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Speaker 3: I don't because Tom went away from me, so fad.
Speaker 3: I was up in the grocery store and then and.
Speaker 5: Then a woman still out at the grocery store, and
Speaker 5: then I was calling the police for her and stuff.
Speaker 5: It kind of like left with the time and I.
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Speaker 4: can tell I can tell this already my favorite episode.
Speaker 5: I had to do a lot of trade, you know,
Speaker 5: I had to do a lot of things.
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Speaker 7: Wait all right, man, I'm throwing up the whole format
Speaker 7: out the door, forget to forget the band and the album.
Speaker 4: All right, So what just happened?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: This what happened?
Speaker 5: I mad rouses, you know, getting a couple of groceries.
Speaker 5: I just see a lady. I just hear like a
Speaker 5: white woman squeez yeah, And I said, whoa, what's going on?
Speaker 5: And there's an old black lady on the floor, and
Speaker 5: so everybody trying to, you know, help up, but they're
Speaker 5: scared to touch her because COVID going on. So somebody
Speaker 5: was braving up to pick up, you know, and she
Speaker 5: she was like at like she was all good and stuff.
Speaker 5: Then a couple of minutes later go back when she
Speaker 5: saw out again. And so that's when it's time, you know,
Speaker 5: And I'm like, this is nobody gonna call the police.
Speaker 5: So that's when you call the ambulance. And the ambulance
Speaker 5: has so many questions. No, after I give you that address,
Speaker 5: I'm just hoping you come. But no, they won't know
Speaker 5: what color shirt she got, what kind of weeks she
Speaker 5: got on.
Speaker 3: It's just there was so much.
Speaker 5: But finally they came through.
Speaker 3: But by the time they came through, she was ready
Speaker 3: to leave. She really was. She was ready to go
Speaker 3: just like.
Speaker 4: It's real. Are you in New Orleans right now?
Speaker 3: I'm in New Orleans right now?
Speaker 1: Wow, man, these days weren't sided in mind today.
Speaker 8: That's the greatest storytelling I've heard since Sweet Brown and I.
Speaker 6: Ran from my life?
Speaker 3: Didn't nobody got time for that?
Speaker 8: That was a great story to tak Thank you, thank
Speaker 8: you so much. I would signed up for that podcast.
Speaker 8: Tan't tell Stories?
Speaker 4: Are you? Are you currently behind the wheel right now?
Speaker 5: Oh lord No, I'm in the bank of the tour bank. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm in a call with my best friend driving the
Speaker 5: bank because that's how I mean.
Speaker 1: The transportation now and her mom.
Speaker 8: And this is a first.
Speaker 4: This works for me, y'all.
Speaker 7: All right, well, welcome to the Kamikaze episode of Quest
Speaker 7: Love Supreme. Tank Tank out here saving somebody's life in
Speaker 7: the first three minutes of the episode. Yeah, well, okay,
Speaker 7: I I gotta ask, how does how does one how
Speaker 7: does one even create in this environment, especially when you're
Speaker 7: in an outfit that requires other people to help you
Speaker 7: bring your vision towards Oh with the.
Speaker 3: Type of band, that's not the best.
Speaker 5: Day traveling on the road, Do a show, do the
Speaker 5: sound check, go get dressed, and then go in the room.
Speaker 5: Nobody's ever gonna save anybody want to come to my
Speaker 5: room and create a song.
Speaker 3: You know, it really don't road like that.
Speaker 5: So everybody's sleeping, they going, you know, somebody about to
Speaker 5: go to the pall to catch a DJ or go
Speaker 5: smoke something.
Speaker 3: So on the road is not where a bunch of
Speaker 3: creation happens.
Speaker 5: So we needed this time to chill and build some
Speaker 5: indoors studio, actually make music and have it recorded because
Speaker 5: you know, we can't obviously go to nobody's studio. So
Speaker 5: it was it was a it was needed time for
Speaker 5: tank in the base. Tank before we continue, and let
Speaker 5: me ask you real quick, are you on your way somewhere?
Speaker 5: Because I'm scared that y'all might go through a bad
Speaker 5: area or something like that. I'm very afraid. The Blue
Speaker 5: School just says it's on ten percent, very afree. I'm
Speaker 5: all the way home.
Speaker 3: How close are you to?
Speaker 5: Your gonna take to me about about twelve minutes to get.
Speaker 4: Home, right's let's wait till he get home.
Speaker 3: So I really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is just a preview.
Speaker 3: Out late.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, let they'd.
Speaker 7: Be like made it safety fa okay, So I feel
Speaker 7: like you do even though I really want to start
Speaker 7: with that. That's our that's going to be our cold open.
Speaker 7: I will do the official introduction anyway, Ladies and gentlemen
Speaker 7: are Grammy nominated guest today has been rocking across the globe,
Speaker 7: leading one of the most dangerous army.
Speaker 4: Of musicians for the past decade.
Speaker 7: I myself was fortunate enough to catch them and twenty
Speaker 7: thirteen Brooklyn Bowl performance and I watch with my my
Speaker 7: drawers job, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Your jaw Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: My jaws dropped.
Speaker 4: No, seriously, not for the first time since.
Speaker 7: I gotta say, since the prime days of Fishbone, I've
Speaker 7: seen a band and a black band at that exude
Speaker 7: so much energy from the gate, like going zero to
Speaker 7: one hundred with the quickness, So you know, I became
Speaker 7: obsessed with them. I was fortunate enough to book them
Speaker 7: on the Roots Picnic, just to see if the lightning
Speaker 7: could strike twice.
Speaker 1: And I'm happy to say that indeed it did.
Speaker 7: I mean, since then, I've seen them about six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 7: fifty eleven times across months, across across multiple countries, and
Speaker 7: you know, to watch them convert newbies into like lifelong
Speaker 7: fans is really a beautiful thing. To see they come.
Speaker 7: Highly recommend that you won't be sorry. Uh so, please
Speaker 7: welcome from the city of New Orleans. All right, Triana
Speaker 7: tank bell.
Speaker 6: Ball yes dark, sorry.
Speaker 4: Dude, please welcome to the City of New Orleans.
Speaker 9: Triana tank ball hero at that hero, Yes, yes, today,
Speaker 9: that was law.
Speaker 3: That was an introduction.
Speaker 5: I wish my last name was Belle because growing up
Speaker 5: it was very hard with the last name Ball. They
Speaker 5: gave me Triana balls, Triana testicles. You know, I thought
Speaker 5: the testical was a good one though. I said, that's
Speaker 5: a good one. Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 7: In your altar, in your alter foreign life, that would
Speaker 7: be the name for you, Tarrian.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's your only fan site.
Speaker 3: Only fans.
Speaker 6: Jail made at home.
Speaker 3: I'm very happy I made at home.
Speaker 5: Y'all should have saw me her up and putting the
Speaker 5: groceries in the house real quick and just setting up
Speaker 5: all the little boxes to sort of yeah, I did
Speaker 5: that quick.
Speaker 8: What's it like in New Orleans in terms of like
Speaker 8: COVID and stuff like, how is is people still loud?
Speaker 6: Is it scaled back? What's it like?
Speaker 3: It really depends on to day.
Speaker 5: We got a mayor that makes sure that you can't
Speaker 5: walk in no store without your mask on, so that
Speaker 5: part is all serious. And then you got every now
Speaker 5: and then people still partying, acting like nothing going on,
Speaker 5: chilling in the French quarters, you know, still having their
Speaker 5: little family gatherings.
Speaker 3: So they found it very hard to live his life.
Speaker 6: Are they doing? Are they still? I saw they canceled
Speaker 6: the parades from Mardi Grass.
Speaker 3: Yes, dang you was you was in tune?
Speaker 8: Listen New Orleans, dude. New Orleans is one of my
Speaker 8: favorite cities. Like I love New Orleans is. New Orleans
Speaker 8: is like another country within the United States.
Speaker 6: It's another world.
Speaker 5: I'm very happy that you notice. It's very true, and
Speaker 5: I feel the same exact way. Even when I travel
Speaker 5: and I see Spain and I see parents, I say, oh,
Speaker 5: the know, these are like the windows in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: or when I'm in a the pah, this must be
Speaker 5: where they got jumped alaa from. You know, you get
Speaker 5: to see everybody that's settled in your city and made
Speaker 5: it what it is.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 5: I think it's so special and beautifuls and those beautiful accents.
Speaker 3: They're just regular to me.
Speaker 5: I don't know, girlfriend, occasion to the creek. It's all
Speaker 5: beauty it's all beautiful to me. I just love you're singing.
Speaker 4: Your very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you'll know you're a Hambling Grad girl too.
Speaker 3: Oh you know I got to serve I got the shirt.
Speaker 5: Did you get the letter when they sent it to you?
Speaker 5: Like they got the letter like you?
Speaker 1: Yes, they said yes, yes, acceptance.
Speaker 5: Letter, yes, yes, can Helm and Grad. The people who
Speaker 5: make these the T shirts like that. I have the
Speaker 5: Huxtable on one right now. But like from my Shirley
Speaker 5: Chisholm to my Maxine Seaw to my Freaknick of ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they make some really dope T shirts, all of them. Sure.
Speaker 5: I love that they give you that acceptance letter. You'd
Speaker 5: be like, oh, I love it and maybe think I'm like,
Speaker 5: should I send my fans like a letter when it
Speaker 5: gets some merchan you know the way I mean?
Speaker 3: I felt special?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but send one of them T shirts with it
Speaker 5: that you got on because damn merches all the controls.
Speaker 4: I want to sweater too.
Speaker 3: Oh you know I got you. It's about to get cold.
Speaker 6: You about you about in the L now, ain't you?
Speaker 6: Or you're in an excel?
Speaker 4: I'm still and I'm into XL.
Speaker 7: I'm probably do excel, but I'm staying in my comfort zone.
Speaker 5: But can I ask we on the topic of fashion
Speaker 5: and style, because Tank, I know you're like you are
Speaker 5: the band leader of this situation. Please tell me like
Speaker 5: the initial thoughts behind what y'all were gonna look like,
Speaker 5: because tanking the bang is the visual of y'all is
Speaker 5: so important along with like.
Speaker 4: The audience.
Speaker 1: Here, because you guys are like real life muppets.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, how did y'all get to what y'all start?
Speaker 5: And how did y'all get to the point where it's
Speaker 5: just perfection?
Speaker 7: One of our one of our members, one of our members,
Speaker 7: uh unpaid Bill Is he kind of runs Sesame Street
Speaker 7: and I was really excited for him to interview you guys,
Speaker 7: because you guys would be perfect band for Sesame Street.
Speaker 3: You really, we're very into that. We're very into that.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can still make that happen. Just go
Speaker 3: you know, of course, let let them know very into it.
Speaker 5: So what happened is I started out in slam poetry, right,
Speaker 5: and I realized that in slam poetry that the audience
Speaker 5: would judge me before they before I ever said a word.
Speaker 5: So I knew that I would have to look a
Speaker 5: certain way so that y'all could see me first before
Speaker 5: you heard me. And so my team, my slam My
Speaker 5: slam team would just swam New Orleans at the time,
Speaker 5: Team Snow, we always just dressed kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: we want to be a little stylish, and you know,
Speaker 5: being Southern, you already got an auction block little mindset,
Speaker 5: so you're always trying to look a little extra damper.
