January 26, 2022 • 55 mins
Once upon a time in late December of 2021 Quest and Team Supreme had one of the realest conversations ever with your favorite MC's favorite MC and ghostwriter. This 2 part conversation with the artist some call Skillz, now back to his original moniker Mad Skillz, touches on this intriguing hip hop journey, the mysteries behind his highly anticipated annual Rap Up's and some Hip Hop Confessions that knock Quest and Team Supreme off their feet! Put your seatbelts on!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What Up?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So fine?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now you should have gotten into last week's episode, Part
one if our sit down conversation with Skills aka Mad Skills.
Now it's time to get into part too.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You ready, let's go, Steve Bro?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Can you talk about anything in twenty twenty one? Was
that this past year?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There you go, classic Steve?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, you know these movies, records, anything?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh not really, I'll discuss Sell didn't release a record
this year.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So no, the answer is no, Actually he did, didn't He.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, he's records.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
But as far as pop culture YouTube, I've been watching
a lot of European news.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Yeah, BBC like to be honest, I mean, I'm still
an MSNBC person, but BBC World News is kind of
the and I.
Speaker 7 (01:13):
Don't you wanted to say BBD dropped the new album.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I also wanted to shout out the beat and see
that happened in twenty twenty one the Black News Channel.
My mother would be very upset if I did not
mention that.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
I mean, we did something special in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Man, he created a miracle. All right?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
This is all I know. I was in Saint Louis.
It's getting real mean up in this shit go ahead.
I was in Saint Louis. You know, I've been on
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee for like
eleven twelve years now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Remember, I get it, you're a emper, We got it. Yeah,
I'm part of the committee, and I knew.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I knew that we weren't going to have anything appealing
that would make Jay Z want to come and accept
his award, because I mean, the thing is is that
when you're paying tribute to an artist from the fifties,
sixties and seventies, Yeah, you can get blah blah blah
to singer Linda Ronstadt song. You can, you know, sort
(02:15):
of get somebody to sing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know. Last year was like dire Straits and whatever.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But with hip hop especially, there's just some artists that
I don't think are coverable or any of those things,
you know what I mean, right, And I knew starting
this year is.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Gonna be problematic.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Maybe if Eminem gets in next year, you know, there's
gotta be someone that that he hasn't burned a bridge
with already, Like, so no machine Gun, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't know if they made up or whatever. But
I'm just saying that.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
I love to see in sync rap eminem lyrics at
his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Induction and.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Imagine, imagine Lance Bass coming out of the stands. I
won't make that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We on that for next year. I would make that happen.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
No, it was just with this year, I knew that
there's nobody that the Internet or critics or anyone, especially
with jay Z with deemed satisfactory to do his material.
So I had to wrack my brain out. And the
thing was, I was driving back from Saint Louis. We
(03:27):
had a gig in Saint Louis and we would in
New York the next day, and I decided, well, I
got fifteen hours ahead of me. You know, I'm gonna
get in my bag. I'm in, you know, in my
vehicle by myself. He is into Edible. And then Michael K.
Williams passed away. He and that shit fucked like fucked
(03:54):
me up. And then suddenly the rock and roll like
so I was trying to mourn that shit, and then
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people called, was like,
we got to figure out something in the next ten
hours or as jay Z's not coming, and you know,
I'm already in my bag and shit, you know the
Edibles about to hit it and all that shit. I
(04:15):
was just so messed up that day, and I don't know,
like I was just trying to figure out, like how
can I And for some reason, I don't know why,
I was on YouTube I freak, you know what it was.
I was looking up the Supernatural Battle with Craig g
I was looking that up and your name was on
(04:36):
the side, and I was like, damn, what can I do?
What can I do? And the song that I referenced,
that freestyle that you did at Stretching My Beadles where
you kind of took everyone's line like I don't know
what the proper title is called, but basically that came
up and I thought, okay, this is a job for Skills.
(04:59):
So basically I had a vision that was gonna find
fifty celebrities, fifty notable people to say one jay Z
line each and the way that Skills crafts his lyrics,
like for him to put this ten thousand piece puzzle
together in seven days.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So I thought, I'm stilling out at MC and I
think that was like your worst nightmare. I believe.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
When the phone call came, do you remember what you
said to me?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was high skills. I do not remember.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Hey, hey this nigga said that's had a conversation. Went hello, yo,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yo?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
When did you stop listening to jay Z? I said, nigga,
what when did you stop listening to jay Z? I said,
I'm heyor what the fuck are you talking about? No? No, no,
I remember I remember hearing you and Reek talk like
and I remember you saying one time. I remember, I'll
never forget it. You said you used to be able
to hear like a jay Z line, and you could quote,
(06:03):
you can hear jay Z versus you could go to
the barbershop the next day and quote the whole Ship.
I said, yeah, yeah, like yeah, that's how we all
were with early, the whole Ship. He said, Okay, when
did that stop for you though? I said, probably, like
maybe like after like American Gangster, maybe Magna car the
Holy Girl. Okay, bet all right, okay, yeah, all right, yeah,
So what I need you? So he goes. He says,
(06:30):
he says, I need you to I need a stretching
Barbado freestyle of all the jay Z Ship. But it's
got to be all holds like you know, from from
from you know, artists to you know, from food snickings
to to hustler to thinking man to businessman, right from
riggy from riggity riggedy to Shamann Hove to cover the
(06:53):
whole basis. I said, okay, and then he goes, I
need this ship in like nine days.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Yo.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
I was like, I'm mirror. No, no, no, you got it,
you got it, you got it. I just wanted to
make sure you was damn because I'm about to pitch it.
To be honest, are you in? I said, fuck, yeah, man,
I'm in. All right, cool, I call you back And
that was it, Like it was textbook. I'm mirror. But
and I'm just sitting there Tay like, yeah, this ship
(07:23):
ain't gonna happen, like I'm not thinking of no jay
z shit, I'm chilling. I'm watching TV. Three hours later,
you're gonna be Yeah. She turned it down like we're
gonna have to come with something else. Three hours later.
Yeah she's in. So yes, I need it, and I
gotta go through holes whole fucking from from a skik
(07:45):
can I get open to you know what I mean?
And I'm just like, this is this is insane. I
went to Barnes and Noble started buying books be Coded.
I brought this book. I already had these clothed but
I couldn't find it, so I had to buy that
shit again.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Can I ask a real civilian question, just because we're
not the only ones having this conversation, Like people are
listening and they probably may have the same question. Yes,
there's a situation like this, pay well, because I feel
like people don't understand when it comes to you. And
even sometimes when I feel like Fonte and MC's like
y'all who have alternative livings when it comes to what
(08:26):
y'all do with your talents, they I don't think they
get that, like, yeah, you can do this shit's yeah yeah.
So that's why I'm asking. I'm not trying to be
in your pocket, but I'm like, you do things like this,
and I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm like.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
The funny part is when when Sean hit me and
was like, yes, so just you know, tell me you
know what, Like I'm talking to them now, so I
need something, And I was like, I don't want y'all money,
I want a job, nigga, and he was like, Okay,
I said, I don't want y'all money, like I don't
don't want money from you our mirror. And then Sean goes,
(09:02):
it ain't me and our mirror's money, and I was like, oh,
I bet.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
When a good sentence, Yeah, that was my life.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't needles to say good and well, yeah, yeah
it was.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It was definitely. It was definitely worth my time and
my effort. But but man, at the end of the day,
BRO like to to see to see.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The world, to see.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Who tweet where he tweeted, Like when jay Z tweeted
and jay Z don't even tweet like that, what did
he tweet? He tweeted after it, Yeah, he tweeted thank
you to everyone in that video package. I'm definitely gonna
cry in the car when I saw that tweet, I
was like.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He did oh ship he that that? That really? You
know that that stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's just you know, just on my the things arguing,
because the thing is I had a Christmas list of
who I wanted to be in the join ye but
we then but then I had a lot of mountains to.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Climb.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
You know, you gotta explain to you're like Obamas people
want to know who else is Emma is joined before
he doesn't. You gotta explain the rock nation that this person.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Is air this year on HBO.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Right Rock and Roll Hall of Fame video.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
But if we would have gotten our wish list, not
saying people aren't still talking about it. If we had
gotten our wish list, that ship would be like that
would have wanted, that would have been in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame by itself.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Who else who was on the list that y'a couldn't
get or didn't get?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Well, I mean initially, my my first true yes was
Obama because my thing was like Sewan and I were like,
if Obamas is yes, then.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Everybody else is going to everybody's up.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
And so we just want to Obama to say I
will not lose, and he was about to do it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Like the thing is is always like a circle of twelve.
That's like, well, you know, there was like was this
looking presidential?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And Obama you have a deal at Netflix, broke your
content creator.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Now say had I had the previous line before I had,
I had a set up so perfect, bro if he
would have got to that I will not lose.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I will say that you know for me, like Letterman
taking a lot like when it plays CBS. Yes, like
that got such a like let for well, first of all,
we were in Cleveland, so whenever Lebron showed up, that
was a happy moment for them. But I'll say that
Letterman stole the show in that particular setting, in that night,
(11:55):
Kanye would have done it. Like the thing with Kanye
was sort of like he was like, all right, send
me camera cru to Paris and then we sent a
camera crew there and jo Bien and then he's in Italy,
all right, Italy today?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And then well Fronte asked the question about.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Oh yeah, I know you said him him? Who else else?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Who else did y'all want?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Who else? I wanted Michael Jordan to say Jackson Tyson Jordan's.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He was. He was golfing.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I had I had a Jordan plug and we but
there was an important golf game that we couldn't from.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
And the crazy, the crazy part is so the crazy
part is like like like I mere said, like once
we got Obama, ain't none of y'all motherfucker's cooler than him.
So anybody that says no, like you ain't cooler than Obama.
So we did have one issue and I ain't gonna
I'm not gonna say the person's name. But our mirror
(12:58):
hits me blindly one day and says, Yo, can you
find a line that goes with this? And I was like,
I'm here, that's that's not in the that's not in
the verse. Why. I was like, why you got to
say that? And he was like, Noah, no, because you
know what I'm saying, So and so is here. Now
that's the line they want to say. I said, I'm mirrored,
(13:18):
make it up. Shit.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
My first day is shooting was like I was trial
by fire because this particular person was like already doing
a long press day for the project that they had
going on. Like that's we had to get in with,
like if someone was doing a press junket somewhere and
then like we sent our crew real quick to get
them to save this one line for five minutes and whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So I caught somebody at the end of like a
long press junket day of like seven hours of interviews.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They want to go home. They happen to have a line.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They happen to have a line that wasn't like everyone
wanted like an impactful line or to know, okay, who
gets this line, who gets the punch? And there's some
lines where you have to set it up so that
you know someone else gets it. Someone has to set
up the alley oop shot and someone shoots it in
and there's just one of these moments where this particular
person had an ali oop shot tossing to someone else
(14:17):
that gets the punch line. So they felt like their
line wasn't cool, so they just decided, well, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do my favorite jay Z line and y'all
y'all could just work with that. And I was like, no,
it doesn't work like that, like you gotta you know.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
So he calls me. He calls me and Tay, I
ain't gonna say the person name, but the line was
no chrome on the wheels. I'm a grown up for real, right,
So I'm sitting there looking at Nigga. I'm looking at
my phone like that's not no bar like that ain't
even he like, but that's what they want to say.
