Speaker 3: I think it's Thursday.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's next Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Is what day like to the twelfth? Thirteenth?
Speaker 4: Thirteenth? Next Wednesday? Today is the twentieth. Okay, yeah, so
Speaker 4: this is my last week?
Speaker 3: Is forty nine? Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh my god, a mayor. All right, so listen,
Speaker 2: let me just get to it because I wrote a
Speaker 2: whole thing for this, all right. Today it's not about
Speaker 2: you hosting this show. We are Tay can get away
Speaker 2: from you. Let me get up my little remarks that
Speaker 2: I have made for you.
Speaker 3: Mister Thompson, you're doing this Justice Suprise.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am surprised. Okay, so, amir, this isn't this,
Speaker 2: thank you, It's fifty and this is the show everyone
Speaker 2: has been waiting for that you may hate why because
Speaker 2: today we celebrate you and the first fifty years you
Speaker 2: have given the world today, we hear about you without
Speaker 2: having to hear your longer versions of these stories. I
Speaker 2: love it and why you ask? Oh, you're going to
Speaker 2: hear these words a lot. Apologies early because we love you.
Speaker 2: So here is what's going to happen on today's episode.
Speaker 2: Mister Thompson, Bill Fonte, Steve and I will host a
Speaker 2: healthy selection of people in your life who you love
Speaker 2: and respect. Their task is to tell a classic the
Speaker 2: mere story. Of course, all did not necessarily meet the
Speaker 2: requirements of one minute limit because they are your tribe.
Speaker 2: But they showed up.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's people in the waiting room.
Speaker 2: No to our folks that are listening. I have intentionally
Speaker 2: kept these videos to myself so that the guys can
Speaker 2: all bask in the glory of the real stories behind
Speaker 2: a mirror. K leeb questlove Thompson.
Speaker 3: Anyway, and this is your life? I love this, Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, before I start from the beginning, I would like
Speaker 2: to start with some words from somebody who is a
Speaker 2: little louder and loves a little harder. Before we go sentimental,
Speaker 2: are you ready a mir You're supposed to say?
Speaker 3: You know it all right?
Speaker 2: Nobody will look at my crazy scream when I do
Speaker 2: this and here.
Speaker 5: Go.
Speaker 6: Okay, not only is a Mayor one of the greatest
Speaker 6: drummers ever like Buddy Rich Gray. Not only is he
Speaker 6: one of the greatest DJs ever like grand Master Flash,
Speaker 6: DJ Jazzy, Jeff Gray. But what I love about Amir
Speaker 6: Amir is the greatest fan in the world.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: No one appreciates the arts.
Speaker 3: More than a Mirr.
Speaker 6: No one in the whole world appreciates a good movie,
Speaker 6: a good song, a great album, a great book. He's
Speaker 6: that guy. Now, occasionally he will recommend some bullshit because
Speaker 6: he has a great heart.
Speaker 7: He'll say some dumb shit.
Speaker 6: Barber Shop three was the best one.
Speaker 3: Well, here's on The great thing.
Speaker 6: About Amir that you know has to be said. He's
Speaker 6: a great man like this is a grown ass man
Speaker 6: that lives life to the fullest, like the.
Speaker 2: Don't get high.
Speaker 3: And he is absolutely rock and roll.
Speaker 6: Okay, my man is rock and roll. I've had some
Speaker 6: of the best times all over the world.
Speaker 3: With this guy.
Speaker 6: Okay, as one of my favorite people on the face
Speaker 6: of the earth. He is a trustworthy, decent man, and
Speaker 6: I hope to be like him someday when I grow up.
Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6: We are all honor, We are all privileged to know
Speaker 6: a mirror quest motherfucking love.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, oh god, wait can I can I add
Speaker 3: a breaker? Getting started?
Speaker 2: We just getting joy.
Speaker 3: Something like this? Yeah, this is the whole mood. Now
Speaker 3: to settle in against some weeds. Maybe.
Speaker 8: And I received the love, You receive the love for
Speaker 8: twenty Yes, I've started my weed journey.
Speaker 3: Grace has taught me to accept love. My flowers.
Speaker 4: Okay, flowers didn't do that, Covic.
Speaker 2: I have another surprise for you, and and still keeping
Speaker 2: it light. But this is from one of your former
Speaker 2: favorite former broadcasters, ex Quest Love Supreme guests, who has
Speaker 2: framed everything that we know about b Et. Check out
Speaker 2: the special tribute that he did just for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: and here we go.
Speaker 1: Mary Birthday and Miryror.
Speaker 9: You know, COVID is maybe crazy and you about to
Speaker 9: catch some of it right here in this tribute to you.
Speaker 9: Born in seventy one in Pennsylvania's biggest city. This year,
Speaker 9: a mere fIF when he's spinning in the club, you know,
Speaker 9: the club gonna be.
Speaker 3: Litty this year, A mere fifty.
Speaker 9: Those Jackson's shirts, I'm jealous, they're nifty. This year a
Speaker 9: Mere's fifth Ashley Simpsons still want to fight you over
Speaker 9: MILLI Vanilly.
Speaker 3: She don't care if you're fifty to see you.
Speaker 9: Get them dollars from Disney. This year a Mere's fifty
Speaker 9: non secretary. I'm gonna wear this shirt signed by Tailor's fifty.
Speaker 3: This slow fill.
Speaker 1: In the summer of eighteen sixty.
Speaker 3: The very last slave shift.
Speaker 9: Then we would not be celebrating a Mere turning fifty.
Speaker 3: Elect some nineteen sixteen. I was on QLs that night,
Speaker 3: turn shitty.
Speaker 9: But this year, the day we get a new president
Speaker 9: is the day a Mere turns fifty. Mary Birthday to you,
Speaker 9: my man, Stephen Hill's signing in and signing out. Stay
Speaker 9: safe and have a great birthday.
Speaker 3: Yeo of step would make a multimedia prison.
Speaker 4: Tell Stephen that was a presentation that was epic.
Speaker 3: I thought it was MC Paul Barman at yo.
Speaker 8: Do I totally wait because I closed my eyes because
Speaker 8: she said, don't look.
Speaker 3: The first thing I.
Speaker 8: Thought was, I was like, oh, Paul flow like I
Speaker 8: like this joy. He pasted his head on scarface.
Speaker 10: Ye I don't know if you realize that that means
Speaker 10: watch on At that point was.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's going up and for everybody who's like that,
Speaker 2: we're I need to see the visual. We're gonna definitely
Speaker 2: put that on our QLs Instagram and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's great, thank you.
Speaker 2: And I want you to get used to that, because
Speaker 2: that was as fancy as it really got, as far
Speaker 2: as likes and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Hey man, this makes up for.
Speaker 2: It, Okay, all right, So now that we've.
Speaker 8: Done that, you know where I'm gun shy about these things,
Speaker 8: right Why because night, during the night that I thought
Speaker 8: that they were going to throw me like a big ass.
Speaker 8: I thought that Stacey and Yami were throwing me this
Speaker 8: big ass thirtieth bash. And then I came to this
Speaker 8: spot and it was like emptiest ship and I realized
Speaker 8: they only wanted me to spend for Martin Luther King's.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, well and then pleasant mirror your herd
Speaker 2: because you know, for the longest time, but you said
Speaker 2: thank God for grace because now you're in a place
Speaker 2: where you ready to receive all this love. You see,
Speaker 2: I'm stalling as I'm queuing up my next.
Speaker 11: And the fact and I'm gonna say the fact that
Speaker 11: he's ready to receive it makes this episode not as
Speaker 11: much fun because I was so ready.
Speaker 8: I'm fighting squirm, Yes, I'm squirming like a motherfucking type.
Speaker 2: But well, y'all think he ready, but he might well,
Speaker 2: he might not be ready for this next one. So
Speaker 2: now that we've had some fun, let's start with some
Speaker 2: things that we may not know about a mirror from
Speaker 2: the beginning of his life, with the person who we
Speaker 2: would not who would be, who was the reason that
Speaker 2: we know him period. I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: My mom, your mama, God, Mama. Love.
Speaker 12: This is to you on your birthday.
Speaker 13: You know you've told every story that probably that could
Speaker 13: be told about you.
Speaker 12: But I have one that I don't think anyone knows.
Speaker 13: And it's about Dawn coming home from school one day
Speaker 13: while she was in grade school asking me, Mommy, I
Speaker 13: want you to have a baby, and I told her, oh, sure, okay,
Speaker 13: I said, God will have to give it to me.
Speaker 13: So I proceeded to try to have to get pregnant,
Speaker 13: and in the process of doing that, nothing happened. Each
Speaker 13: month I would be disappointed. So I guess six or
Speaker 13: seven months went by and she said, Mommy, is God
Speaker 13: mad at you? I forgot I had told don this,
Speaker 13: and I said no, I don't think so why she said,
Speaker 13: because you said babies come from God, and you don't.
Speaker 13: You're not having a baby.
Speaker 11: So I then.
Speaker 12: Thought, okay, I have to go.
Speaker 13: About this different. I went to the doctor, got examined,
Speaker 13: and you went through the whole everything, the whole gamut.
Speaker 13: And the doctor told me, look, you're fine, You're healthy.
Speaker 12: You can get pregnant.
Speaker 13: And on my way home, I thought, God, I want
Speaker 13: a son so bad. And I thought, I'm not gonna
Speaker 13: tell anyone about it. I'm just gonna keep praying and
Speaker 13: asking for her son. And I did get pregnant, and
Speaker 13: I was so happy. I mean I think I started.
Speaker 12: Wearing maternity clothes two months, three months. I was just
Speaker 12: happy to be pregnant. And I went to Lama's classes.
Speaker 13: You know, I'm gonna have the natural childbirth, and I
Speaker 13: want everything to be right.
Speaker 12: And so the day came when it was time for
Speaker 12: me to go.
Speaker 13: To the hospital, January twentieth, and I got to the
Speaker 13: hospital and I was in.
Speaker 12: The room and they wanted to give me, you.
Speaker 13: Know, we wanted to give you some pain. No, I said, no,
Speaker 13: get I'm taking nothing. I want my child to come in.
Speaker 13: And I didn't know if it was male or female.
Speaker 13: I just knew that I was praying for.
Speaker 5: A male.
Speaker 12: And I said, no, I am, I'm not taking anything.
Speaker 13: I want my child to come into this world with
Speaker 13: a clear head and not have any kind of medication
Speaker 13: going through it. So at the same time, this young
Speaker 13: doctor walked into the room and in his name was
Speaker 13: Gordon Hotus, and he introduced hisself and told him I'm
Speaker 13: going to be here with you and did all the
Speaker 13: things he was supposed to do. Took a long time
Speaker 13: for different things to happen, so they said take her
Speaker 13: downstairs to get They wanted to get some shots.
Speaker 12: I guess X rays or something.
Speaker 13: Because if it's taking long for you to come and
Speaker 13: you finally we get on the elevator, I'm sorry. We
Speaker 13: get on the elevator, and I was like, what if
Speaker 13: I have the baby down there, what happens? Don't worry
Speaker 13: about that.