Speaker 5: But and then when I got in this group, it
Speaker 5: just became, it just became the norm. And and now
Speaker 5: these days I just send wardrobe.
Speaker 3: I just say dressing colors.
Speaker 5: And uh, and they hate when I say that sometimes
Speaker 5: because uh, the colors in my head, I'm like purples, greens,
Speaker 5: orange as yellows, and somebody come up in here and
Speaker 5: you know, some brown and red. I'd be looking at
Speaker 5: them a little crazy, and they would say, tank, you
Speaker 5: said dressing colors. I say, not those colors.
Speaker 3: That it's like joy bringing colors. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So I've been told I'm I'm I'm a little babe.
Speaker 3: I've been told.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, so you leave.
Speaker 7: You leave the wardrobe up to their discretion because I
Speaker 7: haven't seen y'all about five or six times. Like you
Speaker 7: guys seem pretty coordinated on your your your stage get up,
Speaker 7: Like you guys were a very unusual green, like a
Speaker 7: coordinated green.
Speaker 3: H we did a green for a while.
Speaker 5: I told him to buy a lot of green because
Speaker 5: we put out that elpen green Believe, and I was
Speaker 5: green balloon.
Speaker 3: I said, green Belie, Green, green balloon.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, we're gonna wear a lot of so
Speaker 5: about the green every now and then, you know, I
Speaker 5: tell everybody what Neon colors. Every now and then it's highlighted.
Speaker 5: Then every now and then it's blow up suits, it's
Speaker 5: blow up suits tonight, hill tonight, it's the animal print.
Speaker 5: How much time do they have to prepare for this?
Speaker 3: They have the night before?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: If you guys are traveling on the road, I mean,
Speaker 7: how many I would think that the wardrobe is just
Speaker 7: as important as you know, everything else. Like how many
Speaker 7: change of outfits should one bring if they were in
Speaker 7: a princess going on the tour?
Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa.
Speaker 5: If we're going on tour and we're gonna be gone
Speaker 5: for a month, you need to bring about two weeks
Speaker 5: of close and then while we're on the road, you're
Speaker 5: gonna shop anyway, Yeah, so bring about two weeks so
Speaker 5: you can switch them out.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It wasn't always that smart.
Speaker 5: I mean when we first went to go move to
Speaker 5: London and we was gonna stay out there for three months,
Speaker 5: and when I tell you, everybody literally bought three months
Speaker 5: to close. We'll never made that a mistake again. You
Speaker 5: know it's supposed to do like that. But we didn't
Speaker 5: know we was We didn't know what.
Speaker 1: We was doing.
Speaker 5: I mean, Lord, the suitcases, y'all, the suitcase and then
Speaker 5: oh man, and then you know the pounds, the conversion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody had over there was overweight.
Speaker 3: The nigga was thrown away clothes at the at the airport.
Speaker 5: At the airport, Oh I don't need this, I don't
Speaker 5: need this case, I don't need this, a pair of shoes,
Speaker 5: I oh this seventeen times. Yeah, it was throwing away
Speaker 5: clothes at the airport because them pounds was expensive and
Speaker 5: we ain't make no money.
Speaker 3: We though it was gonna make so much money in London.
Speaker 9: Baby, What year was that?
Speaker 6: When was that? When was the first time y'all hit
Speaker 6: over there?
Speaker 3: What time? What year was that? Lord? It was about
Speaker 3: maybe about maybe about maybe about four five years ago?
Speaker 5: Maybe, oh wow, show five years ago?
Speaker 3: I think? So did did y'all know about them?
Speaker 7: Y'all did three months in London as a hub and
Speaker 7: then traveled throughout Europe.
Speaker 3: Yes, with no money. They you and me. I told
Speaker 3: you these are your babies, and we.
Speaker 5: Bought and we bought an eighteen year old Japanese van.
Speaker 3: And did you.
Speaker 5: Guys know the story of like the roots and how
Speaker 5: they lived in London as well when they first got started.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Wow, we did the same thing.
Speaker 7: We we took all our money, uh, we got we
Speaker 7: got a flat and then we just told our agent
Speaker 7: anywhere in Europe will play. So like from nineteen ninety
Speaker 7: four until about ninety seven ninety eight, like between ninety
Speaker 7: three to ninety eight, I think that we split Europe
Speaker 7: in American half by like six months.
Speaker 3: So damn summer tour.
Speaker 7: The thing is, if you live in London and get
Speaker 7: a cheap spot, you don't have to squander on hotels
Speaker 7: throughout Europe.
Speaker 1: And make that make that your hub. You know, so wow, okay, we.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't live out that that long down you that long?
Speaker 3: That was that was a long, long, long, time. That's
Speaker 3: like he I think.
Speaker 4: I think I crawled to y'all could walk you.
Speaker 7: You love Europe. You guys probably have like a good time.
Speaker 6: Europe in ninety five, I could imagine.
Speaker 8: I mean even you're like when we would go, like
Speaker 8: when we was touring like Europe in O five. I
Speaker 8: mean this is before you know our message and FaceTime,
Speaker 8: so we.
Speaker 1: Were doing Europe.
Speaker 6: I mean that's like doing a bid.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're gone like niggas new songs on the radio,
Speaker 8: nigga hat like damn building up?
Speaker 3: You heard seen this sidekick. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 7: I can't think, y'all. I can't came home and like,
Speaker 7: who shot you? Was like already like four months old.
Speaker 7: We didn't know about it and like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it was way different in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine it. Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 7: With no Internet, so you're forced to listen to songs
Speaker 7: like Scatman eighteen times a day.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Macarna many times, Like that's so cool.
Speaker 4: What extreem man?
Speaker 3: The moments that changed your whole band life though, those those.
Speaker 5: Little moments and I had so that's when I wrote
Speaker 5: the album over there because I felt like we could
Speaker 5: tell everybody, yeah we're in London, Yeah we're in London.
Speaker 5: But I had so many days of just sitting around
Speaker 5: the house like I was in New Orleans, and I
Speaker 5: hated that. I hated those unproductive ass moments, and I
Speaker 5: would write about it.
Speaker 3: I had journal entries. One of my journal entries was
Speaker 3: all they do is late.
Speaker 5: They lay all day, you know, because it was so
Speaker 5: much to catch the train and you need all this money,
Speaker 5: you know, I Japanese vand going around the rind the
Speaker 5: bat it eats something. We broke something on a vand
Speaker 5: we couldn't get it fixed for nothing, so we constantly
Speaker 5: went through tires and the tires over there like fifty
Speaker 5: pounds so much so we caught the train a lot.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you have no money. London.
Speaker 5: They so serious about their open mics. You missed signing up,
Speaker 5: you can't even perform. So it was a lot of
Speaker 5: struggle days every day was it was. It was a
Speaker 5: lovely struggle because you knew it wasn't forever, but it
Speaker 5: was a struggle.
Speaker 3: It was struggle days for sure.
Speaker 7: Well wait this, this is what I want to tell you,
Speaker 7: you know, thank God for my my good memory. But
Speaker 7: take it from me. I want you to document everything.
Speaker 7: I want you to journal everything. I mean, you gotta
Speaker 7: way easier. Now you can.
Speaker 1: You can just go on your iPhone and rant for
Speaker 1: five minutes.
Speaker 7: I know, you know it seem weird now, like, well,
Speaker 7: you know what's special about May of twenty twenty, But
Speaker 7: come your twentieth year, like around twenty thirty, and you
Speaker 7: revisit this stuff like thank god, like in the beginning
Speaker 7: I was journaling, like at least you know this is
Speaker 7: pre Twitter like journaling and my notebooks and all that stuff,
Speaker 7: Like I just found this stuff, like, man, I'm quitting
Speaker 7: the group today. Fucking I'm home, Malie just left. I
Speaker 7: missed da da da.
Speaker 1: I beg of you keeping document collect everything.
Speaker 5: They're my songs, they're my poems later on, they're my interludes.
Speaker 5: And I'm happy you reminded me of it because I've
Speaker 5: been feeling a lot, but lately I ain't been really
Speaker 5: writing it down, so so so thank you. It reminded
Speaker 5: me to because I tell people that I said, generally
Speaker 5: you're happy and sad, all of it.
Speaker 3: Just just keep a document of your feelings.
Speaker 5: One day is gonna make you laugh, probably even quiet,
Speaker 5: even make you surprise that you still feel like you're
Speaker 5: still mentally and emotionally in the same damn place you
Speaker 5: was five years ago, still met at the same mad
Speaker 5: at the same damn people. You know, it's hard to
Speaker 5: be in the band sometimes. I mean, it's absolutely awesome
Speaker 5: with all these personalities. Man, it's not always easy with
Speaker 5: all these personalities and all.
Speaker 3: What's your sign?
Speaker 1: Tank?
Speaker 3: Oh I don't want to talk about it?
Speaker 6: Come on, please, I got to about it.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I can't stand a sign y'all right? Now,
Speaker 5: you know they don't because you know they got a reputation.
Speaker 3: It's not I'm a virgo.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, Okay, that's all right.
Speaker 1: That's all right, baby, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Little ball, you got a little balls?
Speaker 4: Hey. Do you have trouble figuring out what you order
Speaker 4: in a restaurant?
Speaker 3: Do? No?
Speaker 5: Se I always know it's gonna be some chickens. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's always chicken, little shrimp pasta, or gonna be a
Speaker 5: little spright when I go out, you know, because you know,
Speaker 5: I gotta have a little assid with my mil.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Oh to be young and just say I drink right
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 5: Don't do only at a restat only at a rest
Speaker 5: only when it's classy.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you can't buy it like you can't like you,
Speaker 6: you can't buy it and have.
Speaker 3: A drinking You're gonna keep drill that.
Speaker 7: You gotta graduate the juices after soda now down down
Speaker 7: to just sparkling water.
Speaker 3: And then Lau comes in. Well, well speed, that's what
Speaker 3: they say. It is like speed, that's what they say.
Speaker 4: I love Laqui is my that's my one pleasure of
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 1: I pretended soda.
Speaker 7: This is usually you know, we we traveled through like
Speaker 7: you know the history of the of the artists. I
Speaker 7: assume you you were born in New Orleans, correct? I was, okay,
Speaker 7: can you tell me? Do you remember the first album
Speaker 7: that you purchased or.
Speaker 6: Not purchased or that's what it was a gift.
Speaker 5: It was a gift and I had been wanting this,
Speaker 5: this album, and my best friend got it for me.
Speaker 5: It was Bloud first first one second?
Speaker 6: Yes, are you.
Speaker 1: Yo yo? Right now? You mean for Love by New Edition, right,
Speaker 1: that's what you.
Speaker 4: Mean off the Wall by Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: I don't mean that at all. I mean that's the first.
Speaker 3: It was high school. It was it was a it
Speaker 3: was senior year but we can do this and there,
Speaker 3: we can do this.
Speaker 4: Soon.
Speaker 3: Man, I told you your daughter.
Speaker 1: Oh god, man, come on, that's interesting.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Hold, what about the first one I loved, though,
Speaker 5: the one I grew up love. And I don't mean
Speaker 5: nobody bought it for me. I was really into the
Speaker 5: People Bryson. I'm a even wonder type girl, but growing
Speaker 5: up I was really into People Bryson. I clean the
Speaker 5: my mama house like the instance, change it around, and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put on that People of Bryson when you
Speaker 5: come home.
