WEBVTT - Wallo267 Part 2 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:09.300 Questlove Show is a production of iHeartRadio. What's up, people? 0:00:09.650 --> 0:00:10.350 It's Questlove. 0:00:10.690 --> 0:00:14.730 And last week, we ran part one of my conversation 0:00:15.090 --> 0:00:18.870 with Walla. I wrote an Instagram post about it. And 0:00:18.930 --> 0:00:23.730 this conversation really hit me in an extreme stressful. 0:00:23.329 --> 0:00:25.910 Time in my life. I was trying to fight my 0:00:26.470 --> 0:00:28.150 instinct to cancel the show. 0:00:28.430 --> 0:00:30.720 And I'm glad I didn't. You know, it was just 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.120 a dark week for me. And this conversation meant a lot. 0:00:34.659 --> 0:00:38.059 But Wallo ended up giving me kind of an intervention, 0:00:38.690 --> 0:00:41.590 so to speak. Yes, there are these episodes of QLS 0:00:41.650 --> 0:00:44.050 where I talk more than I want to. 0:00:44.190 --> 0:00:45.370 This is one of those episodes. 0:00:46.110 --> 0:00:49.409 So, but, you know, Wallo showed me how he lives 0:00:49.470 --> 0:00:52.510 and how liberated his mind and his soul are. You know, 0:00:52.530 --> 0:00:55.330 I found it really inspiring. It damn near moved me 0:00:55.370 --> 0:00:57.890 to tears. But I really wasn't sure I wanted to 0:00:57.990 --> 0:01:01.360 air this, but... You know, it's real, and I'm authentic, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:03.800 and I owe that to myself, and I owe it 0:01:03.820 --> 0:01:05.340 to all of you out there, and thank you for 0:01:05.380 --> 0:01:08.670 supporting the show and all the feedback and whatnot. That 0:01:08.690 --> 0:01:11.530 was part one, and we left that part of the 0:01:11.569 --> 0:01:15.130 conversation with a breakthrough, and now this is part two. 0:01:15.730 --> 0:01:17.729 While it kind of takes over my. 0:01:17.510 --> 0:01:21.470 Show, imagine that, and we exchange stories and talk about 0:01:21.530 --> 0:01:25.450 music and life, and you can hear that I'm genuinely. 0:01:25.090 --> 0:01:26.570 Affected by his pep talk, so. 0:01:27.270 --> 0:01:31.929 part two of the interview with wallow on uh the 0:01:31.950 --> 0:01:38.520 quest love show hope you enjoy it that was a 0:01:38.540 --> 0:01:41.020 hell mary pass and i caught that shit with just 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.639 one second left barely and i gotta feel good about 0:01:47.180 --> 0:01:48.220 standing my ground. 0:01:48.460 --> 0:01:49.620 You got to his game time. 0:01:51.300 --> 0:01:56.160 Man um how can i pivot all right um Can 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.380 you take over the podcast? 0:01:58.420 --> 0:01:59.120 I'm going to take it over. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.980 I got this. I think I know something. I think 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.400 I know how to do something like this. Let me 0:02:03.420 --> 0:02:04.000 just say this, right? 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:04.980 Oh, man. 0:02:05.100 --> 0:02:06.360 Let me break this down, right? 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:06.940 Shit, man. 0:02:07.390 --> 0:02:09.530 So I'm going to just talk about you real quick. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.950 The Roots, right? So y'all was having the picnic, right? 0:02:13.430 --> 0:02:15.709 So this young cat come and say, damn, man, like 0:02:15.750 --> 0:02:18.730 this Roots story, man, this story. Because he didn't really 0:02:18.750 --> 0:02:22.130 understand it. He heard Jay-Z was coming, so he was like, 0:02:22.730 --> 0:02:24.730 He didn't even know. He from Philly. Didn't even know 0:02:24.750 --> 0:02:29.820 what The Roots was. Young guy, right? So he was like, man, like, 0:02:29.900 --> 0:02:33.100 what is this, man? Who started this joint? I said, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.780 The Roots, man. He said, yeah, but what is The Roots, right? 