Speaker 12: We're going to take care it. So just being anxious.
Speaker 13: And when I we did the x rays, got back
Speaker 13: on the elevator, came upstairs to the room.
Speaker 12: And my water grop brushed me to the birthing room.
Speaker 13: And I just I just knew last week from here
Speaker 13: you and I were talking about manifestation and attention, and
Speaker 13: I thought.
Speaker 12: Those prayers came true.
Speaker 13: Not only did I get a gorgeous baby who is
Speaker 13: now my son. I was trading for the world. But
Speaker 13: I want to thank you for choose for choosing me
Speaker 13: to be your mother, because you did. I really believe
Speaker 13: I wasn't giving pregnant because you weren't ready to choose
Speaker 13: the mother that you wanted. But you chose me to
Speaker 13: be your mother. And I love you so dearly. You
Speaker 13: are so precious to me. And like I said, happy birthday,
Speaker 13: and I just love you. And thank Dawn for telling
Speaker 13: me you have a baby.
Speaker 3: Man, have you ever heard that story of me?
Speaker 8: I have not heard that story. Y'all got me good? Yeah,
Speaker 8: y'all got me good. I knew, Okay, So I believe
Speaker 8: once my dad told me that.
Speaker 3: They were trying.
Speaker 8: I believe in sixty seven sixty eight to have me,
Speaker 8: and after like seven or eight attempts, they gave up,
Speaker 8: like they just thought, like, well, we can't get pregnant
Speaker 8: no more. So I do know that. You know, it
Speaker 8: was a three to four year attempt to have me.
Speaker 8: So I came in seventy.
Speaker 3: How many how many users between you and down we
Speaker 3: are seven. Oh wow, oh wow, I realized.
Speaker 2: How lotion do y'all use around there?
Speaker 3: Money? The best loas miss.
Speaker 2: Jack miss Jackie already she always looked like that. She's
Speaker 2: just always been a gorgeous woman in that way.
Speaker 3: Nah nah, I really wish people could see these pictures
Speaker 3: like his.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, and she gave us permission. We're going to
Speaker 2: put that on the QLs social so everybody can see it.
Speaker 2: Everybody's going to be able to see everything. But you know,
Speaker 2: you just you hear it here first.
Speaker 3: Thank you who we got hold on a second?
Speaker 10: I mean, that was like incredible, it was, and it
Speaker 10: also explains a lot you were late get being born,
Speaker 10: you were late being conceived.
Speaker 14: This explains everything you've been late since before you.
Speaker 3: Were I know, emo, I'm the original here you go.
Speaker 2: Also else interesting about a mirror and I'll let his
Speaker 2: sister explain. But your first words were they was rather
Speaker 2: like offensive?
Speaker 15: Damn yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh and oh yeah walk on music too.
Speaker 2: Adonda, Yes, your sister Dante.
Speaker 16: Of course, at one year old, my brother's first words
Speaker 16: were Mama, dad, motherfucker.
Speaker 17: My adorable baby brother. Amir colleb Thompson, The circumstances. Our
Speaker 17: parents were newly signed to a major label and they
Speaker 17: were on tour that year, so my brother, Amir and
Speaker 17: I spent time with relatives in La.
Speaker 5: We had a cousin.
Speaker 17: Who lived in Compton who with sometimes baby sit us,
Speaker 17: come pick us up and drive us to hang out
Speaker 17: with his friends. He was a crip okay, So basically
Speaker 17: my brother got the full immersion and I became low
Speaker 17: key fluent in the art of cousin at once. So
Speaker 17: imagine months later, the tour is over and we're reunited
Speaker 17: with our parents and at hello, Amir very casually unleashes
Speaker 17: a garden variety of profanity, a whirlwind avarage of obscenity.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, my mom was mortified.
Speaker 17: Me on the other hand, and I'm nine, He's won,
Speaker 17: And from my perspective, it was it was magical. This
Speaker 17: was wonderment.
Speaker 3: That's what it was like for me.
Speaker 17: I was like, look at him, go you know, it
Speaker 17: was like I had my own little leprechaun and you
Speaker 17: wouldn't know what nine you don't, you know, just cuse
Speaker 17: out your parents. But he was one and he didn't
Speaker 17: get it. My mom, Remy did it by reading a
Speaker 17: book on child's psychology that talked about being non reactive
Speaker 17: and it passes, and it did. Growing up with the mirror,
Speaker 17: growing up with you a mirror was an adventure. It
Speaker 17: was otherworldly. It was black, lindsay, it was a gift.
Speaker 17: So on your special day, and the only way I
Speaker 17: know how to say it, I say, who's counting? And
Speaker 17: keep up that high pro glow as is the Thompson exactly,
Speaker 17: the Thompson Lewis way. I love you, have a happy birthday.
Speaker 4: All that movie thing she had, all eye movie directing,
Speaker 4: she took yeah, and I was like, all kind of ship.
Speaker 3: Wait till the world.
Speaker 10: Sees the editing techniques of dog man ship and I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah yo. I was like, I was a full blown crip.
Speaker 3: I have photos for real.
Speaker 8: I was rocking on blues had derbies and they were
Speaker 8: not happy. Yes, even on tape. I always say motherfudder, motherfudder, motherfudder, motherfudder.
Speaker 8: Wait you were a crypt at what age two? All
Speaker 8: my cousins all were crips. Yeah, all my like when
Speaker 8: they were making the Congress Alley record, we stayed in
Speaker 8: content with my grandmother and all of my cousins were crips.
Speaker 8: Like wow, the original like Monster Cody, the first generation
Speaker 8: moneah Ogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were those.
Speaker 2: Your family stay loyal because the sample does your dad
Speaker 2: and your mom is the Snoop Johns, and they stay
Speaker 2: like crip loyal. So I'm not gonna make you say
Speaker 2: too much to stay in your childhood. But I do
Speaker 2: have one more that's a little shorter that I know
Speaker 2: is going to be a super duper surprised, and I
Speaker 2: think that y'all will all be surprised by. And here we.
Speaker 18: Go, Happy birthday, on Mere. I'm going to take you
Speaker 18: back just about forty five years ago when we first
Speaker 18: and that was when your parents, Jackie and Lee, brought
Speaker 18: you to the Performing Arts School of Philadelphia for an
Speaker 18: interview and to enroll you in the elementary school program.
Speaker 18: Your parents, of course, both being professional performers, decided that
Speaker 18: an education that included the arts was the place for you.
Speaker 18: And I was doing double duty getting a degree in
Speaker 18: dance but also serving as the classroom teacher for a
Speaker 18: group of about twelve elementary school children, and the director
Speaker 18: of the school, doctor nage and Ahmik, asked me to
Speaker 18: interview you to assess your potential for joining the group
Speaker 18: as a kindergarten student. Well, you walked into the interview
Speaker 18: with your very remarkable afro and just as remarkable smile.
Speaker 18: We had a great chat, as I remember, and at
Speaker 18: the end of it, I asked, I'm here, what do
Speaker 18: you want to do and what do you want to
Speaker 18: be when you grow up? You said, oh, Pearl, I'm
Speaker 18: going to be a drummer. I then asked you if
Speaker 18: perhaps you wanted to study an additional instrument like the
Speaker 18: piano or violin, just in case, and you said, very indignantly, no, Pearl,
Speaker 18: I am going to be a drummer, and a very
Speaker 18: famous drummer. What was so astounding was the clarity and
Speaker 18: intensity with which you knew, at such a tender age
Speaker 18: exactly who and what you were to become. And of
Speaker 18: course the rest is history. Fast forward to a couple
Speaker 18: of years ago, when I had the pleasure of watching
Speaker 18: you perform live at the Tonight show fulfilling the prophecy
Speaker 18: of that four and a half year old not only
Speaker 18: to become a drummer, but a very famous one. Happy birthday,
Speaker 18: I'm here and thank you so much for the privilege
Speaker 18: of teaching you so many years ago.
Speaker 8: Oh man, give me man, Wow. Yeah, she was the
Speaker 8: teacher that she's the one that started. If you want
Speaker 8: to know the seeds of my liner note book writing history,
Speaker 8: that's where it starts. Like my first homework assignment, Songs
Speaker 8: in the Key of Life just came out the week
Speaker 8: of the first day of school, and so, oh wow,
Speaker 8: that was our homework. We had to all purchase songs
Speaker 8: in the Key of Life. And of course if you
Speaker 8: brought the album, there's a booklet inside there's thirty pages
Speaker 8: of everything. So you know, in that class, I learned
Speaker 8: what an orchestra section was, I learned what thank you
Speaker 8: notes were, and I beg that that was the book
Speaker 8: I was obsessed with. And then you know that that
Speaker 8: planet the seeds of my liner note addiction writing. Shout
Speaker 8: out to miss Schaffer. Wow, but I mean this is emotional.
Speaker 8: Why am I crying? As question virtual zoom and I'm
Speaker 8: a podcast I know. Yeah, man, Wow, that's really beautiful.
Speaker 8: I'm not even y'all broke me down. I'm not even
Speaker 8: ashamed to take these flowers. I didn't think it would
Speaker 8: go this day.
Speaker 3: I loved this flower, taking mantra so into it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: four flowers, let's go whole. God damn garden.
Speaker 2: I feel like I should break up. Like the sadness
Speaker 2: of it is, this, is it getting? Is it getting
Speaker 2: too said?
Speaker 3: Give me a mean story.
Speaker 2: Fired, I'll give you somebody else who makes us laugh?
Speaker 2: Who was one of our favorite Questlove Supreme guests. How
Speaker 2: about that who actually is very important to you and
Speaker 2: is a mentor? How about that? We do that? Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: let's see who. Let's see who that is.
Speaker 3: Show search.
Speaker 5: Quest Love.
Speaker 19: You're fifty fifty from a fellow fifty something, I just
Speaker 19: want to let you know fifty is cool. Not saying
Speaker 19: that you're just being cool. You've always been cool. Well
Speaker 19: that one time that you came to the retreat and
Speaker 19: as infused corn and started playing drums on everybody's song
Speaker 19: and then you go sleep and trailer and almost miss styling.
Speaker 4: That's not cool.
Speaker 19: But fifty is cool and you're cool now. I appreciate you,
Speaker 19: my brother, a lifelong friendship. We have to do more
Speaker 19: drum DJ sets, even though you DJ now and you
Speaker 19: did it by yourself and kind of x me.
Speaker 3: Out, But we're not gonna talk about that.
Speaker 19: I want to wish my fellow aquarium a very happy
Speaker 19: fiftieth birthday. Much love, my brother, you are officially cool
Speaker 19: fifty quist.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 8: So this goes back to the Steve a Mere being
Speaker 8: late thing. I was late to to the uh the retreat.
Speaker 3: Jeff. Jeff has his annual playlist plays playlist Treat Delaware,
Speaker 3: right in Delaware.
