WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: 2021 Rap Up with Mad Skillz Pt. 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.280 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:13.039 What Up? 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:13.360 Y'all? 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:13.760 So fine? 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.600 Now you should have gotten into last week's episode, Part 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:21.120 one if our sit down conversation with Skills aka Mad Skills. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:22.680 Now it's time to get into part too. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:30.200 You ready, let's go, Steve Bro? 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.760 Can you talk about anything in twenty twenty one? Was 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:34.720 that this past year? 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.160 There you go, classic Steve? 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.040 Yeah, you know these movies, records, anything? 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.480 Oh not really, I'll discuss Sell didn't release a record 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:47.840 this year. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.720 So no, the answer is no, Actually he did, didn't He. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.320 Yeah, he's records. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.640 But as far as pop culture YouTube, I've been watching 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.160 a lot of European news. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.920 Yeah, BBC like to be honest, I mean, I'm still 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.640 an MSNBC person, but BBC World News is kind of 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:13.880 the and I. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.199 Don't you wanted to say BBD dropped the new album. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.440 I also wanted to shout out the beat and see 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.839 that happened in twenty twenty one the Black News Channel. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.520 My mother would be very upset if I did not 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:24.920 mention that. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.840 I mean, we did something special in twenty twenty one. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.400 Man, he created a miracle. All right? 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.560 This is all I know. I was in Saint Louis. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.000 It's getting real mean up in this shit go ahead. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.480 I was in Saint Louis. You know, I've been on 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.440 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee for like 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.839 eleven twelve years now. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.960 Remember, I get it, you're a emper, We got it. Yeah, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.320 I'm part of the committee, and I knew. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.840 I knew that we weren't going to have anything appealing 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.680 that would make Jay Z want to come and accept 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.720 his award, because I mean, the thing is is that 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.919 when you're paying tribute to an artist from the fifties, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.040 sixties and seventies, Yeah, you can get blah blah blah 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.200 to singer Linda Ronstadt song. You can, you know, sort 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.760 of get somebody to sing. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.320 You know. Last year was like dire Straits and whatever. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.320 But with hip hop especially, there's just some artists that 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.519 I don't think are coverable or any of those things, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:33.480 you know what I mean, right, And I knew starting 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:34.000 this year is. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.120 Gonna be problematic. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.400 Maybe if Eminem gets in next year, you know, there's 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.280 gotta be someone that that he hasn't burned a bridge 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.440 with already, Like, so no machine Gun, Kelly. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.880 I don't know if they made up or whatever. But 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:48.440 I'm just saying that. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.919 I love to see in sync rap eminem lyrics at 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.480 his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:53.880 Induction and. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.919 Imagine, imagine Lance Bass coming out of the stands. I 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.040 won't make that. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.639 We on that for next year. I would make that happen. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.560 No, it was just with this year, I knew that 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:15.560 there's nobody that the Internet or critics or anyone, especially 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.800 with jay Z with deemed satisfactory to do his material. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.720 So I had to wrack my brain out. And the 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.800 thing was, I was driving back from Saint Louis. We 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.679 had a gig in Saint Louis and we would in 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.520 New York the next day, and I decided, well, I 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.040 got fifteen hours ahead of me. You know, I'm gonna 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.520 get in my bag. I'm in, you know, in my 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:46.760 vehicle by myself. He is into Edible. And then Michael K. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:54.760 Williams passed away. He and that shit fucked like fucked 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.320 me up. And then suddenly the rock and roll like 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.880 so I was trying to mourn that shit, and then 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.320 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people called, was like, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.320 we got to figure out something in the next ten 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.280 hours or as jay Z's not coming, and you know, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.840 I'm already in my bag and shit, you know the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.920 Edibles about to hit it and all that shit. I 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.160 was just so messed up that day, and I don't know, 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.600 like I was just trying to figure out, like how 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.240 can I And for some reason, I don't know why, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.720 I was on YouTube I freak, you know what it was. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.720 I was looking up the Supernatural Battle with Craig g 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.400 I was looking that up and your name was on 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.200 the side, and I was like, damn, what can I do? 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.200 What can I do? And the song that I referenced, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.720 that freestyle that you did at Stretching My Beadles where 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.560 you kind of took everyone's line like I don't know 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.520 what the proper title is called, but basically that came 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.400 up and I thought, okay, this is a job for Skills. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.760 So basically I had a vision that was gonna find 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:08.200 fifty celebrities, fifty notable people to say one jay Z 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.520 line each and the way that Skills crafts his lyrics, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.840 like for him to put this ten thousand piece puzzle 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.039 together in seven days. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.560 So I thought, I'm stilling out at MC and I 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.560 think that was like your worst nightmare. I believe. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.279 When the phone call came, do you remember what you 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:28.839 said to me? 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.839 I was high skills. I do not remember. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:39.360 Hey, hey this nigga said that's had a conversation. Went hello, yo, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:40.880 what's up? 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:41.320 Yo? 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.839 When did you stop listening to jay Z? I said, nigga, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.159 what when did you stop listening to jay Z? I said, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.480 I'm heyor what the fuck are you talking about? No? No, no, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.800 I remember I remember hearing you and Reek talk like 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.360 and I remember you saying one time. I remember, I'll 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.480 never forget it. You said you used to be able 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.640 to hear like a jay Z line, and you could quote, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.280 you can hear jay Z versus you could go to 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.159 the barbershop the next day and quote the whole Ship. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.600 I said, yeah, yeah, like yeah, that's how we all 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.760 were with early, the whole Ship. He said, Okay, when 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.839 did that stop for you though? I said, probably, like 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.160 maybe like after like American Gangster, maybe Magna car the 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.320 Holy Girl. Okay, bet all right, okay, yeah, all right, yeah, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:29.960 So what I need you? So he goes. He says, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.279 he says, I need you to I need a stretching 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.279 Barbado freestyle of all the jay Z Ship. But it's 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.320 got to be all holds like you know, from from 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.080 from you know, artists to you know, from food snickings 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:50.000 to to hustler to thinking man to businessman, right from 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.400 riggy from riggity riggedy to Shamann Hove to cover the 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:58.279 whole basis. I said, okay, and then he goes, I 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.720 need this ship in like nine days. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:06:59.920 Yo. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.560 I was like, I'm mirror. No, no, no, you got it, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.440 you got it, you got it. I just wanted to 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.240 make sure you was damn because I'm about to pitch it. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.760 To be honest, are you in? I said, fuck, yeah, man, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.480 I'm in. All right, cool, I call you back And 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.520 that was it, Like it was textbook. I'm mirror. But 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.480 and I'm just sitting there Tay like, yeah, this ship 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.440 ain't gonna happen, like I'm not thinking of no jay 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.160 z shit, I'm chilling. I'm watching TV. Three hours later, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.080 you're gonna be Yeah. She turned it down like we're 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.120 gonna have to come with something else. Three hours later. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:41.240 Yeah she's in. So yes, I need it, and I 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.600 gotta go through holes whole fucking from from a skik 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.600 can I get open to you know what I mean? 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:54.520 And I'm just like, this is this is insane. I 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.960 went to Barnes and Noble started buying books be Coded. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.920 I brought this book. I already had these clothed but 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.560 I couldn't find it, so I had to buy that 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:04.160 shit again. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.040 Can I ask a real civilian question, just because we're 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.040 not the only ones having this conversation, Like people are 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.920 listening and they probably may have the same question. Yes, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.720 there's a situation like this, pay well, because I feel 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.600 like people don't understand when it comes to you. And 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.520 even sometimes when I feel like Fonte and MC's like 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.760 y'all who have alternative livings when it comes to what 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.160 y'all do with your talents, they I don't think they 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:35.200 get that, like, yeah, you can do this shit's yeah yeah. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.520 So that's why I'm asking. I'm not trying to be 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.839 in your pocket, but I'm like, you do things like this, 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.000 and I'm just curious. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:40.320 I'm like. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.120 The funny part is when when Sean hit me and 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.400 was like, yes, so just you know, tell me you 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.640 know what, Like I'm talking to them now, so I 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.000 need something, And I was like, I don't want y'all money, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:57.480 I want a job, nigga, and he was like, Okay, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.959 I said, I don't want y'all money, like I don't 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.520 don't want money from you our mirror. And then Sean goes, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.280 it ain't me and our mirror's money, and I was like, oh, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:06.079 I bet. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:14.880 When a good sentence, Yeah, that was my life. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:20.280 I don't needles to say good and well, yeah, yeah 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:20.560 it was. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.800 It was definitely. It was definitely worth my time and 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.600 my effort. But but man, at the end of the day, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:32.000 BRO like to to see to see. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.840 The world, to see. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.840 Who tweet where he tweeted, Like when jay Z tweeted 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.640 and jay Z don't even tweet like that, what did 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:43.160 he tweet? He tweeted after it, Yeah, he tweeted thank 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.720 you to everyone in that video package. I'm definitely gonna 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.920 cry in the car when I saw that tweet, I 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:48.440 was like. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:53.320 He did oh ship he that that? That really? You 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.760 know that that stuff. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.520 It's just you know, just on my the things arguing, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.680 because the thing is I had a Christmas list of 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.319 who I wanted to be in the join ye but 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.800 we then but then I had a lot of mountains to. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:13.679 Climb. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.000 You know, you gotta explain to you're like Obamas people 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.480 want to know who else is Emma is joined before 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.600 he doesn't. You gotta explain the rock nation that this person. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.760 Is air this year on HBO. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.920 Right Rock and Roll Hall of Fame video. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.800 But if we would have gotten our wish list, not 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.000 saying people aren't still talking about it. If we had 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.640 gotten our wish list, that ship would be like that 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.319 would have wanted, that would have been in the Rock 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.000 and Roll Hall of Fame by itself. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.920 Who else who was on the list that y'a couldn't 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:47.559 get or didn't get? 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.520 Well, I mean initially, my my first true yes was 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.400 Obama because my thing was like Sewan and I were like, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.680 if Obamas is yes, then. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.600 Everybody else is going to everybody's up. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.280 And so we just want to Obama to say I 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:06.200 will not lose, and he was about to do it, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:06.959 and then. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.040 Like the thing is is always like a circle of twelve. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.280 That's like, well, you know, there was like was this 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:14.280 looking presidential? 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.880 And Obama you have a deal at Netflix, broke your 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:19.680 content creator. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:25.680 Now say had I had the previous line before I had, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.760 I had a set up so perfect, bro if he 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.920 would have got to that I will not lose. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.880 I will say that you know for me, like Letterman 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:42.400 taking a lot like when it plays CBS. Yes, like 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.240 that got such a like let for well, first of all, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.319 we were in Cleveland, so whenever Lebron showed up, that 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.360 was a happy moment for them. But I'll say that 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.920 Letterman stole the show in that particular setting, in that night, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.080 Kanye would have done it. Like the thing with Kanye 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.920 was sort of like he was like, all right, send 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:01.720 me camera cru to Paris and then we sent a 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.320 camera crew there and jo Bien and then he's in Italy, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.440 all right, Italy today? 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:13.000 And then well Fronte asked the question about. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.760 Oh yeah, I know you said him him? Who else else? 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:16.719 Who else did y'all want? 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:23.800 Who else? I wanted Michael Jordan to say Jackson Tyson Jordan's. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.520 He was. He was golfing. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.920 I had I had a Jordan plug and we but 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.559 there was an important golf game that we couldn't from. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.400 And the crazy, the crazy part is so the crazy 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.120 part is like like like I mere said, like once 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.480 we got Obama, ain't none of y'all motherfucker's cooler than him. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.200 So anybody that says no, like you ain't cooler than Obama. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.120 So we did have one issue and I ain't gonna 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.559 I'm not gonna say the person's name. But our mirror 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.280 hits me blindly one day and says, Yo, can you 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.400 find a line that goes with this? And I was like, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.520 I'm here, that's that's not in the that's not in 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.120 the verse. Why. I was like, why you got to 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.599 say that? And he was like, Noah, no, because you 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.120 know what I'm saying, So and so is here. Now 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.880 that's the line they want to say. I said, I'm mirrored, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:19.480 make it up. Shit. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.040 My first day is shooting was like I was trial 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:28.000 by fire because this particular person was like already doing 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.440 a long press day for the project that they had 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.680 going on. Like that's we had to get in with, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.080 like if someone was doing a press junket somewhere and 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.839 then like we sent our crew real quick to get 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.080 them to save this one line for five minutes and whatever. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.000 You know. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.120 So I caught somebody at the end of like a 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.079 long press junket day of like seven hours of interviews. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.000 They want to go home. They happen to have a line. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.760 They happen to have a line that wasn't like everyone 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.679 wanted like an impactful line or to know, okay, who 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.240 gets this line, who gets the punch? And there's some 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.040 lines where you have to set it up so that 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.719 you know someone else gets it. Someone has to set 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.960 up the alley oop shot and someone shoots it in 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.760 and there's just one of these moments where this particular 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:17.960 person had an ali oop shot tossing to someone else 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.640 that gets the punch line. So they felt like their 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.040 line wasn't cool, so they just decided, well, I'm gonna 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.560 I'm gonna do my favorite jay Z line and y'all 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.800 y'all could just work with that. And I was like, no, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.760 it doesn't work like that, like you gotta you know. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.240 So he calls me. He calls me and Tay, I 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.680 ain't gonna say the person name, but the line was 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.160 no chrome on the wheels. I'm a grown up for real, right, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.520 So I'm sitting there looking at Nigga. I'm looking at 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.840 my phone like that's not no bar like that ain't 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.120 even he like, but that's what they want to say. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.600 So I go, I said, yeah, that's not in the 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.720 scene that I mean, that's not in the in the 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.280 in the rast. Well, how am I supposed to tell 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.120 her that I said that you tell that person that 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:09.600 this is our movie and this is their line is script, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.840 Like nigga, you can't audition to play Bishop and then 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.880 go yeah, but I don't want to get killed. But nigga, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:21.720 you don't want to play Mitchell. Right, So he goes 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.480 with skills. I mean, what am I supposed to say 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.640 to her? And I was like, I say, I said, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.640 I'm here. This is what you do from here on out. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.000 Anytime somebody looks at a piece of paper and says, yo, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.000 man who said this line? I want to say this line, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.400 tell them Obama already said, because ain't none of y'all. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.400 In fact, I had to do that twice, by the way, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.920 like I learned early not to show anyone in the 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:46.800 entire script. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.600 For them to say, you know, I want to say. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.480 Allow me to reintroduce myself, I'm like, now you can't. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.160 There's there's two people not talking to me now because. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.920 There's two people not to I'll get to me now 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.640 because they claim that I under used them. So and 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.040 for me, but it was a trial by fire on 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.360 what directing is really like. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.200 So for me to do it and then you know, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.440 going back and forth, with our mirror over it, and 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.160 we like we were really in the trenches on this ship. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:28.000 And then October thirty first comes and Hole. It's one 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.080 thing to write something, but it's one thing to write 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.520 something that I know the person that it's about is 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.520 gonna see it firsthand. So when I when I hit him, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.040 I hit I saw Jay's tweet and you know, I'm 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.520 on the East coast as it happened, so you know, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.400 I saw Jay's tweet and then I hit our mirror 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.560 like yo, how to go? And he was like yo, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.640 he was floored. And I'm like, oh shit, like that's good. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.360 And then I go to sleep and our mirror text 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.880 me and goes, yo, Jay about to hit you, and 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.520 like I wake up to a to a to a 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.040 text from Hole like like I was floored. Like and 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.760 don't get me wrong, I spoken to Jay a few times, 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.720 but I ain't spoke a billionaire Jay in a minute. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.800 Wow, man. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.600 So for so for to wake up to a text 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.520 message from him expressing his gratitude and how thankful he 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.680 was and how brilliant he thought it well he said, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.320 he said, like, Yo, that was brilliant, Like that was dope. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.320 Like and I knew he was going through a court 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.680 case at the time, like he had to go to 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:28.680 court the next day. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:37.520 Like, so speaking of gratitude mane the internet and your 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:44.160 present and explaining Josh loves about that. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.639 For me, it was it was very important, Like it 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.800 was kind of awesome, uh seeing you and pooh wait 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:52.400 am I am? 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:53.000 I correct? 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.720 And that you guys have your complete masters back from 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:57.640 the listening and. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.760 We got the listening the Mintel show. We don't have 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.800 those that one is still under a rhino. They have them, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.720 but we've been in contact with them and we've been 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.040 talking with them and like working that out, you know 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.680 what I'm saying. So there, So throughout the whole process again, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.119 I had no smoke with Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records they 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.520 were cool with us, Like right, they were fine. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:18.919 It was abb that was. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.480 On that funck shit. But Noah, we got our ship back. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:22.680 That's dope. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:22.880 Man. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.879 I'm happy for y'all. I remember when I started tweet 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.080 and uh, you put it up and said that you know, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.439 y'all were in control of those records. I knew how 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.080 much that meant you as an artist. I knew how 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.080 much that meant to you and pool so I was 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.399 cool behind, like I you know, I think my my 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.280 core was I love it when the plan come together, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:40.720 like yeah, I remember that. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.639 I say, man, it was thank you. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.080 I'm more happy than that then Daylight getting their masters back, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:52.160 Like I'm more happy for you guys in specifically it's 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:52.639 a weapon. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.600 Yeah, you know, I'm like, well, I mean, we hadn't 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.199 really talked about it at all, and we wasn't you know, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.639 it wasn't anything that we was, you know, we were 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.600 just kind of dealing with on our own kind of privately. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.120 And then when we woke up and saw that the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.119 uh the they had repressed the vinyl, and it was 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.120 just like, oh, nigga, now you just think you're gonna 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:13.720 play in my face with this shit, you know what 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.240 I mean. And so my my immediate response, I was 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.920 like about the gold fight and I was like hold up, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.080 I hit pooh you know what I'm saying. And I said, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.320 look bro exactly, I'm like, yo, Bro, I said, how 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:25.879 you want to do this? You want to go quiet 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.000 or you want to get loud, because we can I can. 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:28.880 We can do it either way. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.199 He was like, let's get loud. I said, all right, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.000 let's go So that was it and it worked. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:33.840 Man. That was dope. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:34.120 Man. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.520 So in this particular situation, you and Poo are the 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:39.840 owners of the listening. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.960 Yeah, we took our shit back, all right, you two alone? 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:45.760 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.800 The unmentioned third factor doesn't have stakes in the game 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.719 of ownership. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:52.679 No. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.480 Ninth was a He was compensated for his time in 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.200 Little Brother when he was in Little Brother. But since 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.960 two thousand and seven and Little Brother has creatively, contractually 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.520 and financially been a duo and it will remain that way. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:10.560 For your brief question, now there you go. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.720 No, no, no, because I just didn't know. It's all good. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.920 I'm sure. I'm sure with somebody else listening that probably 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:17.720 wanted this, they. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.280 Did, and it sounds like a mirror like yeah, thank. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.840 You, I'm glad you get Now. That's dope, man, I'm 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:23.560 happy for y'all. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:29.360 Speaking of record labels, Steve, your jazz label. You've established 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:30.000 a jazz. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.280 Label, yes, and I do want to talk about that, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.919 but I haven't answered to your earlier question about twenty 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.960 twenty one and entertainment Summer of Soul. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.199 Come on, you ever talked about this? 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.960 We don't know that right now, you're just fucking with you, Okay, well, yes, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.159 thank you for bringing that up a mirror JMI Recordings 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.399 from working on a lot of records recently. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:53.960 We've got a lot of records. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:58.040 Coming out in twenty twenty, twenty twenty two and David 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:05.800 Murray and UH sah Berliner and Loggate Lund a Swedish 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:11.320 guitar player, and UH all kinds of records. JMI Recordings 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:12.040 dot com. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.280 We can buy records. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:23.080 What's going on. I'm going to ask you what M 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:23.840 I stands for? 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:25.960 Does it matter? Does it matter? 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:27.240 Doesn't matter? 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.000 Relation to E M I. 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.680 No, we're modeled after C T I actually and a 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.960 little bit a little bit of E C M. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.480 But we're there. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:42.080 We're completely analog label. We record and UH mixed and 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:47.400 master all analog tape and UH only print up vinyl records. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.520 And we work with the greatest artists around today, including 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:54.840 the great David Murray. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:57.920 And Quest We need, We're gonna do it. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.600 We're gonna do an album with you next. 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.719 Year with to do the duo record with David Murray. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.600 But this is not streamable at all. You can only 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.040 buy UH. 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.560 Mostly just final but we do have a few of 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.800 the albums are up on streaming stuff, but we. 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:13.040 Don't care about it. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:20.160 Just what I mean, skills, Sorry, hold on, skills took 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:20.399 it off. 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:21.639 Mute, Let's let's live this up. 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.240 Hold On, I mean yeah, skills. I want to send 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.240 you a bunch of the jam I stuff. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:29.640 Okay, awesome, man, I would love to I would love 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.840 to have some. I got your number, So all right, 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:33.960 I cut somebody off. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.080 Sorry, thanks. I was trying to get the light to 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:41.119 see her. How her creative twenty twenty one was. 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:42.400 Oh, it was good. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.280 I mean I picked up another podcast pick up to 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.240 Jill Scott and Age Grad and dance Slur. 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:50.800 How's that going? 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:52.119 I was good. I love it. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.000 We get to talk about some pretty cool things and 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:55.919 so you should listen to that. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:56.560 That's everywhere. 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.359 And then of course still doing Yo. You you started 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.760 off my year on one of my other podcasts, which 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:03.560 is one of my co hosts favorite moments of the year, 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:05.560 quest Love on Love and Great because I do another 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:06.800 podcast that. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:08.879 Was a great podcast. That was a great woman. 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.160 Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate you a mirror that's 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:14.360 what I'm in and I appreciate you for the compliment. 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:16.520 But yeah, so we do another great show and then 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.800 just Doe voiceover work and about this. In twenty twenty two, 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:25.640 I will be selling two TV show ideas. Yes, that's happening. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.480 I never seen a dating show like mine before. 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.199 When we spoke last year, you were still flirting. I 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:36.280 know that you know to to flirt with comedy, Yes, 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:38.760 requires going out and people and whatnot. 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.520 So three, where do you Where do you land? 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.160 Where do you land on the dark board? As far 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.240 as like stand up and all that, it's concerned. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.320 Post COVID, I just say post COVID, because it's like 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:51.840 since COVID, not the COVID is over, but post COVID, 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:54.560 I have not really been in crowds a mirror. I 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.919 really haven't even been to a show. So post COVID, 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:01.520 I've just been kind of writing and watching and listening 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:06.600 because understandable, I've barely been watching people's certain stand ups. 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.400 I still need to watch that on Netflix. How about 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:08.760 that one? 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:12.520 And I mean the material, the material that you get 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:20.200 from this podcast alone. Yeah, these motherfuckers. One of the 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:23.080 one of the funniest moments I ever in my life. 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:24.080 I forgot this. 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.720 Podcast to the show. I forgot that one of the 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:32.320 funniest moments in my life. I alway pull over when 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:40.920 fucking when y'all had music soul shout and music did 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:44.800 not know that I'm mean, I mean, didn't know that 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:47.280 music was mad at him. He didn't figure it out 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:48.680 until half into. 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:51.679 One of the greatest moments quest of supreme history. I 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:56.600 think us. I think he was mad with the wall. 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.439 It was one time when Liaiah stopped him and he 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:03.919 was like, no, you know what I mean I was. 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:05.600 I was outside in the car. You know what I'm saying. 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:07.000 It was all cool. You know what I'm saying, It 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:08.880 was cool. I just waited, you know, I mean, Leo 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:11.080 called y'all. I just waited in the car like another 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.040 ass nigga. And then Liaiah said, so, what's going on 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:17.240 with you music? Like He's like, I mean, it is 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.479 what it is. And she said like he said, well, 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:21.360 damn nigga, are you happy about you anything. 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:31.520 That fucking quest hey, I had open. 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:35.040 He call me you called you. 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:39.200 I hit tay too to everybody music. 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:44.399 I will give anything to go back to the group 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:46.240 chat the day that. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:47.720 Oh man. 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.800 I have moments where I guess will say something off 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:54.639 the cuff or like just out of pocket and our 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:56.760 our chat the suddenly. 0:25:57.600 --> 0:25:58.280 It's the best thing. 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:01.399 You know, Let's I don't want to sometimes I know 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:03.920 I'm mere long enough to Sometimes when I'm just don't 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:05.760 want to be involved in something, he might act like 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:10.560 he's clueless. But that day you were really clue and I. 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.040 Really got a lot to be juggling, man and. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:18.080 Right, and you you were like, wait, you didn't what 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.440 happened again? And motherfucker was like, yeah, I was outside 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:30.719 the car at the Solar crazy laughing at him. I 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:34.480 just I just wanted I just the penny and me. 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:37.080 I just wanted our mere to be like Dann you 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:39.199 was outside in the car like the whole time she 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:41.360 was or she was like, man, you and I want 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:43.480 to tell you. I wanted I'm here to go. So 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:53.480 while you were in the car, Like, did you like 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:54.560 it was beauty? 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:56.359 You should have texted me. You should have texted me 0:26:56.359 --> 0:27:00.600 one four three to make it bundanly clear. Yes, Lear 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.720 Cohen decided. Lear Cohen heard a rumor about the soul 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:07.919 Quarian Vibe shoot about to happen, that that infamous photo 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:11.120 that basically ended the click of the Twelve of Us, 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:15.840 and Lear wanted to ambush us with an artist that 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:19.639 we really, all of us weren't completely familiar with, Like 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:24.840 we were actually friends in that photo. And Lear decided that, 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:27.800 you know, he's just going to ambush this and send 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:30.200 his artists to shoot. 