Diamond D

Published Dec 21, 2022, 12:55 PM

Diamond D joins Questlove Supreme in Atlanta to discuss growing up with Hip-Hop pioneers in his literal backyard. The acclaimed producer/MC/DJ triple-threat discusses his career, from Ultimate Force and Stunts Blunts & Hip Hop, into his new album, The Rear View. QLS brings back its sample-spotting game as we sit down with the best-kept secret.

Question Love Supreme is a production of I Heart Radio. Here we go just followers, So premo road called sub prima, some premo roll called subma su primo roll call, so premo roll. Some say I'm crazy, some say I'm ill. Fuck you talking about yo chill, So primo roll call, sub premo role. My name is Fonte. I ain't hard to find and I'm not like Sally. Yeah, I got a two track mine some premo roll call roll call. His little story about Sugar Steve. She wanted Diamond, gave her the d HRM. It's like no time to rest, It's time to learn from hip hop's finest. My name is Diamond. Yeah, my beast, the best. I'm down in the A. Now she'll put my man quest free roll call, so Fremo roll, So fremo roll call, so premo roll call. You like that reverb. I'm learning the new button every week. Uh yeah, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Quest Love Supreme. Um, your host, question love'. You know we're down here in the A and Atlanta doing our first drafts of in person episodes. It's been three years and uh you know, glad to be with the fan spoke to unpaid Bill this morning. He's fine, children grovering Oscar and then on Sesame Street, I want to Saturday. Wait today, Saturday, right right now. When I got over this one, I was like, oh damn, it is Saturday. Ohays you go to work. You go to work Saturday. Probably not when they're airing this, but yeah, I'm just all messed up. I thought it was Thursday. Uh damn, Okay, it's like that anyway. How you doing, I'm doing. Oh, I am doing great. We're back in the A. I barely recognize it. I ain't been here in twenty years. I love it. I'm kind of mad because I'm here in the A. But I've yet to go to Stroke Chris and probably is that like a new with Strokers. I don't even what the hell is that. I'm from the Magic City gentlemen. You know. Okay, that's what I'm learning about my Atlantic trip number one. You know, it was sort of a topic of the past, but now I get the feeling that people actually go to the strip clubs here just to eat. So I heard Magic cities just up Immediately everyone behind the cameras was like a Magic city. I was like, nobody as the best wings ever. I hear that Domond got really quiet when we start talking. Listen, all right, guess today. I know always said this like this is one of my favorite shows. But any any chance that I get to nerd out on the production techniques that really drew me to hip hop and drew all of us to hip hop? No matter who you're like, it's it's always a good episode. And so this gentleman has been forced to record with even before his solo career, like the work that he's done. You know, it's this strong city. I don't a strong city at all associated with Aaron Fuchs anytime I see the words just get and I'm afraid even if I say the label might get. So that was that was right? Okay? All right, well yeah, the resume is scrong, like some of my my my favorite producer moments comes from this gentleman years. I mean, we all of his records, uh, Sun Spunching, hip Hop, Hatred. I gotta ask you about your your sofon Hatred, passionate infidelity like time, Peace, the Gotham, and now your brand new joint the Review, which is excellent work You've been doing quality excellent work, and sometimes it's easy to sort of take for read it. People do excellent work and they often get overlooked, and when top five lists and top ten lists are named, and you know, sometimes a person so effortless that you tend to to forget their contributions. But you know, that's what quest Left Supreme is for. So that's said, let's welcome the one and only, finally, finally, Diamond d Well, am I allowed to call you Diamond now? Number one? Can you please? Allowed? No? No, no, But here's the deal. I have two versions of the album. When it was like Diamond d Stump blumps in here and then there was Diamond Well, it was Diamond and psychockonor Rotics Diamond Diamond Psycho ne Rotics. So what was the situation with your name? It was there another Diamond d like back in the day that I don't know what, I'm not sure, but I think it might have been originally somebody that was signed to Weston Records in New York. Yeah, they did ton of Gardner Heartbeat like they you know, hot Shot was on that table, but I think somebody had the name. Yeah, yeah, well, you know this is my favorite nerd out moment on question of supreme. So I'm gonna start from the beginning. What was your first musical memory? Time out? Let me go to O G Style. Where were you born? I was born in Manhattan, New York hospital. Wow, I never heard an get it all right raising the Bronx. Your first musical memory sitting in my uncle's room and just playing music. He he had a large vinyl collection, So I was just sitting in his room, like eight nine years old, just listening and play records. What was he playing? Um? Everything, mostly mostly funk jazz, So you know what I mean shouts out to Gary was he was? He very meticulous with the collection. Like I've had an older cousin that was that way. But you couldn't touch the wax and you know, yeah, definitely, you know, you know you have to hold a record like this with both hands. He's very meticulous about his whine nos. And then you know when I came along with the DJ and you know we had to put our hands on the record, I was gonna say, how okay. So sometimes I try and explain to people the trouble, you know, I mean, it's easy now that hip hop is and it's about to be in its fifty if year for us to also take for you know, for granted it's development and how you know, farts come. But you know, I try to explain to people that a lot of those pioneers, you know, Flash, got so much kicked back or pushback if you will, you know, because the general idea is that you're going to destroy the needle or destroy the belt driver, the turntable, like putting your fingers on the grooves. Those are big no nos. Yeah, I got punishment trying to uh, you know, like my first introduction and scratching of course was you know, Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel and you know, trying to practice or my dad's you know, he's not looking and see what happens and you're get in trouble. But yeah, like how do you discover what that is in in the bronx and where you like privy to any of those like block parties or anything. Oh yeah, they were like right outside growing up in far as projects. Um me fat Joe law for next we would all see DJs like you're in the same buildings in the same same complex, but we will see God like Grant was the theat or mainly did or Um sometime Flash. At that point they will already making records, but we'll be able to just go downstairs and just see these jams going on in the parks. What was it? What was it like seeing? Because I'm assuming that you're too young for Harlem World or right, so I'm assuming that you're eleven or twelve year away seven? So what how does the trickle effect happen to you? Like we're tapes of things instantly or how do you get the information? Um? Just watching it firsthand? You know you've seen people out there you know where boxes, you know, recording or whatever. But we you know, I saw our first hand. Um. You know when Flash made um Grandmaster Flash in the wheels is still Um. I had already seen him do some of that, you know, outside in the parks, cutting up good times, you know, ship like that. Um. But just being close in proximity to it, it's what drew me and in fact quest um. When I was a little kid, whenever I saw the DJ reach for the damn right, I'm somebody