Speaker 8: So we were done shooting Fall and we rushed down
Speaker 8: ninety five to Delaware. And I got there and you know,
Speaker 8: there was a taco truck. So I was hungry. So
Speaker 8: I had a taco. Then I had two tacos. All
Speaker 8: this Mexican corn. I'm grubbing it up, and not once
Speaker 8: did anyone tell me that it was infused taco with
Speaker 8: like at least it had to be in like three
Speaker 8: hundred four hundred megagrams of weed in it. I didn't
Speaker 8: even know.
Speaker 2: People, you know a Mere. It's funny you say that.
Speaker 2: I think you are cuing my next video, because you know,
Speaker 2: of course, the assignment was to ask folks, you know,
Speaker 2: their favorite of mirror story, and there are some really
Speaker 2: interesting parallels with your fellow roots mate, stro. I would
Speaker 2: just like to play.
Speaker 20: Your birthday brother, Mirr. I know everybody else probably has
Speaker 20: crazy story and stories and drugs because they've known you longer,
Speaker 20: but that doesn't mean that I don't at least have one,
Speaker 20: which was I remember specifically we caught you were so
Speaker 20: gracious to book a car for us to go down
Speaker 20: to Jazzy Jeff's.
Speaker 5: Playlist retreat right after a gig.
Speaker 20: We went down there, there was food, there was music,
Speaker 20: There were some things in the food. You didn't realize
Speaker 20: that until it was too late, And that lasted till
Speaker 20: the following day at work, in which we showed up
Speaker 20: and everything seemed fine, except for the fact that we
Speaker 20: were running through the sandwiches and walk ons and stuff
Speaker 20: that we normally play. And some of these walk ons
Speaker 20: and these sandwiches were very chopped and screwed.
Speaker 5: Some of them were very.
Speaker 20: Kanye, all very different tempos in which we normally in
Speaker 20: comparison what you normally play them. But the funniest moment
Speaker 20: happened on air while taping, and I had this footage
Speaker 20: in my phone, and I'm so mad that it's not
Speaker 20: in my phone anymore, because I never deleted anything.
Speaker 5: Jimmy asked you a question.
Speaker 20: On the air, and you gave the dumbest response only man,
Speaker 20: which was huh, super funny. I probably last internally for
Speaker 20: the rest of the episode because I knew what that
Speaker 20: response was. Jimmy probably knew what that response was, and
Speaker 20: he moved on very quickly.
Speaker 3: But I never forgot it. Birthday, Bro?
Speaker 4: Why does he look and sound like he's in Soul
Speaker 4: the movie?
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 21: Is that just me?
Speaker 3: Like he'd sounds like he like what.
Speaker 4: Does he play the saxophone on the street corner?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It stows right like it it not. It knocked me
Speaker 8: out at Jeff's. But the thing was, I immediately went
Speaker 8: to sleep, and then I got in the car and
Speaker 8: slept in the car. The thing is is that when
Speaker 8: you do that, you the rest of my bod like
Speaker 8: you know, obviously I was still huh and so when
Speaker 8: I started drumming, immediately it kicked in. When I started drumming,
Speaker 8: and yeah, that was the highest ever, one of the
Speaker 8: highest I ever.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious, is it?
Speaker 2: Because it's funny you say that a mirror because I
Speaker 2: have another?
Speaker 3: It's just come on, who is this?
Speaker 22: Oh?
Speaker 2: Did you already know that it was?
Speaker 3: Because he's he loves the story good.
Speaker 23: I wish a happy old man birthday to my old head.
Speaker 3: Quest all love you know what I mean? Getting up there,
Speaker 3: old head.
Speaker 23: You know, I was asked to put a video together
Speaker 23: small things, just to kind of give a story about
Speaker 23: something that, you know, something from our past, and figure,
Speaker 23: at the rate you're going at this point, what does
Speaker 23: it matter if I tell his story? You know, it's
Speaker 23: not like you can get in trouble. Hopefully your mom
Speaker 23: doesn't see it that I'll never ever forget the time
Speaker 23: that we were in Amsterdam. Oh yeah, stay in Amsterdam.
Speaker 23: But it was the first thing that came to my
Speaker 23: mind when you know, this was asking me to give
Speaker 23: a story. So I remember sitting in a coffee shop
Speaker 23: and you know, having good times like we used to
Speaker 23: do back when we used to travel, you know, back
Speaker 23: in the day, and we go to get something to
Speaker 23: eat after because you know, that's what you do after
Speaker 23: you have fun in the coffee shop, you go get
Speaker 23: something to eat.
Speaker 3: So we go get something to eat.
Speaker 23: But in this place that we were eating, they offered,
Speaker 23: you know, desserts and things like that, and you know,
Speaker 23: we know you're a foodie, so what's the pace. It's
Speaker 23: a chocolate cake right right up your alley. We get
Speaker 23: a piece of chocolate cake. We're like all of us,
Speaker 23: me rich rique you. We're all sitting there and we're
Speaker 23: eating this chocolate cake. And at that time, you know,
Speaker 23: you were very wholesome, so to speak, and clean, and
Speaker 23: you know you don't touch the the other things in
Speaker 23: the world that we used to get into. And for fun,
Speaker 23: you decided you'd have a piece of chocolate cake. And yeah,
Speaker 23: I remember the piece of chocolate cake. It was fucking delicious,
Speaker 23: you know what I'm saying. But you know, a piece
Speaker 23: of chocolate cake the way they made it, you do
Speaker 23: one and done.
Speaker 3: Man. But nah, not a mirror.
Speaker 5: Not a mirror.
Speaker 23: He's like, this shit is good. I need another piece
Speaker 23: of cake. I'm like, dude, don't eat another piece of cake.
Speaker 23: Eats another piece of cake and even know what happened
Speaker 23: after that, right, All I'm gonna say is somebody I
Speaker 23: thought they saw Mickey Mouse chasing started hitting the table
Speaker 23: in the restaurant being crazy and runs out of the
Speaker 23: restaurant saying that Mickey Mouse was chasing him.
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, it looks.
Speaker 7: To me like you come along with.
Speaker 24: Your old age and now you're you know.
Speaker 23: You don't have those things going on anymore, all right,
Speaker 23: So that's my story.
Speaker 3: Funniest Ship to.
Speaker 23: Me, I wish you all were there, but you just
Speaker 23: can't imagine how this might have looked. And it was crazy,
Speaker 23: A big giant dude with an afro, you know, out
Speaker 23: of control and running from Mickey Mouse in the streets.
Speaker 3: Of Ampsteam's mirror k e. It was just ship.
Speaker 8: It was the very first time ever I got high
Speaker 8: off of the edibles off edible now the craziest thing.
Speaker 8: But the craziest thing was we also saw Keith sweat and.
Speaker 3: Silk walking around.
Speaker 2: Exactly mir No.
Speaker 8: I mean when they were chasing me, when I was like,
Speaker 8: I gotta get out there, I gotta get out of here,
Speaker 8: and I was like brisk walking.
Speaker 3: The thing was is that it's funny.
Speaker 8: I had one of the moments where I had one
Speaker 8: of the moments where I think, that's the first time
Speaker 8: that like subconsciously I was like, oh man, like in retrospect,
Speaker 8: that was one of the first times I.
Speaker 3: Was like, wow, really does care about me.
Speaker 8: Because the thing is is that the thing is that
Speaker 8: you got to realize is that when you're walking in Amsterdam,
Speaker 8: there's these long what do you call it, where the
Speaker 8: boats are and whatnot, and they don't have like guards
Speaker 8: in them. You know what I mean, and the like
Speaker 8: if you fall town, yeah, you fall into the canal.
Speaker 8: That shit could be like one hundred feet you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying. So I definitely remembered like walking so
Speaker 8: out of control that tik Ambridge felt the need to
Speaker 8: stand on my right side to prevent me from falling
Speaker 8: into the canal.
Speaker 3: And I also.
Speaker 8: Remember yo the go keefl Sweat and Silk and like
Speaker 8: trying to chase them yo all yeah, that.
Speaker 11: Was part of that story, is that you actually recognize
Speaker 11: the members of Silk.
Speaker 3: I'm the R and B dude, and the food is
Speaker 3: in my living room right now. G. I know, lot
Speaker 3: G Yeah, the little G. Yeah, little G.
Speaker 1: I know little G.
Speaker 3: And I know keep sweat. I don't know what the head.
Speaker 4: They're in your kitchen cooking with your wife so bad
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 3: That is like going up.
Speaker 8: That was nineteen ninety five. Silk was absolutely unavoidable. Silk,
Speaker 8: like you're in their relationship with American R and B
Speaker 8: was at its height. So yes, you if you see
Speaker 8: Keith Sweat walking around nighttime and with five dudes, then
Speaker 8: you like, yes, that's Silk. So and Mickey, Yeah, I
Speaker 8: remember like them like a mere stop, shut up, stop
Speaker 8: on their spot up like they were very annoyed that
Speaker 8: I kept yelling silk.
Speaker 16: Through the silk.
Speaker 2: Who yells there go silk? That's why.
Speaker 3: For the first time in this life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of the roots, I gotta I got a
Speaker 2: slide in. Uh, one of your favorite members who has
Speaker 2: already hit the fifties club that you know has a
Speaker 2: lot of jokes for.
Speaker 3: You in the sixties club.
Speaker 8: I think this guy is ninety fiftieth birthday to my
Speaker 8: brother Emir Afro Custo Thompson.
Speaker 3: Fifty man, you made it.
Speaker 24: Congratulations. You come a long way from that little weird
Speaker 24: old dude that would see walking around West Philly and
Speaker 24: on the g bus to now look at.
Speaker 3: You, you old.
Speaker 5: Good one.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 24: We've written a lot of songs together, had countless studio
Speaker 24: sessions together, countless times on the stage, countless fights in
Speaker 24: the arguments, you know, which is what brothers are supposed
Speaker 24: to do. Anyway, I just want to say happy birthday
Speaker 24: to the one dude that will reference.
Speaker 5: Sammy Davis Jr.
Speaker 24: When he was on the Yugoslavian TV show in nineteen
Speaker 24: seventy five, and we will reference that and get mad
Speaker 24: at the rest of the band that we don't know
Speaker 24: what you talk about not knowing.
Speaker 3: That's cool, that's who you are.
Speaker 24: Man, shout out much love, man, enjoyed the day, be
Speaker 24: blessed peace.
Speaker 8: Jays a guitar I love, I love James. But in
Speaker 8: that clip, I also see a bongo that I've been
Speaker 8: looking for for the last fifteen years on the floor.
Speaker 3: The Wow, Petty.
Speaker 2: Is such a portion of our Birthda that's.
Speaker 1: My electric circus bongo. I've been looking for that.
Speaker 2: Jo Petty is very Aquarius people.
Speaker 8: It is part Mans. James James is my guy man.
Speaker 8: Wow wait wait Bill, did you say was he in
Speaker 8: Guitar Center?
Speaker 25: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It looked like James like Sam.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was a very impressive uh studio.
Speaker 4: Like guitars he doesn't play, and a bunch of keyboards
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 8: Yes, that guitar that is on his album cover hanging
Speaker 8: up on the top left.
Speaker 10: Sammy Davis really do ago.
Speaker 3: It was a breakbeat that I was trying to flip.
