And you, ladies and

and all.

Stoney Island.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived.

This is what it happened was season 4 episode 7 and we are now in the era of

ill-adelth half-life. We've arrived at the Roots third studio album and major label Softmore Effort.

I gotta tell y'all this is a fascinating story.

I was listening to the Roots at the time when this album came out.

From the outside looking in it looked like the roots had made a concerted effort

to change their sounds from live instrumentation to more traditional beats and rhymes.

But in this conversation I've had with Questlove, I've gotten a completely different insight.

Everybody was not on board and that ends up being a big part of the story of this album.

In his first part, hear how Funk-Massed Flex, Sprite Commercial, and Philadelphia Barber shops played into this very, very sharp change in direction.

Speaking the change in directions, I'm your host and a rap with myself as you can hear in the theme

Songs, Songs Plural, we've produced for this season.

I'm going on tour in December,

playing Open Mike Eagle originals.

I'm gonna be in Houston, Dallas, Brooklyn, Philly, D.C. Boston, Orlando, and Miami, hit up Mike Eagle.net for details.

This podcast is part of the Stony Island Audio Network, your home for rap podcast that you can

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Pod stories about songs with Kevin Beecham and more. And with that, let's get into it.

Season 4, episode 7, IleDell F.

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