album covering the JBS, you know, I would lose my mind because I knew he was gonna play blow your Head and that sticks like even even now as an adult, that always sticks out to me. A lot of time people ask me, you know, what's the first song to draw you in the hip hop? Um, I mentioned blow your Head. It's it's not a rap record, it's just a a break beat that was real popular. And as little kids, we've been lose our mom when that she came in. So all right, So Chuck d wants to explain to me the effect of that, because I asked, like, why would you like, why was that the first record that introduced the world to publican to me? And he explained to me that, you know, because okay, I grew up with an old like a father, and older uncles and older cousins, and so they came more or less from the I mean, I'm not saying like I inherited the critical thinking, but the way that you know, I'm sure a classic album comes out. We all get together and discussed that ship critically. That's how they were, you know, because my dad was a musician and all that stuff. So my household, James Brown was kind of over by seventy three. Like my I distinctly remember the very first album my dad panned like this is trash. He didn't like the payback. I don't think he liked idea of paying fifteen nineties. So typically, I guess back in the seventy three seventy four an album would run three nine a single albums like three nine, maybe four ninety nine. So when you're paying eleven twelve ninety nine for a double album, the first thing, and you know, I'm three years old, but my dad's like, wait a minute, there's only eight songs on this record, and it's a double record, and each song is like a meandering I never knew what meandering was. But like by the time you get to the like side three times running out fast or whatever, like twelve minutes, you know, he just took it off and he's like, I don't like this. And so in my mind, James Brown was over in seventy four, but Chuck details me. He's like James Brown commercially might have had his last heyday of string, you know after problem don't taking the mess. But he's like in the hood, we never stopped playing good Foot, and you know, if anything like we brought those singles back, but it was just hood stuff. But for some reason, me myself, I never liked blow your Head because in my mind I imagined James Browns like, okay, so Stevie Wonder gott a mood and made miracles of it with him. It was almost like I could see I can see like the bubble rap on the floor and him just And this is the thing. Even James Brown's musicians himself will say like he was the worst soloist of all time, but one of those guys where even if he's wrong, he's right. So for him to do like all this like crazy solar and and whatnot. I just never understood why y'all gravitated to that record. It's just just to have an instrumental that was fast to let b boys go off for Yeah, that that's all it was. You know, Um, I'm a little kiss so I'm not really thinking about the musicality of it, but just the effect that Ricket had when he was played that party, like you know, people would lose their fucking lines, you know that little one part um. To touch on what you're saying, I did read with read Wesley said that m James wouldn't there behind their backs and he put that move sound over and up. Yeah right, he said it wasn't knowingly at first, but the irony is that that's what drove it. By the time these young black and brown kids were listening to it, you know, seventy eight and seventy nine at these parties. Yeah, I was gonna say, we um, we're now in uh an I heart affiliate and so we're like limited on the times that we could play songs. But just for that, you people know what we're talking about. This is blow your head. Oh, thank y'all. So y'all talking about that public enemy. Okay, okay, now we're here, were here, Yeah, so you know, but this is also what I want to know. Do you have any memories because this is kind of the one thing that hip hop pioneers really don't talk about. But I mean, I can only put two and two together that if it weren't for the Blackout of seventy seven, we might not have had hip hop culture because I'm just assuming that because of the of the looting, I'm a little kid doing the blackout, But no, no, no, I'm not saying. But I have heard stories about a lot of equipment came into possession doing the blackout, so you know, it might it definitely pushed it along a little bit, right, But I mean it was dead before that. But what I want to know is how, because I'm also aware that as the years and decades go by, maybe revisionist history sets in and stories get exaggerated. But how officially loud were these speakers at these block parties? Were they like concert level size? Where you gotting satisfied with loud enough when you can hear them three blocks away? How do you get power? Electricity and a park? Lamp posts? So someone had to risk their life climb up the lamp post or a lot of them knew about no equipment, so they would, um bring it to a lamp post. Um, get the polons and do some ship in the next thing. Now, I wish we had Kuami's dad here, Kwamie U. Kwamie's dad used to tell like, for the longest Kwami's father, we're still the neighbors gas Like he knew how to run a line inside of their inside of their basement or whatever and just people exactly if nothing else. Um, So how old were you when you officially when you consider yourself, like, all right, I'm gonna getting into this music ship, Like how old were you? I would say about twelve. About twelve when I asked, my mom bought me some turntables. Yeah, did you want a DJ? Just yeah, no, I was. I wanted to be a DJ. I don't care about Roman. I just you know, I was. My whole focus was the beats, the break beats. I would just go to these these jams to stand by the ropes and try to see album covers. You know, just how are they finding little parts with the drums. That's where really like intrigue me. You know, all of these records with these little drum parts. So I was just drum crazy. When you were a kid, what was the record story? That was like the go to the Whiz Whiz and there was another store on third half and I remember the name. But the first break I bought was um Shangla Yeah okay, but we called the Paradise is very nice and EARV got it. He mentioned it in the documentary. He said he used to cut that as a kid, and I was like, oh, ship, that's crazy. Um but yeah, that was the first jointal butt my own money. So yeah. So the slick no, no, that's just that's Frisco disco. But day las so sampled this on something? Ain't that? So in your mind, what was it about it? Because in your mind, wasn't that disco? Wasn't disco off limits? Or no, no, no, A lot of brakes was disco? Know that super Sperm was disco, Frisco disco. The Mexican is just begun. So whatever kept people dancing long? That was good? You mean, you know, yeah, as long as the break was there, all I needed you tonight by Arthur Price sock Yo A lot of disco joints. Serone was a disco record. Rocket in the pocket disco record if okay, wait a minute, all right, So we're you spend it on thirty three or forty five? Well, I meant if you want to rhyme to it, but on thirty three it speeds up right, Okay, So disco record Serone is a disco artist. I didn't know that rocket spread. I'm okay, so one of those people, at least with the basic breaks, especially with the stuff that's more disco fied, Like I mean, there's two ways to listen to it, and I'm yeah, like the first maybe twenty years of my life, I'm very guilty of needle dropping. There's a drupp and then but then you know those that are really into it, they studied the song to figure it. So, like, what is your process of how much patience do you have? So when you go and you bench shop and you get come on with four joints or whatever, then is it like wine? Do you just let it