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:31.520 Now, just let them go to the archives. 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:32.440 Just let them go to the archives. 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:33.360 I don't think you're making it better. 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:36.119 I just I just want it. Was a part of 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:38.040 me to just want it. I mean to just text 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:39.920 him and go like, bro, like are we good? Are 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:46.240 we just friends? Well? No? Is it all love? 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:51.399 I'm over here going half crazy. 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:54.600 This is the problem now, black man. We have to 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:57.520 take mental health seriously in this. In a TV show, 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:00.399 they would provide a one eight hundred number because mental 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:03.400 health is serious and those who feel like they need 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:05.040 to have it, they should find a number because we 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:05.760 don't have it here. 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:08.280 See, me and Ted got in the same sense, We 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:10.280 got the same sense of humor. So that's a whole 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:12.359 nother number. Like they're gonna have to call another number 0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:12.680 for that. 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:18.520 Because I got jokes for your head so mad? Come on, bro, like, 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.199 are you you the nigga that wan neo soul? Like? 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:23.440 What is like? What? 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:27.359 Like? Whatever I do have? 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:30.399 I do have one thing to ask you, do you 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:33.880 have any more Soul Trained episodes? Did you get any more? 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:37.399 Because you know I got some more. No, no, no, you 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:39.800 know I'm saying, do you have any more? 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:44.840 I cannot officially let you know why I have them all, 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.840 But if you can see how my year went last year, 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:52.400 we could pretty much put two and two together about 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:55.880 what I'm gonna be doing the next seven years. Let's 0:28:55.880 --> 0:29:00.600 talk about the seed, The seed, the scene that Detroit. 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:05.520 Oh dude, I man, how are you the plug on 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.520 the scene? Because I know I might wind up being 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.480 the but I have some plug. If you are from 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:15.160 Detroit right now, you're getting very excited about what we're 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:19.400 talking about. Like every every regional spot has their own 0:29:19.520 --> 0:29:23.960 local dance show, so similar to Philadelphia had Dancing on Air, 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:27.880 which later turning The Dance Party USA, other local shows 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:31.800 have their own like Local Little Dance, after School Dance Jawns. 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:36.600 The Scene is probably the most unique show. If you 0:29:36.680 --> 0:29:40.360 google the scene right now, just say the scene Detroit, 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:41.600 nineteen eighty something. 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:45.880 It's it explains a lot. Explains why Dyla is a 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:52.240 genius because basically electrifying mojo pretty much raised a generation 0:29:52.640 --> 0:29:58.920 of black people on electronic music. So you know, there's 0:29:58.920 --> 0:30:02.960 a whole generation between him playing like he on his 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:06.080 radio show look up old electrified mojo shows from like 0:30:06.120 --> 0:30:09.000 the eighties. He'll play p Funk one moment, then he'll 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.400 play Gary Newman the next moment. Then they'll play Bowie 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:15.280 the next moment, then he'll play Prince, then he'll play 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:21.840 depeche Mode. So you know, if you are anywhere between the. 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:25.960 Ages of eight to eighteen in Detroit, Michigan, between nineteen 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:30.280 seventy eight and like ninety one, you're getting a whole 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:35.760 nother form of musical nutrition that this This explains why 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:39.920 Dyla was who he was. So you know, the scene 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:44.920 was this teen dance show in which I mean they're 0:30:45.000 --> 0:30:49.480 pretty much they're just dancing to like the most crazy 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:54.280 electro techno type of shit. 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:59.600 It's crazy, and so they're there's a scene and also 0:30:59.840 --> 0:31:00.560 new dance show. 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:02.440 There was another show Detroit. 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:06.360 Yes, so this is going to be a documentary about 0:31:06.600 --> 0:31:07.440 this show. 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:08.320 About the scene. 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:08.880 He answered. 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:11.040 The answer to your question of here is because there's 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:14.240 a few white people who get it and know some ship. 0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:21.280 Yeah, because the rare which we you know, it's. 0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:24.320 Your seventeenth documentary, and when you're an Academy member, you 0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:25.840 can make seventeen documentaries. 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.680 Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to go. 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:32.600 But yes, to answer your question, I've I've fulfilled my 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:38.360 fantasy this year and have them all watched all eleven 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:40.400 hundred soul trains. 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:43.400 Damn like two. 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:46.080 Hundred short I'm like two hundred shorts. 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:47.720 It's super overwhelming right now. 0:31:47.760 --> 0:31:50.000 That is I got to force myself to watch it 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:51.960 past ninety three once Don left. 0:31:52.240 --> 0:31:54.520 But you know, those are the ones I want to see. 0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:56.880 I can't wait to see fucking bow Wow and Destiny 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:57.960 show embarrassing they so. 0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:06.120 Yeah, Oh, this sort of feels like an episode I 0:32:06.160 --> 0:32:10.040 admitted one hip hop confession. Steve talked about his jazz label, 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:14.080 Bill's working on two projects and a lot of things. 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:15.840 Fante got his master's back. 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:17.880 You've got comedy coming. 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:20.600 Fonte made all in all honesty. 0:32:20.680 --> 0:32:24.600 Fante made twenty twenty one happen those cat Maaster's back. 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:33.440 Fantee of all the motherfuckers, made twenty twenty one count 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:35.600 Praise to you, Fante, well done. 0:32:35.520 --> 0:32:36.080 Thank you man. 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:37.320 I appreciate that. Man. 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.560 You can you explain to me the US cat situation 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:44.880 like she so she was. 0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:48.080 Went on geeked. I was geeked that that moment happened. 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:51.360 Yeah, she went on live and she was just doing 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:55.360 her makeup and uh she was wrapping whatever you say 0:32:55.440 --> 0:32:59.040 off the listening. And I didn't find out about it 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:01.880 until afterwards, and uh, well, my boys hit me and 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:03.320 I was like like what. 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:04.080 I was like, what the fuck? 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:05.880 And then I saw it on Twitter. So then I 0:33:05.880 --> 0:33:08.200 actually saw the video. I was like, oh ship, and 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:11.080 so I just threw it up, you know, retweeted it whatever, 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.240 and and I was like, yeah, we're in the racial 0:33:13.320 --> 0:33:15.400 chat rooms bumping Little Brother, you know what I mean. 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:17.840 And I knew she would get the joke. Like a 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:20.160 couple of her fans was like, you know, why would 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:22.240 you do? But she, I knew she didn't give a 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:23.640 fun I knew she would get the humor, you know 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:26.080 what I mean. I figured, if you were a Little 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:28.720 Brother fan, you have the ability to laugh at yourself. 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:28.880 You know what I mean. 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:31.640 So so you know, so she but she was super 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:33.960 cool and we ended up. She ended up like then 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:35.800 she tweeted out, made a little watch and was like, y' 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:37.440 I'm bumping this, y'all need to check it. I was like, 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:40.480 oh ship, and so we ended up talking for a 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:42.360 little bit, like we ended up texting a little bit, 0:33:42.400 --> 0:33:45.840 and but nah man, she's just like super dope. And 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:48.680 you know, it was around the time that she was 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:50.960 the news came out that like her tour stopped, she 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:54.520 her her coup got COVID and but uh, but. 0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:56.280 Nah man, it was a it was a it was 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:56.680 a moment. 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:57.800 I was like, word up, that's dope. 0:33:57.800 --> 0:34:00.200 But she's she's ahead like a couple of home that 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:01.480 knew her, like yeah, back. 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:05.880 Like slim Village once, and I was like the fuck. Yeah. 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:10.240 I was just completely under the impression that even though 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:16.240 these kids were coming from eighties parents, seventies parents, eighties 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:21.280 parents that you know, there's gen z just had absolutely 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:24.680 nothing but disdain for our music. 