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Speaker 2: What Up?
Speaker 1: Y'all?
Speaker 3: So fine?
Speaker 2: Now you should have gotten into last week's episode, Part
Speaker 2: one if our sit down conversation with Skills aka Mad Skills.
Speaker 2: Now it's time to get into part too.
Speaker 3: You ready, let's go, Steve Bro?
Speaker 1: Can you talk about anything in twenty twenty one? Was
Speaker 1: that this past year?
Speaker 3: There you go, classic Steve?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know these movies, records, anything?
Speaker 4: Oh not really, I'll discuss Sell didn't release a record
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: So no, the answer is no, Actually he did, didn't He.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's records.
Speaker 5: But as far as pop culture YouTube, I've been watching
Speaker 5: a lot of European news.
Speaker 6: Yeah, BBC like to be honest, I mean, I'm still
Speaker 6: an MSNBC person, but BBC World News is kind of
Speaker 6: the and I.
Speaker 7: Don't you wanted to say BBD dropped the new album.
Speaker 2: I also wanted to shout out the beat and see
Speaker 2: that happened in twenty twenty one the Black News Channel.
Speaker 2: My mother would be very upset if I did not
Speaker 2: mention that.
Speaker 7: I mean, we did something special in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Man, he created a miracle. All right?
Speaker 6: This is all I know. I was in Saint Louis.
Speaker 6: It's getting real mean up in this shit go ahead.
Speaker 6: I was in Saint Louis. You know, I've been on
Speaker 6: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee for like
Speaker 6: eleven twelve years now.
Speaker 1: Remember, I get it, you're a emper, We got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm part of the committee, and I knew.
Speaker 6: I knew that we weren't going to have anything appealing
Speaker 6: that would make Jay Z want to come and accept
Speaker 6: his award, because I mean, the thing is is that
Speaker 6: when you're paying tribute to an artist from the fifties,
Speaker 6: sixties and seventies, Yeah, you can get blah blah blah
Speaker 6: to singer Linda Ronstadt song. You can, you know, sort
Speaker 6: of get somebody to sing.
Speaker 1: You know. Last year was like dire Straits and whatever.
Speaker 6: But with hip hop especially, there's just some artists that
Speaker 6: I don't think are coverable or any of those things,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, right, And I knew starting
Speaker 6: this year is.
Speaker 1: Gonna be problematic.
Speaker 6: Maybe if Eminem gets in next year, you know, there's
Speaker 6: gotta be someone that that he hasn't burned a bridge
Speaker 6: with already, Like, so no machine Gun, Kelly.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they made up or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that.
Speaker 7: I love to see in sync rap eminem lyrics at
Speaker 7: his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Induction and.
Speaker 7: Imagine, imagine Lance Bass coming out of the stands. I
Speaker 7: won't make that.
Speaker 1: We on that for next year. I would make that happen.
Speaker 6: No, it was just with this year, I knew that
Speaker 6: there's nobody that the Internet or critics or anyone, especially
Speaker 6: with jay Z with deemed satisfactory to do his material.
Speaker 6: So I had to wrack my brain out. And the
Speaker 6: thing was, I was driving back from Saint Louis. We
Speaker 6: had a gig in Saint Louis and we would in
Speaker 6: New York the next day, and I decided, well, I
Speaker 6: got fifteen hours ahead of me. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: get in my bag. I'm in, you know, in my
Speaker 6: vehicle by myself. He is into Edible. And then Michael K.
Speaker 6: Williams passed away. He and that shit fucked like fucked
Speaker 6: me up. And then suddenly the rock and roll like
Speaker 6: so I was trying to mourn that shit, and then
Speaker 6: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people called, was like,
Speaker 6: we got to figure out something in the next ten
Speaker 6: hours or as jay Z's not coming, and you know,
Speaker 6: I'm already in my bag and shit, you know the
Speaker 6: Edibles about to hit it and all that shit. I
Speaker 6: was just so messed up that day, and I don't know,
Speaker 6: like I was just trying to figure out, like how
Speaker 6: can I And for some reason, I don't know why,
Speaker 6: I was on YouTube I freak, you know what it was.
Speaker 6: I was looking up the Supernatural Battle with Craig g
Speaker 6: I was looking that up and your name was on
Speaker 6: the side, and I was like, damn, what can I do?
Speaker 6: What can I do? And the song that I referenced,
Speaker 6: that freestyle that you did at Stretching My Beadles where
Speaker 6: you kind of took everyone's line like I don't know
Speaker 6: what the proper title is called, but basically that came
Speaker 6: up and I thought, okay, this is a job for Skills.
Speaker 6: So basically I had a vision that was gonna find
Speaker 6: fifty celebrities, fifty notable people to say one jay Z
Speaker 6: line each and the way that Skills crafts his lyrics,
Speaker 6: like for him to put this ten thousand piece puzzle
Speaker 6: together in seven days.
Speaker 1: So I thought, I'm stilling out at MC and I
Speaker 1: think that was like your worst nightmare. I believe.
Speaker 7: When the phone call came, do you remember what you
Speaker 7: said to me?
Speaker 1: I was high skills. I do not remember.
Speaker 7: Hey, hey this nigga said that's had a conversation. Went hello, yo,
Speaker 7: what's up?
Speaker 1: Yo?
Speaker 7: When did you stop listening to jay Z? I said, nigga,
Speaker 7: what when did you stop listening to jay Z? I said,
Speaker 7: I'm heyor what the fuck are you talking about? No? No, no,
Speaker 7: I remember I remember hearing you and Reek talk like
Speaker 7: and I remember you saying one time. I remember, I'll
Speaker 7: never forget it. You said you used to be able
Speaker 7: to hear like a jay Z line, and you could quote,
Speaker 7: you can hear jay Z versus you could go to
Speaker 7: the barbershop the next day and quote the whole Ship.
Speaker 7: I said, yeah, yeah, like yeah, that's how we all
Speaker 7: were with early, the whole Ship. He said, Okay, when
Speaker 7: did that stop for you though? I said, probably, like
Speaker 7: maybe like after like American Gangster, maybe Magna car the
Speaker 7: Holy Girl. Okay, bet all right, okay, yeah, all right, yeah,
Speaker 7: So what I need you? So he goes. He says,
Speaker 7: he says, I need you to I need a stretching
Speaker 7: Barbado freestyle of all the jay Z Ship. But it's
Speaker 7: got to be all holds like you know, from from
Speaker 7: from you know, artists to you know, from food snickings
Speaker 7: to to hustler to thinking man to businessman, right from
Speaker 7: riggy from riggity riggedy to Shamann Hove to cover the
Speaker 7: whole basis. I said, okay, and then he goes, I
Speaker 7: need this ship in like nine days.
Speaker 8: Yo.
Speaker 7: I was like, I'm mirror. No, no, no, you got it,
Speaker 7: you got it, you got it. I just wanted to
Speaker 7: make sure you was damn because I'm about to pitch it.