sit there until you get to it or it all depends on how do you have to Like, no, they're not gonna sit there too long, but in your mind, is there always a part that's usable and you figure out? Because maybe with Dila, So Dila told me he Dyla never made a beat on a Sunday, okay, And he would house clean and do chores or whatever and just have records on and he said, you do about three or four hours or whatever. You know, sometimes he'll report some ship and just listen to So yeah, Like, are you one of those people that, like you'll listen to something over and over again until it hits you or you just know, I just go through it when I'm near, But when i'm near, I'm focused. How did you make the transition from you know, DJ and two then making tracks producing? Well, most most producers started off as DJ's but to answer you a question, I would say, like around when me and Premier Um did law from this first album Fun Technician. Well before that, it was uh, master Rob, I'm not playing well. I didn't produce that, but I bought the record. Okay. I didn't know how to program jazzy j program. I said, your j up, clean this back for the hook, No, put these guitars in the in the chorus. I didn't know how to work it. So I got to ask you this question. And you know I'm about to ask you, okay. So for me, you know, and outside of New York, you know, I grew up in a three thousand record household, of which you know, truthfully, maybe only ten maybe appealed to me, and the rest was just my dad's boring stuff, like I'm not listening to Arthur Price Outkin, the Beatles and all this other stuff. But of course, you know, once I hear Nation of Millions and suddenly like I'm like, oh, that's that stuff, that's that stuff. That's now it's like I gotta go through all them records. And then I discovered like, oh god, this is how they make hip hop. So here's the deal. Um. So I became a Bomb Squad junkie, me too, And I mean for me, there's nine seminal even though they've done more. But to me, they've done nine important documents as far as like they're their cannon and really like sampling laws kind of killed them off. And you know, there's other inter issues in the group, but for real, it's like for me, it was always you know, Baron Rush Nation, Black Planet I do count because they did a majority of it Poison by BBD. Even the nine Bomb Squad sounds songs sounded like them. Of course, America's most wanted and for me just yeah, and I now consider um, you know, Terminator's first joint. Yeah, but the last two records in their in their cannon that I consider part of that document, of course was young Black Teenagers and Son of Berserk. Now, when I heard are You with Me? I thought that was like just one of the most craziest things I've ever heard in my life, but didn't realized that they just put the need on our record you can you can sample. It's so meta, like they sampled a sample of you. I didn't understand that. So when you heard it work, I flipped the funk out. But you know it wasn't an honor like, oh my god, it was mixed fields honestly. But I turned to Jazzy J and I said, Yo, these dudes just basically just rhymed over the instrumental, so you know, but listen, UM, Strong City was distributed by Uni, right, son of Berserk was Sandy Uni. But still that's the that's the master how the publishing get worked out. Let me all right, so let me play the ten seconds I can play. That's my fucking lucky man. Meanwhile, I'm dreaming, like, damn, I wonder what part Eric sad like because I see the bomb squad just as on some synesthesia, like the way that the guitar and stems. And then I heard what you did, and I was like, oh damn, they just took the diamonds join and looted. So what happened when you heard that? I went to jazz J. I pointed it out to him, because you know, he had invested interest in it, and it never went further than that. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened with that. Um I don't even know if I know if he were credited on the publishing side. I just never looked back. What was um at that time? I've read you did an interview, this was years ago. You talked a little bit about Wild Pitch and um Stu fine at the time. What was he like as a businessman? How was how did the Wild Pitch business structure work? Well, you know, Stu Fun. I'm gonna give Stewart props. You know, he signed Gang Star, he signed law Finesse, he signed Lord Professing, main Sauce, Chill rob g. You know Stu Farn and his wife Amy Farn, they had a good if they had they had that, they had a good ear for good hip hop. Um student never really did anything personally towards me, but being around my man Lord for nets and listening to his grumblings. You know if your man grumbling about grumble too, you know what I mean. So you know, yeah, I took that shot out. I made that one line at him. He didn't really do anything to me, but just listening to um Lord Fesse grumble all the time, you know, man but shouts out the stud Fun. You know he actually Um, he threw me a pass later on in life on his l L track that I that I that I did anyway, he's still alive, she's I believe he is. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But while picture has a legacy, straight up, you know I'm leaving. I'm leaving off some artists too. But um yeah, well no, no, no, I mean he he did Gang Stars, um, Buster Buster Move boy. You know what Stu gave me two ment back when Search was working at Wild Pitch. Um. Yeah, Search was like, briefly, I guess he's signed an OC too, Wild Pitch correct correct, that's like, yeah, and were a great artists, a lot of great artists. We're shooting Solid Treatment on my birthday and Search hit me off with two mint copies of Buster to Move for But I let them sits on a radiator, so it's work. Shut up, Steve. You gotta take care of your records, damn. So um it was interesting in permierly wasn't producing yet. Yeah, the pre the Premier, but I was the forty five King fans, So you know he's one of my mentors. Mentors too, that's my joint. Um, okay, before I get you know, I became aware of you even though I knew of you, didn't know of you because cassettes they really weren't putting on credits and all those things. And you know I primarily brought my joints on cassettes, but it was on the radiator too, Yes I did. Uh but can you tell me about the environment of like the record conventions and you know, friendly competition. Okay, just take me when you just hypothetically walked me through. Ya were talking about like vinyl conventions. So they were they were set up record conventions and like hotels like Hotel Pennsylvania and the Roosevelt also. So okay, so you find out a record convention is coming, what time do you want to get there? And who's waiting in line already? Before you get there, I mean, you're livele to see anybody. You know, we did seven am Kid pre Buck wild Law fromness uh Rashawn Smith, Jerold b Q TWI. You know Diller was there a few times. Pete rock Um your man, Prince B. I heard I heard Prince B. Yeah, you know Prince By. You know why he was winning because he didn't he didn't he didn't negotiate, he didn't haggle. We are negotiating with deals, Prince B. Oh eight honey, all right, you know so they loved him and they loved him. Everybody else was like yo yo eight how about seven yea? You know, we aren't there trying to cut deals. But Prince b I get him Mr Proms without you money. He was good. Okay, So it's it's it's it's friendly competition, but still the wild West, and you guys are paying for gold and your mind? Do you already know the dealer you want to go to? Like? How do you without the aid of yeah, well you know computer and all that stuff, how do you a through going a few times? You you pretty much know what dealers you really wanna, really want to rock with. Um My man John eight eight keys, he used to be up on the John all the