The Questlove Show - Questlove Supreme: Kid Capri Part 2

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Part 2 of Kid Capri's Questlove Supreme interview follows the legend's move into mixtapes. Kid Capri explains how he used his voice to keep the Hip Hop DJ in the spotlight, and after working on Grammy and Pulitzer-winning albums, what motivates him after nearly 50 years behind the turntables.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel funny, 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. Yeah. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon. And this is my friend. This is much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far. But I'm John Green. Co-host of the podcast The Away End with my old friend Daniel on our podcast the away end. We'll share with you the magic of international football,

all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to the away end with Daniel Alarcon and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Questlove Supreme is a production of IHeart Radio. Hi, good people. This is Sugar Steve from Team Supreme. We are back with Part 2. of our QLS interview with Kid Capri. In part one, Kidd spoke about growing up

just blocks away from where Kuhirk through his first party. He also recalled digging for records in the 70s and 80s and the early inroads to his legendary career.

If you haven't, check out that episode. All month long, we're celebrating 50 years of hip-hop at Questliff Supreme. In addition to Kid Capri, we have conversations

with Stiles P and Slum Village. What year was your first mixtape? The first, well, keep it by, Me and Star Child, Chief Rock and Star Child, me and him start making tapes together

when I started playing the S&S with him. And then after I left, after that year, a year, a year and a half, I left. I was doing my little party, Studio 54 and stuff like there, and I had to say what I'm doing. I went outside. You played the Studio 54? Absolutely.

Oh, whoa. Tell me what that shit's like. Yeah, man. Yeah. Red Alert. What happened was Louis Vega, Larry Levin, was playing Friday. and Saturday, but they had this Wednesday that Red Alert was doing.

Red Alert was going on the role with BDP. So he told the people at Studio 54, I went to Kickapri to be, to take my spot. He was like, Kit Capri, who's that? We don't know him. Like, nah, he was like, yo, trust me, he's going to do what he do. When I got there, you know, I turned it into pandemonium. But I was going on the regular and I were going on the club nights, too. I would go hang out just to be there.

You know what I'm saying? I couldn't believe I was playing Studio 54 and shit. But I went in there, my thing. What year is this? Yeah. This was 87, 88, 89, around that time. Okay. I bought biz there.

I bought all these different groups to Studio 54. Before I mean, it was dope. It was crazy. Then it got so crazy that the crowds was just, the crowds was too much. They were messing up the food stands. And I'm watching security, open the door with people's heads. And I just say, you know what, let me just end this.

But now, after that, I said what I'm gonna do. And I said, you know what? I'm just going to sell my old mixtapes. And, you know, so I went to trailer horn and I bought 100 mixtapes. And I copied tapes that I had and I made a new tape. And I would copy it on these six tape decks all night, staying up, tired, sitting in the hall. My equipment was in the hall.

So as you walk in the door, my equipment was right there at one bedroom apartment. And I would sit there and make these tapes. And the next day, I would go outside and sit there on the street corner. And people would say, yo, $20 a kid and pre-tail, who are you? Why would I give you $20 for a tape? I say, you'll listen to the intro of it in your car and you'll come back and buy everything I got, Gabbytee. They'll put it in the car, listen to it, come back,

you'll get that, get that, get that. And next thing you know, my tapes is in every car passing by, it's in the cop cars, and the Mr. Softie truck, people coming off the Gulf War, your tapes and cigarettes is the biggest thing. It became that. And then my parties became infectious. They've seen how I performed.

And I remember I was doing LL's party one time after he did the garden, and Russell Simmons walked up. was like, yo, what do you think about being on a comedy show? It's like comedy show. What are you talking about? And I was like, it's Russell Simmons, shut up, go do it. And we end up doing it next to you know, I'm a superstar. I didn't even see it.

When we were doing the show, I wasn't even seeing that far. I'm not seeing that this is going to be. I'm thinking we're just doing something to have fun. You know, DJ with comedy show, that's it. Studio 54 in 87. I didn't even know Studio 54 was still around, 87. What records were going off back then? in studio 54. What were you playing?

I was playing public enemy, playing all the cane records, or everything of that ever. Right. That's what I'm saying. Hip was allowed. Wow. That's what I'm saying. See, it was Larry LeVann and Louis Vega.

It was all a house, but Red Alert was so respected that they gave him that Wednesday. Like I said, he was going on a tour, he needed somebody to cover. He knew, you know, and that's when he got me. And when I came in, they seen a whole new different shit.

They seen the line going around the building down the street. Like, it was every time I came out, it was just pandemonium. And I had to leave it. I didn't want to leave. I had to leave because it got too dangerous. So, you know, I end up, and you know, and then, thank God, the day I said, I've been my, I got, Bismarck got me my first album deal.

Right. So I'm up, I'm up in an office. and the lady, Starlight, open these four magazines and said, it said, Kiki Free, the only DJ in the world to make millions of dollars off a street mixtape. I was like, wow. So I debt it.