Speaker 7: To be honest, are you in? I said, fuck, yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I'm in. All right, cool, I call you back And
Speaker 7: that was it, Like it was textbook. I'm mirror. But
Speaker 7: and I'm just sitting there Tay like, yeah, this ship
Speaker 7: ain't gonna happen, like I'm not thinking of no jay
Speaker 7: z shit, I'm chilling. I'm watching TV. Three hours later,
Speaker 7: you're gonna be Yeah. She turned it down like we're
Speaker 7: gonna have to come with something else. Three hours later.
Speaker 7: Yeah she's in. So yes, I need it, and I
Speaker 7: gotta go through holes whole fucking from from a skik
Speaker 7: can I get open to you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: And I'm just like, this is this is insane. I
Speaker 7: went to Barnes and Noble started buying books be Coded.
Speaker 7: I brought this book. I already had these clothed but
Speaker 7: I couldn't find it, so I had to buy that
Speaker 7: shit again.
Speaker 2: Can I ask a real civilian question, just because we're
Speaker 2: not the only ones having this conversation, Like people are
Speaker 2: listening and they probably may have the same question. Yes,
Speaker 2: there's a situation like this, pay well, because I feel
Speaker 2: like people don't understand when it comes to you. And
Speaker 2: even sometimes when I feel like Fonte and MC's like
Speaker 2: y'all who have alternative livings when it comes to what
Speaker 2: y'all do with your talents, they I don't think they
Speaker 2: get that, like, yeah, you can do this shit's yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm asking. I'm not trying to be
Speaker 2: in your pocket, but I'm like, you do things like this,
Speaker 2: and I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: I'm like.
Speaker 7: The funny part is when when Sean hit me and
Speaker 7: was like, yes, so just you know, tell me you
Speaker 7: know what, Like I'm talking to them now, so I
Speaker 7: need something, And I was like, I don't want y'all money,
Speaker 7: I want a job, nigga, and he was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I said, I don't want y'all money, like I don't
Speaker 7: don't want money from you our mirror. And then Sean goes,
Speaker 7: it ain't me and our mirror's money, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: I bet.
Speaker 9: When a good sentence, Yeah, that was my life.
Speaker 2: I don't needles to say good and well, yeah, yeah
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 7: It was definitely. It was definitely worth my time and
Speaker 7: my effort. But but man, at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: BRO like to to see to see.
Speaker 3: The world, to see.
Speaker 7: Who tweet where he tweeted, Like when jay Z tweeted
Speaker 7: and jay Z don't even tweet like that, what did
Speaker 7: he tweet? He tweeted after it, Yeah, he tweeted thank
Speaker 7: you to everyone in that video package. I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 7: cry in the car when I saw that tweet, I
Speaker 7: was like.
Speaker 1: He did oh ship he that that? That really? You
Speaker 1: know that that stuff.
Speaker 6: It's just you know, just on my the things arguing,
Speaker 6: because the thing is I had a Christmas list of
Speaker 6: who I wanted to be in the join ye but
Speaker 6: we then but then I had a lot of mountains to.
Speaker 1: Climb.
Speaker 6: You know, you gotta explain to you're like Obamas people
Speaker 6: want to know who else is Emma is joined before
Speaker 6: he doesn't. You gotta explain the rock nation that this person.
Speaker 7: Is air this year on HBO.
Speaker 3: Right Rock and Roll Hall of Fame video.
Speaker 7: But if we would have gotten our wish list, not
Speaker 7: saying people aren't still talking about it. If we had
Speaker 7: gotten our wish list, that ship would be like that
Speaker 7: would have wanted, that would have been in the Rock
Speaker 7: and Roll Hall of Fame by itself.
Speaker 3: Who else who was on the list that y'a couldn't
Speaker 3: get or didn't get?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean initially, my my first true yes was
Speaker 6: Obama because my thing was like Sewan and I were like,
Speaker 6: if Obamas is yes, then.
Speaker 3: Everybody else is going to everybody's up.
Speaker 6: And so we just want to Obama to say I
Speaker 6: will not lose, and he was about to do it,
Speaker 6: and then.
Speaker 1: Like the thing is is always like a circle of twelve.
Speaker 1: That's like, well, you know, there was like was this
Speaker 1: looking presidential?
Speaker 6: And Obama you have a deal at Netflix, broke your
Speaker 6: content creator.
Speaker 7: Now say had I had the previous line before I had,
Speaker 7: I had a set up so perfect, bro if he
Speaker 7: would have got to that I will not lose.
Speaker 6: I will say that you know for me, like Letterman
Speaker 6: taking a lot like when it plays CBS. Yes, like
Speaker 6: that got such a like let for well, first of all,
Speaker 6: we were in Cleveland, so whenever Lebron showed up, that
Speaker 6: was a happy moment for them. But I'll say that
Speaker 6: Letterman stole the show in that particular setting, in that night,
Speaker 6: Kanye would have done it. Like the thing with Kanye
Speaker 6: was sort of like he was like, all right, send
Speaker 6: me camera cru to Paris and then we sent a
Speaker 6: camera crew there and jo Bien and then he's in Italy,
Speaker 6: all right, Italy today?
Speaker 1: And then well Fronte asked the question about.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I know you said him him? Who else else?
Speaker 2: Who else did y'all want?
Speaker 7: Who else? I wanted Michael Jordan to say Jackson Tyson Jordan's.
Speaker 1: He was. He was golfing.
Speaker 6: I had I had a Jordan plug and we but
Speaker 6: there was an important golf game that we couldn't from.
Speaker 7: And the crazy, the crazy part is so the crazy
Speaker 7: part is like like like I mere said, like once
Speaker 7: we got Obama, ain't none of y'all motherfucker's cooler than him.
Speaker 7: So anybody that says no, like you ain't cooler than Obama.
Speaker 7: So we did have one issue and I ain't gonna
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna say the person's name. But our mirror
Speaker 7: hits me blindly one day and says, Yo, can you
Speaker 7: find a line that goes with this? And I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm here, that's that's not in the that's not in
Speaker 7: the verse. Why. I was like, why you got to
Speaker 7: say that? And he was like, Noah, no, because you
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, So and so is here. Now
Speaker 7: that's the line they want to say. I said, I'm mirrored,
Speaker 7: make it up. Shit.
Speaker 6: My first day is shooting was like I was trial
Speaker 6: by fire because this particular person was like already doing
Speaker 6: a long press day for the project that they had
Speaker 6: going on. Like that's we had to get in with,
Speaker 6: like if someone was doing a press junket somewhere and
Speaker 6: then like we sent our crew real quick to get
Speaker 6: them to save this one line for five minutes and whatever.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: So I caught somebody at the end of like a
Speaker 6: long press junket day of like seven hours of interviews.
Speaker 1: They want to go home. They happen to have a line.
Speaker 6: They happen to have a line that wasn't like everyone
Speaker 6: wanted like an impactful line or to know, okay, who
Speaker 6: gets this line, who gets the punch? And there's some
Speaker 6: lines where you have to set it up so that
Speaker 6: you know someone else gets it. Someone has to set
Speaker 6: up the alley oop shot and someone shoots it in
Speaker 6: and there's just one of these moments where this particular
Speaker 6: person had an ali oop shot tossing to someone else
Speaker 6: that gets the punch line. So they felt like their
Speaker 6: line wasn't cool, so they just decided, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do my favorite jay Z line and y'all
Speaker 6: y'all could just work with that. And I was like, no,
Speaker 6: it doesn't work like that, like you gotta you know.
