The Questlove Show - QLS Classic: Michelle Obama
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of QLS Classic in which we,
of Quest Love Supreme dig into our archives to bring you some of the more amazing stories
and interviews from past episodes.
What can I say?
We kind of joke to First Lady Michelle Obama that we'd love her to do our podcast, and
she called her bluff.
And what can we say?
We're so happy to get to talk to about her life now after the White House and her experience
to music, her being a fan of music.
We really hope you enjoyed this episode
of our talk with First Lady
Michelle Obama. Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your host, Questlove,
and I'm going to take a little detour here.
It gives me great honor to present
a special Quest Love Supreme
101 with a one and only.
I'm talking about south side of Chicago's very own.
I'm talking forever First Lady.
Yes.
Michelle Levon Robinson, Obama.
Yes, I have to say all four of your names.
I love it.
So I just want to say, on behalf of my entire Supreme Team, that's Fontecolo, it's Laia, unpaid, and boss bill, and sugar Steve.
We are very, very honored, and we like to express our deepest gratitude for you for taking time out to do our little podcast.
Well, I am excited.
I am honored.
I love you, first of all.
So, you know, getting this time to chat.
You say that to all the questions.
It's a wonderful break.
Nope, nope, but don't.
Thank you.
First of all, I mean, just in general, how has this whole experience been for you?
Did you expect to sell as many units and come out the gate?
Like, this book is changing, like to go in the chat rooms and see people's reaction to the book.
and the staggering sales.
Like, did you expect any of this at all?
Honestly, no, no.
I don't expect anything that has happened in my life, you know?
I'm a girl grew up on the south side of Chicago.
Every day, Barack and I wake up and go, what?
So we're still doing that.
But my hope was that the book would resonate.
I knew that I would be writing a book
because all first ladies, all presidents are expected to write a memoir of some sort.
So I had some time to think about what I wanted this to be.
And, you know, this could have been just a chronology.
I could have just sort of walked through the days of those eight years, blow by blow.
But I knew I wanted the book to be more than that.
I wanted it to be a book that would inspire people to dig deep.
into themselves and understand their stories in the way that I've had the luxury of doing over the course of my life.
So I feel like I'm just maybe the muse that my story is the framework.
But my overall goal was that people would start having these conversations about their memories and the context of their lives
and how it's shaped them and, you know, what they want to do going forward.
So I'm excited that not just for the sales and the units and the arena crowds,
but more of what you're seeing, the comments and how it's moving people to think differently
about their own lives and stories.
Yeah, even, I'll say that even, well, first of all, thank you for granting me the honor of scoring
the playlist that goes with the book.
But even with me,
like I had to dig so deep into memories and, you know,
songs for me are like polaroids of moments in my life.
So songs aren't just songs for me.
They're like audio polaroids.
And, you know, even for me,
knowing your vast music taste,
which I really want to get into,
I, you know,
for me it was also an experience
like trying to figure out what moment you were
or trying to guess what moment you were feeling
when this particular thing happened or that particular thing happened.
In classic quest love form, I forgot to mention, yes,
the name of your book is Becoming.
Duh.
Yeah, I'm one of those people that will like have the guest on the show
and be like, oh, by the way, we were talking about songs
in the Q of Life,
ladies and gentlemen, good night. Thank you.
So, knowing that the, how big of a role that music plays in your life,
I'd always start this question with all my guests.
What was your first musical memory?
Or do you remember the first album you ever brought or first single you ever purchased?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
I talk about that talking book.
Stevie Wonder's Talking Book was the first album I remember getting as a gift.
And I got it twice.
That's how good an album was.
I got it as a gift for Christmas from my parents and then from my grandfather, Southside,
who I write about, who is sort of the musical core of our family,
my maternal grandfather, who he gave me the album.
You remember there was the album you could get with the lyrics in Braille?
Braille, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and I remember spending time just not only listening to the record over and over again,
but trying to feel the braille and understand the words and to think about, and I would memorize the cover,
because there's something about that cover with Stevie without his glasses, sitting, like in a canyon area,
in that Dashiiki Afghan sort of thing with the braids.
And all of that was, you know,
that cover to me was as much the experience of the album for me.
I was trying to really find, I was really trying to figure out what goes on in his mind.
What is he thinking?
What does it feel like being blind?
How does he feel music?
So that was the first album that I ever owned as a child.
But then there was the music that I bought myself.
And that was the 45 version of something with the Jackson 5, ABC.
You know, stop the love you save. That's when those were the 45s that you played on your little makeshift record player thing. It wasn't like the big stereo that your parents allowed you to use, but the thing you plugged in and you had to put that little round thing in the hole.
Right. Spindles. Yeah.
That was the music that I was allowed to play on my own, keep the record in my bedroom kind of thing.
But the Jackson 5, that was what young people, we grew up imitating the Jackson 5 and putting the record on and cousins would be Tito and I'd be Michael and my brother would be on the drums.
You know, we spent the whole afternoon like just shaping our performance to stop the love you save.
So those were some of my first memories.
I always tell them that whenever I see the Jackson's that, you know, for a lot of us that were young and, you know, like they were the first superheroes that we really had, the Jackson's were an occupation almost.
Well, it was interesting culturally because there were the Osmond's, remember, were the big sort of white family group back then.
Right.
And there were the big debates about who.
who was better, the Jackson 5 or the Osmans.
And that was a sort of a political statement where you fell on the lines.
How did you feel about One Bad Apple when it came out?
Were you full?
You know, it was cute because back then you didn't have like 50 million stations, right?
You had the one station and that played all the pop music.
So you heard Stop the Love You Save along with One Bad Apple.
And that, you know, you had your little grooving dances to that too.
But where was your heart, you know?
Yeah.
Your heart was with the Jackson 5.
Okay. But you always call it first and you were Michael. That's funny because I was, I'm one of those friends and the group of friends that is always last to call something. So I was always Tito.
Everybody. Everyone's fighting over Michael.
Right. Yeah. I was like, all right. I'll be Tito.
Well, I was also surrounded by my brother and my male cousins. So I was the only girl in the, in the posse then. So it was just natural that I.
stood out as Michael, you know.
I felt I was justified in being Michael.
If I had to hang out with all these boys,
I should at least be able to tell them what to be around my grandness.
So even then you knew he had a role to play
without even knowing what your future was going to be?
Obviously.
Do you remember your first concert?
You know, that's that we were too broke for concerts.
I mean, you know, I'm trying to think,
because my kids go to concerts all the time, and I'm like, you all are so lucky.
We were too poor for concerts, quite frankly.
I never saw the Jackson 5 Live.
I'm trying to think maybe it was in college where, and it wasn't really a concert.
It was like an arena orchestra.
Sort of Stevie Wonder was playing in an orchestra.
Maybe it was in Philly.
It's kind of a blur.
and a girlfriend had the idea of getting tickets and going to see it.
I do remember that because...
What period was this?
Oh, gosh, if I had to have been maybe a sophomore in college,
so that was, what, 802, 83.
Wow.
And it wasn't, Steve, he wasn't like on some big arena tour.
Maybe it was a benefit.
I don't even remember, but I do remember that we had front-rored.
tickets. And we both walked in not knowing where our tickets were. And then we realized,
it's like, we are in the front row. What happened? We were looking around waiting for somebody
to tell us to move. But it was just him and his band, and he played some numbers. And then he called
his bodyguard people, pick some people to come up on stage and stand around the piano and sing
Ebony and Ivory and me and my girlfriend were picked.
So I was standing on stage with Stevie by his piano thinking, what?
But that was, yeah, yeah.
I never told him about that because I figured he didn't see me.
Right, right.
Well, I know that Stevie has been at the White House at least 50-11 times.
Maybe.
I mean, you know, like, any event that I've seen between 2008 and 2016, like, it's almost like Stevie Wonder comes with a package.
Like, you know.
Stevie is, you know, that he, he, and he is all, you know, he's always game.
If there's a cause and it's something he believes in.
He's there.
Ooh.
The first time he showed up was at one of the biggest fundraisers that I had during the campaign.
It was at UCLA.
And this was a big announcement because I was highlighting.
I was the keynote representing my husband in the campaign.
But Oprah introduced us.
It was Maria Shriver.
And that was a big deal because that was right when she was going to endorse Barack over what her husband, the governor, was doing.
And that was a big deal.
Caroline Kennedy.
So it was a women's empowerment kind of thing.
The first time I was surrounded by all these mega giants and I was the keynote speaker, they were passing off these introductions to me.