Speaker 1: People I know, Okay, I'm curious about this.
Speaker 7: In two thousand, there was there was a Blow Music
Speaker 7: Soul Child concert at the House of Blues in New
Speaker 7: Orleans m HM, and.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you happen to hear the show
Speaker 1: like b opened. And this is when Blau first came out.
Speaker 3: He wasn't old enough to get in the show. I
Speaker 3: wasn't I was it.
Speaker 5: I was it.
Speaker 3: I was like you, I think I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well no, my.
Speaker 7: Whole my whole point was that, you know, having worked
Speaker 7: on that record and seeing him perform, like I was
Speaker 7: just mind blowing that somebody was that free and that amazing.
Speaker 1: And when I watched him do his very first show.
Speaker 7: In New Orleans, it was a very hard pill to
Speaker 7: swallow for that audience, Like they just look like, who is.
Speaker 1: This alien on stage? And when is music coming on?
Speaker 7: Wow? Well, to hear that someone from New Orleans got
Speaker 7: a blud CD, you know, as one of their first things,
Speaker 7: Like that tells me that you're already, you know, of
Speaker 7: a different fiber, you know, very special.
Speaker 5: I can see why anybody would see him and be
Speaker 5: looking a little funny at him because he is different.
Speaker 3: He still you know, he still is quite Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: So what was your childhood like musically, Like, did you
Speaker 1: grow up in a musical family?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 5: I grew up I have a I am the I
Speaker 5: am the fourth of five children. It's three older sisters
Speaker 5: and a little brother, and everybody could sing. It's a
Speaker 5: family full of pastors. Everybody thought that I would be
Speaker 5: a pastor in the church.
Speaker 6: You are a pastor, I'm a I'm a grandfather.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel like I don't want to be in church
Speaker 5: every Sunday. And I didn't like to be in church
Speaker 5: every Sunday and every Tuesday and every Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I didn't like that. I like the people.
Speaker 5: No, No, I mean to Bible study, you know, Wednesday choir,
Speaker 5: Christian Union, Baptist Church.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did you do?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 6: Did you have to go to vacation Bible school in
Speaker 6: the summers?
Speaker 3: Y'all had vacation Bible school?
Speaker 4: Girl?
Speaker 8: I love Did they give out the red punch and
Speaker 8: the cookies at the end of that, y'all snack?
Speaker 6: Of course?
Speaker 4: What this world? Yo?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 6: Listen all we all had the same I love it
Speaker 6: so black, so black, Steve, No.
Speaker 1: But I know what the red red punches we had
Speaker 1: that I can't.
Speaker 5: And Jewish summer's and layla, guess what's so funny?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 6: You got?
Speaker 3: You got that red ass punch. But it makes your
Speaker 3: cookies not taste sweet exactly exactly.
Speaker 6: It'd be like drinking something sweet after you brush your teeth.
Speaker 6: It's sweet and sweet, and it didn't can it out?
Speaker 6: You loved it, door, you loved it.
Speaker 3: But it was a weird.
Speaker 1: So as as as a as a p K A
Speaker 1: preacher's kid, treacher's granddaughter.
Speaker 7: Oh so you have a lineage a grand father and grandfather, No,
Speaker 7: just a grandfather, auncie, two uncles and a cousin. Okay,
Speaker 7: how strict was the household in terms of secular music?
Speaker 3: It wasn't. It wasn't strict. Oh good for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Mother wasn't like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm the granddaughter, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But she was probably the rebel, was your mom? Like
Speaker 3: the rebel she was?
Speaker 5: Like, she wasn't rebellious, but she definitely got pregnant at
Speaker 5: eighteen okay, and was less than the which is like
Speaker 5: a big deal in the up in the up in
Speaker 5: the world, you know, especially if you're not married. But
Speaker 5: she is a great woman. She had obviously five of them.
Speaker 5: We listened to what we want to. She won't tripping
Speaker 5: too much.
Speaker 3: I liked that my mama.
Speaker 5: Trust was she raised. She wasn't all on my back
Speaker 5: like that, which let me be free. And I did
Speaker 5: nothing but hung around poetry nerds.
Speaker 3: It was a good life.
Speaker 1: Nice Okay.
Speaker 7: So what about your other siblings, Like, are they currently
Speaker 7: pursuing musical endeavors or my little brother?
Speaker 5: All these big is pretty special, but you know, sometimes
Speaker 5: when you have them babies, they slow you down just
Speaker 5: a little bit. And my sister, she was the real
Speaker 5: singer in the family, but she got pregnant young and
Speaker 5: then she kind of slowed down too.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: My older sister was into big choirs, she got a husband,
Speaker 5: you know, they got their own business.
Speaker 3: They just right now. Everybody just pretty much support me.
Speaker 3: That's dope. You learn from watching them too, though. You
Speaker 3: was like, you know what you gonna do that because
Speaker 3: I do want it exactly.
Speaker 5: I was able to see all my lessons through my sisters.
Speaker 5: There was amazing women, and they taught me so much.
Speaker 5: But my whole life, I literally was working on learning
Speaker 5: from them and being like them and being nothing like
Speaker 5: them all at the same same time.
Speaker 3: That's brilliant smart, you know what I'm saying, because people
Speaker 3: don't part.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was curious to know with you were talking
Speaker 8: about how they your mom wasn't it's strict on you
Speaker 8: in terms of secular music, you know, being coming from
Speaker 8: church and everything. I wonder how much New Orleans plays
Speaker 8: in that because it just doesn't seem like like there's
Speaker 8: certain customs like you know, Marti Grod or Lundi Grad
Speaker 8: or like Zulu ball whatever, Right, those are just things
Speaker 8: that are just so they seem to cross all boundaries,
Speaker 8: so it doesn't seem like yeah, even yeah, it's just culture.
Speaker 8: Like it doesn't seem like even if you're in the church,
Speaker 8: like whatever you believe or whatever, Yeah, you're still there.
Speaker 8: So how much is the culture of New Orleans.
Speaker 5: I couldn't go on Bourbon Street, you know, growing up,
Speaker 5: Oh Bourbon Street, ooh, law, don't go on Bourbon on
Speaker 5: Marti Gras showing their tennis. You know, you didn't know
Speaker 5: what was going on, but you knew that you can't
Speaker 5: be there if you're too young for Mardigras. I also
Speaker 5: know that I couldn't enjoy your super Sunday in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: which which kind of made me feel like I lost
Speaker 5: out culturally on what was going on in my very
Speaker 5: own city. I felt like I was able to like
Speaker 5: date my city once Hurricane Katrina half and I left
Speaker 5: the city. Then I was able to come back as
Speaker 5: more of an adult. I was able to do, you know,
Speaker 5: date the city, caught the city, go all to different places,
Speaker 5: and you know, and and that's when I truly fell
Speaker 5: in love with New Orleans.
Speaker 4: You know, where did you to for Katrina?
Speaker 6: Where'd you Where'd you end up going?
Speaker 5: The whole family went to Haddiesburg, Mississippi, where we stayed
Speaker 5: with my uncle for about two weeks. One of my
Speaker 5: older sister left and she went to Virginia. And when
Speaker 5: she left, that's when the whole family just kind of
Speaker 5: broke down. It was almost like a black Tyler Perry film.
Speaker 5: Everybody started crying and.
Speaker 3: Just you know, like that's when we realized, nigga, this
Speaker 3: is our life has changed.
Speaker 5: Wait wait, wait, wait, we're not going back home. We're
Speaker 5: not going back home. That's when the reality set in
Speaker 5: that life is different. And then we went all the
Speaker 5: way to Indianapolis.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that was different.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. How long was Indianapolis? At least at least
Speaker 3: two years?
Speaker 6: Oh wow, that is not New Orleans.
Speaker 1: But as it was, how many how much way time
Speaker 1: did you have to leave?
Speaker 7: Did you think like, okay, we'll just go to another state,
Speaker 7: lettering out and then come on back and get our things,
Speaker 7: or did you know, did.
Speaker 1: You have an idea that this is the mother of.
Speaker 7: All you know, weather hell about to happen, and let
Speaker 7: me take everything sentimental with me to where I'm going.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we just had no idea that it was
Speaker 3: about to be this crazy.
Speaker 5: Just never you know, they always wanted us about storms
Speaker 5: and even another reason One of the reasons at least
Speaker 5: that a lot of people stayed in New Orleans is
Speaker 5: because y'all always wanting us, don't nothing happened, but it's
Speaker 5: right now. They're wanting y'all right now, right like there's
Speaker 5: a season. Yeah, I mean, we've been having a lot
Speaker 5: of little scares, and but you know, you don't really
Speaker 5: leave too much.
Speaker 3: It's just weird.
Speaker 5: I don't know, we just don't leave sometimes we just don't.
Speaker 5: And it don't even always be finances. You're just too
Speaker 5: comfortable here and you and it loved you so much,
Speaker 5: you just kind of feel like it won't hurt you,
Speaker 5: like it's gonna protect you because it's home. But the
Speaker 5: way that the city is built, it's not always their week,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's an interesting ground to live on, very
Speaker 5: very scary.
Speaker 7: Okay, should a similar warning happened, I mean, how shell
Speaker 7: shocked is at least your inner circle into like, okay,
Speaker 7: I know exactly what grabby bags, let's.
Speaker 1: Go, Like how quick are you to to relocate and move?
Speaker 7: Or is everyone the impression like okay, happens once once
Speaker 7: in a lifetime and that's it.
Speaker 3: You think about it two ways. You think it could
Speaker 3: happen one in a lifetime.
Speaker 5: And you also think every since the storm, the little
Speaker 5: bit of it of rain, this city flooding.
Speaker 3: So that's scary, right, the number two and number three,
Speaker 3: you would, I mean.
Speaker 5: Honestly, if something happened here, y'all, I just bought my
Speaker 5: first house, I'm going to rebuild again. No you should,
Speaker 5: but because I always been worried too about New Orleans
Speaker 5: being there for the folks to be able to come back,
Speaker 5: because I know they always it was always rumors that,
Speaker 5: you know, big business came to New Orleans and some
Speaker 5: of these houses were not they couldn't get back in them.
Speaker 3: And now they're more than they.
Speaker 1: Used to be.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean the gentrification is real because I
Speaker 5: just moved from the hood, So I mean, god, damn
Speaker 5: is real.
Speaker 6: It's where you were you where are you at in
Speaker 6: the city?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I want all is East, which is
Speaker 5: where I used to live before the storm, which is
Speaker 5: which is a nice little black suburban you know type
Speaker 5: area used to be very very nice, very just very black,
Speaker 5: middle class and full of new looking houses.
Speaker 3: That was nice.
Speaker 5: And now it's very slow to recover, and people are
Speaker 5: still trying to to make it where it used to be,
Speaker 5: and they are buying houses here because they're selling them
Speaker 5: for way less than it is in the city before.
Speaker 5: I was on Frenchman Street, you know, the real the
Speaker 5: real street, did you you know, the hill side of french.
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, not what a.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Now what the party is like? Drive a little down.
Speaker 5: But you know, hey, but I'm not walking distance of
Speaker 5: the party. That's walking distance.
Speaker 3: But I love telling people, Yeah, I live on Frenchmen.