0:02:35.820 --> 0:02:37.420 What is that? Is it a story? Like, they didn't 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.140 know what it was, right? 0:02:38.180 --> 0:02:38.660 No, I know. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.380 So I broke it down to him, right? And this 0:02:40.500 --> 0:02:43.820 was an unbelievable education, right? So I tell him who 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.549 you are. I pick it up a little bit. I'm 0:02:45.570 --> 0:02:48.130 showing him the albums. He's like, yo. And you know 0:02:48.169 --> 0:02:51.570 what he asked me? He said... How did they become 0:02:51.620 --> 0:02:54.380 so big to have their own picnic? And to hear Yung, 0:02:54.620 --> 0:02:56.940 I said, listen, because he was messed up with like, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.419 you know, I plays y'all stuff. He's like, yo, man, 0:03:00.700 --> 0:03:02.480 they did that type of rap. Like, how did they? 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.280 I said, nephew, the marketing of music today and how 0:03:06.300 --> 0:03:08.060 they marketed it to y'all and what y'all think it is, 0:03:08.990 --> 0:03:11.669 y'all didn't understand that hip hop was the soundtrack to 0:03:11.690 --> 0:03:14.910 a struggle. It was the soundtrack to a struggle in 0:03:14.930 --> 0:03:17.310 the 80s, the 90s. It was something that we listened 0:03:17.330 --> 0:03:19.609 to when we didn't have no food, when the refrigerator 0:03:19.630 --> 0:03:22.420 was broke. when the stamps ain't come through, whatever it was. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.400 It was just this energy to get fly to the streets, 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.320 the block parties. I said, whatever. So I go all 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.690 the way back. All because he asked me about the 0:03:30.750 --> 0:03:32.669 festival and didn't know who y'all was. So I had 0:03:32.690 --> 0:03:33.990 to break it all the way down. I said, listen. 0:03:34.870 --> 0:03:38.510 I said, this is the thing. We didn't segregate hip 0:03:38.530 --> 0:03:41.850 hop when we came up. I said, listen, I will 0:03:41.870 --> 0:03:43.850 make a mixtape. He's like, you was D? I said, no, 0:03:43.870 --> 0:03:47.310 I wasn't no DJ. I said, I will make a mixtape. 0:03:47.350 --> 0:03:50.630 I said, my brother had this Boombox that had two 0:03:50.710 --> 0:03:53.090 cassette players, right? And what I would do is I 0:03:53.130 --> 0:03:55.330 would just, he said, how would, it was hard to. 0:03:55.290 --> 0:03:56.590 Explain to him. Trying to explain to him how you 0:03:56.610 --> 0:03:57.120 got music right. 0:03:57.130 --> 0:03:58.720 So I explained to him, right, because he saw me 0:03:58.740 --> 0:04:00.280 with a Walkman one time and it blew his mind. 0:04:00.300 --> 0:04:02.200 So I'm breaking it down, how was it? I said, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.400 in my mind, I was a DJ. I was making 0:04:04.420 --> 0:04:06.960 my own mixtapes, right? And I said, this is how 0:04:06.980 --> 0:04:11.280 it would be. I said, it'd be NWA. The next 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.580 song might be Slick Rick. The next song might be, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.969 you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, Leaders of the new school. 0:04:20.010 --> 0:04:22.849 The next song might be ultra magnetic. So I'm bringing 0:04:22.870 --> 0:04:25.190 it down. He's like, what the fuck is that, man? 0:04:25.390 --> 0:04:26.420 So I said, all right, bet it. 0:04:26.770 --> 0:04:27.170 I said, bet. 0:04:27.190 --> 0:04:29.850 Let me bring it down. I said, say you might 0:04:29.870 --> 0:04:35.470 be listening to 21 Savage. The next song would be J. Cole. 0:04:36.150 --> 0:04:39.130 The next song would be, he was like, that don't mix. 0:04:39.390 --> 0:04:42.539 I said, no. Right. This is what I'm saying. Y'all 0:04:42.630 --> 0:04:45.300 segregated hip hop, so y'all not allowed to enjoy hip hop. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.300 You would have somebody like, you only listen to, oh man, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.420 I only listen to Drill. So it was like, you 0:04:50.460 --> 0:04:52.920 leaving out a whole, we didn't do that. Every, all 0:04:52.980 --> 0:04:55.740 hip hop was ours. And I said, the part that 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.020 the Roots played, they played the major part. Because I said, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.410 I said, let me explain something to you. At the beginning, 0:05:00.450 --> 0:05:03.970 you misintroduced me because I am an MC. I'm a 0:05:04.010 --> 0:05:06.289 former MC. So you got to understand that. 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:06.730 I know this. 0:05:06.770 --> 0:05:08.530 So I was like, hold on, I am an artist. 0:05:08.570 --> 0:05:10.390 I know this. Yes, you are. 0:05:10.410 --> 0:05:12.190 And you got to remember this too, though. You know, 0:05:12.250 --> 0:05:15.700 in the hood, everybody rapped. What's crazy about the Roots is, 0:05:17.170 --> 0:05:19.010 When y'all first came out back in the day, y'all 0:05:19.050 --> 0:05:22.630 had Dice with y'all. My homeboy lived next door to Dice, P.M. Low, 0:05:23.210 --> 0:05:25.250 of Logan. He introduced me to Dice when I was 0:05:25.290 --> 0:05:28.330 doing the music thing. He introduced me to Dice. Dice 0:05:28.690 --> 0:05:30.690 took a liking to me. Dice took me to my man, Peanut. 0:05:30.710 --> 0:05:33.130 This is when I started Major Figures. I started Major Figures. 0:05:33.420 --> 0:05:36.140 Dice helped me pick that name out. Because Dice was 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:36.520 in the basement. 0:05:36.540 --> 0:05:37.420 Dice never told me that. 0:05:37.580 --> 0:05:40.160 Dice was in the basement. He came to my grandma's crib. 0:05:40.180 --> 0:05:42.300 He was in the basement. And I wrote some names down. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.440 He was like, yo, pick that joint. 0:05:43.460 --> 0:05:43.940 That's joint. 0:05:44.339 --> 0:05:47.520 And Dice used to take me to my homeboy, Peanut Studios, like, yo, Tina, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.560 I got him. Just let him record, me and Gil. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.700 Gil didn't really know him like I did. But Dice, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.360 it was just a connection. But what I'm saying to 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.200 say is this. Marketing messed everything up. And even if 0:05:58.220 --> 0:06:02.560 you think about the music, like, right now, marketing told 0:06:02.740 --> 0:06:06.100 us that digital is better than everything in life. Internet 0:06:06.140 --> 0:06:08.960 is better than everything in life, right? But guess what? 0:06:09.660 --> 0:06:11.420 Everybody in the world is trying to go back to 0:06:11.460 --> 0:06:15.150 when we existed. We're dinosaurs. Me and you was to 0:06:15.170 --> 0:06:22.010 when we existed. Vinyl is jumping. CDs is jumping. VCRs 0:06:22.070 --> 0:06:27.430 is jumping. Regular, you got cafes and restaurants that don't 0:06:27.450 --> 0:06:28.970 allow you to use your phone because they want you 0:06:29.010 --> 0:06:33.479 to talk. Everything about us dinosaur time, everybody want to 0:06:33.500 --> 0:06:36.400 reconnect with that. Everybody is trying to put their phone 0:06:36.420 --> 0:06:40.839 down more. Think about it. Think about it. Everybody is fascinated. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.760 I remember I was talking to, what's his name, Lil Yachty. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:49.370 I sent him 50 albums, and I sent him 50 black. 0:06:48.290 --> 0:06:48.930 Movies, period. 0:06:49.150 --> 0:06:51.170 From back, he lost his mind. He couldn't believe the covers. 0:06:51.450 --> 0:06:53.590 He was like, yo, this shit crazy. 0:06:53.650 --> 0:06:54.650 I was like, yeah. 0:06:55.150 --> 0:06:58.450 He's like, it's a lot of ideas. This is the problem. 0:06:59.630 --> 0:07:03.130 Us older people is losing. The younger people is winning. 