Course Love Supreme. It's a production of iHeartRadio. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Quarantine Quest broadcasting live from the Kabbutz Upstate New York. We welcome you to shall we say So one's special version of QLs because the current COVID nineteen reality we're living in the present not exactly idea conditions
with technology. Let's say we had slight issues with this particular recording of John Legend this episode, but we promised you guys that we're going to record a proper sequel in the future, so we could deep die with all those questions. But for now, please enjoy our conversation with one and only John Legend or Quest Love Supreme.
Let's do it, Hi, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme.
Supreme. Latency has kicked in.
My name is a mirror, not when I'm now realizing this roll call has to end first, As as you see, ladies and gentlemen, we we did not even bothered to practice to see what if we would have latency issues.
It doesn't work. I've tried this music thing over the zoom call does not work.
That was a roll call fail.
Like I heard, I was getting my freestyle ready to.
Brown and that what you what you drinking on?
It's actually pink. It's my rose.
Rose, you mean your rose?
Like make me like I'm the proprietor.
Uh. We have l v E.
We have rose, we have.
Cabernet.
You know what's it called?
You know, l v E Legend Beingard Exclusives, l v E wines dot Com.
You haven't made it. I'm done.
That's the show.
I make money on it.
Just so you know.
Everybody, So, how the beards going in nicely?
Oh? Yeah, I'm trying to join the roots.
You truly lived in Philadelphia. Yeah, I can't wait for a month from now to see how everyone's grooming.
We all gonna look like Tom Hanks and castaways.
Glad all of y'all have y'all hairlines? Look at that beautiful hairlines.
Steve Man, Steve is the new quest Love of the Crew Reality. So John, thank you for joining our second live show of course Love Supreme here on YouTube.
I'm happy to be here.
Thank you. I was well, Yeah, I want to know, how are you coping or making the most of this time period?
Well, my kids are probably happier than ever because we are home and we are hanging out with them all the time.
And are they holding you hostage right now? Are you eating a ransom? Note?
They are napping right now.
I'm so lucky because otherwise maybe all over the house, Luna likes to get in my zoom, calls, say hi to everybody, whistle, whatever she can do to get your attention. And yeah, they're non stop except when they're sleeping. So this is a lucky rest.
This is the best.
Y'all started this whole kind of I G programming over in your house, like I feel like after you guys started singing songs live.
And then when we were early uh, we had talked to Chris Martin.
My team and his team at the same time basically had the same idea, we should start doing these IG live concerts. And then we we both are affiliated with Global Citizens, so we started working with them to get the message out about staying home and raising money for the World Health Organization. And he started it on the Monday after everybody was in and I did it the next day and it's just blossomed. We you know, Quest DJ and D nine DJ, and we've seen so many
battles with the different producers and whatnot. You know, I feel like we've gotten a lot of interesting content out of this dope dope.
So what is your what are your? I guess your your? I know everyone's winging this at the same time, but yeah, what's coming up next for you? Because you know we are it.
But we had music, so that was actually the fortunate thing about the timing was that we basically had finished the album for all intents and purposes right prior to everything happening.
So there was just a few more.
Like horns and random you know, overdubs we had to do, but I had done all my vocals, the songs were written, so we have music ready to go. We've been releasing a couple songs already and then we have more coming soon. And we hoped to put the holbum out in June, but you know, we were supposed to tour in July in Europe and then in the US and Canada in August and September, and we don't know, we don't know what's gonna happen.
Be considered the bad due method. I mean, you're in a position which you know you could be self contained and just do it for delf. Would you ever consider just hosting perform is just you yourself alone at your piano.
I've done similar shows like that.
I used to do. We did this thing called the All of Me Tour, was just basically me and a couple other players, and it was most of the night was me just telling stories and singing on the piano. And so I'm definitely open to doing other shows like that, but I'm not open to putting people in a room
together right now until we can do it safely. I'm not trying to get people sick to come to the John Legend Show because you read the news about you know, people getting sick going to church, people getting sick, doing all these other things, and we need to get to the point where it's safe for people to even gather like that before we can invite them into our shows and expect them to show up.