So I go, I said, yeah, that's not in the
(14:54):
scene that I mean, that's not in the in the
in the rast. Well, how am I supposed to tell
her that I said that you tell that person that
this is our movie and this is their line is script,
Like nigga, you can't audition to play Bishop and then
go yeah, but I don't want to get killed. But nigga,
(15:14):
you don't want to play Mitchell. Right, So he goes
with skills. I mean, what am I supposed to say
to her? And I was like, I say, I said,
I'm here. This is what you do from here on out.
Anytime somebody looks at a piece of paper and says, yo,
man who said this line? I want to say this line,
(15:35):
tell them Obama already said, because ain't none of y'all.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
In fact, I had to do that twice, by the way,
like I learned early not to show anyone in the
entire script.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
For them to say, you know, I want to say.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Allow me to reintroduce myself, I'm like, now you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
There's there's two people not talking to me now because.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
There's two people not to I'll get to me now
because they claim that I under used them. So and
for me, but it was a trial by fire on
what directing is really like.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
So for me to do it and then you know,
going back and forth, with our mirror over it, and
we like we were really in the trenches on this ship.
And then October thirty first comes and Hole. It's one
thing to write something, but it's one thing to write
something that I know the person that it's about is
gonna see it firsthand. So when I when I hit him,
(16:38):
I hit I saw Jay's tweet and you know, I'm
on the East coast as it happened, so you know,
I saw Jay's tweet and then I hit our mirror
like yo, how to go? And he was like yo,
he was floored. And I'm like, oh shit, like that's good.
And then I go to sleep and our mirror text
me and goes, yo, Jay about to hit you, and
(16:58):
like I wake up to a to a to a
text from Hole like like I was floored. Like and
don't get me wrong, I spoken to Jay a few times,
but I ain't spoke a billionaire Jay in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Wow, man.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
So for so for to wake up to a text
message from him expressing his gratitude and how thankful he
was and how brilliant he thought it well he said,
he said, like, Yo, that was brilliant, Like that was dope.
Like and I knew he was going through a court
case at the time, like he had to go to
court the next day.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Like, so speaking of gratitude mane the internet and your
present and explaining Josh loves about that.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
For me, it was it was very important, Like it
was kind of awesome, uh seeing you and pooh wait
am I am?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I correct?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
And that you guys have your complete masters back from
the listening and.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
We got the listening the Mintel show. We don't have
those that one is still under a rhino. They have them,
but we've been in contact with them and we've been
talking with them and like working that out, you know
what I'm saying. So there, So throughout the whole process again,
I had no smoke with Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records they
were cool with us, Like right, they were fine.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It was abb that was.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
On that funck shit. But Noah, we got our ship back.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That's dope.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Man.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I'm happy for y'all. I remember when I started tweet
and uh, you put it up and said that you know,
y'all were in control of those records. I knew how
much that meant you as an artist. I knew how
much that meant to you and pool so I was
cool behind, like I you know, I think my my
core was I love it when the plan come together,
like yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I say, man, it was thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'm more happy than that then Daylight getting their masters back,
Like I'm more happy for you guys in specifically it's
a weapon.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Yeah, you know, I'm like, well, I mean, we hadn't
really talked about it at all, and we wasn't you know,
it wasn't anything that we was, you know, we were
just kind of dealing with on our own kind of privately.
And then when we woke up and saw that the
uh the they had repressed the vinyl, and it was
just like, oh, nigga, now you just think you're gonna
play in my face with this shit, you know what
(19:13):
I mean. And so my my immediate response, I was
like about the gold fight and I was like hold up,
I hit pooh you know what I'm saying. And I said,
look bro exactly, I'm like, yo, Bro, I said, how
you want to do this? You want to go quiet
or you want to get loud, because we can I can.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We can do it either way.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He was like, let's get loud. I said, all right,
let's go So that was it and it worked.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Man. That was dope.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Man.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So in this particular situation, you and Poo are the
owners of the listening.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, we took our shit back, all right, you two alone?
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
The unmentioned third factor doesn't have stakes in the game
of ownership.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
No.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Ninth was a He was compensated for his time in
Little Brother when he was in Little Brother. But since
two thousand and seven and Little Brother has creatively, contractually
and financially been a duo and it will remain that way.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
For your brief question, now there you go.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
No, no, no, because I just didn't know. It's all good.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm sure. I'm sure with somebody else listening that probably
wanted this, they.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Did, and it sounds like a mirror like yeah, thank.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
You, I'm glad you get Now. That's dope, man, I'm
happy for y'all.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Speaking of record labels, Steve, your jazz label. You've established
a jazz.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Label, yes, and I do want to talk about that,
but I haven't answered to your earlier question about twenty
twenty one and entertainment Summer of Soul.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Come on, you ever talked about this?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
We don't know that right now, you're just fucking with you, Okay, well, yes,
thank you for bringing that up a mirror JMI Recordings
from working on a lot of records recently.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
We've got a lot of records.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Coming out in twenty twenty, twenty twenty two and David
Murray and UH sah Berliner and Loggate Lund a Swedish
guitar player, and UH all kinds of records. JMI Recordings
dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We can buy records.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
What's going on. I'm going to ask you what M
I stands for?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Does it matter? Does it matter?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Doesn't matter?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Relation to E M I.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No, we're modeled after C T I actually and a
little bit a little bit of E C M.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But we're there.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
We're completely analog label. We record and UH mixed and
master all analog tape and UH only print up vinyl records.
And we work with the greatest artists around today, including
the great David Murray.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And Quest We need, We're gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
We're gonna do an album with you next.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Year with to do the duo record with David Murray.
But this is not streamable at all. You can only
buy UH.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mostly just final but we do have a few of
the albums are up on streaming stuff, but we.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Don't care about it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Just what I mean, skills, Sorry, hold on, skills took
it off.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Mute, Let's let's live this up.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Hold On, I mean yeah, skills. I want to send
you a bunch of the jam I stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Okay, awesome, man, I would love to I would love
to have some. I got your number, So all right,
I cut somebody off.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Sorry, thanks. I was trying to get the light to
see her. How her creative twenty twenty one was.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Oh, it was good.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I mean I picked up another podcast pick up to
Jill Scott and Age Grad and dance Slur.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
How's that going?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I was good. I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We get to talk about some pretty cool things and
so you should listen to that.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
That's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And then of course still doing Yo. You you started
off my year on one of my other podcasts, which
is one of my co hosts favorite moments of the year,
quest Love on Love and Great because I do another
podcast that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Was a great podcast. That was a great woman.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate you a mirror that's
what I'm in and I appreciate you for the compliment.
But yeah, so we do another great show and then
just Doe voiceover work and about this. In twenty twenty two,
I will be selling two TV show ideas. Yes, that's happening.
I never seen a dating show like mine before.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
When we spoke last year, you were still flirting. I
know that you know to to flirt with comedy, Yes,
requires going out and people and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So three, where do you Where do you land?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Where do you land on the dark board? As far
as like stand up and all that, it's concerned.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Post COVID, I just say post COVID, because it's like
since COVID, not the COVID is over, but post COVID,
I have not really been in crowds a mirror. I
really haven't even been to a show. So post COVID,
I've just been kind of writing and watching and listening
because understandable, I've barely been watching people's certain stand ups.
I still need to watch that on Netflix. How about
(24:08):
that one?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And I mean the material, the material that you get
from this podcast alone. Yeah, these motherfuckers. One of the
one of the funniest moments I ever in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I forgot this.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Podcast to the show. I forgot that one of the
funniest moments in my life. I alway pull over when
fucking when y'all had music soul shout and music did
not know that I'm mean, I mean, didn't know that
(24:44):
music was mad at him. He didn't figure it out
until half into.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
One of the greatest moments quest of supreme history. I
think us. I think he was mad with the wall.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
It was one time when Liaiah stopped him and he
was like, no, you know what I mean I was.
I was outside in the car. You know what I'm saying.
It was all cool. You know what I'm saying, It
was cool. I just waited, you know, I mean, Leo
called y'all. I just waited in the car like another
ass nigga. And then Liaiah said, so, what's going on
with you music? Like He's like, I mean, it is
what it is. And she said like he said, well,
(25:19):
damn nigga, are you happy about you anything.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That fucking quest hey, I had open.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
He call me you called you.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I hit tay too to everybody music.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I will give anything to go back to the group
chat the day that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Oh man.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I have moments where I guess will say something off
the cuff or like just out of pocket and our
our chat the suddenly.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the best thing.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
You know, Let's I don't want to sometimes I know
I'm mere long enough to Sometimes when I'm just don't
want to be involved in something, he might act like
he's clueless. But that day you were really clue and I.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Really got a lot to be juggling, man and.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Right, and you you were like, wait, you didn't what
happened again? And motherfucker was like, yeah, I was outside
the car at the Solar crazy laughing at him. I
just I just wanted I just the penny and me.
(26:35):
I just wanted our mere to be like Dann you
was outside in the car like the whole time she
was or she was like, man, you and I want
to tell you. I wanted I'm here to go. So
while you were in the car, Like, did you like
it was beauty?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
You should have texted me. You should have texted me
one four three to make it bundanly clear. Yes, Lear
Cohen decided. Lear Cohen heard a rumor about the soul
Quarian Vibe shoot about to happen, that that infamous photo
that basically ended the click of the Twelve of Us,
and Lear wanted to ambush us with an artist that
(27:15):
we really, all of us weren't completely familiar with, Like
we were actually friends in that photo. And Lear decided that,
you know, he's just going to ambush this and send
his artists to shoot.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now, just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I don't think you're making it better.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I just I just want it. Was a part of
me to just want it. I mean to just text
him and go like, bro, like are we good? Are
we just friends? Well? No? Is it all love?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm over here going half crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
This is the problem now, black man. We have to
take mental health seriously in this. In a TV show,
they would provide a one eight hundred number because mental
health is serious and those who feel like they need
to have it, they should find a number because we
don't have it here.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
See, me and Ted got in the same sense, We
got the same sense of humor. So that's a whole
nother number. Like they're gonna have to call another number
for that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Because I got jokes for your head so mad? Come on, bro, like,
are you you the nigga that wan neo soul? Like?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
What is like? What?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Like? Whatever I do have?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I do have one thing to ask you, do you
have any more Soul Trained episodes? Did you get any more?
