1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Quest Loft Show is a production of iHeart Radio. All right, y'all, 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this is letters to the Quest Love Show again. If 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: you have any letters, slide into our dms. First of all, 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: follow QLs on all the socials please and also subscribe 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: and like on YouTube. That is the fuel to r fire. 6 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: If you like these episodes and whatnot. Look it just 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: takes a second. Please like it. Subscribe with trying to 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: build a nation of inform music heads here. Yeah, thank you. 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: I like doing this. Give me more questions. 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: All right, this is a question from Charlie. Okay, question 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 2: for Questlove. My musical Mount Rushmore is DiAngelo, Prince Stevie 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: and Amy Winehouse. Life is a music fan has become 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 2: exponentially less exciting as three of them have passed away, 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 2: and I'm just a fan. I've had to accept that 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: and I'll never have an experience like the first time 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: I heard Voodoo ever again is somebody who obviously knew 17 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 2: and collaborated with them. Have you had times when it 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: feels like it's not worth it or the same without them? 19 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: Thanks and sorry for being a downer. 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: One by one. As the aforementioned three went to the 21 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: next plane, I will say that I probably go through 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: a month of sort of pondering what does this mean. 23 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: What happens with me is when someone leaves, there's a 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: pressure pointed to me, basically that now you're going to 25 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: have to lead, And you know, it's weird. When Prince passed, 26 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: I was on the phone with DiAngelo. He and I 27 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: were talking for maybe maybe twenty minutes before the CNN 28 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: like CNN happened to be on and we were talking, 29 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: and I believe he asked me. He's like, yo, you 30 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: get worried. Yet We've had a lot of discussions on 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: Prince's reactions to his music, and it kind of maybe 32 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: by the top of January twenty fifteen, when you know, 33 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: Black Messiah's like not even a month old. He hit 34 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: me up, Yo, you hear anything. So it was my 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: job to test the waters and tell him. You know 36 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: what our peers is saying, like, all right, what does 37 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: she say about the record? What do you say about it? 38 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I specifically, I'm sorry I 39 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: would have laughed at this. I have to say the 40 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: arrival of Black Messiah might have been I can speak 41 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,119 Speaker 1: on it now, might have been a little bit too 42 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: much for Prince at the time in his life. Look, 43 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: haven't seen it, and I know I'll never not humble 44 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: brag or being the fortunate whatever. Twenty people to have 45 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: seen the nine hour Book of Prince Doc. But twenty 46 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: fifteen twenty sixteen was like a rough period on Prince mentally. 47 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: So I will say that I sniffed around various band members, 48 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: various peers of his to just be like, yeah, you know, 49 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: shoot the shit and see what's up. And two of them, 50 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: I finally just came out and said, so does he 51 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: do I need to send you on copy of the record? 52 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: Does he have it? You know? And the way they 53 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: looked at each other, I knew there was a mental 54 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: telepic fy thing happened. And I was like, let me 55 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: in and they started laughing. And this is how I 56 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: knew this is the highest honor. You know. I told 57 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: D'Angelo ticket is a high honor. Word was that, you know? 58 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: He refused to He's like, I don't want to. I 59 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: don't want to talk about that record. I don't want 60 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: to listen to it. Which, look, it happens. It happens 61 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: like when I'm creating music, there are certain artists I 62 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: don't want to listen to because I don't want to 63 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: be derivative of it or whatever. But you know, the 64 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: whole point was that when Prince passed, d and I 65 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: probably have one of our longest conversations just about like 66 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: and I try. You know, I was very careful to 67 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: not I know what scares him off, and you know, 68 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: but I would still speak in terms of, like, you know, 69 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: the balls in our court now, like the way that 70 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: you were ten year old or an eight year old 71 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: when Dirty Mind came out and then purple rinting, like 72 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: you were a kid and that built you. There are 73 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: people that are doing that now with Voodoo. That's one 74 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: thing I will say. He was absolutely unaware of the 75 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: Voodoo renaissance. You know, I'd explained to him Pitchfork had 76 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: done a review of the album like ten to fifteen 77 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: years later, and it was so eloquently written that suddenly 78 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: the second round of you know, these Pitchfork based you know, 79 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: D'Angelo fans are coming to the plate, and I feel 80 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 1: as though that's the you know, because I'll be honest 81 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: with you, the day that we finished mastering the record, 82 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: we took a victory dinner, like literally when the album 83 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: was done. Okay, so the very last day of mastering. 