Yeah, I was going to say, I don't you know, I know that a lot of people are kind of defiantly trying to go to church. Don't do it Sunday for Eastern They.
I was just listening to the news from last night and Rachel Matta was going through the list of how many vectors of infection have been literally at church alone. She was just talking about how they can identify these big clusters from people going to church, and they say, I read another article they were saying something about singing is more it was viral.
Yeah, it's more viral than just being around.
Somebody because you're crazy, you're pushing out your saliva and all these other things, and so it's actually less safe to be singing around people than it is to just be around them in general.
So it's it's like, you can't be going to church in those circumstances.
Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, it's just it's killing me watching people's reactions because you know, most of them just like you know, I got the blood of Jesus covering me. Yeah, no, he'll be protected.
And now the black numbers have come up this week, crazy and a lot of our favorite cities.
And that's a problem, Yes it is. And we are we are the we all of us are equally susceptible to the disease. But when you have a community that's already underserved in so many other ways, we are more susceptible to getting the worst of it, to dying, to having really severe outcomes.
Out of it.
In my mind, I imagine that you and I and Christy watched the well, we we in this house, so we watched the Daily briefing.
It's just we got to know some things.
You don't watch it. I've watched zero.
Angers like on the daily because I know you.
Like. Christy's rule is she does not listen to Trump's voice.
Okay, she will not if he's on the news, even if he's on the news of an anchor that she likes, she doesn't want to hear his voice, and we will change the channel off his voice comes on.
What about doctor Fauci?
Though, I feel like I could read it later, and Rachel Rachel Maddow summarizes it for me well enough, so I'm like, I'll just listen to Rachel yog.
It's to the point where now even I mean, you know, normally I would watch matt Ow without fail because you know, but this this will be my second week without watching. Yeah, I can't.
You know, I'm one of those people that, like I would always not watch the news if there was like a disaster or any kind of thing where the press was all kind of even even like a shooting, like I couldn't watch it because I don't like I don't like everybody gathering around a tragedy on the news, Like I just something about my personality. I don't enjoy that as news. I don't like it. I don't like being
around it. But for some reason, I've been watching this because I do actually want to know what's going on. And it's such a political story too, because it's about leadership and it's about how leadership organizes people around a crisis, and I think that's the thing that interests me about it.
Wow, one day I'll jump back into the fray, But now, just from my mental health.
No, I get it.
That's how I am about most me and these chickens on this forum. Man, I'm happy.
Can I just ask you and Fante a question real quick? Since y'all are both a part of one of my favorite shows on TV? Yeah, can we talk about Sherman Showcase real quick?
Yes, let's talk about it, okay, and what's going on?
You know, I'm just you know, I'm just let.
Well, Fante, you want to tell her what we filmed a couple of Yeah, Man, so we got a Black History Month special, which, in Negro fashion.
Is coming late in June.
During Black Music Man, we got it we shot it.
We shot it in January, and I have I still haven't seen the whole joint.
Diallo was kind of telling.
Me, Nope, I've seen that edits it looks great.
Yeah, he said it's amazing. He said, he really is dope. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That's coming June and Sherman showcases on Hulu and Hulu just announced like free subscription or free trials.
Yeah, check it now.
From my.
No, but everybody else in Mirror does not working every night like you are.
And and we were in the scene together, Me and John did one scene together.
With Trek and Iron, but we're the master at the time.
And loaf of Jesus. Now, the show is the most well reviewed thing we've ever done as a production company.
I've never seen so many great reviews for something we've done. The New York Times, all these other lists you know what to watch while you're one, like the shows on all those lists too. So hopefully people will give it a chance, because I think once you get into the world, you really get into it.
I just I don't want to discount, though, your other show that you had on wg.
N Yes Underground, Y, Yes, What to deal with Underground.
Now we couldn't bring it back.
You know, the station was getting bought by that conservative news organization, Saint Claire. Yeah, so they were buying the station and they decided to go in a whole nother direction. Even though we were the most popular show and got the most buzz for the network of any show that they had on, they decided to go in a different direction. They're the same organization that bought all those local news stations, do you remember.
