One Song - The Response Episode: Listener Mailbag & New Music Reactions

Episode Date: February 9, 2024

On this special episode of One Song, Diallo & LUXXURY answer listener DMs and react to new music from Megan Thee Stallion, Justin Timberlake, and Justice (with Tame Impala).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Song Nation, I am actor, writer, director, and sometimes DJ, Diallo Riddle. And I am producer, DJ, and songwriter Luxury, aka the guy who talks about intermulation on TikTok. And this is One Song, Luxury. How are you? I'm doing just fine. Thank you for asking. How are you? I'm doing great. And I'm excited because we're doing something a little different. Think of this episode as sort of a one song, Smorgasborg. Okay. Is that a Swedish word? Rolls off the tongue. Yeah. You can tell I'm part of Swedish.

Here's what's coming up. We're going to open up some of our DMs and respond to messages that luxury and I have been receiving. A long last. They've not been falling on deaf ears or eyes. We read everything you send. Keep sending stuff. Absolutely. Actually, so much has been inspiring about the songs and ideas and just your responses to the podcast.

So we thought we would do a special one-off where we actually reply. So just so you don't think you're throwing all that stuff into a black hole. We get it all. We read it all. It's all on Instagram. What's your Instagram handle for people? It's at Diallo, at D-I-A-L-O. What is yours?

I'm at Luxury, L-U-X-X-U-R-Y. I mean, you can find us both on TikTok or Instagram. For some reason, Instagram is where most of the stuff comes in. But that's what this episode's all about. Yeah, you know what? I feel like you're doing it on TikTok. I feel like I get most of my stuff on Instagram. It's just interesting like that.

So instead of talking about any one song today, we're actually going to take this time and respond to some of your comments, respond to some of the things we've seen online. And we're also, fun enough, we're also going to react to some of the hottest new music releases. And this is going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm excited for it. I have been wanting to do a segment where we listen blind

and just respond in the moment. Because when we do that in our real lives, just hanging out together, like that's a lot of natural, fun conversations and surprises come out of that. Totally. So we bring to the show, see what it's like. Literally where the podcast came from at the beginning. So in some ways, this is like our first conversation.

before we had the concede of one song. So let's get ready to start the show. Everybody, welcome to a very special edition of One Song. All right, Diallo, so for starters, we're going to share some of these messages we've been getting from you guys on the internet, the One Song Nation out there. Diallo, what are we going to start with?

Okay, so this first message comes from Nikki and Brooklyn, and she has a specific question for you, luxury. She wrote, What song has your favorite use of interpolation? That is such a great question. And it's a really hard one to answer. I collect these interpolation stories, obviously. A lot of them are on my TikTok. A lot of them we talk about it on the show.

The one that just popped in my head right away because it's kind of funny is, do you know this song by Rod Stewart? You're familiar with that song? I think I've heard it a few times. So this story is so great because... One of the greatest music videos of all time. It redates MTV.

Go find it on YouTube. They look like they're having a great time. That's Rod Stewart. Do you think I'm sexy? And by the way, much maligned the phenomenon of like rockers who in the disco era like did a disco song. Actually, some of my favorite songs by like Rod Stewart, that's probably my favorite Rod Stewart song. Rolling Stones miss you is a great song. The Kiss song, I was Made for Loving You.

That's a great song too. So I am not one of those who maligned the disco eras. But this, here's the story. It's 1978. Rod Stewart goes to Rio with Freddie Mercury and Elton John. So just that's enough right there. No drugs on that plane. but go ahead.

That's enough right there. When it comes back, Rod Stewart writes that song and it goes to number one. And then apparently he'd forgotten, or he claims that he had forgotten that while he was in Brazil, he'd heard this huge hit record by a huge superstar called Jorge Ben. And that song was called Taj Mahal. And this is what that song sounded like. I've read the history of interpolation. I don't know if anything less.

I don't know if you can even whisper interpolation. That sounds more like, Interpolation! There's no whispering involved. That is interpolation writ large. Well, it's so funny that you say that. I don't know if this is my favorite use of interpolation. Okay.