Speaker 2: For kind for real, Damn a mirror it's me, yo,
Speaker 2: it isn't me. Does James get more Jamaican as he
Speaker 2: gets older? That accent was like a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2: Yo, all right, okay, all right, but that's is round.
Speaker 2: One more route, one more route, one more route. If
Speaker 2: you don't mind, If you don't mind, I think it is.
Speaker 26: Oh what to say to the man who's seen and
Speaker 26: heard it all? Happy birthday today, happy fiftieth, this is
Speaker 26: this is huge?
Speaker 2: Um hm, leave it to black though.
Speaker 26: I'm so proud of you, you know, I'm proud of
Speaker 26: of the person you've become and of the person that
Speaker 26: you continue to inspire me to be. You're my brother,
Speaker 26: and I love you, you you. I mean, you know,
Speaker 26: I have a tremendous amount of appreciation, respect, admiration for you,
Speaker 26: and and and always have and yeah, man, just very
Speaker 26: much gratitude for what you've done, with what we've done
Speaker 26: together and all, as well as what you've done for me.
Speaker 26: You literally never cease to amaze me. Uh mean that
Speaker 26: being said, I don't I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 26: a funny story. I mean, I feel like they're all funny.
Speaker 26: It's weird, man, And I've been thinking about this for
Speaker 26: a week or so now, but I can't. I don't
Speaker 26: know what story. You know to sort of remanuo, but
Speaker 26: you remember, you remember all those ships and you know
Speaker 26: there's no I guess the greatest story is the story
Speaker 26: of us.
Speaker 3: That is uh, that is thirty three years.
Speaker 26: In the making and and still a work in progress
Speaker 26: and still going strong and uh you know, there is
Speaker 26: no shortage of hilarity and tragedy, valleys and peaks, ones
Speaker 26: and losses. Uh you know, and through it all, we
Speaker 26: we we've weathered it all together. You know, were the
Speaker 26: legendary and that means a lot to me. So here's
Speaker 26: the thirty three more happy fiftieth man, I love you.
Speaker 4: You, didoin did rejoin the Merchant Marine because like you
Speaker 4: just got off the boat with these.
Speaker 8: I feel like it needs to be our first visual episode,
Speaker 8: just so that Bill's commentary case, my commentary is a point.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: And that's only one glass.
Speaker 8: I don't well, well, you know, you know one of
Speaker 8: my favorite memories and I actually got this memory when
Speaker 8: we did the uh the Move episode, the Michael Africa episode,
Speaker 8: when I talked about the first time that we met
Speaker 8: Ramona Africa, because actually the night before one of the
Speaker 8: funnest nights of my life pre pre roots with Tarik
Speaker 8: was his prom night. Because Tarik was two years younger
Speaker 8: than me, so his prom night he graduated in nineteen
Speaker 8: ninety one, it was kind of like, actually, Tarika was
Speaker 8: on that alex vanderpool before Boys to Men, So he
Speaker 8: was going he went to his prom and like this
Speaker 8: really dope short set thing like it was a suit
Speaker 8: but it was shorts, and the school had kicked him
Speaker 8: out because they just didn't understand like the joint was.
Speaker 3: It was fresh.
Speaker 8: I mean, he just had shorts on and he he
Speaker 8: was Alexander pulled up, but he still had a suit
Speaker 8: on and they kicked him out. But the thing was
Speaker 8: was that his grandmam ordered the limo and we trust me,
Speaker 8: we laughed about this. The limo that she ordered was
Speaker 8: the heart that we unfortunately had to bury his mom
Speaker 8: and like maybe, oh my god.
Speaker 4: You know the story soon.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, we were dying. We were because like
Speaker 3: we're stuck. We're stuck in this limousine. Like he's like
Speaker 3: I got the limit for the night, so let's all hate.
Speaker 8: So we like me him and a few our crew,
Speaker 8: like we just got in that hearse and just cruised
Speaker 8: all down up and down Philadelphia, but just showing up
Speaker 8: everywhere in this funeral hearse.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was the most hilarious sight.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was exactly like Black Ghostbusters, but I just die.
Speaker 8: I laughed at the fact that that was the limousine
Speaker 8: that she got a discount on that hearse, So yeah,
Speaker 8: that was That was one of my favorite nights ever,
Speaker 8: like pre pre dutel with.
Speaker 2: Them speaking of dying laughing. There's a young woman that
Speaker 2: you met in high school that you developed a rather
Speaker 2: viral website with called Okay play Oh okay.
Speaker 11: I thought it was gonna be thinking somebody else too,
Speaker 11: I think me and base.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you know what I should have called her,
Speaker 2: but I didn't even think about it. Was she say
Speaker 2: positive thing? Okay? So then yeah, So the person I'm
Speaker 2: talking about though, she's a famous comedy writer and whatnot,
Speaker 2: and she had some things to say about your beginnings
Speaker 2: you too, the two of you and.
Speaker 27: Your happy birthday on mayor my favorite a mere memories.
Speaker 2: Actually I have two. Do you remember back in.
Speaker 27: The day Erica had Erica Bad had just had her
Speaker 27: first hit and you had to pick her up from
Speaker 27: the airport. She was doing something with you in Philly
Speaker 27: and you don't drive, or you didn't drive until you
Speaker 27: were like forty nine and a half, and we had
Speaker 27: to pick her up in my Dodge Russ bucket, and
Speaker 27: so you were so uncomfortable you finally just came out.
Speaker 2: I was like, Erica, I'm so sorry we had to
Speaker 2: pick you up in this car. And I was like, motherfucker,
Speaker 2: I'm on your penroll. This is all.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 27: Do you remember when you took me under your wing
Speaker 27: as a person with pimples and told to drink more water. Again,
Speaker 27: I'm driving you somewhere, so I think you thought you
Speaker 27: had to like just make some small talk, and you
Speaker 27: just kept saying, and you know, if you drink more water?
Speaker 27: You ever tried drinking more water? And that's what real
Speaker 27: friends do. They tell real friends. You know, your face
Speaker 27: is fucked. Thank you, I drink water.
Speaker 7: I look at me now, it's like this is a filter.
Speaker 27: But anyway, I'm so happy that my mom made me
Speaker 27: telemarket when I was fifteen so that I could meet
Speaker 27: you and we could be friends.
Speaker 3: I love you, man. Drink more water, everybody, you know
Speaker 3: what's about.
Speaker 8: And the story that she could have told that was
Speaker 8: hilarious was that when I asked for a phone number
Speaker 8: at our at ORAE that insurance job, she didn't give me.
Speaker 3: The last two numbers, So my.
Speaker 8: Dumb ass had to yes, figurat to at home doing
Speaker 8: every comedy.
Speaker 2: One, two, two, two, three, four, five six six six.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, her last two digits was sixty five,
Speaker 8: So I think, like, I think, maybe ten. I would
Speaker 8: attempt ten times a day until I got it finally,
Speaker 8: like four days later, I.
Speaker 3: Got the the the way, Yes, that's.
Speaker 4: That's I finally guess the last two digits.
Speaker 8: But wait, no, there's another hilarious a movement that I
Speaker 8: don't think the Oka player world knows about, which was
Speaker 8: the night we went out to a celebratory meal when
Speaker 8: we launched the site in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 28: And.
Speaker 8: Both of us, I think both of us got food poisoning.
Speaker 8: So if you if you remember the movie Stamp by Me,
Speaker 8: then we're in Angie's car right and I'm feeling ill
Speaker 8: and I feel like, okay, I think I might have
Speaker 8: to throw up.
Speaker 3: So we're at a red light.
Speaker 8: We're in Philadelphia, so we're at like we're on I
Speaker 8: think we're driving towards my house, so I think we're
Speaker 8: on Pine Street. We're maybe like on eleventh and Pine.
Speaker 8: And I can't take it no more, so I say
Speaker 8: look and just pull over. I open up the car
Speaker 8: door and I run right to the corner and I
Speaker 8: just start hurling. So I get back in the car.
Speaker 8: And then I think seeing me do that made her
Speaker 8: want to do that. So then she had a reaction.
Speaker 8: She stops the car, gets out and starts throwing up,
Speaker 8: and then me seeing her throwing up, makes me then
Speaker 8: get out the car and starting So we now have
Speaker 8: just a circle of circle duke, and so mid throw up.
Speaker 8: Now again, she's not even double park like the car
Speaker 8: doors that opens only two lane highway. And I'm telling
Speaker 8: an a run around the corner so I don't see
Speaker 8: you throwing up. She's like, so literally, we're trying to
Speaker 8: run as far away from each other so that we
Speaker 8: don't get sick off of watching each other throw up.
Speaker 8: That is me and and in ore are. I'm about
Speaker 8: to say, twenty five really are thirty year history together?
Speaker 2: Like that story, Remember in the beginning when I said,
Speaker 2: you're gonna let them tell the stories, and you ain't
Speaker 2: gotta take the longer version hers time. So it's two
Speaker 2: stories in a minute, mayor.
Speaker 3: She told a minute twelve.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not interrupting y'all. Y'all if you
Speaker 2: want to interrupt with a story anytime. Please feel free, fellas.
Speaker 11: Because now I want to hear from the people. This
Speaker 11: is our first time hearing these.
Speaker 2: We talked about Okay players, so I thought I would
Speaker 2: I have some love from an Okay player who actually
Speaker 2: thank God that he took a moment because he's been
Speaker 2: out in these streets, who given us what we need
Speaker 2: and like in the struggle, out in the struggle. Honey, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: oh no.
Speaker 5: Happy birthday. First of all, I really appreciate you. I
Speaker 5: love you. You've been.
Speaker 29: You've done so much for me in my career. I
Speaker 29: don't really even know how to think that. It's been
Speaker 29: really amazing, and I can you know, I have a
Speaker 29: bunch of pretty funny stories and you know situations. I
Speaker 29: could talk about the diddy uh situation where you know,
Speaker 29: you helping me out and you writing to him on Twitter.
Speaker 29: Basically he got me the job and I spoken on
Speaker 29: the phone and changed the trajectory of my career. I
Speaker 29: can talk about you and that stinking making Fox hoodie.
Speaker 5: And the countless other.
Speaker 29: Battles that we've had on Instagram and social media in general.
Speaker 5: It's been fun, man, you know, like your big.
Speaker 29: Brother to me, and I love you and I wouldn't
Speaker 29: know where I would be without you. So with that
Speaker 29: being said, I think one of my favorite stories, you know, has.
Speaker 5: To do with We're at an event.
Speaker 29: It was some company's event and I'm there taking photos
Speaker 29: and men at work is going and you know, I'm
Speaker 29: out there doing my thing, taking photos, doing my thing
Speaker 29: like usual, and you point to me, you know, you
Speaker 29: have your stick and you're like and I'm like me
Speaker 29: And this is maybe like five years ago, so you know,
Speaker 29: we were good friends at this point. So I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 29: you want me to come take a photo from up
Speaker 29: here and get a goodvantage point. But you told me
Speaker 29: to join in with the fellas when they were dancing,
Speaker 29: And to me, that was one of the biggest moments
Speaker 29: of my life, you know, being a huge Roots fan man,
Speaker 29: and seeing and watching and documenting you know, that song
Speaker 29: so many times and wishing that I could be on stage. Man,
Speaker 29: that ship was fucking dope at wish there was video.