That to do the Yeah, the news reporters, the news.
Reporters all reading the same script. Yeah, So they're the same organization. So we didn't have much of a chance to stay around. We tried to sell it to other networks and it's it was a bit of an expensive show to produce, and so a lot of networks didn't want to take it because it was kind of like secondhand and they didn't want to spend all that money making a secondhand show.
But as a show producer, how do you like, how do you how do you figure that's different than music working on music and whatnot.
Well, it's less hands on for me because you're leaving it in the other creator's hands. So you have writers, You have directors, you have all these other people that are involved, and they hopefully you hire people and you work with people that are really good at what they do, and so it's not nearly as hands on as I would be on my own record. I feel like it's mostly about making good personnel decisions and then picking good projects to be part of creatively.
Are you going to.
Organized the music? Music is a wild wild West?
It is.
Music is.
Yeah, you might get paid, you might not like TV everybody. It ain't no such thing as doing some off like you're gonna get a check.
Yeah.
TV is better organized, Films better organized. Hollywood's just more like corporate than the music world is.
Now, what is theater not.
Theater? Well, the theaters have the strong unions though, you know, so there's a lot of rules around how you do things in the theater too. The unions are very strong and so there's a lot of structure around that, and so I feel like that's pretty you know, it's pretty on point as well.
Wow, you know, I have a wish to see the I mean, you can weigh in on this bill or not. I mean, at the beginning of in the Heights in Hamilton, like did you feel as though, you know, the system was pretty much stuck in its ways? Whatnot?
Funny too, I didn't know what the fuck the system was or which way it was stuck in it, But yeah, something like that, I don't know. To me, theater has the worst business plan ever. If it's a success, then you make money. If it's anything success, it's a total disaster.
Yeah, I see, I see.
So it's a shitty business plan. It's a shitty business plan there is. It's either you invest millions of dollars and only if you're a humongous success do you make the money back. If you don't, then it's a failure. Just the business plan doesn't make sense to me.
So there's no middle ground.
There's no such thing as a moderately successful theater show.
Yeah, well just think about just think about real estate in New York.
And so part of it is you have to occupy and pay for this real estate in New York and get people to show up, and then you have to pay everybody's salaries and everything based on the union you know, scale, and it's just the the original baseline nut that you have to pay for is a lot of money.
I'm scared to place starts in November, and like this isn't like you know where you just put a little bit of money and then your producer like, we're really funding this joint so that but a mirror.
Are you fearful now?
Because I mean not to put that on you, but when are people going to feel comfortable and in theaters and in New York and broad in New York and Broadway.
The thing is is that you know, we after taking a queue from Hamilton to see how radical that was. I mean, I just have this desire to really update Broadway. Broadways somehow stuck between this this post timpan Alley jazz hands kind of Broadway like that that kind of era where you know it could really use a refresh or redo. And you know, based on did you see and did you see in Tarik's uh like any of the practice
I haven't. It's it's like it's it's just as mind blowing to me is as Hamilton, but it's like the complete opposite where you don't feel good about any of the characters. It's like if Obama, if if Hamilton represented everything that was beautiful about the Obama era, then this is the trade for the play for the Trump era and post and the thing was they wrote this, you know, during like the beginning of obama second term as a
as a kind of a a satire. But it's just like it's real now, which makes it even more on point. So it is like idiocracy, dude, it's it's it's idiocracy the play. That's what it is.
Like.
People are mind blowing, but it's black no more, okay, it's It's based on one of the very John Ridley, who did Twelve Years of Slave.
Yeah, I know, John right.
He wrote this back in twenty twelve, came to Tarik around twenty thirteen, and they developed at the last four years. It's a scathing play. It's amazing, but no one's going to feel good about themselves.
They won't be congratulating themselves for going no, but I mean yeah, I mean, the guilty aspect of it is going to like it's a real It's a play about kind of in the Harlem speakeasy era of Harlem, a black man who.