I made, you know what? I don't want no problems. People know. Right, right. Let me just end it. And then I made the last duop disc tape, and that was it. And then fortunately in my career, you know,

went, deaf comedy jam, came, album came, tours came. and I was on my way. But the mix tape, had I not sat on that corner, because I got girls driver by laughing at me quest, like I'm doing bad, like I'm pedaling. Right. I'm in Harlem.

You know what I'm saying? Girls driving by. So I had to put 14 gold chains on my neck to look like I'm doing good because I was feeling funny like I'm doing something more than shit. But me not having that pride, you know, willing to sit there and take that. It was the right decision. Okay. So you went there and I truly wanted to know how competitive is that marketplace.

Again, from the outside looking in, you know, when you're on road trips and on tour, like you make your stop to your local mom and pop spot and you just buy all the mixtapes. And, you know, we just buying you and do whopping, S&S and all these cats. but I mean how heavy was the territorial competition especially with other mixtape DJs like are you listening to blah blah blah's mixtapes to see if he's biting your mix or like do you have issues with that like is anyone else taking Stephanie Mills and putting over Pete's the president

or once in a lifetime group by new addition and you got to go there I know it's in in sort of in retrospect but how tense? Who is your main competition then? I had no competition. When I landed, when I landed, everybody wanted to be Kid Capri. Everybody wanted to do it to this day.

You see all these DJs, no disrespect. It's the truth. All these DJs do the Kid Capri. A lot of them, party DJs, they do the kid Capri. The way they talk, the way they play the music, the way they look. You know, I made the DJ be an artist.

I wanted to be looked at as an artist. Not somebody just playing records. I want to be, when I get on that stage next to that dude that has a platinum album, like R. Kelly, I'm going to make it hard for him to me on stage. Like, that was my focus, not just be a DJ playing records and people just looking at me like that. So that's why I took it that way. And my whole thing was I'm going to be better than everybody. I'm going to give a show that they never seen.

I'm going to make people feel like they never seen. So it caught on and it made DJs around the country that never spoke on the mic. A DJ that never played records quick or played those type of record. see me when I come in their city, and they're seeing this pandemonium going on and made them do it. So this is the way you got to do it. And the promoters will tell them, you got to do it the way Kickap and Pre do it. And those DJs say, yo, I'm the top DJ out here. Why are you getting Kickap and come to town?

Shut up and sit there and watch and look and pay attention. Where's that come from? Because for me, I just started talking maybe in 2020. And even now in 2020, I think I've Wayne. off 40%. Like, all right, the pandemic's over. I don't have to talk as much. Like, I'll talk my ass off on Zoom. Like, you know what I mean? Like,

when I'm DJing online, but you have this like a bull in a china shop energy. Where does that come from? Because I feel like one of the hardest battles, even with without the music, is

maintaining getting the respect that of a bully, like you're grabbing people by the collar when you're addressing them. Not like, hey, guys, how are you doing today? So I'm Kit Capri and I'm going to play some records and I hope you enjoy it. Like you're not that guy. So where does that come for?

Where do you learn that from? Like I told you, I'm a fan of it. So it's a certain amount of, keep in mind, we looked at as DJs that just played, DJs looked at as somebody just play records. What's going to make me any more special than anybody else? Right. So I got to add something that means something that's going to make people say,

oh, wait a minute, this is different. Not only that, it's just a feeling in me. Look, I had surgery recently. Right after I did the BT Awards, I had surgery, they took my thigh ward out. Oh, right? Right. I had shows book that I couldn't cancel.

I didn't cancel the show. And I told the promoters, y'all, I'm not going to really speak on the mic like that while I'm on stage, you know. But then I get on there, and it's a different thing. It's a feeling that I get that I want people to feel. So it comes with me screaming it. It's like, I can't really explain it.

It's like I've got to scream it out. I got to, especially when it's at that point where I know these people are going to go so crazy, how can I make them even go that much more crazy in that instant? And it's my voice. Yo, a question about your voice. Is that your voice on party group? showbiz and AG? Yeah.

What are you saying? Yeah, what are you saying? Stretch and Ben? I thought you gave me yoga instructions. That was a live show that I did in the powerhouse where they made the juice movie at. Okay. That's the reason why they made the juice movie there

because I made the powerhouse hot downtown. And on the tape, I would do, I would make the P, like I would say, do the bed and stretch, keep it going, do the bend. And you got to go bid. I'm making people dance, bend and stretch, in the party, in the club. Oh, wow. Okay.

How about you doing Pilates? Right, right. So Showbiz sampled the mixtape. Yeah, yeah. And it became the first party group record. What's the quote again? Say it again? Ben and stretch keep it going.

Do the bend and stretch. And as you ride you're going to bend and stretch. That's all I'm saying. Wow. But everybody around the world says, yo, kid, what are you saying? But the way it sound made it, you know, when something sounds good, it is good as James Brown. Right. So they didn't know what I was saying, but it sounded good.

So that's my record Upsound with my daughter that's on my album The Love that's out now. I did it again. I did The Bend a special on the end of that record. So it's a, and now the Zumba uses that record in their Zumba. Wow. It's crazy. You set me a video with them. old summa class, big summa class, dances the uptown.

So that business stretch definitely worked out. James M. 2-May Bookers, is it biggest thing? Oh, dude. Yeah. Why that record? When we interviewed him. Rest in peace, God rest and soul. What was it?

First of all, did you produce that on Grand Pupa's record? Yeah. Of course you did. Like, I'm trying to do the math in my head because even when I got the record, I'm like, what I listen to this soundtrack to even know that it's so unusual. It's a very unusual break that is not an organic break. Yeah, it's such a weird. It works. But even then, I was just like, wait a minute.

Why would he sample it? What is your relationship to Bigger's theme? It was just a dope joint that I think I heard Brucey had played it one time. Brucey B? Yeah, I think I heard Bruce Foyit with Raq Kim. Dude, where did I hear that at? I think a Bruce he played it. And, you know, we would take, like, all right, perfect example,

like, Misdemeanor, Foster Silver. That record's made in 1972. The record was over dead with it, made it hot. may rise to the top. You know, all these records that was over. As a matter of fact, take six, I put, I put spread love on that tape. And Take Six in 2020, reached out to me, kid. He said, yo, we made that record for the gospel people.

You put that record on your tape and put us on the worldwide tour. So we want you to remix the song. I did a remix of Spread Love with Take Six. in 2020. It's called Spread Love 2020. This shit is crazy. The beats, the drums is crazy, everything. So they were so,

they had so much gratitude for me putting it on there that they came back and asked me to produce that. I was so happy for that. But you're the one that's responsible for that spread love mix with the I can Tina Turner break under it? No, that's 45K.

I did the real remix for 106. Okay, okay, okay. Keep in mind, that record, it really had nothing to do with what else was on the tape. It was like everything else on the day. They were so far away from everything else. But that's what I'm trying to say. I go by what is hot, what is good, and it doesn't have to make sense. It'll make sense after I make it make sense. I think like that. Like, it don't have to, if you listen to my show on serious

sex and fly, the block party, you hear young and me and hear our brain after. You hear, You know what I'm saying? Like, you never know what you're going to hear. And that's what makes it so, so great. A format DJ. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. A win is a win.

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on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, you're like the king of the mashup to me. marrying, you know, worlds of stuff. So what do you consider, like, your signature mix that is exclusively yours? And what do you consider the mix that, like, the first time he did it, the entire crowd with ape shit, like, what the fuck is that?

We could go up to something in a way you make me feel with the impeachment of president. That changed the whole Army B game. Now you had to make Bond B records with B. break these. That's how Mary and all these things came about because nobody heard it that way before. You know what I'm saying? And it just changed the whole game. So that was one of the things. But there's so many things. Let me just let our listeners know that, yes, both Eddie and Mary credit you when they heard that Stephanie Mills, some in the way you make me feel acapella, which is unusual to be on a 12 inch, like, you know, the idea of an R&B acopella at that time. Right, very unusual.

So instantly, you know, where sparks going in your head like, yo, what the hell? Like, I can do anything with this or? The full circle was when me and Stephanie did it live. I remember you cared with the music. Okay, I was very hip-hop. Tell that story of how you got somebody to do it with you. What happened was I've been doing Indiana Black Expo with Air Paris

to promoter for 20-something years every year. Am Harris now manages Stephanie Mills. So I was doing a show for him out there in Indiana. He told Stephanie Mills the story about what I did with the record. And he had her come to Indiana without me knowing. So I was on stage. She was right there. And he's like, yo, little Steph.

I brought Steph out here for you. I was like, you told him out. She came. I never met her. She didn't know nothing about what was going on until we told her. She had this big shit. Her record, she knew what her record was. to her but in the street she had no idea what was going on so when we did it then it wasn't rehearsed like

i said i never met her was my first time meeting her and we did that shit on the spot and if you remember she was going to keep going and i stopped i said up that's it that's all i need i'm good i felt like me stopping her and it being short would make more of an impact than me having to do the whole thing that's just the way i thought at the time but just her being there with me And seeing a visual, when I touched your heart, I know I did something. When you rolled up on me and Jazzy Jeff's trip, you was like, okay, that right there,

when you said that, I was like, yeah, I did something. No, that was a moment. I was like, wow. Questions reserved. We don't say too much. So if you say something, it's like, I'm excited about stuff. I'm excited about stuff. What would you consider your,