0:07:03.390 --> 0:07:03.850 This is why. 0:07:03.990 --> 0:07:07.289 They had daytime. And now niggas spend a lifetime going 0:07:07.330 --> 0:07:09.730 back to check out our time, to check out our music, 0:07:10.050 --> 0:07:12.710 to check out our movies, to check out our era, 0:07:13.130 --> 0:07:16.170 to check out our clothes, our style. Do you realize 0:07:16.210 --> 0:07:19.300 that everybody's fascinated with yesterday? But they told us that 0:07:19.340 --> 0:07:23.640 today is better. Think about it. Think about everything. Everything 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.320 is popping right now from back in the day. Like 0:07:27.340 --> 0:07:29.600 one of y'all vinyls probably cost a shitload of money. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:31.020 Yeah. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.290 You got people. I'm seeing, I'm in a, what's that 0:07:33.330 --> 0:07:36.130 record store, Jake? You might know it too. the record 0:07:36.150 --> 0:07:39.960 store in LA, Adore, it started with it. I'm in 0:07:39.980 --> 0:07:42.420 there on a Saturday, right? So I go in there, 0:07:42.460 --> 0:07:45.020 I'm going to grab some CDs. Cause I bought this Supreme, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.680 got this dope ass CD player, right? I bought that joint, 0:07:47.700 --> 0:07:49.340 I'm like, damn, this joint. So I go in there, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.120 I'm buying some CDs, I'm buying anything. I'm like, I 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.040 see all these young people when they're buying vinyl. They're 0:07:57.060 --> 0:07:58.280 buying records, but I'm like, what the fuck do you 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.860 know about vinyl? And they just, I'm like, he got, damn, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.260 he got prints. What the fuck he know about that? 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.300 I know he ain't even got no mustache. Like, you 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.680 ain't even got, like, I'm in there, I'm seeing all 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.900 these young kids of all races, nationalities, just grabbing, I'm like, 0:08:13.060 --> 0:08:16.520 what the fuck is going on? I'm like, NWA? I'm like, 0:08:16.740 --> 0:08:19.580 they just going crazy. I'm like, where do they even 0:08:19.620 --> 0:08:21.520 get these lists? They must be Googling, because I'm like, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.340 you know. But the fact to see all them in there, 0:08:23.690 --> 0:08:27.330 so I'm like, they got so much more to tap into. 0:08:27.470 --> 0:08:31.490 They got a vault. I'm talking about, like, even when 0:08:31.510 --> 0:08:33.190 I talk to kids about certain movies, I'm like, you 0:08:33.230 --> 0:08:36.310 never seen this? You never seen, they be like, it's 0:08:36.350 --> 0:08:39.310 just crazy. But the marketing told everybody that digital is 0:08:39.330 --> 0:08:40.250 better than real life. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.459 We also live in a disposable culture that, you know, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.860 we don't revere or even consider it art or worthy 0:08:50.500 --> 0:08:52.790 to hear today and discard it. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.350 It's deep. That was Elva Pivot, man. You're good. 0:08:57.110 --> 0:08:59.170 I'm a, I'm a, I'm a. I know how to 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.280 do this. I know how to do this, man. 0:09:01.740 --> 0:09:02.080 Okay. 0:09:02.100 --> 0:09:06.400 So as a person who fears never working again, like 0:09:06.460 --> 0:09:09.140 how long did it really take for you to acclimate? 0:09:09.980 --> 0:09:10.200 Yes. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.380 I know the importance of, I don't want to give 0:09:13.420 --> 0:09:16.530 people that, that false impression that I am 24 seven 0:09:16.550 --> 0:09:18.489 constantly working. 