May 22, 2025 • 39 mins
DJ Kristyles sits down with R&B legend Q Parker of 112 for a soulful conversation that hits all the right notes. Q opens up about his new single “Keep On Lovin’,” the gospel foundation that shaped his voice, and the musical influences that continue to inspire him. The two also discuss the Mount Rushmore of R&B groups. Whether you’re a day-one 112 fan or just discovering the timelessness of true R&B, this episode is a must-listen.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is w O v U Studios, the number one
DJ and the game Wow one two three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're in the Max with DJ Chrys Styles.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Not if I point out in that films your boy
DJ Christalles holding down each other as I do each
and every Wednesday and Thursday, playing the hotness in hip
hop and especially especially R and B. I got especially
one today. We got the man, the singer, songwriter and actor.
We got to put actor in there. We have to
put actor in there. I made sure when the promo
went out and said actor, I appreciate that because that
(00:36):
you were making that move into that realm. So I
recognized that Q Parker is in the building.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What's good? What's going on? My brother? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I think a couple of years ago I hit you
on on Instagram. Uh huh and uh try to get
an interview with you and you did say you did
say contact somebody, and I didn't contact that person. I
was like, man, I got to hit the email up
and do. This is gonna be a long It'll come
back around at some point and look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And here we are, here we are. What's good Man's dude?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Life is good man, Life is good? You know, just
released the new record with fire. I appreciate which which record,
because I got the one, so we keep loving and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Keep on loving. It's the latest.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah, that's what big was the first one, and then
keep on loving it is the current one. So just
out here on the road, man, you know, doing doing
what I know. That's getting out on the road, shaking hands,
kissing babies, going into the stations, sitting across the desk
on the microphone, doing the live in person interviews.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's what I love, man. So we're here in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You just got off the road too. I'm on the
road about with the group too.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So the group currently is not unified Mike and Slim together, uh,
and then Dern and I are just kind of just
focusing on our individuality. So yeah, the movement that I
am currently on right now is your movies all Q Parker, Yeah,
Q Parker.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Can I say the voice? I mean yeah, I'm just saying, Okay,
it's the voice.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's the way what you're saying here.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You said you can say, we want do what I want?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is the voice. I tell everybody we were talking about,
you know, no disrespect to anybody else.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
That's that's part of the movement. I was much love
to them.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But when we talk about the voice, you gotta talk cute.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're too kind man. But I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, So tell me, tell us about that journey
and why now? Because you have so many years yet
so so much time, probably in between two really focused
on that why now?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Why this moment?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It was twelve years. My last solo project was in
twenty twelve. Here we are releasing new music which was
then twenty twenty four, so twelve year span. And the
reason for that is, you know, I don't like to
release music just because I can.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I can.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I can release a song every day if I wanted to.
But to me, I like to just I like to
figure out where can I occupy a space? And then
just listening to the landscape. Over those years, just surveying
the landscape, I found the niche that I could live
in for a while. And the kniche was catering to women. Man,
singing these love songs, you know, making sure that whatever
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I do, no matter the tempo, is speaking directly to
the ladies in a genleminely, chivalrous, kind, gentle way, like
the way we was raised in this R and B game.
I think that over the years, R and B has
gotten too forward. Uh. It took the romance out of
boy meets Girl, and that's that's what I'm here to represent.
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I found that, like I can occupy that space, and
so I'm like, yo, this is this is where I
need to reside.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, because we can't just let Jack Cue say he
the king of R and B.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Ye beaming a well a person. You know, we never
can tell a person what not to do. We never
can tell a person what not to do because we
should all have the amount of confidence in yourself. And
so I'll just say not alone, Yeah, he ain't by himself.
You got an army of guys.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'll tell you what the R and B right now
it is taking off probably say the last three four years.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yes, and to another level, to another realm.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That a lot of people are really going back to.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Listening to you talk about the trap R and B.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You talk about trap karaoke, suse we trapped R and
B karaoke, Everything that's going on with karaoke parties.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
At R and B, RB bingo, all of that.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
R and B man is just a genre that it
just it's never gonna go away, because if you are
experiencing any level of love, that's what we was designed
to sing about. If you're going to be a participant
in this genre, you have to embody all of the
elements of love, life and relationship, the good times, the
bad time, the happy, the intimate times since you wality
(04:58):
the romance, they didn't get mad, then making back up,
crying like it's all of those things. And so as
long as we keep living we are a relational being.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We can't.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We weren't designed to be without relation.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And so when you try to assign music to that,
what's the best genre to talk about relationships?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
R and B?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It don't get no better than that.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Tell us about you. Working with Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Love man Rico and I go man. Rico is an
amazing creator, producer, songwriter here and I go back years
and you know, I hear the tag turning Light song
just like everybody else. And we've talked about working with
each other for years and late summer of last year,
(05:45):
I went to Miami to record a song for my
big brother sebasti Og that Rico produced, and as I
was leaving, Rico said, YOK, what you're doing. Say, well, man,
I'm getting ready to release some new music. Got an
EP on the way. He say, is it finished? I say,
you know, on my model, Man, it's not finished until
it's released. He said, I got a song for you,
and he gave me keep on Loving in its infant stage.
(06:07):
It had a verse and a chorus, and the moment
I heard the two occasions simple, I was like, hey, yo,
we gotta do this song justice. It's nothing worse than
remaking the song, and you don't uphold the legacy of
the already classic hit. Absolutely and so man, it was
just I'm proud of what we was able to come
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come up with.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Ghost of Kid produced it.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Dondrea is on some of the additional backgrounds, and I think, man,
we have we created a summer instant, summer classic. Man,
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I played like, oh this fire, I doubt it a
little bit, okay, like hold on, let got out here,
because but nah, it's fire.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So now as you're going through this journey, because right
now you can say you're almost like a new artist.
Is you got to reintroduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
The reintroduction of Q Parker, Man, how.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is that going? Like, how's that? That's I'm in that
journey right now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I'm enjoying it because some are existing, some are just
now discovering. But that's that's a part of the game.
Everybody don't know who you are. I don't care how
big you are. Somebody may not know you. And so
my thing is when I'm out here on the road,
I want to come across those who may not know
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me so that they can be introduced to me. But
then those who do know me or know the legacy
of where I come from, just reacquaint yourself.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Ninety five point non fm Q Parkers in the building.
Tell us about those those early days of one twelve.