What's a hard market? Have you ever met a marketplace in which they're like, like down south, for instance? Nope. Really? Every crowd I get into, I rip it down. That's what I do. No matter where it's at,

no matter what the situation is, because my whole attitude was, know what's going on in that city. That city don't care about what's going on in New York. They care about what's going on that city. So find a DJ that's there, fire what's going on, and when he tells you what's going,

going on, you know what's going on, bring that DJ out, show the respect to that DJ, put them on stage and let everybody know this is just the city's DJ. You know what's saying? You're guessing their house. And with that, all the information from different places were coming me. I would stay on top of what's going on over here, what's going on with this side of the country. It was just the way I did things. And with me doing that, with me going to experience it and do it, it made me learn how to stay, do it everywhere else. So I never had a go booed, never a crowd walked out on me, never been a thing where people wasn't happy or somebody says some crazy shit in the crowd or through something at me, never been none of that. It always been people have

and I'm blessed. I'm very happy for that. I'm very blessed in that way for that to happen because like I said, I'm a fan of it and I know how I want to feel if I paid my money, I got to drive to get there if I have a car. I got to buy clothes to wear to be there. I got to pay to get in. I got to buy drinks. I have somebody's getting at a bottom of a drink and I'm Lord. I might have had to hire a babysitter or something too. Like, you know what I mean? All these different things I got to do because kicking priests in the building. How do I not give the best

I can give them? You know what I'm saying? Like, I think like that. And then there's a reversal way. People don't think about what you had to do to get to the event. If you had traffic, lost your bags, you know, did you eat? Are you sick? Do you feel? All they know is the end result. I want my show. I want, what I pay for? I pay for that. They don't know. So it works both ways.

There was a moment in 2000, there was a moment in 2005 in which for the very first time I played the horn intro to Troy and I didn't get that scream. Yeah. Like you know what happens when you play that intro, when you used to play the intro to like the choice is yours.

And, you know, for the longest, like one of my signature things would be like, play Troy right after like scenario. Who's that brown? And the place like start high fiving and crying and hugging. And there was a moment where that didn't happen. And I was like, oh shit. I got to adjust and adjust.

Like I never had a quiet Troy moment in my life. How long did it take you to really truly adjust to be in an open format DJ? and like embrace things because you know as as open minded as I would like our listeners to think I am you know and I've explained this before on the show that as as an individual course we know that we have our opinions of what good music is and what bad music is but then as a DJ I have opinions on what is effective for my DJ set and not effective for my DJ set and oftentimes with those four things good bad effective and not effective and not effective. Like, what's effective for my DJ sets now is stuff that I personally wouldn't listen to, but I know works for my set. Right. And so, you know, there was like maybe a year or two where I just wrestled with,

ah, damn, do I just or do I just, like, fight and only play to my audience? Like, how long did it take you to just start adjusting to a new atmosphere and new generations? There's plenty of records I hate that I play that I don't like. But it's not about me. You know what I'm saying? It's about that room. And, you know, so that right there automatically makes you know that you have to step out of your own personal feeling and adjust to what they want because that's the end result. A lot of DJs sometimes they miss the mark because they feel like they don't like this record so it shouldn't be played.

play at the end of the day, you know, like I said, that stuff that I might play that. I don't really care for much to, but I see, but I'll see a crowd go crazy to it and it'll make me like it. I might not even like the song for us, but once I see a crowd, lose it to it, it'll make me say, well, I could adjust to it or, you know, it'll make me like it in some kind of way. All right. Let me ask you. And I'll, let's use an example from 25 years ago, so you don't have to be like now,

like, oh, man, fuck ice spice or whatever. I don't know. Is there an album that is, is there a song that you acknowledge as a classic now? That maybe 25 years ago you were like, I'm not feeling this. Like it took you long to like adjust to it. Biggie, biggie, biggie. You don't like hypnotized? Yes.

Loved it. I hated the hook. You didn't think it was a smart hook? I hated the hook at first. at first I couldn't stand the hook Biggie, biggie, biggie, I just couldn't stay I just didn't like it

but the record was dope the loop you know Right Okay The record was dope So it made And then after you hear it I didn't start like

Then after while I was like I yeah But at first it was like Damn I should have did a different hook But I was wrong It was effective It was effective You know

And sometimes A lot of times I guess what's gonna be a hit But you know I'm not A robot. Sometimes I'll miss, you know, I don't like missing, but sometimes I'll miss it, you know, it'd be what it is, you know. But me and you would have never made a Laffy-Taffy beat. We would have never wrote that. Not that it's bad for them. We would have never did that.

We would have probably passed it for it. But look, I fronted it on Laffy-Taffy for its initial run. Right. And it's a classic now. When I was going to say I played Laffy Taffy The first time I did the gold party For the Carter's I was like, all right, let me

Reach into my second generation Southern bag that I would have otherwise ignored On my own gigs Right And just the way that they were going to ape shit about it I was like, yo, I was wrong Like If I play Lafey Taffy

The Snack Records, they lose They got their mind And don't matter what age it is. You know what I'm saying? Because it was just that time and moment. You know what I'm saying? And most dance records like that boarded down records for some reason it just works. Well, you went there briefly.

But, of course, your tenure with, I mean, would you consider yourself a Jus Koo member or? No. Okay. I was just all cold chilling. Bairz got me, granddaddy, I, you and business brother, diamond shell, a production, he had a production deal. And it was crazy because when Biz got me that deal, I wasn't even looking for an album deal.

