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0:00 The thoughts views and opinions expressed by this podcast as well as its hosts offer entertainment purposes only I Repeat it 0:08 is not serious. It is not real. No 1 is exposing revealing indicting Or telling you 0:16 anything about themselves Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home. We are trained professionals. Do not have your best 0:24 interests at heart or our own. Enjoy the show. Be silly with you. You can't? We can't. At least we're here. Because 0:33 YouTube, you can't be like, people that's too legend-y, like if I'm really, really silly, they gonna judge me a certain 0:41 way. Like, oh, exactly what I got about Jill. It's like, yes, yes. I don't have any sense. Jill's silly. You can be silly with 0:49 Jill. Thanks, Parks. You're welcome. Don't y'all start your fuckers. Why? Listen, it's legend week. It's legend week. This has really been 0:57 a good week. Legend week up here. Yeah. We had Teddy Riley earlier in the week, and the legend herself, 1:05 Miss Jill Scott, in the building. 1 of my absolute favorite people in the world. We had Teddy Riley earlier in the week, and the legend herself, Miss Jill Scott, in the building. 1 of my absolute favorite people in the world. Welcome. 1:15 Hi. Hi. Hi, how are you? I'm good, thank you so much. Oh, so look at me. 1:23 I don't even know how to. Like a little bitch, look at you. Yeah, like that's so corny, right? No, it's not, no it's not. I'm an Edd, I'm honored to 1:31 have you. Thank you. Honored to have you. Thank you for taking the time out. Congratulations, this album release day. So that's awesome. Let's 1:39 make some noise for that. Let's make some noise for that. And it's a great album. It is. Took so long to make. Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. 1:48 When I met Parks, DJ Premier and I met in Japan, just on the street. He's like, hey, Jilly. I really 1:56 love you. That's a great pre-impression. He loves me so much. I love him too. And that's how I met Parks. I came to his studio and 2:04 we hung out for like 2 weeks or something like that. At least, yeah. A couple different times. And Black cooked for us. He did. You know, just making stuff, making 2:12 music. 1 thing begat another. Indeed. I love that. I don't know how long it was, but the project itself, To Whom This Made Concern, has 2:20 been really organic, like just bumping into people on the street, literally at a party, at some kind of social event, 2:29 just bumping into people. And they're like, yo, I make beats. I'm like, word? Well, I prefer music. Can you make music? 2:38 Because beats are just beats. They don't have any intention. It's just, it's straight. And it might be a dope beat, but what are you, I need water to swim in. 2:46 You know what I'm saying? I need to see, I need to feel where you put that hook. What makes it a hook there? Cause it's time, 2:55 let me hear what you got to say, you know? So those are the kind of musicians that I look for and producers that I look for. And I just been bumping into them 3:04 randomly. You outside that much to bump into all these people? She said Japan. She didn't say... Washington Heights, man. 3:12 She didn't say Newark, she said Japan. I heard the flex. Parks. I 3:21 tell my son, it's not a flex if it's the truth. The truth is just the truth. You can deal with it or they can't. Kicking 3:30 ass shit. I'm telling you to do it. Hey you peon, just deal with it. Just deal with it you peon. Got it. 3:38 Was Abso in Japan? Abso is a friend of Rapsody. Where the hell was he? Rapsody is, everybody knows. We 3:46 love Rapsody. Come on! What's not to love, right? And she was like, Absole's so cool, he's so funny. Because I was talking about 3:54 crazier. You heard crazier with Absole and JID? Yeah. Yeah. That's the kind of lyrics I 4:02 like. Ooh. So I was talking to her. Really, that's my 4:11 thing. Please tell me a story. Please make it clear for me. Please make me run it back and listen again and again, please do that. So I had listened 4:19 to Crazier, and it was another JID in Cole, and we were talking about this music, and she 4:27 says, Absole, that's my brother. I was like, get in, get in, is that me? And she was like, yeah. And I called him, and he was like, what's up? 4:36 Like it's just easy, easy without me having to, I called a couple people, the people that I called didn't really respond. I don't 4:44 believe that. Shut up. I'm about to say, name them. Did you leave a voicemail? I 4:52 left several. Wow. I don't give up easy. I don't give up easy. But you know, it's. Was it a timing thing or just? 5:01 I don't know. No response? No response. That's crazy. Y'all on bullshit. It's happened like 4 or 5 times and I'm like okay well I'll 5:09 wait for the next wonderful thing and the next wonderful thing was JID he laced my he laced my song he gave 5:17 me such a vision I asked him to paint with words. I was, can you paint with words? I need you to paint with words. 5:26 He was incredible. When that song started, I think that's my favorite song, I think. But when it started, I 5:34 said, I got to hear what the fuck JID about to do on this. And sure enough, he tore that apart. As he does. His album let us know what he 5:43 do. His last album let us know what he on. Quickly too, within 24 hours. Oh wow. See that's how it's supposed to go. I'm pining over other MCs and calling 5:51 and calling and calling, I hit him up within 24 hours, I had my verse. He indeed is 1 of the best. Off mic I gotta know 6:00 who turned down the Jill Scott phone call, that's crazy. I mean, I still love them, so hopefully they'll come around, you know, eventually. Like, 6:08 if I like you, I like you. You know, you don't have to be nice to me. You know, if I respect what you do, I respect what you do. We ain't gotta be friends. Can I ask how 6:16 that Tiana Taylor record came about? How did that happen with you speaking on there? She 6:25 called me. We're both like really cool with Niecy Nash and she called me and asked me to do the song and she was giggling like I 6:33 don't even know if I want to tell you the name what is it she's like it's it's called Pum Pum Jump I was like I like it 6:42 said it to me immediately that I love it without me I love it with me. Pum pum jump is something Like 6:54 no, that's I mean I can't say niggas good jump Are 7:04 now kind of like the that Pum pum jump, sexy, interlude, talk 7:12 you through it, voice. Sexy while still being sensual. It's not nasty. Not raunchy. Not raunchy. Not raunchy. 7:20 I try not to be. I think there's a lot of ways to paint a picture. And I don't think that sex is, I don't think it's limited. I think 7:29 it's beautiful. And no matter how you're getting it, like... Heh heh heh heh. Heh heh 7:37 heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. It's still something beautiful about 7:45 it. It's still, you know, whether it's gutter, you know, or if it's like wildly passionate and sincere, you know, there's 7:54 something magical about it. But I also enjoy being sad. So I enjoy being confused. It's not fun, 8:02 but I enjoy it because I'm amazed by it. Like, I don't know what to do. Oh. Let me sit and ponder. Let me write something. You know, 1 thing 8:11 begets another. It's okay. It's okay. So I was comfortable with writing whatever she wanted initially 8:19 I sang and she's I just want you to you know How when you when you say the words? I was like, I'm not a spoken word artist But 8:28 I'll I'll do what you want Because it's Tiana Taylor and I've been loving her since I saw her, you know At her sweet 16. I 8:36 was like that girl was amazing. Who gets all that? Right, right who gets all that all of that package of just talent 8:45 And that was just an inkling of who gets all of that. Now look at her. Amazing. Yeah, Def Jam really fucked up. 8:53 She's still over here. Did they? She's still over here. Anyway. Well, anyway. Anyway. She's awesome. It seems 9:01 like you say another spoken word, or we was just calling you a rapper before you got here. Yeah, you got your shit all barred. You had some barred. Yeah, you was in your bag. 9:10 I want MC Utty, yeah. I don't care. I don't care if it takes me till I'm 75 years old. I want 9:18 MC, sorry, I don't care what periodical it is. You want 5 mics. Listen! Just 1 time in my life, I just need that. So 9:26 I'm gonna just keep working towards it in whatever Capacity that the story requires. That's what I'm gonna do Listen 9:35 what I yeah It's dream is dream. Yes. Yes, I would do it I would 9:43 do it like I had the privilege of working with Conway. I heard Griselda, they gave me new air, new breath. I was like, reach 9:52 out to them, what? In the DMs, because I'm in there. And I reached out to each 1 of them and professed my love to 10:00 each 1 of them and eventually Conway sent me a track and I was like, what you gonna do, Jill? You gonna sing? It's Conway, 10:09 it's Conway. Another 1 of the best. Yeah, right. You got good rap friends. Yes. You got good taste. Thank you very much. You got good taste in rap friends. 10:18 Thank you. Actually, you, maybe unbeknownst to you, you are the 1 that confirmed 10:26 to me we were getting Kendrick Drake beef. It was me. It was you. How was that? This is 10:34 after years of just speculation. Because first of all, I believe you when you talk. And you tweeted, listen, 10:42 y'all, I was in the studio and I heard something. And you said some poem shit, but I was in rapper brain. You 10:50 said I heard something so lyrically beautiful and yada yada yada. I said, oh, this niggas doing it. He got some of my ass right. So I hit 10:58 in. I said, listen, I'm going to work soon. Just hit Jill and say, did she hear 11:06 something? And Ian did. And you heard something. And I came in here and showed my 11:15 ass based off nothing really. Not a note. Yeah, was the Jill tweet where she said, in the studio with Kendrick and 11:23 listen, y'all. I wasn't in the studio, Kendrick. Well, whatever studio was in. I forgot what the tweet said. I just got hooked up. I just got hooked up. And I heard, and I 11:31 was like, Ah, does he break? Like, what we gonna do? What we gonna do? That, I 11:39 mean, people on the other side, I heard, I saw all the stuff. It was so much stuff about the beef. You know, I just, I loved every second 11:48 of it. Every, I was like, oh, what'd he say? Oh, what'd he say? It was delicious. That's, I live for that. Really? Yes, I love 11:56 a good writer. I like them when they write good books good plays good movies good good Commercials I like good writers. 12:04 It's a thing. Yeah, I get it. Just art. Yup. Yeah, I understand. And so do we. Can I, you mentioned 12:12 something I don't want to make it like sad, sad, but you mentioned that you like and enjoy being sad? Sometimes. Do you have a like a go-to sad song? 12:22 Ooh, Tears Will Dry. And I, why can't I, oh, Lisa Fisher. God damn, 12:30 that's a sad song. And the way she pours out into it is just almost too much to bear. I listened to that song 12:39 maybe for like 48 hours straight. Had to be a break up then. Oh my God, I ain't washing that. What he did. What he did. What he did. 12:47 What he did. What he did. What he did. What I did. What we did. It was a mess. That was terrible. But I listened to that 12:55 song over and over and cried and went to sleep, woke up, cried. You know, and I didn't brush my teeth and wash, nothing. And when it 13:03 was over, took shower, got myself together, who made some music? Who wants to shower during 13:11 the breakup? No 1. Nobody. Nobody. Kind of want to smell like how you feel. Yeah, Oh, I be wanting to smell like her still. 13:20 Yo. Yo. I hate to watch that. Hate to watch that. You don't know when you're going to get it back, right? 13:28 It's the last time. Come on. I got to remember it. I better go wash the sheets, you know what I mean? Oh my God. I just saw you 13:37 in the sheets like, I miss you. Oh my God, yes, yes. I have a question, and I've 13:45 been dying to ask this. How do you make your grits? With salt and pepper. Thank you. Thank you. Like a civilized 13:53 person. Yeah. Anything else is okay? Not a bunch of heavy cream and... No. Butter, salt and pepper. That's how it's done. That's 14:01 it? I just needed to know. That was the best way I ever heard, that's 1 of my favorite lines ever in R&B is just. Grits. Cause 14:10 who thinks to put that right there, it's just descriptive. And as a nigga that's asking for grits in the morning, yeah it's important. And it's black ass. Yes, 14:18 yes, yes, yes. Like that's some black ass shit. This album is black ass. Yes it is. This album is black ass. Can you speak to me about 14:28 the story you were telling, what the album cover is saying, and what prompted you to tell it? Okay, 14:40 I didn't know what I was doing when I started doing it. Like I said, all of this has just been really, really organic. I've just been moved in 14:49 different spaces. And the album is called To Whom This May Concern because 14:59 I was a kid that had my mother playing Billie Holiday in the background and I hated it. I was like why she sound like that? Why 15:07 she say that stuff? Why she so sad? Until I got my feelings hurt and when I got my feelings hurt I listened 15:15 to Billie Holiday again and I was like, oh, that's it. That's 15:26 the humanity of it all. So this is an offering to whom this may concern. You might not get 15:34 it till 10 years later, but it's for you, I promise you that. It's a lot of revelation, like time to change things, time 15:43 to address things. There's a lot of women sitting around just miserable, not getting smashed right. I hear it all the time. Like, that's 15:51 so sad. That's not a life. Oh no, you can't teach. If you can't teach, You 16:01 must move on. It's time to go. So I said so. And I just at least want them to think about it. I 16:09 wanted to address the fact that we get stuck in these circles, this secular bullshit, where we're dealing with family members 16:17 or people that we love and love us, but they use the hell out of us. And they use us and don't benefit from it. If 16:25 you're gonna use me, I need to see you blossom from it. If you're going to ask me to take care of something for you, 16:34 I need you to blossom from it. And guess what? I'm gonna give you a non, I'm gonna give you a loan, 16:42 it's a loan, okay? There won't be any kind of Interest on it. These are the payments. Respect me enough to do that. More 16:50 than likely I'll stop asking for the payments or I'll say thank you that's enough. You're just showing me that you actually are going to do something 16:59 with this time, energy, love, support that I have. Things have changed in that way. I was gonna ask you, 17:07 when did you get to a point where you had that perspective on that? Now. Oh, like right now? Now, now, at this age, at this time, I'm learning what 17:16 a joyful life looks like to me. And I don't know about everybody else. I don't know if a joyful life looks like this to them. However, 17:26 this is my offering, and it's to whom this may concern. You wanna ride with me? Come on. It's fun. It's sweet. It's sassy. It's 17:34 alive It's curious. It's learning. It's Easy easy easy easy 17:44 And I like skating I like floating I like I like these kind of things That's how I live Your 17:52 best Valentine's Day ever? I don't celebrate it. Ish. There we go. He's a stoned shot. Pretty 18:01 ass don't celebrate it either. Why not? Because the white man... Nah, it's rooted in nonsense to me. 18:10 Fair enough. He celebrates every day too. He's a flowers every day type of guy. He sends 18:18 his partner flowers weekly. Well, used to. He fell off recently, but that is his thing. He's a romantic. That's why he's pretty. You got trouble. Yo, 18:27 yo. Still doing good at 50, man. It's all right, dog. It's cool. I 18:35 don't want to smoke with you niggas. We got company here. I don't want no problems. This is going to sound like maybe a weird question, but do you 18:43 see music in colors? Yes. Okay. This album, listening to it. It's a lot of orange. Okay. I just wanted to know It's 18:52 my favorite color. What does orange represent? Like a burst You 19:00 know like a little orange and the Pope burst in your mouth like that that quiet little moment between you and orange Give 19:09 me the starburst commercial. I get it. Fair enough Orange we got company Not 19:21 on air We're trying to be mature We got company this year. I let her call you pretty, I didn't say nothing. You didn't say much. Not on air. Oh, okay, all right. You got it, you got it. So I'm being mature. They got to ride pretty, trying to be on their best behavior. I love it. We cool. I'm trying to be mature. I love it. 19:29 It ain't gonna last long. Listen, when I was growing up in North Philly, there was a lady, I don't want to say her name, but when she would walk by, all the guys 19:37 would be on the corner like, yeah, motherfucker, this, that, that, that, that, and she would walk by and they'd be like, I'm gonna call her Audrey, And they 19:45 would wait till she'd get all the way by and then they would say, hey, Miss Audrey. And she was, hello, boys. And then she would 19:53 keep going. And I was sitting on the step like, that's how I'm gonna be. Just like that. You did it. I did. You 20:02 did it. I did. That's far so good. I'm enjoying it. Do you see yourself as a sex symbol? Because 20:11 the internet, it found out. Like the internet is on to you now. No, you know what it was? We know. I never hid anything. Nah, you know what it was? Never, not once. 20:19 Not from the first album, not from the first poetry, reading. I've never hid anything. I've always been all of myself. It was the time when you got up there 20:27 and you start caressing the microphone, talking about the microphone. Because niggas look at you with reference and respect. I promise. 20:36 We still did it. No, after that. I saw that episode. Hey, man. After that. Yo, y'all, y'all want to sit here in front now. I saw that episode. I 20:44 thought no 1 was going to mention that. I thought I was going to leave that off the table. I'm so embarrassed. Dogs. Wait, 20:52 what was we saying? My memory is so bad. What? Nothing but sure. Dog, after that, look, niggas is like, no, you 21:00 know, Jill's got, she's wholesome, bro. You can't look at her like that. And she started talking about what she was gonna do at the mic, niggas was like, oh, word? We all had a conversation about that. And that's 21:09 a problem. We all did. Let's keep this down. I never put myself in any boxes. People do that. And then when I'm outside the box, they're like, oh no, we thought you were, 21:17 and I'm like, I told you from the beginning, the question was who is Jill Scott, I told you who I was. I've been telling you who I was the whole time, 21:25 I never fronted on me, I never fronted on me. We heard Crown Royal on ice. Again. Stop twitching your leg, my nigga. The only problem 21:35 was that the microphone scene was a scene out of my show. I must have done it, I don't know, 400 or 500 times. For 21:44 years I was doing it. And we would laugh, me and my audience, and we would understand whatever I was talking about. Sometimes it was 21:52 conflict resolution. You know what I'm saying? That's 1 way to resolve conflict resolution. Whatever the fuck you did, that's a good way to put it. That's 1 way 22:00 to put it. That's a good way to put it. I mean... We resolved it. We good. You can't, we can't hear each other right now. Okay. 22:09 All right. I hear you loud and clear, girl. Girl. My check went to. What? What? What? I 22:19 said I want a house in Malibu. How many bedrooms, girl? How many houses? How many square feet you want? I 22:27 said I want to take a walk. I said I want to make dinner with you. I said I want you to rub my feet for 25 minutes. That's 22:36 what I said. It's a lot of ways of skinning cat. You can get whatever you want. And it doesn't have to be via that. But it is an 22:44 option. You're speaking to Asher's soul right now. Reza. Wait, hold on, on, hold on. Nigga, did you miss me? Yo. 22:53 Yo. I missed somebody. Are you cool, my boy? I missed somebody. When you said Skinny Cat, he was out. Are you okay, everyone? Did you miss me out? Don't meow again. You did. 23:02 Don't meow no more over here. God. Yes, meow. Yo, will she leave? I was telling you that. Yo, we are turning that up 23:10 on you. I'm hilarious, man. Oh, man. That was a baby cat, too. That wasn't even a big thing. Right. Huh? Hilarious. Funny 23:18 shit, I had been to a Jill Scott show in Newark and I looked in the audience and they was in there. I heard about you. They understood the language you're talking 23:26 about. I heard about you. About me? Yes, everybody told me. What you heard. Oh, everybody, a bunch of people like, you know Joe Biden was at the show. I was like, oh for real And 23:43 I believed them I was in there I was in there singing but it was they was they were in there Yeah, they were mm-hmm, and they always been in here. 23:51 Yeah, they are my people. They're my people. And they don't particularly have any specific race, 24:00 oddly enough, or religion, or age. I'm 8 to 80, baby. I 24:09 think that music is medicinal, so it depends on who needs what when. My catalog is deep. There's 24:18 a lot of stories in there. When I left your show, hits aside, I again felt like you were up there telling a story again. 24:26 And the entire audience seemed to understand. It's a good time. When you back out here. When am I back? Yeah. Tonight? I'm 24:34 just finishing this press portion. Oh, wait a second. I told you. Mark told me you are doing a surprise pop-up at the Blue Note. Yes, 24:43 this weekend. Yeah, and the blue note is a little small. Who do I have to, because he got his tickets just 24:51 for him. Can someone put my name on a list and get me a little table for me? I'm talking to 24:59 Miss Jill Scott. Let us discuss. Yeah, we'll discuss. I just need that fragrance and then you got to do it. Oh, 25:07 say less. Oh, say less. I'm in. I'm in. Nice. I'm in there. All right, put 2 more names on that too. No, y'all really. No, no, 25:15 no, don't beg. That 1030 show. Hey, listen. Please, sir. Don't beg. We got you. Please, sir. Why you ask him? It's hard to be here. I'm right here. Because you make him nervous. 25:24 You make him nervous. Teddy Riley was here. He didn't even ask for a beat. Because that's my man. I'm going to ask him for a beat here. We talked after. You know what I'm saying? When 25:32 I saw you on Tank, Tank asked you, or Jay Valentine, somebody asked you, 5 greatest R&B songs of all time. And you ran through 4 25:40 that I agreed with anybody who put them there. And at the last spot, you said, Jill Scott, my... 25:49 Is it The Way? Yeah, is it The Way. And I was so happy that you included yourself. Even 25:57 though at the fifth spot, I had 1000000 songs I was thinking of, I thought that that was so important. Like, did you, was that purposeful for you? Like, do you 26:05 really feel like that? Or I'm including me in all R&B lists. I really feel like that. Yeah. Yeah, you 26:13 should. I really feel like that. What were the 4? I think it was top 5 R&B songs. And I named mine, and The Barge 26:21 and SWV. It was a good mix. It was a good 1. Do you remember the 4? Adore, hey, come 26:29 on. Adore? All right, Valentine's Day. If 26:38 anybody is looking for something to put on their playlist, put a door on their playlist. That's 26:49 a good time. That's a good time. That's a good time. That's a good time. That's the 1. Yeah, but I, yeah, put me on there. I love that song. And then, you know, it seems like everybody 26:57 sings it at karaoke. Everybody sings it. I've heard so many versions. It just warms my heart. Some people tell the story and I can see 27:05 the story that they're telling. That's what I'm really looking for. When I look for singers, tell me your story. That makes me excited. And 27:14 then some people just singing the song, Either way, it's something that I created and it's living, it's still living 25 27:23 years later. People are in high school. That's what's up. Or they're on their way to elementary school. You made 27:31 it cool for us to take a walk like I was worse I was poor and lived across the street from a park That was a trick 27:39 right ladies is I won't talk about it. I was walking man long walks That's your favorite song the 1 that you named The 1 that you named 27:49 in your top 5 R&B records? Is that your personal favorite song? What's your personal favorite? My personal favorite, this is tough. This 27:57 is tough because it really depends on the day. But my petition right now is probably my 28:05 favorite. It's a song that I wrote in protest. But I wrote it like a love 28:13 song to the country. And I threw the Constitution in there too. I quoted that. 28:22 And yeah, I would say, because my pen was bleeding. I was writing so hard into the paper. I 28:32 think, yeah, I just remember how that felt to be able to say what I said in my petition. Like, I love you, but you don't 28:40 treat me right. I want fresh food and air that I can't see. I 28:48 wanna be safe in my streets. I want my children to be smarter than me. But, and I do, but you keep lying to me and it 28:57 hurts. That's how it felt to me at the time. It just hurt like, you know, you know all the people that built 29:05 this place. You know, if it wasn't for the Chinese, it wouldn't be a goddamn railroad. Where's 29:13 your reverence? Where's your respect? If it wasn't for African American people what would this 29:21 place even be if it wasn't for those funds if it wasn't for all of that free labor come on where's 29:29 the respect where is the respect what where is the respect like if it wasn't for the Italians, 29:38 that amazing, all that masonry work in New York City, it's gorgeous. There's so much. I don't understand 29:46 why we don't have, you know, this melting pot. I don't think a melting pot is a good idea, but a Ebola Yakama. 29:59 Where it's all these different cultures and we feed on each other. That's what New York was about. That's what Philly's about in a lot of ways. Philly 30:07 is segregated, but even in that segregation, there's like this, I could go to, when I was a kid anyway, 30:15 I had a trans pass, I would get on a bus and go wherever I wanted. I didn't even know where I wanted, but I would go because I liked the numbers of the bus or 30:23 they had that thing in the middle and I was like, I wanna get on that and sit there. Anyway, I ended up in South Philly sometime and a little lady, a little Italian 30:32 lady, she'd be like, to me, she'd do that and I'd go over there and she'd eat. I'd say, okay. 30:41 She'd give me something, I was like, what the fuck is that? Thank you, lady. You know what I mean? It was a different time, but 30:49 I got an opportunity to learn some things. What do I know about, what do I know? You know, regatta, regatta, what you 30:57 mean? But having that kind of opportunity to taste fresh mozzarella going to the Jewish community and get kafilta 31:05 fish, what is going on? I think it makes us really balanced and worldly. And I 31:14 want America to act right, Real bad. This is not my first protest song. I just pose it in a way 31:23 that sometimes it goes over people's heads, but I said what I said. You share a lot musically 31:31 of yourself and your experiences. Is there something today that you feel like you want to hold to yourself or you don't want to go ahead and put in the music anymore? Put 31:39 into music? Mm-hmm. Any part of yourself that you want to keep private? Yeah. And I do. It's a big 31:47 life, I got a lot. I don't have to share everything, you know. But it's a big life, I got all kinds of stories. What'd you been up to before this 31:56 album came out? This 1? Yep. What was I doing? Letting 32:05 some people go. Okay. Letting some people go. Oh, What 32:15 was I doing? Reading stuff. I read this book called, The Celestine 32:23 Prophecy. And it kind of like turned the lights all over the book. It'll rock you. Yo. It'll rock you. And I've been, 32:31 ever since I read that, it's like flow state. No, that's, what's that y'all? The Celestine Prophecy? 32:40 Yeah, what's that book about? I should have brought it to you, I should have brought it to everyone, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I'm writing it down, it's all right. We'll keep that. We'll make sure to, I'll make sure to send you some. You don't have 32:49 to get it, I'll send it to you. It is a story. And they'll read it too, for sure. I believe it. Fuck you, Mark. We 32:57 supposed to share it, right? I can't stop thinking about it. Yeah. It's kind of like a mystery. It's kind of like a mystery. It's kind of like a mystery. And 33:05 there's this guy who's very curious and there's 9 insights that he meets. He hooks up with this 33:14 old friend. The energy is so good. And she tells him that there's this thing happening, this book of insights. And 33:22 he ends up going on a mission to find these insights. You have to find them for yourself. So like the never ending story. You remember that? It's 33:31 kind of like being in that for the reader. Got it. It's like, you understand? Oh yeah. 33:40 It's like being at Tre U and ever since then I'm different. I rode on the dragon. I'm different. So 33:49 that's a part of to whom this may concern. My kid turned 16. Congrats. That's an adventure. 33:57 Yeah, and he's dope. That's fly. You a boy, ma? You seem like it. Yeah, you seem like it. That'd be fly when 34:05 you really like your kid. Like your kid. Yeah. And I like him. He's I just feed him all the time. 34:13 Like I feed him and he now he's feeding me back and it's crazy. That's how it works. I feed him books, I feed him music. He's 34:22 everywhere, he's everywhere, well musically like, you know, sometimes it's muddy waters, like that's my boy. And 34:31 he was born to, I got it made by Special Ed. Born to, he came out, but then it, then 34:39 it. That's how he came out, but then it, then it. You gotta be cool coming out today. I 34:48 got a frog, dog with a solid gold ring. He was born at 420 on 420. This is, it's too many signs 34:57 for me not to take it seriously. You know what I'm saying? Like it's way too many signs. Yeah, I love him. That's my kid. But it's too 35:05 many signs for me not to feed him all I can because I don't know what he's preparing for. Who are you? Who are you? 35:13 420 at 420? To special ed? My G. And I had a 36 hour playlist. It was on shuffle. I 35:22 didn't do that. He did it. He did it. So yeah, it took some time to be there, to watch him 35:31 see where things were uncomfortable and moving in a weird space. We 35:40 had some family members say some things to him like, oh, you'll never have to do nothing. Your mom will take care of you for the rest of your life. What 35:52 are you doing? What are you saying? They told him, you don't have to, if you don't wanna do something, all you gotta 36:01 do is not do it right enough and they'll stop asking. Okay. Yeah. That's 36:09 crazy. Oh that's a... Let me take over. You're talking crazy talk. Crazy talk to my kid regularly. 36:19 No you're not. Let me get in here. Yeah we had to unlearn and I don't even think he learned that but I know he heard it Yeah, 36:27 and when you've got a group of people telling you the same kind of you know, you should be fucked up. That's enough, yeah. It gets 36:35 in there, and I can't do that. Well, how old was he when he learned that mama wasn't just mama? He 36:44 was young. He was young, He had training wheels on his bike and we were walking back from school While he was riding and I was walking back from school and he 36:52 said mommy everybody loves you And he said it would you know nothing was on it? Here's 37:03 the time no, baby, everybody doesn't they don't. It's a different kind of love. Our love 37:13 is thick. It doesn't fall through your hands, through your fingers. Our love is 37:22 compassionate and it's fun and it's growing. With this other 37:30 kind of love, it can be fickle. If I say the wrong thing, if I do something outside of the box, then 37:39 all of a sudden, all the love that I've shown, it dissipates and it becomes something different. This is the 37:47 difference between you love me, I love you. That supersedes everything, 37:56 okay? That is a heavy talk at 5. God damn. God damn. Jesus, Jim. Mom, 38:06 what are you doing? He doesn't play with me. He doesn't play with me. 1 time I broke up with somebody. He said, Mom, love is like a 38:14 necklace. Sometimes it stays on, sometimes it breaks. And I was like. Aw. This is the damn charts. He 38:23 get it. He get it. He helps me. He helps me. You said you spent some time letting go of 38:31 some people. Yeah. How difficult is closure? How difficult is closure? 38:41 I don't know if you necessarily need it. I think time does the closing. I think at this point we have to make heart breaks. 38:51 I'm just not talking to you anymore. Unannounced. You don't have to announce your departure. When you're done, you're just done. Yeah. We 38:59 all got that friend around 930, you know, they sneak off and go to bed. They didn't say good night everybody, everybody's having a good time. They're not gonna 39:07 disturb the groove. They just gonna go to bed, you know? And that's kinda how it is for me. I don't do you, do 39:15 whatever it is that you're doing but I'm gonna go now. So you're ghosting. Yep. Sometimes 39:26 a good ghost is needed. Yeah. I say that all the time. Sometimes that's the way out. Wait 39:34 what he said? He said he does. Sometimes the conversation's over. Me speaking to you is not going to do nothing to change, nothing 39:42 about how I feel, how you feel. There's nothing more to talk about. Let it out, nigga. Bye. Go ahead, I'm 39:50 with you. Can I, aside from closure, how do you, how do you handle mourning? So I didn't want to ask about D'Angelo 39:59 at first, but I feel like you've had a lot of experience with them. How did you handle just that morning process? Are you still trying to figure out how do you handle it? 40:07 I have, I mean, I understand why everybody thinks that I had this deep relationship with D'Angelo, But I've 40:15 never met the man. Really? I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I listen to the music. That's my travel music, Voodoo specifically. 40:26 Yeah, why do we think that? Because we're in the same area. 1 degree is a group. You know, you don't know everybody at your high 40:34 school, not everybody. You seem like it's from the D'Angelo tree. You would think, right? Yeah, I was in the same room 40:43 twice, but it was too much for me, so I left. Meaning, like afterwards, all the people and all the things and all to get 40:51 to his attention and I just figured like with most of the people that I want to meet it's 1 of those it's a moment like bumping in the freaking 41:00 Prem in Japan while I'm buying a fan. You know what I mean? Like there's DJ Premier, my DJ Premier, 41:08 my DJ Premier. You know, like that's how I feel like it should happen. It shouldn't be something I'm forcing. You know, especially 41:16 if I want it to be genuine. I fucked up once or twice, mess of body, lost my shit real quick. And I was like, yeah, that 41:25 didn't go how I wanted. Who gets Jill Scott to lose her shit? You spoke about that and you never told the actual name. We ain't gonna ask. I didn't ask it. But did you? 41:33 I mean, I don't mind, it was Meryl Streep. That's a big 1. Okay. That is big. It's not bad. Meryl Streep is 1 of them. You must 41:41 have hold your ground. I didn't hold my ground, I lost it. I was like, all right, I don't like this. I just want to tell you about all my feelings. I was 41:49 like, Phil, I don't know what you did. And I was like, yeah, get yourself together. Don't do that no more. It was bad. I'm live all the way around. 41:58 You know, even if I'm goofy, I'm goofy. I'm all the things that I like to be. All the things that I don't like to be. I'll do whatever 42:06 I have to do to not be those things. Whatever I have to do. That means excuse myself. If 42:15 that means cutting you off. If that means, you know, changing my path, 42:24 going in a completely different direction. So I don't have to do that. I don't want to be that. I don't like that. I've seen it. She's not for me. She's too dark. Yeah. 42:33 She scare me. Yeah. Nope. What type of... When you win 42:41 the Icon Legacy Award and they say, all right, here to do the Jill Scott tribute. We have, first 42:49 of all, who would you like to see doing the Jill Scott tribute? 1, and 2, are you gonna be like Prince and Mariah in 42:57 the audience? Like, are you laughing at niggas? Judging, they don't see it. Or are you gonna be like supportive no matter how they sound out 43:05 there? I'll tell you what I want. I'll tell you what I want. Because sometimes they throw stuff 43:14 together. I don't like that. I don't want them to do me like that. I would like to have... I 43:22 don't know which orchestra. I don't know which symphony orchestra. But I would like a symphony orchestra. I would like everybody to come dressed beautifully. 43:31 Not necessarily a tuxedo or a gown, but beautifully. Like do your absolute big 1. Come out looking 43:40 beautiful, listen to this music, and I'm assuming that the vocalists will show up, the ones that are supposed to sing the 43:48 songs. They're gonna sing it their own way. They're not gonna imitate me, because it affected them, it impacted them. So they're gonna own it and sing 43:56 it the way they feel like it should be sung. And I think, I mean, if I had to have it, then that's what I would want. And maybe 44:05 at Carnegie Hall, I don't know, it might be too small. I don't know, but I think it should be beautiful Lincoln 44:13 Center. What would you want as your announcer though As my announcer? As my announcer? Pharrell? 44:27 Respect him, I respect him. His catalog is stinky, smelly, it's disgusting. It is. 44:36 And I love it. From here to there, all over the place. Like N-E-R-D, like, You never did anything with Phra? Huh? You never did anything 44:44 with Phra? I did a song with him. I wouldn't say I did a song with him. I wouldn't say I did a song with him. He gave me some beats finally. Because 44:53 I don't give up and I don't have no ego. Well, ego. Ego I have. Id I don't. So I never stopped asking him. 45:03 And the last time I saw him, I was like, nigga. And he sent me something, so I wrote it. But 45:11 she's a dirty little thing. I got to put her on the right album. Gotcha. What do you say to the people out there 45:19 that heard this album and while they appreciated the storytelling, felt that there was a lack of her 45:28 and the fucking songs on there? What do I tell them? Yeah, 45:36 like the people that look to you for the sexual anthems. I've never been 1 thing in my whole life. And if I decide to 45:44 be 1 thing or create an album about 1 thing, I'll let you know beforehand. This is a Jill Scott album. This is to whom this may concern. 45:52 If it does not concern you, that's fine. You'll be around later. You won't catch it eventually. It's too 46:01 much love. It's too much honesty. You'll catch it later, I'm cool, it's good. And you can fuck to the Jib song. I never thought I would say that before. There's 46:10 a couple on there you can fuck to the Jib song. You can fuck to the Jib song. You gonna find 1. No, there's a couple on there you can fuck to. There's a couple on there you can fuck to. You can make it work. Yeah, no, I'll put you off for sure. No, but thank you 46:18 for noticing, because I meant that. You can. What? Can you? It's true. Yes. 46:27 Oh my God. You're gonna be different. You are, you are. That bass freedom 46:35 in there, all that's, come on timing, all that. 46:43 You have a favorite producer you've worked with thus far? Favorite producer. Or go to at least someone that you think you create your best moments with? 46:52 No. I loved everybody. I enjoyed everything I did from Sarah and Andre Harris and Vidal 47:00 Davis shit, the list is so long. Carvin Hagens and, 47:09 geez, Raphael Sadiq and DJ Premier and David Banner and, Sage 47:19 Monstrosity. His name is Sage Monstrosity? You know some shit on that. Here's the thing about that. 47:27 He's on the album 3 times, y'all. I didn't know who he was. David Banner sent me beats. I just assume it was David Banner. I just I didn't ask 47:35 any questions. He always sends me beats. David Banner is the person that consistently sends me music and to inspire me to make 47:43 sure I just don't dissipate or just you know fall off of it completely. Next thing I know, I'm minding my business, 2 years in the chilling, he'll send me 5 songs. 