May 3, 2024 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm Jerry Clark.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is story teme with legendary Jerry, my brother, new
face Q Parker one fourth for one twelve. You hit
this discussion. There's some real, real legendary history with his
brother right here, man and real legend.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And he just brought up man, he just brought up
Biggie Smalls.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
And you know, one of my favorite songs right here.
I want to know about this, this song right here
on this cassette right here, one of my favorites, guys, limit, I.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Love that shit.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
How did this come? You out of that show?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And this was probably after his passing, I'm assuming, yeah,
how did that come about?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
One thing I love about Big Man, he he showed
one twelve so much love, man like he always was
naming us and.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Shouting us out.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He's the reason why he's the reason why we named
the second album Room one twelve because he like corned
that twelve.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
But I remember when when we first signed Puff would
just be on our next like you know, in Puff's
own way, and you know, Big would often man just
come to our rescue like man lead them boys alone,
man like you signed them because they dope.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Let him be dope. He would he would get.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
He would get puffed off of us a lot of times,
and so it allowed us to just have a love
for him, just some quick stories about big you know,
as a starving artist. You know, we didn't really have
much recording that first album, and so anytime we come
in the studio and he would be there, he you know,
shoot us a hundred dollar bill just to make sure,
(01:48):
you know, did y'all eat today?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Y'all good?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
He made sure that we had Brooklyn mint gear. You know,
we're from the South, so we don't really know what
a goos down supposed to look and feel like. You know,
he made sure we went down to the village man
gave us bread to you know get In ninety six
was the New York blizzard. So we're coming from the
South and we having.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
From from the aid to that man's a blizzard.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
So he was like, nah, man, y'all need the y'all
need the adequate coats and stuff like. He would just
make sure did y'all eat to day?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Right? Man? All, but let me tell a funny story,
right so I did. He did the verse on only
you us being Southern gentlemen that we are.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Our manager k was like Kevin Wells was like, hey, yo,
Now we're still in the studio recording the rest of
the album, but the single is out.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
So Kevin comes in and.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Says, hey, y'all, biggest in the in the I'm having
a loss of world what do you call it in
the studio man, the common area like the So he's like, yo,
biggest in the loude go in and say thank you.
And so I may have been in the booth, Slim
may have been doing, but maybe one guy went out
(03:02):
first and said big thank you.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Yeah, he came back in and another member went out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Big thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
By the time he got to the third dude, Big
was like, hey, y yo, yo, yoah, hold on, hold on, can.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
All the members of one Where have just come out here? Y'all?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Keep on?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah? Man.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
But to answer your question about that, so it was
it was the brilliance and the masterminding of Puffy, honestly, man.
They had the song and he was like, Yo, I
just need y'all to uh get on the hook, and
it was it was really just that quick. We were
already doing a session probably of our own, and uh
(03:42):
he bringing the track over, bringing the music over, and
we laid it down man like.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So you guys have heard the verses. The verses were
late already. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Now with all the all the stuff with your
former label head that's been in the media meaning Puff
or Diddy or whatever you want call oh, how you
feel about a lot of the shit that you've been in.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know, I, honestly, man, would hope that what's alleged
it's not true. I honestly hope that it's not. However,
I'm one of those guys I appreach this to my son,
to those that I mentor when you are at fault,
(04:28):
you just gotta say, yo, that's on me. Yeah, you
got that, and accept the full responsibility of your actions.
And you know, if that is the case, what's being
alleged is absolutely true, then you know he's gonna have
to kind of deal with that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You gotta pay literally and fail.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Absolutely, absolutely absolutely. I mean, nobody deserves any kind of
treatment of the sort. And you know, me having my
mom is still living, I have two sisters, I have
a daughter.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I wouldn't I wouldn't want that on.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He ain't never must you in the face, not daddy.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Nah, But no, you know he wouldn't have man because
Puffy and I was always like, yeah, like that was
my guy, Like he's He would always say, man, like
we gotta we gotta stay down the dark skin and
ship like yeah, you know, I'm the darkest one in
the group.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So he would always be like, yo, you my guy.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
So sometimes just kind of favorite time, the guy would
be like, well, you you know that you're his favorite man,
So you go down there and talk to him when
you go in the studio and and and plead why
we should have this song on the record, and you
know all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So yeah, yeah, well y'all coming up through Bad Boy,
y'all have heard over the years. I wouldn't I'm not
definitely I'm not saying that's a bad Boy kurts that.
I'm not saying that. But you know people that said, man,
you look at the stuff surrounding Bad Boy. Craig mag G,
depp Loone had to go sit down in prison, Sean
had to go sit down in prison.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It ain't affected one twelve, which is good, right, meaning
you know with some of the stuff. I mean, of
course you all have y'all situation that you know it's
going to be a resolved. But when when you hear that,
like like it's a dark cloud over that ship. What
what goes through your mind? Man, We're like, okay, like
they didn't you know, they didn't talked about the past,
and you know it's been a lot Black Rob and
(06:22):
you know, associated with that bad boy name.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I believe that in life, you know, we have to
make choices. Life is choices and is man.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
A mentor of mind said, you look like your parents
when you're born, but when you die, you look like
your choices.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Mhm.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I would just like we've always as a unit,
we moved differently. We're never we never were into like
the limelight, the hooplae, any of that. Our mindset was
let's show up, do our job at our money and
go home. And I believe because we had praying grandmothers
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back in Atlanta always covering us with the prayers.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
On the down South? What are the down South artists?
The bad Boy had?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It wasn't you think about new face you got. You
got a group that's from the South, that's from that.
It's just they built different. I'm not trying to but
you from the a man coming from Atlanta growing up here,
you just built.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Difference, built different, man. And I believe because of the
way that we were chaperone. Again, shout out to Courtney
and k Wells and everybody that big mic over the years, La,
even Greg Browning. You know, we were always we were
always we were always covered in a way and shielded
(07:45):
and protected from a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Stuff and by the prayers of your Grandma.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And and I'm talking about we was around with Jimmy
Henchman Jack, like like.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
We used to come pick us Lf from high school.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Who hates and Jack. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yeah, And you're aware of there, you know, they not
not at the time, but I'm sure short that was
big brother.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, and y'all y'all was around some real thorough ass folks.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, man, And and everybody knew we were different, so
they protected us and they they handled us in a
way where, nah, we're not gonna let y'all get into
that right there. Again, our biggest thing was some girls.
But we never really like did drugs, alcohol, like to
this day, like I never drank on smoke, I don't
(08:34):
do none of that.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Like, just was never our thing.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And they always attribute you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Know, bad boy Diddy, Diddy Diddy, But were there people
at the Bad Boys staff that were actually you know
that you still have friends or relationships currently and can
you you know, shot them out or name them like.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Who absolutely Man, Kirk Burrows.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When Nile's remember Burrows, Man.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Sheryl Flowers, Michelle Joyce, Jessica Rivera.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Pierre.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Super Mario, man, everybody. And I'm I'm forgetting a lot
of people. I forget everybody, super Mario.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No no, no, no, no, Big dude, Damn, I forgot
the nig your name.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I can't remember. Man.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
But again again, everybody they knew we were from the South,
so they just handled us differently, man, like we were
like the babies of the of the family. And you
talk about people always say the Bad Boy family. It
was really that, and everybody dealt with us like the
little brother of the label.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Man.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
When when she was when she and Big was going
through their spats, Man, she would commistate at our apartment
with us, cook dinner for us, man, like we go
to the grocery store with it, uh and talk about
I can throw down in the kitchen cook Oh my god, Man.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ain't when Faith come in for the show, I'm gonna
need something, bring something Faith, many and.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Faith, kept food in her mouths man. And she just
always been like.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Every time I've been around her, her energy was so good. Man.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Oh man.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And and even outside of just our relationship with her
as a group and her, she and I are just man,
that's that's my girl. Man, Like my daughter used to
baby see her kids when China was little.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Like we just so when all that ship was little Kim.