Speaker 7: So he calls me. He calls me and Tay, I
Speaker 7: ain't gonna say the person name, but the line was
Speaker 7: no chrome on the wheels. I'm a grown up for real, right,
Speaker 7: So I'm sitting there looking at Nigga. I'm looking at
Speaker 7: my phone like that's not no bar like that ain't
Speaker 7: even he like, but that's what they want to say.
Speaker 7: So I go, I said, yeah, that's not in the
Speaker 7: scene that I mean, that's not in the in the
Speaker 7: in the rast. Well, how am I supposed to tell
Speaker 7: her that I said that you tell that person that
Speaker 7: this is our movie and this is their line is script,
Speaker 7: Like nigga, you can't audition to play Bishop and then
Speaker 7: go yeah, but I don't want to get killed. But nigga,
Speaker 7: you don't want to play Mitchell. Right, So he goes
Speaker 7: with skills. I mean, what am I supposed to say
Speaker 7: to her? And I was like, I say, I said,
Speaker 7: I'm here. This is what you do from here on out.
Speaker 7: Anytime somebody looks at a piece of paper and says, yo,
Speaker 7: man who said this line? I want to say this line,
Speaker 7: tell them Obama already said, because ain't none of y'all.
Speaker 6: In fact, I had to do that twice, by the way,
Speaker 6: like I learned early not to show anyone in the
Speaker 6: entire script.
Speaker 1: For them to say, you know, I want to say.
Speaker 7: Allow me to reintroduce myself, I'm like, now you can't.
Speaker 1: There's there's two people not talking to me now because.
Speaker 6: There's two people not to I'll get to me now
Speaker 6: because they claim that I under used them. So and
Speaker 6: for me, but it was a trial by fire on
Speaker 6: what directing is really like.
Speaker 7: So for me to do it and then you know,
Speaker 7: going back and forth, with our mirror over it, and
Speaker 7: we like we were really in the trenches on this ship.
Speaker 7: And then October thirty first comes and Hole. It's one
Speaker 7: thing to write something, but it's one thing to write
Speaker 7: something that I know the person that it's about is
Speaker 7: gonna see it firsthand. So when I when I hit him,
Speaker 7: I hit I saw Jay's tweet and you know, I'm
Speaker 7: on the East coast as it happened, so you know,
Speaker 7: I saw Jay's tweet and then I hit our mirror
Speaker 7: like yo, how to go? And he was like yo,
Speaker 7: he was floored. And I'm like, oh shit, like that's good.
Speaker 7: And then I go to sleep and our mirror text
Speaker 7: me and goes, yo, Jay about to hit you, and
Speaker 7: like I wake up to a to a to a
Speaker 7: text from Hole like like I was floored. Like and
Speaker 7: don't get me wrong, I spoken to Jay a few times,
Speaker 7: but I ain't spoke a billionaire Jay in a minute.
Speaker 1: Wow, man.
Speaker 7: So for so for to wake up to a text
Speaker 7: message from him expressing his gratitude and how thankful he
Speaker 7: was and how brilliant he thought it well he said,
Speaker 7: he said, like, Yo, that was brilliant, Like that was dope.
Speaker 7: Like and I knew he was going through a court
Speaker 7: case at the time, like he had to go to
Speaker 7: court the next day.
Speaker 1: Like, so speaking of gratitude mane the internet and your
Speaker 1: present and explaining Josh loves about that.
Speaker 6: For me, it was it was very important, Like it
Speaker 6: was kind of awesome, uh seeing you and pooh wait
Speaker 6: am I am?
Speaker 1: I correct?
Speaker 6: And that you guys have your complete masters back from
Speaker 6: the listening and.
Speaker 9: We got the listening the Mintel show. We don't have
Speaker 9: those that one is still under a rhino. They have them,
Speaker 9: but we've been in contact with them and we've been
Speaker 9: talking with them and like working that out, you know
Speaker 9: what I'm saying. So there, So throughout the whole process again,
Speaker 9: I had no smoke with Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records they
Speaker 9: were cool with us, Like right, they were fine.
Speaker 3: It was abb that was.
Speaker 9: On that funck shit. But Noah, we got our ship back.
Speaker 7: That's dope.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: I'm happy for y'all. I remember when I started tweet
Speaker 7: and uh, you put it up and said that you know,
Speaker 7: y'all were in control of those records. I knew how
Speaker 7: much that meant you as an artist. I knew how
Speaker 7: much that meant to you and pool so I was
Speaker 7: cool behind, like I you know, I think my my
Speaker 7: core was I love it when the plan come together,
Speaker 7: like yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: I say, man, it was thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm more happy than that then Daylight getting their masters back,
Speaker 6: Like I'm more happy for you guys in specifically it's
Speaker 6: a weapon.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm like, well, I mean, we hadn't
Speaker 9: really talked about it at all, and we wasn't you know,
Speaker 9: it wasn't anything that we was, you know, we were
Speaker 9: just kind of dealing with on our own kind of privately.
Speaker 9: And then when we woke up and saw that the
Speaker 9: uh the they had repressed the vinyl, and it was
Speaker 9: just like, oh, nigga, now you just think you're gonna
Speaker 9: play in my face with this shit, you know what
Speaker 9: I mean. And so my my immediate response, I was
Speaker 9: like about the gold fight and I was like hold up,
Speaker 9: I hit pooh you know what I'm saying. And I said,
Speaker 9: look bro exactly, I'm like, yo, Bro, I said, how
Speaker 9: you want to do this? You want to go quiet
Speaker 9: or you want to get loud, because we can I can.
Speaker 1: We can do it either way.
Speaker 3: He was like, let's get loud. I said, all right,
Speaker 3: let's go So that was it and it worked.
Speaker 1: Man. That was dope.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: So in this particular situation, you and Poo are the
Speaker 6: owners of the listening.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we took our shit back, all right, you two alone?
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: The unmentioned third factor doesn't have stakes in the game
Speaker 6: of ownership.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 9: Ninth was a He was compensated for his time in
Speaker 9: Little Brother when he was in Little Brother. But since
Speaker 9: two thousand and seven and Little Brother has creatively, contractually
Speaker 9: and financially been a duo and it will remain that way.
Speaker 7: For your brief question, now there you go.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, because I just didn't know. It's all good.
Speaker 7: I'm sure. I'm sure with somebody else listening that probably
Speaker 7: wanted this, they.
Speaker 2: Did, and it sounds like a mirror like yeah, thank.
Speaker 7: You, I'm glad you get Now. That's dope, man, I'm
Speaker 7: happy for y'all.
Speaker 6: Speaking of record labels, Steve, your jazz label. You've established
Speaker 6: a jazz.