47:51 He'll send me 8 songs. He'll send me, like he does that. He's so awesome. Isn't he? He's 1 of those. Love David. But his production 48:00 should not be ignored. Oh my god. Well he sends me these tracks, 3 of them I'm like 48:08 writing immediately. All 3 of them are by this other guy. Saves monstrosity. I think I hope I'm saying his name right 48:16 if you know wait put monstrosity in my name something this dude Swizz beats also gave me some music So swizz 48:24 gave me 1 of likes he gave me like 4 and David gave me a gazillion I don't know But the 3 the 2 out of the David 48:32 Banner pack and the 1 out of the Swizz back are both saved to monstrosity. Oh wow. When I say organic. Yeah, 48:40 y'all in the same frequency. I'm like, that's a whole stranger that I never saw, never met, never worked with. He has 3 songs on my album. Hi. Okay. Wow. 48:49 Yeah. Super talented. Where who? Who are you? Hi. You on my shit? That's dope. That's fine. Isn't 48:58 it? That's fine. That's how it's supposed to be. What do you think about the landscape today in terms of 49:06 storytelling? Like, what do you feel about the stories being told through R&B currently? Some 49:16 of them are good. Some of them give me pictures. Okay, I 49:24 think it's devoid of love. I do. I think there's just like no humanity in it at all. It's 49:33 like you got money, I got time. You know, I got money, you got money. Ooh, look, we got money. 49:41 And then we got some more money. And then we had more money, and then we did some money. Yeah, that's what we did with our money. We got some head. Yeah, 49:49 it's like, humanity lives in the simple things. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just sex and money, that's what I mean. I wasn't trying to be funny. I meant like, 49:57 yo, it's just money. And I like them both. No, they both dope, but just not like that. Yeah. Like I think it was interesting that 50:05 people were really upset about Squeeze My Meat in the song Baby Don't Play. They're like, squeeze my meat, and it could be the way that I sang it, 50:14 and I said it how I said it. But they were like, oh my goodness, she said, squeeze my meat. And 50:22 I was like, have you listened to anything lately? Anything at all? The things that are said? I've never heard so much booty 50:30 eating in my life. It's a whole, it's a whole, like you made that a hook, yo. You made that a hook. And you're upset about squeeze my meat. 50:38 You're upset about crown royal. What did I say? What did I say? Your hands on my, on my hips, pull me right back to you. I'm 50:47 looking for crass, tell me, point it out. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Okay, I catch that thrust, give it right back to you. 50:55 No, you're still safe. You're in so deep, I'm breathing for you. All right, now. All right, now. All right, Jill. We get it, We get the line down. 51:03 But that's the point, but what can I say? That's the good old school dope shit that ain't as vulgar as, you can make 51:11 references all day to sex, but now it's just some nasty idea. There's a sexiness to it and then. Like Paul Wall went on some, and he was telling 51:20 the people that I talked him through his verse for So Gone and I did I did sometimes I get with MCs we were talking about 51:28 this you know how the MCs I love I love them but I'll get with some MCs sometimes, and they'll want to give me the version of themselves 51:36 that they think I want. And I'm so disappointed. I'm like, I didn't call you too short to tell me sweet lullabies. I 51:44 wanted you to say that. Well, he is short. He pissed me up, too. I said too short, it was like, what is going on here? And 51:52 it's a pimple song. Yeah, because I needed somebody to explain what that means. People are real upset, real quick to get upset about a 52:00 thing. They're like, she said pastors are pimps. I did. I did. They are. And there's a whole other list. There's 52:09 a lot of pimps. And there's a lot of hoes. I.C. Said, either you a hoe or you a pimp. You're going to be 1 or the other at some time. Yo, 52:17 where did you fall in love with hip hop at? Like you such a head. Where did I fall in love? Damn. It's 52:28 gonna sound so corny. I used to love when the guys would walk around with the boom boxes and 52:37 they would play like they would play rock him as loud as they could. I was like, what is that? What 52:47 did he say? And then I go to the radio station and got my little tape and waiting for the song to play on this. This is 52:55 dating me. I'm okay with that. I've earned this. You got to put the tape on that CD cassette. That's right. Yep. Right. Exactly. Put some tissue 53:03 in the joint. What, put the tissue in it or some tape? And tape that song and listen to it over and over and over and over and over and over again. Brand new funk by 53:12 Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff destroyed me. I was like, it was the way that it happened 1 day. I was rapping and I was like, ah! It was 53:20 great. It was great. Thought I was a donut and tried to glaze me. It's 53:29 poetry. It's fantastic. I like that. And Once I found out that there was something 53:37 more than jazz and blues and soul and gospel and classical and Gregorian chant and Salsa 53:45 and who, Millie Jackson. That's the queen right there. Right? 53:56 Everything begats a thing. If it wasn't for Millie Jackson, I wouldn't be able to do any of the things that I'm doing. She 54:04 started it. She said, you can say what the fuck you wanna say on your stage. I just didn't know we had such a good run of keeping 54:12 things in house without even trying. I didn't expect the microphone thing to come out. And I just talk about it because 54:20 I'm like, I didn't, you didn't see anything go in my mouth, honey. We didn't need to. It's the thought. It was the intention. It was like the thrusting in 54:28 there. Picasso could paint a little bit with a brush. Thank 54:37 you. Thank you. Could I ask, do you have a first purchase? You remember your first musical purchase? Album, single? It was The Wiz. I 54:46 had it on vinyl. And that was Quincy Jones, obviously, Luther Vandross and Michael 54:55 Jackson. Ted Ross would play the lion. He was on 55:03 Broadway. I got a chance to see him on Broadway. So to see him in the film blew my mind. He was the only person that. Diana Ross was every stringy, 55:12 wonderful, quirky thing I'd ever seen in my life. I loved her as that. Ashford and Simpson 55:20 singing background, writing these songs. Like it was literally so colorful and it was heavy. Like the whiz 55:28 is heavy. The winter cabs come by and you can't get 1, like, yeah. The train station. All the drug addicts in the poppy 55:37 area. The drugs get it. The whiz is heavy. So I think it's, oh my god, Quincy Jones gave me everything. 55:46 Yeah. I took it to show and tell and I had, I 55:54 had a, 1, my mom got it from the thrift store as a record player that lit up a little portable. Yep. The record player that you lit up 56:02 and I took it to show and tell in the third grade and nobody liked it I played you can't win by Michael Jackson that's the first song I learned you can't 56:10 are you serious he sings yes I know I know that was the first song Wow up 56:18 and down so I feel you every possible way I 56:30 could count on y'all It's wonderful we were how did you feel I well I saw 56:38 I saw them asked me about any of you so I kind of know But were you happy that the culture kind of collectively 56:46 stood against your participation in that movie and the role. What movie? The movie where they had you being 56:54 the big girl. Sheila? Yeah. Sheila, what about her? Her and 57:03 how the dude was treating her. And why did I get buried? Oh, yeah. Part 1. Yeah, they really got a board on that. Like 57:11 they did, they love Sheila in the story. They ain't playing with Sheila, yeah. You know, yeah. But we think that kinda has stood, like just stood the test of time like 57:19 nobody's really forgiven homeboy That's good. I should they know that's good acting to Really good acting 57:27 niggas be mad at you later on like y'all like that thing like your favorite was a movie made up for it, though. I 57:35 thought- They did. Because you ended up nursing him back to health or something. When he had cancer. Yeah. He got his ass beat. I mean, it's more story to tell. Like, 57:44 remember Tariq in the elevator? Yes. Right. The dude was really about to knock him out. Like you gotta stop talking to your father 57:52 like that. Like that's not my dad, man, it's a TV show. It's just a TV show. I think people love Sheila. They 58:00 don't, like I saw recently, they were saying, oh she didn't have on a fat suit, or she had on a fat suit. Look, I had on a fat suit, okay? I 58:08 learned how to walk in it, I learned how to sit in it, I learned how to maneuver the thing. It was a weird, awkward feeling. 58:17 So I wanted her to walk and feel away, you know, like a person. And at the job, to make it a character, a person. So that's what 58:25 I did. I don't know about the rest of it. That's not my story. Talk to Tyler Perry, He wrote it. I just, 58:34 you know, learned the words and embodied the person. There's a part 3 coming, right? That's what I hear. Okay. That 58:42 sounds so vague. Would you be a part 3? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can't have a part 3. They can have a part 9. Why 58:51 did I get married as a whole cultural like I like I love it? I mean that's what still do Yes, and it's in the top some pictures. 58:59 We've seen some pictures. There's somebody that was added to it. So yeah. Yeah. Thank you. It's gonna be good. I'm glad people like it. Where else are you acting? I obviously HBO. 59:08 You had some big roles and amazing roles. I wouldn't say big roles. Well I am. I'll say I'm the first black woman to be a lead on an HBO 59:16 show. That's a big 1. That's a big 1. That's the biggest, I think, my biggest experience. And that was amazing. I 59:24 don't think y'all got enough awards for that. We didn't get any awards for it. But just be clear, I was in 117 59:33 degree weather sometime. I know that sounds extra, but it was like that. Like why is it 109 at 09:00 in the morning? We shot 59:41 long days. We went out into the jungle. We saw lions. We saw giraffes. We shot around them. In the 59:49 nighttime, there were these white crickets, and they were big, and because of the light, they 59:57 would hit you like. Oh shit. Just hit you all over your body. You could feel them just hitting you and you gotta be like, Je el be matokoni, 1:00:06 I love you, don't go. And the whole time stuff was crawling up. It was wild, 1:00:15 But it was the best experience I've ever had acting because I had to get thrown all the way in. 1:00:23 And they were so welcoming to me. And there was a group of women, and they all had mad long hairs on their chins. And they were sickeningly 1:00:32 beautiful. Like, what? And they would say, if I said a word 1:00:41 wrong, from the back I could hear it all the way from wherever they were if I said a word wrong. I'd be like, okay, let me start again. What do you mean? 1:00:49 I'm like, I have to start again. Cause the ladies told me, you know, I can't do this wrong. It's kilo culera. Don't play, don't say it any other way. 1:00:57 Got it, got it. Yes ma'am. Yeah, ma. And they put me on the stamp. Postage 1:01:06 stamp in Botswana. Wow. Oh, that's fire. That's crazy. Meld your bills and stuff. That's fire. I would have put that on my refrigerator. Yo, 1:01:14 that's dope. That's fire. It is dope. I do dope shit, like for real, like a lot. Really, the whole life. Sounds like it. 1:01:22 I do. Your life sounds lit. Listen, and I sleep. Really? Yes. See now that's 1:01:31 what I'm trying to figure out. You get a balance of doing dope shit and sleeping. You drink water and sleep, that's amazing. Listen, I must. I got a job to do. I have a purpose. 