Speaker 29: I think we have a few photos of it out there,
Speaker 29: but man, that just let me know that how much
Speaker 29: you cared about me and how much you you know,
Speaker 29: you you knew that that moment meant to me like
Speaker 29: like fuck it, get up here, and you know, do
Speaker 29: the damn thing with me.
Speaker 5: I know, you know the moves and I.
Speaker 29: Did so yeah, man, like I'm happy that you're still here.
Speaker 29: I hope that you live to be you know, a
Speaker 29: thousand years old.
Speaker 5: You know, and in.
Speaker 29: The world is possiblely, you know, anything in the world
Speaker 29: is possible, except for probably your directing career.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Wait, yeah, unless you're a cartoon and all of your.
Speaker 29: Success, all your millions of jobs, and thank you for
Speaker 29: you know, your support and you know, yeah, when I
Speaker 29: work hard, you know, I always I love getting that.
Speaker 5: Sample of approval from you.
Speaker 29: You know, it means a lot, you know, amongst all
Speaker 29: of our battles. But yeah, it's on and popping tonight.
Speaker 29: They've being about to go on your Instagram right now
Speaker 29: and see what you wrote so I can get at you.
Speaker 3: Demetrious cold. No, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 8: Look, I don't I don't want people to misconstrue because
Speaker 8: you know, my favorite thing is watching people like threatened
Speaker 8: Mail thinking that he's.
Speaker 3: A real troll.
Speaker 8: No, we're actually good friends.
Speaker 2: He controls you.
Speaker 3: I'll be I'll be watching.
Speaker 8: Based on Yes, Megan Fox once complimented a hoodie I
Speaker 8: had on once and he got mad at it, and
Speaker 8: that was the basis of of.
Speaker 3: Our our our battle back in thirty one. That's my brother, man.
Speaker 2: Yo, And not for nothing. I mean it should be
Speaker 2: mentioned a mirror that there are a lot of people
Speaker 2: that you've known for over twenty years that started in
Speaker 2: one place in their life and have evolved into great places.
Speaker 2: And some of them have even involved in the Roots organization,
Speaker 2: which I think is is really dope.
Speaker 3: Wait was it mailing in Neil Salona? No, I don't
Speaker 3: think it was.
Speaker 4: It wasn't all it was stre it was it was straight.
Speaker 4: I think he was sewing. He was at a sewing
Speaker 4: shop that mal de Coal moonlighting as a can't wait. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm definitely going cli that. You we gotta put that.
Speaker 3: On, put that on. You got you got a nail shop,
Speaker 3: you gotta.
Speaker 4: Shop smelt something Asian Cole Totally why.
Speaker 2: Y'all got joke? Shout out, shout out mail for what
Speaker 2: he's been doing for the last week though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
Speaker 8: Sly, but yes, he's been on the front lines of
Speaker 8: capturing capturing of Vanilla.
Speaker 10: Isis I feel like my melody Cole is the one
Speaker 10: that's coming up next.
Speaker 3: My faith troll.
Speaker 2: Oh, actually, I that is a good suggestion.
Speaker 10: Well, while we're on the subject of a mirror, you know,
Speaker 10: helping people's careers. I heard this story the other day.
Speaker 10: I was at Electric Garden, which is owned and operated
Speaker 10: by Ben Kine, who was an assistant engineered Electric Lady
Speaker 10: towards the end of my.
Speaker 3: Tenure there. Rain.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he was coming in and he ended up becoming
Speaker 10: Russ Elevado's assistant after me for a fifteen twenty years
Speaker 10: or whatever it's been. He ended up co mixing Black
Speaker 10: Messiah and all that. And so I was doing a
Speaker 10: session there a few weekends ago with Ben and we're
Speaker 10: talking about the old times.
Speaker 3: And he.
Speaker 10: Tells me the story that it was you who who
Speaker 10: got him started as well. And you may not even
Speaker 10: remember this, but he Jack in the box. You on
Speaker 10: the street in the village somewhere you were at, probably
Speaker 10: working in Electric Lady, and you were walking around the
Speaker 10: village and he was going to NYU and he was
Speaker 10: nineteen or something like that and just walked up to
Speaker 10: you on the street, recognized you and and said can
Speaker 10: you help me, you know, get started or you know,
Speaker 10: I'm a musician blah blah something like that, and you
Speaker 10: literally got him the internship at Electrically, which started him
Speaker 10: off on what.
Speaker 3: Ye be sound. I didn't even know that. Yeah you
Speaker 3: got that.
Speaker 8: I'm like, you know because you started podcast, Like I
Speaker 8: don't collect receipts like that, Like, okay, I did this
Speaker 8: for you United that Wow.
Speaker 3: Also, that's good to know because accomplished Wow, multi Grammy
Speaker 3: Award winning ben came. Wow, that's amazing. I didn't even
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 18: Well.
Speaker 2: She hasn't wont to Grammy yet, but she has been
Speaker 2: the support of the roots for the past years. Her
Speaker 2: name is Tina Feris.
Speaker 30: Quest Love Custonian Smery. I can't believe you're fifty years old, dude.
Speaker 30: Can I remember you guys coming to UCLA and me
Speaker 30: being scared to talk to you, thinking that you were
Speaker 30: mean But you are ultimately, But.
Speaker 3: Like, what is the best story?
Speaker 30: I love being on tour with you as my solace
Speaker 30: when I was fucking up with everybody else and I
Speaker 30: could run to you and you'd be like, See, that's
Speaker 30: how the niggas is. Once you let them know you
Speaker 30: know how to do something, they gonna keep asking you
Speaker 30: and true to form, I have been doing things ever since,
Speaker 30: but I really appreciate your support and your belief and
Speaker 30: you're seeing made larger than I see myself, and I
Speaker 30: just want to keep rocking with you for the next
Speaker 30: fifty years. So I love love, love, love, love love
Speaker 30: love love love you from the top of my heart
Speaker 30: until the wheels fall off. Happy Birthday, Tina far.
Speaker 3: With divorce. I thought that little house Bone challenge for.
Speaker 2: First sent the audio. I was like, Ni, I'm dreaming
Speaker 2: about you for nights, Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, background, yeah, some music behind that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I mean, like I said, there's a long
Speaker 2: list of folks, you know, miyor who have come.
Speaker 3: Up, and like Farris, I appreciate that because people.
Speaker 2: Don't know that Tina was actually like it's a mere
Speaker 2: Tina was like a fan right like back of the
Speaker 2: day in school at.
Speaker 8: Uc Tina at when she was at U C l A,
Speaker 8: and we got cool with her and we realized that
Speaker 8: she's more organized than people that are, you know, training
Speaker 8: to be tour managers. And you know, she look at
Speaker 8: her now, she's tour managed. Every everybody, everyone a name it,
Speaker 8: Lauren Hill, Chris Rock and.
Speaker 2: Everyone just literally everyone yeah, speaking of people who have
Speaker 2: definitely come up in the world. I don't know if
Speaker 2: this dude, I mean, would he be the president of
Speaker 2: Live Nation Urban if not for meeting a man named me.
Speaker 3: A k A quests love A k A.
Speaker 2: In the Valley A k A.
Speaker 28: The beat recycle of the rhythm Happy Birthday Dog, Happy
Speaker 28: fiftieth Birthday, O G. You know, there's so many stories
Speaker 28: that that that I could share, that I could tell,
Speaker 28: but you know what, I want to be fired, So
Speaker 28: I would just say that I admire your selflessness, not selfishness, selflessness.
Speaker 28: You're probably the most selfless individual that I know, quite honestly.
Speaker 28: You have such a big heart. You have blessed so
Speaker 28: many people in these fifty years. You've literally changed the
Speaker 28: trajectory of people's lives, their families for generations to come.
Speaker 3: I being one of them, right, So I want to
Speaker 3: thank you for that.
Speaker 28: You will forever be blessed for all of the blessings
Speaker 28: that you've bestowed upon upon so many people. I hope
Speaker 28: you enjoy your day. I hope you enjoy your fiftieth year.
Speaker 28: And you know, let me know how that feels, because
Speaker 28: you know I won't be there for a while.
Speaker 2: Do he mean like months, he made a while when
Speaker 2: he said a whole.
Speaker 3: But short is definitely my dad.
Speaker 8: Like, I take pride in the fact that I don't
Speaker 8: say what had happened was to a lot of people,
Speaker 8: but most of my phone calls with Shoring's like all right,
Speaker 8: all right, this is what happened.
Speaker 3: So you know he's always waiting for the hustle, but
Speaker 3: crisis management exactly. I appreciate Sean my many.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think I have another life that you change
Speaker 2: and fortunately for us, this is Steve's nemesis. Ladies, here
Speaker 2: we go the woman who makes a couple of appearances
Speaker 2: on Questlove Supreme.
Speaker 31: God got there to speech camera and when I'm filming myself,
Speaker 31: I would only do this for you a mair uh
Speaker 31: happy birthday.
Speaker 32: I know a million in one stories that would embarrass
Speaker 32: the hell out of you, but I will keep them
Speaker 32: to myself because it's your birthday. I will just say
Speaker 32: you are the type of person that would send a
Speaker 32: thousand gallons of suit to someone's house if they're sick,
Speaker 32: or car service if they're stranded, or make someone laugh
Speaker 32: until their stomach hurts, especially if they're having a bad
Speaker 32: day and you're the best, most special, generous person that
Speaker 32: anyone could hope to have in their life. And as
Speaker 32: far as family that you get to choose, I would
Speaker 32: choose you every time. I love you. Happy birthday. Oh
Speaker 32: and he's heard me, he is so.
Speaker 2: Nemesis.
Speaker 3: Y'all got to stop this jew own jew crime man.
Speaker 3: Good example to your race.
Speaker 8: That's right, people, I was about to say I the
Speaker 8: one thing I missed the most about working at thirty
Speaker 8: year Rock now is that there's no more Steve's arr arguments,
Speaker 8: Like it's like the best part about going there. Yeah, man, wow,
Speaker 8: but wow, that's amazing. Sarah's pride on her first day
Speaker 8: at work. There's no crime in baseball. But she cried
Speaker 8: on the first day at work.
Speaker 3: And yeah, don't she cry like every day? Man. She
Speaker 3: runs the world with a boy and he's the reason
Speaker 3: why I'm in all these movies.
Speaker 2: And again a mirror remind people that Zarah came into
Speaker 2: your life as as an assistant right like, she was she.
Speaker 3: A page, She was an intern at Fallon, an intern
Speaker 3: at Fallon.
Speaker 2: Right now she is the manager of the division.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the film division.
Speaker 8: So all the movies I'm directed and anything I've done
Speaker 8: on screen to do with the television.
Speaker 3: Zarah is that person that takes the meeting.
Speaker 2: So wow, let me one more person that life has changed.
