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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Erick Sermon and Questlove spoke for more than three hours in the closing days of 2024. In Part 1 of this QLS season finale, E-Double recalls the early days of EPMD, breaks down how Long Island fueled a rivalry with Eric B. & Rakim, and discusses where the melodic Funk in his music comes from. This conversation touches on classic songs by Erick and his group, Redman, Stezo, and so much more.
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0:00.0 | Hey y'all, Nimini here. |
0:02.1 | I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. |
0:07.7 | Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman. |
0:11.9 | Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. |
0:15.4 | Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to historical records. |
0:20.9 | Listen to historical records on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
0:30.0 | Questlove Supreme is a production of IHeart Radio. |
0:36.1 | Here we go. Here we go. |
0:38.3 | Here we go. |
0:40.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, we are closing out our 20-24 season, our abundant season of Quest Love Supreme. |
0:52.3 | We've had some really, really amazing conversation, |
0:56.7 | especially with a lot of my hip-hop peers. This year alone, you know, talking to the beat miners |
1:01.7 | and the Rizza, Ad Rock of the Visti Boys, P-Rock in Common, Foreign Exchange, and Jonathan's |
1:09.3 | Sector of the source, to name a few. And I will say that today |
1:14.2 | is no exception in terms of us giving flowers to hip-hop royalty. What can I say? All the episodes |
1:21.9 | of Quest Love Supreme are long overdue, but this more than any is really, really, really overdue. I will really go out on a limb |
1:31.8 | and say that as a producer, all right, let me put it this way. You know, like, every time I'm telling |
1:40.1 | you guys in Questlove Supreme World that the pioneer always gets overlooked and it's the person |
1:47.0 | that comes in second that kind of gets all the credit. I will say that our guest today is probably |
1:54.0 | the first person I thought about in terms of pure production innovation that is so accessible and so effective that he never truly ever gets the credit that he deserves for a lot of the ideas that he first started doing in hip hop that we now just take for granted. |
2:21.6 | Not to mention, as I said in the Ad Rock episode, you know, as Guru said, is mostly the voice. |
2:27.6 | Our guest today has probably one of my favorite all-time voices. |
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