84 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: The night before, we tried to fit There's one more 85 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: song that didn't make the record, called the City, that 86 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: was supposed to come right after Player Player before Devil's 87 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: Pops called the City and we recorded it, mixed it 88 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: the night before. You know, Russ went to go master 89 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,679 Speaker 1: it with Tom Coin, and I took over the studio 90 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 1: that because it was free ID and Russ permission to 91 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: use that studio. I believe that pass of day La 92 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: Soul wanted me to try to fill in a drum 93 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: break that they couldn't clear for the AOI album. They 94 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: couldn't clear the the ot to Billy Joe break from view. 95 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: So I redid it while the albums get mastered, and 96 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: then Russ came in, like here it is the final sequence, 97 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: and me pass Russ. We listened to Voodoo for the 98 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: first time, and it was weird, like it was over. 99 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: It was like four years of living in this basement 100 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: at an electric lady from like ninety six to now. 101 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: I got a copy of it and I felt victorious. 102 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: So the first thing I did was I went I 103 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: had date night that night, and I remember I went 104 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: to some like soul food restaurant uptown and I told them, 105 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, man, I got I got that new d' 106 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: angelo record and whatever. And they were like, oh okay. 107 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: They put it on and uh, right after player player, 108 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: they like lowered the volume. Then they put on like 109 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: R Kelly, they put like regular R and B. And 110 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: I was telling them like, no, no, no, it's it's the 111 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: entire record. He said, oh, you know, we thought it 112 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: was just one song or whatever. And you know, I'm 113 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: not trying to brag to them, like yo, I'm giving 114 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: you guys gold, like I'm letting you listen to this 115 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: D'Angelo record. But for me, it was like the last 116 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: four years of my life. And I got to tell you, man, 117 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: there were eight people I played the record for and 118 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: they all hated it. My assistant hated it. One of 119 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: the tour managers hated it. I think my manager Rich 120 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: had jokes like you don't even know what the fuck 121 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: he's saying, like where's the single? You know, it's like 122 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: that environment it was. It was. It was two thousand 123 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: and you know, so I kind of had the feeling that, uh, 124 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: I was like, shit, I ruined this guy's career, and 125 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: so I almost felt like I owed it to him 126 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: to see it through by doing the entire tour with him, 127 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: which was not good news in the Roots camp because 128 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: we just want our Grammy and it's like, okay, let's 129 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: cash in the roots. You know, we got momentum, let's 130 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: go on the road. And it's like, oh, by the way, 131 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to take all two thousand off and tour 132 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: with this guy, which you know, I've many threat memos 133 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: of yo, man, like what the fuck? You know, that 134 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: sort of thing. But all that's to say is that 135 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: you know I told D, like, you know, we have 136 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: a responsibility now to see the mission through, and now 137 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: that D's not here, I feel that responsibility more than ever. So, 138 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: you know, James myself balal like the fragments that are 139 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: left of the Soul Aquarians. You know, we spoke. The 140 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: family is going to get back together, and you know 141 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: it's it's not a down. Sorry for being like the 142 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: long expansive explanation that this is probably twenty five minute explanation. 143 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: I think you gave Charlie more than they bargain for. 144 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: There you go, I gave you a whole episode. Eric 145 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: got the two parter. 146 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to frame it a little differently in twenty 147 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: twenty six, What is your relationship with that site aka 148 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 2: ok player and why did you stop posting? 149 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: I think the goal for okay Player was always for 150 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: me to take the training wheels off and see it, 151 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: see if it gets staying on its own, see if 152 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: it could last on its own, you know. But it's 153 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: also like we just grow up. And I know a 154 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: lot of the the original vets of that world say that, 155 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: you know, once Twitter came, I abandoned the site, which 156 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: is probably the case, but it wasn't you know, a 157 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: time where I woke up, I'm like, you know, what, 158 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: fuck this site? I don't care. It wasn't that, you know, 159 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: I gave my entire life to that site. Like you 160 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: gotta understand that between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand 161 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: and six, I mean I would dedicate somewhere between two 162 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: on a slow day to sometimes like ten hours every day. 163 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: Like in hindsight, especially in light of the uh the 164 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: kind of black Twitter doc that came out. I mean, 165 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: I still stand on Tinto's when I say that I 166 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: believe that okay Player was the beginning of social media. 167 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: You know, it was really only the roots website for 168 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: a quick Year and then there's something much more than that. 169 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: But you know, I don't. I guess now you can 170 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: say my relationship with Okay Player is because I still 171 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: get you know, artists that come up like, yo, man, 172 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: why y'all say this shit about my record? I guess 173 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: I have Okay Players sort of how like Russell or 174 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: Rick has def GM you know, like whatever the smallest 175 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: steak is, I mean, it's still very much alive. And 176 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: you know, I do know that Okay Africa has definitely 177 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: taken legs of its own and help and spread the 178 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: gospel of like new afrobeat and whatnot. 179 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 2: But and you did appear on Don Will's Almanac of 180 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: Wrap podcast, which Okay Player produces their recent web win. 181 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: Absolutely yes, shout out to you guys winning. Yeah. I 182 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: grow out of stuff sometimes and I do other things. 