Speaker 7: You mentioned that, well, you know, you mentioned in the
Speaker 7: French quarters in Bourbon Street or whatnot about avoiding that
Speaker 7: when you were younger. But like, I've always been under
Speaker 7: the impression that the New Orleans that I know of
Speaker 7: is kind of like someone going to midtown Manhattan, like
Speaker 7: forty second Street and going to bubble gumps.
Speaker 1: Like where do real normans people pay?
Speaker 6: They not the touristies.
Speaker 5: And guess what I'm gonna tell y'all because I don't
Speaker 5: tell nobody else. Like people like me and other people
Speaker 5: from New Orleans that traveled, we told people about where
Speaker 5: the party was. And that's how Frenchmen became so gentrified
Speaker 5: and gross. That's how I found out that, right exactly.
Speaker 5: So now I tell I tell us, I tell people
Speaker 5: like you myself. Okay, so now we create she got
Speaker 5: a pin. Now we create our own little hubs.
Speaker 3: We create out we go.
Speaker 5: We go to each other's houses and stuff's ship. Yeah,
Speaker 5: have like black house or uh what they call that thing?
Speaker 5: Blaze blaze and worship on Sundays.
Speaker 3: You know about what? Yeah, tell me about. Yeah. They
Speaker 3: don't get it. They pray, they praise God, they smoke,
Speaker 3: they weed right because He's worthy.
Speaker 5: That's kind of church.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, blazes and worship.
Speaker 3: Blaze and worship. They's singing everything, even.
Speaker 1: Steve, what do I need my neck? Yeah, I'm yelling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my type of church.
Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, ain't that
Speaker 5: when you feel your most spiritual and kind yourself.
Speaker 3: I don't even smoke often at all, because I personally.
Speaker 5: Don't like the way we make me feel. But at
Speaker 5: the end of my wee journey when I do smoke,
Speaker 5: it's a spiritual one of clarity. But I don't like
Speaker 5: the role that I get to to get there.
Speaker 3: Me and Steven just listening to that interet Oh, I
Speaker 3: hate that journey. I'm too high. I don't like that journey.
Speaker 3: I gotta call my family and stuff. But black.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but but we created our own hubs. They's even
Speaker 5: this dude in New Orleans named DC Paul. He's always
Speaker 5: creating something in New Orleans so that we could keep
Speaker 5: the culture alive because we don't really frequent Frenchmen as
Speaker 5: much as we used to. So they create their own
Speaker 5: They create their own stuff, and it's really a who's who,
Speaker 5: like you have to know what's going on to know
Speaker 5: what's going on. I love that because I've seen Essence
Speaker 5: recreates that during their weekend sometimes in New Orleans and
Speaker 5: they do their own little speak easy and then people's
Speaker 5: houses in the area and stuff. So now I get
Speaker 5: it so good as a New Orleans person.
Speaker 3: You love Essence. I just want to oh, layla. We
Speaker 3: love Essence. Okay, we love Essence.
Speaker 4: We love it.
Speaker 5: We love the super lounges more than anything. We love
Speaker 5: to see the celebrities just walking around. We love to
Speaker 5: get a picture in.
Speaker 3: We love it all. We really do.
Speaker 4: You know what? I think?
Speaker 1: It's it's visited it.
Speaker 3: I was sorry, wait, no, it's God.
Speaker 5: I'm just crying because ain't know it's the first year,
Speaker 5: ain't have it because of codepened next year.
Speaker 4: You know something, it's it's weird because.
Speaker 7: You know it's it's I don't think it's a coincidence
Speaker 7: that every twenties, eighteen twenty, nineteen twenty, it always starts
Speaker 7: with a plague, and there's always a culture of like something. Well,
Speaker 7: you know, nineteen twenties, it was prohibition. The twenties, yeah, right,
Speaker 7: the Raring twenties, and they had like underground So I
Speaker 7: would imagine that, especially in the city known for its partying,
Speaker 7: that there's probably going to be more underground speakeasys, which
Speaker 7: you know, this is less about the alcohol and the
Speaker 7: weed and more about survival.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like what do you do? Do you
Speaker 1: just say fuck it and do social roulette or.
Speaker 5: At least take the temperature at the door. They doing
Speaker 5: that in Mexico. That's all I'm saying that that at
Speaker 5: least be Mexico. Right, We've been in Mexico in some
Speaker 5: places they just didn't. But I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 5: though none of that stuff is going on right now.
Speaker 5: Everybody in you all is just doing all love of stuff.
Speaker 5: The most progressive thing that we've done to try to
Speaker 5: get everybody together, we had the first drive of concert
Speaker 5: months ago.
Speaker 6: How well that was.
Speaker 3: Guess what it was. It was the hottest thing I've
Speaker 3: ever done in my life.
Speaker 5: I thought I was going to pass out because I
Speaker 5: hadn't performed in a while, so it kind of actually
Speaker 5: got to me that heat. And it was a very
Speaker 5: long set and you know, the people was out in
Speaker 5: their calls and you already know where you're perform and
Speaker 5: it's a transference of energy. I need you'all energy so
Speaker 5: I could give you something.
Speaker 3: There was fall it was. It was weird.
Speaker 5: But the ones after that I've done, because I've done
Speaker 5: at least four pull up shows, they've been they've been dope.
Speaker 5: Mississippi was weird as hell. It was the day that
Speaker 5: Trump lass. It was very odd, very awkward. Shrieport was
Speaker 5: a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Ooh, y'all. It really was something you could feel it.
Speaker 6: With Jackson like jack.
Speaker 3: It was different. It was different.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna speak for all Jackson Mississippians. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna speak for the particular people that was at this
Speaker 5: one that was here.
Speaker 3: You know that it was.
Speaker 5: It was full of a lot of Republicans people. We
Speaker 5: opened up the show with the national anthem on guitar
Speaker 5: and uh, they were standing up, you know. They was
Speaker 5: proud as hell. That's interesting. I didn't I don't expect
Speaker 5: that of that tank in the Banks show. We actually
Speaker 5: started off a lot with the national anthemis today. We
Speaker 5: did it kind of in a a justice must prevail type.
Speaker 3: Way, you know, that way they saw it.
Speaker 5: I think they saw it in like a trumpet, That's
Speaker 5: what I would say. I don't know, but no, I'm
Speaker 5: surprised that you had an audience. Yeah, it was definitely
Speaker 5: believe that.
Speaker 3: I believe that. I just I was surprised that the
Speaker 3: audience was responding like that, like I'm bron Oh. It
Speaker 3: was so prised.
Speaker 5: Jack Sutton mess said there it was a proud wow
Speaker 5: you said like that, Jack something, this is.
Speaker 7: So At what point when did you realize that you
Speaker 7: had this, this voice at least enough to start doing
Speaker 7: this as a profession. You really be doing this podcast
Speaker 7: in your bed like this, I'd be Chillingna Richie and
Speaker 7: Michael Jackson on their idiest looking.
Speaker 3: A little background. Is that a very sexy?
Speaker 7: It was like, yeah, I'm being fully transparent. If my
Speaker 7: girlfriend is, you know, she's very stylish.
Speaker 1: So I just lived here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry to get off the schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I realized I had the gift when I was at
Speaker 5: my grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary and I was supposed to
Speaker 5: be doing a poem for them by Adrian Hardest. And
Speaker 5: I practiced the poem so much I knew I was
Speaker 5: gonna kill it. But I got up there and I
Speaker 5: fucked it up. I sucked it up real bad. I
Speaker 5: just kept looking at the paper. I kept looking at it.
Speaker 3: I thought, I remember when I had the door. I
Speaker 3: guess I did.
Speaker 5: My nerves get the best of me sometimes. But my
Speaker 5: grandma she saw something in me. She brought me to
Speaker 5: every church. Before my grandfather would speak, I would do
Speaker 5: this poem. I got stronger and stronger in his poem.
Speaker 5: Children used to be laughing at me and stuff, but
Speaker 5: I was doing it well.
Speaker 3: I just knew I had some going for me. And
Speaker 3: I didn't think that I was the best singer, because
Speaker 3: my sister saying I wrote better than that saying. So
Speaker 3: I just wrote a lot.
Speaker 5: And then I got up in there poetry group. And
Speaker 5: then that's when, since I could sing better than all
Speaker 5: of them, I mean they poets, I just gave me just.
Speaker 3: That much more confidence. Wow, what was the first voice?
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm sorry because she got a lot of voices.
Speaker 3: What was I do was? I am a serious child.
Speaker 3: I am a serious child with serious goals, and if
Speaker 3: it takes hard work to reach my goals, I will
Speaker 3: do it. Man. That's how that poem went.
Speaker 6: Like that's voice over dudes, like.
Speaker 7: You, guys, you have to have multiple voices like this, duplicitous,
Speaker 7: multiple voices that you use on stage.
Speaker 1: Like where does it come from?
Speaker 3: All them brothers and sisters playing them Barbie dolls? So long?
Speaker 3: I play with my I.
Speaker 5: Play with my dolls until I was eighteen. If I
Speaker 5: go to the store right now and I see a doll,
Speaker 5: you know, they don't really make them as cool as
Speaker 5: they used to.
Speaker 3: But if I see one with.
Speaker 5: The perfect lips and fingers and eyes, I'm really interested
Speaker 5: in buying her and I will play with her. I
Speaker 5: played with the dolls for a while, so it just
Speaker 5: I think it just kind of came natural, and just
Speaker 5: watching so much Disney, that's fascinating you post cabbage Patch kids,
Speaker 5: So that's very I had a doll, or I had
Speaker 5: a I mean, I had the baby what you even
Speaker 5: called it you call a cabbage patch a baby doll,
Speaker 5: or you just call it a cabbage patch.
Speaker 3: I had a yeah with the little belly bun, this
Speaker 3: with that hard ass head that so as but yes.
Speaker 7: Well I hope, I hope your manager and the agent
Speaker 7: are trying to figure out how to at least animate
Speaker 7: like I think you guys should have your own cartoon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know it'd be working. That sounds like a
Speaker 6: cartoon show. It sounds about it. Yeah, taking the bangause
Speaker 6: that sounds like a cartoon.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll develop this.
Speaker 3: Let's do it because I have the drawings.
Speaker 6: We have the drawings.
Speaker 5: What was you?
Speaker 6: You said you did your first voice over? What was it?
Speaker 6: What did you just do?
Speaker 5: It's for a show called Turtle Rock, and it's it's
Speaker 5: so funny because I'm a turtle or am I a turtle?
Speaker 3: She looked like a turtle. I think I'm a turtle. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm a turtle that helps another turtle come out of
Speaker 3: her shell. And so that's so funny.
Speaker 5: And it's definitely about it's definitely about music and basically
Speaker 5: kind of hide kind of it's healing and this this
Speaker 5: turtle is very insecure. She she try to comes off like,
Speaker 5: hey you guys, I would love to play in your band.
Speaker 5: But inside she's like, damn, did I just say that?
Speaker 3: I sound so stupid.
Speaker 6: I sound so damn.
Speaker 5: Let me say let me try to do it again,
Speaker 5: all that type of stuff. I think it's gonna it's
Speaker 5: gonna help. It's gonna help kids.
Speaker 3: It's for kids.
Speaker 6: That's so dope. Man, congratulations on that.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to do something like that.