time. Um, I forgot my man. What's my man's name? Bleaker Street, Bob black Dude, I remember him. I remember, um my man Bob from Boston, Me and kick a Prey. We like Barb from Boston. Bob had you had the officially. I don't know where he was getting these drinks from, you know. Um, but a lot of good memories. I remember when the powers Zeus was out and um, everybody was on the prowd for that. But I remember one year when it first came to our attention. It might have been like twenty copies then, and you know, we all, you know, everybody that was in the know, we all got one. And um, those are good memories. You know, I don't remember them days forever. I was gonna say without you know, like I'll say the generation after you, which I guess that's where I come to play or whatever. But you know, we were always going on these wild goose chases because of the whole biz. Uh I don't even have to say it, but you know, searching for these Bella's. Uh, Um, what was a real record that was just like you heard about? And I'm you know, I don't mean like the fake bella is Monty grosge ship, but like, what was a real like record that y'all were like you heard about or that sort of thing that you just had to get um ivary from digger to digger. But for me, it was The Whipper Jenny. The Whipper Jenny album by Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews was not Dave Matthews band, but James Brown, James Brown's musical Yeah. He was also attached to the De Police Trio in some way shape or for him, but he put out an album on People Records. It's the only psychedelic funk album that was on People People Records, So that was like always on my list. Besides the show's funky down here record. Yeah yeah, okay, but that was James Brown, but this was like offshoot, which made it even more rare. See that's that's another one my my Alright. So Christian McBride jazz guy basis, his uncle was also James Brown freaking worked at the jazz station and we were in high school together, so we always had Chris had Whipper Jenny and had shows funky down here albums. We put them George Arms like this is hard. And that's the thing. We were never in the mind space of something's on here that we can loop and make it work. And only when I became older, I was like, so many drawings on here. But yeah, can I ask a really maybe dumb, fundamental create digging question, okay, because I always I could never understood how you set the price point and how you know? I mean, I know rare issues are rare issues, but how you know that this record is worth this? Yes? How do you know? And especially when you're just starting out, how do you and it is a learning process. Um, it comes with years of digging. You know, you just you know albums you see often compared to the ones you don't. But it's also he's okay, so there's maybe I should explain it to the top of the show that what makes Diaming unique is so the first generation of sampling. Of course, you know you gotta This is why I always shot out. Break Be Lou. Break be Lou basically took the fundamentals, like the easy stuff drummer and piece the president, like beats that you've always heard all all your you know life on those early records, like up until the Marley Marl Rick Ruban period, so like up from up until eight six eight seven. So I'll say, like the what we call the classic period of hip hop between eighties seven, kind of ninety squad. Right. What what Break b Loew would do was basically just make these compilation records, put seven songs on each record, and then you buy that record and then you sample. It made it easy for dweeps like me, so I didn't have to go spend hours in in uh in a good will could I could just cheat and get the Wikipedia version of So then you know, Diamonds part of what I call the first wave of Renaissance beat makers, in which it's almost equivalent to So basically there's a collective producers that are like, yo, we ain't gonna do the Captain Obvious Ship and sample James Brown and Funky Drummer. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna do the hard Ship and go on our parents record collection and get this old, you know, Gaut mcdermock record. And so they made art out of we were taking the chitlands, like the part of the carts that you know. So y'all also made those prices go up to as the years went by. But that's but the thing is is that I want to know now, once y'all for me, uh, once they use some ship. Now I'm the next generation after him. So when I got to a sound library, like like, yeah, Monnie Alexander's Love and Half Happenes, that's a great example. So after the beating Nuts used that, suddenly that Monte Alexander records seventy bucks. And even before that, when tip you it on Gangster Bit, yeah, yeah, it was on the radar. So for those who know what. But what she she set me up for a good value though, So what I'm asking is, we're records super expensive if it hadn't been utilized, used there all. So say like there's a time before let's say an eighty nine Eugene McDaniels, where no one has sampled that record yet before Tribe? Are you still paying a hundred and fifty dollars for work? Because after Tribe used it, this is a hundred fifty bucks to a jazz collector. Yes, if I'm a jack collector, I'm not concerned with hip hop is doing. It's it's uh, it's still it's still a good body of work. It's vinyl Um Eugene McDaniels. He only made a handful of albums, so you know it would still be worth money. It all depends on the individual. What's the most you spent on a on a record? Used for giving your top five most expensive joints? Man, I don't even know quest uh with the Jinny that was one of them because I was looking I was looking for that. I don't know. I just have no clue what the most expensive? I'm like, how far can it go? Dollars? I mean look on discocs. Yeah, you know, I think you have to be a break beat. It could just be something that's act this item. Yeah, I'll say, uh, well definitely. You know, like quality records are like seventy I'm trying. Maybe there was one. There's one ridiculous, Like normally if it's a mint condition then it's whatever. Like someone tried to get me and you know, like maybe two hundred for back before they reissued the Sweet Charles okay and you one of the first ones, right, you want the first that was a break for all were talking to you about that? No, not yet, oh man, like for him to shut the funk up interlude was his favorite joint on Stunton blunts. So him making UM dropped down and get on the follow up to Hot in Here Nelly's joint, Like he was like, that was me trying to do my diamond g jo. That was like his his He always showed me love, but he never told me that story yet. How did you get signed? Get your deal as an m C, you know, to make your first record? I was actually doing UM a demo deal for an artists. They wanted to sign an artist name with Joe Control so yeah, I was just just making the beast for him, like a two demo deal and I ROMed on one of them. So what were you making your tracks on that that time? What were you making your tracks on at that time? Um? I had a CODE nine hundred just the sample everyone has it, and had an HR sixteen eleases. Wow, but the eleases it has sixteen pass on it, No. Eight eight, So I had sixteen triggers on the sample. It's on the sampler. How many seconds? Plenty? No, I you know I did my eyebum on that. I may flow jow on that. I'm um the score punks trip up to get beat down anything between ninety two and nineties six. I was still using that. Wait a minute, you gotta answer this question now, I know, like, well, first I want to know it's a safe to say that you were Jazzy Jay's apprentice, like his PROTEGECT no doubt your first generation zoo that said, please tell me what is the drum machine that he used on suicide for busy be that was the SP twelve. No, that's not. I stopped you on you try