But there's no way I can't do this. So just this weekend, I was driving with my entire music library on my iPhone on Shuffle. Okay. And this song came up and I forgot its role in Rod Stewart's class. Check this out. When a person wanted something, they had to put it in the wheel car. I don't know. That's right.

It's not enough that he nicked one melody. Dude. He nicked two melodies. He was like Bobby Wilmack. I'm taking that. You know what, though? I'm taking that. According to Rod, Rod claims that he told Bobby that he had done it.

And Bobby was like, yeah, man. Here's the quote. I told Bobby, and he thought it was cute. because you can nick string lines without breaching copyright. What? That's not true. That sounds like an early 70s interpretation. He is definitely not an attorney.

Bobby Womack, don't take legal advice from Bobby Womack. It's okay to Nick Stringes because it's not illegal. Well, I don't know about that, but I will say that the thing that I love about, do you think I'm sexy, is the string arrangement? And to know that that was in a Bobby Womack song. Like now I'm determined to put that Bobby Womack song into some TV show or movie that I do. because I'm just like, that, it is so, it is so perfect. That straight-d-old instrument is beautiful.

Beautiful on its own. Besides the two of us, you know who else liked that string line? Rod Stewart. He liked it in a lot. He liked it so much. He nicked it. There's one more little fun fact. In 1989, Ben changed his name to Jorge Ben Hor, J-O-R.

I might be pronouncing that wrong. My Portuguese is not that great. I didn't know you changed his name, though. But because his royalty payments kept on being sent to George Benson, who they confused the two names and he kept on not getting his money. Give me the night and your money. Yeah. All the George Vincent fans just went nuts on that, Joe.

So that's why, that is why that might be my favorite interpolation. Give me a loot. There's so many details. I even left some fun stuff out. Anyway, let's move on. Nikki also had a question for me. She says, what song made you want to do a show like this and which genres were you most interested in learning about? I don't know if even luxury remembers this.

The song that made me really want to do a show like this with you was actually tainted love. because I was such a fan of the original song and you did a TikTok post drawing a line straight from Gloria Jones to soft sell and I thought that was so cool and I was, you know, like, it's something the DJs know, but like, when do you get to share this knowledge with the world? You can kind of do it,

maybe if you're doing a DJ set in a hipster spot where both songs would be appropriate, but like, you know, I saw that TikTok and I was like, man, me and him have a lot of shared, a lot of shared interest. And to that point, When you ask Nikki, which genre were you most interested in learning about? It was less about that.

It was more about, I could tell right away, Blake and I had a lot of the same, you know, sort of like music in our head. And I was like, oh, yeah, we would probably never run out of anything to talk about. So I hope that's the answer to you. I mean, like, clearly, we had a lot to talk about. Yeah, it's really easy to talk to you. And it's extremely easy to talk to you about music that we're both passionate about and enjoy talking about. Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you. Thank you for asking that question. We in Brooklyn. Great question. We appreciate you. Our next question comes from De La from Tallahassee, Florida. It says if there was one song that you could have been in the studio during the recording of without knowing how big the song would be, what would it be?

These are great questions. I think we've kind of answered this one on the show before. I think for me, one of the ones that's up there is under pressure. Yes, yes. I think that one's way up there for me. I might just steal that answer just because you get two for the price of one with that answer. You get two great. You get two grades. You get David Bowie and Freddie Mercury.

Yeah. And you get the other three members of Queen who are not slouches themselves. And maybe Georgia Meroters next door, right? Because he's just been recording cat people. We could walk over there and get some Donna Summer Stories. You get Ryanhold Mac for all the engineering nerds out there. That might be the answer. That's a good.

Yeah. And then you're in Switzerland and you're like partying with rich people. But I'm going to throw out get lucky by Daft Punk because I get to be in there with DaBunk, Ferrell, and now I think those are just four geniuses. And I want to say something because we're going to be addressing a lot of things that have come our way via message. A lot of people have been like, where is the napunk episode? It's complicated. It's complicated.