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:28.440 So now they was raised on this ship bro to see. 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.160 Dojah cats singing all to you for you and whatever 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:31.480 you said. 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:36.160 Guy from the country either right, like she she got 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:37.120 from l A. 0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:41.960 Her her dad is South African. She's from l A. 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:46.800 He was in her dad was in Tarafina, Seraphina, Seraphena. 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:48.319 I remember walked. 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:53.399 She's actually yeah, it's a video of her like pop 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.399 blocking Like but this is great. 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:57.560 Now, Like between this and watching her own Little Dicky, 0:34:57.840 --> 0:34:59.440 I'm a fan so. 0:35:00.360 --> 0:35:01.080 Well on his show. 0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:02.680 Yeah, she did. 0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:04.600 Like a dope ass episode a Little Dicky, So yeah, 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:07.000 I'm playing herself. 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:10.120 He's this show is really hilariously and nasty. 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:16.440 Okay, so before we check out, is there any records 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:20.359 that I should be checking for? It's weird, man, Like, 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:25.560 I'm legit. I'm not disappointed. But she and I had 0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:29.200 a conversation about it. I really had expectations for Yeba 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:36.239 to really come with the promotion with her record, but 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:39.439 you know, she wasn't wasn't ready yet. 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:41.800 You know, Distance was the one for me on that record. 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:46.799 That was the one. Yeah, I just you played one right, 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:48.320 I played. 0:35:48.120 --> 0:35:51.160 On the whole record. I just wish. I don't know. 0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:56.240 It's like I'm now starting to think that every artist 0:35:56.480 --> 0:36:00.520 that comes through Electric Ladies Studios why ends up going 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:06.440 through a process that you know means a stalling or whatever, 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:10.280 you know that sort of thing. Basically, the whole point 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:12.600 was that like so many shows are asking for her 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:15.399 to come, and before him, she's like not ready yet, 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:17.640 not ready yet, like in due time and due time, 0:36:17.680 --> 0:36:21.160 and it's just like the Salange the records. 0:36:21.239 --> 0:36:23.560 Yeah, the record's kind of over now. 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:26.960 Like you know, I was, I was expecting her to 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:30.080 drink old Old Girls milkshake. That obviously is going to 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:35.680 dominate the Grammys, you know, next year with her album. 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:39.560 But you know I I sort of thought this is 0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:40.719 going to happen, but you know. 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:45.560 Hopefully the next record A minute for Jazz and Sullivan though, Yeah, 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:46.440 that was that. 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:47.960 What's getting all the flowers right now? 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:49.640 Twenty one. 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:51.560 As far as the album, I asked you, what album 0:36:51.560 --> 0:36:52.160 are you feeling? 0:36:52.239 --> 0:36:54.480 I like to have very few albums you can listen 0:36:54.560 --> 0:36:56.200 through all the way. I mean, even with that Anderson 0:36:56.239 --> 0:36:59.200 Bruno Mars, there's like one song. But so I was 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.200 just saying for those like Jasmine. 0:37:00.800 --> 0:37:03.600 Who you only like one joint on the. 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:05.399 Outside of the ones on the radio. Yeah, the last one, 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:06.440 the last song, what's it? 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:08.399 Breathe? That's it, that's it, that's it. 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:10.799 Breathing, Yeah, breathe is I thought that. 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:12.359 I was like, Oh, this is just getting started. I'm 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:13.160 ready for the next one. 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:13.719 Oh it's over. 0:37:15.120 --> 0:37:17.680 H oh really skills skills where you go? 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:21.399 No here? I just know I hope that this does 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:24.759 wonders for for pot you know, did you work on that? 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:25.320 Did I offend you? 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:26.160 I'm sorry I didn't. 0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:30.160 Oh no, No, I wish I worked on ship right right? 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:31.600 I take that? 0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:32.799 Yeah? 0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:33.279 No. 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:35.879 My biggest you know I claim the fame this year 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:39.040 was you know, I wrote for Whole Blue and Beyonce. 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:40.560 So there you go. 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:43.160 So what's the fact. 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:48.000 Oh, the Salt record and I felt came out. Yeah, 0:37:48.360 --> 0:37:51.640 but is there any one notable that I'm missing as 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:55.200 far as Yeah, check out my girl be My Fiasco. 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:58.520 She's the latest artist that we put out on e 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:02.840 Fie Music. There you go, me tall black guys, Oh 0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:06.560 my voice and the Convader out of DC. Yeah, Devin 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:11.839 Morrison's on it, my girl College durand Devin uh Darren Brockington. Yeah, 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:13.960 it's it's out be My fasco where I left you 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:14.920 did that? 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:16.160 Making me ummer? 0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:17.360 That was the summer that. 0:38:17.360 --> 0:38:19.640 Was supergroup name. I feel like y'all had to have 0:38:19.640 --> 0:38:21.360 a supergroup. But you ain't got no name. 0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:23.319 Like nah, we just fi music. 0:38:23.320 --> 0:38:28.520 We learned from the so Quarius don't get it tit title? 0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:34.360 Yeah yeah, we're just collecting the song and don't. Okay, right. 0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:38.239 All right, So skills you you're you, you may you 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:42.160 may not do it twenty twenty one. Music wise, creative wise, 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.640 What's What's what's coming down the pike for twenty twenty. 0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:50.600 Oh man, I'm finishing up a documentary. I'm finishing up 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.879 a documentary I did on the nineties girl Brunch, which 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:56.480 is something that I did all Quarantine. 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:57.920 To take you for that, Thank you skills. 0:38:58.400 --> 0:39:01.600 I'm finishing up a documentary that I'm going to be 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.960 putting out, probably some new music and just some you know, 0:39:05.480 --> 0:39:08.319 still moving, you know. I'm teaching teaching. I go back 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:11.560 to teaching in January, teaching hip hop class at the 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:12.640 University of Richmond. 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:14.000 What's that been? Like? 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:20.320 Very very informative man, And and you know, it's a 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:22.880 it's a it's like I'm learning to you know what 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:26.000 I'm saying. But for the most part, man, it's like 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:28.040 the second year we've done that. COVID knocked us out 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:34.840 for like one year. But waiting list. Yeah, yeah, me 0:39:34.920 --> 0:39:35.319 and my part. 0:39:35.440 --> 0:39:37.120 My part got to go to school yourself. 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:40.920 Yes, And I hate like you gotta choose your books 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:44.359 and then prove it through the you know, right, like 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:45.160 you gotta do. 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.920 College professor ship Like yeah, that's hate teaching. 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:53.520 Yeah, yeah, No, I you know, I feel like it's 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:55.520 something that you know, I love to do. You know, 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:58.040 I can talk to hip hop all day with people, 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.560 So for me, it's it's been very ratifying. 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:00.759 Man. 0:40:00.920 --> 0:40:03.040 I definitely can see teaching in my future and we're 0:40:03.040 --> 0:40:05.080 looking forward to doing it at other schools as well. 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:10.680 Do you feel your students are genuinely interested in finding 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:11.960 it out or is it just like. 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.600 Oh yeah, nah nah. Cats come in you know, cats 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:17.680 initially come in there thinking that they're gonna get it 0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:19.839 easy a but it ain't. It ain't that at all, 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:23.000 you know what I'm saying. And shit, our our ages 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:26.440 range from sixty to like eighteen, you know what I mean. 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:30.440 So we had undergraduates in there and other other students, 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:33.120 like it's the most popular class on campus. So shout 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:35.759 out to you are Richmond, shout out to the Spiders. Yeah, man, 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:37.880 I see y'all in a minute from. 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.720 An MC level, or from breakbeat level, or just from 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:41.240 us every. 0:40:41.280 --> 0:40:43.720 Social and a political movement, you know what I'm saying. 