Because you know I got some more. No, no, no, you
know I'm saying, do you have any more?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I cannot officially let you know why I have them all,
But if you can see how my year went last year,
we could pretty much put two and two together about
what I'm gonna be doing the next seven years. Let's
talk about the seed, The seed, the scene that Detroit.
(29:00):
Oh dude, I man, how are you the plug on
the scene? Because I know I might wind up being
the but I have some plug. If you are from
Detroit right now, you're getting very excited about what we're
talking about. Like every every regional spot has their own
local dance show, so similar to Philadelphia had Dancing on Air,
(29:24):
which later turning The Dance Party USA, other local shows
have their own like Local Little Dance, after School Dance Jawns.
The Scene is probably the most unique show. If you
google the scene right now, just say the scene Detroit,
nineteen eighty something.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's it explains a lot. Explains why Dyla is a
genius because basically electrifying mojo pretty much raised a generation
of black people on electronic music. So you know, there's
a whole generation between him playing like he on his
(30:03):
radio show look up old electrified mojo shows from like
the eighties. He'll play p Funk one moment, then he'll
play Gary Newman the next moment. Then they'll play Bowie
the next moment, then he'll play Prince, then he'll play
depeche Mode. So you know, if you are anywhere between the.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Ages of eight to eighteen in Detroit, Michigan, between nineteen
seventy eight and like ninety one, you're getting a whole
nother form of musical nutrition that this This explains why
Dyla was who he was. So you know, the scene
was this teen dance show in which I mean they're
(30:45):
pretty much they're just dancing to like the most crazy
electro techno type of shit.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
It's crazy, and so they're there's a scene and also
new dance show.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
There was another show Detroit.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yes, so this is going to be a documentary about
this show.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
About the scene.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
He answered.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
The answer to your question of here is because there's
a few white people who get it and know some ship.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, because the rare which we you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Your seventeenth documentary, and when you're an Academy member, you
can make seventeen documentaries.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to go.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
But yes, to answer your question, I've I've fulfilled my
fantasy this year and have them all watched all eleven
hundred soul trains.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Damn like two.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Hundred short I'm like two hundred shorts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It's super overwhelming right now.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That is I got to force myself to watch it
past ninety three once Don left.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
But you know, those are the ones I want to see.
I can't wait to see fucking bow Wow and Destiny
show embarrassing they so.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, Oh, this sort of feels like an episode I
admitted one hip hop confession. Steve talked about his jazz label,
Bill's working on two projects and a lot of things.
Fante got his master's back.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You've got comedy coming.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Fonte made all in all honesty.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Fante made twenty twenty one happen those cat Maaster's back.
Fantee of all the motherfuckers, made twenty twenty one count
Praise to you, Fante, well done.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You can you explain to me the US cat situation
like she so she was.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Went on geeked. I was geeked that that moment happened.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Yeah, she went on live and she was just doing
her makeup and uh she was wrapping whatever you say
off the listening. And I didn't find out about it
until afterwards, and uh, well, my boys hit me and
I was like like what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
And then I saw it on Twitter. So then I
actually saw the video. I was like, oh ship, and
so I just threw it up, you know, retweeted it whatever,
and and I was like, yeah, we're in the racial
chat rooms bumping Little Brother, you know what I mean.
And I knew she would get the joke. Like a
couple of her fans was like, you know, why would
you do? But she, I knew she didn't give a
fun I knew she would get the humor, you know
what I mean. I figured, if you were a Little
(33:26):
Brother fan, you have the ability to laugh at yourself.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
So so you know, so she but she was super
cool and we ended up. She ended up like then
she tweeted out, made a little watch and was like, y'
I'm bumping this, y'all need to check it. I was like,
oh ship, and so we ended up talking for a
little bit, like we ended up texting a little bit,
and but nah man, she's just like super dope. And
you know, it was around the time that she was
the news came out that like her tour stopped, she
(33:51):
her her coup got COVID and but uh, but.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Nah man, it was a it was a it was
a moment.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I was like, word up, that's dope.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
But she's she's ahead like a couple of home that
knew her, like yeah, back.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Like slim Village once, and I was like the fuck. Yeah.
I was just completely under the impression that even though
these kids were coming from eighties parents, seventies parents, eighties
parents that you know, there's gen z just had absolutely
nothing but disdain for our music.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
So now they was raised on this ship bro to see.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Dojah cats singing all to you for you and whatever
you said.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Guy from the country either right, like she she got
from l A.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Her her dad is South African. She's from l A.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He was in her dad was in Tarafina, Seraphina, Seraphena.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I remember walked.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
She's actually yeah, it's a video of her like pop
blocking Like but this is great.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Now, Like between this and watching her own Little Dicky,
I'm a fan so.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well on his show.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Like a dope ass episode a Little Dicky, So yeah,
I'm playing herself.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
He's this show is really hilariously and nasty.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Okay, so before we check out, is there any records
that I should be checking for? It's weird, man, Like,
I'm legit. I'm not disappointed. But she and I had
a conversation about it. I really had expectations for Yeba
to really come with the promotion with her record, but
(35:36):
you know, she wasn't wasn't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You know, Distance was the one for me on that record.
That was the one. Yeah, I just you played one right,
I played.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
On the whole record. I just wish. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
It's like I'm now starting to think that every artist
that comes through Electric Ladies Studios why ends up going
through a process that you know means a stalling or whatever,
you know that sort of thing. Basically, the whole point
was that like so many shows are asking for her
(36:12):
to come, and before him, she's like not ready yet,
not ready yet, like in due time and due time,
and it's just like the Salange the records.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, the record's kind of over now.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Like you know, I was, I was expecting her to
drink old Old Girls milkshake. That obviously is going to
dominate the Grammys, you know, next year with her album.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But you know I I sort of thought this is
going to happen, but you know.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Hopefully the next record A minute for Jazz and Sullivan though, Yeah,
that was that.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
What's getting all the flowers right now?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Twenty one.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
As far as the album, I asked you, what album
are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I like to have very few albums you can listen
through all the way. I mean, even with that Anderson
Bruno Mars, there's like one song. But so I was
just saying for those like Jasmine.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Who you only like one joint on the.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Outside of the ones on the radio. Yeah, the last one,
the last song, what's it?
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Breathe? That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Breathing, Yeah, breathe is I thought that.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I was like, Oh, this is just getting started. I'm
ready for the next one.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
H oh really skills skills where you go?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No here? I just know I hope that this does
wonders for for pot you know, did you work on that?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Did I offend you?
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I'm sorry I didn't.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Oh no, No, I wish I worked on ship right right?
I take that?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:33):
No.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
My biggest you know I claim the fame this year
was you know, I wrote for Whole Blue and Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So what's the fact.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Oh, the Salt record and I felt came out. Yeah,
but is there any one notable that I'm missing as
far as Yeah, check out my girl be My Fiasco.
She's the latest artist that we put out on e
Fie Music. There you go, me tall black guys, Oh
my voice and the Convader out of DC. Yeah, Devin
(38:06):
Morrison's on it, my girl College durand Devin uh Darren Brockington. Yeah,
it's it's out be My fasco where I left you
did that?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Making me ummer?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That was the summer that.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Was supergroup name. I feel like y'all had to have
a supergroup. But you ain't got no name.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Like nah, we just fi music.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
We learned from the so Quarius don't get it tit title?
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Yeah yeah, we're just collecting the song and don't. Okay, right.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
All right, So skills you you're you, you may you
may not do it twenty twenty one. Music wise, creative wise,
What's What's what's coming down the pike for twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Oh man, I'm finishing up a documentary. I'm finishing up
a documentary I did on the nineties girl Brunch, which
is something that I did all Quarantine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
To take you for that, Thank you skills.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
I'm finishing up a documentary that I'm going to be
putting out, probably some new music and just some you know,
still moving, you know. I'm teaching teaching. I go back
to teaching in January, teaching hip hop class at the
University of Richmond.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's that been? Like?
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Very very informative man, And and you know, it's a
it's a it's like I'm learning to you know what
I'm saying. But for the most part, man, it's like
the second year we've done that. COVID knocked us out
for like one year. But waiting list. Yeah, yeah, me
and my part.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
My part got to go to school yourself.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
Yes, And I hate like you gotta choose your books
and then prove it through the you know, right, like
you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
College professor ship Like yeah, that's hate teaching.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
Yeah, yeah, No, I you know, I feel like it's
something that you know, I love to do. You know,
I can talk to hip hop all day with people,
So for me, it's it's been very ratifying.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Man.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
I definitely can see teaching in my future and we're
looking forward to doing it at other schools as well.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Do you feel your students are genuinely interested in finding
it out or is it just like.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Oh yeah, nah nah. Cats come in you know, cats
initially come in there thinking that they're gonna get it
easy a but it ain't. It ain't that at all,
you know what I'm saying. And shit, our our ages
range from sixty to like eighteen, you know what I mean.
So we had undergraduates in there and other other students,
like it's the most popular class on campus. So shout
out to you are Richmond, shout out to the Spiders. Yeah, man,
(40:35):
I see y'all in a minute from.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
An MC level, or from breakbeat level, or just from
us every.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Social and a political movement, you know what I'm saying.
You know, it's definitely we speak upon it as you know,
as being the most popular culture I mean former music
in the culture, so you know, you you are aware
of it. But you might not have been that aware
of the things. Like I give you an example real quick,
(41:01):
Like one of our lessons is we play them the
video for parents just don't Understand, and then we played
them the video for Fuck the Police, and their assignment
is what are the similarities of these two songs? They
automatically think, we're gonna be like, okay, what's the difference
between these two and we go, okay, what are the
similarities between these two songs? And the answers that they
(41:21):
come up with are fucking phenomenal, Like it's it's so
crazy how deep they.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
They see it.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
They see first the first the first one that the
first one that threw me was they were like, you know,
both of both of these different artists, their reputation is
everything to them, you know what I'm saying, Like their
reputation is everything, and you know, like with Will You Know?
Speaker 1 (41:50):
With Will You Know?
Speaker 7 (41:53):
N w A raps about they treat women as gold diggers.