I wasn't even thinking about that album deal. And I remember I was leaving the studio 54, and Beers pulled up on me in a car, right on the corner. He said, okay, we get you album there. I said, shut up, Ben. Shut up, come on. So then one day, he came and, see me on Rucker. Oh, matter of fact, the day that he pulled up on me at Rucker,

he said, okay, come here, come here, I'm going to show you something. And he played, you, God, What I still biz? You bug it? You really going to put this out? That's what I said to him. You really going to put this out?

He was like, watch, watch. And he put the record out. We're on tour. Crowds losing their bodies. I was like, yo, this is going to pull it off. And it worked. And he got me by deal. Like I said, I didn't even want no deal.

You got me the deal because I was hot. He could have gave that deal to anybody else. That was a real rapper. You know what I was robbing on the record. on the tapes and I was trying to be a rapper. Like, even with Bob about right now, Robb, I'm not trying to be a rap on stage. I just wouldn't put music in the world.

But at the time, you know, he could have gave that to somebody that really, really was good, you know what I'm saying? But he, you know, he really gave it to me. And I'm always going to be indebted to there. I really appreciated that, you know. Have you DJed for a, I don't want to say a pedestrian rapper, but, I mean, I know you are a kid Capri, like you DJ your own, but have you done any 10 years with,

Like an MC that needs, like, I know a few times like Biggie will go back and forth on DJs and whatnot. Pity of me and Joot was me and Raq Kim did this tour. Oh, okay. This was a crazy tour me and Raq Kim did. When I went on tour with Salt and Pepper. That's right. You were DJ with Salt and Pepper. DJ for Salt Pepper.

I DJ for Kent and played the very first tour, the public getting to be a greatest hip-hop show tour. It was 13 groups on that tour. I was helping them on that. But I never really played behind a lot of people, KRS 1, of course, but not really a whole lot of people, because people always looked at me as a one-man band. I guess that's what it is.

I guess the perception is that he don't want to play for nobody behind, you know, behind nobody. So, but yeah, but RBRM, when I went on tour with them, I didn't play behind him, but I went on tour with them, as a matter of fact, But Jennifer Lopez, she wanted me behind it. Like, there's a lot of people that reached out. It just didn't work out because of timing.

I felt like if me and Kendrick Lam would have went on tour together, you know, the Pulitzer Award album, he put me on ass, the only hip-hop album with a Pulitzer Award. I'm deeply great. He put me in voice. He put my voices in place around the country I've never been to. So I'm deeply ingrained for that. Grateful for that and loved the fact that he did that.

And when I was in the studio, when I asked him, I said, yo, you could have got DJ Battle Cat or, you know, DJ Pooh. These dudes are legend. You could have got them on the, West Coast, you know, he was like, yo, I love the dudes and everything. He was like, but I know what you did for the music business. I know what you did for DJs. I know what you did.

I wanted that one to Tis or this album. I was like, wow, he really knew what he was. So I had to have to really explain that he really got it. And he put me on that album. How crazy was the effect afterwards? Amazing, man. I couldn't believe it. It was like, it was crazy.

You know, keep in mind, he brought me to, there might be kids that don't know about kicking free. Never had the kid in the spirit Spray don't know nothing about me. He brought me to those people. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, he put my voices in countries I never been to.

It's the Pulitzer album. Like, it never, no other hip-hop album ever in history, this is a milestone. So, like I said, I wish he could have did so much more, like going on tour with each other. He didn't need me, of course, because, you know, he is when he did a thing,

but me and him together, just doing certain things, it would have been, it would have been special. So, but like I said, he's already special, so it was all good. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th.

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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.

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Can you talk about your transition into the production game? I was always making piece. My first album that Biz Gawki, it says biz production,

it's producing, I produced the album, me and cool me. And then I produced the soundtrack to the streets album with Jay and Buster, I, did that whole album. And then I just did this album, the love album, the love album. In the pandemic, I'm seeing a lot of shit to stuff. The album's got out of agreement. I said, you know, let me just do something different.

And I wrote Slack Key and came out good. I recorded it, glove with my head on my shoulder and said, keep going. So I just ended up doing the album. I put Slack Key out and had that got the response. So I wanted the album would have never seen the outline of the day. But it was good response. And I put the album out, great response. I have a guy who complained about it.

A lot of different artists, Snoop, and different people would call me. Congratulations me. Nobody seen this coming because I'm robbing on it. My last album was 24 years ago. You know, music business is different. I had everything against me with this album. But I didn't care about that. I just wanted to put it out.

And, you know, it worked out. But, yeah, it's got to keep going with it. I wanted to ask you particularly about nothing but love. Heavy D. Do you remember, what do you remember about that session working with him? None but Love was a different beat. And when we were in the studio, it, I just said it didn't match where I was trying to do with them. So I changed it and I went in my bag and pulled out the end games and put the end games on the band, bam, bam, bam, put down in the drums.