In fact, did y'all have to choose sides per se
being in the circle all the time, moving around.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
It wasn't no size. Yeah, no, it was never no size.
And to be honest with you, man, we didn't really
have a close relationship with Kim because although she was
a part of the family, she wasn't like directly she
was like a cousin if you're looking at it from
a family standing. She was like a cousin and like
(10:59):
your mafia, they were family. But but it was yeah,
it wasn't immediate.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah you see him.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Doing a founeral young in or song.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And you being associated you know with bad Boy and
you guys were RB group. Let me ask you the
first time you heard hit him up about Tupac, do
you remember it?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And your reaction.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I hated it, Bro, I hated it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Man and DJs would try to be slick sometimes, like
they would play it when they knew we were in.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's that whole ship.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Man and so Bear would be like, you know, beg
get on his gatester shout out the Bear loan, shout
out to the low man. He would go and him
the DJ up until the DJ like, no, don't don't
play that on.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Nah, that's some wame ass petty aass ship.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
It was, man, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was before we get out of here, Q remove
everybody in one twelve, put together five person.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That was lit. You already know what I'm going put
together your five person supergroup?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, can't be your brother some one twelve.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Because that's the first supergroup of course, how far can
I go back?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Go back? Okay, ahead, Babyface, I won't expecting to hear
that face.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Chris Brown is a member?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Wow you two a Okay, Usher is definitely definitely I
thought you was gonna say him first.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay, R and B right, Yeah, R and B Face, Usher, Breezy,
Stevie okay, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye Okay, man, Okay,
Like that's that's that's range.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That that's a oh and me. No, bro, that's sick
you the sixth member.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
No, I'm in the starting file, coming up the best.
This is my team.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
David Stephen here on on stage.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But yeah, hey, bad boy, I want to say, hey, man,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Man.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It ain't trying to go yet.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Hey man, ship man, what you are? We we got
We can talk man ship because we're.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Talking about vocalists. I want to talk about you know,
we had to.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Pass against Divine Stevens talk about contributor. Yeah, he talks
about talking about how important he was to that legacy.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And you guys, let me tell you some dude. To
be a male R and B singer, you gotta just
have that R and B ship. Yeah, you got to.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And it's like a factor.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
It is, man.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
And I'm gonna tell you, man, the reason why I
can walk the way that I walk covered oozing in
that R and B ship.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I ooze that R and B ship. But the reason
why I can.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Do that is because of k Wells, some puff.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
In Devine Stevens.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Because man, the countless hours that we spent from an
artist's development. I gotta add marvelous mcintyren Now, Uncle Marlins,
we got to anybody that put time into developing my group,
I'm gonna extract myself out of that, man, because I
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was paying very close attention to just the way that
it has to look, the way that it has to sound.
And so that's why to this day, man, I'm very
aware of what my presentation looked like. I'm aware of
what my body gotta look like. I'm aware of what
I do from a daily nutritional regimen because I take
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pride and still sounding today better than I did years ago.
I love when people say, well, damn you, you look
the same, or you look still younger than you are,
like I'm forty seven years old. Like all of that
goes into me paying attention to the lessons that Divine
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was imparting during our time with him, Ky Wells, Courtney
and all of those guys. Man, So, uh, you just
don't wake up just because you can sing and be
able to embody that real R and B ship not
at all.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
You don't. It has to be developed.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It has to be nurtured so that you can then
become you live it and it becomes second nature.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And when Divine was on the show, new face. Remember,
he said, when he first started working with y'all, y'all
had one member that had challenge, a couple couple left feet,
so divine. He had to put in a little extra
work to really, he said. He said he was told beforehand,
like there's one member of the group that that you know,
don't really.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Have He had to meet them where they was at.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Watch this though.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
But I'm gonna tell you what some determination and some
dedication to do, and I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
That member was Deron Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yep, that's what he said.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I gonna tell you this though, Dran became the best dancer.
He put in the work and he became the best dancer. Wow,
that's what ship, Yes, sir, from two left feet to
being the best of the four.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
But what you say when you put in put into working.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Man, a little dedication, Yeah, what that creator regimen. Be
consistent in that regimen. Only results can come out.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's it, man.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You man and me and my brother Jerry talk a lot,
and it don't be music may be about family and
our children and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And one of the best things I seen on the internet. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know I'm a grandfather now, but seeing you walk
your daughter down the aisle. I mean, I haven't got
there yet, but can you describe what that meant for
you and how special that was for you as a
father and as a black man to see that.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
That's the ultimate that's that's one of the the ultimate
highlights of my life. And I would I would say
that for any man that can walk his daughter down
the aisle and trusting that the fellow that is going
to be her husband and your now son in law
is going to do all the things that you would do.
(17:21):
But I will say, man, uh, she's always been my
baby girl. And I don't care how old she gets.
That's my BG all day. But I even fall in
love with her even more because, uh, she gave me
my very first grandson. And I'm gonna tell you, man,
Leo is like, man, he.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, you can see the smile on your.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That's a proud that's my baby right there, man.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
And I'm proud that she's now expecting twins and so
from one to three, one to three, yes, sir. But
it's it's it's legacy, man, it's legacy. Even with my foundation, man,
it's Q Parker Legacy Foundation because the impact that we
are having with the senior demographic, the senior citizen demo,
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and the children, our youth. It's it's just about legacy, man.
And I want when when, when I'm no longer here,
I want the work that I've done while I was
alive to live beyond the breath of my body.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And I think we all to a great start because
you know, you look, I grew up with our grandfathers.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They was already retired in the rock and chair.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know what I'm saying, your granddaddy.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We don't look like what We've been through, choices.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We redefining what what what.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So it's funny right when my daughter was pregnant, everybody
was like, well, what's you're gonna what's your what's your
grand baby gonna call you g pa? Grandpa? I was like, noah,
we ain't doing that. So my grandson I'm GP.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We had to make it cool, col.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
G what you call Papa?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I ain't ready with papa.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, I'm still moving a little bit, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Papa pop.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I had little.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I guess I don't know my oldest twenty six, all
my kids in the twenty man, I got time to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But so without with with one twelve not going out
right now, I've been able to witness what you're currently
doing with Q Park and France. Tell me how, tell
us how you came about with that, because that's a
bad Yeah, new face. You got to see it. You
got to see the show.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I learned a long time ago. Man, just listening to
again Courtney Kevin, everybody. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
The power of relationships, that's what it's about. I am.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I'm so proud that over the years of almost thirty years,
I have some great relationships with peers of mine and
it's to the point where it's phone phone great relationships,
good status, so that when you when you call, they'll
pick up the phone. And so some years ago City
(20:13):
I did a show at City Winery and I wanted
to make a tribute to the nineties number ones and
I just got on the phone and just call my
friends and they showed up.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Whatever you need, you, whatever you need.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
And I always try to position myself so that when
they call for me, I'm available, and man, I'll jump
through hoops man for my friends if they call me.
It ain't it ain't a question of whether I'm a
daughter or not. We just need to work it out.
But the Q Parker and Friends experience is just that
I call my friends and we just give you, you know,
an hour and twenty minutes of just back to back
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and I have some amazing friends man with some with
some extensive he had alog.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, an hour, he said, more than an hour or two?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
When I was watching the show, Q, I was like, Damn,
you got r L coming out doing the next stuff.
You ain't go coming out doing the jagged stuff. You
got Dondred coming out, you got a little.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
G from Silk doing Real.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Seven o two.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It just was it was just hit record out the
hit record.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
So so you know, we do that. We do that
probably two or three times a year. We almost kind
of like relegated it to just kind of the private,
private events because I never want to infringe upon my
friends being able.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
To make money.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The make the money with real.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Bad Friday Saturday, and so we'll normally do it like
a midweek when the corporations are doing there.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
It's a great experience.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And and I love it because I get to not
only witness my friends being dope.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
And we've been on the road with each other for years.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Because a lot of times all of our groups are
on the same shows, but to be able to see
them in this light even present day, and I get
to be on stage with them, singing the songs with them.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Again, I'm fans of theirs. First. First, yeah, friends.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Because you gotta see the show.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And he's talking about relationships, and I just have to
say this. You know, Jerry Clark always dedicated to show
to someone special that we all know and love. But
the reason I'm here in Atlanta is because of my brother,
Damon Thomas. He's a photographer and he told me, you know,
come to Seach. Well, he didn't tell me to come,
he said come to Atlanta, and I got you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, I'll show you around.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
He was already at c AU doing mass media communications,
and I did. I decided to do that. My mother
trusted him like he got me, So I moved down here.
First video, I'm sitting on this laughy taffy. He's directing,
directing music videos. He did shoulderling with Young Droe twenty
fours for t I And then he decides to go
on photography and he would just text me photos like
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this with this he would shoot, Uh, he got cute
right here WOA and we would talk about to the camera.
We would talk early photos that Damon Thomas shot and
he would call me and just talk about and this
is members of the group that he shot, and just
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the excitement wow when he would call me, because you know,
this is my brother and he got me here, but
I could we always knew when we were excited that
we got to win. And when he was able to say,
you know, I was shooting with Q and and just
him telling me these stories. So I definitely want to
dedicate this episode to him as well, but just to
say how much your relationship with him meant to us,
(23:33):
you know and everything. So I want to thank you
for that and just allowing because that and every time
I see you in the city.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Man, it's always been loved and I say that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
This is solid. He's just a solid as and I
love that.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Because you know, people always highlight the bad thing or
this industry. Is this industry Me and Jay be outside
for real, and it's an honor to me. People who
are just solid every time, show you love every time
every time and never switched up because never had any business.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But it's just love.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't eat anything for his brothers always happy to
see him.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
He showed me love never.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So I just want to say personally thank you for
being a part of this show and be as well.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I came in here with that jacket Stunn and but
it's cool.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
I got one for you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My mom se.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Years that clock, So I rock.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I just man, I believe that the industry sometimes has
a way of making individuals lose themselves. And my mother
instilled some core values. My parents instill some core values
in me that no matter where I go, what I
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what level of success I achieved, I'm still Quinnis Parker
and never lose sight of that. And I see so
often the music industry, the entertainment industry has a way
of giving you so much access and putting so much
uh success, and you are able to attain so much
so quickly at times that you can easily forget who
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you really are and start treating people differently and you know,
just being an asshole man. And you know, I just
like I say all the time that it costs nothing
to be kind as.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It costs anything.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
This music industry is.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
A motherful So man, I just I just all.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I just found my best to fight against what is
in some cases commonplace. And I love to hear when
people say, C Man, you you're a stand up guy,
because I know that prior to meeting me, they probably
came in contact with eight people who weren't.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Kind, some terrible folks, you know, like I said, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
So yeah, I live by that, dude. It costs nothing
to be kind.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
And so before any of the records, before any of
the money and the fame, deal with people the way
that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Hey man, Jerry Clark, new Face, Q Park. I got
one last question. Out of all the producers that y'all
worked with over the years, that you worked with over
the years, who is that one you you ain't gonna
let me finish.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You already know that one. You just truly enjoyed working.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
With Tim and Bob Man, Tim Kelly and Bob Robinson.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Obviously, I'm Puffy is in.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
There too because he he helped create Storytime Legendary.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Joe, we were signed to bad Boy, all we wanted
to do was sing ballance. That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We just want to go up tempo, get some girls
around us, sit on the piano and just croon to sleep.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
However, meeting Puffy, he he brought he introduced us to
the hip hop. And so when you talk about the
way the world coins hip hop and R and B,
you gotta put one twelve in that category. Two because
we were pioneers of blending hip hop R and B
melodies and so we mastered the R and B in
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us because of producers like Timmy Bob. Our sound was
even more crafted being with Tim and Bob. Once we
got with Puffy and brought the hip hop element to
our melodies and our harmonies and all of that, it
became what is known as hip hop and R and B.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
But Man, a lot of what.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I learned why he started with the Mary j.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Yeah, but a lot of them so early.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Man, Yes, our first time in in a in a
professional studio was at Dark Studios with Tim and Bob,
and they had the patience to see how gifted and
talented we were. But if we just give them a
little love and just give them a little more time
and just spend some time with a man and show
them new ropes and show him this, they're going to
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eventually be incredible. And this is them coming off the
just working with Tim with boister Men and Babyface and
all of those groups, and they were just kind of
giving us everything that they had gotten from those guys.
And so yeah, by far, by far, hands down, Tim
Kelly and Bob Robinson, it's not even close. And we
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worked with a lot of producers.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
But Tim Kelly, have you ever worked with Jermaine dupri Yes?
We did. Yes, we did on album four.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I want to I thought it was album three.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Album four. It was a pleasure and pain album.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, we did two songs with Jermaine, and I mean
that was that was also uh an unforgettable moment because
you know, people like to say, well, you know he's
a jagged edge guy, so how he's working with one
twelve or how they puff do?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
He did it with Jagged Eggs.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
So but it doesn't mean that we still can't do
music exactly. So I love Jermaine is one of the
greatest producers of our era.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And our songwriters.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Absolutely, you know, to.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Have that time with him, to say that I've experienced
that was memorable, say the least.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Q Parker, Jerry Clark, Akad Legendary, Jerry new Face, Hey,
Q Man, thank you man, your platform, give give everybody
your social media handles.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yes, sir, I am Q Parker won one two and
also Q Parker Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
New Face we go a head man hashtag New Face was there,
but we learn heard some legendary things.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You can find me on all platforms at New Face.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And of course I'm big Jerry Clark every dang and
we're about to sign off story time with Legendary Jerry
New Face, Q Parker, Jerry Clark and we out of here,
out of here story Time with Legendary Jerry. I am
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Jerry Clark, a k A D. Legendary Jerry. And of
course our weekly episode segment. I'm sorry it is with.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No point in me.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's with New Face the key, New Face, what you
got for us this week? Man, with my brother Q Parker.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And we sat down and heard some legendary stories from
his brother.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You know, I brought out a couple of samples.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You see, we already shocked him with the first single,
the cassette single that I got at Tower Records at
Lenox Mall. You know when Tower Records was at Lenox
and we brought out that life after Death.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sky's the limits. But what you know, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
He keeps.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What we got right here and.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
We're one twelve players, dwell, I love.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It, and we talk about you know, oh man, we
got a Vibe magazine covered, and so in here they
were talking about the future.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
So if you go and you open up this page
right here, it starts off with brother Mante George, come
over here, Jaggotty, you see where we're going.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And then who we got right there?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
The boys one twelve They from the A A shot it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We don't play being from Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You know, how did it feel to be in the
cover of, you know, a prestigious magazine like the Vibe magazine.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
We were just enjoying the ride. Man.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
We didn't we didn't get into it for the fame.
Like we just wanted to sing, bro, That's all we
wanted to do. And so when we would do when
stuff like the Vibe magazine would happen, we'd come back
to Atlanta and people would be like, yo, y'all, y'all
in Vibe and we were just like.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
World.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But it was good because nationally and at that point
Vibe we took we want.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
We want every opportunity to let people know that we
were from Atlanta because a lot of times people thought
we were from New York by because of the affiliation
to bad Boys. But man, we fought like, no, we're
from Atlanta, man, And so anytime we can have right
up like this and they would say from Atlanta, manu yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And alongside like greats like Destiny Child. You know what
I'm saying, Nothing like that nineties m Man.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
It just his difference.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I was just talking to my production partner and you know,
getting ready to do another R and B album myself,
and I was just like, man, we got to get
the feeling back, you know, man, shut out the usher, right,
I'm gonna give some those because man that we're be't.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Good good but we still good.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It just feel it feels that.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
In the back pocket. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But I was telling my production partner like the nineties
era just felt good.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It wasn't nothing like that.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
It was it was a groove and it just it
just felt good. Yeah, So you're right now. I'm glad
that I'm a part of that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I was entrenched in the music.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
And so the next couple of questions just some quick
style questions. I know, you R and B and but
you guys, you know had to handle hip hop. So
I just wanted to know your earliest memory of hip hop.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
My earliest memory of hip hop was sitting at my
my parents kitchen table with my door cassette radio player
or whatever and trying to learn opp and writing the
words down. I had to like, opp, how can explain it?
Stopped writing I take it, run it down to have
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y'all all jump inside and singing it. And so that
was the very first rap I learned. And then it
was I need love Local Jayson Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And so you know a lyrical verse that lives in
your head that you can recite at any moment out
of a hip hop? Is there one verse that sticks
out in your head that you can recite and can respect?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Which one want to be?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Room one twelve.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
I was like, Jesus the Notorious, just please us with
your lyrical thesis.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
When you first heard that first, When you first heard that.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Leaves us with your lyrical thesis.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Y'all stopped start jumping around dapping each other when you
heard that ship from Big.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Well nah, because again we didn't really know exactly what
having a verse.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
From Big really that time.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
That time, we were just like, all right, he just
shotting on our song, but we didn't know it was
the kick in the door.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
He again, go through the verse again. Let's break it.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Down, leesus the notorious, just please us with your librical thesis,
thesis and.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Fuck big Top Dylan Linen me and little seat.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Ups mellow with sea breeze, dawn peas and palm trees.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Cast named Diablo.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The williest, my jacket back up on this ship.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
I smoked the smaller the Philly gets said one twelve
where the players do.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And and most recently, Keith Lee some you know, did
a food touring cars raised hell here in Atlanta by
criticizing a bunch of food spots. But you, being from Atlanta,
if he came back and he said, I'm gonna just
ride with q wh's four of food spots that you
would take him to, that you know that it's gonna
be ten out of ten every time.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
So I am a whole food, plant based vegan nutrition
like I'm a I created my own pesca veganitarian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh okay, right, he said, niggas special.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
But no, I just I really don't do a lot
of the process. I don't do a lot of fast food.
So if I was taking somebody around, I would probably
take him to Flower.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Child that's just mid I like that spot.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I would do Cafe Sunflower, like.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
That spot next to Houston.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, so it would be. And then I'm a smoothie
and a I E.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Bowl type of guy, so you know, okay, I'll take
him to a smoothie shot so.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You ain't have no steak. No, I'm going to get
me a steak, going to get a beautiful or Shan
Trail back then, back then?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah, okay, gotcha and the beautiful Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And unusually, because we usually have rappers on here, I
ask them like they're Mount Rushmore's. But if you could
have a Mount Rushmore of R and B groups, four
R and B groups, who would you put on this
Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Whoa new audition first and foremost yes, one twelve outside
of one twelve outside okay, new audition.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I was gonna say outside of one.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Okay, so outside of one twelve because definitely one twelve
will be there.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
But new audition.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I have to go and say the Temptations because of
what they did to kick in the door, and any
of those I can go even before them. They kicked
in the door for the other generations to come. I
would say Jackson five.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Of course, and.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Me personally, Man, I'm Jo Deasy.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Boy, Hey man, can you not have Jo that bit?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Man, and somebody voiced men guy look right, but Jo
because he think about it like this. From an influential standpoint,
I gotta go get the ogs.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And all of them legacy.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
From a record sales standpoint, nobody's ever sold as many
records as Bois the men from an R and.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
B group, so they had to run.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
They gotta go in there.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
But then Jodasy they would just they represented everybody from
the hood.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Man that just raw and just stream audio face just
and you wanted to be as fard as they were.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
A man, josy boy, Yeah, man, Man.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I recently went to chat Saint Park.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
They didn't show S, f U V and numboard like
I just was like, man, legacy artists still got it,
still the legacy, the song still sound the same. And
probably my last question and be I usually asked them again,
it's usually rappers, but I would ask you to choose.
You know, we've lost a lot of mcs and R
and B greats over the time. But if you can
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pick two one R and b one hip hop artists
that have died that you could hypothetically bring back to
life and your reason why hm.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Hm, So I'll go a little deep.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I don't ever want to bring anybody back how what
because we don't know what their position was at the
time that God called them. We all miss Whitney, yeah, man,
Prince hmm. And then as an MC, obviously big he
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had more work to do, man, he had more great songs,
he had more to add to his legacy, he had
more lyrics to spit. And but but I will say
because of his death, it opened the way for a
lot of other MC's to be able to come through
the way that they did. And so we all play
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our part. You know, we don't question you know, God,
We don't do any of that. But I believe those
people that I named, they did their work when they
were called and while their time was here. So grateful, Well,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
And this is that New Face was their segment on
the Legendary Jerry Podcast Jerry Clark was every.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Week New Face was there.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Jerry Clark tries to be there and of course, as always,
Brother Q Parker, we signing off story time with Legendary
Jerry Yes, Sir. Story Time with the Legendary Jerry's hosted
by me, the one and Only Jerry Clark. Music has
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Speaker 3 (41:16):
Or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
I'm Jerry Clark.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is story teme with legendary Jerry, my brother, new
face Q Parker one fourth for one twelve. You hit
this discussion. There's some real, real legendary history with his
brother right here, man and real legend.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And he just brought up man, he just brought up
Biggie Smalls.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
And you know, one of my favorite songs right here.
I want to know about this, this song right here
on this cassette right here, one of my favorites, guys, limit, I.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Love that shit.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
How did this come? You out of that show?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And this was probably after his passing, I'm assuming, yeah,
how did that come about?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
One thing I love about Big Man, he he showed
one twelve so much love, man like he always was
naming us and.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Shouting us out.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He's the reason why he's the reason why we named
the second album Room one twelve because he like corned
that twelve.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
But I remember when when we first signed Puff would
just be on our next like you know, in Puff's
own way, and you know, Big would often man just
come to our rescue like man lead them boys alone,
man like you signed them because they dope.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Let him be dope. He would he would get.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
He would get puffed off of us a lot of times,
and so it allowed us to just have a love
for him, just some quick stories about big you know,
as a starving artist. You know, we didn't really have
much recording that first album, and so anytime we come
in the studio and he would be there, he you know,
shoot us a hundred dollar bill just to make sure,
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you know, did y'all eat today?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Y'all good?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
He made sure that we had Brooklyn mint gear. You know,
we're from the South, so we don't really know what
a goos down supposed to look and feel like. You know,
he made sure we went down to the village man
gave us bread to you know get In ninety six
was the New York blizzard. So we're coming from the
South and we having.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
From from the aid to that man's a blizzard.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
So he was like, nah, man, y'all need the y'all
need the adequate coats and stuff like. He would just
make sure did y'all eat to day?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Right? Man? All, but let me tell a funny story,
right so I did. He did the verse on only
you us being Southern gentlemen that we are.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Our manager k was like Kevin Wells was like, hey, yo,
Now we're still in the studio recording the rest of
the album, but the single is out.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
So Kevin comes in and.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Says, hey, y'all, biggest in the in the I'm having
a loss of world what do you call it in
the studio man, the common area like the So he's like, yo,
biggest in the loude go in and say thank you.
And so I may have been in the booth, Slim
may have been doing, but maybe one guy went out
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first and said big thank you.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Yeah, he came back in and another member went out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Big thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
By the time he got to the third dude, Big
was like, hey, y yo, yo, yoah, hold on, hold on, can.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
All the members of one Where have just come out here? Y'all?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Keep on?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah? Man.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
But to answer your question about that, so it was
it was the brilliance and the masterminding of Puffy, honestly, man.
They had the song and he was like, Yo, I
just need y'all to uh get on the hook, and
it was it was really just that quick. We were
already doing a session probably of our own, and uh
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he bringing the track over, bringing the music over, and
we laid it down man like.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So you guys have heard the verses. The verses were
late already. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Now with all the all the stuff with your
former label head that's been in the media meaning Puff
or Diddy or whatever you want call oh, how you
feel about a lot of the shit that you've been in.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know, I, honestly, man, would hope that what's alleged
it's not true. I honestly hope that it's not. However,
I'm one of those guys I appreach this to my son,
to those that I mentor when you are at fault,
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you just gotta say, yo, that's on me. Yeah, you
got that, and accept the full responsibility of your actions.
And you know, if that is the case, what's being
alleged is absolutely true, then you know he's gonna have
to kind of deal with that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You gotta pay literally and fail.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Absolutely, absolutely absolutely. I mean, nobody deserves any kind of
treatment of the sort. And you know, me having my
mom is still living, I have two sisters, I have
a daughter.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I wouldn't I wouldn't want that on.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He ain't never must you in the face, not daddy.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Nah, But no, you know he wouldn't have man because
Puffy and I was always like, yeah, like that was
my guy, Like he's He would always say, man, like
we gotta we gotta stay down the dark skin and
ship like yeah, you know, I'm the darkest one in
the group.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So he would always be like, yo, you my guy.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
So sometimes just kind of favorite time, the guy would
be like, well, you you know that you're his favorite man,
So you go down there and talk to him when
you go in the studio and and and plead why
we should have this song on the record, and you
know all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So yeah, yeah, well y'all coming up through Bad Boy,
y'all have heard over the years. I wouldn't I'm not
definitely I'm not saying that's a bad Boy kurts that.
I'm not saying that. But you know people that said, man,
you look at the stuff surrounding Bad Boy. Craig mag G,
depp Loone had to go sit down in prison, Sean
had to go sit down in prison.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It ain't affected one twelve, which is good, right, meaning
you know with some of the stuff. I mean, of
course you all have y'all situation that you know it's
going to be a resolved. But when when you hear that,
like like it's a dark cloud over that ship. What
what goes through your mind? Man, We're like, okay, like
they didn't you know, they didn't talked about the past,
and you know it's been a lot Black Rob and
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you know, associated with that bad boy name.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I believe that in life, you know, we have to
make choices. Life is choices and is man.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
A mentor of mind said, you look like your parents
when you're born, but when you die, you look like
your choices.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Mhm.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I would just like we've always as a unit,
we moved differently. We're never we never were into like
the limelight, the hooplae, any of that. Our mindset was
let's show up, do our job at our money and
go home. And I believe because we had praying grandmothers
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back in Atlanta always covering us with the prayers.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
On the down South? What are the down South artists?
The bad Boy had?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It wasn't you think about new face you got. You
got a group that's from the South, that's from that.
It's just they built different. I'm not trying to but
you from the a man coming from Atlanta growing up here,
you just built.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Difference, built different, man. And I believe because of the
way that we were chaperone. Again, shout out to Courtney
and k Wells and everybody that big mic over the years, La,
even Greg Browning. You know, we were always we were
always we were always covered in a way and shielded
(07:45):
and protected from a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Stuff and by the prayers of your Grandma.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And and I'm talking about we was around with Jimmy
Henchman Jack, like like.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
We used to come pick us Lf from high school.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Who hates and Jack. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yeah, And you're aware of there, you know, they not
not at the time, but I'm sure short that was
big brother.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, and y'all y'all was around some real thorough ass folks.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, man, And and everybody knew we were different, so
they protected us and they they handled us in a
way where, nah, we're not gonna let y'all get into
that right there. Again, our biggest thing was some girls.
