WEBVTT - QLS Presents First Musical Memories Part 1 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:06.440 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:10.760 All Right. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.840 So I asked Quest Love Supreme guests about their first 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.880 musical memory, because I feel like it's a great starting point. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.400 You know, everyone has a come to Jesus moment when 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.520 it comes to when they discovered music, or how music 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.960 liberated them or what brought them into music, And oftentimes 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.000 I'll say that music plays an important role of helping 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.440 you remember what your life was. You know, I remember 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.519 my first car accident because I knew the Lanis Marset 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.640 song that was playing as we crashed. I remember like 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:56.560 the first heartbreak I had with a girl, and Anita 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.480 Baker's Sweet Love comes on like sometimes. You know, Chappelle 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.360 often jokes we turned the car radio volume down because 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.880 no one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.480 But you know, oftentimes music helps us remember what life is. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.160 And so that's why I ask them that. I believe 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.920 the first episode that the public heard was the Maya 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.800 Rudolph episode. Of course, our very first, and that was 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:29.080 I believe September of twenty sixteen, and I asked Maya 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.960 about it, and you know, it wasn't like the staple 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:39.840 of QLs episodes until like twenty nineteen. That's when I 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.080 realized that's a good deal breaker. Oftentimes you got to 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.240 gain the trust of the artist that comes on the show, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.320 and I kind of want them to know in the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.040 first fifteen minutes what type of show this is. And oftentimes, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.560 especially with creatives, they often do interviews on the defensive. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:00.240 You know, we called that. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.760 Gotcha journalism, like you're asked an awkward question that you 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.480 don't want to answer and you know, kind of puts 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.360 them in a pickle. So sometimes it surprises people. I 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.800 think the Steve Stout episode was hilarious because, you know, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.240 I know that Steve Stout walked into this interview knowing 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.280 that we were going to ask him about the infamous 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:32.239 NAS Hate Me Now video controversy between him NAS and Diddy, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.680 and we really didn't go there. Like he was genuinely 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.880 shocked that we wanted to know about his life, Like 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.640 he stopped the interview. I was like, wait a minute, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.080 this is what you guys want to know about, Like 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.440 he was shocked that if it were any other outlet, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.200 he knew that they were more or less there for 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.600 the juicy gossip stuff, and you know, for anybody in 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.440 a prominent position in music. I want to show the 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.480 path that led to that, so that the listener you 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.200 might get inspiration from that, like, oh, okay, well I 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.040 went to high school and I try to start my 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.720 band and da da da da. So if you hear 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.720 the people that you admire going through a process, then 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.480 that might spark an idea and you to do the same. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.000 And so I will say that when John Oates of 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.880 Daryl Hall and John Oates Hall of Notates of course 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.120 mentioned my dad, that was kind of cool. He said that, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.840 you know, growing up in Philadelphia and the dou wop scene, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.240 my father was definitely a pioneer, and that meant a 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.200 lot to me to hear. So I guess I should 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.520 share with you guys my first musical memory and rather 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.960 apropos now that the slide doc is done. But my 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.240 first musical memory is also my first memory in life. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.120 And I will say that I was two years old. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.960 This is nineteen seventy three. I'm in my West Philadelphia 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:05.800 house getting my hair washed, and you know, I'm two 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.040 years old, so I don't know the rules that once 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.720 you have their eyes closed when getting their hair washed. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.520 My sister's hand accidentally hits the bath detergent or the 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:22.479 cleanser ajax, and it sort of hits the marble tub hard, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.240 and you know, it's like a cloud of smoke. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:26.000 It gets in my. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.640 Eye and I'm just burning, stinging, sting and sting and crying, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:36.520 having a fit, you know. And all I remember was 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.800 I ran from the bathroom on the second floor to 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.480 the first floor, just running. My dad grabs me, and 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.960 all I remember was that they pinned me. It was 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.960 like a wrestler, like I was pinned to the ground. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:58.120 My aunt Karen and my sister Dawn were pinning my shoulders. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:03.640 My mom pinned my ankles so that couldn't run, and 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.000 my dad was trying to like you gotta think of 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.960 it like a what's the movie, Oh, Clockwork Orange, Like 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.919 the way they forced the eyelids open to stay open. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.080 My dad has a gallon of water and he's trying 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:25.640 to flush my face and all this is happening while 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.320 the second song on sly is very depressing. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:29.440 There's a riot going on. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.560 Album as playing called just Like a Baby, And if 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.000 you know the song just Like a Baby, the ominous baseline, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:41.440 very spooky sounding song, that's my first memory in life, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.159 and that kind of made me obsessed with Sly and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.039 probably made me highly eligible to direct this documentary because 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.880 of my relationship and obsession with the guy who created 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.680 that song. Weird enough, I didn't hear that song again 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.400 until like eight years later, and when I was like 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.640 ten or eleven, I heard that baseline and instantly ran 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:11.799 to the record player, and all those memories came triggering back, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.600 like you know, the scene and kill Bill whenever, like 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:21.279 Quincy Jones's Iron Side Please. That's what it felt like. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.760 It was like triggering, like, oh my god, I remember 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.960 that feeling and me being pinned to the floor and 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.280 them trying to wash my eye out. So that's my 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:37.839 first musical memory. So what was your first cognizant memory 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:43.080 of music? Yeah, just of the environment you grew up in. Like, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.240 you don't remember that Soul Train episode in what you 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.160 were crying through your mom's interview segment. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.520 Mmm, I don't remember it, but I remember that all 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.680 that that era for me was, I mean, we were 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.360 on the road with my parents most of the time 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.240 until I started school, So I mean when we were 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.200 little little sometimes they go out on the road and 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.360 they take us with them. But pretty much, especially when 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:05.640 I was a baby. I think my mom went out 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:06.920 on the road for a minute and then she called 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.479 my dad. She was like, you have to come with me. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:09.240 I can't. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.119 I can't be without the baby and without you guys. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.360 And so we were on the road a lot. And 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.400 I remember being on the road with my parents, like 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:23.120 I remember somebody lost a tooth in like some town 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.400 with a casino and we got like a chip or something, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.240 you know, Like I remember, like sound check. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:28.960 To me is like. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:31.920 I think it was it was me or my I 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.400 think it's me, me or my brother. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.080 Even like a bar fight or something. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.240 No, like like the normal things that happened to a kid. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.679 But the tooth fairy brought me like a casino chip 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.960 because we were in like Lake Tahoe or something. But 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.920 like like being on the road was very normal. And 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:51.880 then like seeing my mom, Yeah, like being being in studios, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.680 being backstage, and like seeing my mom before the show, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.480 like before the audience was there. All that is like 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.320 tied together as one kind of large memory. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.680 That was my Rudolph And here is Daryl Hall. Do 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.520 you remember what your very first musical memory. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.040 Was, probably seeing my well, my mother and father both 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.600 were musicians. I see my mother in a band. I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.800 mean my mother was in it was in a band 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.120 in post Town, and I was like, yeah, from the 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.280 age of two years old, I'd watched the band, and 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.800 I always wanted to be the band leader, you know, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.440 the guy that had the he had like a white 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.760 coat on. Everybody else had red coats on. He had 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.840 a white coat on. So yeah, I was I wanted 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:33.480 to be that guy. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.199 What does Darryl Hall's mom's voice sound like? What is 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:37.160 her singing voice? 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.320 She was a soprano. She's ninety eight years old now 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:48.000 and she still sings, but yeah, she's an amazing singer, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.040 amazing soprano. And my father was in a gospel group, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.600 a vocal group, and so I learned harmonies from him 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.120 and his brothers and his friends and all that. So, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.079 you know, I grew up in the whole world. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:06.520 Were they closer to do Wop or more Mills Brothers 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:07.360 or like harmony? 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.160 Like what was their church harmony? You know, like. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:12.880 Gospel? 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.000 Harvey, what was your first musical memory. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.959 My mom would sing at this park across the street 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.240 with her band, and she had this big afro and 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.440 bell bottoms, blue jean bell bottoms in a green shirt 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.440 and some big hoops, and she had this tambourine but 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.320 she would hit it with her hip all the time, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.080 and I just loved every time her hip would move 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.160 or she'd sing, the audience would just I just saw 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.679 them go crazy. I didn't know what that meant, but 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.960 the sound of her voice always would do something here. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.160 So that memory always, I always remember that before I 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.400 go on stage. But that was my one of my 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.920 first memories of music. The other one is the h 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.319 The band would record to the A track and it 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.600 would sit in our room. We had a shotgun house 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.600 to just go straight ahead and in the living room. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.160 The band would record in the living room, and my 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.520 mom would record her vocal part with the A track 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.559 in our bedroom, which was the next room. So I 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.880 would stare at the A track and watch my mom 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.440 record on the edge of the bed. And then when 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.160 they pressed play and her voice came out of it, 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.280 I was just blown away. And that's when I like 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.600 those two memories. That's when I wanted to sing. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.520 Did your mother did she like make records of your 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.120 recording artists or did she just sing? 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.280 And she was a recording artist, She had her own 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.880 band called car Nova in New Orleans. They had their 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:51.040 own band. It was interracial, racial bass player guitar. My 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.520 stepdad played drums. That's why I started on the drums. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.319 That's why I loved watching drummers. That's why I became 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:02.719 a fan of me. And I would watch the way 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.640 drummers set up their snares. It slanted, is it low? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.960 Is it below their knees, like every little technical thing. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.600 So I started on the drums, and I would watch 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.120 them perform rehearse in our bedroom, but we were too 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.560 young to go in the club, so they would have 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.960 the car close to the side door so that my 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.680 mom can babysit while performing, so she would do double duty. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.320 So I'm a kid from that kind of era where 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.040 they did a lot of performing and recording at the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.640 same time. But she had her own band lead singer, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.920 and her and the bass player would write songs together 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:40.559 all the time. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.400 Wow, I know you're probably obsessed with Darry Jones if 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:50.600 you're trying to figure out drummer angles. All right, that 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.640 was Letusy and now this is Bonnie Rape. I start 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.880 off every episode with the same question, so you're no 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.400 exception to the rule. Could you please give me your 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.679 very first musical memory. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.760 Oh, I think my dad, who was a Broadway leading man, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.760 singing the songs from his show, with my mom warming 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.960 him up on the pianel. She was his musical director 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.960 and rehearsal pianist. And I remember being really little and 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.160 hearing this big, old booming voice singing these great Rogers 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.440 and Hammerstein songs. So I'd have to say, my folks 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:27.920 playing in the house. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.160 We also have Organized Noise. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.360 We begin with Sleepy Brown, whose father, Jimmy Brown, was 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.120 the singer and flute player of a very well known 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.720 funk band from the seventies called Brick. Of course, Brick 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:50.280 gave us the classic song Dazz. I believe dazz is 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.480 what they call a por dementeau of danceable jazz. They 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.439 call it dazz. And then we're going to get to 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:02.200 Ray Murray, and of course the late we go Wade. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.880 And this was recorded in Atlanta in twenty twenty three, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:13.079 very special episode Organized Noise. I know your lineage runs deep. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.400 I know all your lineage runs deep, but especially Sleepy 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:21.480 being the son of the legendary Jimmy Brown Brick, I'll 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.200 start with you, can you tell me what your first 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.440 musical memory was. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.760 I was six years old, right, and it was my 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.640 first concert I went to. And I was with my 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.160 grandparents and we get to the concert and walk on 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.000 side the stage and my dad, know start performing, And 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:45.360 when I seen them do dazz, right, my mouth dropped 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.800 and I look back at my grandmother when. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:47.800 I say, this is what I want to do. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:48.520 Wow. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.160 Period, I knew I want to do music. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.360 As soon as I saw my dad playing them ows 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.800 and everybody screaming and going crazy. I was just like, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.440 I gotta do this is this is what I have 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.880 to do. And plus you know, my mom would buy 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.000 me Jackson five albums every Christmas, right, you know, so 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.680 I was like the six Jackson. Plus I was in 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.280 Break Right and Commodoors and I was in everybody group. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.760 So my first experience of music was the greatest era 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.200 of music to me was the funk era and the 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.080 disco era. No music has been made more beautiful than that. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.080 So that's my whole being, you know what I mean, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.760 No matter what. That's why they called me funk or not, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.680 because if it ain't funky, I ain't doing. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:34.800 I function with that chewing dazz and music and ain't 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.360 gonna hurt nobody. The captain obvious break is, do you 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.840 have a favorite Brick song that isn't a hit or anything? 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:49.440 Yeah, yep, fun one of them, Happy Happy. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.160 You know what I was gonna say, Damn, I always 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.200 always say, but I've always confessed that I'm kind of 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.680 working on Sultry, right. I was like preface with like, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.800 I'm not supposed to say this, but no, I'm getting 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.440 to the seventy seven episodes, and I gotta say, your 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:11.240 dad was a charismatic motherfucker even when performing Happy on 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.480 Soul training, Like I. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.920 Just but they always had the biggest smile. It's like 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.240 we saw him perform. He was just excited and happy 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.720 to perform for people. And he's always been that way. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.920 When he was younger, he had had a band in 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.360 Savannah that did a couple of records, Jimmy and the 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.960 Mighty Sensations, that did pretty good. Right, So he's always 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.360 always loved music till this day. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:33.960 You know what I mean. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.520 I'm working on the album right now with him. We're 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:45.400 doing like an instrument Yeah, instrumental jazz. So he played flute, instrum, trombone, ato, sex, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.720 every hole you can put it front him and kill it. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.880 Living from the Mind was also one of my favorite. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.800 Yes that Baseline killed. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.120 Me and uh uh Somerset uh Summer. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.240 Telling them white album coming with Yeah, yeah, I know 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:05.640 that joint. Wait, like Brick Trivia. Have you heard this 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.240 tip it about Prince? Do you know the story? So 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.040 Prince was such a fan of Brick. What do you 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.480 know that he wrote get it Up? He wrote that 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:26.880 for Brick and they rejected it. We interviewed Mars, I'll 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.440 do it for you sound effects sound Yeah, Mars and 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.240 we I mean we've had damn near I remember at 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.440 the time on except Terry Lewis, Terry Lewis. But yeah, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.600 when we asked Mars about him and Prince Craft in 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.000 the first record, you know, he told us that he's 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.920 playing drums on everything. He was like, when we may 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.800 get it up for some reason, like Prince was really 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.400 into not for some reason, I mean everybody was into it, but. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.400 Man, you just blew me. Yeah. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.640 Way, Prince had wrote get It Up for Brick Brick 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.879 to be whatever the album is with with the Green 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:11.000 where it's like it's like the Green Leaves for that album. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.879 They rejected it. You gotta talk to your dad about that. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:16.840 What you're doing. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:20.120 There? 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.920 You go, that's crazy? 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:22.440 All right? 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.800 So, Ray, what is your first musical memory? 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.679 Me and my brother and sister used to turn the 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.120 lights off and dance around to flight time. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.080 Yes, sir, the airplane land. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.000 Just nos New York state of mind. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:45.200 Uh So early on, I kind of like my father's 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.520 jazz head. So he he had all of this music 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.320 which was like everything that we ever heard in hip hop. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:54.280 You feel me? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.840 All of this ship to cat sample, that's the ship 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.000 that I grew up with playing in the house. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.119 Yeah, all three of you were born in Atlanta. I 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.520 was doing Savannah. Okay, Yeah, I was born and you 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:10.040 where were you born? About to say you gotta have 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:10.560 me swag? 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:10.879 Boys? 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.040 I know it's where are you born? Where are you? 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:19.680 I was going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Yes, my mom is 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.160 from Pittsburgh, but I grew up before we came to Atlanta. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.040 We came to Atlanta with Mayna Jackson when he took 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:27.840 over the city when he became the first black mayor. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:28.159 Right. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.399 My father and mother were in Tuskegee, Alabama, So I 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.200 grew up in Tuskegee pretty much Alabama. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.880 Okay, what I got roots there too, shout out to Mobile, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.680 not Texig, but Mobile. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.760 All right for you, Rico, what's what's your first musical memory? 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.360 Oh Man, Even with listening to their memories, I was man, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.000 is as simple as that's good now. It's as simple 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.639 as hear music on the radio. Because you know what 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.040 I'm saying, I didn't really hit it. We didn't have 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:58.479 a car when I was younger, so I didn't really 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.800 hit the radio until like Mama was cleaning up or something, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.800 or or when I finally went into that back room. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.840 We had an extra room, and I just kind of 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:13.520 went to digging, Yes, the guest room and all the 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.000 junk sits in the man. I ended up finding more 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.639 than records back there one day. But the records not. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:26.720 A bunch of fact. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.560 Yes, yes, money, but like Donald Summer and uh like 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.080 ring my Bell and all that kind of stuff with 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.439 some of the records and Iley Brothers. Yeah, I was 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.080 seeing that stuff as records. But but on the radio 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.560 when she was it was just the energy of the house. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.880 She would be a different person when the music came 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.119 on and she turned up loud and she cleaning up. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.080 So people always made that I always say you know, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:52.879 I like to play my music when I'm cleaning up. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.760 I really understood what that meant. It's like I feel 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.640 good today today is this is what I'm doing. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:59.840 I'm going I need to. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.719 Be a good right, you need to feel good wile 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:02.199 I'm getting this. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:02.520 Yeah. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.200 So so my examples of music. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.560 And another one at a young age was my first 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.760 little job when I was like ten years old, just 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.639 unloading the back of an eighteen or like a truck 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.320 or whatever. They used to play the radio, and I 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.040 just remember that made it go by. So the music 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.960 music was always a I didn't never think I could 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:21.680 necessarily be able to make it. They never think I 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.720 would be a part of the business. But I knew 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.439 how important it was and how much I did, how 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.600 much it did for me, just at that young age, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.400 and didn't even know who, didn't know exactly who, none 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.440 of the artists was. Just knew that at that time, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.240 being a man of my age, which is fifty. During 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.560 that time nineteen eighty, I was eight. So like what 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.240 he's talking about, like soaking up, sir, at the right time. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.360 It's the end of the seventies, so we but they 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.480 still loaded as far as the albums. I could still 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.520 see an album. I still saw eight tracks, you know what 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.680 I'm saying. I still rode in cards. What we did 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:56.360 that actually had an eight track in. 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.520 It, So I collect them. Wow, but. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:07.639 A brick is amazing because even when when I found 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.320 out who his father was or whatever, you just thought 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.440 about that's ice cube song. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.879 Vasoline, that's the song that asked you got back? That 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.119 was deep. I was so happy when they did. How 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:21.199 did you think about vacine? 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:22.640 Cool? 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.200 Ye, Like a lot of other artists have sampled before that. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.520 You know, kid played it ain't gonna hurt nobody, you 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.840 know him with did he did? 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.320 It's all good? It was yeah good. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.800 So well when I heard q on one of the 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.520 coldest disc records. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:52.640 Ever all the time, bro my heart like Jenny, So 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.440 I was, man, that's still one of my favorite Man. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.879 I still play that records and like I'm in the 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.000 mirror and I'm cute and let me shut up. 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:03.760 That first batch of QLs. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:08.760 Guest reflects on how their parents shaped their first musical memories. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.639 In some cases, those parents were professionals, known recording artists 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:18.920 with their own careers. My parents were also professional recording artists. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.639 I grew up in a family act nightclub act. My 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.040 father was an oldies du wop singer. By the time 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:29.679 I was born, my entire family was part of the show. 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:34.320 So a lot of my musical memories were, you know, 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:39.480 help shaping the nightclub lounge act. One of my favorite 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.280 musical memories of all time is my dad taking me 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.000 being shopping to record stores. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:46.600 Twice a month. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.160 We'd go to King James on fifty second Street and 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.200