183 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: So this is eric second that was actually like a 184 00:11:58,559 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 2: two part run to itself. 185 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: But here's the third. 186 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: De Newmont Easier question, what is the likelihood we will 187 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 2: get liner notes for the next roots album, whether written 188 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 2: or podcast form. 189 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: We'd love to have them. You know, I've never stop 190 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: informing people, like even if you look at the the 191 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing that I don't do is 192 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: as much anymore. Is like the mammoth Mammoth mammoth Instagram posts. Well, 193 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: one there's a character limit. And two, my my publisher 194 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: hates when I give music lessons away for free. It's 195 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: like that could have been in the book. So I 196 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: will say that I know if I don't come with 197 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: liner notes for this next record, you guys will kill me. 198 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: I do know who my audience is, and I know 199 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: that a new roots album isn't just us releasing a 200 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: roots album, but it's it's it's sort of figuring out 201 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: a way to give you guys a feeling. But that said, 202 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: and this is not you know, a preface or any 203 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: or any warning or that sort of thing. You know, 204 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine was also nineteen ninety nine, So I 205 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: want you guys to to understand that. In other words, Okay, 206 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: I'll give you a great example. The Supreme Clientele two 207 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: point zero record. Definitely an older sounding goes face killer, 208 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: Like his voice is going down in texture and tone, 209 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: so kind of that whiny trademark God make it, you know, 210 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: like that's of the past, and we can't penalize him because, 211 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: you know, a fifty six year old sounding goes is 212 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: way different than the twenty six year old one that 213 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: we have, So people also just need to know that 214 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: people grow. But that said, this next Roots album is 215 00:13:54,240 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: also the first album in which after Things Fall apart, 216 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: like Roots Album sort of became a community project, but 217 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: Things Fall Apart was like, you know, the album that 218 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: I feel as though I had the most time in 219 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: the driver's seat, despite the mini fumbles like shout out 220 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: to Eve getting her retroactive grammy anyway, that said, yeah, 221 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: I will include all the treats that it will take 222 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: for you guys to come back to the yard. But 223 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: that also said, you're talking to a guy that collects 224 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: records like the oxygen he breathes, And that said, I 225 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: know the live album is nothing exciting. I know a 226 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: live album from a group that's been around for thirty 227 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: years is not exciting. But I promise you I treated 228 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: and produced that Roots Live at Blue Note album as 229 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: the hardest musical cynic of all time. And everything I 230 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: hate about live albums, everything I hate about groups that 231 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: are forty years after their existence, I was acutely aware 232 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: of those things, and I still say that do you 233 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: want more? The Roots Come Alive? To record. It's probably 234 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: one of our best albums in a minute, even if 235 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: it is a time capsule. I mean. And the thing 236 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: is a lot of vets from OK player are like, 237 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: oh damn, I didn't know y'all. This like I'm dealing 238 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: with the oh damn, I didn't know y'all was still good. Well, 239 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: thanks a lot, so, you know, but just to let 240 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: you know that's there as well, and it's worth a listen. 241 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: And this is from the guy who finally listened to 242 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: the entire Prints, Diamonds and Pearls five hour box set 243 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: and was shocked that I put a nineteen song mixed 244 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: together of what I feel is a masterpiece of an album. 245 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: So you know what I was saying, You know my 246 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: feelings of Oh I was wrong about this album. There's 247 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: some things I do like, yes, come back to the roots. 248 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 2: Far easier question from Raymond. You did DJ sets during 249 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 2: the Lockdown that we're on YouTube and have now been 250 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 2: taken down. If it's in your control, wink wink, is 251 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 2: there any chance they can reappear? 252 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: I know I'm sitting on kind of a historical gold mine. Yeah. Absolutely, 253 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: positively documented every moment the of the lockdown, all those 254 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: DJ sets are somewhat preserved at the time when we 255 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: thought the world was coming to an end, you know, 256 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: YouTube and all the publishers out there, like I'd to 257 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: physically call them all and be like, yo, call the 258 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: dogs off. I'm trying to entertain people, trying to keep 259 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: them sane, and I thought they'd still be up there. 260 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: But of course once the world came back to normal, 261 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: all those things started disappearing. Understandable. Really, the question is, 262 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are asking me, like, 263 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: why don't you go back to doing that? Well, I'll 264 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: ask you, guys, do you want me? Is there a 265 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: way that we can take a pull to see if 266 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: it's even worth me going back to a ninth job 267 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: and coming back to DJ. Yeah, I still have my 268 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: Twitch platform, but it's just like once I entered the 269 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: world of movies. 270 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 2: Man only twenty four hours in a day. 271 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: So that's how much work it is. Question. Loum Show 272 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio.