Aloe Blacc Speaks About Finding His Voice, Panama’s Influence on His Music, and the Impact of “I Need a Dollar”

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this episode, singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer Aloe Blacc reveals how the sound of classic soul music and the production of underground hip hop producer OhNo helped him find his voice as a singer. The musician gives us a deep dive into his unique sound and discusses the critical influence that the melting pot of Panama has on his music. Explore Aloe Blacc’s most well known songs and his deepest thoughts in this essential interview.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO. You are about to hear an
0:04.8	excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up
0:09.7	Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes with stars from the game
0:14.8	to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish, subscribe to the Luminary channel on
0:20.4	Apple Podcasts. Several demos, several albums, imaginary friends, Asa 9, A9 and on. I've
0:28.3	gone back and listened to a lot of this stuff. And I really enjoy it. I'm like, yo, I didn't know
0:35.2	Aloblack could rhyme like this. I would consider my experience in my history as an MCEO or
0:41.8	in hip hop as the training ground for writing that I guess that I do now. Yeah, you're right.
0:50.7	I guess you have a, it's like a stale started out as an MC. Jill Scott started out a spoke
0:56.5	a word then had to train herself out to be a songwriter. Badu's MC. You could hear it in the way
1:03.0	that they write songs. Certain people you can hear when they started out as an MC. This led to you
1:09.6	being on the radar of LuPak, right? Yeah, so you know, the story goes that I graduated from university.
1:17.7	And I was going to walk straight into my position at Ernst & Young, but September 11th happens.
1:28.6	Pushes my start date back. And so my start date gets pushed back a few months. And what opens up
1:35.8	is this magical opportunity to go to Europe and join a tour that was with the LuPak touring
1:43.2	around Europe. At that time, Madlib was working on his shades of blue project. So he was like,
1:48.1	I'm not even going to go on tour. I'm thinking to myself, how are you not going to go on your own tour?
1:52.4	He's, I'm just going to play a few steps. That's live. Like he does what he wants, how he wants.
1:56.6	And because there was an empty bed and an empty seat on that tour, I paid my way, but I went on tour
2:03.8	and got to perform for their audience throughout Europe. So you were a Jack and DJ Rome?
2:10.1	I went with Jack, DJ Rome's, Oh no, metaphor and petrics. Yeah, Jack Walshaw.
2:16.4	Walshaw. Oh no, has given me some incredible soundscape. So as Madlib, obviously,
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