Speaker 5: Label, yes, and I do want to talk about that,
Speaker 5: but I haven't answered to your earlier question about twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one and entertainment Summer of Soul.
Speaker 1: Come on, you ever talked about this?
Speaker 5: We don't know that right now, you're just fucking with you, Okay, well, yes,
Speaker 5: thank you for bringing that up a mirror JMI Recordings
Speaker 5: from working on a lot of records recently.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of records.
Speaker 5: Coming out in twenty twenty, twenty twenty two and David
Speaker 5: Murray and UH sah Berliner and Loggate Lund a Swedish
Speaker 5: guitar player, and UH all kinds of records. JMI Recordings
Speaker 5: dot com.
Speaker 3: We can buy records.
Speaker 1: What's going on. I'm going to ask you what M
Speaker 1: I stands for?
Speaker 7: Does it matter? Does it matter?
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter?
Speaker 7: Relation to E M I.
Speaker 5: No, we're modeled after C T I actually and a
Speaker 5: little bit a little bit of E C M.
Speaker 1: But we're there.
Speaker 5: We're completely analog label. We record and UH mixed and
Speaker 5: master all analog tape and UH only print up vinyl records.
Speaker 5: And we work with the greatest artists around today, including
Speaker 5: the great David Murray.
Speaker 1: And Quest We need, We're gonna do it.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do an album with you next.
Speaker 6: Year with to do the duo record with David Murray.
Speaker 6: But this is not streamable at all. You can only
Speaker 6: buy UH.
Speaker 5: Mostly just final but we do have a few of
Speaker 5: the albums are up on streaming stuff, but we.
Speaker 3: Don't care about it.
Speaker 1: Just what I mean, skills, Sorry, hold on, skills took
Speaker 1: it off.
Speaker 2: Mute, Let's let's live this up.
Speaker 5: Hold On, I mean yeah, skills. I want to send
Speaker 5: you a bunch of the jam I stuff.
Speaker 7: Okay, awesome, man, I would love to I would love
Speaker 7: to have some. I got your number, So all right,
Speaker 7: I cut somebody off.
Speaker 6: Sorry, thanks. I was trying to get the light to
Speaker 6: see her. How her creative twenty twenty one was.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was good.
Speaker 2: I mean I picked up another podcast pick up to
Speaker 2: Jill Scott and Age Grad and dance Slur.
Speaker 1: How's that going?
Speaker 7: I was good. I love it.
Speaker 2: We get to talk about some pretty cool things and
Speaker 2: so you should listen to that.
Speaker 7: That's everywhere.
Speaker 2: And then of course still doing Yo. You you started
Speaker 2: off my year on one of my other podcasts, which
Speaker 2: is one of my co hosts favorite moments of the year,
Speaker 2: quest Love on Love and Great because I do another
Speaker 2: podcast that.
Speaker 3: Was a great podcast. That was a great woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate you a mirror that's
Speaker 2: what I'm in and I appreciate you for the compliment.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so we do another great show and then
Speaker 2: just Doe voiceover work and about this. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: I will be selling two TV show ideas. Yes, that's happening.
Speaker 2: I never seen a dating show like mine before.
Speaker 6: When we spoke last year, you were still flirting. I
Speaker 6: know that you know to to flirt with comedy, Yes,
Speaker 6: requires going out and people and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So three, where do you Where do you land?
Speaker 6: Where do you land on the dark board? As far
Speaker 6: as like stand up and all that, it's concerned.
Speaker 2: Post COVID, I just say post COVID, because it's like
Speaker 2: since COVID, not the COVID is over, but post COVID,
Speaker 2: I have not really been in crowds a mirror. I
Speaker 2: really haven't even been to a show. So post COVID,
Speaker 2: I've just been kind of writing and watching and listening
Speaker 2: because understandable, I've barely been watching people's certain stand ups.
Speaker 2: I still need to watch that on Netflix. How about
Speaker 2: that one?
Speaker 7: And I mean the material, the material that you get
Speaker 7: from this podcast alone. Yeah, these motherfuckers. One of the
Speaker 7: one of the funniest moments I ever in my life.
Speaker 1: I forgot this.
Speaker 7: Podcast to the show. I forgot that one of the
Speaker 7: funniest moments in my life. I alway pull over when
Speaker 7: fucking when y'all had music soul shout and music did
Speaker 7: not know that I'm mean, I mean, didn't know that
Speaker 7: music was mad at him. He didn't figure it out
Speaker 7: until half into.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest moments quest of supreme history. I
Speaker 1: think us. I think he was mad with the wall.
Speaker 7: It was one time when Liaiah stopped him and he
Speaker 7: was like, no, you know what I mean I was.
Speaker 7: I was outside in the car. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It was all cool. You know what I'm saying, It
Speaker 7: was cool. I just waited, you know, I mean, Leo
Speaker 7: called y'all. I just waited in the car like another
Speaker 7: ass nigga. And then Liaiah said, so, what's going on
Speaker 7: with you music? Like He's like, I mean, it is
Speaker 7: what it is. And she said like he said, well,
Speaker 7: damn nigga, are you happy about you anything.
Speaker 4: That fucking quest hey, I had open.
Speaker 7: He call me you called you.
Speaker 1: I hit tay too to everybody music.
Speaker 6: I will give anything to go back to the group
Speaker 6: chat the day that.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 6: I have moments where I guess will say something off
Speaker 6: the cuff or like just out of pocket and our
Speaker 6: our chat the suddenly.
Speaker 1: It's the best thing.
Speaker 7: You know, Let's I don't want to sometimes I know
Speaker 7: I'm mere long enough to Sometimes when I'm just don't
Speaker 7: want to be involved in something, he might act like
Speaker 7: he's clueless. But that day you were really clue and I.
Speaker 1: Really got a lot to be juggling, man and.
Speaker 7: Right, and you you were like, wait, you didn't what
Speaker 7: happened again? And motherfucker was like, yeah, I was outside
Speaker 7: the car at the Solar crazy laughing at him. I
Speaker 7: just I just wanted I just the penny and me.
Speaker 7: I just wanted our mere to be like Dann you
Speaker 7: was outside in the car like the whole time she
Speaker 7: was or she was like, man, you and I want
Speaker 7: to tell you. I wanted I'm here to go. So
Speaker 7: while you were in the car, Like, did you like
Speaker 7: it was beauty?
Speaker 6: You should have texted me. You should have texted me
Speaker 6: one four three to make it bundanly clear. Yes, Lear
Speaker 6: Cohen decided. Lear Cohen heard a rumor about the soul
Speaker 6: Quarian Vibe shoot about to happen, that that infamous photo
Speaker 6: that basically ended the click of the Twelve of Us,
Speaker 6: and Lear wanted to ambush us with an artist that
Speaker 6: we really, all of us weren't completely familiar with, Like
Speaker 6: we were actually friends in that photo. And Lear decided that,
Speaker 6: you know, he's just going to ambush this and send
Speaker 6: his artists to shoot.
Speaker 3: Now, just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 7: Just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're making it better.