Speaker 5: So this little time off, you know, it's crazy, it's
Speaker 5: incredibly unfortunate, but it has definitely helped me out. I
Speaker 5: need did to break from the road. Number one, The
Speaker 5: road was becoming a lot. You never realized that the
Speaker 5: road is a hard life. You loving, you chilling, but
Speaker 5: then you get off. You like, damn, my knee hurt,
Speaker 5: My hurt?
Speaker 3: Whoa, my knee ain't getting better. It's been three months,
Speaker 3: you know. And you also noticed I woke up. It's
Speaker 3: a KFC. You know what I'm saying. It's m C
Speaker 3: subwhere Kemsey somewhere Kelsey? You like that is horrible. The
Speaker 3: food is horrible.
Speaker 5: You know, you're trying to sleep well, your back hurt,
Speaker 5: You're waking up. It's like so I never realized it.
Speaker 5: But it is a hard life and I never even
Speaker 5: thought about it. But the greats have died young, so
Speaker 5: you know it's something that you love to do and
Speaker 5: you want to do it, but you don't realize. Damn,
Speaker 5: this is a this is an interesting life. I've chose
Speaker 5: if I could do it again, I would do it again.
Speaker 5: I would be more in shape.
Speaker 3: Thought I'm trying. It worked for me, you know, old
Speaker 3: on the call and then lost the whole person, so
Speaker 3: you know, believe.
Speaker 6: The whole person, not for real?
Speaker 3: Your tank and amazing. How did you know from going
Speaker 3: from doing poetry that you could lead a band?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: How did you even know what that meant? And what
Speaker 3: does that mean to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Where where does Joshua and Norman and the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys coming into place?
Speaker 5: They're so annoying, Quesse, tell me if I'm wrong or not.
Speaker 5: But did you ever say that the key to staying
Speaker 5: together is different tour buses?
Speaker 6: Yea, that direct? That's a direct?
Speaker 5: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: And guess what it's true?
Speaker 5: The smokers riding one bus, the non smokers riding another one.
Speaker 5: And guess what that that's different And it's really different.
Speaker 5: People like the smokers are very different in the car
Speaker 5: from the non smoking. The non smoking ban's kind of
Speaker 5: like the nerd Vand when I think about it, I'm
Speaker 5: in the non smoking ban.
Speaker 3: It's a nerdy vand always on time.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Okay, so more more, more advice from
Speaker 1: a mirror.
Speaker 7: I say, yes, I say that the key to our
Speaker 7: success is separatory of us is However, I'm learning now, Okay,
Speaker 7: I'm learning a term I never used before, and that's
Speaker 7: called making sure that you're clear, which I guess if
Speaker 7: you're in a marriage, that's the equivalent of making sure
Speaker 7: that you don't go to bread bed angry.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: And it might seem kind of weird to clear with
Speaker 7: people who is not your like romantic life partner.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's easy for me to go to Grace City, like, hey,
Speaker 7: I'm not clear on something you said something earlier that
Speaker 7: I felt some sort of way about Dad, where it's it's.
Speaker 1: Kind of weird, like, oh god, am I really admitting this?
Speaker 3: No, no, please, it's helping.
Speaker 7: Really having our first real, like an evolved adult conversations now,
Speaker 7: like because you know, I thought he was going to
Speaker 7: laugh at me, Like yeah, you know, I'm doing counseling
Speaker 7: lately and you know, figure out my life and da
Speaker 7: da da da. You know, before you be like, man,
Speaker 7: I don't want niggas know that's laughing. I think I'm
Speaker 7: being whipped in the house. But my girlfriend, you know,
Speaker 7: and to find out like he was doing it two
Speaker 7: years before, I was, Wow, I was late. But what
Speaker 7: I'm saying is that what's what's important that I would
Speaker 7: do again is sometimes you do as the leader. I'm
Speaker 7: a highly reluctant leader and every all of my entities
Speaker 7: and so sometimes as the leader, you're gonna have to
Speaker 7: just make you know, half meetings, make sure that everyone's
Speaker 7: okay for by the safe space for them to riff
Speaker 7: about stuff or whatever. I need a break, you know,
Speaker 7: the par deem or the dunna you criticize, you criticize
Speaker 7: the cord I played the other night on stage, blah
Speaker 7: blah blah. It's important to be clear to make sure
Speaker 7: that you guys are on ground zero and that you know,
Speaker 7: because what you don't want is like just to do
Speaker 7: a show and then you go to your separate corners
Speaker 7: and then not talk about it, and then there's eighteen
Speaker 7: years of animosity and building.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that shit festers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's because the thing is the chemistry that you
Speaker 7: guys have together on stage, the nucleus of the group
Speaker 7: and even your side.
Speaker 1: I mean, technically is it is it five of you
Speaker 1: or eight of you?
Speaker 5: All to the whole Bangoville is freaking one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 5: six seven eight.
Speaker 3: That's that's about eight, eight or nine. And but the
Speaker 3: actual tank in the Bengers is is four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure that that's with the nucleus four that you.
Speaker 4: Have real, real, real I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: It's the metaphor for that. I'm sorry for the outliers.
Speaker 3: The metaphor for that's kind of like what Quest and
Speaker 3: Blacktart are to the greatest, right, right. So your four,
Speaker 3: that four that you spoke of, its kind of like
Speaker 3: y'all of the creative hub of everything and the decision makers.
Speaker 5: There's like four owners, which is myself, Joshua Johnson, Norman Spence,
Speaker 5: and my best friend and manager Tavia Asby, and then
Speaker 5: the members and the tank and the Bengals is myself, Joshua, Norman,
Speaker 5: and Albert allenback and the whole Bangaville that's like myself,
Speaker 5: Alber Norman, josh Jonathan Uh, Danny Abel Uh you can,
Speaker 5: Jonathan Johnson and Jelica, Jelly, Joseph T and Henderson. It's
Speaker 5: all these people that basically make the stage show come alive.
Speaker 3: Okay, Can I go back to my original question?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: How did no? No, no, this is good?
Speaker 3: But how did you figure out that this is what
Speaker 3: you wanted to do and you could do it and
Speaker 3: what it was to be a band leader? Because I
Speaker 3: don't I never knew what I was, I never knew
Speaker 3: what I was doing. I still don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: I know that I was at Slam Poetry, which only
Speaker 5: gave me three minutes and ten seconds to do my poem,
Speaker 5: and I realized I needed way more time than that
Speaker 5: to express myself. I started going to a different open
Speaker 5: mic that didn't just focus on poetry for music, poetry, expression,
Speaker 5: all of that stuff. This place called Liberation Lounge, and
Speaker 5: that's where I met this band, the house band there
Speaker 5: called the Black Star Beggers. That was that was a
Speaker 5: guitarist and a bass player, and we decided, man, we
Speaker 5: won't be like uh, you know, we won't be like Philly.
Speaker 5: We won't go on a roll with everybody from New Orleans.
Speaker 5: That's good and make something happen. So everybody we told
Speaker 5: that too. Only a certain amount of people agreed to come,
Speaker 5: and we called ourselves the Liberative Soul Collective. And then
Speaker 5: we all traveled around, you know, rented our first little
Speaker 5: r V with the tips from the Liberation Lounge, and
Speaker 5: we we traveled, you know what we could. After a while,
Speaker 5: I was practically the last man Standley. Somebody else went
Speaker 5: to Germany, somebody else went to New York, and it
Speaker 5: was just Triana, tank Ball and the Black Star Bangers.
Speaker 5: And I thought, damn, that's such a long name. I'm
Speaker 5: just showing it the tank in the Bangers. I never
Speaker 5: liked the name. I just started liking it about a
Speaker 5: year ago. And uh, I wanted to be called Purple Freak.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: What was what was the reason?
Speaker 3: What was the name?
Speaker 6: The reason behind Purple Free?
Speaker 3: The bass player of the original Black Star Bankers gave
Speaker 3: it that name. He said, I love that name. Freak
Speaker 3: f R E a q THO, you know, like frequency.
Speaker 3: And I was like, damn, that's fire, and I stuck
Speaker 3: with kept them back.
Speaker 6: I worked out pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: I think it did his same.
Speaker 5: You know, it makes people a little curious about what's
Speaker 5: going on here. But a Tank is a family nickname
Speaker 5: given to me by my my dad who had passed away.
Speaker 3: He called me Tank.
Speaker 5: I don't even really know why, but it kind of
Speaker 5: all worked out. The bang, the tank, the army, all
Speaker 5: that stuff. It just kind of worked out the big
Speaker 5: sound and make it just kind of interesting that way.
Speaker 5: But I never I never knew too much about music.
Speaker 5: I just knew how to make a little melody and songs.
Speaker 5: On my first show, I wanted to be just me
Speaker 5: and the guitarist doing some poems and songs. And then
Speaker 5: the guitarist said, nah, man, you gotta get my man
Speaker 5: on bass. I ain't know nothing by no bass, I said,
Speaker 5: I care about no damn bass.
Speaker 3: I just one nice look at town. Don't even know.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Tank, it's gonna ground the show. The
Speaker 3: bass ground the show.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that the bass really does ground
Speaker 3: the show. So I found that out later on.
Speaker 5: And then just pretty soon it just became musicians and
Speaker 5: the out you know what I'm saying. The two original
Speaker 5: black Stuff bangers they left.
Speaker 3: And now it's it's just us, you know, and it's
Speaker 3: some people come in and come out when the season
Speaker 3: is up. It's up. There's no bad blood. But it
Speaker 3: just it just be that way, you know.
Speaker 5: But I just feel like, no matter what, I just
Speaker 5: always have to keep moving forward, no matter what, you know.
Speaker 5: I want them to be with me on the last days.
Speaker 5: Want to be the type of band that gets a
Speaker 5: travel when you're eighty some years old, but don't have
Speaker 5: to do it all your life because you've made enough
Speaker 5: money to But it sounded like what the root, So
Speaker 5: y'all really just y'all did look at this model? When
Speaker 5: it comes to like, because you mentioned y'all looked at Philly,
Speaker 5: I'm like, so interesting. I didn't know the story, I
Speaker 5: didn't know and stuff like that. I just knew that
Speaker 5: Philly had amazing tackling. I mean, they just always have.
Speaker 5: I mean I feel like I think of Philly and
Speaker 5: I think of New Orleans and New York and Chicago.
Speaker 5: Basically there's type of ugly places that make beautiful concrete roses.
Speaker 3: Because of all the ugly and the ghetto around.
Speaker 5: You, you will ain't got no choice but to make
Speaker 5: something good with all of this around you but it's
Speaker 5: not a place to sometimes live because it just it
Speaker 5: just gets so crazy. But even when I was slamming,
Speaker 5: uh for Brave New Voices, I mean, oh my god, Phil,
Speaker 5: it just had some of the best poets like Joshua
Speaker 5: had been in and Black Ice and everybody. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just so freaking amazing. So I've always I always
Speaker 5: was a fan. I mean, everybody great come from there.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just what it is, you know, it's
Speaker 1: weird what so.
Speaker 7: And Yeah, in literally in two thousand and five, uh,
Speaker 7: the top of the year, we decided, like each each
Speaker 7: record that we recorded, we decided, like, Okay, what's the
Speaker 7: big project we're going to do now. Down before with
Speaker 7: the Tipping Point, we built a quasi strip club.
Speaker 1: Really, you know it it seemed that way. Weren't you
Speaker 1: there for that period?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's why I'm like, it was just strip club.