You've heard this question a million times, those early days
being in the group, being with your brothers. Did you,
in the between the first and second albums, did you think, Okay,
it's my time to go solo?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Well, no, man, we are such a groups group that
it was never publicized or it was never a thing
to have the intent to do solo anything because we
just was a group's group. And once we had those
first three albums that just were super successful, double platinum,
(08:23):
all three albums we gave ourselves the space and the
grace to explore your individuality. Slim was the first one
out the gate. He had huge success on his single
so Fly, but then just me trying to figure out
what I wanted to do. I put a studio in
my house and every day I just go down there
(08:43):
and start writing songs to shop to other artists. Well,
as I was creating those songs, I put one song
on the side because I'm like, nah, I need to
keep that one. And before I knew it, I had
like eight songs over there, and I was like, man,
let's just try it. And I got a record deal
with Malacho be shout out to them, Tommy Couch and
the whole Malico team down in Jackson, Mississippi, And that
(09:06):
started my solo journey. That you know what, Chris Man,
I really don't. I try my best not to try
(09:27):
to identify a pinpoint anybody singularly. I'm about. I like
to be with creative people, and that could be somebody
that's well known, or that could be with somebody who's
just super talented. We just don't know what yet. Somebody
that's just a diamond in and rough, somebody who's just
waiting on an opportunity if we can get in the room,
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collaborate and come up with some magical man. I enjoyed
that experience the same way I enjoy getting with somebody
who's already season as. My My focus is just as
as long as we can come up with something that's
super super dope. I don't walk around saying, man, I
want to work with this person. I just want to
be creative.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, what's the look, because we know the artist.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I got a team of writers team, you just come in.
The hook has already done, everything is already done. Just
come in, yeah, or you just taking this, uh this
reference tracking it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
How would your creative process was that.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Sometimes it's fun to just do that. Sometimes it's fun
to just be the artist and be led, be vocal, produced,
and just kind of directed in how they want this
song to be delivered. But then there are other times
when I'm very involved in the writing process, and it
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could be I have a melody first, and then I
put lyrics to it. I can come up with a
tagline first, and then I'll get with my production partner
and we'll put music behind it. Or sometimes I'll call
one of my writing partners and say hey, I had
this idea, I had this melody, I had this lyric,
and we'd collaborate on, you know, constructing it to the
finish line. So there's no prototypical way that it happens
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every time, the same way it can. The inspiration is
pulled from so many different spaces.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You you also did a couple of gospel records too.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, I read it correctly.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You seem like an artist that wherever the spirit moves you. Yeah,
what what led you or what what keeps that motivation
going bounced from?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
If we want to put them in categories.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Like that, I just know that I'm gifted and I've
been I've just been blessed man in a mighty way
that I never forgot my foundation and my upbringing, which
was gospel. A lot of my earlier influences were gospel
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artist John p. Key Commission takes six to Winings, James Moore,
like all of those guys, and so that's who taught
me everything I know early on. And then when I
met Mike Slimming Duran, you know, I learned a lot
by just singing next to them for years. All of
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those things and elements I put into the Q Parker bag.
So now I can give you a little a lot
of Q Parker that is at the embodiment of Mike Slimming, Durn,
John p Key, Winings, Take Six, Brian McKnight.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's all of those guys.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
But I love that I can live in multiple genres
and spaces and I'm not boxed or pigeonholed into one thing.
I was just laughing because this past weekend in Chicago,
I had to perform Q Parker stuff on Saturday night
and then on Sunday I was the guest worship the
guest worshiper at a church on So I mean, it
(13:02):
don't get no better than that, because yeah, I like
to usher in love, but I also have a relationship
spiritually too.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So let's get into that right now.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yes, this is Q Parker. My current single is called
keep On Loving. It's uh if you love the classic
deal record to Occasions. We just we added a little
sauce to it. And so here's Q Parker Keep On Loving.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Ninety five point nine FM.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Fire Fire Fire.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I expect nothing les's from the voice, So I
expect nothing less from the voice.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hey man, I appreciate that man from the voice.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It had to be BT and you guys, I don't
know if it was a rap city or it might
be be uh uh uh what.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Was it called? What was it called? How did I forget?
The B two?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Not the soul one? The video music song something like
that video and.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, you guys was on there, I remember, and it
had you sing that somebody else in that had you sing.
I was like, yep, why don't you got a solo song?
That's what I said. But but we hear him on
the second verse. Yeah, man, on a couple of records and.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's doing your thing. Tell us that.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So when they got your third album and everything was silent,
tell us that between that and when you start working
on your soul, tell us that that time what you
were going through doing that time.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You know, anytime you do something different from what you
have been accustomed to doing, you know, there is hesitation, trepidation, hesitate, like,
it's all of those things. And I, honestly, I would
say I went through all of that, you know, questioning,
you know, can I do it? You know, is it
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even possible that I can carry a full song by
myself when I've been used to just doing my verse
and then tagging one of my brothers and they come
in and do their part. And so just spending time
with myself every day. I started to get more and
more confident the more I spent the time with myself,
(15:32):
and man, the moment I got it, I.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Was like, man, all here, ready to go. Man lets,
it's time to go.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Because I was then a fully confident Q Parker where
I could give the world one hundred percent of just
all that I had to offer in my mind, in
my heart, in my musical bag. I didn't I didn't
have to, you know, okay it with anybody. I could
just create, be free and just occupy the space where
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my creativity was going to take me. And that first
album did just that. And I and I still think
about sometimes re releasing that twenty twelve Manual album because
it was it was a.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Great body of work.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I just think we had some growing pains with the
label and I, but man, it was it was a
It was a great body of work and people are
still discovering it even twelve years later. And that's the
beauty about just having music in the system. You will
be out with something new and people will now start
hearing you about songs you did way back when. So
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what's just out there? It's never did, never did.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So was you in any part or any time jaded
from the industry, because even me being a DJ like DJ,
it was like it was a step for like three
four years, like I literally stopped DJ going out DJs
whereby you know, I'm fed u with what I'm hearing
or I just wasn't motivated. Did you have that?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I won't say. I won't say I had that. But
I used the silent years just doing research, listening to
what was the standard, listening to how music was shifting,
listening to the cadence of the writing, listening to the delivery,
listening to the sounds that were now being used versus
(17:23):
the sounds that was used a decade earlier, So that
when I was ready to jump ball, I could bring
with me not only what I had to bring to
the table, but I've been listening enough to know that, Okay,
these are the eight awakes that are being that are
playing over the radio. These are the high hats, these
are the chords, these are all of them. This is
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the cadence that which songs are now being written. You know,
even just going through that phase of no bridges like
that was just yeah, I was just dumbfounded because songs
used to be three forty five, not even two minutes.
There was just two verses in that. It like embracing
all of those things. And so when I was ready
to again jump ball, I now had the knowledge of
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all of these components and just mixing it in with
what I already knew that I could do myself.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So how are you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Because again you're at a time where music was just
going right. We just it was the hip hop and
army was at its height, right, the height of just
being new height of just we were just ruling the
air races. It was still ruling. Now what do you
take from then and you take from now? Like how
do you are you merging? Because you was there, You've
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seen it. You was with great a and rs you
with the powerful of the powerful, and now you hear
how do you merging those two together?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Just bringing all of those experiences into the present. Like
I said, just surveying the landscape, being a student researching,
but also I know what I bring to the table.
To I bring to the table is all of those
years of experience, all those years of performing, all those
years of traveling, meeting people, interviews, media training, vocal coaching,
(19:06):
physical training, like all touring, like all of those things,
bringing them into the present with me, and it turns
out that those components are still necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And they still work today.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm doing stuff today on this present run that I
did nineteen ninety six one twelve's first album.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That said, ninety five point not fm Q. Parker is
in the building. Your top five vocalists, like if you
choose the vocals, your top five vocalists.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, that was it, huh top five vocalists. I would say,
I'm a huge Marvin Gaye, John p Key, I'm a
huge Chris Brown Usher fan, Smokey Robinson, Brian McKnight, Brian McKnight,
(20:04):
and commission Commissa.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's a good one. That's a good listen, my my
one of my.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Talk I gave you more than fine you did.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's fine, Jah, that's that. James got jing vocals even
when I seen him he was just recently came to
Cleveland a few months ago and I said, Wow, he's
it's it's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's still there.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, gian Uh, Tevin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, Man, TeV had rained.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Bro, people sleep on tap, how much range he had.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We wrote some songs for Tevin back in in the
nineties and just to go through that session with him
and just sing how gifted he was and how special
his instrument was.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Wow, amazing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Jie LeVert, Oh yeah, legend, legend jie LeVert. Vocals wise,
i'mnna give you and my guy from UH Boys to
Man Sean, Yeah, people sleep on shaw Man.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's my dude.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Man, people sleep on Shot because he does a lot
of background work for a lot of people, and you
don't could do that if your vocals is like that.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sean so smooth man. Big shout out to Sean stock.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Ma Man, Yeah, brother, Like there's some other good guys
out there with vocals, but I'm talking about the ones
people that I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll need any
no no, stop playing band, go ahead, go exactly go
with it.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
But you know, but again, that's how we were raised.
I just did a show this past weekend and the
playback just stopped and it couldn't been the end of
the show, but I'm like, nah, keep it going. We
just started singing a cappella and had the crowd clapping
and rolling, and when the music was ready to on me,
(22:01):
on me, and we kept on moving.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Keep moving. Show didn't that's a veteran move show. Don't stop.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Tell us about teenage you and adult you now about
rolling through the industry of of how you work with
your attitude, your emotional intelligence and everything until now, like
something like that happened when you were a teenager until now.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
We had almost two years of artists development, So even
as a teenager, I knew the show don't ever stop.
And because we were a group who specialized in singing
acappella and harmonized and could, we had an a cappella
version to every last song of our So in any
moment that the music cut off or whatever, we look
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at each other and start snapping and the show keep going.
And and in a lot of cases when that happened,
that's when the crowd went crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
The best part, Yeah, the best part showed gonna stop.
I'm gonna put you on the spot. Normally you don't
do this right, you don't do this normally.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Time.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm gonna do it anyway because it is what we do.
Talk about boy groups.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, Top five, where were you at with it, top
five alloy groups including new Kids on the Block too.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
With all them guys, they are the same things.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I'm gonna say everybody, New Audition, uh is at the top.
But then just as a wild card, I'm gonna go
back and grab somebody like the Tempts four times somebody
like that, just from that era, because they paved the
way for they can get here. So they're gonna be
my six man. Right, you can do that. But I'm
(23:42):
gonna say new Audition because of what And I'm gonna
say Black Street and in Sync one like two A,
two B, because of just the impact the amount of
records they saw that the pandemonium, like no boy group
ever sold the records and stuff like those boy groups
did it. And then I'm going into boister Men, Jodasy
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one twelve.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I like it. I like you doing sync in there
because a lot of people sleep on in sync. Yeah,
a lot of people sleep on sync. I'm gonna I'm
always gonna go to the new addition. I just think
there's just the absolutely that the puddlished outside of the Temptations.
I think I argue with a lot of older white
folks and I said Temptations are better than the Beatles, right,
And I say that it was like because Temptation is
(24:29):
it's like a machine. It's still going right now, the
building is still going. You can still see the Temptations, right,
So Temptations.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Is the better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So but I will have it's gonna be a new addition,
dann y'all in sync there for me, It's gonna be
Jagged Edge one twelve and then the fifth.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
You can just throw anybody in it from from anybody else.
You can just add in. Man.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's so that's always it's always a challenge for me
because I love the groups that came before us so
much that it's just a respect thing.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Man, because Jodysy should be in there with me and
and boys man, because there's just a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Though.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I just think Jodasy is just a different animal.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But see watched this.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
You don't get one twelve, you don't get Jagged, you
don't get Drew Hill without Jodasy.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
And Bois to men.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
You are absolutely you just don't because one twelve is
like a combination of Boys to Men and Joonas Drew
Hill is the reincarnation my list. Jodasy like the Cisco
Jazz combination is like Casey and Jojo, so like it
to me, it's hard to put one twelve before Jodysy or.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Huh, we can't do a top five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Man, I would have do like a top ten. We
can't do a top ten.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
One could argue any group that came out in the
ninety's deserve to be in the top something because of
just the amount of hits that all may do it
One twelve, Jagget Drew and next man. We could go
can we trade nine songs deep? We gotta boney bide
singles and a lot of the groups that I mentioned
(26:16):
before one twelve maybe five or six deep, but you
can one twelve got at least.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Eleven No, no, you got some got some records.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Jaggs got about ten songs that you No, No, you
got some records.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Now, yeah, we may have to do a fake.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Do a tale of the tape like an n C
A A BRAKT. See what I'm saying, Like, God, listen,
here's Black Street. You can it's hard, bro I.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Could go true, but two pointly go go three songs down.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, it's it's not It's not gonna hit as much
as you think it's gonna hit, I promise it's not
going to not going to and great that said, they don't,
They're like, good listen, I play them, trust me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So then here's this bird is good too.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
This is what always happens, even in the barbershop, because
you're talking about Michael Jordan versus Kobe versus. It's hard
to just summarize Coop is better without categorizing, because we're
categorizing in Sync and Backstreet. It's no if it's on
record sales, none of us sold as many records as them.
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If it's but if it's man on Man, Tale of
the Tape, can't nobody out singing one twelve?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Could we could? We could? We could?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It add on it that as part of the music
is full force.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Full for now, full force. They wrote a lot of
the ENSIGNCT So again.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's who how much do we put full force?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Because one category could be self containment. Ju Hill had
no Kiyo producing the records one twelve, half the run
producing the records Jodas he had DeVante producing the records, right,
so I have to I have to see the categories.
That helps me try to identify a top anything because
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so many are better in certain categories.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So many different Yeah, it might have better do that.
It's hard troop and everybody else. Yeah, Man, the nineties,
it's just the nineties and early two thousands. You got
to add in early two thousands. Two thousands was fire.
It was fire too.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
When you said next, I said, wow, for god, next.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, you gotta you gotta put all.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Them guys, because we ain't even.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Said people like ideal and profile and immature, like the
legacy of male R and B groups, Man, is lengthy,
and it's hard to try to depict who's better and
who's man. It's just tough. We all contribute and an
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amazing amount to the legacy of not just male R
and B, but just the legacy and the history of
male black R and B groups.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And it was all fire and they're.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
All it was never a good.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
We didn't even talk about ready for the world to gap, man,
the deal like still ready they are.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Ohio players Like, man.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Dude, it's Ohio the Dad's bad.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, this conversation can go on and.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
On and on, and you know what, we got to
retract a lot of that top five because you can't
just do top five because, like you said, it's hard.
It's hard when you start throwing out other names, like
when you say truth said, you know what was great?
As yet was good? Like as yet has some records that.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You forget about either all four one intro.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Intro, We're going all for one town. Yeah, I just
gotta be put out on the internet.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I'm gonna look at it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
But no, they do that often, like I see a
lot of I'm tagged when they they'll do like an
n c A a bracket on, you know, pitting the
groups against each other.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Like, yeah, it's tough. I've seen that before.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Who comes out that fight? Like, look, if we can
do the final four? Seriously, and we're talking about the nineties,
we're not going with the eighties. Talking about the nineties, right,
talking about the nineties up until early two thousand, who
comes out the final Like, seriously, who comes out the
final four?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Who has enough one? There's three mm hm record.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You have to cultural influence.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So now that is because it's the final four.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You got to though, Like if it's a tournament, you got.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
To it's easy, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I agree with
that one can't be, man, I can't think of anybody
else they.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Do because you guys can still I put it up.
Part of it is can you still perform and sell
out and people want to come to it. I've seen
one twelve. This is out a year almost ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Longer than that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
They were to like they're doing college to a Sippersburg
university like one twelve and sold it out right, they're
still touring now my home. Shout to DJ Storm who
uh that's still doing. Jo Deasy came out it was doing.
Jagged Edge is back on tour right now. You know, boys, men,
if they wanted to, you do it.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
That's the fine out And and man I have to
just give I can give honorable mention because we only
said four go ahead to next thing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Drew hill Man, that's another one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
That's that's like, that's the Elite eight, right eight anything
that happened Yeah, I mean well actually the gods almost
the same people, the same people, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, Riley yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Man.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So that's that's the Elite eight elite because to try
to do anything other than that, it's just unfair.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Okay, are we able to put together?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Like you know, I had that like the twenty five
More the Time review right, more Time are able to
put together a boy, not a boy, but a group. Yeah,
it's my idea. Just let just let me know how
I get credit for this.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Like this is the bove Wise super Fest.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, yes, when it was, when it was new edition,
when it was guy, when it was like, that's you're
talking about something like I'm talking about everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm talking about everyone does that. It's just I'm talking
about review.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I'm talking about also bringing it immature, also bringing in
b TWOK like like I'm talking about bringing that in
of that, of having that.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Ever does that, I'm saying out of here you're talking
about it's gonna be twenty years. Like if you start
with let's just say you start with just new addition,
from the new addition all the way down to I'm
gonna say pretty Ricky.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Oh you brought pretty Ricky out the girls. I want
to go with all the groups that can act, but
they can do.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But just so let's ten x this, this, this is
the this is the this is the Orange because again
because we're not gonna call them names, but everybody ain't
got all of it, but gods that I will go
see today start with new audition again. We got to
the guy in there. We will give Blackstreet their own slot.
(33:47):
They have to yeah, yeah, yeah, God bless. But we
want Laverty do a Lavert review. We bring to bring
the guys. We've got somebody who actually doing that right now.
Shout to Dave Tolliver here. Yeah, I said, so we
get Dave Man. You know boys, Joe, little Joe. I
went to middle school with Joe.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Hold On, you said, new addition guy black Street, the
Lavert Review.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Obviously, we're gonna do one for the man, Jodasy Jack
Drew Hill, Drew Hill.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Next, next is ten.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's nine, bru.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm telling you you're gonna we're gonna do ourselves at disservice.
If we leave Pretty Ricky out, you gotta do pretty
so seeing them on the Millennium tours, I gave pledge
no more records.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Okay, so I know what that is. We have Pretty Ricky.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's twelve, that's eleven, that's ten. That's eleven. Okay, that's eleven.
We need one more to around it all like even numbers.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
So let's go up a little bit one more.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I'm gonna say, so you gotta If you're doing that,
you gotta you gotta do what. You gotta split it,
you gotta split it. You gotta do did Young Boys
do Candy Rain? I just gotta do it just for
the record. That's like there in the beginning there in
the beginning. They they not at the beginning of the show.
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So for real, So in the beginning of the show,
they got two records.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Every little thing, God do that one.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
They're just real quick. So for real, it's quick, quick ones.
But it's like a quick.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, okay, I got you.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
So like three, like two or three of them guys. Okay,
so for real, either going to be B two K
or immature one of them to.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Yeah, one of them.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
We gotta go with one of them be.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I would thought even though they're the different groups, I
was they all family.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
I throw them all together.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's it there, the whole Stokes of the finish group,
mature be two K.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, you just run them through.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Seven that's a good day. Thirty minutes by themselves.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, but you don't want to get thirty minutes because
everybody know all their thirty this song.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah, yeah, like everybody on your fifteen minutes and now
you're Thursday thirteen seven after seven was date. They were nineties, right.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, there was baby facing the eight early nineties.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
You can't do it. You can't do no, no, no, no,
we forgot who were missing.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
We can't cuss on here camera.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
No, you can't cuts on silk.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Oh no way, We're gonna run run back, run back,
No way, we leave it silk.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now now you're losing Pretty ricky, pretty pretty rigor Oh no, no,
pretty goes on the review part. They're going to begin,
what's the name leaves get out of here? No, so
for real gotta go. So you put pretty we gotta go.
I love front, but they gotta go.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
No, no, you put pretty riggy.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
So far Now, I'm gonna tell you what like we
gotta go. Like y'all gonna hate me on this. I
think LeVert gotta go because it's not the original members.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
What I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It ain't the members. It ain't the members.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
It's not the member black.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Thing, Dave and Joe and we get one more marks.
Mark still got some boys, you get them thro they
gotta go. I'll tell your story outside of here.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
If it was the original I'm gonna tell you something
right outside of it, then yeah, I'm gonna put you
into something.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
But yeah, they I would say, I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I'm gonna tell you only because gee.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yeah here, yeah, put silk in there. Silk gotta get
be in there.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Who's gonna do this? Helf helf? No, no, no, we
know who to go to.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
We know this is this is not no no, no no,
we we know we got two plays.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
We can make.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I am telling you all, it's gonna take though one.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
We either have to do two nights in an arena
or we're gonna have to do a stadi stadium.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
It has to be at a big market.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
No, no, we know we're gonna We're gonna do five.
We're gonna take it this. We're gonna do regional. We're
gonna do like they do, like the coach, not coach.
What's the other? The big traveling hip hop festival.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Rolling, We're gonna do Rolling Loud basically version.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I'm telling you this happens, R and B loud. I'm
telling this happens. There's will be a million panties on stage.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
You're talking about everybody, everybody else, Everybody gonna see their
whole childhood teenagehood.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I think you can pull it off.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
This is this is the hardest I think the part
hardest part. I think it would be boys and man
getting them on stage. Outside works.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
There's three just three is working? Is is y'all? Once?
What's gonna be fine? I mean somebody out there traveling? Uh?
Not if I point nine f M.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Give everybody your Instagram where they get contact with and
and and get at you and when your album dropping,
talk about all that.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We're talking about releasing the full EP in the fall.
We don't have a direct date just yet. Uh, but
sometime in the fall. I am at Q Parker one twelve.
My official website is It's q Parker dot com. Uh,
and yeah, just connect with me, man. I'm not I'm
not going nowhere no time soon. And I'll be in
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the city near you.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Let's go, Q Parker, Keep on Love. Ninety five point
nine FL
This is w O v U Studios, the number one
DJ and the game Wow one two three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're in the Max with DJ Chrys Styles.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Not if I point out in that films your boy
DJ Christalles holding down each other as I do each
and every Wednesday and Thursday, playing the hotness in hip
hop and especially especially R and B. I got especially
one today. We got the man, the singer, songwriter and actor.
We got to put actor in there. We have to
put actor in there. I made sure when the promo
went out and said actor, I appreciate that because that
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you were making that move into that realm. So I
recognized that Q Parker is in the building.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What's good? What's going on? My brother? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I think a couple of years ago I hit you
on on Instagram. Uh huh and uh try to get
an interview with you and you did say you did
say contact somebody, and I didn't contact that person. I
was like, man, I got to hit the email up
and do. This is gonna be a long It'll come
back around at some point and look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And here we are, here we are. What's good Man's dude?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Life is good man, Life is good? You know, just
released the new record with fire. I appreciate which which record,
because I got the one, so we keep loving and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Keep on loving. It's the latest.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah, that's what big was the first one, and then
keep on loving it is the current one. So just
out here on the road, man, you know, doing doing
what I know. That's getting out on the road, shaking hands,
kissing babies, going into the stations, sitting across the desk
on the microphone, doing the live in person interviews.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's what I love, man. So we're here in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You just got off the road too. I'm on the
road about with the group too.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So the group currently is not unified Mike and Slim together, uh,
and then Dern and I are just kind of just
focusing on our individuality. So yeah, the movement that I
am currently on right now is your movies all Q Parker, Yeah,
Q Parker.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Can I say the voice? I mean yeah, I'm just saying, Okay,
it's the voice.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's the way what you're saying here.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You said you can say, we want do what I want?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is the voice. I tell everybody we were talking about,
you know, no disrespect to anybody else.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
That's that's part of the movement. I was much love
to them.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But when we talk about the voice, you gotta talk cute.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're too kind man. But I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, So tell me, tell us about that journey
and why now? Because you have so many years yet
so so much time, probably in between two really focused
on that why now?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Why this moment?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It was twelve years. My last solo project was in
twenty twelve. Here we are releasing new music which was
then twenty twenty four, so twelve year span. And the
reason for that is, you know, I don't like to
release music just because I can.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I can.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I can release a song every day if I wanted to.
But to me, I like to just I like to
figure out where can I occupy a space? And then
just listening to the landscape. Over those years, just surveying
the landscape, I found the niche that I could live
in for a while. And the kniche was catering to women. Man,
singing these love songs, you know, making sure that whatever
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I do, no matter the tempo, is speaking directly to
the ladies in a genleminely, chivalrous, kind, gentle way, like
the way we was raised in this R and B game.
I think that over the years, R and B has
gotten too forward. Uh. It took the romance out of
boy meets Girl, and that's that's what I'm here to represent.
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I found that, like I can occupy that space, and
so I'm like, yo, this is this is where I
need to reside.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, because we can't just let Jack Cue say he
the king of R and B.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Ye beaming a well a person. You know, we never
can tell a person what not to do. We never
can tell a person what not to do because we
should all have the amount of confidence in yourself. And
so I'll just say not alone, Yeah, he ain't by himself.
You got an army of guys.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'll tell you what the R and B right now
it is taking off probably say the last three four years.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yes, and to another level, to another realm.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That a lot of people are really going back to.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Listening to you talk about the trap R and B.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You talk about trap karaoke, suse we trapped R and
B karaoke, Everything that's going on with karaoke parties.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
At R and B, RB bingo, all of that.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
R and B man is just a genre that it
just it's never gonna go away, because if you are
experiencing any level of love, that's what we was designed
to sing about. If you're going to be a participant
in this genre, you have to embody all of the
elements of love, life and relationship, the good times, the
bad time, the happy, the intimate times since you wality
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the romance, they didn't get mad, then making back up,
crying like it's all of those things. And so as
long as we keep living we are a relational being.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We can't.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We weren't designed to be without relation.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And so when you try to assign music to that,
what's the best genre to talk about relationships?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
R and B?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It don't get no better than that.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Tell us about you. Working with Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Love man Rico and I go man. Rico is an
amazing creator, producer, songwriter here and I go back years
and you know, I hear the tag turning Light song
just like everybody else. And we've talked about working with
each other for years and late summer of last year,
(05:45):
I went to Miami to record a song for my
big brother sebasti Og that Rico produced, and as I
was leaving, Rico said, YOK, what you're doing. Say, well, man,
I'm getting ready to release some new music. Got an
EP on the way. He say, is it finished? I say,
you know, on my model, Man, it's not finished until
it's released. He said, I got a song for you,
and he gave me keep on Loving in its infant stage.
(06:07):
It had a verse and a chorus, and the moment
I heard the two occasions simple, I was like, hey, yo,
we gotta do this song justice. It's nothing worse than
remaking the song, and you don't uphold the legacy of
the already classic hit. Absolutely and so man, it was
just I'm proud of what we was able to come
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come up with.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Ghost of Kid produced it.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Dondrea is on some of the additional backgrounds, and I think, man,
we have we created a summer instant, summer classic. Man,
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I played like, oh this fire, I doubt it a
little bit, okay, like hold on, let got out here,
because but nah, it's fire.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So now as you're going through this journey, because right
now you can say you're almost like a new artist.
Is you got to reintroduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
The reintroduction of Q Parker, Man, how.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is that going? Like, how's that? That's I'm in that
journey right now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I'm enjoying it because some are existing, some are just
now discovering. But that's that's a part of the game.
Everybody don't know who you are. I don't care how
big you are. Somebody may not know you. And so
my thing is when I'm out here on the road,
I want to come across those who may not know
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me so that they can be introduced to me. But
then those who do know me or know the legacy
of where I come from, just reacquaint yourself.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Ninety five point non fm Q Parkers in the building.
Tell us about those those early days of one twelve.
You've heard this question a million times, those early days
being in the group, being with your brothers. Did you,
in the between the first and second albums, did you think, Okay,
it's my time to go solo?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Well, no, man, we are such a groups group that
it was never publicized or it was never a thing
to have the intent to do solo anything because we
just was a group's group. And once we had those
first three albums that just were super successful, double platinum,
(08:23):
all three albums we gave ourselves the space and the
grace to explore your individuality. Slim was the first one
out the gate. He had huge success on his single
so Fly, but then just me trying to figure out
what I wanted to do. I put a studio in
my house and every day I just go down there
(08:43):
and start writing songs to shop to other artists. Well,
as I was creating those songs, I put one song
on the side because I'm like, nah, I need to
keep that one. And before I knew it, I had
like eight songs over there, and I was like, man,
let's just try it. And I got a record deal
with Malacho be shout out to them, Tommy Couch and
the whole Malico team down in Jackson, Mississippi, And that
(09:06):
started my solo journey. That you know what, Chris Man,
I really don't. I try my best not to try
(09:27):
to identify a pinpoint anybody singularly. I'm about. I like
to be with creative people, and that could be somebody
that's well known, or that could be with somebody who's
just super talented. We just don't know what yet. Somebody
that's just a diamond in and rough, somebody who's just
waiting on an opportunity if we can get in the room,
(09:49):
collaborate and come up with some magical man. I enjoyed
that experience the same way I enjoy getting with somebody
who's already season as. My My focus is just as
as long as we can come up with something that's
super super dope. I don't walk around saying, man, I
want to work with this person. I just want to
be creative.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, what's the look, because we know the artist.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I got a team of writers team, you just come in.
