Do You Want More?!!!??!

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of his season long sitdown with Open Mike Eagle, Questlove begins the story of The Roots' major label debut Do You Want More?!!!??!. The story begins with the group's signing party where they meet future rivals and Questlove receives some difficult family news. This leads into the album sessions where we here how classic songs like Proceed, Swept Away and Silent Treatment were conceived. And what does David Letterman have to do with it? hear it all here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	on the show
0:08.0	Welcome to the show I'm open my
0:12.0	to the show I'm open Mike Egel this is season four episode for with our magnanimous every week guest
0:15.0	quest love. This is what it happened was. On this episode we get into the
0:21.4	story of the making of the first album many people
0:24.1	including myself heard the roots on. Do you want more? Last episode we left off
0:32.2	the roots had just put out organics and signed a huge deal with Geffen records.
0:36.7	We pick up here at their signing party.
0:39.1	Requests Love has just gotten some very difficult family news and that actually informs how he approached the sessions for Do You Want More?
0:48.0	In the story, look out for cameos from Lauren Hill, David Letterman. How the hell do they fit in? You can support
0:57.6	this show by using the sponsor codes and the ads and leaving us a five star rating on your podcast platform.
1:05.0	Speaking of platforms, I'm on tour this December.
1:08.0	I'm not going to have any platforms on the tour.
1:10.0	I can't afford that.
1:11.0	I'm on a tour for non-roots music, open Mike Eagle music. I'll be in
1:16.2	Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Brooklyn, D.C. Philly, Boston, Miami, and Orlando. you can go to Mike Eagle.net to find out pertinent details on dates
1:29.4	and venues tickets for all of those are on sale now. This is the Stony Island
1:34.4	audio network, the Home for Rap Podcast you can actually listen to. Including shows
1:40.5	like Dad by Rap Pies, stories about songs with Kevin Beach from the Fatherhood's
1:44.2	podcast, questions, hip-hop trivia podcast, super duty tough work with blueprint and
1:49.9	the logic and more. And with that, let's get into it. Season 4, episode 4, what it happened was, do you
1:57.4	want more part one from the ground up? Ground Up. This is open, Mike Giggles.
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