And right before I went on stage, one of our staff said, Stevie Wonder is on the phone and he's in the area.
He heard about the concert and he wants to come by.
And I was like, oh, yeah.
So he just shows up.
How many, like, I know that happens a lot.
I actually wanted to ask, are there any other?
non-Stevie Wonder moments at the White House that stand out to you?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Prince.
But the first one is Prince performing, but of course Stevie performed too.
I know.
So, all right, Stevie's the ultimate party crash.
I get it.
I get it.
Right, right.
And when Stevie's there, everybody's like, okay, Stevie's got to play.
But Prince, and we went back and forth trying to get Prince because every time we do our parties
and you've been to one of the parties.
Oh, I've been there, yes.
You've been there.
And so oftentimes the personal parties
were around a birthday or something like that.
And, of course, Prince doesn't celebrate birthdays.
So he was like, I can't come, but I want to come.
So we had to figure out how to create something
that wasn't a birthday that he could come to,
and we finally worked it out.
And, you know, that was just, that was just amazing.
That's just Prince doing his thing.
And jamming in a way,
where for the first 15 minutes, he just let his band riff, you know.
Right.
That generosity that he has to let his, you know, backup singer lead the song in and his basses.
They were just jamming before he even showed up.
And that was amazing.
Paul McCartney singing Michelle to me.
Wow.
You know, Aretha.
Aretha has performed me.
many a time. And, you know, she would come with her fur and her Medal of Freedom badge on because when she came to the White House, she wore all her stuff.
Right. I see.
And she's blown the house down. But everyone from Mick Jagger to, oh, one of the more beautiful performances was Esperanza Spalding.
Before she was really, really, like, hot, hot, hot. The first time I had seen her.
You know, that beautiful head of hair and that beautiful face and that body with that big bass of hers, just tearing up a song.
I mean, I could go on and on and on, Gladys Knight, Shock a Khan.
Because one of the things I wanted to make sure was that we got all of the, like, the greats to perform because it was like, I don't know if anybody's ever going to ask these people to come to the White House.
Yeah, yeah.
Diana Ross came and performed just for the staff.
Bruce Springsteen, the show he's doing on Broadway right now, he tested that out.
It was just a fluke.
He offered to do something to say thank you to the staff.
And we were like, of course, Bruce, you can do whatever.
And he put together what became the Broadway show.
Oh, another Broadway show.
Hamilton the same thing.
Absolutely.
Lynn told me that's how he got the inspiration to even go through with it.
Yeah, he wanted to test it on you first.
Yeah, and we thought he was a little crazy.
We were like, okay, you're going to do a rap dot Alexander Hamilton?
Okay, that's nice.
That's cute.
It's funny you say that.
I always say that I was part of the production team that did the cast album,
and apparently I missed the email of him pitching it to me.
So I told him, I found the email after I did the record, and I read the email, and I told them, I said, yeah, there's probably, I would have probably said, no, I'm fine, I'll set this one out.
Right, just looking at it.
Just looking at the pitch.
Right.
I was like, mm.
I was like, no.
This has the chance of being a little corny.
Right.
Yeah.
But somehow, yeah, he warned me through.
You know, absolutely.
I have a question.
You and your husband are true Chicagoans to the bone.
And probably one of the most touching things that shocked me during your administration was the letter of condolences that you sent to Chicago househeads when Frankie Knuckles passed away.
And I always wanted to know, like, as a true blue Chicagoan, are you a househead?
Like, have you gone to any house parties to see any of the gods of house music DJ ever?
Yeah, I was old by the time house music was like a big thing in Chicago.
You know, everybody has the music, the house music, you know it.
But by then I was out of clubbing.
You're out of it.
And going out.
So I never got to experience the, you know, going to the club, just being all up in it.
But, you know, you couldn't, you can't be in and out of Chicago without knowing house music.
Right. Well, what about stepping? Are you a good, are you and your husband good steppers?
You know, I love to step. Barak is, you know, he can do it, but you know who loves to step with me is Sasha, my youngest.
Really?
Oh, yeah, yeah. She gets such a huge kick out of me leading her through the, so that's sort of one of the things that we do when we're at a party together or we're at a family event. She's like, Ma, let's step, let's step.
But, you know, we never had the time, Barack and I never had the time to, like, do the step classes
because that's what couples do in Chicago.
You go, you go to Kennedy King College where you are taking the step class.