And it gets to our way of deciding which songs we cover. So we have a criteria. Obviously, we like to pick songs that people have heard of. We have a lot of songs that we like immensely. But we try not to go like super underground unless we can make the case that this super underground song was a song that absolutely everybody. heard and it affected the music industry in some way. I think the closest thing to that that we've done, and we didn't do an episode on it, but we talked a lot about it was I Feel Love. But that's like still a major, major song. We don't really do like underground cool, cool songs just for the sake

of doing it. We want to do songs that people have heard of. That leads me to my second thing. It's not just that. It's also which songs. We tend to, we've strayed from this a couple of times, like if a hip-hop song had a lot of samples, but we also try to keep. keep it in the realm of songs that luxury has access to the stems because we want to be able to play something about the song that you probably have never had access to or heard before. Yeah, and I don't have everything. I just have what I have. But we, there's an awful, I mean, we could do this, literally do the show at the pace we're doing it for the next 50 years. And we wouldn't mind out of STEM, so don't worry. But it's true. We, it has, the criteria

includes we have to have some passion for the band. We have to have some passion for the song. Yeah. We have to sort of, we do a lot of balancing, though. So like for every, Beatles come together, which we love, but it's like kind of, we also know for it to have been a bigger song. And then we kind of got to do massive attack, tear drop, a little bit. There's a little bit of a give and take there. It's like, there's a little bit of a given take there. It's a little bit of a Stephen Soderberg, you know, do an ocean's 12, and then you get to do a little bit of art movie. Yeah. I will also say that we are aware of other podcasts. There are other podcasts that have sort of made going on a deep dive of samples.

There was another podcast, I won't say the name, but like there's another podcast that did the entire. discovery album by Dad Punk about the time we debuted this show. So we were like, we don't need to be another podcast doing that. But don't forget, this is the 23rd best podcast that you're listening to. So you have chosen the right one by coming to one song. I will say we are definitely going to do a house music episode.

We are just trying to find the best entry point and hopefully one that has one that we have the stems for. So it's not your imagination. We will eventually get to that. I'm sorry. Did you say which? song you would be in the studio for or do we sort of agree?

I definitely stole both of your answers. Those are great answers and I can't top them. So I won't try. There we go. We would have been there for under pressure and for get lucky. All right, here comes one from Jan and Burbank. It could be yawn. Could possibly be on in Burbank. It's addressed to you, Diallo, and it says,

if you were writing a new screenplay and had to create a role for luxury, okay, which is on the surface, funny because I'm definitely not an actor, What type of role or character would you give him and why? Oh, man. On the spot, well, you know, I would probably cast you as some sort of historical figure that you have a connection with. I love David Bowie in the Christopher Nolan movie The Prestige.

He came in and played Nikolai Tesla. I just love that you used David Bowie in your answer about me, and you didn't go for the obvious choices like Dylan or Tom York, who are the comparisons I get visually speaking all the time. Maybe we put you in a wig and give you like a really crazy mustache and you're Georgioa Marauder. Oh, that would be a blast.

I would learn, I would take acting classes. Just learn the accent. For that, yes. Because I think he has a thick Italian accent, right? And I get the feeling that him not being a good actor as a character would be perfect. So I'm ready to go. I'm ready to suit.

So next time we do Sherman Showcase or something with a lot of music personalities, you will be my Georgian. I love it. You will be my Georgia. I love it. This next one is all. also from Jan in Burbank, which I only assume is Jan Hammer.

We love your work on Miami Vice. Luxury. If you had to write a song about Diallo, uh-oh, what would be the title of the song and why? We have to work together. I think the song would be called Best Friends Forever. So not true. Maybe it's true. Friends Forever.

Why Best Friends Forever? Best Friends Forever because, how about this? How about we take some of the pressure off best? that's a, that word is doing, word is doing a lot of lifting, but like friends forever? Friends forever, my friend. I think that, uh,

oh my gosh, you just jinxed it by three years for now. I would be like, remember when one song was like both of them? How about, I think here's what it is. My song about you would be, um,

that's so hard because like, first of all, my song writing is like very much like, vibey. So like I'm writing a song about rain right now and it just has one word and the word is rain. So I think my song for you would be friend. There you go.