Speaker 2: You have changed life and they are a part of
Speaker 2: your team. And they'd be piss if I didn't play
Speaker 2: the video because when you met her, I believe was
Speaker 2: she a bartender and a receptionist and now she lives
Speaker 2: out here with with me. Hold on, who here we go?
Speaker 12: Hey, Amir, happy birthday.
Speaker 33: So one of my favorite Emir stories is of course
Speaker 33: grounded in our decades long battle against one another in scrabble,
Speaker 33: you being maybe the only person I know who's more
Speaker 33: competitive than me, and two thousand and six you take
Speaker 33: me to a Grammy party at Prince's house. Now keep
Speaker 33: in mind I had been bartending in Philly just six
Speaker 33: months before you gave me this amazing career opportunity. So
Speaker 33: we're in Prince's living.
Speaker 7: Room playing scrabble and boom, I.
Speaker 34: Put up sex triple word score plus the adjoining word.
Speaker 34: I got like a Jillian points and you're like, no,
Speaker 34: you can't play that word here. Our host is religious.
Speaker 34: This is inappropriate, although I still to this day contend
Speaker 34: you just didn't want to lose in front of all
Speaker 34: of Ali's Hollywood maor untruthfully, thank you so much for
Speaker 34: believing in me. Thank you so much for all of
Speaker 34: the opportunities. I'm so grateful and honored to be part
Speaker 34: of this journey with you. You can't be and me
Speaker 34: and so many others, and we all love you so much.
Speaker 7: This is why you're our.
Speaker 33: Son's godfather and why I'm so grateful to really really
Speaker 33: love you.
Speaker 12: Happy happy birthday, a mair.
Speaker 2: Damn she got kids now if y'all can't tell.
Speaker 8: Dogs now, Yeah, man, I know I to tell the
Speaker 8: story about scrabble, but she I did not fire her
Speaker 8: over a scrabble game, So don she does your DJing
Speaker 8: during Yes, she's been my DJ manager since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She also used to be my roll dog when we
Speaker 2: would be rolling with you at certain places. You don't remember.
Speaker 2: This is when we were friends a long time ago. Okay,
Speaker 2: So moving on here you go.
Speaker 3: Always got to put something to the fourth hour of
Speaker 3: the Today's show.
Speaker 2: Lazy no, no, no, But okay, So now we're done
Speaker 2: with the the you know, the heavy lifting of who
Speaker 2: you've evolved into beautiful people. Oh, I'm sure folks want
Speaker 2: to hear from certain folks who have you been affiliate
Speaker 2: affiliated with and are your brother amir?
Speaker 10: How do you feel about your birthday happening on the
Speaker 10: inauguration day of a new person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's bittersweet because.
Speaker 8: Four years ago everyone was depressed when he was coming
Speaker 8: into office until everyone was angry that day, and then
Speaker 8: four years and eight years before that, when Obama first
Speaker 8: went in, nobody remembered except for Layah because Laya and
Speaker 8: I share the same birthday. This is actually Laia's birthday
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 3: So yes, nobody sent in any videos about that.
Speaker 4: That's the next hour.
Speaker 3: That's the Layah video.
Speaker 8: Why y yeah, let me why while you're searching for
Speaker 8: my next uh ambush my loves you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you see how you have? You see how
Speaker 2: you can do the little sexual you know florist?
Speaker 8: Now, well, I meant love and this being a love fesson,
Speaker 8: I was trying to make a I forget when you
Speaker 8: combine words together.
Speaker 3: What it is anyway? Yes? La Yah?
Speaker 8: I really yeah, thank you yah, because it's it's it's
Speaker 8: also Laa's birthday as well, and you know I love
Speaker 8: I've known my Yea since Mmm. No, okay, can we
Speaker 8: rewrite the narrative of this story.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for the sound and face,
Speaker 2: because you know what, it's very innocent story. I just
Speaker 2: know that it's sounds can be perceived to sound other ways,
Speaker 2: and it shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I wasn't always an old person like you weren't, right.
Speaker 2: Wee three ninety three, ninety two, ninety three.
Speaker 3: And they ate off the assassin.
Speaker 2: First of all, how dare you put the out there?
Speaker 2: I was not dating him?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, a mirror such a you know, y'all.
Speaker 2: Who caught us once? You caught us walking. You caught
Speaker 2: us walking down the street. You gave us a ride.
Speaker 3: That does not mean right, that's how we first met.
Speaker 13: You ate off the assassins, Joe, No, that's oh my god,
Speaker 13: don't write you street.
Speaker 3: We met fine, wonderful. Every time that you.
Speaker 2: Make it seem like we met in line talking it
Speaker 2: wanting to talk to Steve. We wonder we met in
Speaker 2: the line. But yeah, Stevie, wonder I know.
Speaker 3: I know, Okay, so yes, lying I go, I can
Speaker 3: I believe you remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember it happened once it was dark and I
Speaker 2: was y'all know, I was walking down the street with Adolf,
Speaker 2: and I say, no way, nobody's gonna see me. And
Speaker 2: the motherfucking roots pulled up in a vand and I said,
Speaker 2: ain't this something? It's like, y'all need a ride?
Speaker 3: Can I can?
Speaker 4: I ask why his name was.
Speaker 3: Catch?
Speaker 2: That's that was his birth name? Right? When is that
Speaker 2: his birth name?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 18: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a girl? That's he had one song
Speaker 2: called Gatto.
Speaker 3: Plus. Where's a plus? Right now?
Speaker 2: Wait? Let me let me let this doe tell you
Speaker 2: happy birthday, because I know everybody expected for him to
Speaker 2: say something anyway.
Speaker 3: So who Happy birthday? Mayor after the fiftieth birthday?
Speaker 29: Man?
Speaker 21: You know I love you, brother. You want of my
Speaker 21: greatest friends. Man, one of my closest friends that I
Speaker 21: met through this whole thing. And I've just been blessed
Speaker 21: to be able to have you as my boy, as
Speaker 21: my homie, is my guy and uh, man, I just
Speaker 21: thank you.
Speaker 22: Man.
Speaker 21: You've done so much for me, from executive producer just
Speaker 21: to being there as a friend. I remember I needed
Speaker 21: uh when I was trying to throw a great shin
Speaker 21: dig for for a girlfriend's thirtieth birthday party. You brought
Speaker 21: everybody together and just made it happen and man, you
Speaker 21: would be up nights tired. I remember you fell asleep
Speaker 21: playing the drums, but you were still playing while you Man,
Speaker 21: you bring so much to me, to all of us.
Speaker 3: Man, fiftieth birthday, brother, we celebrating you, all right.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, no, what were you there a
Speaker 3: nint Steve in Texas? Where at Eric thirtieth? No, No,
Speaker 3: it was ever.
Speaker 2: By the way he said, you know my old girlfriend.
Speaker 3: How do you know how many old girlfriends?
Speaker 21: I nigga?
Speaker 3: Uh no, but yeah, the best part of that night
Speaker 3: was I mean Blao was in rare form. Oh God,
Speaker 3: and the King.
Speaker 8: Yes yes, and and and the and the very app
Speaker 8: very app reference that you brought up, uh fante, Because
Speaker 8: the only person who I have my eyes on the
Speaker 8: whole time Blao was performing, was watching Prince.
Speaker 3: And we did like a seventeen minute version of uh
Speaker 3: Soul System and sometimes.
Speaker 2: Oh I wish I was there.
Speaker 8: And it was to the point where Prince actually left
Speaker 8: VIP and walked to the front of the pit of
Speaker 8: of like where where like the commoners were, and is
Speaker 8: the way that his jaw was dropped. I knew that
Speaker 8: he finally saw like the the time past like someone
Speaker 8: crazier than him beforeming at that intensive a level. It
Speaker 8: was one of the greatest times of my life watching
Speaker 8: watching history pass between the generation A mere story.
Speaker 2: No, that's fine, all right, Uh, this is a I
Speaker 2: got a random one here. It always felt random, but
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny because Amir had always talked about
Speaker 2: his link to this couple on this show, and I
Speaker 2: feel like most of us was like, Okay, all right, whatever,
Speaker 2: and I'm talking about the Ali's Maherschela and his wife
Speaker 2: pronounce her name for me.
Speaker 3: I'm she's from Philly. How did you get this? Hey?
Speaker 7: Birthday, We're here at.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 25: It's been many different chapters. Happy to still be here
Speaker 25: and celebrate you. Yes, I have three small antidotes, and
Speaker 25: one includes this person here.
Speaker 3: You gotta go, you got thirty seconds left.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: Nineteen ninety nine, coming home from college.
Speaker 35: I think it was December twenty fourth, nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 25: I think Jackie Thompson, Happy birthday to you too, and
Speaker 25: us all going to movie to the movies for Christmas.
Speaker 35: Which was mind blowing because I'm sitting there next to
Speaker 35: Questlove at the movies and I was just like, oh
Speaker 35: my God, who does this girl know?
Speaker 3: Who does she not know?
Speaker 7: I met you when I was fourteen?
Speaker 2: See wrong with it?
Speaker 7: I tell you as one of my bigger brothers.
Speaker 25: To this day got one of the best birthday gifts
Speaker 25: I've ever gotten, which was these mixtapes of soul music.
Speaker 3: That package that whole cassette or set of cassettes.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, and and have been blessed to share different
Speaker 7: pockets of time over time with you.
Speaker 3: You're talking too long.
Speaker 35: We just contribution after contribution and most importantly the positive energy,
Speaker 35: the love, the knowledge, the wonderful nerdiness that you bring
Speaker 35: to everything that we all love and absolutely respect and
Speaker 35: just admire.
Speaker 3: So thank you, brother, We love you.
Speaker 8: Finish, we gotta get my her sol On the show
Speaker 8: w Do Well what they did. What they didn't share
Speaker 8: was that they helped me. But like you know, when
Speaker 8: someone makes it at a certain level, you're like, your
Speaker 8: dream is to do something nice for your mom, like
Speaker 8: either get her that house or get her that that item,
Speaker 8: so you know.
Speaker 3: My first my mom.
Speaker 8: What my mom didn't also share when she was sharing
Speaker 8: her story was that, uh, my dad promised my mom
Speaker 8: her dream car, which is the history of weird cars
Speaker 8: in the Thompson family. It's nothing new, doesn't start with
Speaker 8: my scion. My mom always wanted a Volkswagen Beetle.
Speaker 3: The right.
Speaker 8: So when they remade those cars and brought them out,
Speaker 8: I got my mom one. But I had this idea
Speaker 8: that I said, what I want to do is I
Speaker 8: want to make my mom think that her old car,
Speaker 8: her broken down car, was stolen. And then Blama is
Speaker 8: surprised with the new car. So basically, Myhershela, I somehow
Speaker 8: got the keys from my from my mom, gave it
Speaker 8: to Myharsala and he's the one that took my mom's car,
Speaker 8: parked it like way around the corner. So we went
Speaker 8: to the movies and then get out the movies and
Speaker 8: then you know, the car's missing, and my Mom's like
Speaker 8: all devastated. And then six minutes later before like we
Speaker 8: bring the cops and said, no, I gotta tell the cops.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Mom, no, no no.