and tell me that's the stock SP twelve, not the twelve hundred, the twelve with the floppy just like a like a seven inch dog. I sat there, I watched Jay take funky drama one two three four link link think think Think I lost my mom. Yoah, I lost my mom and I just gave it away. But right, so your first deal, how you signed, how you were doing a demo deal for okay, for stunts, blunts or a strong city. Well, yeah, I gets stop with the strong city for a strong city. The m C in the group, his name was Rob. Rob chaining my house and say, yo, I've seen jazz J and the projects. I said, no, you're lying. He said, nah, right over there now, so I go down stairs. Sure enough, Jay had on the first generation death Jam jackets the Satin Joints or purple, and we met him. You know this is this is around the time when I'm this is a little but after jazz J had a song called on Cold Chilling right with cold rock stuff. Yes, yes, uh yeah, yeah, he just talked right, so you know he helped. He helped. He actually helped put death Jam on the map along with It's yours and um, I believe he did. I believe he did. Yeah, I need to beat you know, but anyway, we go over there and we meet him to come to find out, um, he's friends. He's friends with a female in the projects, and he gave us his number and we we went to see him a few weeks later and just developed a relationship and then he eventually signed us. Yeah, but that's how it happened. You know, my man saw him in the jecks. That was around what year? Oh that was like, um okay eight definitely. And then from there, how did from that situation, how did you make it to you know, Mercury to being you know, doing okay? So after the Ultimate Force came out, didn't really blow up, but you know, we made some noise. Reasonally, man, they used to play that record in North Carolina, Yeah, like it was. It was a show they used to have on nor kind of ant was the Black college in Greensboro where I grew up, called the full Moon Block Party and they would play I'm Not Playing And I didn't find out it was, you know you till like years later. I was like, what the funk? But I used to love that recommend I was like nine, Yeah, you know, that's the first records incorporate the blues. You know what I mean, And I used to cut doubles of that the beginning Albi king Um. I finally going through my grandfather's records. He had one just like maybe like eighty four, so um, my first year of high school. But I'm at this point, I'm still I'm looking. I'm actively looking for beats. And I said, oh ship, this is nice. And then maybe a year later another one. But I used to cut it. So when we got through J d J, I said, Yo, we're gonna we're gonna flip this right here, because you know, nobody really working with the blues and get you know, it's it's a it's a funky beat. But that's how I got signed the Strong City. Um how I got signed to UM for the stunts blunts I was doing. I was doing a demo for somebody. I rom doing it. M hmm. So by the month later they call us down there, so I'm like, okay, I'm about to get a check with these motherfucking beats. So I go down there like all right, yeah, what's sucked? You know that. They're like, yo, we want to sign you. I was like me, that's what's up? All right? You know, let's do it. I wasn't even really looking for the deal. But who who was the R at the time. Shin, Yeah he was. He was a big shout over that priority he signed special aid. Um, all those groups over there, um, Briant Schin Um. I thought it was a little harsh to the MC that I was doing the demo for, but I think they might have just broken up with some money or something. But um, yeah, that actually deal just kind of fell in my lap. But Brian ch he liked the music and he liked what I was rhyming, and you know what I was lambing, so and you really didn't have any intentions of right like being an m C now. It was just something I did. But on this time, I'm around law from Nest almost every day. I'm around Grand Pupa Maxwell because he was signed a Strong City also in the group called the Masses of Ceremonies. So that's great sexy cracked out. Yeah, so I'm I'm around these dudes, and you know, it's just running off for me, even though my thing is DJ and is still making beats. But I knew how to rhyme and um. One of the first demos I recorded was Best Kept Secret and then when they heard that, they said, Okay, we're gonna do an album on you. How long did it take for you to make uh that record? How don't stuff blunts? Uh? About eight months? Yeah? About eight months? And at that time were they with samples and stuff? Was it? Was it just you know why why West Ship just whatever? Or how did y'all handle it? It's just a collection of records that in terms of clearances, like clearance samples was there? Well, I didn't care about that. That was a label's job. You know that that you know back then you just turned turn it in, give them the names, you know, the names you want to give them. But what I want to know is were you conscious at least to avoid ultimate beats and breaks or definitely because what the party didn't get out was you know again, like the reason why you're part of the way and the renaissance guys is you know there's Premier yourself bars professor, that's after stuff bluntsli and Tip after stuff blunt. Right. But I just meant when we're talking about the what I considered the people that went outside the circle, what I call the Ivy League circle sampling where you guys are now acquiring records that aren't easily available. That's what saying you guys apart. But back then, was it just a general rule like no, no more ultimate beats and breaks, no easy James Brown ship like, I gotta find some ship that no one has and make some ship out that. I don't know if it was general, but amongst that core group of diggers, we we had already progressed. And you know, me living in the Bronx a lot, like you said, a lot of the beats that Lou was putting on them records we already knew about. You know what I mean? So funk what you heard? I said? People always say, hey, like the way you make beats, he doesn't beat. That wasn't a jab at lout. That was just me being honest. No, but but it pushed, it pushed the envelope further. Correct, So in your mind, who of the initial renaissance crew, and I'm talking Pete, I'm talking Premier, Tipping Ali, large, professor um, like, who did you consider like real nice with their is? Like I gotta well, like, did anyone ever question? Well, I gotta start with Prince Paul for his work on Daylight. So the first album, which really showed me because at that point it was a lot of James Brown as you know quest, but that day Live on eight nine, it opened. It opened the doors for me. Like you know, there's so much other stuff out here that I knew about. It really wasn't on my radar, So I gotta shout out Prince Paul of course, Trial Request, their first albums, The Jungle Brothers. All these albums influenced me. Are the members you just named. Obviously Pete Rock's first album, you know what I mean, and um, the work that me and Schobiz was doing. So you know, you just take all of that in and then has there ever been a moment where and again, like you know, I'm I'm listening to it, like I don't. I don't have a deal yet, so anything you guys are doing are like, oh, man, this manner from heaven. But I know that there comes a time where like, man, I had that record, I should have used it first or whatever, Like has there ever been that moment of like, ah, they got to it before I did, or yes, it's been something like that record. I've used joints that people ran behind me and used bigger than when I did it New York ship Buster. Yeah, yeah, that's one example. That's one example. But I consider that and Amage joint, like if if he told me that's what it was, just the two of us rub Rock. Yeah. DJ Scratch said when he when he