It's friend. Um, Okay. I like it. I can live it. All right. Finally, Jan, who seems to be very prolific with the questions. This question says, we all know luxury's go-to word is interpolation. What is your go-to word, Diallo? I assume a word you want me to whisper. I feel like mine is, when's lunch?

Oh, I'm ready to take a break, wins lunch. We've been trying to find you like a catchphrase. I need a catchphrase. For a minute, it was maybe shout out too, but then that didn't really. kind of went away. Shout out to the early 90s. I would have gotten so many cool places. But then there was a period where for several episodes that we like would constantly do shout out to.

And recently there's been a lot of iconic. We've been saying iconic a little bit much. I feel like Chonky is still my preferred because I'm from Atlanta and I associated with Alcats. So I will never get tired of Chonky. But I'll work on this. Thank you, Jan or Jan from Burbank. I will work on a catchphrase that I can whisper and put on T-shirt.

Yeah. I will definitely do that. I want to give a shout out to one of our listeners, because you guys were so kind to send in like so many songs you want us to do, I do want to play a snippet of a song. In fact, I want to play the whole song. One of our listeners said, You suffer by napalm death is 1.3 seconds long.

I actually know this song. And it once held the Guinness World Record for Shortest Song. It helped define the genre of grindcore. just because you ask for it here is in its entirety Napalm deaths you suffer Don't blink All right

That was the shortest song of all time Can I just play one thing since you just reminded me of it This will be a teaser for a forthcoming episode We can't tell you this guest that we're like Coordinating basically to get on the show So a hint of who you may be hearing on a future episode This is anti-procrastination song From Storm Troopers of Death

So maybe that was the first grind chorus on come to think that's 1986. I don't know. SOD got there first. I don't know if we wanted to pick this fight. Napalm death versus SOT. I don't know. Yeah, I heard it was napalm death. But you know what?

That's the beauty of the show is that we can start fights that we don't even have plans on finishing. One other thing that came across many, many times, I'm always getting people asking me in the DMs, hey, you seem like a hip-hop head. Can you tell me, you know, what song? You know, is this song original or is an interpolation? What I got more than once in the past couple of months was Cool Like That by The Diggable Planets. I'm about to play for you a song that if you like Cool Like That, it's going to blow your mind. It's by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

It's not even looped. It's just they did it once. Who's the bass player? And that was it. I love a sample like that. So always feel free to hit me up. If I have time, I'll hit you back with a song that was sample because to me, the art of sample. and it's taking something that's not even a loop in the original version

and figuring out, oh, if I loop this, it's actually going to be a decade-defining song that's going to win everybody a Grammy. To me, that is so impressive. And Blake's first question was, hey, who in the Jazz Messengers played that bass? That's Dennis Irwin. I had to look it up.

And it is. It's Dennis Irwin on double bass there. So this is, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, reflections in blue from the year, 1979. 1978 Recorded 78 Release 79 Oh there you go

We are in a dark studio Nerding the hell out It's not going to happen It was going to come to knife blows Don't even try 78 or 79 Before we move on luxury I think you had something

Yeah I just wanted to say How much we really appreciate these messages We really love hearing from you guys That's like the show Doesn't exist in a vacuum It's like we want to hear what you have to say What you like what you dislike We don't want to hear what you dislike so much actually

So maybe either way Keep on reaching out I'm luxury with two X's, L-U-X-X-U-X-U-R-Y on the Instagram, and Luxury X-X on TikTok. And I'm at Diallo on Instagram. That's the easiest way to find me. When we come back, luxury and I will take a break from all these wonderful classics

and bravely step into 2024 to listen to some new music. Hi, welcome back to the show. So on one song, we usually cover the classics. But today, we're going to be listening to and reacting in real time to some new releases. That we've never heard before. We have no idea what's going to be playing. The producer, Matt, is just going to hit play and we'll listen and talk.

I haven't heard these songs. You haven't heard these songs. We're ready to be here in the present. So, first up, we have... Song number one. Song number one. Mystery song number one. Body's on bodies on bodies on bodies.

Say you fuck Megan and now here's a topic. These niggas think they low at the value. All this free prom. I'm turning the profit. Okay, so that was clearly Megan the Stallion. I think the name of the song is his. I've seen this on the internet. I hadn't heard it before we listened to it here in the studio today.