And then he caught writer's block. And he couldn't write. He couldn't write. So I wrote the half, I wrote half of the second. verse and I wrote, I wrote the second verse and I wrote the last verse. And then we ended up doing the record. And then the CCMI tragedy happened. But the nine people died.

One of my friend Jewel, he was one of the people that passed away. You were there at CCMI? No, my daughter's mother, she was there. She was putting bodies out. She pulled Father MC's daughter's mother, a father MC's girl who was pregnant at the time. And she passed away. She pulled her out. Oh, no.

Wow. And you, my friend, he was the only dude. There's only two castles in New York. One in Yonkers, one on my block. And my block Kingsman's Terrace is where they made the movie The Wander was at. So you look, if you watch the movie The Wanderers, you'll see my block, the Long King of Taurus. This capsule he lived in. He was 25 years old, never had sex.

He was waiting until he had a wife before he had sex and he was killed in this CCWR thing. And I remember Heavy D had a show at the Garden. And he was, because he had something to do with the event, he just wasn't there, but he was working for voters. And he had to play to him, he was like, yo, I'm not gonna take responsibility, but I feel bad of what happened to everybody, but I got nothing but love for the crowd.

And he dropped nothing but love. And the crowd lost their goddamn. I was standing right next to him. On the stage, the crowd lost it. That's what I do. I gave him his last hit, is a big hit. That was his biggest, that was his last hit record before he passed away.

Damn. I didn't even know you did that. Damn, it was crazy. The first time I saw you spend, you would come to the event with like at least eight crates. 15. The level.

Yep. That I've never seen the dizzying level of how you would organize records or whatever. That's why with Jeff, Jazzy Jeff, would try to convince me to be on Sarado. And I was so hard was it to make that transition. That's what I'm saying.

I like the fact that I had 15 crates and I would run to the crate and catch a record at the last second and dropped the needle and it just looked crazy to the crowd. So I thought if I got rid of that and went to the computer, it wouldn't be that same excitement. And Jeff will always say, okay, got to go on the computer. You got to do, you know what I'm saying, Sarado shit. So you relate to the Serrado game? Oh, yeah. Okay, I ain't started Sarado game this whole six.

So Deaf Comedy Jam came back and Mike Epps was host of it. And they asked me if I will produce the beats on Deaf Comedy Jam because they didn't want to clear the Def Jam records. Right.

So I produced all the beats to how do I play? Put it in Sorado. Right. So I put the beats of Sorado and I did the show. Then I started putting the break beats in Sorrador.

Now I put the reggae records and I put the old street record. Next thing you know, every day was in Sorvato got rid of the records. Now it was good. And then I see the crowds and my show still reacting the same way when I had the record. So I was good.

How irksome is it for you to watch any of the retro Def Comedy Jam shows? And like, for me, the best part of the show is when you start doing the LL breakdown thing. And, you know, of course, when it came on DVD and now that it's streaming and even on YouTube, you know, they put like interstitial music over it. Like, so you're trying to imagine what they're dancing to? I can't stand it. I hate it. I hate it.

It's the, it's the claimances. It's the money. It's, you know, it's a lot of money to do. You would think that they death jam records. It would be all right for deaf comedy to jam the play. But I thought that way, it don't go that way. It's whoever owns the publisher, you know, you got to go through all that shit. And some people are just greedy.

Some people want what they want and they don't see the bigger picture. So they're eliminated. I was making the beats and we got around it. Yeah, I was going to say there's one comedian that I, if I recall correctly, like he made you part of the act, this brother named, Talent.

Yeah, Talented. It's just comedy. But Talent would do this thing where he would have a scenario and needed a soundtrack to it, and he would have you play the record. Yeah. And then he would do the scenario. All right, rewind, rewind, kick it.

All right. is blah, blah, blah, and I can never find, and it's one of the funniest things ever, and I wish I could find that original, but because of music clearance issues, you know, people don't get to see it. I got so much footage from us on the role, me and Bernie, Bernie was like my uncle,

Bernie Mac was like my uncle, like him like this, like, so I got so much footage of me and him and Bill Bellow me and Chris Tucker and Eddie Griffin, all of us, man, just on the road and just different funny things, man. This dude with Bernie Mac, man, was funny all day long, man. Just all the hate this dude will be on the tour bus. He'll wake up and put a scotkin cap on.

And he'll have you laughing, just laughing all the way until it's time to do the show. Then he'll go and host the show, tear that down, get back on the tour bus, put the scotkin and have you laugh until you fall asleep. And then he messes with the bus driver, just where the bus driver got pulled over, because he laughed at his ass on.

This dude was just that all day. He just looked at him and just laugh. He just, it was amazing in that way. It was, you know, he was one of them dudes. It was sad to see him go too. You know, but all those, everybody that tour with, everybody that was on that show, they're all my extended family, man.