0:09:18.250 --> 0:09:18.790 On all that stuff. 0:09:18.970 --> 0:09:21.950 I'm very much aware that, you know, I have to 0:09:22.550 --> 0:09:27.969 just to survive, you know? And so it feels foreign. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.339 Taking a day off. Like, now I'm in a cycle where, like, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.679 one day, usually a Sunday. 0:09:33.700 --> 0:09:37.500 I don't do nothing. And, like, to still be in 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.660 my pajamas, like, after 2 p.m. Because I'm so programmed to, like, 0:09:40.860 --> 0:09:42.219 I got to work. Got to do something. Got to 0:09:42.860 --> 0:09:45.660 feel worthy or whatever it is. But, like, how long 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.459 does it really take you to wear, like, where you 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.650 mean it and you're fine with it? 0:09:52.220 --> 0:09:55.040 Coming into this new year, I mean, coming into this year, right, 0:09:55.220 --> 0:09:59.850 I said to myself, I'm enjoying me. And I just 0:09:59.890 --> 0:10:02.980 did it. I just started, like, stopped taking a lot 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.559 of phone calls. Like, people would be like, you know, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.460 after a couple calls, they may hit me, and I 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.440 might text them. Yeah, I'm cool. You cool? 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.760 I'm really grateful for you stopping here because. Oh, no, no, no, no. 0:10:13.900 --> 0:10:16.339 I wanted to come here because I enjoy the platform. 0:10:16.740 --> 0:10:18.860 So my whole thing is, like, I reached out. So Sean, 0:10:18.900 --> 0:10:21.610 I reached out to Sean. Yo, Sean. Sean has always 0:10:21.650 --> 0:10:22.630 been like a mentor. 0:10:22.809 --> 0:10:23.530 Dude. 0:10:23.550 --> 0:10:24.290 Sean is the guy. 0:10:24.350 --> 0:10:25.170 Your biggest champion. 0:10:25.390 --> 0:10:29.250 He's that guy. So what happened is I just said no. 0:10:30.030 --> 0:10:34.720 I woke up in the St. Regis in Dominican Republic 0:10:34.740 --> 0:10:35.480 this new year, right? 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:36.679 Unbelievable. 0:10:36.780 --> 0:10:39.480 It was unbelievable. It was like a new joint they built, right? 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:40.760 So I wake up. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:42.000 I'm running. 0:10:42.020 --> 0:10:44.079 I'm playing. I'm running the water. I'm just loving it. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:44.819 I'm just like, yeah. 0:10:45.340 --> 0:10:49.360 And I'm like, mm-hmm, yeah. I ain't answering my phone 0:10:49.420 --> 0:10:51.330 a lot. I don't need, like, no, no, no. 0:10:51.370 --> 0:10:51.770 Oh, God. 0:10:52.350 --> 0:10:53.630 No, I'm like, I'm not answering my phone. 0:10:53.650 --> 0:10:54.350 The pain I feel. 0:10:54.470 --> 0:10:58.550 I'm doing me because I realized, and then I wound 0:10:58.580 --> 0:11:00.760 up getting this spot. I'm going to Miami all the time. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.400 I'm like, hold up. I go down here. I might spend, 0:11:03.260 --> 0:11:05.040 in the weekend, you know, to stay in the one 0:11:05.059 --> 0:11:06.979 or whatever. You spending the grip. I said, damn, let 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.320 me get my own place. Got a place down there 0:11:08.340 --> 0:11:08.760 on the water. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:10.220 Collins. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.780 Out there in Surfside. Bar Harbor. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:13.180 Dope. 0:11:14.580 --> 0:11:17.700 And I just started walking. Walking and riding my bike. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.400 Right? I'm walking. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.920 I'm enjoying life. I just keep going. Next thing you know, 0:11:21.940 --> 0:11:24.880 I wind up in Arizona. I'm like, damn, I'm in Scottsdale. 