But we never really like did drugs, alcohol, like to
this day, like I never drank on smoke, I don't
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do none of that.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Like, just was never our thing.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And they always attribute you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Know, bad boy Diddy, Diddy Diddy, But were there people
at the Bad Boys staff that were actually you know
that you still have friends or relationships currently and can
you you know, shot them out or name them like.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Who absolutely Man, Kirk Burrows.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When Nile's remember Burrows, Man.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Sheryl Flowers, Michelle Joyce, Jessica Rivera.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Pierre.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Super Mario, man, everybody. And I'm I'm forgetting a lot
of people. I forget everybody, super Mario.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No no, no, no, no, Big dude, Damn, I forgot
the nig your name.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I can't remember. Man.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
But again again, everybody they knew we were from the South,
so they just handled us differently, man, like we were
like the babies of the of the family. And you
talk about people always say the Bad Boy family. It
was really that, and everybody dealt with us like the
little brother of the label.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Man.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
When when she was when she and Big was going
through their spats, Man, she would commistate at our apartment
with us, cook dinner for us, man, like we go
to the grocery store with it, uh and talk about
I can throw down in the kitchen cook Oh my god, Man.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ain't when Faith come in for the show, I'm gonna
need something, bring something Faith, many and.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Faith, kept food in her mouths man. And she just
always been like.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Every time I've been around her, her energy was so good. Man.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Oh man.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And and even outside of just our relationship with her
as a group and her, she and I are just man,
that's that's my girl. Man, Like my daughter used to
baby see her kids when China was little.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Like we just so when all that ship was little Kim.
In fact, did y'all have to choose sides per se
being in the circle all the time, moving around.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
It wasn't no size. Yeah, no, it was never no size.
And to be honest with you, man, we didn't really
have a close relationship with Kim because although she was
a part of the family, she wasn't like directly she
was like a cousin if you're looking at it from
a family standing. She was like a cousin and like
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your mafia, they were family. But but it was yeah,
it wasn't immediate.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah you see him.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Doing a founeral young in or song.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And you being associated you know with bad Boy and
you guys were RB group. Let me ask you the
first time you heard hit him up about Tupac, do
you remember it?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And your reaction.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I hated it, Bro, I hated it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Man and DJs would try to be slick sometimes, like
they would play it when they knew we were in.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's that whole ship.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Man and so Bear would be like, you know, beg
get on his gatester shout out the Bear loan, shout
out to the low man. He would go and him
the DJ up until the DJ like, no, don't don't
play that on.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Nah, that's some wame ass petty aass ship.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
It was, man, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was before we get out of here, Q remove
everybody in one twelve, put together five person.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That was lit. You already know what I'm going put
together your five person supergroup?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, can't be your brother some one twelve.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Because that's the first supergroup of course, how far can
I go back?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Go back? Okay, ahead, Babyface, I won't expecting to hear
that face.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Chris Brown is a member?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Wow you two a Okay, Usher is definitely definitely I
thought you was gonna say him first.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay, R and B right, Yeah, R and B Face, Usher, Breezy,
Stevie okay, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye Okay, man, Okay,
Like that's that's that's range.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That that's a oh and me. No, bro, that's sick
you the sixth member.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
No, I'm in the starting file, coming up the best.
This is my team.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
David Stephen here on on stage.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But yeah, hey, bad boy, I want to say, hey, man,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Man.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It ain't trying to go yet.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Hey man, ship man, what you are? We we got
We can talk man ship because we're.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Talking about vocalists. I want to talk about you know,
we had to.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Pass against Divine Stevens talk about contributor. Yeah, he talks
about talking about how important he was to that legacy.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And you guys, let me tell you some dude. To
be a male R and B singer, you gotta just
have that R and B ship. Yeah, you got to.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And it's like a factor.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
It is, man.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
And I'm gonna tell you, man, the reason why I
can walk the way that I walk covered oozing in
that R and B ship.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I ooze that R and B ship. But the reason
why I can.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Do that is because of k Wells, some puff.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
In Devine Stevens.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Because man, the countless hours that we spent from an
artist's development. I gotta add marvelous mcintyren Now, Uncle Marlins,
we got to anybody that put time into developing my group,
I'm gonna extract myself out of that, man, because I
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was paying very close attention to just the way that
it has to look, the way that it has to sound.
And so that's why to this day, man, I'm very
aware of what my presentation looked like. I'm aware of
what my body gotta look like. I'm aware of what
I do from a daily nutritional regimen because I take
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pride and still sounding today better than I did years ago.
I love when people say, well, damn you, you look
the same, or you look still younger than you are,
like I'm forty seven years old. Like all of that
goes into me paying attention to the lessons that Divine
(15:07):
was imparting during our time with him, Ky Wells, Courtney
and all of those guys. Man, So, uh, you just
don't wake up just because you can sing and be
able to embody that real R and B ship not
at all.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
You don't. It has to be developed.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It has to be nurtured so that you can then
become you live it and it becomes second nature.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And when Divine was on the show, new face. Remember,
he said, when he first started working with y'all, y'all
had one member that had challenge, a couple couple left feet,
so divine. He had to put in a little extra
work to really, he said. He said he was told beforehand,
like there's one member of the group that that you know,
don't really.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Have He had to meet them where they was at.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Watch this though.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
But I'm gonna tell you what some determination and some
dedication to do, and I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
That member was Deron Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yep, that's what he said.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I gonna tell you this though, Dran became the best dancer.
He put in the work and he became the best dancer. Wow,
that's what ship, Yes, sir, from two left feet to
being the best of the four.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
But what you say when you put in put into working.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Man, a little dedication, Yeah, what that creator regimen. Be
consistent in that regimen. Only results can come out.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's it, man.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You man and me and my brother Jerry talk a lot,
and it don't be music may be about family and
our children and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And one of the best things I seen on the internet. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know I'm a grandfather now, but seeing you walk
your daughter down the aisle. I mean, I haven't got
there yet, but can you describe what that meant for
you and how special that was for you as a
father and as a black man to see that.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
That's the ultimate that's that's one of the the ultimate
highlights of my life. And I would I would say
that for any man that can walk his daughter down
the aisle and trusting that the fellow that is going
to be her husband and your now son in law
is going to do all the things that you would do.
(17:21):
But I will say, man, uh, she's always been my
baby girl. And I don't care how old she gets.
That's my BG all day. But I even fall in
love with her even more because, uh, she gave me
my very first grandson. And I'm gonna tell you, man,
Leo is like, man, he.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, you can see the smile on your.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That's a proud that's my baby right there, man.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
And I'm proud that she's now expecting twins and so
from one to three, one to three, yes, sir. But
it's it's it's legacy, man, it's legacy. Even with my foundation, man,
it's Q Parker Legacy Foundation because the impact that we
are having with the senior demographic, the senior citizen demo,
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and the children, our youth. It's it's just about legacy, man.
And I want when when, when I'm no longer here,
I want the work that I've done while I was
alive to live beyond the breath of my body.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And I think we all to a great start because
you know, you look, I grew up with our grandfathers.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They was already retired in the rock and chair.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know what I'm saying, your granddaddy.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We don't look like what We've been through, choices.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We redefining what what what.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So it's funny right when my daughter was pregnant, everybody
was like, well, what's you're gonna what's your what's your
grand baby gonna call you g pa? Grandpa? I was like, noah,
we ain't doing that. So my grandson I'm GP.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We had to make it cool, col.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
G what you call Papa?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I ain't ready with papa.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, I'm still moving a little bit, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Papa pop.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I had little.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I guess I don't know my oldest twenty six, all
my kids in the twenty man, I got time to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But so without with with one twelve not going out
right now, I've been able to witness what you're currently
doing with Q Park and France. Tell me how, tell
us how you came about with that, because that's a
bad Yeah, new face. You got to see it. You
got to see the show.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I learned a long time ago. Man, just listening to
again Courtney Kevin, everybody. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
The power of relationships, that's what it's about. I am.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I'm so proud that over the years of almost thirty years,
I have some great relationships with peers of mine and
it's to the point where it's phone phone great relationships,
good status, so that when you when you call, they'll
pick up the phone. And so some years ago City
(20:13):
I did a show at City Winery and I wanted
to make a tribute to the nineties number ones and
I just got on the phone and just call my
friends and they showed up.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Whatever you need, you, whatever you need.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
And I always try to position myself so that when
they call for me, I'm available, and man, I'll jump
through hoops man for my friends if they call me.