Speaker 7: I just I just want it. Was a part of
Speaker 7: me to just want it. I mean to just text
Speaker 7: him and go like, bro, like are we good? Are
Speaker 7: we just friends? Well? No? Is it all love?
Speaker 1: I'm over here going half crazy.
Speaker 2: This is the problem now, black man. We have to
Speaker 2: take mental health seriously in this. In a TV show,
Speaker 2: they would provide a one eight hundred number because mental
Speaker 2: health is serious and those who feel like they need
Speaker 2: to have it, they should find a number because we
Speaker 2: don't have it here.
Speaker 7: See, me and Ted got in the same sense, We
Speaker 7: got the same sense of humor. So that's a whole
Speaker 7: nother number. Like they're gonna have to call another number
Speaker 7: for that.
Speaker 1: Because I got jokes for your head so mad? Come on, bro, like,
Speaker 1: are you you the nigga that wan neo soul? Like?
Speaker 3: What is like? What?
Speaker 1: Like? Whatever I do have?
Speaker 7: I do have one thing to ask you, do you
Speaker 7: have any more Soul Trained episodes? Did you get any more?
Speaker 7: Because you know I got some more. No, no, no, you
Speaker 7: know I'm saying, do you have any more?
Speaker 6: I cannot officially let you know why I have them all,
Speaker 6: But if you can see how my year went last year,
Speaker 6: we could pretty much put two and two together about
Speaker 6: what I'm gonna be doing the next seven years. Let's
Speaker 6: talk about the seed, The seed, the scene that Detroit.
Speaker 6: Oh dude, I man, how are you the plug on
Speaker 6: the scene? Because I know I might wind up being
Speaker 6: the but I have some plug. If you are from
Speaker 6: Detroit right now, you're getting very excited about what we're
Speaker 6: talking about. Like every every regional spot has their own
Speaker 6: local dance show, so similar to Philadelphia had Dancing on Air,
Speaker 6: which later turning The Dance Party USA, other local shows
Speaker 6: have their own like Local Little Dance, after School Dance Jawns.
Speaker 6: The Scene is probably the most unique show. If you
Speaker 6: google the scene right now, just say the scene Detroit,
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty something.
Speaker 1: It's it explains a lot. Explains why Dyla is a
Speaker 1: genius because basically electrifying mojo pretty much raised a generation
Speaker 1: of black people on electronic music. So you know, there's
Speaker 1: a whole generation between him playing like he on his
Speaker 1: radio show look up old electrified mojo shows from like
Speaker 1: the eighties. He'll play p Funk one moment, then he'll
Speaker 1: play Gary Newman the next moment. Then they'll play Bowie
Speaker 1: the next moment, then he'll play Prince, then he'll play
Speaker 1: depeche Mode. So you know, if you are anywhere between the.
Speaker 6: Ages of eight to eighteen in Detroit, Michigan, between nineteen
Speaker 6: seventy eight and like ninety one, you're getting a whole
Speaker 6: nother form of musical nutrition that this This explains why
Speaker 6: Dyla was who he was. So you know, the scene
Speaker 6: was this teen dance show in which I mean they're
Speaker 6: pretty much they're just dancing to like the most crazy
Speaker 6: electro techno type of shit.
Speaker 9: It's crazy, and so they're there's a scene and also
Speaker 9: new dance show.
Speaker 3: There was another show Detroit.
Speaker 2: Yes, so this is going to be a documentary about
Speaker 2: this show.
Speaker 3: About the scene.
Speaker 1: He answered.
Speaker 4: The answer to your question of here is because there's
Speaker 4: a few white people who get it and know some ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the rare which we you know, it's.
Speaker 4: Your seventeenth documentary, and when you're an Academy member, you
Speaker 4: can make seventeen documentaries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to go.
Speaker 6: But yes, to answer your question, I've I've fulfilled my
Speaker 6: fantasy this year and have them all watched all eleven
Speaker 6: hundred soul trains.
Speaker 1: Damn like two.
Speaker 7: Hundred short I'm like two hundred shorts.
Speaker 1: It's super overwhelming right now.
Speaker 6: That is I got to force myself to watch it
Speaker 6: past ninety three once Don left.
Speaker 7: But you know, those are the ones I want to see.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to see fucking bow Wow and Destiny
Speaker 7: show embarrassing they so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, this sort of feels like an episode I
Speaker 1: admitted one hip hop confession. Steve talked about his jazz label,
Speaker 1: Bill's working on two projects and a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Fante got his master's back.
Speaker 7: You've got comedy coming.
Speaker 1: Fonte made all in all honesty.
Speaker 4: Fante made twenty twenty one happen those cat Maaster's back.
Speaker 4: Fantee of all the motherfuckers, made twenty twenty one count
Speaker 4: Praise to you, Fante, well done.
Speaker 1: Thank you man.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 6: You can you explain to me the US cat situation
Speaker 6: like she so she was.
Speaker 1: Went on geeked. I was geeked that that moment happened.
Speaker 9: Yeah, she went on live and she was just doing
Speaker 9: her makeup and uh she was wrapping whatever you say
Speaker 9: off the listening. And I didn't find out about it
Speaker 9: until afterwards, and uh, well, my boys hit me and
Speaker 9: I was like like what.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 9: And then I saw it on Twitter. So then I
Speaker 9: actually saw the video. I was like, oh ship, and
Speaker 9: so I just threw it up, you know, retweeted it whatever,
Speaker 9: and and I was like, yeah, we're in the racial
Speaker 9: chat rooms bumping Little Brother, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: And I knew she would get the joke. Like a
Speaker 9: couple of her fans was like, you know, why would
Speaker 9: you do? But she, I knew she didn't give a
Speaker 9: fun I knew she would get the humor, you know
Speaker 9: what I mean. I figured, if you were a Little
Speaker 9: Brother fan, you have the ability to laugh at yourself.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 9: So so you know, so she but she was super
Speaker 9: cool and we ended up. She ended up like then
Speaker 9: she tweeted out, made a little watch and was like, y'
Speaker 9: I'm bumping this, y'all need to check it. I was like,
Speaker 9: oh ship, and so we ended up talking for a
Speaker 9: little bit, like we ended up texting a little bit,
Speaker 9: and but nah man, she's just like super dope. And
Speaker 9: you know, it was around the time that she was
Speaker 9: the news came out that like her tour stopped, she
Speaker 9: her her coup got COVID and but uh, but.
Speaker 3: Nah man, it was a it was a it was
Speaker 3: a moment.
Speaker 1: I was like, word up, that's dope.
Speaker 9: But she's she's ahead like a couple of home that
Speaker 9: knew her, like yeah, back.
Speaker 1: Like slim Village once, and I was like the fuck. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just completely under the impression that even though
Speaker 1: these kids were coming from eighties parents, seventies parents, eighties
Speaker 1: parents that you know, there's gen z just had absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing but disdain for our music.
Speaker 3: So now they was raised on this ship bro to see.
Speaker 1: Dojah cats singing all to you for you and whatever
Speaker 1: you said.
Speaker 7: Guy from the country either right, like she she got
Speaker 7: from l A.
Speaker 3: Her her dad is South African. She's from l A.
Speaker 1: He was in her dad was in Tarafina, Seraphina, Seraphena.
Speaker 3: I remember walked.
Speaker 7: She's actually yeah, it's a video of her like pop
Speaker 7: blocking Like but this is great.
Speaker 2: Now, Like between this and watching her own Little Dicky,
Speaker 2: I'm a fan so.
Speaker 3: Well on his show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2: Like a dope ass episode a Little Dicky, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm playing herself.
Speaker 7: He's this show is really hilariously and nasty.
Speaker 6: Okay, so before we check out, is there any records
Speaker 6: that I should be checking for? It's weird, man, Like,
Speaker 6: I'm legit. I'm not disappointed. But she and I had
Speaker 6: a conversation about it. I really had expectations for Yeba
Speaker 6: to really come with the promotion with her record, but
Speaker 6: you know, she wasn't wasn't ready yet.
Speaker 3: You know, Distance was the one for me on that record.
Speaker 3: That was the one. Yeah, I just you played one right,
Speaker 3: I played.
Speaker 1: On the whole record. I just wish. I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's like I'm now starting to think that every artist
Speaker 6: that comes through Electric Ladies Studios why ends up going
Speaker 6: through a process that you know means a stalling or whatever,
Speaker 6: you know that sort of thing. Basically, the whole point
Speaker 6: was that like so many shows are asking for her
Speaker 6: to come, and before him, she's like not ready yet,
Speaker 6: not ready yet, like in due time and due time,
Speaker 6: and it's just like the Salange the records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the record's kind of over now.
Speaker 6: Like you know, I was, I was expecting her to
Speaker 6: drink old Old Girls milkshake. That obviously is going to
Speaker 6: dominate the Grammys, you know, next year with her album.
Speaker 1: But you know I I sort of thought this is
Speaker 1: going to happen, but you know.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the next record A minute for Jazz and Sullivan though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that.
Speaker 1: What's getting all the flowers right now?
Speaker 3: Twenty one.
Speaker 1: As far as the album, I asked you, what album
Speaker 1: are you feeling?
Speaker 2: I like to have very few albums you can listen
Speaker 2: through all the way. I mean, even with that Anderson
Speaker 2: Bruno Mars, there's like one song. But so I was
Speaker 2: just saying for those like Jasmine.
Speaker 1: Who you only like one joint on the.
Speaker 2: Outside of the ones on the radio. Yeah, the last one,
Speaker 2: the last song, what's it?
Speaker 7: Breathe? That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3: Breathing, Yeah, breathe is I thought that.
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, this is just getting started. I'm
Speaker 2: ready for the next one.
Speaker 7: Oh it's over.
Speaker 2: H oh really skills skills where you go?
Speaker 1: No here? I just know I hope that this does
Speaker 1: wonders for for pot you know, did you work on that?
Speaker 2: Did I offend you?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I didn't.
Speaker 7: Oh no, No, I wish I worked on ship right right?
Speaker 7: I take that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 7: My biggest you know I claim the fame this year
Speaker 7: was you know, I wrote for Whole Blue and Beyonce.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 3: So what's the fact.
Speaker 6: Oh, the Salt record and I felt came out. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but is there any one notable that I'm missing as
Speaker 6: far as Yeah, check out my girl be My Fiasco.
Speaker 6: She's the latest artist that we put out on e
Speaker 6: Fie Music. There you go, me tall black guys, Oh
Speaker 6: my voice and the Convader out of DC. Yeah, Devin
Speaker 6: Morrison's on it, my girl College durand Devin uh Darren Brockington. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's it's out be My fasco where I left you
Speaker 6: did that?
Speaker 1: Making me ummer?
Speaker 3: That was the summer that.
Speaker 7: Was supergroup name. I feel like y'all had to have
Speaker 7: a supergroup. But you ain't got no name.
Speaker 3: Like nah, we just fi music.
Speaker 6: We learned from the so Quarius don't get it tit title?
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, we're just collecting the song and don't. Okay, right.
Speaker 6: All right, So skills you you're you, you may you
Speaker 6: may not do it twenty twenty one. Music wise, creative wise,
Speaker 6: What's What's what's coming down the pike for twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: Oh man, I'm finishing up a documentary. I'm finishing up
Speaker 7: a documentary I did on the nineties girl Brunch, which
Speaker 7: is something that I did all Quarantine.
Speaker 2: To take you for that, Thank you skills.
Speaker 7: I'm finishing up a documentary that I'm going to be
Speaker 7: putting out, probably some new music and just some you know,
Speaker 7: still moving, you know. I'm teaching teaching. I go back
Speaker 7: to teaching in January, teaching hip hop class at the
Speaker 7: University of Richmond.
Speaker 1: What's that been? Like?
Speaker 7: Very very informative man, And and you know, it's a
Speaker 7: it's a it's like I'm learning to you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying. But for the most part, man, it's like
Speaker 7: the second year we've done that. COVID knocked us out
Speaker 7: for like one year. But waiting list. Yeah, yeah, me
Speaker 7: and my part.
Speaker 1: My part got to go to school yourself.
Speaker 6: Yes, And I hate like you gotta choose your books
Speaker 6: and then prove it through the you know, right, like
Speaker 6: you gotta do.
Speaker 1: College professor ship Like yeah, that's hate teaching.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, No, I you know, I feel like it's
Speaker 7: something that you know, I love to do. You know,
Speaker 7: I can talk to hip hop all day with people,
Speaker 7: So for me, it's it's been very ratifying.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 7: I definitely can see teaching in my future and we're
Speaker 7: looking forward to doing it at other schools as well.
Speaker 6: Do you feel your students are genuinely interested in finding
Speaker 6: it out or is it just like.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, nah nah. Cats come in you know, cats
Speaker 7: initially come in there thinking that they're gonna get it
Speaker 7: easy a but it ain't. It ain't that at all,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. And shit, our our ages
Speaker 7: range from sixty to like eighteen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: So we had undergraduates in there and other other students,
Speaker 7: like it's the most popular class on campus. So shout
Speaker 7: out to you are Richmond, shout out to the Spiders. Yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I see y'all in a minute from.
Speaker 1: An MC level, or from breakbeat level, or just from
Speaker 1: us every.
Speaker 7: Social and a political movement, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: You know, it's definitely we speak upon it as you know,
Speaker 7: as being the most popular culture I mean former music
Speaker 7: in the culture, so you know, you you are aware
Speaker 7: of it. But you might not have been that aware
Speaker 7: of the things. Like I give you an example real quick,
Speaker 7: Like one of our lessons is we play them the
Speaker 7: video for parents just don't Understand, and then we played
Speaker 7: them the video for Fuck the Police, and their assignment
Speaker 7: is what are the similarities of these two songs? They
Speaker 7: automatically think, we're gonna be like, okay, what's the difference
Speaker 7: between these two and we go, okay, what are the
Speaker 7: similarities between these two songs? And the answers that they
Speaker 7: come up with are fucking phenomenal, Like it's it's so
Speaker 7: crazy how deep they.