0:11:24.900 --> 0:11:29.110 I'm like, let me just drive to Sedona. Drive to Sedona. 0:11:29.450 --> 0:11:32.250 Next thing you know, I'm on a trail. I'm going 0:11:32.270 --> 0:11:34.890 to Devil's Bridge, and I'm walking on these trails so deep. 0:11:34.950 --> 0:11:36.569 I'm in there. I'm like, I got to sit down. 0:11:36.590 --> 0:11:39.090 I'm sweating. I'm sweating so much. I'm like, I feel 0:11:39.110 --> 0:11:41.640 like I'm in a real desert. I'm hiking. I'm doing 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.420 all this. I'm just talking about, I'm just really living, bro. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.400 I'm sitting in a crib, right, on a random, like, Wednesday, 0:11:49.570 --> 0:11:51.010 in the middle of the day, say, I ain't going nowhere. 0:11:51.030 --> 0:11:52.910 I'm just watching these movies I ain't watched in a while. 0:11:53.690 --> 0:11:57.330 And I'm just living, listening to music, grabbing CDs, and 0:11:57.470 --> 0:11:59.810 I got cassettes, and I'm just, I'm doing me, man. 0:12:00.750 --> 0:12:03.150 It's like because what I realize is I got to 0:12:03.170 --> 0:12:05.220 get out of this joint one day. And I don't 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.140 want to be the person that get to my funeral, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.220 and when I show up at my funeral, I'm talking 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.640 about something, damn, I should have done this. I was 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.559 in a hospital one time, and I did a video. 0:12:13.980 --> 0:12:15.900 I was talking about it. And I just walked in 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.760 there because I knew this girl there, So she was like, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.680 why don't we come through? I mean, I got somebody 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.559 that I want to see. I went there, somebody was ill. 0:12:21.580 --> 0:12:23.860 And I was just going room to room. And what 0:12:23.900 --> 0:12:26.219 I noticed is all these rooms I went to, I 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.580 was like, tell me all your patients. Nobody was sitting 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.380 there with them. And I would ask them questions and 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.620 talk to them. And I realized a lot of people 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.730 would be like, live, baby. You better live so you 0:12:35.750 --> 0:12:39.089 never know. You just never know, never know. So I 0:12:39.110 --> 0:12:41.550 don't want to be the person that sit out here questioning. 0:12:41.570 --> 0:12:44.830 Don't be like, no. Like, I'm telling you, when you 0:12:44.850 --> 0:12:47.720 give yourself time and you say, I don't even call 0:12:47.780 --> 0:12:51.059 it cheat day. That's a life day. I'm not doing nothing. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.230 Don't try to be slick and just go Sunday. Go Wednesday. 0:12:54.260 --> 0:12:55.370 Go Tuesday and just cut. 0:12:55.710 --> 0:12:56.830 A weekday? 0:12:57.590 --> 0:12:59.590 Squander a weekday? 0:12:59.610 --> 0:13:01.729 You know what I got accomplished on a weekday? 0:13:01.770 --> 0:13:06.230 This is what you do. This is what you do. 0:13:06.250 --> 0:13:09.230 Write down your favorite restaurants in the country. So wherever 0:13:09.270 --> 0:13:14.449 you're at that Tuesday, hotel, whatever, sleep later. Make a 0:13:14.470 --> 0:13:18.400 reservation for the restaurant later. Just chill. Listen to the 0:13:18.460 --> 0:13:24.520 music you want to listen to. Just quest. Just enjoy it. 0:13:25.460 --> 0:13:26.780 It's going to be all right. Nothing's going to happen. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.910 You're going to wake up Wednesday and go, ah, and 0:13:29.929 --> 0:13:31.640 you're going to feel better. I'm telling you. 0:13:33.550 --> 0:13:37.330 Leave it to me to manifest a life of drumming 0:13:38.470 --> 0:13:41.270 that leads to a life of a career, that leads 0:13:41.309 --> 0:13:42.429 to a path of a talk show. 0:13:43.500 --> 0:13:44.720 That leads a path. 0:13:44.500 --> 0:13:50.179 To, okay, let's just say short version of it. Giving 0:13:50.230 --> 0:13:53.189 me time to take my dreams seriously. Because that's a 0:13:53.210 --> 0:13:59.030 whole other thing. Like survival and hustling versus like asking shit. 0:13:59.070 --> 0:14:00.470 Like what is it that you want to do? What 0:14:00.510 --> 0:14:04.780 is it that you? And that spawning off to a 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:10.620 platform is kind of really the most public intervention talk 0:14:10.660 --> 0:14:15.489 I've ever gotten. probably in my life, but I'm just 0:14:15.650 --> 0:14:18.490 at that place now, you know, and I, I thank 0:14:18.510 --> 0:14:22.950 you for this. It's hard being this raw and like, 0:14:22.990 --> 0:14:24.430 this is a major fear of mine. 0:14:24.830 --> 0:14:26.970 This is why I hide and hide. 0:14:26.810 --> 0:14:29.170 Behind a drum set, hide behind DJ gig, hide behind Tariq, 0:14:29.190 --> 0:14:34.690 behind Jimmy Fallon, behind everything, hide behind the shell, hide because, 0:14:34.710 --> 0:14:39.810 you know, we know what our like life mission and 0:14:39.830 --> 0:14:44.630 our life purpose is. And, like sometimes trying to heed 0:14:44.650 --> 0:14:46.580 the call is just like one of the most fearful 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:53.360 things ever. And so, you know, I think maybe watching you, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.220 you see me thinking where Marty McFly get on the 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.920 skateboard and they're on the flight. Like, look at him go, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.750 look at him go. And I'm just like, yo, like leadership. 0:15:02.790 --> 0:15:04.410 Like he knows how to talk to people and communicate 0:15:04.430 --> 0:15:06.870 and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And the way I 0:15:06.930 --> 0:15:09.930 dream about like, what's my version of that in life. 0:15:10.370 --> 0:15:15.290 And really it's, Me also knowing my avoiding that mission 0:15:15.890 --> 0:15:18.400 and how now I know I don't have any choice. Like, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.200 I can't help but accept that. And so, I mean, 0:15:23.220 --> 0:15:25.520 I've been running away from it. And it's just like, 0:15:26.860 --> 0:15:28.320 I needed somebody to really. 0:15:29.980 --> 0:15:30.359 Thanks, man. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:31.840 No problem. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:32.960 This is the Questlove show. 0:15:33.700 --> 0:15:37.620 We're not ending this. We can still talk. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.140 I got to process everything I just learned today, man. 0:15:52.650 --> 0:15:54.820 This is the game we're going to play. Question for question. 0:15:55.540 --> 0:15:55.820 Easy. 0:15:56.060 --> 0:15:58.880 Simple questions, right? Okay. I think they simple. They might 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.820 not be, but we want to ask questions for question. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:01.220 Yes. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:02.520 I'm going to start first. 0:16:02.780 --> 0:16:03.020 Okay. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.900 Greatest album you ever heard in your life. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:07.200 Okay. 0:16:07.220 --> 0:16:11.940 The analytical part of me is going to intervene because 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:17.770 there's kind of two categories, which is like, There's the 0:16:17.990 --> 0:16:23.050 album that was the, this is my calling. And then 0:16:23.110 --> 0:16:26.030 there's the album that's like, this is what I want 0:16:26.050 --> 0:16:29.140 to do for a living. I think the calling one's 0:16:29.220 --> 0:16:33.740 the more stronger one. I spent a lifetime in the 0:16:33.780 --> 0:16:36.540 family business. My dad was an oldies doo-wop singer from 0:16:36.580 --> 0:16:39.660 the 50s. My mom sang with him. They had a 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.700 nightclub act. So by the time I was five, I 0:16:43.740 --> 0:16:46.220 was part of the They didn't believe in babysitters. So 0:16:46.270 --> 0:16:49.080 they wanted their, you know, like there's people on the 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.380 block that never let the kids out their sight, even 0:16:51.420 --> 0:16:51.860 if it has to. 0:16:51.860 --> 0:16:54.240 Be in the nightclub, like working the lights or whatever. 0:16:54.300 --> 0:16:57.020 But I grew up interning for my dad, you know, 0:16:57.100 --> 0:17:00.040 but it's like junior prom time and I want to 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.460 get like a, I'm going to get fresh or whatever. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.100 So I had to get my first real job. And 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.270 there's a, you remember Big Al's on, um, You pin 0:17:09.270 --> 0:17:09.850 34 or 1. 0:17:09.830 --> 0:17:12.350 I ain't familiar. Big Al was a. 0:17:12.850 --> 0:17:16.480 Hamburger spot based on a fictional character from Happy Days. 0:17:16.940 --> 0:17:17.360 Oh, shit. 0:17:17.420 --> 0:17:20.200 Have you ever seen the video Buddy Holly by Weezer? 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:21.600 I remember that. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.010 Right. So they're in Big Al's cafe. It looks like 0:17:24.030 --> 0:17:24.520 the 50s. 0:17:24.930 --> 0:17:25.390 Happy Days. 0:17:25.450 --> 0:17:28.090 So that was my first getting an after school job 0:17:28.130 --> 0:17:30.150 just so I can get extra money for a tux 0:17:30.190 --> 0:17:32.830 and all that stuff. For most people, summer job is 0:17:32.850 --> 0:17:35.150 also like saving up for a leather jacket for next 0:17:35.190 --> 0:17:39.320 year for school. And this is the third week of June. 0:17:40.619 --> 0:17:45.699 And Public Enemy's Nation of Millions album is coming out 0:17:45.740 --> 0:17:48.320 that day. That album is an achievement of a lot 0:17:48.380 --> 0:17:52.399 of things. But primarily what it means to me is 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.359 that's the album that made all the boring parts of 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.210 my dad's massive record collection make sense. 0:18:00.550 --> 0:18:03.270 Because like, Music wise, I'm like, wait a minute. Dad 0:18:03.310 --> 0:18:05.070 plays that song at home. I know that song. 0:18:05.390 --> 0:18:08.070 Oh, I know that guitar line. And suddenly became like a, 0:18:08.930 --> 0:18:11.330 my mind like, yeah, yeah. So it was like CSI, 0:18:11.369 --> 0:18:14.030 like literally I'm going home. Like, so how they get 0:18:14.070 --> 0:18:16.580 these drums for that? And then like, I taught myself, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.710 you know, watching Stevie Wonder on the Cosby show, like 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.450 do the whole jamming on the one thing with Malcolm 0:18:21.470 --> 0:18:24.060 Jamal Warner. Like, I don't know if you remember that episode, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.820 the Huxtables getting a car accident with Stevie Wonder's limousine. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:28.480 I ain't seen that one. 0:18:28.900 --> 0:18:30.360 In the most Cosby way ever. 0:18:31.010 --> 0:18:35.510 Him being Stevie Wonder, he invites the Huxtables to visit 0:18:35.530 --> 0:18:38.310 with him in a music studio in Brooklyn. 0:18:38.830 --> 0:18:40.350 And I was like, yeah, what a way to get 0:18:40.390 --> 0:18:41.110 out of a lawsuit. 0:18:41.170 --> 0:18:43.800 Like any other Brooklyn family would have had a come 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.340 up like Stevie Wonder. So they all come to visit 0:18:47.380 --> 0:18:50.760