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.719 You know, it's definitely we speak upon it as you know, 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:52.080 as being the most popular culture I mean former music 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:56.360 in the culture, so you know, you you are aware 0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:58.280 of it. But you might not have been that aware 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:01.359 of the things. Like I give you an example real quick, 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:03.319 Like one of our lessons is we play them the 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.759 video for parents just don't Understand, and then we played 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:09.320 them the video for Fuck the Police, and their assignment 0:41:09.560 --> 0:41:13.440 is what are the similarities of these two songs? They 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.120 automatically think, we're gonna be like, okay, what's the difference 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:18.319 between these two and we go, okay, what are the 0:41:18.360 --> 0:41:21.799 similarities between these two songs? And the answers that they 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:26.560 come up with are fucking phenomenal, Like it's it's so 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:28.040 crazy how deep they. 0:41:28.320 --> 0:41:28.719 They see it. 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:34.480 They see first the first the first one that the 0:41:34.520 --> 0:41:38.680 first one that threw me was they were like, you know, 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:41.440 both of both of these different artists, their reputation is 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:44.640 everything to them, you know what I'm saying, Like their 0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:50.799 reputation is everything, and you know, like with Will You Know? 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:52.480 With Will You Know? 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:55.960 N w A raps about they treat women as gold diggers. 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:58.120 Women's are looked at as gold diggers and that's all 0:41:58.160 --> 0:42:01.080 they good for bitches and wholes. Gold is whatever will 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:04.719 got caught up by a gold dick, you know what 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.879 I'm saying, Like who happened to be a twelve year 0:42:07.880 --> 0:42:11.320 old runaway, like you know what I mean? Like their 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:13.880 their connection is. 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:14.879 So much more. 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:21.439 I forgot right, And it's like they're both they're both 0:42:21.600 --> 0:42:25.319 very fearful of one thing, Like n w A Is 0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:28.720 fearful of the cops. Will is fearful of his parents 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:33.600 finding out, like that was his biggest fear. Like when 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:35.959 my mom and dad get home, this ship is a rap, 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:39.000 you know what I'm saying? Like they it's amazing. 0:42:39.040 --> 0:42:39.160 Man. 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:41.200 We started, we start to semester off with one of 0:42:41.239 --> 0:42:43.800 those exercises and it usually turns out it gives you 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.160 a good gauge of how good the class is going 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:46.440 to be. 0:42:47.600 --> 0:42:50.560 That's dope, man, Professor. 0:42:52.160 --> 0:42:55.480 Professor Lewis, Professor Lewis. 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:02.640 Ire is no skills you had mentioned earlier. I just 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:04.480 wanted to touch on it. You were talking about your 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:07.480 parents and you know how they've died from addiction, you know, 0:43:07.520 --> 0:43:08.600 thirty years apart. 0:43:09.200 --> 0:43:11.680 Knowing that that's in your family history, Like how have 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:12.880 you dealt with that? 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:16.680 And you know, are there any like how knowing that 0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:18.399 that's kind of there, like how do you deal with 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:21.600 you know, any potential addictions or has that affected you 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:22.600 in your career in anyway. 0:43:23.840 --> 0:43:25.680 I don't. I don't know if it has. Man, Like 0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:29.919 I believe I'm addicted to too. I believe a part 0:43:29.960 --> 0:43:32.880 of me is addicted to not following in those footsteps, 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:36.040 you know what I'm saying. So for me, you know, 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:38.640 I understand that sometimes addiction, you know, it can be 0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:41.160 a sickness. And you know, when I was young, you know, 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:43.480 I didn't understand why Mama just couldn't quit, like why 0:43:43.520 --> 0:43:45.000 you just can't stop? Like I don't want to hear 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:47.000 that shit, like yo, just quit, like you know what 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.520 I'm saying. But I didn't understand how long she had 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:52.799 been on drugs and how much you know, she felt 0:43:52.840 --> 0:43:54.960 like she needed that drug to even just get up 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:58.040 and function, cook breakfast, take us to school. She was 0:43:58.040 --> 0:44:00.480 a very function yet she was a very functioning an addict, 0:44:00.480 --> 0:44:02.839 but she was still an addict. So for me, man, 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:07.920 it scared me in a way that I could never 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:11.640 sell drugs. I could, I like, my shit could go 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:14.320 belly up right now and I'll go work at McDonald's 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:17.000 and y'all be like, god damn skills at McDonald's, like 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:20.840 like happily, but happily because I I know I first 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:24.480 hand know what it does to a black family. So 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:26.520 I don't care how bad it gets for me. I 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:29.560 could never go I could never sell drugs like ever. 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:34.319 So I watched, you know, I look back at what 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.719 they went through, and uh, just try to make sure 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:40.640 that I don't get addicted to anything. You know what 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:43.840 I'm saying, like sugar shit, you know what I'm saying, 0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:49.279 like fucking anything. So yeah, so it's like, you know, 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.520 I just I just pay attention to that because they 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:55.799 they didn't they ain't go for nothing, Like I had 0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:58.000 to learn from that ship in some degree, you know 0:44:58.040 --> 0:44:58.520 what I'm saying. 0:44:59.400 --> 0:44:59.839 That's real. 0:45:00.520 --> 0:45:05.719 Yeah. My final question is, you know, besides getting out 0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:11.919 of this this dog chasing tail loop that we're in, uh, 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:14.200 is there anything that we're really trying to achieve for 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:18.799 twenty twenty two? The actually twenty. 0:45:18.520 --> 0:45:23.320 Twenty right, even though it's looking like in addition now 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:28.600 two for me, I'm finally we're finally putting the finishing 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:32.200 up the Little Brother documentary. We got awarded, We got 0:45:32.200 --> 0:45:35.520 a grant from the Southern Documentary Fund and we were 0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:39.440 wanted a finalists that was selected for that. So yeah, man, 0:45:39.480 --> 0:45:43.200 finishing that this was harder that's it's the hardest thing 0:45:43.200 --> 0:45:43.680 I've ever done. 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:44.359 That go front. 0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:47.280 But so that you put out was just a sizzle 0:45:47.320 --> 0:45:48.520 real and it's coming. 0:45:48.760 --> 0:45:50.439 There's gonna be a full length join. 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:52.840 I can't wait for that. 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:57.040 Yeah, man, yeah, so it's yeah, it's that's just gonna 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.200 be hard. But nah, just that, man, just for me 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:03.359 twenty two, continuing just to take care of myself, take 0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:05.360 care of my health. I got down tu like forty 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:08.160 this year, so I'm gonna just keep going and change 0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:11.000 on my eating. Were talking last time. I think I'm 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:13.200 probably just gonna be doing mostly fish from now and 0:46:13.239 --> 0:46:15.560 I don't really do I'll do fishing my chicken, of course, 0:46:15.560 --> 0:46:17.120 but like I think my day's a rid meat. 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:19.239 I think that shit might be over with. Yeah, I 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:21.560 think that's all, you know. I don't know I can 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:21.799 do that. 0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:24.520 Yeah, but yeah, just just trying to make changes, man, 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:26.440 and sticking around so I keep working, doing what I 0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:27.240 love to do. 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:30.680 Dope, Steve twenty twenty two. Honestly more of the same. 0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:34.160 I'm real proud of myself and everybody around me for 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.839 getting through the last couple of years, and the next 0:46:36.840 --> 0:46:41.440 one is just gonna be probably just as challenging. So 0:46:42.360 --> 0:46:47.200 the Tonight show, this podcast, jam I, all the other 0:46:47.280 --> 0:46:49.880 things that we're all involved in. You know, if we 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:52.280 just keep it moving, I think that's a blessing. 0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:56.919 That's key, keep it moving. Why here twenty twenty two? 0:46:56.920 --> 0:46:57.319 What's up? 0:46:58.040 --> 0:46:58.879 Twenty twenty two? 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:03.160 Last year I got my dad in his first museum 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:05.879 show with his photography at the African American Museum Music, 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.360 the only African American Museum Music in Tennessee. 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:08.640 Hey. 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:13.480 Next year, Hey, myself and my godmother, we will produce 0:47:13.520 --> 0:47:16.040 a book for my father of his work, his first 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:19.359 published book. And I'm looking forward to doing that and 0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:22.239 keeping my parents super happy as the super seniors that 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:26.200 they are. And uh and just you know, loving learning 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:29.799 and maybe figuring out this retirement playing through these shows. 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:31.440 And I'm going to sell in twenty twenty two because I. 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:38.680 Know what's your twenty twenty two looking like? 0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:43.680 In the words of the great Kwans Carol Habaris. 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:47.600 I'm kidding, Ghani Habar, Ghani, habarigani. 0:47:47.880 --> 0:47:48.160 Uh. 0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:49.640 Let us all have a. 