WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Organized Noize Part 1 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:12.560 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeart Radio Supremo. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:20.200 Role supram Supremo, Role Supremo Roth. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.640 My name is Questlove and I don't flake yea and 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:41.000 at yl Yeah. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:46.800 Right, Supreme Supremo Upbravo Supremo. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.720 My name is Fante and I'm gonna speak my cloud. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:51.400 Yeah. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:52.640 Organized taught me. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:01:00.320 Yeah, trying to get you out. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.119 My name is Sugar yeah, and I apologize this may 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.800 get noisy and unorganized. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:22.000 Well, right, Supreme, it's my ear yeah, and I'm over 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.360 joy Yeah. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:24.880 It's like I'm back in college again. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:38.640 Organized joying, Okay, I Marico yeah, and I'm part one, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.080 part one. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:49.280 Yeah. So Supreme roll down. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:54.440 So this is Yoda Yeah, and you know I hold 0:01:54.440 --> 0:02:06.880 it down yeah, organized noise. Yeah, we all in time, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:00.920 come pray. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.160 My name is Sleeper, yeah, and I'm the smoothest. You'll 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.600 never find another mother that could do this. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:22.840 In my mind is like we'll probably do that. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.000 Roll sound. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:40.160 Roll all right, where's my where's my manager? Yeah? He 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.679 was like, you didn't sign up for this, You did 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.720 not sign up for this. I'm like, boy, you did 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.200 not do a good job. You're good, bro. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.760 You made enough classics to sustain Oh no, My probably 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.000 is gonna reason why I gon'na go viral. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:54.600 Well, that's a good thing. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.760 In twenty two, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.040 of Quest Love Supreme at l Addition. We are in 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.240 Atlanta talking to a lot of the greats. What can 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.119 I say, Ladies and gentlemen, We are here with three 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.440 gentlemen who have built a movement, a sound, of way 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.400 of life, literally putting not even a section of the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.639 because that's that's just very reductive. But I mean they 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.760 literally changed the scope of music as we know it 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.000 and of creativity as we know it. You know, some 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.639 of the blackest shit ever, some of the most afrofuturist 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:37.080 shit ever, what you call legacy from George Skyler or 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.160 down the sun Rod, down the p Funk and when 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.320 the baton came in their their hands, they created magic. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.000 Simply put, I'll say, one of the most respected and 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.960 in some producer's eyes, most feared men. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.600 Dogs. Yeah, I won't even talk about us, like listening 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.360 to a new album like they did what Nigga? 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.320 When I heard main stream, I wanted to jump out there, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.600 know what it is like you can give loop literally, Yeah, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.280 I've never I never had. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.800 A production collective. That just makes me like, damn, why 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:13.640 don't I think of that ship? 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.279 Seriously, it's this is long time overdue, and you know 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.640 all the classic lpiece they've been involved in that that 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:25.240 they had their hands in from all the entire like Outcast, Cannon, Uh, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:32.680 Goodie Mob, Cannon, Parent Advisory, some cut of Calhoun Joy Vote, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:42.880 Oh god, I totally forgotten the last Awesome great Yes, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.200 the names go on, dude and for on the real 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.279 I don't know if crazy, sexually cool would have been 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:56.640 what it was without ladies and gentlemen. It's it's actually happening. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.320 We've been talking about this forever. Welcome Rica, Wait Ray, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.640 Murray and the One and Only. I cannot believe Sleepy 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.599 Brown is on Quest Love Supreme, Organized Noise, Thank. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:16.760 You Man, too much good music listen. So this is 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.160 rare for us because like I prefer one on one. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.400 Shows where we get the grill people like it's I mean, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:28.280 Steve joke that this looks like peace negotiations. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.200 Happening, right, Like what you did? 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.679 I feel like it's beat between Sleepy and Sugar Steve 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:33.159 over here. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.640 I want to negotiating my contract. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.000 Yeah no, but this this will be really interesting. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.400 And as I said, we're in Atlanta right now and 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.240 I'm hoping to get all the edgumacation and all the 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.520 questions I want to answered about just the sound that 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.599 you guys have crafted for the last thirty years. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:53.120 Damn there. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.000 So I guess I'll start, well, I know your lineage 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.200 runs deep. I know all your lineage runs deep, but 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:04.560 especially sleepy, being the sign of the legendary Jimmy Brown Brick, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.440 I'll start with you. Can you tell me what your 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:08.920 first musical memory was. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.200 I was six years old, right, and it was my 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.120 first concert I went to and I was with my 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:17.599 grandparents and uh. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.000 We get to the concert and uh walk on side 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:21.920 the stage. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.680 And my dad don start performing, and uh when I 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:30.000 seen them do dads right, my mouth dropped and I 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.640 look back at my grandmom when I said, this is 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:32.240 what I want to do. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.640 Period. I knew I want to do music. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.800 As soon as I saw my dad playing them horns 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.160 and everybody screaming and going crazy, I was just. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.680 Like, I gotta do this, this is this is what 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:44.240 I have to do. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.799 And plus, you know, my mom would buy me Jackson 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.200 five albums every Christmas right. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:49.280 You know. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.040 So I was like the six Jackson plus I was 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.720 in Brick Right and Commodoors and I was in everybody group. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.240 So my first experience of music was the greatest era 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.680 of music to me was the funk era and the 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.440 disco era. No music has been made more beautiful than that. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.360 So that's my whole. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:09.560 Being, you know what I mean? 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.240 No matter what, That's why they called me funk or not, 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.320 because if they ain't funky, I ain't doing. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:19.240 I funks with that eschewing dazz and music and ain't 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.800 gonna hurt nobody. The captain obvious break is do you 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.280 have a favorite Brick song that isn't a hit or anything? 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:33.960 Yeah? Yep? Fun What of them happy? Happy? 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.600 You know what I was gonna say, Damn, I always 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.640 always say, but I've alway confessed that I'm kind of 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.120 working on Sultry right. I was like preface with like, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.240 I'm not supposed to say this, but no, I'm getting 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.920 to the seventy seven episodes, and I gotta say, your 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:56.320 dad was a charismatic motherfucker even when performing Happy on Soultitery, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.120 Like I just. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.520 But they always had the biggest smile it's like we 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.800 saw him perform. He was just excited and happy to 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.360 perform for people. And he's always been that way. When 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.800 he was younger, he had had a band in Savannah 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.760 that did a couple of records, Jimmy and the Mighty Sensations, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.040 that did pretty good. So he's always always loved music 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:17.680 till this day. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.440 You know what I mean. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.000 I'm working on the album right now with him. We're 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:29.880 doing like an instrument Yeah, instrumental jazz. So he played flute, trombone, ato, sax, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.160 every horn you can put in front of him and 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:32.520 kill it. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.720 Living from the Mind was also one of my favorite. Yes, sir, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.240 that Baseline killed me and uh uh Somerset uh summer 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.800 telling them White album coming. Yeah, yeah, I know that. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:51.160 You wait, Brick Trivia, have you heard this tipbit about Prince? 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.719 Do you know the story? So Prince was such a 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.840 fan of Brick. What do you know that he wrote 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.000 get it Up? He wrote that for Brick and they 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:11.960 rejected it. We interviewed Mars, I'll do it for you 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:17.600 sound effects, sound yeah, Mars, and we I mean we've 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.400 had damn near I remember at the time or except 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.880 Terry Lewis Terry Lewis. But yeah, when we asked Mars 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.680 about him and Prince Craft in the first record, you know, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.480 he told us that he's playing drums on everything. He 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.520 was like, when we may get it Up for some reason, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.480 like Prince was really into not for some reason, I 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:40.880 mean everybody was into it, but. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.040 Man, you just blew me. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.720 Yeah, Prince had wrote get It Up for Brick to 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.079 be whatever the album is with with the Green where 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.440 was like, it's like the Green Leaves just for that album. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.360 They rejected it. You gotta talk to your dad about that. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:06.360 What you're doing. Yeah, man, there you go. That's crazy 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.240 all right. So, Ray, what is your first musical memory? 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.120 Me and my brother and sister used to turn the 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:19.319 lights off and dance around two flight time, Yes, sir, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:26.560 the airplane land NAS New York state of mind. So 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.280 early on, I kind of like my father's jazz head. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.080 So he he had all of this music which was 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.400 like everything that we ever heard in hip hop. You 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.960 feel me, all of this ship that cat sample, that's 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.480 the ship that I grew up with playing in the house. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.600 Yeah, all three of you are born in Atlanta. I 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.199 was going, okay, Yeah, I was born and you Where 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.480 were you born? Im about to say you gotta have 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.520 me swag boys, I know where are you born? Where? 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.240 I was going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.000 Yes, yes, my mom is from Pittsburgh. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.640 But I grew up before we came to Atlanta. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.480 We came to Atlanta with MANA Jackson when he took 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.280 over the city, when he became the first black man. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:12.880 Right. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.880 My fathers and mother were in Tuskegee, Alabama. So I 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.720 grew up in Tuskegee pretty much Alabama. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.319 Okay, I got roots there too. Shout out to Mobile, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.800 not TEXIV, but Mobile. All right for you, Rico, What's 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.200 what's your first musical memory? 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.280 Oh man, Even with listening to their memories, I was 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.120 mine is as simple as That's good now. It's the 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.040 simple ast him music on the radio, because you know 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.440 what I'm saying, I didn't really hit it. We didn't 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:42.840 have a car when I was younger, so I didn't 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.679 really hit the radio until like Mama was cleaning up 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.480 or something, or or when I finally just went into 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.800 that back room we had an extra room, and I 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.079 just kind of went to digging. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:53.800 Guo. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:59.000 Yes, the guest room and all the junk sits in the. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.200 Man finding more than records back there one day back 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:11.160 but the records nothing, no. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.160 A bunch of fact. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:17.120 Yes, yes, money, but like Donald Summer and like the 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.520 Ring My Bell and all that kind of stuff with 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.880 some of the records and Iley Brothers. Yeah, I was 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.120 seeing that stuff as records. But on the radio when 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.160 she was it was just the energy of house. She 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.480 would be a different person when the music came on 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.920 and she turned up loud and she cleaning up. Some 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.679 people always made that. I always say, you know, I 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.800 like to play my music when I'm cleaning up. I 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.760 really understood what that meant. It's like I feel good today. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.240 I mean today is this is what I'm doing. I'm 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.720 going for I need to feel good. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.640 You need to feel good what I'm getting this. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.640 Yeah, So my examples of music, and another one at 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.840 a young age was my first little job when I 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.160 was like ten years old, just unloading the back of 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:54.959 eighteen or like. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.680 A truck or whatever. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.280 They used to play the radio, and I just remember 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.000 that made it go by. So the music music was 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.960 always a I didn't never think I could necessarily be 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.439 able to make it. They never think I would be 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.000 a part of the business. But I knew how important 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.199 it was and how much I did, how much it 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.600 did for me just at that young age, and didn't 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.000 even know who, didn't know exactly who, none of the 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.400 artist was. Just knew that at that time being a 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.160 man of my age, which is fifty. During that time 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.880 nineteen eighty, I was eight. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:26.959 So like like. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.120 What he's talking about, like soaking up, sir at the 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.679 right time. It's the end of the seventies. So we 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.480 but they still loan it. As far as the albums, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.520 I could still see album I still saw eight tracks, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.720 you know what I'm saying. I still wrote in cards 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.800 when we did that, actually had an eight track. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.800 In it, so collect them. Wow. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:50.440 But your knowledge of a brick is amazing because even 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.080 when when I found out who his father was or whatever, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.720 you just thought about that's ice cube song. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.320 Yes, vasline, that's the song that you got back. That 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.680 was deep. I was so happy when they did. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:10.160 How did you feel about like a lot of other 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.679 artists have sampled before that. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.959 You know, Kid played the Ain't Gonna hurt nobody? You 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.719 know him? Did he did? It's all good? It was 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:18.800 yeah good. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.240 So but when I heard Q on one of the 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.960 coldest disc records. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:37.080 Ever all the time, bro my hat like Jenny, So 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.880 I was, man, that's still one of my favorite Man. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.320 I still play that records and like I'm in the 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.560 mirror and I'm cute and let me shut up. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.920 So I have a lot of musician friends that are 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.720 in uh Atlanta, like uh little John Roberts used to 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:58.400 live down in Philly. However, there were four musician friends 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.200 of mine that gave me theory on how. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.880 They got so advanced in their musicianship. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.680 Now, you mentioned you'd be in fifty that you were 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.720 eight back then, and I know that one of the 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:16.000 most crucial points in the timeline in a black person's 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.360 life in Atlanta history, of course, and if you're eight 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.800 years old were the Atlanta murders. And what my friends 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.440 told me was like, basically because their parents were strict, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.000 like yo, you ain't going outside, you know, I pick 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:30.640 you up for school. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.600 You stay in the house. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:38.000 And because of that specific late sixties early seventies generation 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.040 told to stay in the house, they just got more 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.160 advanced than their music. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:43.320 Can you explain to. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:48.040 Us, like how that period affected you guys, Like were 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:52.000 you fully aware that many young black kids were getting 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.840 kidnapped and all those things, and like were your parents 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.359 like no, you you know. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.600 It was prime time for us. And the fact that 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.240 I lived in apartments, single parent. Mom she went and 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.080 she worked, so it was latchkey kid right. So so 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.400 then I had two little sisters like six and five 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.600 years younger, like, so it was like and you have 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.280 to watch them, yeah, and I had to watch them. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.480 So it was almost like I was trained. I was wrong. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.760 Mom had got me ready the knife behind here to 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.000 whoop over here like pistol over on top of the closet, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.960 and yeah, like everything was She treated me as a 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.080 young adult because she was like, I mean, I don't 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.120 wanted them white folks doing this, right, So she was scared, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.840 so she was like, you can't outrun the because stop 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:35.360 thinking that. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:40.080 Oh, ain't gonna get me. I'm too fas, I promise 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 you police can't get me. Mop I'm dropping fishes one 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:49.640 league like she said. She said, she said, dope, you. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.440 Know, and then just trying to get rid of all 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.320 y'all they trying to just scoop them up. But and 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.720 she just made me believe that it was something that 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.360 it actually necessarily was, but it wasn't because it was 0:16:58.360 --> 0:16:59.440 a lot going on Inland. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.440 It was the bevideo games. Video games that just touched down. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.520 So that's why when I disscovered them, them dollar pieces 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:06.720 in that in that back room. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.560 Yes, you want to just go hit the arcade. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.000 And we had an arcade downtown Atlanta and the Omni 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.600 An Arcade at It's like the arcade is where you 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.240 first started meeting that. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.520 The people, the people who do music, the people who 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.080 were eventually was gonna be the people, the dancers, the 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.240 people who loved New York and knew that we would 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.119 get shunned for acting that way, but people still would 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.040 do it, almost to the. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.440 Point where like, I want to be different, you know 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.879 what I'm saying. Didn't know that being I don't want 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.640 you don't necessarily want to be copying somebody else. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.720 But that's different that that dudes. You had some dudes 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.840 that was straight and lit and tell you they was. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:49.480 So as far as the child murders, we community centers. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.399 So like people got a chance to do a boy scout. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.280 They was trying to get you to do summer camps 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.280 that they had at the city. Had put a whole 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.000 thing together to where they was giving out t shirts. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 I remember these, these these classic teacher as will say, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.520 eighty eighty one, eighty two. And then it kind of 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.960 let you know that my mama care about me because 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.640 she made I went to the camp kids who don't 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.200 go to camp, like, man, this shit, excuse me. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:10.880 This is free. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.600 In yeah, this is free and so like it's just 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.879 seemed like and those people was also bringing it to 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.359 you too as well as far as making sure that 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.679 you know, be with a friend, stop trying to do 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.359 stuff by yourself. So so that little fear was kind 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.800 of how you should have felt as a young adult anyway. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.720 But the city was so active about it or whatever 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.600 as far as no trick or treating you know what 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.879 I'm saying, like, and eventually grew until y'all can go 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.440 to the mall and do it. But really it was 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.840 like when you get home at three thirty or whatever, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.359 go in the house at four o'clock like it was 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:39.120 a curfew. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.560 It wasn't apparent. It was like eighty eighty one these two. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:49.960 Years, yeah, because he had numbers. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.600 Nine was when we first started this year, and then 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.800 eighty was the year was the second year. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.679 That's when everything got like just what we're doing. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.080 That's when I starteding eighty one. When it was it 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.280 was like I wasn't eve tripping about it. Then by 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.359 that point point it was like like it was it 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.000 was more like yeah, we trained, we was trained in 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.679 or whatever like. But but I do remember saying like 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.520 like damn, we don't get the freaking. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:12.720 That they used to be. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.560 Like Halloween used to be cool because everybody show up 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.439 at school. Didn't we have even a little Halloween. Then 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.680 they started doing a little carnivals at the school. The community 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.280 kicked in. I got to say that, like and watching 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.760 the special that HBO did or whatever, like it was 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.480 most definitely informative. It most definitely enlightened me on a 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.760 lot of things that I thought was going on, and 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.600 it kind of like brought validity to what I knew 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.680 what was happening. But I knew it wasn't just that 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:39.720 because a culture of because we Atlanta's a melting pot, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.200 you know what I'm saying, Like, you know you got 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.399 San Francisco, but Atlanta's We had gay laws put in 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.280 place when I was younger as well because of because 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.199 of disrespect, you know what I'm saying, Like somebody just 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.200 wanted to be you know, because of racism, because we 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.879 founded racism in a great way that we was on 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.760 top of that before it became a worldwide thing or 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.720 whatever as far as dealing with you know, different people 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:01.840 of because. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.520 That explains why Atlanta is such a mecca for that 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:04.440 community as well. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:11.320 America's democracy lies in the hands of Atlanta or Georgia. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:12.840 Period. Yeah. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.119 Absolutely, so with all those things are because of the 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:17.480 Wayne Williams. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.320 My dad and me like that's the number one conspiracy theory. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.600 Yes, I'm so, you said, Wayne Williams, because I still 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.160 say in my mind Walter Clyde Orange of the Commodore. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.280 Had those classes that whatever. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:39.520 But I never, I never truly felt that it was him, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.240 especially with what's happening now so unhinged. 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.879 I always felt like it was something else and some 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:46.440 other people. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.639 Yeah, I think it was a collective. It was a collective. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.960 I think people took advantage of about it. It was 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.200 like it was happening or whatever. And that's why the things, 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.119 the numbers, yes, and the things that I'm telling you, 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.040 all the stuff that was reinforced. It's the reason why 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.960 we didn't lose more because it was thirty two kids. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:02.640 It was thirty two, it was like thirty one thirty 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.240 two kids, it was like, I mean. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.600 Well, technically it was more than that. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:12.679 It has never stopped the word yes, I mean I 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.680 mean Atlanta's the center for sex trafficking. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.080 Yeah, yep, so it technically has never stopped. 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.880 You just don't hear about it being associated with Wayne 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:27.000 Williams but abducted missing, that hasn't changed at all. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:28.080 Yeah. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:29.919 Yeah, but now though, with the fact that you have 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.520 people illegal, Like when I was younger, Beefer Highway, it 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.920 was like it was you know, it was Spanish a 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.160 little bit. But now like we have completely Atlanta. It's 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.040 not just a mecca for black people. It's Latinos, it's Asians. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.639 We have everybody here working to That's going to say 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.200 it's working together, but but been work been living together 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.040 for long enough to when now they know each other, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:51.200 everybody cool. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:55.560 It's been a good decade for your your like divers diversifying, gentrification. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.800