Luxury, what did you think? I listen, I love it, and right now there's a beef. The beef came from this song and came from... When this episode was recorded, there was a beef. Exactly. It's already been resolved. I hope everybody's alive. Yeah, it's... What's happening in this exact moment is really crazy. I mean, I'm

not a bar, but I am a Nicky Minaj fan. But I'm also a Meg fan, and I just came from seeing the movie that, you know, I just came from Mean Girls. So it's fun to have this very zeitgeisty song. This is, like, such a moment in time that we're experiencing.

I mean, musically all I'll say is what caught my ear. It's like, you know, there's obviously trap beat. And what's kind of cool when you think about

with trap beats is you rarely in music except for trap music get 30 second notes. 30 second notes because it's one, two, three,

four. That's when 16th notes is usually the fast you're going to get like, da, da, da, da, da, and Meg's going,

those are 30 second notes. Meaning you could fit 32 syllables into a bar. which is insane. That's crazy. That's incredibly cool. You know, I love, I love contemporary hip-hop. I'm not one of those people who's like, oh, man, hip-hop suspiciously reached this peak when I was 20 years old. Like I'm not, I'm aggressively not those people. Definitely. Yeah, you're pretty fluent in it too. You keep up. So how does this sound to your ears?

It's okay. It's okay. You know, I will say maybe it's, I am the only black person in the studio. There were a lot of N-words in that. I don't know if, I don't know if that made it on to the podcast. But like, I'll never get used to that. I think because of the father who raised me, I'm always like, ooh, a couple in words in there. But even that aside, even if we were listening to the edited version, you know, I will say this. There's so much subtext in people's lyrics that this seems like one of those songs. I'm going to have to sit down with the song playing hitting pause, clicking on those bars on genius. And they're like learning, oh, so she's referring to this.

in another window that I didn't know anything about. It's rich with subtext. That's a great way to think about it. It actually requires, you had to, like, section off a part of your day to find out, because, like, the days of, like,

two-pipe would be like, first off, if you click, and the click, you claim. Like, that time is over. Like, he was very on the surface. Now, now they're, like,

referencing, like, deal points of the other person's contract. Like, they're like, oh, you don't get residuals over 30%? Like, you know, like, dang, who from the law firm leaked the contract? Like, we should,

to do a whole episode, honestly, on hip-hop beefs. Because I think that... I'll tell you the rap beef that I think changed everything. It was Jay-Z versus Nas. It was in the song The Blueprint off of Jay-Z's... No, it's not the call it. The album of The Blueprint. The song is The Takeover.

I'll never get Jay-Z's like... You know, and I know who I pay God's Searchlight Publishing, which was MC Searches' Publishing on Nas' first record. This was a level of detail that Melly Mel and M.C. Shan and Carus 1, they only dreamt of getting into each other's legal and financial dealings.

Publishing company names. So, yeah, I'm going to have to sit with this one for a little bit to decide whether this one goes on the pantheon of great beef reps. But I'm going to say we should do an episode just about rap beef and maybe we can find a song. Do you think that the song is enjoyable without that level of like digging and knowledge? It's hard to say because, again, some songs, the second I hear him, I'm like, oh, that's a good song.

First time I heard first person shooter, Drake and Jay Cole. I was like, oh, there's a great song. I can't say that this song hit me like that. But, you know, there are other songs that, like, the first time I heard him, I was like, oh, that's okay. And then this is not an emotional song. This is not a song about, like, getting to you emotionally. This is like an information dissemination song.

Yeah. This is an essay with like a trapbeat underneath it. I almost feel like Megan and Nikki are probably prepping. songs with even better beats. It's like when Meek went at Drake and Drake clearly had an arsenal of beats ready to go, you know, or when Drake went with Pusha Tea and Pusha Tea clearly had beats ready to go. I think sometimes you don't know what the other person has in their quiver at the time. And so you better respond not with everything all at once because you can get hit with a fuselage of everything else. The pace, the accelerated pace of call and response, or I guess this

would be sort of an answer song situation, right? Yeah. We're going way back to like, you know, Roxanne, Roxanne, U-TFO. It's been there from the beginning. Those would be maybe weeks apart or maybe months apart, which would seem really fast at the time. You're years sometimes to respond. This is a few days old and Nikki's already about to drop her response song. They set a standard during that Drake Meek Mill thing that if you take longer than 24 hours to reply, somehow you lost.

It's crazy. The pace is crazy for these back and forth. It's insane. Yeah. All right. And next step, another mystery. I'm just going to click and we'll listen. play. Here we go.

So if I get jealous, I can't help it on every bit of years. Right out the gate, that is Justin Timberlake, it's selfish. And by Justin Timberlake, right out the gate when that, like, what might have been literally a maestro MK2, like Sly and the Family Stone, we were just talking about Family Affair. That is an old school drum machine. That is a pre-Roland, pre-Lindrum, early 70s, maybe late 60s,

the kind you would get free when you would get free, you get an organ drum machine. So it's just interesting that we were just talking about this on the Sly episode, the Family Affair. It's the same, it's evoking that same era of turn of the 70s with the drum machine, which is a very interesting sound on pop radio in 2024. Absolutely.

And just really quickly, the second thing I'm going to say, and then I want to hear it you have to say, is that I thought, I knew that it wasn't a song by suicide. The first 10 seconds could have been a suicide song. You're thinking about the song, Cherie,

could have been anything from, one of my favorite songs of all time. One of my favorite, like, underrated, like, this is a CBGBs era band, like proto-punk. And it was just two guys with a cheap drum machine in an organ, while the other guy, Martin Rev, and Alan Vega and two-piece band, hated by the CBGB's crowd, but proto-punks,

and that's what their music sounded like. It sounded just like that. Well, let me just say, I take great joy anytime, in particular a male artist sings about, hey, I'm jealous. We talk about vulnerability on the show a lot, And he's just like, it reminds me that Jonas Brothers song, I still get jealous. Like, there's just something funny about singing, oh, thank you, by falsetto.

There's something so funny to be about singing the word jealous. Like, ghost face killer. Ghostface killer had a song called, Jealousy, you got better sneakers to mine. Jealousy. Like, it's such a, I have no clothes on right now, sort of like a mission statement. No, you're right because there's something for a man about jealousy. being very sort of a shameful emotion.

Yeah, dude. And by the way, I think everybody is jealous, but I also feel like jealousy is almost never justified. It's just it's a weird sort of thing. I don't know. But as far as Justin, I think it's a fine Justin song. I was never the biggest fan of Justin's ballads. I was thinking about this recently.

I was like, to me, the best Justin worked with Farrell. Like, that was my favorite Justin. I like the Justin. With Timbalin as well. Because you have all the, you know, sexy bag and the promiscuous girl and all that kind of stuff. But, like, to me, classic, Justin, he provided a voice for Farrell's genius in the sense

that, like, Farrell was writing a lot of those songs for Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was passing on him. And he was like, yeah, no, like, if you go back and listen to Rock Your Body. That makes so much sense. Which is a great song about it. Great song. Like, I Love You. Yeah.

Like, these songs apparently were Farrell writing from. to do Rock Your Body on this show. I would, that song is... I mean, like, let's get the Michael Jackson AI to sing all those justified era Justin Timberlake song. As you said that, it just struck me. It's like, that song, that is a timeless song.

Like, I'm just gonna go... And I'm not the biggest fan of JT as a person from what I've heard, just like the scuttle butt. Problematic, according to our pretty episode. That song is a... That is a timeless... That's 20-ish years old already. I can't believe in it.

It feels very contemporary. And I will say, I liked... I liked the song suit and tie when it came out. I'm still waiting for Justin to get back in the booth, so to speak, with Farrell. All right, we're going to do one more current song. Again, we have no idea what it is. We're flying blind. I don't know.

Let's click on it. Let's see what happens. It's already a banger. You are banging. What is this? This is the stuff that gets me going. Okay. It's that kick and snare.

Our producer has come through with something that literally had a stock. stomping our feet and wondering what the hell is this. So apparently this is the new Justice Taman Pala song. It's called One Night's slash All Night. This is the new under pressure. This is the Bowie and Freddie of our time. Let's face it. We were just saying earlier on the show how artists like Dat Punk and Justice we want to do episodes about it.