did that, he had never heard I went from mine before what he said he was on the road Dejane from the hit squad Nino and Stunts Blunts wasn't on his radar. I couldn't call I couldn't call dude a liar, you know, um Trump Trump Rock. He used the Alby King joint afternoons. That's affects. They want affects. I used that for law from Nest first. I mean I can go on the norm. I forgot about that one. Yeah. I think, in general, a lot of a lot of people when they create, Like I think there are people that are creators and then people are listeners. Like I'm a listener, so I'll absorb it. But yeah, often times I'll meet creators that aren't hip too. But that's in all parts of music, you know. Uh, you know, I would ask the revolution, like was Prince sitting around like damn, I gotta be thriller and like that sort of thing like was he And I think Lisa told me, like Prince, listen to Thriller, like for the first time, it's completion, Like I think when they aren't when the last tour, like the Parade tour in eight six. But for the most part they had to put him on this ship. My joint off the record, my favorite joint all Stars Blunts was check one too. That was like, that's my favorite joint to just the feel of it. Yeah, And like I always the thing always like about you, because you know, I think with producers, I think there's something about producers that rhyme that y'all have an understanding of just really use in your voices as an instrument and like complimenting a beat rather than just I'm gonna bar you to funk up, you know what I mean, like you Pete Dealer, resting people like you know, y'all at the thing. And so I wanted to ask you about one of my favorite verses of yours, like every wasn't on your album the way you started off Runaway Slave, still dig going back on the block with my name ain't Quinny. What do you remember about that session or if they didn't making of the album, because that's like in terms of y'all's crew, like that album. Those were good times. Yeah, we all we were all in the studio together. Um I wrote it on the spot, you know, and um Quincy had that album out back on the block, you know. So it was a cultural reference, you know, a pop cultural reference. Um yeah, I mean ship it's crazy, do dorote a lot of good memories. You know back when we all we we were just all forming. We already we already we we had already known each other for years, we all grew up with each other. But around that time he was like, yo, you know we can know all coming to have a try to form, you know, and make a statement, you know. And I would definitely say D I t C definitely pushed the culture forward as far as you know, trying to dig for music that wasn't touched already, just trying to stand apart. I will say the first time I was really aware of your existence like for real. Of course is and a lot of us it was show business on the low ing theory. How did that come? How did that crazy? You know? I went there to play beats for Tip had shopped just to play. Yeah, I went you know, I went there. I chopped to Jimi Hendricks joining he was really feeling it and he knew I had a deal and poo Bah Pooba was on the track originally, and the label felt he said some things he shouldn't have said, and Tips say, yo, pool you know I really want you on here, but the label wants you to, you know, change it, okay, And you know, Pooled was like, I ain't changed. She couldn't tell him anything, right, you know what I mean? Not the guards. It's a doctor to Jamal, they like ship. We want to be on this fucking record. You know, we love trial. So while I'm near Tippers like, you know you want to be on the joint, I'm like, oh yeah, you know what I mean. And um, I wrote it over a spot. That's a that's a notable. I mean, even though it's not a debut, but for a lot of us, we feel like that was like he seated my album right, So it was like an Ali open. It's a great set up. It was a great set You know what, kids, uncle, it's time for the return of I don't yes, you thought I was gonna have You thought we're just gonna have him on this show and and not do around a bit. You guessed it it, It's been a minute, all right. So I do this to every beat maker that I respect and which you know again I'm adhering to the rules. Good, I'm just I know it's like I feel like there's like warriors in the already clear to with Jake. He knows what time it is. We're good, all right. So one, I'm gonna upgrade the game because Fonte always insist on playing, even though I'm gonna let you win this too, because I've up the game. This is what happens when you're when you're on in Quarantine and COVID, you think of new ways to do so I'm the bit you can't guess it? Here? Is that the idea all of you in all right. So what I'm gonna do is, I'm going to play a list of Captain Obvious songs of which I have isolated a specific part to see if you can identify the sample. I think I think you're up for this. This one's very easy, and I'm allowed. I will allow two clues because you know, yeah, I need it, all right. Sample number one? What is this sample? And I've de tuned it to throw you off. Let me know when you need a clue. I don't even know what de tune it means. So, oh that's uh, it's a it's I don't want to I know, I don't want to say it. If you know, I know what it is, it's a. It's a. It's uh, it's walking by right, Yeah? What nice? Nice? Nice? Here we go de tuned number two. Oh, I got that. I was used one say, if you know what's it? I'm not right, I'm not right. I was like, it's a ball involved. Okay, it sounds like B. I don't know what I thought that song. I don't know what that is. Okay, okay, let me do it, umka, okay, fresh constructions the Messenger used on in w ways. Ain't all right that that was a little advanced. I'm sorry. Number three not from the piece. I don't know what that is. Oh that's a that's a M. It's Scarface used it for money in the Power. I don't I don't know the original break Yeah, I love serenade, Barry Damn. Maybe I made this a little too it man, Yeah, yeah, you see, I gotta throw off the smell first, man. I want to come out like, all right, here we go. Number four is that? Um? Uh I hear the end of that snare. It's a good old time. Yeah, yeah, don't say nothing. That's the funking del um. Yes, good old music, good old music music. Yes, you're correct, tones first right by the Magic Tones. All right, Yes, you're right. I just found that. I was like both on westbounds, right, and that's even better. Yes, that is even better. And I gotta talk to you about your forty five game. All right. This is number five? That Jak Brown. No, um oh that's a Bill Withers. Uh oh no, it's a Harlem close. Yeah, use me, I don't all right, let me not de tune it through. You can everybody get a fair chance something, all right, you know, I mean you know, of course. I just okay, I think you could. Number six. I don't know this, um that it's not um Steve, you don't know this. Oh it's jazz, okay, it's not. I have no idea. Maybe step crazy Eddie Kendricks. Yeah, the little snippets like, yeah, that's why he won't he won't play two seconds. Well I'm only allowed to play two seconds, So that's that's like half of a second. I alright, see now I feel bad for this next one because it's only the reverb, but all right, I won't tune this one. Don't see every song I hear is I think it's Brenda Russell. Don Oh that ain't no. I have no idea. This is I don't know differing. Really, I don't know that one's the first one to do that. That shout out to Slim Robbie, right, so the Kings. I would say that when Miles Davis his ex wife Betty Davis, she signed an Island Records in seventy seven to make a fourth record that was supposed to make care Of Star Of because she's so headstrong and producing and right in her own joints, he dropped her and then um uh Chris Black World and then um, you know, she just faded into