Women's are looked at as gold diggers and that's all
they good for bitches and wholes. Gold is whatever will
got caught up by a gold dick, you know what
I'm saying, Like who happened to be a twelve year
old runaway, like you know what I mean? Like their
their connection is.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So much more.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
I forgot right, And it's like they're both they're both
very fearful of one thing, Like n w A Is
fearful of the cops. Will is fearful of his parents
finding out, like that was his biggest fear. Like when
my mom and dad get home, this ship is a rap,
you know what I'm saying? Like they it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Man.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
We started, we start to semester off with one of
those exercises and it usually turns out it gives you
a good gauge of how good the class is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
That's dope, man, Professor.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Professor Lewis, Professor Lewis.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Ire is no skills you had mentioned earlier. I just
wanted to touch on it. You were talking about your
parents and you know how they've died from addiction, you know,
thirty years apart.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Knowing that that's in your family history, Like how have
you dealt with that?
Speaker 9 (43:13):
And you know, are there any like how knowing that
that's kind of there, like how do you deal with
you know, any potential addictions or has that affected you
in your career in anyway.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
I don't. I don't know if it has. Man, Like
I believe I'm addicted to too. I believe a part
of me is addicted to not following in those footsteps,
you know what I'm saying. So for me, you know,
I understand that sometimes addiction, you know, it can be
a sickness. And you know, when I was young, you know,
I didn't understand why Mama just couldn't quit, like why
you just can't stop? Like I don't want to hear
(43:45):
that shit, like yo, just quit, like you know what
I'm saying. But I didn't understand how long she had
been on drugs and how much you know, she felt
like she needed that drug to even just get up
and function, cook breakfast, take us to school. She was
a very function yet she was a very functioning an addict,
but she was still an addict. So for me, man,
it scared me in a way that I could never
(44:08):
sell drugs. I could, I like, my shit could go
belly up right now and I'll go work at McDonald's
and y'all be like, god damn skills at McDonald's, like
like happily, but happily because I I know I first
hand know what it does to a black family. So
I don't care how bad it gets for me. I
could never go I could never sell drugs like ever.
(44:30):
So I watched, you know, I look back at what
they went through, and uh, just try to make sure
that I don't get addicted to anything. You know what
I'm saying, like sugar shit, you know what I'm saying,
like fucking anything. So yeah, so it's like, you know,
I just I just pay attention to that because they
(44:53):
they didn't they ain't go for nothing, Like I had
to learn from that ship in some degree, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
That's real.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah. My final question is, you know, besides getting out
of this this dog chasing tail loop that we're in, uh,
is there anything that we're really trying to achieve for
twenty twenty two? The actually twenty.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
Twenty right, even though it's looking like in addition now
two for me, I'm finally we're finally putting the finishing
up the Little Brother documentary. We got awarded, We got
a grant from the Southern Documentary Fund and we were
wanted a finalists that was selected for that. So yeah, man,
(45:39):
finishing that this was harder that's it's the hardest thing
I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
That go front.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
But so that you put out was just a sizzle
real and it's coming.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
There's gonna be a full length join.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
I can't wait for that.
Speaker 9 (45:53):
Yeah, man, yeah, so it's yeah, it's that's just gonna
be hard. But nah, just that, man, just for me
twenty two, continuing just to take care of myself, take
care of my health. I got down tu like forty
this year, so I'm gonna just keep going and change
on my eating. Were talking last time. I think I'm
probably just gonna be doing mostly fish from now and
I don't really do I'll do fishing my chicken, of course,
(46:15):
but like I think my day's a rid meat.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
I think that shit might be over with. Yeah, I
think that's all, you know. I don't know I can
do that.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Yeah, but yeah, just just trying to make changes, man,
and sticking around so I keep working, doing what I
love to do.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Dope, Steve twenty twenty two. Honestly more of the same.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
I'm real proud of myself and everybody around me for
getting through the last couple of years, and the next
one is just gonna be probably just as challenging. So
the Tonight show, this podcast, jam I, all the other
things that we're all involved in. You know, if we
just keep it moving, I think that's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
That's key, keep it moving. Why here twenty twenty two?
What's up?
Speaker 7 (46:58):
Twenty twenty two?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Last year I got my dad in his first museum
show with his photography at the African American Museum Music,
the only African American Museum Music in Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Next year, Hey, myself and my godmother, we will produce
a book for my father of his work, his first
published book. And I'm looking forward to doing that and
keeping my parents super happy as the super seniors that
they are. And uh and just you know, loving learning
and maybe figuring out this retirement playing through these shows.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
And I'm going to sell in twenty twenty two because I.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Know what's your twenty twenty two looking like?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
In the words of the great Kwans Carol Habaris.
Speaker 7 (47:43):
I'm kidding, Ghani Habar, Ghani, habarigani.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (47:48):
Let us all have a.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Wonderful year, celebrate all skills. I love you. You look
like the Steve Zisu.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Of our time. You are a friend deep pool, What
hell you are skills. You are the life aquatic. Why
you haven't been even.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Steven or why have you?
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Why you haven't been on my Broadway show about freestyle rapping?
I don't understand anyway. Yeah, skills got to come to
the freestyle of supreme skills. I definitely am on Broadway
in a show that makes up wraps. I know I'm white,
but that's what I do, and I feel like you
should be on it. In fact, Fantete, put your eyebrows
(48:29):
away because you should be there too.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
You come up with a virtual option, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
You you're so afraid of the COVID. I don't even
know anyway you get since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (48:44):
I'm I'm in Virginia. I'll pull up. I could come skills.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
We can do Broadway, we can do, we can do,
we can do Sesame Street in one weekend, and you'd
be going back to Virginia.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Can people go, Bill? Can I ask you one question
about freestyle and supreme all the questions. I've seen it
twice here, I've seen it twice.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
The show is perfectly executed, like you guys, you the
whole store, the whole show's freestyle and it makes sense
and it is not a have you guys ever just
had a disaster night where the lyrics weren't hitting at all?
Speaker 4 (49:17):
A mirror, I will, I will let you in on
the truth. I'm so, I'm forty years old, forty one. Sorry,
I'm forty one years old. I've been doing freestyle spince
I was twenty. So that's if you do the math
twenty one years, I can safely say that the first
fifteen were bullshit, and then the.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Last day I saw I saw the first one.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
No, oh my fucker, I'm talking about like you talked
like like okay, okay, yeah, all this to be said.
Skills if you ever in New York and you want
to make up some raps with some white kids, come
on down a meal, will show up to and it'll
be great.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
No, I mean every want to switch to it. It's
it's a it's a well done production. Skills.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
If you want to make a Broadway debut on I
don't know, like a given Thursday and whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
You got your ass off your and they don't be
going they don't be going forty bpms.
Speaker 8 (50:13):
They be going no, like we go all the way
once one time on the tonight show, and he did
very well.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I will send down as I promise.
Speaker 7 (50:28):
I'll hit you up.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
Bill.
Speaker 7 (50:29):
I'm gonna get your info from.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Skills if you show up.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Amir has to show up to because that would be
the greatest show that ever happened on Broadway.
Speaker 6 (50:36):
Well, I was gonna ask Skills, what is twenty twenty two,
what's going to be into Let's go, and then I don't.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Okay, Well I'll let you all go ahead.
Speaker 7 (50:46):
Like I said, man, you know, teaching, the finishing up
the documentary and uh, you know, still trying to push
forward the stake my claim and this, you know, this.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Hip hop thing.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
I love it. Man.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
There you go, and I'm gonna come.
Speaker 7 (50:59):
I'm gonna come see you and we're gonna discuss that
other thing that we I got.
Speaker 6 (51:05):
I love the Skills, Steve, the Skills and Waterfest all
dayante out of the crib.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
That's all I want, That's all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
I want to do the Truman Show.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I want to do missing the live version of this show.
Speaker 7 (51:25):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I need I need to hug. I need to hug
Fonte like a like a man needs to come to
his house. I will come all, d you know what
you have?
Speaker 3 (51:36):
What all of y'all have a standing invite to the
of y'all.
Speaker 4 (51:40):
The fact that we're not like setting up shop all
in North Carolina Atte's house. God stress, and we should
be doing. We could get we get Steve this too.
He could drive Virginia schools North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (51:51):
I think I don't know, but that's an eight hour
drive for me.
Speaker 7 (51:59):
That it's like, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
I don't care, I will go. I will go North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Like like, yeah, that's like a thirty four hour drive
for you, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, I will got it.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
Well, do you let me hang out? Because I will
hang the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Your question, your schedule is to hate?
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Too important?
Speaker 6 (52:19):
But no, I will say right now, right now as
I speak now when we we started this this uh
we started this episode exactly two hours ago. During this
two hours, I've gotten seven texts positive.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Telling me that they just tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 7 (52:44):
Shut.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
The ship is getting a little crazy.
Speaker 6 (52:48):
So yeah, like literally during this conversation, the seven times
I've looked away to go to in my phone, it's
you know, just tested positive, You're just test Yeah, man,
we gotta we gotta figure this out. It's herd immunity
and we all get it, and then you know, I'm.
Speaker 7 (53:06):
Gettine getting money. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:09):
Yeah, so let's be I'm praying for well more than
be safe, which is a word that I'm trying to
divorce myself from and thrive like not being safe. That's
what I want to try to get people away from,
like the safe choice, but really be passionate.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
So that's what I'm leaving it with. But skills. I
thank you very much for doing this episode. O man,
thank you. I appreciate it. Uh yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
I also want to see you do more consistent episodes
of which is really the.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Reason why like this.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Your Your Your Your podcast is definitely one of my
favorite hip hop podcast.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
I love the fact that you don't talk over your
guests in an annoying way and you get really great,
engaging stories and you know, I appreciate that, so thank you, man.
Speaker 7 (53:59):
I'm definitely trying to build it and keep hip Hop
Confessions pushing. So yeah, let's charming on that.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
Yeah, man, I want to do it. I think me
and put need to come through next year. Man us.
Speaker 7 (54:08):
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
Man, all the things are happening.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
And boss man, you are looking towards what in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (54:19):
Part too.
Speaker 6 (54:20):
I want people to be uh healthy, that's number one.
We're going to concentrate on Black No More, which is
Tarik's project.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Black Supreme Black.
Speaker 6 (54:32):
But yeah, he will finally I will get on quest
Left Supreme right now. He's he's off the grid. People
been asking, like, HOWE left the Tonight Show?
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Oh wow?
Speaker 7 (54:42):
Back in October he told me the day before he was.
He was like, my last day is tomorrow, about to
start working on his play. So I told him as
soon as they open up, I'm gonna come and see it.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, so dope, so well out of Washington, we'll see it.
That's a ship. That's that's what's that's what's next. So
that's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (55:00):
But right now, just need the world to be more aware.
I need rappers to stop also just doing basic dumb Shiita.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
Please, I would like that too.