You learn the step?
So we never trained in step, can I say.
It's just sort of, it's kind of just a bop, you know?
And if you've got, like, a rhythm and you've got the right song, you got a little, you know, a good stepping song, it just comes.
But I grew up watching it on TV and parents doing it.
So it's almost like I could imitate it.
But I've taught Sasha how to step.
And she's my stepping partner.
Really?
I will say that the party that you guys grant me permission to DJ,
I'll say that I was holding back maybe for like the first hour or so because like,
Okay, I'm at the White House.
I can't be too lit at the White House.
And, oh boy, little did I know that you all speak the same vocabulary musically.
So for, you know, how important is it to also embrace?
Because that's the thing I just never seen.
I've never seen, like, parents wholeheartedly embrace the music culture of their kids.
Like, normally the parents I know roll their eyes up in the air and, shh, kids.
You know, that sort of thing.
Whereas you guys were out partying your daughters at, you know, the last week of the White House party.
And I was his jaw dropped.
So, I mean, how important is it to you to bond and also understand, like, the music they like and the artists they like?
Like, you know who chance the rapper is.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I, you know, when you love music, you love all.
music. And if it's a good song, if it's got a good beat, you know, I can, I'll tease my kids about
how good their favorite artists are compared to the greats. I'll play that game with them,
but I can appreciate a good, whatever it is, you know. And I love that time with my daughters.
I love to let them teach me about what they love. And again, Sasha is my more musical child.
She, you know, she's got her room set, candles lit, you know, colored light bulbs with a certain sound.
And it just depends on what her mood is.
You walk into her room and she could be playing classical music or she could be jammed to Siza or, you know, you're just always surprised by her taste.
And that reminds me of how I grew up, you know.
My grandfather was a jazz lover, but he respected my mother's music.
He respected our music.
And I think that's just, when you love music, you're open to just something that feels good.
So I love sitting down with Sasha and just telling her, tell me what's good.
Tell me what you're liking now.
Okay.
Or she'll say, I just heard, you're going to love this and she knows my taste.
This is a new artist.
You're going to love them.
I think, you know, she's like, I think of you when I think of this artist.
So in that way, they keep me.
me, they keep us both on point.
I don't know all the artist's names now.
I confuse the, you know, I just recently realized that what Migos wasn't just one.
One for, right, yeah.
That I kept saying, you know, let's meet who's Migos?
Right, right.
Right, let's meet him.
And they're like, no, mom, that's not just, that's group.
And then I found out, okay, well, then who are they?
You know, so I'm not all down with it, but when I'd like a song, I'd like a song.
You're halfway there.
I mean, your daughter shares music with you.
Like, you know, I share music with my parents and that might be grounded for two weeks.
So, you know.
I'm playing mom.
I'm playing mom.
My mom will get mad at me for that.
Yeah, she's like, don't do that.
I'm not like that.
But I try not to be judgmental with the music because it's like, that's how I felt about
social media throughout the presidency.
The question is, if we're going to reach kids, we have to understand their language.
We have to know what they're hearing.
If we want to get young people to vote, we can't get them to vote just talk in our language.
So we had to figure out, well, what is Twitter and what's Vine?
And what are the kids listening to?
And if you're busy judging it, you can't communicate with them.
So I don't want my kids to feel shut down because their music isn't what I grew up with.
So I think it's very important.
But, you know, stuff I don't like, I don't like.
And I will tell them if I think an artist is crap, you know, and we'll have debates about it.
So I think that's a good conversation for families to have.
Okay.
Okay.
A win is a win.
A win is a win.
I don't care what you're saying.
Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th.
You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football,
or my career in sports media.
Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined.
And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.
This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes,
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One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment,
and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music.
The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast.
It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told,
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There's two golden rules that any man should live by.
Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
And Rule 2, never mess with her friends either.
We always say that, trust your girlfriends.
I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends...
Oh my God, this is the same man.
A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I thought, how could this happen to me?
The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands.
I said, oh, hell no, I vowed.
I will be his last target.
He's going to get what he deserves.
Listen to the girlfriends.
Trust me, babe.
On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ego Vodom.
My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live,
and the Big Money Players Network.
It's Will Ferrell.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
My dad gave me the best advice ever.
I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent.
He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
Yeah.
He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
And he's like, just give it a shot.