obscurity. But basically, um, Slim Robbie had brought Grace to his attention and instead he signed Grace Jones to Island Records and was supposed to Betty Davis's record. I mean not, I don't know for I mean, Chris definitely had visions on what he wanted her to do, but like part of her story was like I write and I control. She got the Commodore as the record, like I didn't realize, Like it was her songs for the Commodos that got them to deal with Motown. They offered her deal and she's like, own my publishing and they're like, nope. She wrote that Harlem song that I used for the Chambers Brothers, and like she wrote a whole bunch of songs. But then they'd be like, you know, you want to deal and she's like, if only I own my music. So because she was so headstrong on the joint, they just kind of got black. Paul, all right, these are my last two and I won't detune it. Numbers teams freaking me out. There's two events. Let's go, let's let's see. Oh that's that's that's you Jim McDaniel's Freedom and Death Dance. All right, this is one that all of you should know. And I am de tuning because I feel like it's Captain obviously Slidestone close, but now I'm out the airport. Oh um? Is that once? This? Yeah? Yeah, I can tell in your eyes like that you kind of knew where it was. All Right, I will go home and retool my game. Dammit. No, it was funny. Anybody won this outside of Fonte, any of our guests. Fronte always beat Tomorrow. Just I think Jess Blades was the closest and Pete. Pete was pretty good. He wasn't well. I was unfair to Pete. I was doing like high hats with people before he knew that was crazy. I was gonna ask you, um about your second album because that was the one for me, Like, I mean that was like my abbit was you know, I was I think like sixth Teams that came out and by of all your singles, man, the hiatus bro like talk about putting out that album at the time. This is not the seven So this is like the head this is like bad Boy, you know, like all the radio was So how did you figure out kind of your lane in the midst of all that. Well, the plan wasn't just you know, still still do Diamond D. But um, I just you know, to have have a little more radio accessible joints compens um starts blusting hip hop. Um so uh, I did the drink with uh with Veronica Cream and Sunshine. She was signing Mercury Records at the time. Um, but yeah, good memories the hiatus. A lot of people thought that that that I sample Swahili Land for that, bro, It's not that. You know, um, hey, me and Diller, we both we both influenced each other. You know. Dealer went on Dila has going on a record to say, um, I was one of its influences. You know, the same with Pete, the same with Premier. You know, we all influenced each other. But that was not Swaheli Land. And you know those who know where the sample came from, yeah, no, um, but yeah, and you know the album. What I learned was in the process of recording that album was um, you know, we all, we all want to be signed directly to a major label. But in heinz s I should have stayed with the label that signed me, which was Chemmimistry. I should have stayed with them because they were the cheerleaders and when I was on Mercury, I was just another artist. They were excited about me, but they weren't as excited as the people that Chemistry Records were Chemistry, they were your translators for Mercury, right. Well, I was signing Chemistry first. You know, Brian Chinn was over there, so he was the one fighting for me. Once I'm with the Mercury. You know, um Hansen is over there. I think they had I think the only they had it was scratched over there at that time. Yeah, you know what I mean. Really we remember I told you that we got the contract and Mercury. So yeah, Brian and Kenyada we signed. We even went to the Jingle Jangle, right, we went to the legal Jangle video shoot that Friday. They took us out to dinner and we're like, Yo, we're gonna be down with black seat and everything. And this is the first time I'm hearing Jingle Jangle and that the way the piano just dropped down the ship. He's like, yo, we made it. We made it, and we get to we get the contract. And because they misspelled me and took and Malik's names. Uh that clerical era, right, but crucial era, because I guess when three or more people in the party are misspelled, they have to give you a new contract. Uh. Kenyada's assistant forgot to FedEx Us Thursday to Friday the new contracts. So they were like, all right, look we'll sit it Saturday delivery. You'll get it Monday, you'll be cool. And they gave Wendy Goldstein enough time to land a plane and we horse and Ponies show we do think we're gonna sign to the ship. So we just asked for the world and she gave it to us and we were like, okay, we're going and literally that's what happened. I got that that might have been the better move anyway in hunts like I'm still here. I want to ask you two specific records to your favorite and your kind of love for me? Um farrell much uh seine uh right right right, people don't people don't mention that record. They mentioned the Light More Oh well yeah, I mean well Light but yeah, like Shine, that was the one. Yeah Yo, Monts like, yo, you got you got something for me? D I was like yeah, So you know, I sent them like two joints and I was one of them. I didn't really make it necessarily with him in mind, but I knew something like that that's bouncy, the way the baseline bounces off the keys and his xylophones, that he might like it, you know, And um, that's that's one of my favorite joints that they ever produced. No that I love that record, that one, and also as well, um, oh my god, the score, but it's a reason one. It's magic Evan uh right, it sounds like Nautilust, but it's not. Yes, ye talk about that over man. Was that just you just sent it to him? Like how did that come up? Come together? Yeah? I just you know, I just sent them to joint and you know the step brothers. That was Alchemists and um Evidence and they were like yo, we we we we want we want to touch this one up and um. Once once they laid the vocals, I added the you know, the man, what's the name of that group? It's Magic right right right, Well, what's the name of that what's the name of the group? But I knew, but that's when it came together, dude, Yeah, that's crazy. We gotta talk to Score though, I mean we got like, I gotta, I gotta kind of mentioned something. Even though there was like a little friend there was a little occasional friendly jabbing between the two groups groups the roots of the fujis. But you know, it's weird because in this age, in this age of misinformation, you know, you hear something and you think and you act on things without verifying first, like mad people getting our ears like, yo, man I heard the Fuji says, but everybody was in our ears the day that the score came out. And at the very beginning, White Cliff says, you rocket lie, but you ain't saying nothing. Dodd and Yo that Like if I could just go back and tell twenty four year old Emir and Tuik like, dog, verify some ship first before you bust a shot out. But in our minds, like we were always here, we were already hearing ship. I mean again, we personally we no, no, we toured together, we were friends, but it was definitely like, oh, they they're going to blow up for real, for real. And when we heard that, we're like, yo, you think that. We had like conversations like, yo, are they talking about us? You rocket live, but you ain't saying nothing. Whatever. Oh that's that's from one of the earlier records. I know, So shout out to Salim Remy for putting me on heat. But it was after the fact, and so we might have made a song called what they Do, So that's I never knew. And ironically, they is the anniversary of Philadelph Halflin to remind me, Yeah, dude, Yeah, but talk about where. When has have you ever played