1:01:41 What do you see as your purpose? This, Sharing stories. I'm a griot. I come from a long line 1:01:49 of griots. I took a blood test, you know, to find out your, what is it? Ancestry, thank you. Ancestry, DNA. 1:01:58 Yeah, so they got my mother's side. I didn't get my father's side, because he was adopted, so I don't know. But my mom said I am Guinea-Bissau and 1:02:06 Guinea-Bissau people are known for telling stories through music. Right? Right? I 1:02:15 mean I gotta go to Guinea-Bissau. I gotta see. Because in Botswana, I walked into myself all the time. Cousins, neighbor, 1:02:24 looking at their faces. I saw like a 5 foot 6 Michael Jordan. It messed me up. 1:02:34 Exact face. But just like, I know you're not Michael Jordan, but you look exactly like Michael Jordan. My brother's 1:02:42 short too, right? His dad was short. His brother had hops. How old is he? 1:02:51 That brother. He was older than Mike. How long were you in Africa? 7 months in total. Yeah. 1:03:01 I heard it's magical. It depends. It's a whole big ass continent. And Botswana is 1 of those places where the 1:03:11 folk came trying to take over and they didn't allow it. So Botswana has its, you know, its diamonds. Botswana, 1:03:21 the people are, they speak 7, 8 languages, like everybody. Everybody. They got a 1:03:29 flat screen TV. I mean, you know, this is my box. You know, like, people are chilling, living life, you 1:03:37 know, but they do have something interesting. I don't know. It's been a couple years since I've been there, like maybe 3, 3 years exact, because I took 1:03:45 Jet. That's my son. Anyway, they used to have this sign up there on the billboards and the billboard said, don't be in the little 1:03:53 house. And I was, you know, every day I'm passing like, what's the little house? Like maybe they're telling you to dream bigger or something. I 1:04:02 was like, what's the little house? The little house is where the mistress lives. I made, I was like, oh, 1:04:10 right, like you. I made friends with this guy. He worked on set. He was mad cool. I liked him. We liked each other then 1 day. He was like 1:04:18 I can't be your friend And I was like what do you mean? You can't be my friend? He's like I can't be your friend because people think that we are starting a relationship And 1:04:27 I was like we're not starting a relationship. I don't I don't think so I you know you're married He was like exactly And if people think that I'm 1:04:35 having a relationship with you, people won't do business with me. Oh wow. Wow. Really. And I can lose my children. And I was 1:04:44 like, all right. Take care, take care. But that was like- Lose your children socially. Yeah. 1:04:52 Cause why would anybody trust you? Yeah. It was like plain and simple. You know, the rules of engagement there. I was, you know. 1:05:01 I loved it. Imagine if that were the consequence for cheating in America, y'all. Damn. What would we do? We'd 1:05:09 pay for black men up here. We as a nation. We as a nation. Yeah. Yes. Are all our daddies. There we go. I 1:05:18 don't know about all that. I just like the fact that they had a standard. And it was like 1:05:27 the community standard. It wasn't just you know some people. It was the cut. That's how everybody thinks. That's deep. It was the norm. When they see you they you know they gotta ask 1:05:35 you how your children are. That's first. How are your children? Yeah first then you get to whatever else you were gonna talk about eventually 1:05:43 But you know that whole process where I where I started curtsying. That's why I curtsied everybody. Everybody 1:05:51 does it. When you receive money, you hand it this way. When you give money or whatever it is that you're giving a bag or whatever, that's 1:05:59 how you deal with each other. I'm not just handing you something. I'm handing you something. I'm receiving something from you. 1:06:08 I loved it. It was a great experience. That's 1 of those things that you know. Like Asians give with 2 hands I think. 2 hands is a... The 1:06:17 Asians really respectful. 2 hands. Is really respectful. 2 hands. You feel it talking about the Robin Hood. Which 1? Which 1? 1:06:26 This guy right here. Which Edgewater? Turn over, Breeze. In Edgewater they do that right? All up and down. This guy is the Robin Hood king. That's crazy. What 1:06:35 is wrong with your brain, Mike? Could you see yourself living somewhere else? For long periods of time? I think about it all the time. All 1:06:43 the time, I'm trying to figure out where we're going. I don't know, I don't know. Tina Turner, queen of pop by 1:06:51 the way. Yes. Tina Turner, she lived in Switzerland I think, like over 1:06:59 the south of France or somewhere dope. You know where it's guarded in the back. South of France is dope, I'm sure. Nina Simone told me that I should leave here. 1:07:10 And I was like, go where? She's like, I don't know, they'll never understand you. Wow, I would've listened to Nina Simone. 1:07:18 Wait, Nina Simone can say. I'd have packed up. I've been looking. Yeah, right there. Like where we going? I thought it was Holland. Portugal. And 1:07:26 it, you know, I like a lot about Holland. I like that they have healthcare for everyone. I like that people speak 3, 4 languages. You know, I 1:07:34 like they don't have GMOs in the food. They don't trip on people's proclivities. I 1:07:43 was like, that's nice. Good way to put that. Yeah. You said Holland? Yeah. I 1:07:51 didn't hear. I didn't hear correctly. Holland, okay. Make it sure. I thought it was dope. I just don't like the switchover between the 1:08:00 dollar and the euro. That don't make me feel nice. So I have to figure out where we're 1:08:08 going. I don't know. You know Africa is such a big continent and I've only been to Botswana and to South Africa and 1:08:17 that's all like low down in Africa. It's a whole other, you know, it's a universe of Africa to explore. I just don't know where. 1:08:26 Switzerland seems interesting because that's where Nina Simone was. I like Switzerland. They got good water. Yeah, good chocolate, good coffee. Good chocolate, good 1:08:35 watches. Good watches. Good watches. Bank accounts. Swiss. Dose too, yeah, yeah. Stash, a little something, something. That 1:08:43 helps. That's nice. Yeah. I'm still looking. Portugal. It was a lot of swine for me. Everywhere I went they were putting 1:08:51 pork in everything. They didn't have like vegan restaurants and you know when I was there. It was everything. I 1:08:59 was like I just asked for rice. Why is it bacon bits in it? Like, corn, why you put pork in this? 1:09:07 Like, I'm starving to death, don't you understand? In the plain white rice? Give me some rice. Come on, y'all. Yeah, so I mean, I've heard things are different now. Yeah, 1:09:16 he's been in a decent amount of time now. He knows a lot of the spots. In Spain? In Portugal. He's building a house out there. Oh you are? Stop 1:09:24 playing. Are you serious? No, he is. No, deadass. Good. Spain's nice too. It's a lot of hills. Depending on where you are. Yeah. 1:09:33 Okay. Spain's dope too. I'm open to suggestion. I'm looking, looking, looking. I don't know if I could do it. I would want to do it. I would 1:09:41 want to. You know what? I just don't know if I could. Depending on the money, I'll do 6 on 6 off. That's the move. That's what I want to do 6 on 6 off and then I'll see if I could 1:09:49 acclimate to Making a fortune get old and get old enough. I'm gone I've seen what is on you 1:09:58 seen what America has to present. I'm cool. Let me see what this is worth. It's worth the hold I get to out here. I'm with Nina Simone. Yeah. For real. If 1:10:06 I get your money, I'm out. Stop it. Shut up. Did you get a chance to see Bad Bunny's Super 1:10:14 Bowl performance, and what did you think of that storytelling? I thought it was amazing right super cultural Yeah, I got I got a chance to experience 1:10:23 something like visit for for you know, however long that was, you know I thought it was great. I didn't even watch the game kind 1:10:31 of busy, but I made sure to watch that performance. Like how does, I don't know, were people angry about it or disliking it? Cause I 1:10:39 thought it was great. There was some total outrage about it that mattered to me. Total outrage? A lot of people. Outrage? The people you think will be mad were mad. Yeah. Oh. 1:10:47 The people brainwashed by that. We don't need to mention that. Yeah. Nothing to worry about. I thought it was beautiful. It was. Yep. You 1:10:58 don't plan on a, What are your future music plans? Actually, that's what I'll say. My what? Your future 1:11:06 music plans. I would like to collaborate more. 1:11:18 I've got a couple of different albums. I'll just wait until they're ready, like whatever they're ready. I'm 1:11:26 just doing this 1 right now, but there's several. Indeed. Yeah. I 1:11:37 think I'm just gonna keep going until I'm done going. Just going to keep creating. That's 1:11:45 what I see. Do you have what the done day looks like? Or feels like. Yeah, or feels like. It's 1:11:54 a shift. We were talking about it in the car. I plan on getting a lake house somewhere, and I want to write like 1:12:02 Toni Morrison. I want to fish in the morning and I want to to 1:12:10 be on my back looking at looking at the lake because I could deal with a lake. The ocean scared the hell out of me but the lake is cool. You know I got a pretty 1:12:18 good idea of what's in there. Same. Huh. But yeah, that's how I see it. A lot of trees, I want to 1:12:26 be barefoot as much as possible, naked as much as I can. The life, The life. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Somewhere with not many mosquitoes, 1:12:35 I hope. Yeah, you know, the perfect place will show up. Sure. So I'm excited about whatever that is, but I know that's 1:12:43 1 of the places that I'll be. Are you a nude beach kind of gal? No, it's too many people. Got it. I like a nude beach, but I don't like people. 1:12:51 I don't want anybody else naked. But they have private nude beaches. I don't know. What's private? What's 1:12:59 private? Yeah. I was somewhere, and the 10-year-old, it looked like a 10-year-old little white kid, was just videotaping the hell out of me. 1:13:09 And I was like, they're not looking at me. Next thing I know I see me on my vacation, you know, on whatever, on the internet. And I was 1:13:17 like, it was a kid, you played me. You played me. You played me. You played me. I was like, he's not looking at me. He couldn't be looking at me. He was just 1:13:25 like, oh. His parents sent him out like a little spot. Oh my. There's somebody putting up to it. That was horrible. It was awful. So 1:13:33 you know. Want some cookies? I got a hole in my little stuff. See that lady over there? Okay. Are there any songs that you've heard recently that have made you wish 1:13:41 that you were a part of the recording session? There's an artist named Gina that I really, really, really, really, really, really like. It's more to the 1:13:49 name, and I can't think of what it is right now, but I know it's like G-E-N-A, and I think that their whole vibe is just delicious. It 1:13:58 is delicious. They use these dissonant notes that I think are just fresh. And 1:14:07 she's a beautiful woman. She's like, it's just, they're chilling. I like them. You know where she's from? Gina? I don't know. God Energy Naturally 1:14:15 amazing. It's an acronym. Got it. Like that. Yeah, that's kind of got me stuck. And then I'm so happy that 1:14:23 TI is back. I don't know what to do. That song is fine. That song is crazy. Every time I hear it. But is that Throw 1:14:31 Some D's on it? No, no Might 1:14:41 be very similar melody Yeah It's got a little flow to it the flow that's what I'm saying it's choppy enough let 1:14:52 them know Oh, 1:15:00 shush. This song is hard. What? Grounded it. Brandy 1:15:08 T. She's a girl ready to throw the real light Twirl, can't be good, they won't pull over till I'm dead right Ride till the sun rise, can't nobody be uptight 1:15:17 Ain't gonna be no future, ride with me, let it hit the spot Got another win, saddle, level on the fist I'll go with the cringe, shower, I ain't gonna lie 1:15:25 You look, Jill look like if you'd have caught her in the club, on 1 of them back walls while the reggae came on. Slaves 1:15:34 handstand. Time to end this. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah, nah, this sounds like, yeah, 1:15:42 it sounds like frozen beauty. Might just pitch stuff a little bit. But I love Drozel D's on it. Me too. And I miss T.I. So I'm not, you know, I'm not throwing shade. I 1:15:50 was so happy when his first album, Trap Music. Trap Music. I didn't 1:15:58 know anything about drug dealers in the South. He just opened a whole world, All of a sudden telling me these awesome stories in that flow with 1:16:06 this music. Rubber Band Man was the thing that made me fall in love with Dave Banner. That's the shit, that's Dave Banner. That was it, that's Dave Banner. That's 1:16:14 what made me hate all of them. I called him Dave Banner, Dave Banner for years. Niggas got you smooth-eyed. We'll sit down for a little bit, homie. We 1:16:23 were label mates. Yeah, he had that rubber band shit. He was like, what? Yeah, I was young. He was made- Rubber who? He made things tough. You wanted 1:16:31 it? All of it? You wanted it? The New York niggas in the video? No, it was hard to gain traction in the same building with some of the greats that were 1:16:39 in that Def Jam building. That's all. And T.I. Niggas was just in they run. That album that you talking about? Yeah. And I don't think nobody 1:16:47 could did Rubber Band, man, like what he did on there. It was per, that was for him. It was my ringtone. That was for him. Damn, ringtone. Nah, 1:16:56 and Pump Me Up was on my ringtone too. Hey! Just so you know. That's right. Did, I'm like what? What you got? That 1:17:06 is hilarious. The remix too, right? The remix? Oh shit. What remix? Jay-Z. Oh shit. I think that's the 1 she told me when we 1:17:14 don't have company Don't 1:17:23 you worry about it you Are you doing a Blue Note back to back nights? Same night, 2 nights, 2 shows, 1 night. Yeah. Sorry, bro. 1:17:31 So the Sunday names is just fucked. It's out of here. It's no Sunday, it's a Saturday. It's for the lovers, bro. Yeah, you're done. 8 and 10.30. Okay, 1:17:39 I'm gonna beg somebody. I told you I got you, man. I'm not calling that a guy. She just said. Like you had me for the black card. She just said the person to beg is in front of you. I'm right 1:17:47 here. I'm begging. Yeah, we begging, man. Baby, I'm begging, baby. I'm begging. I am going 1:17:55 to beg. Give me a Sleeper R&B group that you don't think gets enough recognition. Sleeper R&B group. The 1:18:05 obvious is Kindred. Yes. That's obvious. Great pick. The Kindred, the Family Soul. That thing feel good, and it always feel good. It's 1:18:13 real music, and real sentiment. Like they really love each other. Yeah, yeah. Like for real. Like that's 1:18:21 awesome. And it's so musical. It's very Philly soul, very Philly soul music. That's a great answer. It's 1:18:29 the truth. It's just the truth. Another 1 that I don't think is enough love, and I know that there's 1:18:37 some, geez. Ah, I'm looking through my, who do I love that I'm like, why don't the world love 1:18:46 them like I do. It'll hit me, it'll hit me and I'll tell you later. Okay. I can't see. What was 1:18:54 your favorite studio session from this album? I 1:19:07 think there was so many obviously. That's 19 songs, but I've got so many more than 19. This 1:19:17 didn't feel like 19. I enjoyed pressure so much because I left myself and 1:19:26 I always liked that when I can leave myself. Like she, I could see, I could see that there were like in the booth, 1:19:34 in my mind, I could see that there were 3 background singers and they was chewing gum, it was nasty. It was that, it was that. But 1:19:43 I felt like Nancy Wilson. I felt like class and grace and 1:19:51 composure, singing something that was hard to say. And those are the, I really liked that moment. I felt, it felt good to me 1:20:00 to, you know, fall into character. Is there a role that you're looking to 1:20:08 do or something that you wanna tackle and within the film industry? There's roles, There's roles. I 1:20:19 always wanted to play Phyllis Hyman. That's the 1. It's this Phyllis Hyman. It's this 50th, well she 1:20:27 never, she didn't make it. She didn't make it. But I think I've been waiting to get to this place in order to represent the older Phyllis 1:20:35 Hyman. I think that there should be a younger Phyllis Hyman and I think that it should turn to this 1, 1:20:43 this older woman. Because that whole story is really, 1:20:55 really powerful. How led she was musically, that tonation is 1:21:03 everything. The relationships that she had, the bout, the bout with mental illness. I 1:21:13 know people that have spent time with her. They said that she would be 1:21:22 very, very loving and giving. Give out anything, give you anything you want and turn to the literalist, coldest person 1:21:30 you've ever met like that. And be cruel for fun. It's unfortunate 1:21:38 that's the life she was living at times, but to me it's neat. To 1:21:47 me it's work. I would want a director that directs. I wouldn't want somebody to choose me because of how many likes I have. I 1:21:56 would want to work really, really hard for that, to honor her. Just like honoring those women in Botswana. It 1:22:04 means something when there's something behind it. When you have people to look up to, you know, or people 1:22:13 that are looking to you to do a thing for their behalf, on their behalf. I don't know if you, do you all have mentors? Do 1:22:22 you have a mentor? I have a few. Good. They, him. Yo, this thing's sick. 1:22:30 What's wrong with you? You can't help yourself, yo. You just can't help yourself. It is important to have it. Y'all got mentors for real? Who you got mentoring? I'm not lying 1:22:38 in front of Jill. I don't want to joke and make it a sad assombe, but my mentor did just pass and we talked about it up here. So, 1:22:47 that's that. I will say, I'm not going to, we can be funny, but I do in this space and what we do, and I do look at 1:22:55 you in mentorship, when it comes to this. Well, thank you. Yeah. And you still got figuring out all on your own? That's fucked up, though. Shit. I know. 1:23:03 That's fucked up, yo. Sheesh. You're so big on everything art. Where do you stand 1:23:12 on AI, the use of AI, how it's being implemented? I don't like it. At 1:23:20 all? I don't like it. There we go. Yeah. I don't like it. In any capacity. I don't like it. I don't think 1:23:28 you should be helping somebody write an essay for school. Me either. I don't think that. I think you're supposed to be able to write an essay for school. It's 1:23:37 turning us into robots. I don't think that you're supposed to ask AI all the questions. I think you have to investigate. You know, like obviously our 1:23:46 phones, they make us freaking disabled. But you're supposed 1:23:54 to wanna find out. Like it's a thing to wanna find out. It's really a thing. That's old school, Jill. 1:24:02 I'm old schooled in. Joe, it removes the passion for this. Where's the accomplishment of somebody doing it for you? It's no passion. Well, yo, I agree with her. You know what I'm saying? 1:24:11 Oh. Yeah, I mean, gotta play devil's advocate because it's here and it makes things so easy and I really do get it, but I don't like it, I don't like the music 1:24:19 it creates, and it be sounding good. I fell for it a couple times. Full background, flyers, everything. Strings. 1:24:28 I heard some soul shit the other day, I was like damn. It's scary. Sounds good. Yeah, it caught this 1. Yeah. And it come mixed. Right. Somebody 1:24:36 said, a director that I know was playing around and asked for a gospel rock country 1:24:46 song. That thing was fire. It was, it was, I was touched. I was touched 1:24:55 to know that no people, no people were involved in creating such a thing. It's disturbing. It's crazy. Don't you play me. I played him the, the AI 1:25:04 black church version of Staying Alive, and it was incredible. It sounds amazing. I bet. It was incredible. I bet. That's crazy. Yeah, 1:25:12 still AI. That's scary, B. It is very scary. It makes you feel like people are on their way out. Yes, it's getting smarter every day. That's so scary, bro. They write, as a writer, they've already 1:25:20 got rid of us. They wrote movies about this. Yeah. They did. They wrote books about this. A lot of them. People are making me feel like people are on their way out, too, though. Right. Like, if we 1:25:28 just talk, stop, take AI out of you, just looking at the human behavior, it's like, oh, we ain't got too long. Neil deGrasse is hanging his head looking at us. It's 1:25:37 shit different. We no longer have human experiences anymore. I mean, we do, we do. It's started to become very limited, 1:25:45 especially when you talk about influencing the music that we make and something that's supposed to come from inside, something that's passionate, something that's supposed to be original thought, 1:25:53 the fact that we're now lending, they're stealing all of the stuff from our original. Oh, for sure, for sure. So it's just, it's becoming lazy. I think there's a good chunk of the population 1:26:02 that still exists as human beings. I agree with you Parks, 100%. That's why Beautiful People is on the album. It's a call out. I'm 1:26:10 calling. I know you still exist. I know it's people that love each other and laugh and after 45 years still kiss with their eyes closed. I know it, I see them, 1:26:18 I know them. I know it's people who go out and they do the damn thing. Not only do they get that degree, they graduate Magnum, soong-koong-la-da-doom-ba-doom, all 1:26:28 the things, walking across stages and making way. I know people who don't have a lot of money, but when I say they are joyful in that spirit, 1:26:36 and they glow and shine, and if I had to trade, it would be with them. Like, I know people, you know, 1:26:45 It's not a lot, but I see us and I know we exist. So I'm calling out to you. That's what to whom 1:26:53 this may concern is really all about. I am calling. I know you exist. Come see me so you can see each other. Let's have a moment. The internet is a much more comfortable 1:27:01 place for misery and hatred than the real world. But do you do you think there's anonymity? So do you think it's growing? What? Like as 1:27:09 the misery, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I think empathy is a fleeting thing. Or if you just look at the politics and all of that, 1:27:17 all of that stuff to me, it's not to be sad or dreary, it's just running away. But that's why I said if you look at how we're progressing within 1:27:26 the next 10 to, and we always get caught up in, it might not be in our era, it Might not be in our time, but in our kids' era, in our kids' kids' era, if 1:27:34 our whole purpose in kind of doing what we do is to pass down and do all that, what they're going to have by the time they get to our age? They're going to be... It's scary, 1:27:42 bro. It's scary. Well, let me give you some hope. We exist. True. We exist and we share 1:27:51 and we have mentors and we can become mentors and we can choose who we hang out with and we can choose how we live 1:27:59 our existence. And because of that, we continue to Think about times before, 1:28:08 what our parents were experiencing. What our parents were experiencing. Well, that's true. Some people's parents were, you know, experiencing as children, they're, you 1:28:16 know, experiencing Vietnam. Graduate from high school and walk straight into war. They come and get you at your graduation and take you to 1:28:25 kill people. Like that. Sharecroppers. Right, think about that. That you're walking down a road coming 1:28:33 from a store and there is a hung human on a tree. This is, it's never been easy. It's just 1:28:41 different now, but it's never been easy. But We exist and we have to hold on to whatever good, whatever good, 1:28:49 whatever good there is. Whatever good, we gotta promote it, we gotta talk about it. And it's unfortunate that people think that that's corny, but fuck 1:28:58 you. I don't care that you think it's corny. I don't, I don't. We're past that, we're past it. I'm looking for 1:29:06 my people, where y'all at? Tyler, come see me. Let's bullshit, let's do stuff. Let's support 1 another, let's 1:29:14 guide these kids. Because they want it, They want it. Let's be imperfect together. Let's do it That was 1:29:22 a great. That was a think you are that was a great message I 1:29:31 know Jill was a fire bowling date at some point in her life. Who? I ain't gonna lie. What? Just a fired person to go 1:29:39 bowling with. My bowling game is shab. You got a good energy. Good energy. What's your bowling name? Shab. Shab. 1:29:48 I like that The way that I throw a bowling ball is real weird. Now do I make a strike? Yeah. But you don't want to see it. It's 1:29:57 real awkward. It's all that counts. It's all that counts. Yeah, but it's real awkward. The result matters. That X on the board. That's all that counts. No, when I bowl people are like, are you okay? 1:30:05 Oh shit. Are you okay? Are you okay? It's the thing it's the thing with my fingers. They 1:30:13 don't really have a lot of bones They're in there, but they they they do other things there. There's something for something else I haven't quite 1:30:22 figured out what for, but I think. All right, you know what? Crown, roll you on ice. This 1:30:31 has been a great, a great, a great conversation. This is just, this is my favorite week since being 1:30:39 up here. You ever went to see a psychic over a nigga? No, but I went to see 1 in Atlantic City 1 time. Did they 1:30:47 tell you anything about a nigga? Nope. Oh. She told me I had words all over my hands and they were going up my arms and it was gonna be my life. Oh, 1:30:57 so she was right. I was maybe 19. Oh, she bodied that. Oh, she caught that. Yeah, she caught that. Yeah, she did that. She is real. I don't like the people 100% 1:31:12 Nigga my mother Pentecostal that is now I saw 1 yesterday I mean, I believe in it my grandmother could tell you who was calling before the phone 1:31:20 rang Yeah, yeah, yeah I mean I come from them people That's why I don't I don't want to know you don't mess 1:31:28 with me. Yeah I like I like figuring it out the falling part is cool Cuz you you know you get to look around in the muck, and 1:31:36 you're like, oh, this is how I fell. Let's try not to do that dumb shit again. And then you get back up, clean 1:31:45 off, and... Keep going. See what else happens. Outside of music, what are you looking forward to in the next? What? 1:31:53 30 years? I wasn't thinking so far away, but. I'm told I'm for 30. Shoot. Shoot. Just period. Why just 1:32:02 30? Why just 30? I don't want to live too long. Not too long. Really? I hear a lot of people say that I'm with you not too long 1:32:10 not too long. I don't know what too long is my grandmother told me she was tired She said I had enough how was she? 91 She 1:32:18 said that's not like a lot. It was a lot, think about it. She was born in 1917. Now, you know. You know the shit she saw, 1:32:26 yeah? Exactly. But I've seen, and I understand this thinking, But I've also seen 90 year olds that were 1:32:35 just youthful and energetic and actually my aunt is turning 90. I thought she was 80. Yeah, 1:32:43 she's in the greatest shape ever. Younger husband, she chilling. But if it could look like that, then. I mean, I would take 1:32:51 it. You gotta get the younger people. I'm just sayin' not too long, that's all. I don't have a time limit on it. I'm just sayin' not too excessively. Because there was a dude 1:32:59 on the news, there was a white dude on the news this morning. He was real old. And the news, at 5 in the morning, they don't be having nothing to show. So they just kept the camera on this nigga that was like 116. 1:33:08 But he was white. So it wasn't like black don't crack. Like he looked 116. So this whole family around him with the news camera, they like, tell him how 1:33:16 to live so long. He like, don't drink. I'm like, nigga. You are 1:33:24 about to die, nigga. I'll get you a drink. I totally understand that 1. You see the Jamaican ladies that be 109 and be going outside 1:33:33 like, it's just the herbs, you gotta get the herbs and they be skin tight. That's so stupid yo. Skin mad tight. Yeah, 1:33:41 complexion crazy. Yeah, but I think it's a point where I don't seen enough. Yeah, That's how I was in my part. I don't know what age that is, but once we- He was 91 and it was time to go. He was like, that's it. 1:33:49 He was done. How old is Cher again? 70? 80 something. 79, 80? She about 80. She close to 80. She walked out there looking like something too. 1:33:57 Look, all right. You know what I'm saying? To be that old dog? No, I agree. Fish nets and all that shit. You can't share. Mew! Or not. I 1:34:06 don't have anything more for Jill. Jill, you already know our door is always open for you. I'll see you at the Blue Note, whether 1:34:14 they let me in or not. We'll be outside. You're going to see me up in there. Does anybody have any final questions for the legend, Mr. Jules 1:34:22 Guy? Nah, this is great. Wasn't this great? This is amazing. This is a great week. We on a date. I'm just saying. It's a great 1:34:30 day though. We ended off the week on a great note. This is amazing. So yes. Who the fuck's idea was it to never make, 1:34:39 I think it's better, a song? Boy, I could have killed you all these years. I love those. I know, I know, I know. You need 1:34:47 those interludes. I know those interludes. You need those though. That should have been the song. I want to hold this though, right. I get it, but. I do that. I want you to want more 1:34:57 Ladies and gentlemen I'm fucking with this man. I can't give you some ass-cups. I'm gonna ride. You 1:35:07 know what you're doing. Chill is a trip. We love y'all. Peace and love. Oh 1:35:15 yeah, ain't no more. Peace. Oh my god.