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:54.120 Wonderful year, celebrate all skills. I love you. You look 0:47:54.160 --> 0:47:55.720 like the Steve Zisu. 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:59.520 Of our time. You are a friend deep pool, What 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:04.879 hell you are skills. You are the life aquatic. Why 0:48:04.920 --> 0:48:06.080 you haven't been even. 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:08.319 Steven or why have you? 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:12.320 Why you haven't been on my Broadway show about freestyle rapping? 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:16.200 I don't understand anyway. Yeah, skills got to come to 0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:20.000 the freestyle of supreme skills. I definitely am on Broadway 0:48:20.160 --> 0:48:23.480 in a show that makes up wraps. I know I'm white, 0:48:23.600 --> 0:48:25.759 but that's what I do, and I feel like you 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:29.400 should be on it. In fact, Fantete, put your eyebrows 0:48:29.440 --> 0:48:30.759 away because you should be there too. 0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:31.360 Motherfucker. 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:35.680 You come up with a virtual option, I'll do it. 0:48:36.120 --> 0:48:39.080 You you're so afraid of the COVID. I don't even 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:42.600 know anyway you get since twenty twenty two. 0:48:44.200 --> 0:48:47.680 I'm I'm in Virginia. I'll pull up. I could come skills. 0:48:47.680 --> 0:48:49.680 We can do Broadway, we can do, we can do, 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:52.200 we can do Sesame Street in one weekend, and you'd 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:53.440 be going back to Virginia. 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:55.560 Can people go, Bill? Can I ask you one question 0:48:55.600 --> 0:49:00.719 about freestyle and supreme all the questions. I've seen it 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:02.840 twice here, I've seen it twice. 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:07.839 The show is perfectly executed, like you guys, you the 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:11.600 whole store, the whole show's freestyle and it makes sense 0:49:11.640 --> 0:49:13.840 and it is not a have you guys ever just 0:49:13.880 --> 0:49:16.600 had a disaster night where the lyrics weren't hitting at all? 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:19.440 A mirror, I will, I will let you in on 0:49:19.480 --> 0:49:25.839 the truth. I'm so, I'm forty years old, forty one. Sorry, 0:49:25.880 --> 0:49:28.920 I'm forty one years old. I've been doing freestyle spince 0:49:28.960 --> 0:49:31.319 I was twenty. So that's if you do the math 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.400 twenty one years, I can safely say that the first 0:49:35.600 --> 0:49:37.960 fifteen were bullshit, and then the. 0:49:38.000 --> 0:49:40.080 Last day I saw I saw the first one. 0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:44.000 No, oh my fucker, I'm talking about like you talked 0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:47.759 like like okay, okay, yeah, all this to be said. 0:49:47.840 --> 0:49:50.399 Skills if you ever in New York and you want 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:53.200 to make up some raps with some white kids, come 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:55.839 on down a meal, will show up to and it'll 0:49:55.880 --> 0:49:56.240 be great. 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:59.120 No, I mean every want to switch to it. It's 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:01.959 it's a it's a well done production. Skills. 0:50:01.960 --> 0:50:03.920 If you want to make a Broadway debut on I 0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:07.640 don't know, like a given Thursday and whatever, but yeah. 0:50:07.760 --> 0:50:10.799 You got your ass off your and they don't be 0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:13.520 going they don't be going forty bpms. 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:20.600 They be going no, like we go all the way 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:24.000 once one time on the tonight show, and he did 0:50:24.120 --> 0:50:24.760 very well. 0:50:24.600 --> 0:50:28.080 I will send down as I promise. 0:50:28.480 --> 0:50:29.120 I'll hit you up. 0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:29.319 Bill. 0:50:29.320 --> 0:50:30.520 I'm gonna get your info from. 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:32.440 Skills if you show up. 0:50:32.520 --> 0:50:34.360 Amir has to show up to because that would be 0:50:34.400 --> 0:50:36.160 the greatest show that ever happened on Broadway. 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:38.879 Well, I was gonna ask Skills, what is twenty twenty two, 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:43.560 what's going to be into Let's go, and then I don't. 0:50:43.600 --> 0:50:44.959 Okay, Well I'll let you all go ahead. 0:50:46.160 --> 0:50:48.600 Like I said, man, you know, teaching, the finishing up 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:51.719 the documentary and uh, you know, still trying to push 0:50:51.800 --> 0:50:55.399 forward the stake my claim and this, you know, this. 0:50:55.360 --> 0:50:56.000 Hip hop thing. 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:56.839 I love it. Man. 0:50:57.680 --> 0:50:59.239 There you go, and I'm gonna come. 0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:01.680 I'm gonna come see you and we're gonna discuss that 0:51:02.040 --> 0:51:04.879 other thing that we I got. 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:08.960 I love the Skills, Steve, the Skills and Waterfest all 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:10.600 dayante out of the crib. 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:13.640 That's all I want, That's all I want to do. 0:51:14.600 --> 0:51:17.799 I want to do the Truman Show. 0:51:19.920 --> 0:51:24.320 I want to do missing the live version of this show. 0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:25.880 What happened? 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:28.919 I need I need to hug. I need to hug 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:31.880 Fonte like a like a man needs to come to 0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:35.279 his house. I will come all, d you know what 0:51:35.880 --> 0:51:36.120 you have? 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.239 What all of y'all have a standing invite to the 0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:40.280 of y'all. 0:51:40.760 --> 0:51:43.560 The fact that we're not like setting up shop all 0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:47.360 in North Carolina Atte's house. God stress, and we should 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:49.600 be doing. We could get we get Steve this too. 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:51.600 He could drive Virginia schools North Carolina. 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:58.879 I think I don't know, but that's an eight hour 0:51:59.000 --> 0:51:59.520 drive for me. 0:51:59.800 --> 0:52:01.080 That it's like, I'll go. 0:52:01.360 --> 0:52:04.200 I don't care, I will go. I will go North Carolina. 0:52:04.800 --> 0:52:06.839 Like like, yeah, that's like a thirty four hour drive 0:52:06.920 --> 0:52:07.799 for you, that's the whole thing. 0:52:07.920 --> 0:52:10.120 Yeah, I will got it. 0:52:10.160 --> 0:52:12.239 Well, do you let me hang out? Because I will 0:52:12.280 --> 0:52:13.279 hang the fuck out. 0:52:14.880 --> 0:52:18.960 Your question, your schedule is to hate? 0:52:18.960 --> 0:52:19.640 Too important? 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:22.960 But no, I will say right now, right now as 0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:27.120 I speak now when we we started this this uh 0:52:27.840 --> 0:52:34.880 we started this episode exactly two hours ago. During this 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:40.320 two hours, I've gotten seven texts positive. 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:43.560 Telling me that they just tested positive for COVID. 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:44.440 Shut. 0:52:44.480 --> 0:52:48.000 The ship is getting a little crazy. 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:52.600 So yeah, like literally during this conversation, the seven times 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:56.479 I've looked away to go to in my phone, it's 0:52:56.719 --> 0:52:59.920 you know, just tested positive, You're just test Yeah, man, 0:53:00.040 --> 0:53:04.640 we gotta we gotta figure this out. It's herd immunity 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:06.840 and we all get it, and then you know, I'm. 0:53:06.680 --> 0:53:09.720 Gettine getting money. Yeah. 0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:15.000 Yeah, so let's be I'm praying for well more than 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:17.319 be safe, which is a word that I'm trying to 0:53:17.360 --> 0:53:22.160 divorce myself from and thrive like not being safe. That's 0:53:22.160 --> 0:53:24.279 what I want to try to get people away from, 0:53:24.320 --> 0:53:28.120 like the safe choice, but really be passionate. 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:31.239 So that's what I'm leaving it with. But skills. I 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:34.080 thank you very much for doing this episode. O man, 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:36.839 thank you. I appreciate it. Uh yeah. 0:53:36.840 --> 0:53:40.120 I also want to see you do more consistent episodes 0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:41.640 of which is really the. 0:53:41.600 --> 0:53:43.880 Reason why like this. 0:53:44.160 --> 0:53:46.480 Your Your Your Your podcast is definitely one of my 0:53:46.520 --> 0:53:48.560 favorite hip hop podcast. 0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:50.759 I love the fact that you don't talk over your 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:54.640 guests in an annoying way and you get really great, 0:53:54.760 --> 0:53:59.160 engaging stories and you know, I appreciate that, so thank you, man. 0:53:59.360 --> 0:54:01.439 I'm definitely trying to build it and keep hip Hop 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:04.160 Confessions pushing. So yeah, let's charming on that. 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:05.680 Yeah, man, I want to do it. I think me 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:08.120 and put need to come through next year. Man us. 0:54:08.200 --> 0:54:09.520 Yeah, that'd be awesome. 0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:13.000 Man, all the things are happening. 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:15.960 And boss man, you are looking towards what in twenty 0:54:16.000 --> 0:54:16.760 twenty two. 0:54:19.520 --> 0:54:19.920 Part too. 0:54:20.480 --> 0:54:24.640 I want people to be uh healthy, that's number one. 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:28.359 We're going to concentrate on Black No More, which is 0:54:28.760 --> 0:54:31.080 Tarik's project. 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:32.319 Black Supreme Black. 0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:36.000 But yeah, he will finally I will get on quest 0:54:36.040 --> 0:54:39.000 Left Supreme right now. He's he's off the grid. People 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:41.799 been asking, like, HOWE left the Tonight Show? 0:54:42.239 --> 0:54:42.720 Oh wow? 0:54:42.760 --> 0:54:46.040 Back in October he told me the day before he was. 0:54:46.080 --> 0:54:47.880 He was like, my last day is tomorrow, about to 0:54:47.880 --> 0:54:49.520 start working on his play. So I told him as 0:54:49.520 --> 0:54:51.480 soon as they open up, I'm gonna come and see it. 0:54:52.239 --> 0:54:54.960 Yeah, so dope, so well out of Washington, we'll see it. 0:54:55.440 --> 0:54:58.319 That's a ship. That's that's what's that's what's next. So 0:54:58.880 --> 0:54:59.600 that's beautiful. 0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:04.120 But right now, just need the world to be more aware. 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:11.279 I need rappers to stop also just doing basic dumb Shiita. 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:13.880 Please, I would like that too. 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:18.399 I would love that anyway, So on behalf of our 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:21.480 man Skills and unpaid Bill and Sugar, Steve and Layah. 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:22.640 Thank you very much. 0:55:24.480 --> 0:55:26.480 You already know I appreciate y'all man. 0:55:36.600 --> 0:55:39.440 Much. Love Supreme is a production on Iheartened radio. 0:55:43.040 --> 0:55:46.320 For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:49.959 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.