a beat for an artist that they fronted on that you had to give another artist everything? Yeah? Hell yeah, like who should have gotten what? I'm not gonna name name, but yeah, no, no, no, but it happens. You know, somebody passed on something to somebody. You know. It's just like it's just like women, right, was one man's trash the next man's treasure? Right? I mean definitely that too, downtown dud. Before we wrap, I got to talk dude for me. Let's do it for me. Man. First of all, can you on on streaming? I can't find grown Man talk nowhere? Uh yeah, it's not on there, and that to me, I got to put it on there. You must yeah yeah yeah. And I feel always like fifty ways no time will heal you like that? No? No, no, no, just the whole joint, like us right right right right hit like just that whole joint because it came to mixtape but it was so unexpected and I wasn't expecting it. And but for you, why do you because even with the review, like you're still after a while, like after album number five and number six, most cats might just hone it in and be like, all right, you'll give me seven for a quickie record here whatever. But when I still hear your stuff, it's like you still care, right, and but for you, like what keeps you motivated? Like in your mind? Are you like, yo, I'm gonna sux somebody up with this flied like even the way you did the joint with on review with the Flying High commodorees, right, that killed me, man, because I didn't even think about that ship, but like how long have you had that in your pocket? Flying High? Yes? Wow, it's always been back here. I just never really got to it. And then when I when I when I approached pause, he said, yo, send me a joint. I said, you know what, I'm gonna flip that. I'm gonna flip something that I can hear dayline soul on. And that's definitely I can hear daylight on. And you know, as soon as he heard it, he sent me the first back, maybe like forty eight later. Just like once a year somebody will loop something that's just like it's not a loop, it's just different parts. But that's just like, why not think about that ship? Oh? Man? I wouldn't I gotta ask you. Ed O G busted alcoholics the next level. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, basically base what I forgot about that, But somebody brought that up to my attention not too long ago, I guess because ed o G's version didn't really do what it's supposed to do. Um. I changed the drums up, right, I changed the drums up and the licks picked it up from there. You know, I'm I'm gonna tell you something else that that y'all might not know. Here's a song. There's a song Bydex called Petty People. Okay, I know that song. It's on a Wild Cowboys album. I got it pulled up real quick play, quick second. I made two beats when It's day that was one of them, and the score was the other. Wow. Yes, okay, and I cut the same drums. And this is for my people in the rule right Oh yeah that is. But also speaking of veto G man, that's the streets of the ghetto geor man. Oh that was crazy. But this is this is what I want to ask you, because that specifically, how are you, like, what is your micro chopping game into because there will be some joints that will fluctuate. Uh, speed wise, And as far as looping, I happen to know that the source of that sample is one of them things where I can't loop bit perfect and my chopping game wasn't good enough for that. You know. It wasn't like we had ableton to just stretch it you on or whatever. But like, how aggressive are you to force something to work? Because that's definitely one of them joints because it wasn't the looping part. This is the fact when you gotta add drums and everything on top of it, then you realize that my ship might be off or whatever, and that's that particular loop on the streets of the ghetto. That and I'll play a little bit right right even then I hear a little gap there where. But for you, like, how determined are you to make some ship work? Like as far as you're chopping game, and and I mean if I can loop, if I can loop it, well, if I can create a loop, I'll be able to put the drums under it. You know. Um, that's that's the easy part. It sounds easy to just the regular the ear but knowing the frustration of there's some records in which you might find that magic bar for bar loop, and then they might fluctuate or whatever, and unless you're good at micro chopping, you might be asked out that that loop right there, that was just a two bar loop, and the drummer was pretty on point for that. But they are the awesome they're awesome joints where the drums a little off and you have to really like go in between, you know, and do what you do. Yeah, you came to Atlanta. You know, there's a slew of New Yorkers that have migrated down south, a lot of them in North Carolina and whatnot? What is it like? What is it about this city that attracted you to come here? And I didn't come here for the music. I came here because, you know, I looked at what three hundred thousands would get you in New York, and I looked at with three hundred thousand will get you down here. I didn't come down here everybody's first motivation for I didn't come down here for the music. I was already coming down here doing a lot of work with Dallas, Austin Joy, Shades of Lingo, Illegal Me and Eric Sermon, so I would know I was already down here. But um, the house crumb snatches, right, crumb snatches. Um, I had had a nice house and I'm not far from Livingston, New Jersey, nice spot. My soul lad came down here right, No, and just just um what she was, what you were able to get for your money back then, is what really led me to come down here. How long have you been down here? Um? Since two thousand nine. She's been down for a minute. So do you feel like a stranger in a strange land? Based on know what you do for a living? And well, you know what? All right? They don't you know, boom back did not thrive down here? There was a boom but is there so when you do your forty five sets and all that stuff, I don't really I don't really do him here. I travel and do him, you know. Um I have done forty five sets here obviously, but just as far as being an artist, no, you know, I'm still basically, you know, a boom bap artist for lack of better words. Um, so you know, if you're a boom bap artist, you know you live on serious XM. You gotta just be comfortable with that, you know what I mean? You know, it's just it's just real talk. And it doesn't matter if you're living in Atlanta or any other southern city or West coast platform. Right, it's just the music that I do. Is it hard to not get influenced by the culture. Like we've spoken to DJ Drama, who was like, Yo, I'm straight backpack moved down here. It's like, okay, well, I gotta just yeah, well yeah, he did what he had to do, and you see where he's at now, shouts out to Drama. Um but yeah, you know, hey, well you know Drama when he came down there, he was a DJ. I'm gonna produce it, so it's a little different. Um, but um, definitely, you know, it rubs off, it rubs off on you. You realize that mm hmm. Cad sary to what people believe. There are people down here who are who can't spit right, you know, Um, whether you know it's trapped or drill or boom back whatever, you know, just you know, stereotypes are just that. Um. But you know, it's a good balance for me to be down here because I know I'm up in New York almost every month anyway, I know for the past ten years, brother man, Yo, thank you, we we finally made this Joant happened, and you know, I'm just I'm happy we finally got to come and give your flowers a nerd out on on on your history and your catalog. Man, I appreciate diamond deal ladies and gentlemen. Question of Supreme Alright, so I gonna be half of Sugar Steve like yeah, Fontagelo and unpaid Bill. 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