It ain't it ain't a question of whether I'm a
daughter or not. We just need to work it out.
But the Q Parker and Friends experience is just that
I call my friends and we just give you, you know,
an hour and twenty minutes of just back to back
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and I have some amazing friends man with some with
some extensive he had alog.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, an hour, he said, more than an hour or two?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
When I was watching the show, Q, I was like, Damn,
you got r L coming out doing the next stuff.
You ain't go coming out doing the jagged stuff. You
got Dondred coming out, you got a little.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
G from Silk doing Real.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Seven o two.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It just was it was just hit record out the
hit record.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
So so you know, we do that. We do that
probably two or three times a year. We almost kind
of like relegated it to just kind of the private,
private events because I never want to infringe upon my
friends being able.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
To make money.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The make the money with real.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Bad Friday Saturday, and so we'll normally do it like
a midweek when the corporations are doing there.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
It's a great experience.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And and I love it because I get to not
only witness my friends being dope.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
And we've been on the road with each other for years.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Because a lot of times all of our groups are
on the same shows, but to be able to see
them in this light even present day, and I get
to be on stage with them, singing the songs with them.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Again, I'm fans of theirs. First. First, yeah, friends.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Because you gotta see the show.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And he's talking about relationships, and I just have to
say this. You know, Jerry Clark always dedicated to show
to someone special that we all know and love. But
the reason I'm here in Atlanta is because of my brother,
Damon Thomas. He's a photographer and he told me, you know,
come to Seach. Well, he didn't tell me to come,
he said come to Atlanta, and I got you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, I'll show you around.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
He was already at c AU doing mass media communications,
and I did. I decided to do that. My mother
trusted him like he got me, So I moved down here.
First video, I'm sitting on this laughy taffy. He's directing,
directing music videos. He did shoulderling with Young Droe twenty
fours for t I And then he decides to go
on photography and he would just text me photos like
(22:51):
this with this he would shoot, Uh, he got cute
right here WOA and we would talk about to the camera.
We would talk early photos that Damon Thomas shot and
he would call me and just talk about and this
is members of the group that he shot, and just
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the excitement wow when he would call me, because you know,
this is my brother and he got me here, but
I could we always knew when we were excited that
we got to win. And when he was able to say,
you know, I was shooting with Q and and just
him telling me these stories. So I definitely want to
dedicate this episode to him as well, but just to
say how much your relationship with him meant to us,
(23:33):
you know and everything. So I want to thank you
for that and just allowing because that and every time
I see you in the city.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Man, it's always been loved and I say that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
This is solid. He's just a solid as and I
love that.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Because you know, people always highlight the bad thing or
this industry. Is this industry Me and Jay be outside
for real, and it's an honor to me. People who
are just solid every time, show you love every time
every time and never switched up because never had any business.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But it's just love.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't eat anything for his brothers always happy to
see him.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
He showed me love never.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So I just want to say personally thank you for
being a part of this show and be as well.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I came in here with that jacket Stunn and but
it's cool.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
I got one for you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My mom se.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Years that clock, So I rock.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I just man, I believe that the industry sometimes has
a way of making individuals lose themselves. And my mother
instilled some core values. My parents instill some core values
in me that no matter where I go, what I
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what level of success I achieved, I'm still Quinnis Parker
and never lose sight of that. And I see so
often the music industry, the entertainment industry has a way
of giving you so much access and putting so much
uh success, and you are able to attain so much
so quickly at times that you can easily forget who
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you really are and start treating people differently and you know,
just being an asshole man. And you know, I just
like I say all the time that it costs nothing
to be kind as.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It costs anything.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
This music industry is.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
A motherful So man, I just I just all.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I just found my best to fight against what is
in some cases commonplace. And I love to hear when
people say, C Man, you you're a stand up guy,
because I know that prior to meeting me, they probably
came in contact with eight people who weren't.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Kind, some terrible folks, you know, like I said, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
So yeah, I live by that, dude. It costs nothing
to be kind.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
And so before any of the records, before any of
the money and the fame, deal with people the way
that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Hey man, Jerry Clark, new Face, Q Park. I got
one last question. Out of all the producers that y'all
worked with over the years, that you worked with over
the years, who is that one you you ain't gonna
let me finish.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You already know that one. You just truly enjoyed working.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
With Tim and Bob Man, Tim Kelly and Bob Robinson.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Obviously, I'm Puffy is in.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
There too because he he helped create Storytime Legendary.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Joe, we were signed to bad Boy, all we wanted
to do was sing ballance. That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We just want to go up tempo, get some girls
around us, sit on the piano and just croon to sleep.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
However, meeting Puffy, he he brought he introduced us to
the hip hop. And so when you talk about the
way the world coins hip hop and R and B,
you gotta put one twelve in that category. Two because
we were pioneers of blending hip hop R and B
melodies and so we mastered the R and B in
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us because of producers like Timmy Bob. Our sound was
even more crafted being with Tim and Bob. Once we
got with Puffy and brought the hip hop element to
our melodies and our harmonies and all of that, it
became what is known as hip hop and R and B.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
But Man, a lot of what.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I learned why he started with the Mary j.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Yeah, but a lot of them so early.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Man, Yes, our first time in in a in a
professional studio was at Dark Studios with Tim and Bob,
and they had the patience to see how gifted and
talented we were. But if we just give them a
little love and just give them a little more time
and just spend some time with a man and show
them new ropes and show him this, they're going to
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eventually be incredible. And this is them coming off the
just working with Tim with boister Men and Babyface and
all of those groups, and they were just kind of
giving us everything that they had gotten from those guys.
And so yeah, by far, by far, hands down, Tim
Kelly and Bob Robinson, it's not even close. And we
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worked with a lot of producers.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
But Tim Kelly, have you ever worked with Jermaine dupri Yes?