He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat.
Just hang in there.
Yeah, it would not be.
Right, it wouldn't be that.
There's a lot of luck.
Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
A win is a win.
A win is a win.
I don't care what you're saying.
Yep, that's me, Clipper Taylor the 4th.
You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from.
from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media.
Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined.
And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.
This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes,
creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated.
One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment,
and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music.
The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger.
So, if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.
Listen to The Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok.
There's two golden rules that any man should live by.
Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
And rule two, never mess with her friends either.
We always say that, trust your girlfriends.
I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends,
Oh my God, this is the same man.
A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I thought, how could this happen to me?
The cops didn't seem to care.
So they take matters into their own hands.
I said, oh, hell no, I vowed.
I will be his last target.
He's going to get what he deserves.
Listen to the girlfriends.
Trust me, babe.
On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ego Wadam.
My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman,
Saturday Night Live,
and the Big Money Players Network.
It's Will Ferrell.
Woo, woo, woo, woo.
My dad gave me the best advice ever.
I went and had lunch with him one day.
And I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent.
He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
Yeah.
He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
And he's like, just give it a shot.
He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall,
and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat.
Just hang in there.
Yeah, it would not be.
Right, it wouldn't be that.
There's a lot of luck.
Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
Well, I have one more question before I let you go.
Yes.
Let's hypothetically think.
Okay, let's go to, let's pick a year.
Let's say, let's say 2024.
Hypothetically speaking, if you are accepting the nomination of presidency, just hypothetically speaking,
what song do you want me to play for you while I'm DJing your acceptance speech?
Oh, you know, that's just wrong, wrong.
Oh, yeah. Well, that hypothetical will never happen.
Never again? Never, ever again?
No. No, and let me just, yeah, let's be clear.
Okay.
The presidency, it's hard.
I acknowledge it.
It's not something, it's not an endeavor you take on without serious considerations.
And it's not just about whether you personally consider.
do it or whether there are people who want you to do it, but it's a hard ride to take your
family on.
It's a huge sacrifice to ask the people that you love.
And it's not, I'm not just talking about my kids, but anyone that has, that is within our
orbit gets impacted by this.
And I just would never do that to my girls again, you know.
It shapes their life.
You know, there are many great things that they got from it.
And, you know, they don't regret it for a second.
But their whole childhood was truncated in a way because, you know,
imagine growing up and trying to go to prom with armored guards and trying to, you know,
have a boyfriend or go to a concert.
You know, right now my oldest daughter can't go to a little.
a public place without everything she does being scrutinized. And she's and they've held themselves up
well in it. And so when people say that, I know that there's an excitement and what people need,
but as a parent, I feel like, you know, my family has made a sacrifice. And now it's time to
make room for the next generation. And the flip side to that is that if we continue to sit in
these seats of power and we don't train and build up the next people. We look around and we find
that our bench is empty. So I don't think it's good for a democracy to have the same set of
families with the same set of ideas just sort of passing the mantle back and forth. I don't
think it's good for the country. So that's why Barack and I are dedicating our foundation,
the work that we do to really building up that next generation, because there are a
lot of young people out there who will be good at this, who will have no way of knowing how do you
access politics? How do you raise money? How do you go from being a nobody to being in this
exclusive network where you can fundraise and you understand the issues and you can build a team?
You know, if we're sitting on all those resources, using them again and again for our benefit
and not passing it on, where will we be in 2024? You know, what kind of Congress will we have?
how many mayors will we have out there?
So we want to take this energy and devote it to empowering and lifting up and supporting those that are coming behind us.
Wow. Okay.
You convinced me.
Okay.
But I'll still be your DJ every moment happens that you change your mind.
Well, we'll find some other things to DJ around.
Okay.
Yeah, I need a redo.
Thank you.
Okay.
And you don't.
Okay.
So let me say this for the record.
I don't know why you're tripping.
You were just, you are a perfectionist.
I'm always hard on myself.
That's not, I didn't, everybody had a ball.
You were amazing.
So I'm like, okay, you can get a do-over.
We will find a party.
Okay.
For sure.
If you just want a do-over, but you did not need a do-over.
People partied until like, it was like four in the morning.
I desperately want to do-over.
We couldn't get people out of that house.
I need a do-over just so I can sleep in there.
All right.
I thank you very much for your time.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, babe.
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