Speaker 6 (55:13):
I would love that anyway, So on behalf of our
man Skills and unpaid Bill and Sugar, Steve and Layah.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (55:24):
You already know I appreciate y'all man.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
Much. Love Supreme is a production on Iheartened radio.
Speaker 6 (55:43):
For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app,
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Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What Up?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So fine?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now you should have gotten into last week's episode, Part
one if our sit down conversation with Skills aka Mad Skills.
Now it's time to get into part too.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You ready, let's go, Steve Bro?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Can you talk about anything in twenty twenty one? Was
that this past year?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There you go, classic Steve?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, you know these movies, records, anything?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh not really, I'll discuss Sell didn't release a record
this year.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So no, the answer is no, Actually he did, didn't He.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, he's records.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
But as far as pop culture YouTube, I've been watching
a lot of European news.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Yeah, BBC like to be honest, I mean, I'm still
an MSNBC person, but BBC World News is kind of
the and I.
Speaker 7 (01:13):
Don't you wanted to say BBD dropped the new album.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I also wanted to shout out the beat and see
that happened in twenty twenty one the Black News Channel.
My mother would be very upset if I did not
mention that.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
I mean, we did something special in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Man, he created a miracle. All right?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
This is all I know. I was in Saint Louis.
It's getting real mean up in this shit go ahead.
I was in Saint Louis. You know, I've been on
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee for like
eleven twelve years now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Remember, I get it, you're a emper, We got it. Yeah,
I'm part of the committee, and I knew.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I knew that we weren't going to have anything appealing
that would make Jay Z want to come and accept
his award, because I mean, the thing is is that
when you're paying tribute to an artist from the fifties,
sixties and seventies, Yeah, you can get blah blah blah
to singer Linda Ronstadt song. You can, you know, sort
(02:15):
of get somebody to sing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know. Last year was like dire Straits and whatever.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But with hip hop especially, there's just some artists that
I don't think are coverable or any of those things,
you know what I mean, right, And I knew starting
this year is.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Gonna be problematic.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Maybe if Eminem gets in next year, you know, there's
gotta be someone that that he hasn't burned a bridge
with already, Like, so no machine Gun, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't know if they made up or whatever. But
I'm just saying that.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
I love to see in sync rap eminem lyrics at
his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Induction and.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Imagine, imagine Lance Bass coming out of the stands. I
won't make that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We on that for next year. I would make that happen.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
No, it was just with this year, I knew that
there's nobody that the Internet or critics or anyone, especially
with jay Z with deemed satisfactory to do his material.
So I had to wrack my brain out. And the
thing was, I was driving back from Saint Louis. We
(03:27):
had a gig in Saint Louis and we would in
New York the next day, and I decided, well, I
got fifteen hours ahead of me. You know, I'm gonna
get in my bag. I'm in, you know, in my
vehicle by myself. He is into Edible. And then Michael K.
Williams passed away. He and that shit fucked like fucked
(03:54):
me up. And then suddenly the rock and roll like
so I was trying to mourn that shit, and then
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people called, was like,
we got to figure out something in the next ten
hours or as jay Z's not coming, and you know,
I'm already in my bag and shit, you know the
Edibles about to hit it and all that shit. I
(04:15):
was just so messed up that day, and I don't know,
like I was just trying to figure out, like how
can I And for some reason, I don't know why,
I was on YouTube I freak, you know what it was.
I was looking up the Supernatural Battle with Craig g
I was looking that up and your name was on
(04:36):
the side, and I was like, damn, what can I do?
What can I do? And the song that I referenced,
that freestyle that you did at Stretching My Beadles where
you kind of took everyone's line like I don't know
what the proper title is called, but basically that came
up and I thought, okay, this is a job for Skills.
(04:59):
So basically I had a vision that was gonna find
fifty celebrities, fifty notable people to say one jay Z
line each and the way that Skills crafts his lyrics,
like for him to put this ten thousand piece puzzle
together in seven days.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So I thought, I'm stilling out at MC and I
think that was like your worst nightmare. I believe.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
When the phone call came, do you remember what you
said to me?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was high skills. I do not remember.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Hey, hey this nigga said that's had a conversation. Went hello, yo,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yo?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
When did you stop listening to jay Z? I said, nigga,
what when did you stop listening to jay Z? I said,
I'm heyor what the fuck are you talking about? No? No, no,
I remember I remember hearing you and Reek talk like
and I remember you saying one time. I remember, I'll
never forget it. You said you used to be able
to hear like a jay Z line, and you could quote,
(06:03):
you can hear jay Z versus you could go to
the barbershop the next day and quote the whole Ship.
I said, yeah, yeah, like yeah, that's how we all
were with early, the whole Ship. He said, Okay, when
did that stop for you though? I said, probably, like
maybe like after like American Gangster, maybe Magna car the
Holy Girl. Okay, bet all right, okay, yeah, all right, yeah,
So what I need you? So he goes. He says,
(06:30):
he says, I need you to I need a stretching
Barbado freestyle of all the jay Z Ship. But it's
got to be all holds like you know, from from
from you know, artists to you know, from food snickings
to to hustler to thinking man to businessman, right from
riggy from riggity riggedy to Shamann Hove to cover the
(06:53):
whole basis. I said, okay, and then he goes, I
need this ship in like nine days.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Yo.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
I was like, I'm mirror. No, no, no, you got it,
you got it, you got it. I just wanted to
make sure you was damn because I'm about to pitch it.
To be honest, are you in? I said, fuck, yeah, man,
I'm in. All right, cool, I call you back And
that was it, Like it was textbook. I'm mirror. But
and I'm just sitting there Tay like, yeah, this ship
(07:23):
ain't gonna happen, like I'm not thinking of no jay
z shit, I'm chilling. I'm watching TV. Three hours later,
you're gonna be Yeah. She turned it down like we're
gonna have to come with something else. Three hours later.
Yeah she's in. So yes, I need it, and I
gotta go through holes whole fucking from from a skik
(07:45):
can I get open to you know what I mean?
And I'm just like, this is this is insane. I
went to Barnes and Noble started buying books be Coded.
I brought this book. I already had these clothed but
I couldn't find it, so I had to buy that
shit again.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Can I ask a real civilian question, just because we're
not the only ones having this conversation, Like people are
listening and they probably may have the same question. Yes,
there's a situation like this, pay well, because I feel
like people don't understand when it comes to you. And
even sometimes when I feel like Fonte and MC's like
y'all who have alternative livings when it comes to what
(08:26):
y'all do with your talents, they I don't think they
get that, like, yeah, you can do this shit's yeah yeah.
So that's why I'm asking. I'm not trying to be
in your pocket, but I'm like, you do things like this,
and I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm like.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
The funny part is when when Sean hit me and
was like, yes, so just you know, tell me you
know what, Like I'm talking to them now, so I
need something, And I was like, I don't want y'all money,
I want a job, nigga, and he was like, Okay,
I said, I don't want y'all money, like I don't
don't want money from you our mirror. And then Sean goes,
(09:02):
it ain't me and our mirror's money, and I was like, oh,
I bet.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
When a good sentence, Yeah, that was my life.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't needles to say good and well, yeah, yeah
it was.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It was definitely. It was definitely worth my time and
my effort. But but man, at the end of the day,
BRO like to to see to see.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The world, to see.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Who tweet where he tweeted, Like when jay Z tweeted
and jay Z don't even tweet like that, what did
he tweet? He tweeted after it, Yeah, he tweeted thank
you to everyone in that video package. I'm definitely gonna
cry in the car when I saw that tweet, I
was like.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He did oh ship he that that? That really? You
know that that stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's just you know, just on my the things arguing,
because the thing is I had a Christmas list of
who I wanted to be in the join ye but
we then but then I had a lot of mountains to.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Climb.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
You know, you gotta explain to you're like Obamas people
want to know who else is Emma is joined before
he doesn't. You gotta explain the rock nation that this person.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Is air this year on HBO.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Right Rock and Roll Hall of Fame video.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
But if we would have gotten our wish list, not
saying people aren't still talking about it. If we had
gotten our wish list, that ship would be like that
would have wanted, that would have been in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame by itself.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Who else who was on the list that y'a couldn't
get or didn't get?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Well, I mean initially, my my first true yes was
Obama because my thing was like Sewan and I were like,
if Obamas is yes, then.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Everybody else is going to everybody's up.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
And so we just want to Obama to say I
will not lose, and he was about to do it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Like the thing is is always like a circle of twelve.
That's like, well, you know, there was like was this
looking presidential?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And Obama you have a deal at Netflix, broke your
content creator.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Now say had I had the previous line before I had,
I had a set up so perfect, bro if he
would have got to that I will not lose.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I will say that you know for me, like Letterman
taking a lot like when it plays CBS. Yes, like
that got such a like let for well, first of all,
we were in Cleveland, so whenever Lebron showed up, that
was a happy moment for them. But I'll say that
Letterman stole the show in that particular setting, in that night,
(11:55):
Kanye would have done it. Like the thing with Kanye
was sort of like he was like, all right, send
me camera cru to Paris and then we sent a
camera crew there and jo Bien and then he's in Italy,
all right, Italy today?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And then well Fronte asked the question about.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Oh yeah, I know you said him him? Who else else?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Who else did y'all want?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Who else? I wanted Michael Jordan to say Jackson Tyson Jordan's.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He was. He was golfing.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I had I had a Jordan plug and we but
there was an important golf game that we couldn't from.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
And the crazy, the crazy part is so the crazy
part is like like like I mere said, like once
we got Obama, ain't none of y'all motherfucker's cooler than him.
So anybody that says no, like you ain't cooler than Obama.
So we did have one issue and I ain't gonna
I'm not gonna say the person's name. But our mirror
(12:58):
hits me blindly one day and says, Yo, can you
find a line that goes with this? And I was like,
I'm here, that's that's not in the that's not in
the verse. Why. I was like, why you got to
say that? And he was like, Noah, no, because you
know what I'm saying, So and so is here. Now
that's the line they want to say. I said, I'm mirrored,
(13:18):
make it up. Shit.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
My first day is shooting was like I was trial
by fire because this particular person was like already doing
a long press day for the project that they had
going on. Like that's we had to get in with,
like if someone was doing a press junket somewhere and
then like we sent our crew real quick to get
them to save this one line for five minutes and whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So I caught somebody at the end of like a
long press junket day of like seven hours of interviews.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They want to go home. They happen to have a line.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They happen to have a line that wasn't like everyone
wanted like an impactful line or to know, okay, who
gets this line, who gets the punch? And there's some
lines where you have to set it up so that
you know someone else gets it. Someone has to set
up the alley oop shot and someone shoots it in
and there's just one of these moments where this particular
person had an ali oop shot tossing to someone else
(14:17):
that gets the punch line. So they felt like their
line wasn't cool, so they just decided, well, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do my favorite jay Z line and y'all
y'all could just work with that. And I was like, no,
it doesn't work like that, like you gotta you know.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
So he calls me. He calls me and Tay, I
ain't gonna say the person name, but the line was
no chrome on the wheels. I'm a grown up for real, right,
So I'm sitting there looking at Nigga. I'm looking at
my phone like that's not no bar like that ain't
even he like, but that's what they want to say.