Speaker 3: I say that it was like stripping as it like
Speaker 3: taking off the clothes, the titties is exposed, and we
Speaker 3: talk about a strip club. They had a pole, and.
Speaker 7: It was we built a pole, like my I think
Speaker 7: our logic was we wanted just based on what our
Speaker 7: audience was to that point, in two thousand and three,
Speaker 7: we just wanted more blackfaces. So we figured the best
Speaker 7: test of it all was to build to turn rehab
Speaker 7: Our studio into.
Speaker 1: A strip club, and we would invite them to like
Speaker 1: our jam.
Speaker 7: Sessions, and if they responded favorably to a particular song,
Speaker 7: then it was like, okay, that can go on the record.
Speaker 7: Which is why the tipping point is, you know, usually
Speaker 7: the album that our our core fan base is sort
Speaker 7: of like where whereas like are the black fan base
Speaker 7: was sort of like, that's the one up, like, you know,
Speaker 7: So that's what we catered it to. But for the
Speaker 7: next record, we were trying to figure out it was
Speaker 7: between New Orleans and Cuba, and well.
Speaker 1: Just at the time, New Orleans was literally besides DC.
Speaker 7: New Orleans was like the last in our eyes, the
Speaker 7: last like musical hotbed for musicians that had over three
Speaker 7: genres because you know, you have bounce music, you had
Speaker 7: you know, traditional New Orleans, zydga whatever, you alsoid like frontline,
Speaker 7: different cultures, yeh, jazz and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So we had taken our advance money.
Speaker 7: And we were going to lease uh two houses down
Speaker 7: there in two thousand and five, So come June we
Speaker 7: were like, well, let's let's get some money real quick,
Speaker 7: go to Europe and then maybe around August of two
Speaker 7: thousand and five, will start recording the record, and literally
Speaker 7: at the airport in Portugal, like the day before we
Speaker 7: go to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: That's when Sandy happened.
Speaker 7: So we were like moving from Philadelphia to New Orleans
Speaker 7: to record.
Speaker 1: What would have been our Game Theory album.
Speaker 3: But this is insane. We would have we would have
Speaker 3: been friends. This isn't Sun, this isn't that's like some
Speaker 3: full circle. I learned that. I was today years old
Speaker 3: when I learned this.
Speaker 6: A lot of shit.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, people ask like how did to beget in the band?
Speaker 7: Because the thing was there was a New Orleans brass
Speaker 7: band down there. The two Beat come on TVC, right,
Speaker 7: we saw to be continued when there was like kids
Speaker 7: like back in two thousand ninety nine, two thousand wow,
Speaker 7: and seeing them on.
Speaker 1: The street corners, it was like they stand on the street.
Speaker 7: Well they adults now, but like back then, it was like,
Speaker 7: oh man, like they just like us. So coming to
Speaker 7: New Orleans every time we see TVC there, it was like,
Speaker 7: oh man, we liked those cats and we were that's
Speaker 7: why we got two cribs. We were going to like
Speaker 7: put them in one, put us in the other, and
Speaker 7: see if we could collaborate and make this magical record together.
Speaker 3: And but y'all still implemented a lot of that into
Speaker 3: the show though, Right.
Speaker 7: That's how Tuba like eventually like then we started raising
Speaker 7: money for them. So that's you know, getting Jeff Bratshall
Speaker 7: and other Brass.
Speaker 3: Members and nobody don't talk about this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's how like Tuba sort of got in
Speaker 7: the group and we just kept him. But yeah, New
Speaker 7: Orleans was very much on our minds, which I want
Speaker 7: to know, like posts, uh posts, I'm about to say,
Speaker 7: Sandy post Katrina, how heighten it is the community.
Speaker 5: Before COVID, they was really cultivating something really special. They
Speaker 5: was getting They had almost every other night. It was
Speaker 5: starting to be like it was pre Katrina when you
Speaker 5: could find something to do, a place to go. You know,
Speaker 5: there was there was cultivating there. But if you on
Speaker 5: a certain type of level, it's just like I told you.
Speaker 3: If you don't know about it, you don't know about.
Speaker 5: It, You're just gonna be like, oh just Frenchman, wag
Speaker 5: All Bourbon got these type of positions, nothing going on
Speaker 5: in the city. But if you don't know about these
Speaker 5: little like y'all like to call them speak easies going on,
Speaker 5: then you don't know that.
Speaker 3: The youth and the different generation is making little things happen.
Speaker 3: Of course, they got to keep our mind open as elders,
Speaker 3: we got to make sure that we always gott to
Speaker 3: live because you just don't know. You just don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 7: And with them, what's on the horizon, What what is
Speaker 7: musically on the horizon that twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year
Speaker 7: olders are getting into.
Speaker 1: Because I'm certain by now like little Wayne or hot
Speaker 1: Boys might be seen as Ellis Marsalis.
Speaker 3: They still love their Little Wayne. But you know, like
Speaker 3: whatever I thought, I remember you came back.
Speaker 5: I remember when you came back to New Orleans, quest
Speaker 5: and you had said he was like, were's a little something.
Speaker 5: I think it was Webby or wee we he was.
Speaker 5: He was calling out for fift wall weeb and you
Speaker 5: kept saying his name weird and it was so funny.
Speaker 5: And then he got off there there why you find
Speaker 5: why you ain't?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did.
Speaker 3: Let me find out you going to the other thing.
Speaker 3: Let me find out. Oh it's such a great it's
Speaker 3: just a great sound. And but I was there that
Speaker 3: night and it.
Speaker 5: Was so funny because I was laughing in my head
Speaker 5: at the time because he was trying to get past
Speaker 5: me and like, you know, he was acting like a
Speaker 5: little big shot at the time, and I was like, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 5: questioning your name wrong? You know when you are all
Speaker 5: like like little star person and you like, oh, can't
Speaker 5: nobody tell you ship? The also don't really care about
Speaker 5: celebrities because they think they ship they so.
Speaker 3: So that was a great night though.
Speaker 5: That was an And the night was that I met you,
Speaker 5: uh at Rocking Bowl they called him. That's the bowl,
Speaker 5: Brooklyn Bowl with all of them videos and a background
Speaker 5: a soul train. Now did they give your little chicken plates? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you had a little juice and chicken.
Speaker 3: You ain't tied the soel tree yet, God damn you
Speaker 3: into it. That's funny, just on.
Speaker 4: His entire crew.
Speaker 1: Play me for a boke bowl Chicken. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: chicken is good.
Speaker 6: It's good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's less. It's less you and your partner
Speaker 7: that hates you. So he tried to come at me
Speaker 7: last week on Twitter about it.
Speaker 3: Better because it's free.
Speaker 1: One set. That's what he said.
Speaker 6: Now we're talking about food. Is uh tank? Is Melbourne
Speaker 6: still popping in New Orleans?
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus bro, what's that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Melbourne is one of the most I only went
Speaker 6: once only, but it was no, they don't. It was like,
Speaker 6: so we went on it's late. That's when we went.
Speaker 6: It was like two in the morning. It was some
Speaker 6: crazy ship like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like it was like a laundrymat right next
Speaker 8: to it, connected to it, and then it's like a
Speaker 8: lawyer that had his office in the back.
Speaker 6: It was the weirdest ship. I love that.
Speaker 3: And don't the line move so slow?
Speaker 6: Slow?
Speaker 3: And so oh y'all?
Speaker 5: So I said, y'all need a different process. Yeah, the
Speaker 5: food already done, y'all. It's kind of like you guess
Speaker 5: want to be serving it like a lunch lady. But
Speaker 5: they've been taking all along.
Speaker 3: I really thank you. How you're like people that's a
Speaker 3: little slow, you know what.
Speaker 1: I want to turn this around.
Speaker 7: I wanted to turn this around because I imagine you
Speaker 7: can tell lazy journalists if the third question they ask
Speaker 7: you is about the food in New Orleans, if the
Speaker 7: first four questions about the food in New Orleans. However,
Speaker 7: since we're already here, I want to I want to
Speaker 7: take the reverse angle, since New Orleans is known for
Speaker 7: so many iconic foods. Yes, in your opinion, which which
Speaker 7: one is overrated?
Speaker 3: What's overrated?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you New Orleans like resident like what.
Speaker 6: I have it answer? But it could be love. I'm
Speaker 6: not gonna all right in shure it would be controversial.
Speaker 6: Let's let's go.
Speaker 3: Because let me he about to say, Ben say it
Speaker 3: not fun? Crazy? This?
Speaker 5: How is?
Speaker 1: This is how I feel.
Speaker 5: I feel like depending on the shelf, ain't nothing overrated?
Speaker 5: Everything good, my gumbo, good, my chalk, gril all it's
Speaker 5: is good, my my, my shrimp. No, I'm just talking
Speaker 5: about the fact that I feel like I own this,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, My short and poor boy,
Speaker 5: my hot sausage on French when it's dumb.
Speaker 6: It ain't do the gumbo with with with okra like
Speaker 6: I don't like the okra. I can't im not.
Speaker 3: I don't want that either. I don't want that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I want that. Yeah, I can't do this
Speaker 6: line what termed me when I went there?
Speaker 8: I went for New Orleans, and I went for Mary Ground,
Speaker 8: like twenty twelve, and I want my homies. His homies
Speaker 8: came through his house and he made a catfish kobe on.
Speaker 6: Nika. I don't let me tell you something, nigga, don't
Speaker 6: play me like that. I'm a little languages. It's cool.
Speaker 8: C O U R T b o U I L
Speaker 8: l O N kob on. It's in a red sauce.
Speaker 8: It's in it's it's like a catfish. It's in a
Speaker 8: red sauce.
Speaker 6: You don't like red sauce, guess brown, Guess what I like.
Speaker 3: I like that license sauce.
Speaker 5: I like the licekin sauce, just like a but a
Speaker 5: limit look like like a shrimp pasta Alfredo type.
Speaker 6: That you you're like a creamy I do.
Speaker 3: I love to put around a little folk, little fun.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I really really like Alfred
Speaker 3: whatever you spelled. You spelt it out, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my computer smart caffish.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 5: I can, I said, when they correct me when I'm writing,
Speaker 5: like like it, just write a black name.
Speaker 3: When I'm writing a black name with me, I really
Speaker 3: get upset with that.
Speaker 1: Did you mean Mary?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I meant, and I know what the hell I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: I like the I like crawfish. Mama boys, he has
Speaker 6: a homie that makes crawfish sausage.
Speaker 3: Like crawfish. Now that's the giddyap. Now that's a sausage.
Speaker 6: Crawfish sausage. But it's amazing.
Speaker 3: There is no rewarding crawfish. There is just like no reward.
Speaker 3: There is no rewarding fish. It's gonna eat you a crab.
Speaker 3: Go on, man, all that to get you a little something.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, let me tell you, let me
Speaker 3: talk to him, let me tell me, Let me tell you.
Speaker 5: What it's about it. Let me tell you what it's about.
Speaker 5: Number one, it's cultural, it's community. You eat them with
Speaker 5: everybody else and you just talking. You don't much realize
Speaker 5: you're doing all that social. Yeah, it's very social. And
Speaker 5: the fact that you get a big when you get
Speaker 5: a fan into and not only is me you sucking
Speaker 5: and you kieling it. You you got all the little parts.
Speaker 5: And personally, for me, most of my COVID was sent
Speaker 5: was was spent with a thing up with a bag
Speaker 5: of crawfish, just watching you.