Meets a white girl a speakeasy who you know, they flirt and whatnot, and she's sort of like, you know, this ain't going any further than this basement because you know, I could never take you home to my father, YadA, YadA, YadA. And this guy wishes kind of wishes that there was a way that she could fall in love of them, and he gets some sort of operation. This is based on a book. He gets a he goes through a process that turns him into a white man.
And then reverse, which is like soul Man in reverse.
Yeah.
This, this book was written in nineteen thirty six as a sat tire.
And Eddie Murphy's SNL.
It's very much like that skit. Yeah, he just hits the fan even crazier. So yeah, yeah, so yeah, let's rack up the Tony's Let's go all of y'all get this. Got ghet him man, you get him? You get it? The single is out now where streaming on now? Correct?
Yeah.
So we have two singles out, once called Conversations in the Dark. We put that out in January and then Actions is the one wh just put out a couple of weeks ago. You played it on your online Instagram Love the Other Night.
Do you have a title for the upcoming record yet?
Yeah, it's called Bigger Love, and the next single is gonna be the title track called Bigger love and then.
And we got joints. Man, I'm excited. I did.
Raphael Sadiq exec produced the whole thing. He's done my last couple albums, exec producing wise for the Christmas Album and the Christmas Deluxe, and we were just in the nice groove and we just kept working together on this. But I worked with other producers and writers and uh Oak produced the last single actions Oakfelder. He produced another one on my album that's really crazy called Oulah and yeah, we've got some good stuff on there. Do you record
at the crib? John, and you still go to the studio?
I still go to the studio because I like to feel like I'm going to work.
I like to leave the house, be away from the kids, go to work, and then come home and be present with the family.
I did it. What studio did you record out of?
At Raphael's Blakesley up in North Hollywood.
Oh?
Is Jerry still his engineer?
Yeah?
Jerry still mixed with the Christmas lights.
Yeah, so Jerry mixed this.
This guy named Alex is the recording engineer, but Jerry mix.
Yeah. Raphael's dude, Jerry like this atmospherical like Christmas. So he always even when he is not at his studio ahead of time, he'll send like all this this Christmas decorations to the studio to get set up and he wants it to look like Christmas when he's mixing. So he's been doing that for like the last thirty years with Rafael.
His first record he did for me was My Christmas Album though how perfect?
Oh yeah, okay.
I thought he had it in there just for the for the best of music.
Nah, Jerry uh engineer what they do on illadel faf Life, And was like, we had to wait an hour for him to get like the Christmas decorations up. Now he's been doing that forever. He's been doing that forever.
John, I always wanted to ask, you, man, who is Maxine? Because she had you going down through that bro.
Oh you know what max was truth?
Really this?
You know.
I was writing that song with the guys from Sarah Yeah. Uh so you know, the whole crew, including O Mas and Taz and everybody. So we're we're in l a at there they had that house studio in Los Felis or somewhere around there, Silver late and we were.
Just hanging out and we were writing the song and I had just listened to Guess who I saw today, my love Nancy Wilson.
Uh.
So, Nancy used to sing that song, and it was about it kind of goes through the whole story of you know, I was hanging out at this lovely bar and.
Blah blah blah, and I saw this beautiful couple and blah blah.
Blah, and oh it was your Nigga.
Jones.
And so I had listened to that not long before that, and we were we were just singing. Uh, we were just playing around on the instruments, and I started singing, she may.
Not be you, but she looks just like you, and we wrote.
I was like, we should write a song kind of in that same lyrical vein where I described this whole setup of these two beautiful people hanging out with each other looking like they're so in love.
And it was her the whole time I'm like, she may not be you was.
She looked awful lot like you. And then uh, we decided at the end we should call her name.
And we just made up a name that sounded good, Maxine, and so every Maxine the age of sixty, and.
We wanted it to sound quaint and like old school and then.
It turns out, and I did not notice at the time my grandmother's middle name is Maxine, and so she thought I had written it Maxine because of her name, but I had no idea that was her middle name at the time.
You don't wing it. I love that song.
I love that record, that who once again out here that's I love it once again.
It is my favorite, Like, it's one of my favorite things I've done. Wake Up is one of them too, when I did with the Roots and then h once Again, it is like my heart, I don't know, that's my favorite one.