The hook has already done, everything is already done. Just
come in, yeah, or you just taking this, uh this
reference tracking it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
How would your creative process was that.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Sometimes it's fun to just do that. Sometimes it's fun
to just be the artist and be led, be vocal, produced,
and just kind of directed in how they want this
song to be delivered. But then there are other times
when I'm very involved in the writing process, and it
(10:45):
could be I have a melody first, and then I
put lyrics to it. I can come up with a
tagline first, and then I'll get with my production partner
and we'll put music behind it. Or sometimes I'll call
one of my writing partners and say hey, I had
this idea, I had this melody, I had this lyric,
and we'd collaborate on, you know, constructing it to the
finish line. So there's no prototypical way that it happens
(11:07):
every time, the same way it can. The inspiration is
pulled from so many different spaces.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You you also did a couple of gospel records too.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, I read it correctly.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You seem like an artist that wherever the spirit moves you. Yeah,
what what led you or what what keeps that motivation
going bounced from?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
If we want to put them in categories.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Like that, I just know that I'm gifted and I've
been I've just been blessed man in a mighty way
that I never forgot my foundation and my upbringing, which
was gospel. A lot of my earlier influences were gospel
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artist John p. Key Commission takes six to Winings, James Moore,
like all of those guys, and so that's who taught
me everything I know early on. And then when I
met Mike Slimming Duran, you know, I learned a lot
by just singing next to them for years. All of
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those things and elements I put into the Q Parker bag.
So now I can give you a little a lot
of Q Parker that is at the embodiment of Mike Slimming, Durn,
John p Key, Winings, Take Six, Brian McKnight.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's all of those guys.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
But I love that I can live in multiple genres
and spaces and I'm not boxed or pigeonholed into one thing.
I was just laughing because this past weekend in Chicago,
I had to perform Q Parker stuff on Saturday night
and then on Sunday I was the guest worship the
guest worshiper at a church on So I mean, it
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don't get no better than that, because yeah, I like
to usher in love, but I also have a relationship
spiritually too.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So let's get into that right now.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yes, this is Q Parker. My current single is called
keep On Loving. It's uh if you love the classic
deal record to Occasions. We just we added a little
sauce to it. And so here's Q Parker Keep On Loving.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Ninety five point nine FM.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Fire Fire Fire.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I expect nothing les's from the voice, So I
expect nothing less from the voice.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hey man, I appreciate that man from the voice.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It had to be BT and you guys, I don't
know if it was a rap city or it might
be be uh uh uh what.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Was it called? What was it called? How did I forget?
The B two?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Not the soul one? The video music song something like
that video and.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, you guys was on there, I remember, and it
had you sing that somebody else in that had you sing.
I was like, yep, why don't you got a solo song?
That's what I said. But but we hear him on
the second verse. Yeah, man, on a couple of records and.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's doing your thing. Tell us that.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So when they got your third album and everything was silent,
tell us that between that and when you start working
on your soul, tell us that that time what you
were going through doing that time.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You know, anytime you do something different from what you
have been accustomed to doing, you know, there is hesitation, trepidation, hesitate, like,
it's all of those things. And I, honestly, I would
say I went through all of that, you know, questioning,
you know, can I do it? You know, is it
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even possible that I can carry a full song by
myself when I've been used to just doing my verse
and then tagging one of my brothers and they come
in and do their part. And so just spending time
with myself every day. I started to get more and
more confident the more I spent the time with myself,
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and man, the moment I got it, I.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Was like, man, all here, ready to go. Man lets,
it's time to go.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Because I was then a fully confident Q Parker where
I could give the world one hundred percent of just
all that I had to offer in my mind, in
my heart, in my musical bag. I didn't I didn't
have to, you know, okay it with anybody. I could
just create, be free and just occupy the space where
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my creativity was going to take me. And that first
album did just that. And I and I still think
about sometimes re releasing that twenty twelve Manual album because
it was it was a.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Great body of work.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I just think we had some growing pains with the
label and I, but man, it was it was a
It was a great body of work and people are
still discovering it even twelve years later. And that's the
beauty about just having music in the system. You will
be out with something new and people will now start
hearing you about songs you did way back when. So
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what's just out there? It's never did, never did.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So was you in any part or any time jaded
from the industry, because even me being a DJ like DJ,
it was like it was a step for like three
four years, like I literally stopped DJ going out DJs
whereby you know, I'm fed u with what I'm hearing
or I just wasn't motivated. Did you have that?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I won't say. I won't say I had that. But
I used the silent years just doing research, listening to
what was the standard, listening to how music was shifting,
listening to the cadence of the writing, listening to the delivery,
listening to the sounds that were now being used versus
(17:23):
the sounds that was used a decade earlier, So that
when I was ready to jump ball, I could bring
with me not only what I had to bring to
the table, but I've been listening enough to know that, Okay,
these are the eight awakes that are being that are
playing over the radio. These are the high hats, these
are the chords, these are all of them. This is
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the cadence that which songs are now being written. You know,
even just going through that phase of no bridges like
that was just yeah, I was just dumbfounded because songs
used to be three forty five, not even two minutes.
There was just two verses in that. It like embracing
all of those things. And so when I was ready
to again jump ball, I now had the knowledge of
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all of these components and just mixing it in with
what I already knew that I could do myself.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So how are you? How are you?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Because again you're at a time where music was just
going right. We just it was the hip hop and
army was at its height, right, the height of just
being new height of just we were just ruling the
air races. It was still ruling. Now what do you
take from then and you take from now? Like how
do you are you merging? Because you was there, You've
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seen it. You was with great a and rs you
with the powerful of the powerful, and now you hear
how do you merging those two together?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Just bringing all of those experiences into the present. Like
I said, just surveying the landscape, being a student researching,
but also I know what I bring to the table.