Speaker 3: I understand, but you shoul unerstand. I from DC. When
Speaker 3: we eat crabs more, I don't like no crab. I
Speaker 3: don't like them all right, you need to.
Speaker 1: I'm literally about the order some right now that we
Speaker 1: describe it.
Speaker 3: I like crawfish of crawfish, crams of crawfish, crawfish, crabs.
Speaker 4: Know there's a spot in New York. Uh.
Speaker 7: I don't want to get struck down by the culinary
Speaker 7: GUIDs of New Orleans. I will say that it's close enough.
Speaker 7: It's called the boil.
Speaker 3: I think I got to the boil and I had
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 6: I had a good time.
Speaker 3: Ail, Yeah, yeah, I had a good time. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: why are we now? We got getting hungry? We getting
Speaker 3: off this? Oh your lot, your little I'm gonna sign too. Ship.
Speaker 1: So wait, you're saying that Okra is the the one
Speaker 1: overrated New Orleans.
Speaker 6: That's what he said, Well, no, she said is nothing
Speaker 6: is overrated. The right chef is cooking it. She said nothing,
Speaker 6: that's right. But we agree and that we don't like
Speaker 6: Okrah in the gumbo. We agree on that.
Speaker 3: I'm just one of those people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like Okra and gumble that's what I
Speaker 5: don't like it. I don't know how I'm not really
Speaker 5: good at peeling like a crab. So I like the
Speaker 5: crab in my gumbo for flavor, but I will not
Speaker 5: eat a crab in my gumbo.
Speaker 1: I'm not a crab person.
Speaker 3: I don't like oysters, but I like me some charboils
Speaker 3: and I do too. I did tom holding it.
Speaker 5: The way we make them in the wall is this
Speaker 5: little for this particular place that put the spinach on it?
Speaker 5: And the baby what the bees are called? The rock
Speaker 5: a Fellow Records of the rock Fellow Records, Rock a Feller,
Speaker 5: Get done.
Speaker 6: The girl love us?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rockafellow Records, Oyster, the Rockefellow Records, Oh did the
Speaker 5: Rockefeller Oysters?
Speaker 3: And mister Edg's okay, Lord, okay, I get missed the bees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like.
Speaker 5: I like mister that's in a little mini mall, but
Speaker 5: stand out right, and I think that I think they
Speaker 5: have one. They probably have one up in the mall.
Speaker 5: But the one I go to his own Carrollton, and
Speaker 5: I always gonna get the fried chicken, the jumba lion,
Speaker 5: some potato said, and that's the first time I had.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Who for you?
Speaker 4: Who for you?
Speaker 6: If you do it at all? Who does the best?
Speaker 6: King cake for you.
Speaker 5: I just I never go and get one specific I'm not.
Speaker 5: I don't have like a tradition like I gotta go
Speaker 5: ahead and get the king cake. Whoever got a piece
Speaker 5: of king cake. I'm gonna take a bite.
Speaker 3: Of king cake. You know what I'm saying, A piece.
Speaker 3: I would take a bite of it. And I'm hope
Speaker 3: I don't got the baby. You know he was young.
Speaker 5: If you got the baby, I mean, you had to
Speaker 5: buy the next king cake for your class. And sometimes
Speaker 5: my man got no money for the motherfucker king cake.
Speaker 3: So you was you want the baby, but you don't
Speaker 3: want the responsibility of a baby. Kind of like life,
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know there was a penalty for getting
Speaker 1: the baby.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah you got about the next cake, about the
Speaker 6: next one?
Speaker 3: Yeah you got I just like hearing her say baby,
Speaker 3: Oh I just love it. Yeah, get the baby.
Speaker 5: Yeah you gotta get you if you get the baby,
Speaker 5: you gotta you gotta, you gotta buy the next cake.
Speaker 5: And you know, my man got the money all the time,
Speaker 5: so sometimes you got the baby.
Speaker 6: Do you do your poor boy, you do yours fully
Speaker 6: dressed like what you do on yours? Like what's your
Speaker 6: what's I know.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 1: Taking a three minute break.
Speaker 3: To as I look at all my groceries over here.
Speaker 6: What are you what you.
Speaker 5: Tonight?
Speaker 3: It is gonna be real simple. It's pressure chicken.
Speaker 4: I speak like this chicken.
Speaker 6: What you doing just to night?
Speaker 3: It may be some macaroni and cheese and some chicken.
Speaker 3: It just mean it's something like, what the what the
Speaker 3: what the betchure you're gonna do? Because with the vegie
Speaker 3: it may be the salad, it may be it may
Speaker 3: be may but guess what vegetables. No, it don't matter.
Speaker 1: You do what you do your thing.
Speaker 3: Girl. Man of years is coming. They are. I was going,
Speaker 3: I was gonna everybody and nobody aging and reverse. We're
Speaker 3: all moving forward. You know, we don't, but we do,
Speaker 3: trust I think about it.
Speaker 5: But as far as that shrimp po boy, it just
Speaker 5: gotta be fully dressed. No, I want to cheese with
Speaker 5: my shrimp, just for the dress. You know, let us tomatoes.
Speaker 5: You know, a nice amount of mayonnaise. I do like
Speaker 5: that on my shrimp po boy. And I like the
Speaker 5: bread to be, you know, nice and fresh. Not we
Speaker 5: just cut it and then you eat it and the
Speaker 5: shrimps are falling out. I love when the shrimps are
Speaker 5: falling out because I get to eat them last, because
Speaker 5: that means my meal not dumb. I mean, I got,
Speaker 5: you know, I got like a treat after you know,
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 7: When this is all over and you're touring again, when
Speaker 7: y'all come to Philadelphia, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not even excited to tour again.
Speaker 6: Can we just talk about it?
Speaker 3: My knee, my knee?
Speaker 7: You miss it?
Speaker 3: No right now, I mean, let me put it like this.
Speaker 3: Let me put it like this. If we have another
Speaker 3: year like this, then I'm scared.
Speaker 6: Then then scared in what way scared and what stare
Speaker 6: in a way of like.
Speaker 5: Whoa, what's what's the future about to be? Like what's
Speaker 5: what's about the heck? Like what's about the whoa minute?
Speaker 5: And financially to financial Yeah, that that's that's scary. A
Speaker 5: good thing about us is you know the way that
Speaker 5: tanking the bangers like set up our particular council that
Speaker 5: the founding members will we put money aside to be
Speaker 5: straight in a.
Speaker 3: Time like this. But yeah, that's going down, you know.
Speaker 5: So, But thank god for gigs, virtual gigs, private companies
Speaker 5: still want us to do things. Myself, personally, I've been
Speaker 5: doing so many things. So even though tour has stopped,
Speaker 5: the rest of my life been kind of crazy. I mean,
Speaker 5: we recorded so many songs and the EP coming out,
Speaker 5: and we recorded so many because we literally allocated Tuesdays
Speaker 5: and thursdays these are our creative days to get together
Speaker 5: and create music.
Speaker 3: So we we did a lot. We did a lot.
Speaker 1: How close are you to bring this album? Four?
Speaker 5: Well, the EP will come out in about three days
Speaker 5: and uh, that's that's that's the friend goal was one
Speaker 5: of the one where we just found a bunch of
Speaker 5: artists that we like and just kind of created with them.
Speaker 3: I created that, like created a song with Black Thought too.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know that, but we did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes we don't communicate.
Speaker 4: This is one of the.
Speaker 6: Brothers that's like, yeah, joint is coming.
Speaker 5: Jay so that's Jamie was uh, Jelly and p J
Speaker 5: Martin Duck word's cheek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a lot and we had a lot
Speaker 3: of fun.
Speaker 5: It was a very interesting collab and you know, mass
Speaker 5: mixing stuff like real time with the zoom type stuff.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 5: It was interesting, but had a good time because we
Speaker 5: built our own studios in the houses and I felt
Speaker 5: less pressure, you know, like I'm not on studio.
Speaker 3: Time and you know, to read and mess up and
Speaker 3: you know, y'all take can you can you put us
Speaker 3: on real quick because you mentioned p J.
Speaker 5: Of course, you know, we know, let us see, but
Speaker 5: put us on to somebody, to New Orleans folks that
Speaker 5: oh for sure.
Speaker 3: I'm Ray Perkins. Perkins is really amazing. She minds. But
Speaker 3: I'm bray like but but the a I'm Bray Perkins.
Speaker 3: You know, cool, cool, nasty as a band. They do
Speaker 3: their thing. There is a what that boy name is?
Speaker 3: That boy name is Berkeley the Artist, That's what he
Speaker 3: calls hisself. And somebody that I'm a pale you gotta
Speaker 3: get on him. I am a big fan of him.
Speaker 6: And uh does p E L L.
Speaker 3: Ray Wimbley Ray is really special y'all?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh I'm okay, I know I'm break. You know
Speaker 1: rock Nation its ship?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Karen Green, Tanya boy can damn all right, Larry Kill.
Speaker 5: There's a somebody called take and get her Spotify playlist something.
Speaker 5: So my kid, Javonne, when you said that, that made
Speaker 5: me think about my New Orleans playlist.
Speaker 3: Sweet crude, Oh in this band that I really love.
Speaker 3: It's so weird. I want you to get on them,
Speaker 3: quest particularly what their name is their music be like
Speaker 3: that Paris and what the hell? Then boys call him
Speaker 3: weird ass boys? Them boys are called I forgot.
Speaker 5: I want to send it to you because I want
Speaker 5: to go about scot of five playlist. Maybe I'll share
Speaker 5: you with my New Orleans playlist. Yeah yeah, I can't
Speaker 5: believe with the.
Speaker 6: New joint that are you about to put out?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 6: Are you guys still with verb or you doing it yourself?
Speaker 6: Or what's Yeah?
Speaker 3: We're still We're still with verbs?
Speaker 6: How was that situation?
Speaker 2: How is that?
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 3: I I thought that life would be very different after
Speaker 3: we signed. You know, I thought, he'll come to bet
Speaker 3: Waves up, He'll come to Fire and you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, He'll come to Pyro and the in the
Speaker 3: in the screen in the back of me. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying showing Yeah, baby, come to dancers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's coming. Yeah, I guarantee you it's Oh.
Speaker 3: I didn't know. I had to do it myself. I
Speaker 3: didn't know myself.
Speaker 6: Come on, no, I mean no, it's that's just what
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 3: Like you.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you got a label if the label's
Speaker 6: look good.
Speaker 8: But I've been in I've been on just about any
Speaker 8: kind of label you can think, in the major everything
Speaker 8: in between.
Speaker 3: Still, you gotta do it all yourself.
Speaker 6: Old label is gonna work harder for you than you
Speaker 6: work for yourself, period.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 5: Then I gotta turn it up. I thought they I
Speaker 5: thought I thought it was going to be that way.
Speaker 5: But from my personal experience with a label, I found
Speaker 5: that they basically introduced me to people that I probably
Speaker 5: wouldn't have met on my own.
Speaker 3: They funked the money for some of it, and they
Speaker 3: placed their opinion in your music. That's what I have found.
Speaker 1: How excited? Speaking of which, how excited were you the morning?
Speaker 1: And yes, I voted for you. You get the grammar.