So I go, I said, yeah, that's not in the
(14:54):
scene that I mean, that's not in the in the
in the rast. Well, how am I supposed to tell
her that I said that you tell that person that
this is our movie and this is their line is script,
Like nigga, you can't audition to play Bishop and then
go yeah, but I don't want to get killed. But nigga,
(15:14):
you don't want to play Mitchell. Right, So he goes
with skills. I mean, what am I supposed to say
to her? And I was like, I say, I said,
I'm here. This is what you do from here on out.
Anytime somebody looks at a piece of paper and says, yo,
man who said this line? I want to say this line,
(15:35):
tell them Obama already said, because ain't none of y'all.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
In fact, I had to do that twice, by the way,
like I learned early not to show anyone in the
entire script.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
For them to say, you know, I want to say.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Allow me to reintroduce myself, I'm like, now you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
There's there's two people not talking to me now because.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
There's two people not to I'll get to me now
because they claim that I under used them. So and
for me, but it was a trial by fire on
what directing is really like.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
So for me to do it and then you know,
going back and forth, with our mirror over it, and
we like we were really in the trenches on this ship.
And then October thirty first comes and Hole. It's one
thing to write something, but it's one thing to write
something that I know the person that it's about is
gonna see it firsthand. So when I when I hit him,
(16:38):
I hit I saw Jay's tweet and you know, I'm
on the East coast as it happened, so you know,
I saw Jay's tweet and then I hit our mirror
like yo, how to go? And he was like yo,
he was floored. And I'm like, oh shit, like that's good.
And then I go to sleep and our mirror text
me and goes, yo, Jay about to hit you, and
(16:58):
like I wake up to a to a to a
text from Hole like like I was floored. Like and
don't get me wrong, I spoken to Jay a few times,
but I ain't spoke a billionaire Jay in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Wow, man.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
So for so for to wake up to a text
message from him expressing his gratitude and how thankful he
was and how brilliant he thought it well he said,
he said, like, Yo, that was brilliant, Like that was dope.
Like and I knew he was going through a court
case at the time, like he had to go to
court the next day.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Like, so speaking of gratitude mane the internet and your
present and explaining Josh loves about that.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
For me, it was it was very important, Like it
was kind of awesome, uh seeing you and pooh wait
am I am?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I correct?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
And that you guys have your complete masters back from
the listening and.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
We got the listening the Mintel show. We don't have
those that one is still under a rhino. They have them,
but we've been in contact with them and we've been
talking with them and like working that out, you know
what I'm saying. So there, So throughout the whole process again,
I had no smoke with Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records they
were cool with us, Like right, they were fine.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It was abb that was.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
On that funck shit. But Noah, we got our ship back.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That's dope.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Man.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I'm happy for y'all. I remember when I started tweet
and uh, you put it up and said that you know,
y'all were in control of those records. I knew how
much that meant you as an artist. I knew how
much that meant to you and pool so I was
cool behind, like I you know, I think my my
core was I love it when the plan come together,
like yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I say, man, it was thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'm more happy than that then Daylight getting their masters back,
Like I'm more happy for you guys in specifically it's
a weapon.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Yeah, you know, I'm like, well, I mean, we hadn't
really talked about it at all, and we wasn't you know,
it wasn't anything that we was, you know, we were
just kind of dealing with on our own kind of privately.
And then when we woke up and saw that the
uh the they had repressed the vinyl, and it was
just like, oh, nigga, now you just think you're gonna
play in my face with this shit, you know what
(19:13):
I mean. And so my my immediate response, I was
like about the gold fight and I was like hold up,
I hit pooh you know what I'm saying. And I said,
look bro exactly, I'm like, yo, Bro, I said, how
you want to do this? You want to go quiet
or you want to get loud, because we can I can.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We can do it either way.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He was like, let's get loud. I said, all right,
let's go So that was it and it worked.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Man. That was dope.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Man.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So in this particular situation, you and Poo are the
owners of the listening.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, we took our shit back, all right, you two alone?
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
The unmentioned third factor doesn't have stakes in the game
of ownership.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
No.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Ninth was a He was compensated for his time in
Little Brother when he was in Little Brother. But since
two thousand and seven and Little Brother has creatively, contractually
and financially been a duo and it will remain that way.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
For your brief question, now there you go.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
No, no, no, because I just didn't know. It's all good.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm sure. I'm sure with somebody else listening that probably
wanted this, they.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Did, and it sounds like a mirror like yeah, thank.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
You, I'm glad you get Now. That's dope, man, I'm
happy for y'all.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Speaking of record labels, Steve, your jazz label. You've established
a jazz.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Label, yes, and I do want to talk about that,
but I haven't answered to your earlier question about twenty
twenty one and entertainment Summer of Soul.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Come on, you ever talked about this?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
We don't know that right now, you're just fucking with you, Okay, well, yes,
thank you for bringing that up a mirror JMI Recordings
from working on a lot of records recently.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
We've got a lot of records.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Coming out in twenty twenty, twenty twenty two and David
Murray and UH sah Berliner and Loggate Lund a Swedish
guitar player, and UH all kinds of records. JMI Recordings
dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We can buy records.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
What's going on. I'm going to ask you what M
I stands for?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Does it matter? Does it matter?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Doesn't matter?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Relation to E M I.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No, we're modeled after C T I actually and a
little bit a little bit of E C M.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But we're there.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
We're completely analog label. We record and UH mixed and
master all analog tape and UH only print up vinyl records.
And we work with the greatest artists around today, including
the great David Murray.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And Quest We need, We're gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
We're gonna do an album with you next.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Year with to do the duo record with David Murray.
But this is not streamable at all. You can only
buy UH.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mostly just final but we do have a few of
the albums are up on streaming stuff, but we.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Don't care about it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Just what I mean, skills, Sorry, hold on, skills took
it off.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Mute, Let's let's live this up.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Hold On, I mean yeah, skills. I want to send
you a bunch of the jam I stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Okay, awesome, man, I would love to I would love
to have some. I got your number, So all right,
I cut somebody off.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Sorry, thanks. I was trying to get the light to
see her. How her creative twenty twenty one was.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Oh, it was good.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I mean I picked up another podcast pick up to
Jill Scott and Age Grad and dance Slur.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
How's that going?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I was good. I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We get to talk about some pretty cool things and
so you should listen to that.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
That's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And then of course still doing Yo. You you started
off my year on one of my other podcasts, which
is one of my co hosts favorite moments of the year,
quest Love on Love and Great because I do another
podcast that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Was a great podcast. That was a great woman.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate you a mirror that's
what I'm in and I appreciate you for the compliment.
But yeah, so we do another great show and then
just Doe voiceover work and about this. In twenty twenty two,
I will be selling two TV show ideas. Yes, that's happening.
I never seen a dating show like mine before.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
When we spoke last year, you were still flirting. I
know that you know to to flirt with comedy, Yes,
requires going out and people and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So three, where do you Where do you land?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Where do you land on the dark board? As far
as like stand up and all that, it's concerned.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Post COVID, I just say post COVID, because it's like
since COVID, not the COVID is over, but post COVID,
I have not really been in crowds a mirror. I
really haven't even been to a show. So post COVID,
I've just been kind of writing and watching and listening
because understandable, I've barely been watching people's certain stand ups.
I still need to watch that on Netflix. How about
(24:08):
that one?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And I mean the material, the material that you get
from this podcast alone. Yeah, these motherfuckers. One of the
one of the funniest moments I ever in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I forgot this.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Podcast to the show. I forgot that one of the
funniest moments in my life. I alway pull over when
fucking when y'all had music soul shout and music did
not know that I'm mean, I mean, didn't know that
(24:44):
music was mad at him. He didn't figure it out
until half into.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
One of the greatest moments quest of supreme history. I
think us. I think he was mad with the wall.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
It was one time when Liaiah stopped him and he
was like, no, you know what I mean I was.
I was outside in the car. You know what I'm saying.
It was all cool. You know what I'm saying, It
was cool. I just waited, you know, I mean, Leo
called y'all. I just waited in the car like another
ass nigga. And then Liaiah said, so, what's going on
with you music? Like He's like, I mean, it is
what it is. And she said like he said, well,
(25:19):
damn nigga, are you happy about you anything.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That fucking quest hey, I had open.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
He call me you called you.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I hit tay too to everybody music.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I will give anything to go back to the group
chat the day that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Oh man.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I have moments where I guess will say something off
the cuff or like just out of pocket and our
our chat the suddenly.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the best thing.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
You know, Let's I don't want to sometimes I know
I'm mere long enough to Sometimes when I'm just don't
want to be involved in something, he might act like
he's clueless. But that day you were really clue and I.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Really got a lot to be juggling, man and.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Right, and you you were like, wait, you didn't what
happened again? And motherfucker was like, yeah, I was outside
the car at the Solar crazy laughing at him. I
just I just wanted I just the penny and me.
(26:35):
I just wanted our mere to be like Dann you
was outside in the car like the whole time she
was or she was like, man, you and I want
to tell you. I wanted I'm here to go. So
while you were in the car, Like, did you like
it was beauty?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
You should have texted me. You should have texted me
one four three to make it bundanly clear. Yes, Lear
Cohen decided. Lear Cohen heard a rumor about the soul
Quarian Vibe shoot about to happen, that that infamous photo
that basically ended the click of the Twelve of Us,
and Lear wanted to ambush us with an artist that
(27:15):
we really, all of us weren't completely familiar with, Like
we were actually friends in that photo. And Lear decided that,
you know, he's just going to ambush this and send
his artists to shoot.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now, just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Just let them go to the archives.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I don't think you're making it better.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I just I just want it. Was a part of
me to just want it. I mean to just text
him and go like, bro, like are we good? Are
we just friends? Well? No? Is it all love?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm over here going half crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
This is the problem now, black man. We have to
take mental health seriously in this. In a TV show,
they would provide a one eight hundred number because mental
health is serious and those who feel like they need
to have it, they should find a number because we
don't have it here.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
See, me and Ted got in the same sense, We
got the same sense of humor. So that's a whole
nother number. Like they're gonna have to call another number
for that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Because I got jokes for your head so mad? Come on, bro, like,
are you you the nigga that wan neo soul? Like?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
What is like? What?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Like? Whatever I do have?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I do have one thing to ask you, do you
have any more Soul Trained episodes? Did you get any more?