Speaker 3: They see it.
Speaker 7: They see first the first the first one that the
Speaker 7: first one that threw me was they were like, you know,
Speaker 7: both of both of these different artists, their reputation is
Speaker 7: everything to them, you know what I'm saying, Like their
Speaker 7: reputation is everything, and you know, like with Will You Know?
Speaker 1: With Will You Know?
Speaker 7: N w A raps about they treat women as gold diggers.
Speaker 7: Women's are looked at as gold diggers and that's all
Speaker 7: they good for bitches and wholes. Gold is whatever will
Speaker 7: got caught up by a gold dick, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, Like who happened to be a twelve year
Speaker 7: old runaway, like you know what I mean? Like their
Speaker 7: their connection is.
Speaker 1: So much more.
Speaker 7: I forgot right, And it's like they're both they're both
Speaker 7: very fearful of one thing, Like n w A Is
Speaker 7: fearful of the cops. Will is fearful of his parents
Speaker 7: finding out, like that was his biggest fear. Like when
Speaker 7: my mom and dad get home, this ship is a rap,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying? Like they it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: We started, we start to semester off with one of
Speaker 7: those exercises and it usually turns out it gives you
Speaker 7: a good gauge of how good the class is going
Speaker 7: to be.
Speaker 3: That's dope, man, Professor.
Speaker 7: Professor Lewis, Professor Lewis.
Speaker 9: Ire is no skills you had mentioned earlier. I just
Speaker 9: wanted to touch on it. You were talking about your
Speaker 9: parents and you know how they've died from addiction, you know,
Speaker 9: thirty years apart.
Speaker 3: Knowing that that's in your family history, Like how have
Speaker 3: you dealt with that?
Speaker 9: And you know, are there any like how knowing that
Speaker 9: that's kind of there, like how do you deal with
Speaker 9: you know, any potential addictions or has that affected you
Speaker 9: in your career in anyway.
Speaker 7: I don't. I don't know if it has. Man, Like
Speaker 7: I believe I'm addicted to too. I believe a part
Speaker 7: of me is addicted to not following in those footsteps,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So for me, you know,
Speaker 7: I understand that sometimes addiction, you know, it can be
Speaker 7: a sickness. And you know, when I was young, you know,
Speaker 7: I didn't understand why Mama just couldn't quit, like why
Speaker 7: you just can't stop? Like I don't want to hear
Speaker 7: that shit, like yo, just quit, like you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying. But I didn't understand how long she had
Speaker 7: been on drugs and how much you know, she felt
Speaker 7: like she needed that drug to even just get up
Speaker 7: and function, cook breakfast, take us to school. She was
Speaker 7: a very function yet she was a very functioning an addict,
Speaker 7: but she was still an addict. So for me, man,
Speaker 7: it scared me in a way that I could never
Speaker 7: sell drugs. I could, I like, my shit could go
Speaker 7: belly up right now and I'll go work at McDonald's
Speaker 7: and y'all be like, god damn skills at McDonald's, like
Speaker 7: like happily, but happily because I I know I first
Speaker 7: hand know what it does to a black family. So
Speaker 7: I don't care how bad it gets for me. I
Speaker 7: could never go I could never sell drugs like ever.
Speaker 7: So I watched, you know, I look back at what
Speaker 7: they went through, and uh, just try to make sure
Speaker 7: that I don't get addicted to anything. You know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, like sugar shit, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: like fucking anything. So yeah, so it's like, you know,
Speaker 7: I just I just pay attention to that because they
Speaker 7: they didn't they ain't go for nothing, Like I had
Speaker 7: to learn from that ship in some degree, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's real.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My final question is, you know, besides getting out
Speaker 1: of this this dog chasing tail loop that we're in, uh,
Speaker 1: is there anything that we're really trying to achieve for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? The actually twenty.
Speaker 9: Twenty right, even though it's looking like in addition now
Speaker 9: two for me, I'm finally we're finally putting the finishing
Speaker 9: up the Little Brother documentary. We got awarded, We got
Speaker 9: a grant from the Southern Documentary Fund and we were
Speaker 9: wanted a finalists that was selected for that. So yeah, man,
Speaker 9: finishing that this was harder that's it's the hardest thing
Speaker 9: I've ever done.
Speaker 3: That go front.
Speaker 6: But so that you put out was just a sizzle
Speaker 6: real and it's coming.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a full length join.
Speaker 7: I can't wait for that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, yeah, so it's yeah, it's that's just gonna
Speaker 9: be hard. But nah, just that, man, just for me
Speaker 9: twenty two, continuing just to take care of myself, take
Speaker 9: care of my health. I got down tu like forty
Speaker 9: this year, so I'm gonna just keep going and change
Speaker 9: on my eating. Were talking last time. I think I'm
Speaker 9: probably just gonna be doing mostly fish from now and
Speaker 9: I don't really do I'll do fishing my chicken, of course,
Speaker 9: but like I think my day's a rid meat.
Speaker 3: I think that shit might be over with. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that's all, you know. I don't know I can
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but yeah, just just trying to make changes, man,
Speaker 6: and sticking around so I keep working, doing what I
Speaker 6: love to do.
Speaker 1: Dope, Steve twenty twenty two. Honestly more of the same.
Speaker 5: I'm real proud of myself and everybody around me for
Speaker 5: getting through the last couple of years, and the next
Speaker 5: one is just gonna be probably just as challenging. So
Speaker 5: the Tonight show, this podcast, jam I, all the other
Speaker 5: things that we're all involved in. You know, if we
Speaker 5: just keep it moving, I think that's a blessing.
Speaker 1: That's key, keep it moving. Why here twenty twenty two?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty two?
Speaker 2: Last year I got my dad in his first museum
Speaker 2: show with his photography at the African American Museum Music,
Speaker 2: the only African American Museum Music in Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 2: Next year, Hey, myself and my godmother, we will produce
Speaker 2: a book for my father of his work, his first
Speaker 2: published book. And I'm looking forward to doing that and
Speaker 2: keeping my parents super happy as the super seniors that
Speaker 2: they are. And uh and just you know, loving learning
Speaker 2: and maybe figuring out this retirement playing through these shows.
Speaker 7: And I'm going to sell in twenty twenty two because I.
Speaker 1: Know what's your twenty twenty two looking like?
Speaker 4: In the words of the great Kwans Carol Habaris.
Speaker 7: I'm kidding, Ghani Habar, Ghani, habarigani.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: Let us all have a.
Speaker 1: Wonderful year, celebrate all skills. I love you. You look
Speaker 1: like the Steve Zisu.
Speaker 4: Of our time. You are a friend deep pool, What
Speaker 4: hell you are skills. You are the life aquatic. Why
Speaker 4: you haven't been even.
Speaker 1: Steven or why have you?
Speaker 4: Why you haven't been on my Broadway show about freestyle rapping?
Speaker 4: I don't understand anyway. Yeah, skills got to come to
Speaker 4: the freestyle of supreme skills. I definitely am on Broadway
Speaker 4: in a show that makes up wraps. I know I'm white,
Speaker 4: but that's what I do, and I feel like you
Speaker 4: should be on it. In fact, Fantete, put your eyebrows
Speaker 4: away because you should be there too.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker.