We all did something, we did something great together, you know what I'm saying? And it really touched people. Like, every time we sold out somewhere, you just see the people just smiling and happy. And, you know, that was the most thing for me, how many, how much good times. It was never a threat where you had to worry about crime going on

or somebody getting hurt or shot or a fight breaking out. It was always fun laughing. It was dope. It was dope. Yeah. I was going to ask you about just the master the mix, man. It was a while back, but I really enjoyed that show. And I want to just ask you about just kind of what that experience was like

acting, I guess, as a judge and judging, Of the DJs, man. How was that experience? It was dope. I was almost like the cyber cow. I was very serious. I was really, very serious. Straight up.

Because I had to worry about my, the reason why I was so serious was because I had to worry about my credentials. I had to worry about, you know, that because I had to worry about I wanted to be truthful. You know what I was showing no favoritism. I didn't want to show like I didn't know what I was talking about

or, you know, any of that. I wanted to be what it was. And it worked out. We was on for two seasons. is on BET and then we was on one season of VH1. Me personally, I think they should have kept that show going. You know, I know what issues they have, but they should have kept that show going because what it did,

you have dudes like Mel Starr that you see right now. Had Mel Starr not been on that show, we don't know if we would have seen him as quick as we did, but because he was on that show, and he's super talented. So that show got the chance to show the world who these dudes are the same way in death, Comedy Jam. Remember, before Deaf Comedy Jam was Richard Pryor, Red Fox, Eddie Murphy,

you know, a couple other dudes sprinkled here, but comedy, you, if you name wasn't them dudes, you know, so when we got Deaf Comedy Jam, we display all this pletful of all these different people. Now it became bigger, and that's the same thing with Master the Mix. It was all these different DJ. It's Chris Card and, you know, J.C.O. All these dudes do arenas now, you know, you I'm saying because of that show being on that show. So it was definitely a dope show. They definitely should have kept it. Some things I would have changed around.

I'd have changed some things around. I didn't really agree with it. Yeah. But, you know, it is what is. And then I was on another show. Did you know I was on growing up hip-hop? I missed that one. Nah.

I did that because of my daughter. Oh, wow, okay. Yeah, I only did one season. I only did one season. I was out. I'm not reality TV. Speaking of which, talk about Vena. first of all, I'm surprised we got through this whole episode without any jokes of me taking your last name.

Love is actually your last name, correct? My real last name is why the name is called The Love. Of course. Yeah, well, talk about what it's like, like collaborating with your daughter and now that she has, you know, planted her seeds and is starting her story right now. Like what is that like for you to see her, Karen, on the legacy? At first, you know, I know the music business. I know what's in the music business. I know everything.

And normally, you don't want you kid in that. You know what I'm saying? You don't want them to go through certain things. But the way she grew up, what she showed me, how she handled herself, how she do things. She has the skin for it. Now, did she have the talent for it? Didn't know, and I wasn't going to push her off on people just because she's my daughter.

She had to prove to me that she really could do her thing. And she came to me with this record where she did Maya's best to be over with her little boyfriend at the time. And the record was dope. But then she did a record that she wrote for Rihanna called Air that never got to Rihanna. And she ended up recording herself. And that's when I was like, okay, she's ready.

And from there on, she'd been moving there. but how she carry herself, how she treat people, the smile she keeps on her face, how she talks, the way she look at stuff, she's just like me. She respects what it is, and then she sees how her father moved. That's another thing. She sees how a father move,

how different people treat me, you know, and it automatically molds your child when they see it, when they're around experience. If they're always homing around to see things, then they're going to go with when they go with. But when they get a chance to really see, everything, it kind of mows them. And that's what happens.

She really knows what she's doing. And she's talented. She really works hard. It's more than the talent. She really, really works hard. You know, and I just want her to really just be happy. And all she's happy, that's it. You know, this music business, like I said,

if you let it get to you, it will. You know, and sometimes things don't work out the way you want, when you want it to work out, you know. And that's a part of the growing. That's a part of appreciating the journey. you know what's up Matt I always wanted to ask you one of my favorite

intros of all time to an album is of sex and violence BDP do you remember like where y'all was if y'all recorded that when you recorded it beautiful motherfucking man

whoops right I always thought y'all did that on purpose to make it like that's how parties are like yeah the record skips what was it?

Oh it's the beginning of the album it's the very the very first joint with him and Freddie Fox uh nicest movie. I don't know. Did you breathe

like an idol? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I was on that. I wasn't on that. No, you're on that. At the end,

it's that, uh, ladies and gentlemen, give it off for my motherfucking man. Whoops. And then the record stops. It's like,

oh, y'all know what they come from? They come from blowing up on the parties and all that right. My people. I had to go back and listen to that. I forgot about that.

The best part of the show. And then it goes to it goes to duck down. I forgot about that. I got to go back to check that. No, that's,

I love that shit. Yeah. So like for you, and I know it's a cliche to ask, but like, you know, as though this is hip-hop's 50th year and Jeff always jokes with me that no one's going to celebrate the 51st, so we got to celebrate it now. Yeah. For you, you know, is there anything that you've yet to check off in your bucket list that you haven't achieved yet?