That's yeah, it showed me's on there.
Yeah, that's the one.
That's a lot of them.
Hey, John, Yeah, Diet has a question over there.
It's me, sugar.
Have you written any new songs since the quarantine started?
Anything at home? I have not, And part of it, I think is just kind of feeling like, oh, I'm done with my album and I can relax for a while and have to write something. But also I don't like writing at home, so it's the perfect storm of me not getting anything done at home.
So wait a minute, when you're home, that's not your creative hub at all.
No, I almost never write at home. I like to schedule time go in.
Sometimes I'll sing stuff into my phone at home, like, oh I have an idea. I'm almost singing this into my phone and then finish it at the studio because I like to go towards.
Your separation of church and state. I get it, because, if anything, I would figure that this time period is probably the best time period for all songwriters and all screenwriters and book writers like, but it's really not.
Though if you have kids, if you don't have kids, maybe if you don't have.
Kids, maybe so you just can't get three hours of complete doing shit.
Oh hell no.
So the middle road is just hell nah too. And we got one of those home ship dually know it, about to buy a crib, won't have a separate batcave for myself. I got it now, Okay, I get it.
I just don't think now, like in the middle of what everybody dealing with, just the stress of the pandemic, I don't think that really lends itself.
To creativity very much, you know what I mean?
So much of at least for me, so much of what you pull from comes from outside sources.
Either.
You know, if you go out and you see a couple and you think something or you you know, you kind of go out and pull from these different experiences when you.
Don't really have that anymore.
And on top of not having that, but you're constantly watching people that you know or or know of get or die.
I mean, I ain't thinking about no goddamn rap music, you know what I mean.
It's just realizing.
I think some people will will be inspired by and write some dope ship from it. It will it will fit into certain people's style of writing and their worldview, and it'll it'll propel them to write some dope stuff. I really believe that's possible. But it's just it ain't inspired me at all.
Don't making me feel bad now, man, I'm like, I don't know five chapters. No, I got dude, having kids like I got responsibility. I know it's not the same as having kids.
Single people. I mean, I'm just saying, but I also know that when you have two children in the home every day, all day, that's the different situation. And I appreciate my privilege.
Yeah, I think when you, I think, maybe why you kind of getting stuff done in that way is because you've finally been now, so you know, you would writing and stuff like that. It's like, I, you know, you finally have a chance to really buckle down and do it, all right, and which is different than a lot of people.
But I'm just not feeling like writing songs right now.
You're thinking about writing a book and at some.
Point in the future.
I had always thought about it, but I I have to at some point.
But you right one on finance, John Legend, No.
I'm not enough.
Seriously, John, Save everything, Like, don't you know, save everything? Just put in storage what like it'll you'll need it. You'll need it for your memoir. Trust me.
I got to write one at some point.
There's stuff I wish I saved for, you know, memoirs that notes that I wrote old lyrics, sheet to that sort of thing.
Save everything, yo, all right. So two questions. One, is there a full version of Angel with you and Stacey?
Yes there is.
We put it on her It was on her record EP. Yes, we put it on Stacey's EP. Stacy Bart she's a dope singer and songwriter. She's written a lot of songs for big artists, and she was signed to my production company for a while as an artist, and she put out a couple of EPs and we had her guest on Love in the Future.
We did a short version of Angel on.
That's my favorite version.
I like that.
One.
Yeah, so that's on if you you can find it. But Stacey put it on her EP.
And also Okay, Segie Poison hold on Longer, talk to me about that one.
I love that.
For the song that was Oh that was font LeRoy's idea. So he wrote a couple of those songs with us, and uh, you know, you know his zone. It was right in his zone.
He wrote a couple of those type of joints with us for the album.
I love that record, man.
And also since it's Q Tip's birthday tomorrow, talk about.
Don't Wait till to.
That was me and Kanye is like sleeper favorite on the album because Kanye was exect producing that album. And I went in over to Kamal's house in Jersey and we just jammed for a little while and we came up with that song, and that's our sleeper favorite on Love in the Future. It didn't get a lot of buzz, but it's something about it, just that group.
It's a good step for song too.