Speaker 8: And then suddenly the shiny new bug is right there,
Speaker 8: and I'm like Mary Christmas man this this year, this
Speaker 8: is like the first gift I've ever given her.
Speaker 2: So because again Mherschel, they told their story in a
Speaker 2: minute and twenty and it was two of them.
Speaker 3: That was just does not act.
Speaker 2: Okay. So before we get out of it, before we
Speaker 2: before we finished with all the guests, I got to
Speaker 2: just two more left, two more left that I want
Speaker 2: to run past you. And the next one, Emir, I
Speaker 2: want you to listen closely to his story. I actually
Speaker 2: sent this to Fontaine ahead of time because it actually
Speaker 2: answers a lot of questions about the way you acted
Speaker 2: when we went and visited this person and interviewed them
Speaker 2: for QLs. Bill and Steve. Y'all will get it once
Speaker 2: I hit play. Did y'all too remember how Amir was
Speaker 2: acting when we went to LA to interview this person.
Speaker 36: Hey, baby face, here, I want to give you a
Speaker 36: special shout out for your fiftieth birthday. And I know
Speaker 36: we're supposed to tell a special story. So here's the
Speaker 36: story I want to tell. Years ago, when I met you,
Speaker 36: we met through a mutual friend of ours, Chloe Flower.
Speaker 12: She was here working at the studio.
Speaker 36: And she told me that you were coming by and
Speaker 36: she told me that you were the biggest fan of mine.
Speaker 3: You were a huge fan. You knew everything, You knew
Speaker 3: everything about me, and you would love me.
Speaker 36: And you see, he loves you, and so I said,
Speaker 36: well that's great because I'm a big fan of his too,
Speaker 36: So you know, I want to meet him, tell him
Speaker 36: come in the studio. She said, nah, he's just gonna
Speaker 36: stop at the corner and pick me up. So I
Speaker 36: walked down to the corner to the gas station to
Speaker 36: meet you, and so Chloy gets in the car and
Speaker 36: I looked at it and say, oh my god, I
Speaker 36: look look at that's quest Love.
Speaker 3: That's quest Love.
Speaker 7: And you look at me and you go like, what's
Speaker 7: up whatever.
Speaker 36: I'm like, that can't be the mirror that's big and
Speaker 36: supposed to know all my stuff, and he didn't. The
Speaker 36: Quest Love and a Mirror must be two different people.
Speaker 36: I thought, Quest Love and a Mirror with two different people.
Speaker 36: I had no idea you were the same person. And
Speaker 36: that was I didn't really know until we did the
Speaker 36: podcast together. Dan realized you actually do kind of know
Speaker 36: the stuff I've done. And I was a fan of
Speaker 36: yours and you were a fan of mine. So it
Speaker 36: all walked out ultimately. So I want to wish your
Speaker 36: happy birthday to a mirror and quest Love. Happy fifty.
Speaker 3: Shady face. He moving like a lefty guitar center. Holy shit,
Speaker 3: right right?
Speaker 2: Why back to when we was at LA and me
Speaker 2: and Fante was all excited singing up, singing to shoot
Speaker 2: him up, bang bang song.
Speaker 3: He was like, he was like, no, guys, no chill,
Speaker 3: She'd be professional, right right.
Speaker 2: I was like, so, what's what you and baby Face?
Speaker 2: You just want you want to think you cool or what's.
Speaker 8: You know what it is?
Speaker 3: I nerded out on someone and it kind of went south,
Speaker 3: and you know, you're over compensated when you met babyface. Look, okay,
Speaker 3: I don't say that.
Speaker 8: Maybe I kind of freak Q tipped out back in
Speaker 8: like ninety three when we was first making do you
Speaker 8: want more?
Speaker 3: And then it kind of got and then it kind
Speaker 3: of got back to me like yeah, you weared it
Speaker 3: mount man, Like you know that was like you got
Speaker 3: you got money.
Speaker 11: Now, don't nobody You can nerd out, whether you won't wait,
Speaker 11: nobody gonna tell you to stop or nothing.
Speaker 8: I think I think after that moment, I just I
Speaker 8: turned it down by a bajillion whenever I realized that
Speaker 8: you you won't get kicked out the club if you
Speaker 8: just act cool.
Speaker 2: So like nerdous is ninety three, that's a lot of
Speaker 2: shit that you got held inside. I know it was
Speaker 2: a mo people that you met, did you was like, yo,
Speaker 2: there's some people that.
Speaker 3: Still think like you know, sometimes you got to keep
Speaker 3: him at bay, like you know, okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, teach me, sir. I'm learned. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, but it's you know, it's it's the rule. It's
Speaker 3: the rule of like wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 8: I was too nervous to fan out on him, so
Speaker 8: I was just like trying to be cool, like, well, hey,
Speaker 8: how you doing pleasure?
Speaker 2: I feel like, last, but not least, is uh a
Speaker 2: person who you have become very close with, who has
Speaker 2: been so gracious as to host us for records amount
Speaker 2: of time with his partner, records, amount of years.
Speaker 22: Oh god, yes, indeed, old alert, old alert, Yes, Now
Speaker 22: you're half and half half what fifty?
Speaker 3: Oh I see half and half of one hundred?
Speaker 8: Oh I got you lose fifty to fifty fifty fifty
Speaker 8: and what you're gonna do fifty fifth?
Speaker 3: He's gonna make love. That's what his name is. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's true name, got love in it, quest love. That's right.
Speaker 37: You told me his name was gonna be at one
Speaker 37: point in time no quest ski. I'm gonna keep mentioned
Speaker 37: quest skill.
Speaker 3: I can't. He had another one too that I can't
Speaker 3: quite recall, but that's okay. It's better to be on
Speaker 3: a quest for love.
Speaker 5: That's ki.
Speaker 37: Yes, exactly, absolutely, damn hey man, want I wish you
Speaker 37: were happy, lovely beautiful fiftieth and if y'all need you
Speaker 37: need any advice on fifty we'll see what we can
Speaker 37: remember because that was ten years.
Speaker 3: Take the picture, got the scars to prove it exactly.
Speaker 3: We love you man, love you brother. Happy birthday.
Speaker 21: Oh man.
Speaker 3: They need to be they need to be true to
Speaker 3: take the season four. That's it. Jimmy and Terry Spy
Speaker 3: versus Spy. They're amazing.
Speaker 8: God, guys, thank you you successfully got me to really
Speaker 8: drop my guard.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry from thank you. I bringing all the flowers like
Speaker 3: the floors. Yeah, more flowers.
Speaker 2: And a me just tell you don't think I got bears?
Speaker 21: What the he.
Speaker 3: Wear it out?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: What do you know about this song?
Speaker 2: Like you the only place seconds fair use?
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: I mean you would like it?
Speaker 3: So yes, I'll make this short because that's the end, because.
Speaker 2: We didn't tell our stories. But that's fine.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought that was the end.
Speaker 2: I mean that was the end of their stories. Were
Speaker 2: still here.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you?
Speaker 11: All right, so it is everybody telling me going to
Speaker 11: go stories and story time for us. Yeah, you started
Speaker 11: off like you go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Well, almost killed Steve, so we can start there.
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, Steve, oh house of Preyer p.
Speaker 3: That's just the that's just one time he tried to fill.
Speaker 10: I'm actually about to tell a story about another time
Speaker 10: where he almost did kill me.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 10: The if anyone familiar with the the restaurant in the
Speaker 10: venue BB King's here in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Which is yeah, so now you know the sticking out.
Speaker 3: It's been twenty five years.
Speaker 10: I've spent a lot of time hanging out with this
Speaker 10: guy in one place or another.
Speaker 3: And when I'm with him, I.
Speaker 10: Like to play half security guard, half like, you know, Okay,
Speaker 10: here's what I'm going to do if there's an emergency
Speaker 10: whatever in the back of my mind, and that includes
Speaker 10: winding staircases, you know, like I'll just on the side
Speaker 10: of my eye and keep an eye on this dude.
Speaker 3: If you slip, maybe I can catch him, get a raise,
Speaker 3: you know, something like that.
Speaker 10: But I never actually wanted him to fall directly on
Speaker 10: top of me, And that's what happened. Dude took a
Speaker 10: fall down down the bb King winding staircase on the
Speaker 10: way downstairs to the venue and just landed right on
Speaker 10: top of me.
Speaker 3: And took Steve with him, took down. He broke my fall. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and what were we there for? Jody Watley concert. I
Speaker 3: don't remember much after you after you landed prussed Steve
Speaker 3: like the tin man in the whiz.
Speaker 4: Ship.
Speaker 2: I mean, can't you see it? I mean, what what
Speaker 2: year was this year?
Speaker 4: It was that year?
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, you know it was that year? Yeah, gott I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I've got plenty of stories, but I'm
Speaker 3: saving them off my book and Sugar Network Publishing. Yes, Zara,
Speaker 3: I think she knows things about you. Please, yes, Steven Zara,
Speaker 3: all the bodies, I'll go, Steve.
Speaker 4: Amir, you and I met working on the Hamilton Record,
Speaker 4: and then you invited me to be on this podcast,
Speaker 4: to in fact be the first person on this podcast,
Speaker 4: and that was one of the most bizarre nights of
Speaker 4: my entire life. But what my story is about is
Speaker 4: is we've seen each other every like for a while,
Speaker 4: like every week for many years. So then whenever I
Speaker 4: would see you not at a quest love taping. You
Speaker 4: would not recognize me and reintroduce yourself to me. And
Speaker 4: this happens all the time. So like I would be
Speaker 4: at a wedding that you would be DJing and I'd
Speaker 4: be like a meyr and you'd be like hey man,
Speaker 4: and they put out your arm and I'd be like,
Speaker 4: it's me. And then and the second time he'd be
Speaker 4: like blah blah blah blah. I was like, dude, it's me.
Speaker 4: He's like, you look like my accountant, and I was
Speaker 4: like fair.
Speaker 3: I was to change every time.
Speaker 8: Bill, you you had five major hairstyles and the beard
Speaker 8: hair com You're like a story character.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 4: Sometimes you are in your Marvin Gay hat, sometimes you're
Speaker 4: in your fro thing, sometimes.
Speaker 3: You're in your twenty twenty.
Speaker 8: But yes, mate, if you had, if you had a
Speaker 8: consistent hairstyle for a year, I promise you I would
Speaker 8: have known that was my partner, Bill Hamlet.
Speaker 3: Whatever I mean.
Speaker 8: It was awesome, glad because I thought you were going
Speaker 8: to get at me for stealing a lot of big
Speaker 8: birds feathers.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh well that too.
Speaker 4: We go into that later. I know where the muppets
Speaker 4: are buried. All right, quiette, Happy birthday. Fonte's your turn,
Speaker 4: thank you?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's my turn.