To I bring to the table is all of those
years of experience, all those years of performing, all those
years of traveling, meeting people, interviews, media training, vocal coaching,
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physical training, like all touring, like all of those things,
bringing them into the present with me, and it turns
out that those components are still necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And they still work today.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm doing stuff today on this present run that I
did nineteen ninety six one twelve's first album.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That said, ninety five point not fm Q. Parker is
in the building. Your top five vocalists, like if you
choose the vocals, your top five vocalists.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, that was it, huh top five vocalists. I would say,
I'm a huge Marvin Gaye, John p Key, I'm a
huge Chris Brown Usher fan, Smokey Robinson, Brian McKnight, Brian McKnight,
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and commission Commissa.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's a good one. That's a good listen, my my
one of my.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Talk I gave you more than fine you did.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's fine, Jah, that's that. James got jing vocals even
when I seen him he was just recently came to
Cleveland a few months ago and I said, Wow, he's
it's it's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's still there.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, gian Uh, Tevin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, Man, TeV had rained.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Bro, people sleep on tap, how much range he had.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We wrote some songs for Tevin back in in the
nineties and just to go through that session with him
and just sing how gifted he was and how special
his instrument was.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Wow, amazing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Jie LeVert, Oh yeah, legend, legend jie LeVert. Vocals wise,
i'mnna give you and my guy from UH Boys to
Man Sean, Yeah, people sleep on shaw Man.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's my dude.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Man, people sleep on Shot because he does a lot
of background work for a lot of people, and you
don't could do that if your vocals is like that.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sean so smooth man. Big shout out to Sean stock.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Ma Man, Yeah, brother, Like there's some other good guys
out there with vocals, but I'm talking about the ones
people that I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll need any
no no, stop playing band, go ahead, go exactly go
with it.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
But you know, but again, that's how we were raised.
I just did a show this past weekend and the
playback just stopped and it couldn't been the end of
the show, but I'm like, nah, keep it going. We
just started singing a cappella and had the crowd clapping
and rolling, and when the music was ready to on me,
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on me, and we kept on moving.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Keep moving. Show didn't that's a veteran move show. Don't stop.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Tell us about teenage you and adult you now about
rolling through the industry of of how you work with
your attitude, your emotional intelligence and everything until now, like
something like that happened when you were a teenager until now.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
We had almost two years of artists development, So even
as a teenager, I knew the show don't ever stop.
And because we were a group who specialized in singing
acappella and harmonized and could, we had an a cappella
version to every last song of our So in any
moment that the music cut off or whatever, we look
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at each other and start snapping and the show keep going.
And and in a lot of cases when that happened,
that's when the crowd went crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
The best part, Yeah, the best part showed gonna stop.
I'm gonna put you on the spot. Normally you don't
do this right, you don't do this normally.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Time.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm gonna do it anyway because it is what we do.
Talk about boy groups.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, Top five, where were you at with it, top
five alloy groups including new Kids on the Block too.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
With all them guys, they are the same things.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I'm gonna say everybody, New Audition, uh is at the top.
But then just as a wild card, I'm gonna go
back and grab somebody like the Tempts four times somebody
like that, just from that era, because they paved the
way for they can get here. So they're gonna be
my six man. Right, you can do that. But I'm
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gonna say new Audition because of what And I'm gonna
say Black Street and in Sync one like two A,
two B, because of just the impact the amount of
records they saw that the pandemonium, like no boy group
ever sold the records and stuff like those boy groups
did it. And then I'm going into boister Men, Jodasy
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one twelve.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I like it. I like you doing sync in there
because a lot of people sleep on in sync. Yeah,
a lot of people sleep on sync. I'm gonna I'm
always gonna go to the new addition. I just think
there's just the absolutely that the puddlished outside of the Temptations.
I think I argue with a lot of older white
folks and I said Temptations are better than the Beatles, right,
And I say that it was like because Temptation is
(24:29):
it's like a machine. It's still going right now, the
building is still going. You can still see the Temptations, right,
So Temptations.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Is the better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So but I will have it's gonna be a new addition,
dann y'all in sync there for me, It's gonna be
Jagged Edge one twelve and then the fifth.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
You can just throw anybody in it from from anybody else.
You can just add in. Man.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's so that's always it's always a challenge for me
because I love the groups that came before us so
much that it's just a respect thing.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Man, because Jodysy should be in there with me and
and boys man, because there's just a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Though.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I just think Jodasy is just a different animal.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But see watched this.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
You don't get one twelve, you don't get Jagged, you
don't get Drew Hill without Jodasy.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
And Bois to men.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
You are absolutely you just don't because one twelve is
like a combination of Boys to Men and Joonas Drew
Hill is the reincarnation my list. Jodasy like the Cisco
Jazz combination is like Casey and Jojo, so like it
to me, it's hard to put one twelve before Jodysy or.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Huh, we can't do a top five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Man, I would have do like a top ten. We
can't do a top ten.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
One could argue any group that came out in the
ninety's deserve to be in the top something because of
just the amount of hits that all may do it
One twelve, Jagget Drew and next man. We could go
can we trade nine songs deep? We gotta boney bide
singles and a lot of the groups that I mentioned
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before one twelve maybe five or six deep, but you
can one twelve got at least.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Eleven No, no, you got some got some records.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Jaggs got about ten songs that you No, No, you
got some records.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Now, yeah, we may have to do a fake.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Do a tale of the tape like an n C
A A BRAKT. See what I'm saying, Like, God, listen,
here's Black Street. You can it's hard, bro I.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Could go true, but two pointly go go three songs down.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, it's it's not It's not gonna hit as much
as you think it's gonna hit, I promise it's not
going to not going to and great that said, they don't,
They're like, good listen, I play them, trust me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So then here's this bird is good too.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
This is what always happens, even in the barbershop, because
you're talking about Michael Jordan versus Kobe versus. It's hard
to just summarize Coop is better without categorizing, because we're
categorizing in Sync and Backstreet. It's no if it's on
record sales, none of us sold as many records as them.
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If it's but if it's man on Man, Tale of
the Tape, can't nobody out singing one twelve?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Could we could? We could? We could?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It add on it that as part of the music
is full force.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Full for now, full force. They wrote a lot of
the ENSIGNCT So again.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's who how much do we put full force?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Because one category could be self containment. Ju Hill had
no Kiyo producing the records one twelve, half the run
producing the records Jodas he had DeVante producing the records, right,
so I have to I have to see the categories.
That helps me try to identify a top anything because
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so many are better in certain categories.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So many different Yeah, it might have better do that.
It's hard troop and everybody else. Yeah, Man, the nineties,
it's just the nineties and early two thousands. You got
to add in early two thousands. Two thousands was fire.
It was fire too.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
When you said next, I said, wow, for god, next.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, you gotta you gotta put all.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Them guys, because we ain't even.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Said people like ideal and profile and immature, like the
legacy of male R and B groups, Man, is lengthy,
and it's hard to try to depict who's better and
who's man. It's just tough. We all contribute and an
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amazing amount to the legacy of not just male R
and B, but just the legacy and the history of
male black R and B groups.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And it was all fire and they're.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
All it was never a good.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
We didn't even talk about ready for the world to gap, man,
the deal like still ready they are.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Ohio players Like, man.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Dude, it's Ohio the Dad's bad.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, this conversation can go on and.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
On and on, and you know what, we got to
retract a lot of that top five because you can't
just do top five because, like you said, it's hard.
It's hard when you start throwing out other names, like
when you say truth said, you know what was great?