Speaker 3: You come up with a virtual option, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: You you're so afraid of the COVID. I don't even
Speaker 1: know anyway you get since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm in Virginia. I'll pull up. I could come skills.
Speaker 4: We can do Broadway, we can do, we can do,
Speaker 4: we can do Sesame Street in one weekend, and you'd
Speaker 4: be going back to Virginia.
Speaker 1: Can people go, Bill? Can I ask you one question
Speaker 1: about freestyle and supreme all the questions. I've seen it
Speaker 1: twice here, I've seen it twice.
Speaker 6: The show is perfectly executed, like you guys, you the
Speaker 6: whole store, the whole show's freestyle and it makes sense
Speaker 6: and it is not a have you guys ever just
Speaker 6: had a disaster night where the lyrics weren't hitting at all?
Speaker 4: A mirror, I will, I will let you in on
Speaker 4: the truth. I'm so, I'm forty years old, forty one. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm forty one years old. I've been doing freestyle spince
Speaker 4: I was twenty. So that's if you do the math
Speaker 4: twenty one years, I can safely say that the first
Speaker 4: fifteen were bullshit, and then the.
Speaker 1: Last day I saw I saw the first one.
Speaker 4: No, oh my fucker, I'm talking about like you talked
Speaker 4: like like okay, okay, yeah, all this to be said.
Speaker 4: Skills if you ever in New York and you want
Speaker 4: to make up some raps with some white kids, come
Speaker 4: on down a meal, will show up to and it'll
Speaker 4: be great.
Speaker 1: No, I mean every want to switch to it. It's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a well done production. Skills.
Speaker 4: If you want to make a Broadway debut on I
Speaker 4: don't know, like a given Thursday and whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 6: You got your ass off your and they don't be
Speaker 6: going they don't be going forty bpms.
Speaker 8: They be going no, like we go all the way
Speaker 8: once one time on the tonight show, and he did
Speaker 8: very well.
Speaker 1: I will send down as I promise.
Speaker 7: I'll hit you up.
Speaker 8: Bill.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get your info from.
Speaker 1: Skills if you show up.
Speaker 4: Amir has to show up to because that would be
Speaker 4: the greatest show that ever happened on Broadway.
Speaker 6: Well, I was gonna ask Skills, what is twenty twenty two,
Speaker 6: what's going to be into Let's go, and then I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I'll let you all go ahead.
Speaker 7: Like I said, man, you know, teaching, the finishing up
Speaker 7: the documentary and uh, you know, still trying to push
Speaker 7: forward the stake my claim and this, you know, this.
Speaker 1: Hip hop thing.
Speaker 7: I love it. Man.
Speaker 1: There you go, and I'm gonna come.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna come see you and we're gonna discuss that
Speaker 7: other thing that we I got.
Speaker 6: I love the Skills, Steve, the Skills and Waterfest all
Speaker 6: dayante out of the crib.
Speaker 1: That's all I want, That's all I want to do.
Speaker 4: I want to do the Truman Show.
Speaker 1: I want to do missing the live version of this show.
Speaker 7: What happened?
Speaker 1: I need I need to hug. I need to hug
Speaker 1: Fonte like a like a man needs to come to
Speaker 1: his house. I will come all, d you know what
Speaker 1: you have?
Speaker 3: What all of y'all have a standing invite to the
Speaker 3: of y'all.
Speaker 4: The fact that we're not like setting up shop all
Speaker 4: in North Carolina Atte's house. God stress, and we should
Speaker 4: be doing. We could get we get Steve this too.
Speaker 4: He could drive Virginia schools North Carolina.
Speaker 6: I think I don't know, but that's an eight hour
Speaker 6: drive for me.
Speaker 7: That it's like, I'll go.
Speaker 1: I don't care, I will go. I will go North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Like like, yeah, that's like a thirty four hour drive
Speaker 4: for you, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will got it.
Speaker 1: Well, do you let me hang out? Because I will
Speaker 1: hang the fuck out.
Speaker 2: Your question, your schedule is to hate?
Speaker 1: Too important?
Speaker 6: But no, I will say right now, right now as
Speaker 6: I speak now when we we started this this uh
Speaker 6: we started this episode exactly two hours ago. During this
Speaker 6: two hours, I've gotten seven texts positive.
Speaker 1: Telling me that they just tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 7: Shut.
Speaker 1: The ship is getting a little crazy.
Speaker 6: So yeah, like literally during this conversation, the seven times
Speaker 6: I've looked away to go to in my phone, it's
Speaker 6: you know, just tested positive, You're just test Yeah, man,
Speaker 6: we gotta we gotta figure this out. It's herd immunity
Speaker 6: and we all get it, and then you know, I'm.
Speaker 7: Gettine getting money. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so let's be I'm praying for well more than
Speaker 6: be safe, which is a word that I'm trying to
Speaker 6: divorce myself from and thrive like not being safe. That's
Speaker 6: what I want to try to get people away from,
Speaker 6: like the safe choice, but really be passionate.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm leaving it with. But skills. I
Speaker 1: thank you very much for doing this episode. O man,
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate it. Uh yeah.
Speaker 6: I also want to see you do more consistent episodes
Speaker 6: of which is really the.
Speaker 1: Reason why like this.
Speaker 6: Your Your Your Your podcast is definitely one of my
Speaker 6: favorite hip hop podcast.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you don't talk over your
Speaker 1: guests in an annoying way and you get really great,
Speaker 1: engaging stories and you know, I appreciate that, so thank you, man.
Speaker 7: I'm definitely trying to build it and keep hip Hop
Speaker 7: Confessions pushing. So yeah, let's charming on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I want to do it. I think me
Speaker 3: and put need to come through next year. Man us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: Man, all the things are happening.
Speaker 2: And boss man, you are looking towards what in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 7: Part too.
Speaker 6: I want people to be uh healthy, that's number one.
Speaker 6: We're going to concentrate on Black No More, which is
Speaker 6: Tarik's project.
Speaker 1: Black Supreme Black.
Speaker 6: But yeah, he will finally I will get on quest
Speaker 6: Left Supreme right now. He's he's off the grid. People
Speaker 6: been asking, like, HOWE left the Tonight Show?
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
Speaker 7: Back in October he told me the day before he was.
Speaker 7: He was like, my last day is tomorrow, about to
Speaker 7: start working on his play. So I told him as
Speaker 7: soon as they open up, I'm gonna come and see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so dope, so well out of Washington, we'll see it.
Speaker 1: That's a ship. That's that's what's that's what's next. So
Speaker 1: that's beautiful.
Speaker 6: But right now, just need the world to be more aware.
Speaker 6: I need rappers to stop also just doing basic dumb Shiita.
Speaker 1: Please, I would like that too.
Speaker 6: I would love that anyway, So on behalf of our
Speaker 6: man Skills and unpaid Bill and Sugar, Steve and Layah.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: You already know I appreciate y'all man.
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