Like, you know, what would you like to see the culture go or for you to do or, or do you just, you know, want to stop and chill and, you know. Well, I'll tell you this. Well, the one thing I haven't got a chance to do as many things I did was sell a platinum album or sell a gold album. You know, I only had three albums in my career. Making records never been my bread and butter. I do it because I want to do it.

You know what I'm saying? But the love album, it has so many layers to it. My mother's on the front covered with the big ass for. My daughter's on the record. I produced every day, wrote everything. I didn't run to any artist that's hot and say, you'll come get on my shit to sell it or none of that. I did everything myself with so many layers to it.

And I didn't put it out for it to go platinum or gold. I put it out to put something in the world. But I would like to see it really do good. I would like to see the world hear this album and really, you know what I'm saying? And just absorb it because I haven't got a bad complaint one time since I put it down. You know, the internet, they're going to say whatever they want.

I haven't got one of those yet, not one. You know what I'm saying? So with that being said, the frustrating part for me is that I know everybody hasn't heard it. I know everybody don't know it's there. There's people that come to me right now. You know, I remember when you heard your two albums out, you didn't hear the third one? Like, you know, so that's how I know. It's like, you know, that's the frustrating part.

But that's the only know because I follow you on IG and during the pandemic, you know, you didn't even know I was in the room watching in the studio making your beats and as you were making the record or whatnot. So, you know, it's finally good to see the fruition of it. Your mom actually has a humongous afro, yo.

Yes, sir. She was definitely, definitely big on her. And her last name is love, I might be a long-lost cousin. I don't know. You might be. Making connections. Exactly. No, brother. Thank you, man. I got to see very briefly at the L.L.'s Rock the Bells Festival, which was really like a kind of amazing family reunion, like to be backstage.

And literally there's an era of hip hop that I've yet to meet. So, you know, to be backstage and you're seeing like the fearless four and the fantastic Romantic Five and the Cole Crush brothers. and crazy. Yeah, it was just like, we're about the experience again because I'm probably to be Yankee Stadium for the second time, the 11th, the hip-hop day,

the Yankee Stadium, me, Snoo. Who's on that show? Me, Snoop, Nyes, Wiz Khalifa, one DMC, Fat Joe, Ace Boogie,

a whole bunch of people. So hip-hop says coming to the Bronx. It's coming to the hometown. Come to the hometown and smash it down. First time I did Yankee Stadium was when I did it for Nelson Mandela when he came out. to jail and they did a celebration for me.

Yankee said me in a K-R-S went and did it. And that was a milestone. So we're back again and I'm gonna come in, just do my thing. I'm gonna pull off something special too. When I pull out this thing, that I'm gonna pull out, it's gonna shake the room. So I'm hoping that goes.

Yeah, I got some special. But it's gonna be dope. Thank you, staying home, man. I can't wait. Well, ladies and gentlemen, Kit Capri, on Quest Left Supreme. Thank you, man, for everything. Thank you, man.

Straight up. You know, you, your tapes have entertained me. I've seen you many times like rock shows. I took notes. And, you know, you've been nothing but genuine and really, really kind and dope to me any nerdy questions I had over the years. You've answered them. And I thank you for that. And thank you for doing our show, man.

Thank you for having me, man. I got a chance to see you. This was in Toronto some years back. We were opening, me and night for opening for you and Rakia. You were spending for Rakim in Toronto. And that was one of the best show that ever saw that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We opened up.

It wasn't a little brother. It was just me. I was doing my solo record at the time of a knife for spinning for me. Okay. And so, but we opened up for Raqim and kid. And Masterclass, man. It was just, I was just sitting backstage, taking notes. So thank you for everything, brother.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Little brother, you got to come out of another joint. I need another joint. Oh, no. We're working. We're working, brother. We're working.

Good, good. Well, on behalf of Sugar Steve, and it was the quietest episode of Quest Love Supreme ever. I wonder why. I'm just enjoying the quiet, man. All right. Enjoying the quiet. No, like here, we're just playing.

We miss you. Yeah, Kay Capri, thank you for rep in New York so well all these years and New Jersey. Hey, man, it's the box, baby. It's the blocks. There you go. No Yankees. No Yankees. Yeah, so on behalf of the last,

I have a lot of sugar Steve and unpaid bill and fantigolo. This is Questlove and the great legendary Picapri on Questlove Supreme. Shout out to Brittany and Jake holding us down and our good friends at IHeartRadio and we'll see you on the next go-round. All right. Peace. Questlove Supreme is a production of I-HeartRadio.

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You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifers Show. This is a place for raw, unfills of conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to the Clivert Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest. The director of the NFL's East-West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode.

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Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Wood. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. 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. Yeah. Listen to Thanks Dad on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon. And this is my friend. This is much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far. But I'm John Green, co-hosted the podcast The Away End with my old friend, Dan, On our podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to The Away End with Daniel Auer Kohn and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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