Because you know I got some more. No, no, no, you
know I'm saying, do you have any more?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I cannot officially let you know why I have them all,
But if you can see how my year went last year,
we could pretty much put two and two together about
what I'm gonna be doing the next seven years. Let's
talk about the seed, The seed, the scene that Detroit.
(29:00):
Oh dude, I man, how are you the plug on
the scene? Because I know I might wind up being
the but I have some plug. If you are from
Detroit right now, you're getting very excited about what we're
talking about. Like every every regional spot has their own
local dance show, so similar to Philadelphia had Dancing on Air,
(29:24):
which later turning The Dance Party USA, other local shows
have their own like Local Little Dance, after School Dance Jawns.
The Scene is probably the most unique show. If you
google the scene right now, just say the scene Detroit,
nineteen eighty something.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's it explains a lot. Explains why Dyla is a
genius because basically electrifying mojo pretty much raised a generation
of black people on electronic music. So you know, there's
a whole generation between him playing like he on his
(30:03):
radio show look up old electrified mojo shows from like
the eighties. He'll play p Funk one moment, then he'll
play Gary Newman the next moment. Then they'll play Bowie
the next moment, then he'll play Prince, then he'll play
depeche Mode. So you know, if you are anywhere between the.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Ages of eight to eighteen in Detroit, Michigan, between nineteen
seventy eight and like ninety one, you're getting a whole
nother form of musical nutrition that this This explains why
Dyla was who he was. So you know, the scene
was this teen dance show in which I mean they're
(30:45):
pretty much they're just dancing to like the most crazy
electro techno type of shit.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
It's crazy, and so they're there's a scene and also
new dance show.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
There was another show Detroit.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yes, so this is going to be a documentary about
this show.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
About the scene.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
He answered.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
The answer to your question of here is because there's
a few white people who get it and know some ship.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, because the rare which we you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Your seventeenth documentary, and when you're an Academy member, you
can make seventeen documentaries.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to go.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
But yes, to answer your question, I've I've fulfilled my
fantasy this year and have them all watched all eleven
hundred soul trains.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Damn like two.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Hundred short I'm like two hundred shorts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It's super overwhelming right now.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That is I got to force myself to watch it
past ninety three once Don left.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
But you know, those are the ones I want to see.
I can't wait to see fucking bow Wow and Destiny
show embarrassing they so.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, Oh, this sort of feels like an episode I
admitted one hip hop confession. Steve talked about his jazz label,
Bill's working on two projects and a lot of things.
Fante got his master's back.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You've got comedy coming.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Fonte made all in all honesty.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Fante made twenty twenty one happen those cat Maaster's back.
Fantee of all the motherfuckers, made twenty twenty one count
Praise to you, Fante, well done.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You can you explain to me the US cat situation
like she so she was.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Went on geeked. I was geeked that that moment happened.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Yeah, she went on live and she was just doing
her makeup and uh she was wrapping whatever you say
off the listening. And I didn't find out about it
until afterwards, and uh, well, my boys hit me and
I was like like what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
And then I saw it on Twitter. So then I
actually saw the video. I was like, oh ship, and
so I just threw it up, you know, retweeted it whatever,
and and I was like, yeah, we're in the racial
chat rooms bumping Little Brother, you know what I mean.
And I knew she would get the joke. Like a
couple of her fans was like, you know, why would
you do? But she, I knew she didn't give a
fun I knew she would get the humor, you know
what I mean. I figured, if you were a Little
(33:26):
Brother fan, you have the ability to laugh at yourself.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
So so you know, so she but she was super
cool and we ended up. She ended up like then
she tweeted out, made a little watch and was like, y'
I'm bumping this, y'all need to check it. I was like,
oh ship, and so we ended up talking for a
little bit, like we ended up texting a little bit,
and but nah man, she's just like super dope. And
you know, it was around the time that she was
the news came out that like her tour stopped, she
(33:51):
her her coup got COVID and but uh, but.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Nah man, it was a it was a it was
a moment.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I was like, word up, that's dope.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
But she's she's ahead like a couple of home that
knew her, like yeah, back.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Like slim Village once, and I was like the fuck. Yeah.
I was just completely under the impression that even though
these kids were coming from eighties parents, seventies parents, eighties
parents that you know, there's gen z just had absolutely
nothing but disdain for our music.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
So now they was raised on this ship bro to see.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Dojah cats singing all to you for you and whatever
you said.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Guy from the country either right, like she she got
from l A.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Her her dad is South African. She's from l A.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He was in her dad was in Tarafina, Seraphina, Seraphena.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I remember walked.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
She's actually yeah, it's a video of her like pop
blocking Like but this is great.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Now, Like between this and watching her own Little Dicky,
I'm a fan so.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well on his show.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Like a dope ass episode a Little Dicky, So yeah,
I'm playing herself.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
He's this show is really hilariously and nasty.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Okay, so before we check out, is there any records
that I should be checking for? It's weird, man, Like,
I'm legit. I'm not disappointed. But she and I had
a conversation about it. I really had expectations for Yeba
to really come with the promotion with her record, but
(35:36):
you know, she wasn't wasn't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You know, Distance was the one for me on that record.
That was the one. Yeah, I just you played one right,
I played.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
On the whole record. I just wish. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
It's like I'm now starting to think that every artist
that comes through Electric Ladies Studios why ends up going
through a process that you know means a stalling or whatever,
you know that sort of thing. Basically, the whole point
was that like so many shows are asking for her
(36:12):
to come, and before him, she's like not ready yet,
not ready yet, like in due time and due time,
and it's just like the Salange the records.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, the record's kind of over now.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Like you know, I was, I was expecting her to
drink old Old Girls milkshake. That obviously is going to
dominate the Grammys, you know, next year with her album.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But you know I I sort of thought this is
going to happen, but you know.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Hopefully the next record A minute for Jazz and Sullivan though, Yeah,
that was that.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
What's getting all the flowers right now?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Twenty one.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
As far as the album, I asked you, what album
are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I like to have very few albums you can listen
through all the way. I mean, even with that Anderson
Bruno Mars, there's like one song. But so I was
just saying for those like Jasmine.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Who you only like one joint on the.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Outside of the ones on the radio. Yeah, the last one,
the last song, what's it?
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Breathe? That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Breathing, Yeah, breathe is I thought that.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I was like, Oh, this is just getting started. I'm
ready for the next one.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
H oh really skills skills where you go?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No here? I just know I hope that this does
wonders for for pot you know, did you work on that?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Did I offend you?
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I'm sorry I didn't.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Oh no, No, I wish I worked on ship right right?
I take that?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:33):
No.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
My biggest you know I claim the fame this year
was you know, I wrote for Whole Blue and Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So what's the fact.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Oh, the Salt record and I felt came out. Yeah,
but is there any one notable that I'm missing as
far as Yeah, check out my girl be My Fiasco.
She's the latest artist that we put out on e
Fie Music. There you go, me tall black guys, Oh
my voice and the Convader out of DC. Yeah, Devin
(38:06):
Morrison's on it, my girl College durand Devin uh Darren Brockington. Yeah,
it's it's out be My fasco where I left you
did that?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Making me ummer?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That was the summer that.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Was supergroup name. I feel like y'all had to have
a supergroup. But you ain't got no name.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Like nah, we just fi music.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
We learned from the so Quarius don't get it tit title?
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Yeah yeah, we're just collecting the song and don't. Okay, right.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
All right, So skills you you're you, you may you
may not do it twenty twenty one. Music wise, creative wise,
What's What's what's coming down the pike for twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Oh man, I'm finishing up a documentary. I'm finishing up
a documentary I did on the nineties girl Brunch, which
is something that I did all Quarantine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
To take you for that, Thank you skills.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
I'm finishing up a documentary that I'm going to be
putting out, probably some new music and just some you know,
still moving, you know. I'm teaching teaching. I go back
to teaching in January, teaching hip hop class at the
University of Richmond.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's that been? Like?
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Very very informative man, And and you know, it's a
it's a it's like I'm learning to you know what
I'm saying. But for the most part, man, it's like
the second year we've done that. COVID knocked us out
for like one year. But waiting list. Yeah, yeah, me
and my part.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
My part got to go to school yourself.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
Yes, And I hate like you gotta choose your books
and then prove it through the you know, right, like
you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
College professor ship Like yeah, that's hate teaching.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
Yeah, yeah, No, I you know, I feel like it's
something that you know, I love to do. You know,
I can talk to hip hop all day with people,
So for me, it's it's been very ratifying.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Man.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
I definitely can see teaching in my future and we're
looking forward to doing it at other schools as well.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Do you feel your students are genuinely interested in finding
it out or is it just like.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Oh yeah, nah nah. Cats come in you know, cats
initially come in there thinking that they're gonna get it
easy a but it ain't. It ain't that at all,
you know what I'm saying. And shit, our our ages
range from sixty to like eighteen, you know what I mean.
So we had undergraduates in there and other other students,
like it's the most popular class on campus. So shout
out to you are Richmond, shout out to the Spiders. Yeah, man,
(40:35):
I see y'all in a minute from.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
An MC level, or from breakbeat level, or just from
us every.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Social and a political movement, you know what I'm saying.
You know, it's definitely we speak upon it as you know,
as being the most popular culture I mean former music
in the culture, so you know, you you are aware
of it. But you might not have been that aware
of the things. Like I give you an example real quick,
(41:01):
Like one of our lessons is we play them the
video for parents just don't Understand, and then we played
them the video for Fuck the Police, and their assignment
is what are the similarities of these two songs? They
automatically think, we're gonna be like, okay, what's the difference
between these two and we go, okay, what are the
similarities between these two songs? And the answers that they
(41:21):
come up with are fucking phenomenal, Like it's it's so
crazy how deep they.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
They see it.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
They see first the first the first one that the
first one that threw me was they were like, you know,
both of both of these different artists, their reputation is
everything to them, you know what I'm saying, Like their
reputation is everything, and you know, like with Will You Know?
Speaker 1 (41:50):
With Will You Know?
Speaker 7 (41:53):
N w A raps about they treat women as gold diggers.
Women's are looked at as gold diggers and that's all
they good for bitches and wholes. Gold is whatever will
got caught up by a gold dick, you know what
I'm saying, Like who happened to be a twelve year
old runaway, like you know what I mean? Like their
their connection is.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So much more.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
I forgot right, And it's like they're both they're both
very fearful of one thing, Like n w A Is
fearful of the cops. Will is fearful of his parents
finding out, like that was his biggest fear. Like when
my mom and dad get home, this ship is a rap,
you know what I'm saying? Like they it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Man.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
We started, we start to semester off with one of
those exercises and it usually turns out it gives you
a good gauge of how good the class is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
That's dope, man, Professor.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Professor Lewis, Professor Lewis.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Ire is no skills you had mentioned earlier. I just
wanted to touch on it. You were talking about your
parents and you know how they've died from addiction, you know,
thirty years apart.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Knowing that that's in your family history, Like how have
you dealt with that?