Speaker 3: I heard it. They told me. My friend came in
Speaker 3: the room because we lived together at the time. She said, Tank,
Speaker 3: you grabbed me donated. I said what? And my first
Speaker 3: thought was I want to do? Was the Cderguary, And
Speaker 3: then I went, that's what that?
Speaker 5: And I went back to sleep, and then it wasn't
Speaker 5: And then like you start getting all these little news
Speaker 5: outlets coming to you, you know, the rest in the
Speaker 5: middle of your day, and then I member, I was
Speaker 5: riding like a little mopad through the city and then
Speaker 5: like the tears just started coming down.
Speaker 3: My eyes, you know.
Speaker 4: I went.
Speaker 3: And then that's when, you know, that's when it hit me.
Speaker 5: It hit me a little later on in the day,
Speaker 5: but I'm happy that it hit me period, and a
Speaker 5: lot of people wouldn't notice. But I was more happy
Speaker 5: not to win when they called, when they didn't call
Speaker 5: our name, because I never, I never, I never was
Speaker 5: so scared in my life.
Speaker 3: I just don't know.
Speaker 5: I had all this anxiety over me, something that I
Speaker 5: don't even like really deal with, anxiety all over me.
Speaker 5: I was sweating, I was hot, I could breath. My
Speaker 5: head started pounding like this, and I was like, please
Speaker 5: don't call my name, Please don't call my name, please
Speaker 5: they come.
Speaker 3: And so when they called Billy name, I went.
Speaker 5: And they had I remember had an article saying tanking
Speaker 5: the bank of clap enthusiastically as Billy what. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm clapping because I didn't walk to at the time,
Speaker 5: because I just knew that if I stood up, I
Speaker 5: was gonna fall out.
Speaker 6: I understand.
Speaker 8: Because now it is because once you win, it's like
Speaker 8: now that's a million strangers in my life. You know,
Speaker 8: people that you know what I'm saying, Like people they
Speaker 8: probably didn't give a funk about me yesterday or hell,
Speaker 8: five minutes ago until I won.
Speaker 6: Now that's just a whole new thing.
Speaker 8: And it's like, yeah, I'm very nervous about white women
Speaker 8: in Kansas knowing who I am.
Speaker 1: Like, that's just.
Speaker 5: I don't even know why I didn't want to know.
Speaker 5: I even know why I didn't want to. It was
Speaker 5: only that moment that I didn't want to. It wasn't
Speaker 5: the whole time I didn't want to.
Speaker 3: I didn't care.
Speaker 7: Nervous anxiety. It's a relief when you don't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's anxiety. I did the same thing you did and
Speaker 7: kept saying we're not gonna win, We're not gonna win,
Speaker 7: We're not gonna win.
Speaker 1: That I didn't even hear movie y'all want our name. Wow,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna win. We're not gonna win win. And
Speaker 1: then I saw, come on, stand up, I'm like what what?
Speaker 3: And what? Oh? I sound so excited. It sounds exciting.
Speaker 3: I see, I'll be ready. I'm less scared now.
Speaker 5: It's amazing what this like, this whole tradition can do
Speaker 5: to folks, like the Grammy tradition is interesting.
Speaker 3: It's like with all of the good and the bad.
Speaker 3: It's like feel something that everybody wants. I want all
Speaker 3: love the gifts. I love the gifts, all that the
Speaker 3: gift bad yo, talk about it?
Speaker 8: What you mean, dude, No, I mean to get Like
Speaker 8: when we because we got nominated in twenty again we
Speaker 8: got nominated and it was the same thing with you
Speaker 8: tak like christ Yeah. They came and called and told
Speaker 8: me and like I was sweet and my wife at
Speaker 8: time told you like y'all got nomine for Grammy.
Speaker 6: I was like, all right, cool, I went back to sleep.
Speaker 8: But it wasn't until I saw everyone else's reaction, Like
Speaker 8: when I was like why, like all these.
Speaker 6: Damn texts, I was like what the f and my
Speaker 6: Twitter was going crazy. I was like ship.
Speaker 8: But yeah, when we went out there for like Grammy Week,
Speaker 8: like all the little parties in the gift like ye
Speaker 8: ship that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they still doing the giftings. We used to take.
Speaker 7: My skateboards, my advanced skateboards that I'm gonna give away
Speaker 7: for Christmas just arrived like a month. It was a
Speaker 7: gift rohim so I don't have to buy Christmas gifts
Speaker 7: for anyone under the age of fourteen.
Speaker 5: You know, they calmed down telling the public that stuff
Speaker 5: because they was giving away like cruises and all this
Speaker 5: kind of other.
Speaker 3: You still yet it's like, I got no let me.
Speaker 5: They give those nice headphones with what's called boc or balls.
Speaker 3: But I do let that adress, but something bout those.
Speaker 3: They They gave me some Louis Baton headphones, like like
Speaker 3: situation they gave me.
Speaker 5: They gave us really nice luggage and it was so
Speaker 5: funny because we had all these guests, but we were
Speaker 5: going to Japan the next day, so we had to
Speaker 5: give all our gifts our family to bring back and
Speaker 5: it was it was it was crazy. We didn't we
Speaker 5: didn't even much care. It was like, man, we're going
Speaker 5: to Japan tomorrow. Like Grammy, that's great, but we're going
Speaker 5: to Japan, man whatever.
Speaker 3: So uh it was. It's just an incredible week.
Speaker 7: The category two, like Chappelle got a car for sliding
Speaker 7: the family stone, So it depends on the level of
Speaker 7: I love.
Speaker 5: That I was right next to Dave Chappelle at the
Speaker 5: Roots show. I was about and yes and he and
Speaker 5: he spoke to me and he gave me a compliment, girl,
Speaker 5: you killed that fucking stage that night.
Speaker 3: I was like, I had a good time.
Speaker 5: I always think it's so interesting that at the Picnics,
Speaker 5: I feel that the roots are incredibly dialed into the
Speaker 5: current talent because they always get like the great up
Speaker 5: and comings and the people that's really making a great
Speaker 5: name be like right underneath that bubbling surface.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this lineup is always really good.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, we we plan.
Speaker 4: Too.
Speaker 3: We both yeah, both with that picnic is really what
Speaker 3: with the picnic?
Speaker 4: We plan.
Speaker 7: We plan literally a week after it's over, because you
Speaker 7: gotta get you gotta get someone with their brand new
Speaker 7: before their their price goes up. Which is why that's
Speaker 7: how we got the week We got the weekend at
Speaker 7: his cheap price.
Speaker 3: When he was Monday. He was Monday.
Speaker 6: It got the weekend when.
Speaker 1: He was the workday.
Speaker 7: Like literally literally literally like the day the day before that,
Speaker 7: uh popping tags at like debuted at number one what's
Speaker 7: his name, I'm going to Matt Lamore's price was like
Speaker 7: a nice friendly maybe seventy five hundred, and like he
Speaker 7: jumped instantly, like seventy five thousand, were like, you're already saying.
Speaker 5: You're gonna take this Sun to five and you're gonna
Speaker 5: be like and you're gonna pop some tags my nigga.
Speaker 3: Okay, you good. Yeah, it's always always good line up.
Speaker 5: It's the it's the lineup you want to see, like
Speaker 5: what's going to be here because they're always they always
Speaker 5: got the pulse.
Speaker 3: I call it the pulse y. You know what's going
Speaker 3: on here?
Speaker 4: One one year, we won't be able to afford you
Speaker 4: And been like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was always gonna Doos was like an opening act.
Speaker 1: Migos was an opening act on like they.
Speaker 4: Were like the bottom tier.
Speaker 5: We were freaking traveling around with the Migos in Europe,
Speaker 5: like every freaking festival we did, we did they had
Speaker 5: massive crowds and they would just be walking around saying stuff.
Speaker 3: Like chicken Wang, Thanksgiving, galic ring.
Speaker 5: It was just so simple and I couldn't believe the
Speaker 5: way that they was controlling the crowd.
Speaker 3: And here I am sweating and ship all my edges go.
Speaker 5: But and I'm like, using five thousand voices, I got
Speaker 5: my band women, you just gotta beat it.
Speaker 3: And then y'all getting the marsh to.
Speaker 6: This is unfair.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're you're well on your way, you're down there.
Speaker 6: And there, and you know that doesn't feel that way.
Speaker 3: It's crazy he would even say that.
Speaker 5: You know, these days it feels like everything has been
Speaker 5: sucked into this black hole that you put out because
Speaker 5: you work all this hall putting so much.
Speaker 3: Then like the next day it's old. You know, it's
Speaker 3: over the moment.
Speaker 5: Somebody can literally flick their little thumb and it's and
Speaker 5: they're onto the next thing to entice them or you know,
Speaker 5: stimulate them.
Speaker 3: It's just over so quickly.
Speaker 5: I almost feel a little sorry for the artists in
Speaker 5: this time because you're just just doing so much trying
Speaker 5: to it's defining. You got to prove yourself as a
Speaker 5: dresser out there. Y'all have a catalog that people will
Speaker 5: always continue to go back to because.
Speaker 6: You gotta pay exactly.
Speaker 3: That's what it's about when they come back, you know.
Speaker 7: And that's that's what I appreciate about you guys, is
Speaker 7: that you know it's it's not it wasn't overnight and
Speaker 7: sex whatever. It's like a very slow, uh but steady
Speaker 7: rise to the next level. And with more records coming
Speaker 7: out and whatnot. You know again, Hopefully one day we
Speaker 7: we cannot afford. One day the roots will play the
Speaker 7: banger ball.
Speaker 3: That to the family. Wait is that something that doesn't
Speaker 3: doesn't exist? Already?
Speaker 6: It does now we just said.
Speaker 1: We're sence, you gotta do it.
Speaker 3: Guess what it's the next week at for Zulu.
Speaker 1: There you go. I thank you very much for doing
Speaker 1: this show for real.
Speaker 3: We still want to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and before we go, man, I just want to
Speaker 8: say thank you, just personally, thank you for Hot air Balloons.
Speaker 6: I love that, you know, alex Osley. Alex Osley, that's
Speaker 6: like I mean, I you know, that's I love her
Speaker 6: to death. You guys, y'all did y'all did it with
Speaker 6: that ship. I love it.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I love that. It makes me
Speaker 3: feel so good you even listening.
Speaker 5: I want to let y'all know, this was like I
Speaker 5: don't know. First of all, it's one of the best
Speaker 5: zooms I ever had.
Speaker 3: It was like it was like real. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It's like I'm really I feel like I'm really there
Speaker 5: with y'all, like we almost up in up.
Speaker 3: In later living room. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I just tell you, look I'm gonna just tell you
Speaker 5: just I don't really care how you say my name,
Speaker 5: but it's like it because somebody isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's like that's exactly. It don't matter because you make
Speaker 3: it sound good anyway.
Speaker 6: About to say the way she says, you know, I
Speaker 6: thought I saw ail.
Speaker 3: In it, but I was wrong. It was an I
Speaker 3: know you ain't the first, you ain't the last. You
Speaker 3: worried about that?
Speaker 7: Sound from now on, r and behalf of Unpaid Bill Fonticle,
Speaker 7: Sugar Steve Layla, Yo, Tank, We thank you so much.
Speaker 6: No, this is so much fun.
Speaker 7: You've been listening to Quest Love Supreme and we will
Speaker 7: see you next week and the next go round of
Speaker 7: this awesome ass podcast.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Yo, what's up? This is fante.
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