Speaker 11: Okay, man, I guess for me, you know, our history
Speaker 11: goes back to that sordid corner of the Internet known
Speaker 11: as Okay player. But uh, you know, with my group
Speaker 11: little Brother, and just the way you championed us, and
Speaker 11: you know, man, I just think, you know, for me,
Speaker 11: you know, I think we was texting the other night,
Speaker 11: just on some silly shit. I don't even know what
Speaker 11: he was talking about, but it was just one of
Speaker 11: these epic amere texts, and and I just remember just thinking, like, Yo,
Speaker 11: the kid who you know, snuck out of school to
Speaker 11: go by ill a death half life, you know, you know,
Speaker 11: and you know, and with left campus illegally, you know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying, to go get this shit like he
Speaker 11: would be freaking the fuck out right now to ever
Speaker 11: think that there was a possibility that me and the
Speaker 11: Mirror would actually have conversations and actually be friends, you know.
Speaker 11: And uh, and that's something that you know, regardless of
Speaker 11: the fact that however long I've been doing this podcast
Speaker 11: and like we've known each other, that's something that I
Speaker 11: never take for granted.
Speaker 3: And that's something that I tell people.
Speaker 11: You know, when I first started doing this, I had
Speaker 11: to let motherfuckers know up front, Like, listen, I'm not
Speaker 11: the quest love whisperer. Okay, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 11: I'm not the quest love plug. Like you know, me
Speaker 11: and him, you know, we have a men and mirror,
Speaker 11: you know, have a good relationship. And the reason why
Speaker 11: we're able to keep that good relationship is because I
Speaker 11: don't come to him with bullshit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: And I respect your time, and I respect where you are,
Speaker 11: and you know, I just don't be calling you for
Speaker 11: no frivolous shit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And that means a lot to me.
Speaker 11: And you know, man, I just look at just hearing
Speaker 11: all the stories of all the people that came on,
Speaker 11: and you know, it really just makes me think of
Speaker 11: just how how thin like sometimes just the line between
Speaker 11: success and obscurity is another person believing in you, and
Speaker 11: you know, just you know it really you know, somebody
Speaker 11: like Don that was just you know, she was a bartender,
Speaker 11: and somebody like Tina that was just doing you know,
Speaker 11: doing whatever, and now she's coming like this huge person. Yeah,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, Angie, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: like everybody, and you know, I think just as we
Speaker 11: get older in life, you know you Fitty. I mean,
Speaker 11: I just turned forty two, but you know, you've definitely
Speaker 11: been a model for me and the way I kind
Speaker 11: of look at my life and career going and defining
Speaker 11: a legacy. I don't think a legacy is defined by
Speaker 11: what you do. I think a legacy is defined by
Speaker 11: the people that you help. You know what I mean,
Speaker 11: because they become your legacy is when other people go
Speaker 11: on to do great things and you can say, well, yo,
Speaker 11: well you know this was the dude that put me on.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying, Emir gave me this shot,
Speaker 11: and you know what I'm saying, I remember my first gig,
Speaker 11: you know, like those things are important man, and so
Speaker 11: and it's not a lot of people in the game
Speaker 11: who would really do that selflessly, as as Shange said,
Speaker 11: that just can give it and not expect nothing in return.
Speaker 3: But just yo, I believe in you.
Speaker 11: I think you dope, So I'm gonna put you on,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, And you know, and that
Speaker 11: means a lot, man, I never take that for granted,
Speaker 11: and so I just thank you just for everything. You
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, just for bringing me into your
Speaker 11: universe as crazy and fucking disorganized as it.
Speaker 3: Can be sometimes. But you know I wouldn't it. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't schae for nothing else, brother, And I just
Speaker 11: thankful for your face and your loyalty, man, And you
Speaker 11: know I love you and just wish you fifty more
Speaker 11: broke for real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let me say something real quick. So let
Speaker 2: me say this. Although I've met a mir when I
Speaker 2: was I was a teenager, it's been a long interesting ride.
Speaker 2: Like from the moment we met, we clipped and we
Speaker 2: just clicked. We had things in common, we laughed, we
Speaker 2: had fun together. And even when I went to college,
Speaker 2: as you were going on your evolution and the band
Speaker 2: was growing, you never never forgot you come to Atlanta
Speaker 2: when I was in school in Atlanta. Can I come
Speaker 2: to the show. Yes, I see a mirror when I
Speaker 2: graduated college and I moved to Atlanta, I mean when
Speaker 2: I moved to Philly again, more mirror growing our relationship
Speaker 2: and whatnot and you know, it's been a lot of
Speaker 2: movie trips. It's been a lot of South Street diners,
Speaker 2: a lot of you falling to sleep on me and
Speaker 2: the movies learn about that. There's been a lot of
Speaker 2: arguments and fights. And it's funny because the Philadelphia I
Speaker 2: was long too. For the longest I was known as
Speaker 2: the Roots Warrior. Don't say nothing bad about the Roots
Speaker 2: on the radio. Light is gonna come at you, even
Speaker 2: if your name is jay Z, which I did, because
Speaker 2: those my boys, and I know who the fuck they are?
Speaker 2: They fucking dope. Why why you ain't doing nothing extra?
Speaker 2: You just like MCA. I'm sorry, flashback, I'm sorry. So
Speaker 2: but throughout this ride, you know, it's just been. It's been.
Speaker 2: It's been beautiful and even you've just shown me so
Speaker 2: many things, from going to Prince's house to sitting at
Speaker 2: a table with jay Z, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige and
Speaker 2: all these people and wondering what I'm doing here. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm chaperoning a mirror his date. Oh whatever day gets
Speaker 2: to be here. But from all those to those moments
Speaker 2: whenever I would call you and say can you come
Speaker 2: on the radio real quick talk about this? Can you
Speaker 2: come on the radio real quick and talk about that
Speaker 2: like you always did well. Nine times out of ten.
Speaker 2: You always did so for those reasons because we were
Speaker 2: born on the same birthday and we know at our
Speaker 2: very essence we are too alike, and that'd be our
Speaker 2: problem because I will stay being the Lucy to your Charlie.
Speaker 2: A mere Cayleb Thompson, I love your ass even though
Speaker 2: I don't like you all the time, yea, y'all, and
Speaker 2: before I know, because don't think I ain't smart, okay,
Speaker 2: because we all know this now. One last thing.
Speaker 3: Flower is the last flower.
Speaker 2: The last flower A long year and maybe I think
Speaker 2: it's been a year and a half, but I think
Speaker 2: all of us on this show have noticed a very
Speaker 2: speedy evolution of Amir cab Thompson. And we also know
Speaker 2: that one of the major reasons and the person keeping
Speaker 2: him on that dig Gregory mentally, spiritually and everything else.
Speaker 2: Something to say, A k T my.
Speaker 12: Love, You're the best.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what else to say beside it's you.
Speaker 38: Just you love so hard, You celebrate people, you support them,
Speaker 38: You do such amazing things for people, and being my
Speaker 38: glasses stylistic is one. I mean, I could just spend
Speaker 38: hours and hours waxing poetic about the beauty of your
Speaker 38: heart and what incredibly inspiring person you are and the.
Speaker 12: Gift of you in my life.
Speaker 38: But what I would love for the next fifty years,
Speaker 38: besides just playing like two little wild kids together, which
Speaker 38: I'm so looking forward to, is also you being loved
Speaker 38: and supported and celebrated and honored and the way you've
Speaker 38: done for so many people for so long.
Speaker 2: Yes, everybody, Wow, give it up for Grace and I
Speaker 2: just I want to say, this whole effort was an effort,
Speaker 2: collaborative effort between Grace a lot of dope women in
Speaker 2: your life. People don't know that a lot of Amir's
Speaker 2: village are dope women. There's Tina, there's don There's Zara,
Speaker 2: there's Repacca, there's two Rebecca's, there's a Brittany there, I mean,
Speaker 2: and these are all in a diverse group women. Yes,
Speaker 2: So thank you to those women for making this happen.
Speaker 2: And this is just the beginning of your birthday celebration.
Speaker 3: Thank you, I trust me. I'm crying on the inside
Speaker 3: of it. I've moved to tears.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 10: I want to say one more thing, because you all
Speaker 10: went back and like, oh, told their whole history with
Speaker 10: a mirror.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna. I can't.
Speaker 10: It's too long for me to tell you all the
Speaker 10: different stops that we've had. The dude hired me for
Speaker 10: like four different jobs in all these years and got
Speaker 10: me the the Elvis Costello album, the absolute biggest dream
Speaker 10: come true and all that stuff, like a million things.
Speaker 10: And you're a great person and this, that and the
Speaker 10: other thing. But I think that of all the people,
Speaker 10: I might be somebody who's been able to witness firsthand
Speaker 10: and hear and watch you drum the most hours. And
Speaker 10: I just want to say, of you can help, can
Speaker 10: help every when you want to help. But you know,
Speaker 10: getting getting that opportunity to watch you do the thing
Speaker 10: that you're absolutely the best on the planet at, you know,
Speaker 10: has been really the most special thing to watch you
Speaker 10: do your magic, you know, for so long. So you know,
Speaker 10: you're a great DJ, and like I said, obviously a
Speaker 10: great person in a humanitarian for God's sake.
Speaker 3: But keep on drumming, you know what I'm saying, Guys,
Speaker 3: I'm really touched to my core. It's this.
Speaker 8: This is the probably the most beautiful birthday. This is
Speaker 8: probably the most beautiful thing that's ever happened in my
Speaker 8: adult life. I never have I never had a a
Speaker 8: in a live funeral or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's why don't I just called it a live funeral awake. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, here's the bad news. We didn't tell you yet.
Speaker 8: You know, to no man, I'm really you know, you
Speaker 8: guys are literally you know when when when talking to
Speaker 8: Sean about how to do this show, I mean, I
Speaker 8: really wanted the people that I look to the most
Speaker 8: for their opinions and their thought process and just them
Speaker 8: as humans, like I actually love you, guys, and I
Speaker 8: never get the sentimental I don't know why I'm so
Speaker 8: resistant to this. Not resistant, but I don't do this
Speaker 8: more often. Yes, Grace is slowly melting the art exterior.
Speaker 3: Out of me. But thank you so much for organizing this.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, I appreciate this.
Speaker 8: I think maybe from being around Rich so much, I've
Speaker 8: somehow decided, okay, I'll do that, like just not uh
Speaker 8: not celebrate too much, because I've always come from a
Speaker 8: place like if you celebrate, then it'll be over, and
Speaker 8: I never wanted to be over.
Speaker 3: But ah, god, well your forties are over, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, can at least wind up my own
Speaker 3: a live funeral? Oh sure, why not?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 2: No, there's not more. But I have, I have, I
Speaker 2: have music. Go ahead, what you got said?
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus Christ? Wow, Wow, lady and gentlemen.
Speaker 8: The next time we do this, I'll be seventy five
Speaker 8: years old. So I love you, la Ya, I love
Speaker 8: you Bill, I love you, Steve, I love you. I
Speaker 8: love you to everyone that you know, that that said
Speaker 8: those beautiful words, and even those that weren't able to do. So,
Speaker 8: all my friends, all my family out there, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: I love you all, and we will see you on
Speaker 8: the next go round of Quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 3: Her Happy birthday. Thank you, Hey, this is sugar Steve.
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