Yeah, exactly exactly.
I have a question.
Yes, in the wake of Bill Withers passing and your great re recording of his his song I can't right left handed?
Can you just comment on the recording of that song?
And yeah, here's one of the things I did say, question, where's that email? I have it. I'm gonna pull it up right now, hold on.
Like, did I imagine an email? Did I make that up?
Yeah?
He wrote it for real. I resent it to my manager and that was with me back then, and he had sent it to me.
This is from October sixth, twenty ten, and here's an email from Bill Withers. I'm gonna read it to y'all.
Exclusive exclusive.
Okay, here we go.
Alex.
Some time ago, you contacted Marsha regarding John Legend's recently recorded album and offered to introduce her to Greg, one of the guys who managed me at the time. She probably attempted to forward the message to me or meant to afford it to me. Quite possibly. It was doing one of those periods where I was in Marsha, Alex and everyone else overload and just ignored all incoming information
for a while. Anyway, I just found out about the John Legend recording yesterday and a much more interesting fashion. Having sat down to watch a documentary on Louis Armstrong. The phone rang fifteen minutes into it and the voice on the other end says, in this stilted tone, did I awaken you, sir?
Just as I was about to hang up on whoever this clown.
Was, the voice said Bill Withers, this is William Felton Russell, which of course was followed by the unmistakable cackle of Bill Russell laughing on the other end of the line.
He then proceeded to read me the titles of.
The songs on a John Legend album that he was listening to and informed me that I can't right left hand. It was included in the list of songs that were recorded with the Roots band for the album. We then proceeded to share stories of the people that it had impacted our lives, such as Jackie Robinson, Joe Lewis, Jesse Owens, etc. We continued on to have the obligatory conversation about Obama and whatever else two seventy plus year olds ilk might
run their mouths about in catch up conversations. An hour and a half later, having purged ourselves of all current topics worthy of chit chat for the moment we ended our conversation, I hit play to resume watching the Louis Armstrong tape as I digested the conversation that I had just had with my old friend and lifelong he wrote. When the Louis Armstrong story finished, I went to my computer and watched the session with John and the Roots
on YouTube. While digesting the pleasure of witnessing the heartfelt and caring interpretation of this song by John and the Band that Ray Jackson and I had written probably before he and most of the band were born, it occurred to me that it had indeed been a day spent in the company of legends, conversation about legends with the legend, while watching the story of a legend capped off by the flattery of John Legend taking the time to revisit and revive an old song written with a dear friend
what had actually gotten me into the music business and who left us much too soon.
Ray Jackson passed away some years ago.
I'm sure that Ray Jackson would have joined me in thanking John and the Roots for their attention to this song and the congratulating them on a job well done.
Since they put me in such a.
Good mood, I will find it in my heart to not hold a grudge against Questlove for making me sound so ancient. In his otherwise flattering, introductory and explanatory comments on the video smiles.
I was further sued by the fact that Bill Russell is really old.
Congratulations to John appropriately named legend for all the work he does in education and for projecting a good, wholesome image for us all to appreciate. I would appreciate it if you, whoever you is, would share this letter with John and the Roots.
I would further advise you to avoid contact with me in the future if.
You don't rendered grumpy by the rare rainy, cloudy, yucky weather here in La today, but boyd revived and sustained by my day with the Legends yesterday. Bill Withers, Wow, that's a letter.
This dude can tell A sorry man, Yo. He's the musical uncle we never had his emails.
His emails were legendary because every time he wrote one, he had all those extra little colors and flavors in there that you normally I'm just like a yes, because I'm always like approving something.
Like Okay, great, nice thanks.
He would write such such great emails. Wow. Man.
Yeah, when when he when he came to the show, Yeah, to see his performance, he was just it was everything I ever wanted. And that was the point in which like, I was really kind of not you know, I was a little gun shy with meeting idols by that point because so many had let me down before. Yeah, but he lived up to everything. Like he was full of stories, like and humor and seemed like he did not seem or act like he was in his seventies. I thought he was like, oh he might be fifty nine, maybe
sixty maybe. Yeah, that's one of my regrets, man, Like I was, I was gunning for him for at least twelve years to try to try to work with him.