We did. Yes, we did on album four.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I want to I thought it was album three.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Album four. It was a pleasure and pain album.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, we did two songs with Jermaine, and I mean
that was that was also uh an unforgettable moment because
you know, people like to say, well, you know he's
a jagged edge guy, so how he's working with one
twelve or how they puff do?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
He did it with Jagged Eggs.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
So but it doesn't mean that we still can't do
music exactly. So I love Jermaine is one of the
greatest producers of our era.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And our songwriters.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Absolutely, you know, to.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Have that time with him, to say that I've experienced
that was memorable, say the least.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Q Parker, Jerry Clark, Akad Legendary, Jerry new Face, Hey,
Q Man, thank you man, your platform, give give everybody
your social media handles.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yes, sir, I am Q Parker won one two and
also Q Parker Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
New Face we go a head man hashtag New Face was there,
but we learn heard some legendary things.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You can find me on all platforms at New Face.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And of course I'm big Jerry Clark every dang and
we're about to sign off story time with Legendary Jerry
New Face, Q Parker, Jerry Clark and we out of here,
out of here story Time with Legendary Jerry. I am
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Jerry Clark, a k A D. Legendary Jerry. And of
course our weekly episode segment. I'm sorry it is with.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No point in me.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's with New Face the key, New Face, what you
got for us this week? Man, with my brother Q Parker.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And we sat down and heard some legendary stories from
his brother.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You know, I brought out a couple of samples.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You see, we already shocked him with the first single,
the cassette single that I got at Tower Records at
Lenox Mall. You know when Tower Records was at Lenox
and we brought out that life after Death.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sky's the limits. But what you know, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
He keeps.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What we got right here and.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
We're one twelve players, dwell, I love.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It, and we talk about you know, oh man, we
got a Vibe magazine covered, and so in here they
were talking about the future.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
So if you go and you open up this page
right here, it starts off with brother Mante George, come
over here, Jaggotty, you see where we're going.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And then who we got right there?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
The boys one twelve They from the A A shot it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We don't play being from Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You know, how did it feel to be in the
cover of, you know, a prestigious magazine like the Vibe magazine.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
We were just enjoying the ride. Man.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
We didn't we didn't get into it for the fame.
Like we just wanted to sing, bro, That's all we
wanted to do. And so when we would do when
stuff like the Vibe magazine would happen, we'd come back
to Atlanta and people would be like, yo, y'all, y'all
in Vibe and we were just like.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
World.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But it was good because nationally and at that point
Vibe we took we want.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
We want every opportunity to let people know that we
were from Atlanta because a lot of times people thought
we were from New York by because of the affiliation
to bad Boys. But man, we fought like, no, we're
from Atlanta, man, And so anytime we can have right
up like this and they would say from Atlanta, manu yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And alongside like greats like Destiny Child. You know what
I'm saying, Nothing like that nineties m Man.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
It just his difference.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I was just talking to my production partner and you know,
getting ready to do another R and B album myself,
and I was just like, man, we got to get
the feeling back, you know, man, shut out the usher, right,
I'm gonna give some those because man that we're be't.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Good good but we still good.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It just feel it feels that.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
In the back pocket. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But I was telling my production partner like the nineties
era just felt good.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It wasn't nothing like that.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
It was it was a groove and it just it
just felt good. Yeah, So you're right now. I'm glad
that I'm a part of that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I was entrenched in the music.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
And so the next couple of questions just some quick
style questions. I know, you R and B and but
you guys, you know had to handle hip hop. So
I just wanted to know your earliest memory of hip hop.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
My earliest memory of hip hop was sitting at my
my parents kitchen table with my door cassette radio player
or whatever and trying to learn opp and writing the
words down. I had to like, opp, how can explain it?
Stopped writing I take it, run it down to have
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y'all all jump inside and singing it. And so that
was the very first rap I learned. And then it
was I need love Local Jayson Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And so you know a lyrical verse that lives in
your head that you can recite at any moment out
of a hip hop? Is there one verse that sticks
out in your head that you can recite and can respect?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Which one want to be?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Room one twelve.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
I was like, Jesus the Notorious, just please us with
your lyrical thesis.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
When you first heard that first, When you first heard that.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Leaves us with your lyrical thesis.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Y'all stopped start jumping around dapping each other when you
heard that ship from Big.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Well nah, because again we didn't really know exactly what
having a verse.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
From Big really that time.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
That time, we were just like, all right, he just
shotting on our song, but we didn't know it was
the kick in the door.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
He again, go through the verse again. Let's break it.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Down, leesus the notorious, just please us with your librical thesis,
thesis and.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Fuck big Top Dylan Linen me and little seat.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Ups mellow with sea breeze, dawn peas and palm trees.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Cast named Diablo.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The williest, my jacket back up on this ship.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
I smoked the smaller the Philly gets said one twelve
where the players do.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And and most recently, Keith Lee some you know, did
a food touring cars raised hell here in Atlanta by
criticizing a bunch of food spots. But you, being from Atlanta,
if he came back and he said, I'm gonna just
ride with q wh's four of food spots that you
would take him to, that you know that it's gonna
be ten out of ten every time.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
So I am a whole food, plant based vegan nutrition
like I'm a I created my own pesca veganitarian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh okay, right, he said, niggas special.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
But no, I just I really don't do a lot
of the process. I don't do a lot of fast food.
So if I was taking somebody around, I would probably
take him to Flower.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Child that's just mid I like that spot.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I would do Cafe Sunflower, like.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
That spot next to Houston.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, so it would be. And then I'm a smoothie
and a I E.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Bowl type of guy, so you know, okay, I'll take
him to a smoothie shot so.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You ain't have no steak. No, I'm going to get
me a steak, going to get a beautiful or Shan
Trail back then, back then?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah, okay, gotcha and the beautiful Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And unusually, because we usually have rappers on here, I
ask them like they're Mount Rushmore's. But if you could
have a Mount Rushmore of R and B groups, four
R and B groups, who would you put on this
Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Whoa new audition first and foremost yes, one twelve outside
of one twelve outside okay, new audition.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I was gonna say outside of one.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Okay, so outside of one twelve because definitely one twelve
will be there.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
But new audition.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I have to go and say the Temptations because of
what they did to kick in the door, and any
of those I can go even before them. They kicked
in the door for the other generations to come. I
would say Jackson five.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Of course, and.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Me personally, Man, I'm Jo Deasy.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Boy, Hey man, can you not have Jo that bit?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Man, and somebody voiced men guy look right, but Jo
because he think about it like this. From an influential standpoint,
I gotta go get the ogs.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And all of them legacy.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
From a record sales standpoint, nobody's ever sold as many
records as Bois the men from an R and.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
B group, so they had to run.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
They gotta go in there.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
But then Jodasy they would just they represented everybody from
the hood.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Man that just raw and just stream audio face just
and you wanted to be as fard as they were.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
A man, josy boy, Yeah, man, Man.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I recently went to chat Saint Park.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
They didn't show S, f U V and numboard like
I just was like, man, legacy artists still got it,
still the legacy, the song still sound the same. And
probably my last question and be I usually asked them again,
it's usually rappers, but I would ask you to choose.
You know, we've lost a lot of mcs and R
and B greats over the time. But if you can
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pick two one R and b one hip hop artists
that have died that you could hypothetically bring back to
life and your reason why hm.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Hm, So I'll go a little deep.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I don't ever want to bring anybody back how what
because we don't know what their position was at the
time that God called them. We all miss Whitney, yeah, man,
Prince hmm. And then as an MC, obviously big he
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had more work to do, man, he had more great songs,
he had more to add to his legacy, he had
more lyrics to spit. And but but I will say
because of his death, it opened the way for a
lot of other MC's to be able to come through
the way that they did. And so we all play
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our part. You know, we don't question you know, God,
We don't do any of that. But I believe those
people that I named, they did their work when they
were called and while their time was here. So grateful, Well,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
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