I think we might squeeze them into episodes that deal with indie electro blog house, like stuff from around 2010. So we are going to get our justice fix. But I had not heard this song. I had been meaning to listen to it ever since I heard they were playing Coachella this year. I love this. I mean, there's something about the gritty, electronic sound of a justice. Yeah.

And by the way, Taman Pala, I feel like, has carried on the tradition of making really compelling electronic bass. I know he's technically a band, but like to me it's very electronic sounding. He's evolved into that. He's evolved into that. He's definitely like the first records especially is the rock. He is a one person rock entity. He obviously tours with other bandmates, but Tame Impala is famously as a,

it's a meme cliche to say, did you know Tame and Paula was just one guy? But that is a fun part of its phenomenon. No, but I still hear people all the time say Tame and Pala, they, or Taman Pala, those guys. It's Kevin Parker. We love Kevin Parker's voice. I don't know if it was Kevin Parker?

Yeah. You know, while that's always play, you're like, is this Kevin Parker? I was like, the agent? I was like, my boy has been a singer all this time. Shout out to you, Kevin Parker. Oh, wait, you have an agent at the bar. I don't have.

He's not my age. He's actually a manager, but everybody in the business knows him. He represents a lot of stand-up comedians. Right now there's one person in the car like, yo, they got Kevin Parker shout out. You've met my good friend Ari Gold, so poor guy. He's had to live through the era where that name was known for being somebody else's name. Well, that's true. A fake agent.

That's true. I had to think about that. The entourage era. It was not kind to my friend, Ariya. I love. down tempo, grimy, gritty, electronic music. You know, we didn't get to talk about this much when the show was first, when the podcast was first starting out.

I'm the executive producer of Southside. You can find out on HBO Max, or I guess I call it Max now. Every opportunity I had to sneak dance music and just sort of like that in our, in the third season finale, which we shot actually at Lala Paloosa. I shot out to Lala Paloosa in Chicago for allowing us to film on the grounds of Lollapalooza. I snuck in a song that I really liked

that, you know, very few people outside of the electronic underground would ever know. But like, there's just something about that music. What song was it? It reminds me of, well, I play it. But it reminds me of how I used to feel when a brand new hip-hop song. And sometimes, again, I listen to contemporary hip-hop. There are

contemporary hip-hop songs that come out and I'm like, ooh, that's dope. But like, there was something very non-mainstream about hip-hop. then that when you found that piece of underground gold, it just sent you to a different place. Yeah. And I'll play a snippet of a song that we put into

the Lollapalooza scene of South Side just so that you can hear it. So the song is by, I think they pronounce Architect and Bankwell. An architect is spelled like A-R-K-A-T-E-Q-Q-Q. But architect and Bankwell, this song's called Machine. It's definitely a song we're checking out. I just wanted to play

until the drop. But yeah, I love a grimy electronic. Sounds like the robot's mad at somebody. And let me just say, because we made it through the period of time when we couldn't talk about what Diallo does outside of the podcast. Diallo is an incredible TV writer and actor and executive producer. Southside Sherman Showcase. If you haven't seen these shows, he did these shows with Bashir. The two of them together made these two incredible shows that we couldn't talk about for a long time.

We're wonderful collaborators. Let's talk about them from now on. Yeah, we'll talk about them on upcoming shows. Everyone needs to watch these shows. I recommend them to everyone I ever meet. How excited are we to hear new music that we like? Yes, very excited. That was a really fun segment.

I really enjoyed that. We got to do that. And you're right, to the sheer point, I kind of liked all three of the songs in different ways. They were all very different and all enjoyable. Luxury, help me in this thing. I am Blake Robin, but you can call me luxury. And I am a DJ.

I'm also a songwriter, but I'm also a musicologist. And sometimes I'm on TikTok and Instagram. Is that what she meant when you said, who are you? That's exactly what I meant. Okay, good. I'm glad I answered. Just so you know, I'm actor-writer, director, and sometimes DJ Diallo Riddle. And this has been one song.

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