As yet was good? Like as yet has some records that.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You forget about either all four one intro.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Intro, We're going all for one town. Yeah, I just
gotta be put out on the internet.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I'm gonna look at it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
But no, they do that often, like I see a
lot of I'm tagged when they they'll do like an
n c A a bracket on, you know, pitting the
groups against each other.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Like, yeah, it's tough. I've seen that before.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Who comes out that fight? Like, look, if we can
do the final four? Seriously, and we're talking about the nineties,
we're not going with the eighties. Talking about the nineties, right,
talking about the nineties up until early two thousand, who
comes out the final Like, seriously, who comes out the
final four?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Who has enough one? There's three mm hm record.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You have to cultural influence.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So now that is because it's the final four.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You got to though, Like if it's a tournament, you got.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
To it's easy, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I agree with
that one can't be, man, I can't think of anybody
else they.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Do because you guys can still I put it up.
Part of it is can you still perform and sell
out and people want to come to it. I've seen
one twelve. This is out a year almost ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Longer than that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
They were to like they're doing college to a Sippersburg
university like one twelve and sold it out right, they're
still touring now my home. Shout to DJ Storm who
uh that's still doing. Jo Deasy came out it was doing.
Jagged Edge is back on tour right now. You know, boys, men,
if they wanted to, you do it.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
That's the fine out And and man I have to
just give I can give honorable mention because we only
said four go ahead to next thing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Drew hill Man, that's another one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
That's that's like, that's the Elite eight, right eight anything
that happened Yeah, I mean well actually the gods almost
the same people, the same people, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, Riley yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Man.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So that's that's the Elite eight elite because to try
to do anything other than that, it's just unfair.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Okay, are we able to put together?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Like you know, I had that like the twenty five
More the Time review right, more Time are able to
put together a boy, not a boy, but a group. Yeah,
it's my idea. Just let just let me know how
I get credit for this.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Like this is the bove Wise super Fest.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, yes, when it was, when it was new edition,
when it was guy, when it was like, that's you're
talking about something like I'm talking about everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm talking about everyone does that. It's just I'm talking
about review.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I'm talking about also bringing it immature, also bringing in
b TWOK like like I'm talking about bringing that in
of that, of having that.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Ever does that, I'm saying out of here you're talking
about it's gonna be twenty years. Like if you start
with let's just say you start with just new addition,
from the new addition all the way down to I'm
gonna say pretty Ricky.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Oh you brought pretty Ricky out the girls. I want
to go with all the groups that can act, but
they can do.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But just so let's ten x this, this, this is
the this is the this is the Orange because again
because we're not gonna call them names, but everybody ain't
got all of it, but gods that I will go
see today start with new audition again. We got to
the guy in there. We will give Blackstreet their own slot.
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They have to yeah, yeah, yeah, God bless. But we
want Laverty do a Lavert review. We bring to bring
the guys. We've got somebody who actually doing that right now.
Shout to Dave Tolliver here. Yeah, I said, so we
get Dave Man. You know boys, Joe, little Joe. I
went to middle school with Joe.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Hold On, you said, new addition guy black Street, the
Lavert Review.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Obviously, we're gonna do one for the man, Jodasy Jack
Drew Hill, Drew Hill.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Next, next is ten.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's nine, bru.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm telling you you're gonna we're gonna do ourselves at disservice.
If we leave Pretty Ricky out, you gotta do pretty
so seeing them on the Millennium tours, I gave pledge
no more records.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Okay, so I know what that is. We have Pretty Ricky.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's twelve, that's eleven, that's ten. That's eleven. Okay, that's eleven.
We need one more to around it all like even numbers.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
So let's go up a little bit one more.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I'm gonna say, so you gotta If you're doing that,
you gotta you gotta do what. You gotta split it,
you gotta split it. You gotta do did Young Boys
do Candy Rain? I just gotta do it just for
the record. That's like there in the beginning there in
the beginning. They they not at the beginning of the show.
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So for real, So in the beginning of the show,
they got two records.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Every little thing, God do that one.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
They're just real quick. So for real, it's quick, quick ones.
But it's like a quick.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, okay, I got you.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
So like three, like two or three of them guys. Okay,
so for real, either going to be B two K
or immature one of them to.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Yeah, one of them.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
We gotta go with one of them be.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I would thought even though they're the different groups, I
was they all family.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
I throw them all together.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's it there, the whole Stokes of the finish group,
mature be two K.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, you just run them through.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Seven that's a good day. Thirty minutes by themselves.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, but you don't want to get thirty minutes because
everybody know all their thirty this song.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah, yeah, like everybody on your fifteen minutes and now
you're Thursday thirteen seven after seven was date. They were nineties, right.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, there was baby facing the eight early nineties.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
You can't do it. You can't do no, no, no, no,
we forgot who were missing.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
We can't cuss on here camera.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
No, you can't cuts on silk.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Oh no way, We're gonna run run back, run back,
No way, we leave it silk.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now now you're losing Pretty ricky, pretty pretty rigor Oh no, no,
pretty goes on the review part. They're going to begin,
what's the name leaves get out of here? No, so
for real gotta go. So you put pretty we gotta go.
I love front, but they gotta go.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
No, no, you put pretty riggy.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
So far Now, I'm gonna tell you what like we
gotta go. Like y'all gonna hate me on this. I
think LeVert gotta go because it's not the original members.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
What I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It ain't the members. It ain't the members.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
It's not the member black.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Thing, Dave and Joe and we get one more marks.
Mark still got some boys, you get them thro they
gotta go. I'll tell your story outside of here.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
If it was the original I'm gonna tell you something
right outside of it, then yeah, I'm gonna put you
into something.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
But yeah, they I would say, I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I'm gonna tell you only because gee.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yeah here, yeah, put silk in there. Silk gotta get
be in there.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Who's gonna do this? Helf helf? No, no, no, we
know who to go to.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
We know this is this is not no no, no no,
we we know we got two plays.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
We can make.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I am telling you all, it's gonna take though one.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
We either have to do two nights in an arena
or we're gonna have to do a stadi stadium.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
It has to be at a big market.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
No, no, we know we're gonna We're gonna do five.
We're gonna take it this. We're gonna do regional. We're
gonna do like they do, like the coach, not coach.
What's the other? The big traveling hip hop festival.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Rolling, We're gonna do Rolling Loud basically version.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I'm telling you this happens, R and B loud. I'm
telling this happens. There's will be a million panties on stage.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
You're talking about everybody, everybody else, Everybody gonna see their
whole childhood teenagehood.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I think you can pull it off.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
This is this is the hardest I think the part
hardest part. I think it would be boys and man
getting them on stage. Outside works.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
There's three just three is working? Is is y'all? Once?
What's gonna be fine? I mean somebody out there traveling? Uh?
Not if I point nine f M.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Give everybody your Instagram where they get contact with and
and and get at you and when your album dropping,
talk about all that.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We're talking about releasing the full EP in the fall.
We don't have a direct date just yet. Uh, but
sometime in the fall. I am at Q Parker one twelve.
My official website is It's q Parker dot com. Uh,
and yeah, just connect with me, man. I'm not I'm
not going nowhere no time soon. And I'll be in
(39:06):
the city near you.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Let's go, Q Parker, Keep on Love. Ninety five point
nine FL
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