But Yo, so he heard he heard the live version of that too. That was the first thing you heard was the YouTube. We had made a YouTube video. I think that was actually in the studio. It was like one of those promo things we shot in the studio, but it was a live performance though. It was like it wasn't like edited, it was you know, it was a straight up live performance, but there was an audience there.
Yeah, And Oh, I forgot. We did something with Spike Lee as well.
I told you about about that that thing in the one of those buildings in New York something five terminal five shot five.
John, You know how long we've been trying to get this to happen. You know this is just a preview, right, like you know at some point when we all come back together in real life.
This is not the room love that. Yeah, That's why I'm not asking like the questions I normally ask request because I'm trying to say that for the real episode.
Well, just in case we don't get the real lepisode and I got another music, we'll get.
It, all right, So I'm gonna be there. I don't know, Hey, we all might not be there all right.
So hey, your first uh on again on once again?
Uh huh.
The leak version of it was just acoustic, and then the album version you added.
Drums and what made you change? Oh? No, I mean I had always thought we were gonna put a little instrumentation on it. So sometimes I'll record a demo of it and I don't know who leaked it. I'm trying to remember how that came out. Also did a version on Death poetry Jam. They kind of let me half sing sing, half sing on death pet you John. That was the first time anybody actually heard any of it was on the fork And remember that.
I mean I didn't miss that my first time hearing it. It was the leak version.
Yeah, this is back when albums would leak, you know what I mean, the album Eleak and that version of Again.
It was just it was just you and piano.
And I'm not even sure if I knew it leaked. Honestly, I'm not even sure just even piano.
That's crazy. Yeah, now I gotta go back and revisit. Thank you. That's a goblet of like South Carolina, North Carolina.
What is that?
This is What's up? What's up?
Steve is again that joined you samples for doing it again?
Yeah, that's again. Okay.
I was singing in my head and doing it again, yes again.
Yeah. And then I had another song on a record called another again again.
John.
I still remember that first album where you were sing the beach in your Lena outfit when you were back in the Philly days.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah. I still have to actually wait, did you sang because that the early record even before uh, your first album is up your version of Burning Down the House.
Yeah, so that was when we did live at UH S O B S O B S.
Yeah. Yeah, I was from like oh two, I think.
Yeah.
I got my deal in a four, So it was, you know, a couple of years before everything popped off.
I remember listening to that. You had that album, you were selling it. This is back in like old three. It was a little brother and Kanye.
We was on tour together. Yeah, we did the Norfolk and yeah, I remember them in Norfolk, yeah, yeah, and we were selling that joint and I remember those shows man, And I remember I would sell those CDs out of my you know, out of my trunk, you know, every everywhere we would go. I would do gigs in uh New York and Philly by myself for a while. I would play it like S O B. S and UH Knitting Factory, north By, Northwest fire Spot all these places UH in Philly and New York and.
UH and I would just sell them.
And and I was my own web person, so I would like I didn't program the site, but I would uh, I would.
I would handle all.
The CD seal so I would be like chipping them off to people I would go to the post office every couple of days and ship some more CDs off the people that order them online. Can you believe we actually buy CDs their.
Own distribution something?
Yeah.
I feel like it's time for a sequel now, John, where we are like, we we.
Gotta do it. We gotta do it. We always say we gotta do it, but we.
Gotta do it. Wait which sequel?
Y'all get together making music.
The roots and the roots coming back.
Yeah, real protest songs man. Yeah, man, I like that.
I like the y'all vow to do that on tape right here in front of everybody.
Yeah, we really need to do it.
It's true.
I mean all we do is work. So as long a time a collaborator that's willing and shows up, let's work. I'm down, you know what I'm saying. Now, Thank you, Thank you, John. I appreciate you doing our U our live YouTube uh broadcast of course, Love Supreme. I want to be Layah Ship, Steve Unpaid, Bill Fan Diagelo and John Legend. Thank you very much. This is a quest Love Supreme. We'll see you on the next show.
Now see everybody.
Thanks well, y'all right, M.
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