Speaker 9 (43:13):
And you know, are there any like how knowing that
that's kind of there, like how do you deal with
you know, any potential addictions or has that affected you
in your career in anyway.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
I don't. I don't know if it has. Man, Like
I believe I'm addicted to too. I believe a part
of me is addicted to not following in those footsteps,
you know what I'm saying. So for me, you know,
I understand that sometimes addiction, you know, it can be
a sickness. And you know, when I was young, you know,
I didn't understand why Mama just couldn't quit, like why
you just can't stop? Like I don't want to hear
(43:45):
that shit, like yo, just quit, like you know what
I'm saying. But I didn't understand how long she had
been on drugs and how much you know, she felt
like she needed that drug to even just get up
and function, cook breakfast, take us to school. She was
a very function yet she was a very functioning an addict,
but she was still an addict. So for me, man,
it scared me in a way that I could never
(44:08):
sell drugs. I could, I like, my shit could go
belly up right now and I'll go work at McDonald's
and y'all be like, god damn skills at McDonald's, like
like happily, but happily because I I know I first
hand know what it does to a black family. So
I don't care how bad it gets for me. I
could never go I could never sell drugs like ever.
(44:30):
So I watched, you know, I look back at what
they went through, and uh, just try to make sure
that I don't get addicted to anything. You know what
I'm saying, like sugar shit, you know what I'm saying,
like fucking anything. So yeah, so it's like, you know,
I just I just pay attention to that because they
(44:53):
they didn't they ain't go for nothing, Like I had
to learn from that ship in some degree, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
That's real.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah. My final question is, you know, besides getting out
of this this dog chasing tail loop that we're in, uh,
is there anything that we're really trying to achieve for
twenty twenty two? The actually twenty.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
Twenty right, even though it's looking like in addition now
two for me, I'm finally we're finally putting the finishing
up the Little Brother documentary. We got awarded, We got
a grant from the Southern Documentary Fund and we were
wanted a finalists that was selected for that. So yeah, man,
(45:39):
finishing that this was harder that's it's the hardest thing
I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
That go front.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
But so that you put out was just a sizzle
real and it's coming.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
There's gonna be a full length join.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
I can't wait for that.
Speaker 9 (45:53):
Yeah, man, yeah, so it's yeah, it's that's just gonna
be hard. But nah, just that, man, just for me
twenty two, continuing just to take care of myself, take
care of my health. I got down tu like forty
this year, so I'm gonna just keep going and change
on my eating. Were talking last time. I think I'm
probably just gonna be doing mostly fish from now and
I don't really do I'll do fishing my chicken, of course,
(46:15):
but like I think my day's a rid meat.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
I think that shit might be over with. Yeah, I
think that's all, you know. I don't know I can
do that.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Yeah, but yeah, just just trying to make changes, man,
and sticking around so I keep working, doing what I
love to do.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Dope, Steve twenty twenty two. Honestly more of the same.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
I'm real proud of myself and everybody around me for
getting through the last couple of years, and the next
one is just gonna be probably just as challenging. So
the Tonight show, this podcast, jam I, all the other
things that we're all involved in. You know, if we
just keep it moving, I think that's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
That's key, keep it moving. Why here twenty twenty two?
What's up?
Speaker 7 (46:58):
Twenty twenty two?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Last year I got my dad in his first museum
show with his photography at the African American Museum Music,
the only African American Museum Music in Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Next year, Hey, myself and my godmother, we will produce
a book for my father of his work, his first
published book. And I'm looking forward to doing that and
keeping my parents super happy as the super seniors that
they are. And uh and just you know, loving learning
and maybe figuring out this retirement playing through these shows.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
And I'm going to sell in twenty twenty two because I.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Know what's your twenty twenty two looking like?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
In the words of the great Kwans Carol Habaris.
Speaker 7 (47:43):
I'm kidding, Ghani Habar, Ghani, habarigani.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (47:48):
Let us all have a.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Wonderful year, celebrate all skills. I love you. You look
like the Steve Zisu.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Of our time. You are a friend deep pool, What
hell you are skills. You are the life aquatic. Why
you haven't been even.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Steven or why have you?
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Why you haven't been on my Broadway show about freestyle rapping?
I don't understand anyway. Yeah, skills got to come to
the freestyle of supreme skills. I definitely am on Broadway
in a show that makes up wraps. I know I'm white,
but that's what I do, and I feel like you
should be on it. In fact, Fantete, put your eyebrows
(48:29):
away because you should be there too.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
You come up with a virtual option, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
You you're so afraid of the COVID. I don't even
know anyway you get since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (48:44):
I'm I'm in Virginia. I'll pull up. I could come skills.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
We can do Broadway, we can do, we can do,
we can do Sesame Street in one weekend, and you'd
be going back to Virginia.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Can people go, Bill? Can I ask you one question
about freestyle and supreme all the questions. I've seen it
twice here, I've seen it twice.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
The show is perfectly executed, like you guys, you the
whole store, the whole show's freestyle and it makes sense
and it is not a have you guys ever just
had a disaster night where the lyrics weren't hitting at all?
Speaker 4 (49:17):
A mirror, I will, I will let you in on
the truth. I'm so, I'm forty years old, forty one. Sorry,
I'm forty one years old. I've been doing freestyle spince
I was twenty. So that's if you do the math
twenty one years, I can safely say that the first
fifteen were bullshit, and then the.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Last day I saw I saw the first one.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
No, oh my fucker, I'm talking about like you talked
like like okay, okay, yeah, all this to be said.
Skills if you ever in New York and you want
to make up some raps with some white kids, come
on down a meal, will show up to and it'll
be great.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
No, I mean every want to switch to it. It's
it's a it's a well done production. Skills.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
If you want to make a Broadway debut on I
don't know, like a given Thursday and whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
You got your ass off your and they don't be
going they don't be going forty bpms.
Speaker 8 (50:13):
They be going no, like we go all the way
once one time on the tonight show, and he did
very well.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I will send down as I promise.
Speaker 7 (50:28):
I'll hit you up.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
Bill.
Speaker 7 (50:29):
I'm gonna get your info from.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Skills if you show up.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Amir has to show up to because that would be
the greatest show that ever happened on Broadway.
Speaker 6 (50:36):
Well, I was gonna ask Skills, what is twenty twenty two,
what's going to be into Let's go, and then I don't.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Okay, Well I'll let you all go ahead.
Speaker 7 (50:46):
Like I said, man, you know, teaching, the finishing up
the documentary and uh, you know, still trying to push
forward the stake my claim and this, you know, this.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Hip hop thing.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
I love it. Man.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
There you go, and I'm gonna come.
Speaker 7 (50:59):
I'm gonna come see you and we're gonna discuss that
other thing that we I got.
Speaker 6 (51:05):
I love the Skills, Steve, the Skills and Waterfest all
dayante out of the crib.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
That's all I want, That's all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
I want to do the Truman Show.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I want to do missing the live version of this show.
Speaker 7 (51:25):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I need I need to hug. I need to hug
Fonte like a like a man needs to come to
his house. I will come all, d you know what
you have?
Speaker 3 (51:36):
What all of y'all have a standing invite to the
of y'all.
Speaker 4 (51:40):
The fact that we're not like setting up shop all
in North Carolina Atte's house. God stress, and we should
be doing. We could get we get Steve this too.
He could drive Virginia schools North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (51:51):
I think I don't know, but that's an eight hour
drive for me.
Speaker 7 (51:59):
That it's like, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
I don't care, I will go. I will go North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Like like, yeah, that's like a thirty four hour drive
for you, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, I will got it.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
Well, do you let me hang out? Because I will
hang the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Your question, your schedule is to hate?
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Too important?
Speaker 6 (52:19):
But no, I will say right now, right now as
I speak now when we we started this this uh
we started this episode exactly two hours ago. During this
two hours, I've gotten seven texts positive.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Telling me that they just tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 7 (52:44):
Shut.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
The ship is getting a little crazy.
Speaker 6 (52:48):
So yeah, like literally during this conversation, the seven times
I've looked away to go to in my phone, it's
you know, just tested positive, You're just test Yeah, man,
we gotta we gotta figure this out. It's herd immunity
and we all get it, and then you know, I'm.
Speaker 7 (53:06):
Gettine getting money. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:09):
Yeah, so let's be I'm praying for well more than
be safe, which is a word that I'm trying to
divorce myself from and thrive like not being safe. That's
what I want to try to get people away from,
like the safe choice, but really be passionate.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
So that's what I'm leaving it with. But skills. I
thank you very much for doing this episode. O man,
thank you. I appreciate it. Uh yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
I also want to see you do more consistent episodes
of which is really the.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Reason why like this.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Your Your Your Your podcast is definitely one of my
favorite hip hop podcast.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
I love the fact that you don't talk over your
guests in an annoying way and you get really great,
engaging stories and you know, I appreciate that, so thank you, man.
Speaker 7 (53:59):
I'm definitely trying to build it and keep hip Hop
Confessions pushing. So yeah, let's charming on that.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
Yeah, man, I want to do it. I think me
and put need to come through next year. Man us.
Speaker 7 (54:08):
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
Man, all the things are happening.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
And boss man, you are looking towards what in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (54:19):
Part too.
Speaker 6 (54:20):
I want people to be uh healthy, that's number one.
We're going to concentrate on Black No More, which is
Tarik's project.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Black Supreme Black.
Speaker 6 (54:32):
But yeah, he will finally I will get on quest
Left Supreme right now. He's he's off the grid. People
been asking, like, HOWE left the Tonight Show?
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Oh wow?
Speaker 7 (54:42):
Back in October he told me the day before he was.
He was like, my last day is tomorrow, about to
start working on his play. So I told him as
soon as they open up, I'm gonna come and see it.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, so dope, so well out of Washington, we'll see it.
That's a ship. That's that's what's that's what's next. So
that's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (55:00):
But right now, just need the world to be more aware.
I need rappers to stop also just doing basic dumb Shiita.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
Please, I would like that too.
Speaker 6 (55:13):
I would love that anyway, So on behalf of our
man Skills and unpaid Bill and Sugar, Steve and Layah.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (55:24):
You already know I appreciate y'all man.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
Much. Love Supreme is a production on Iheartened radio.
Speaker 6 (55:43):
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