Jill Scott
R&B Money
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Jill Scott sits with Tank & J. Valentine to talk about how songs start, how performances breathe, and how an artist protects her center. She walks through the making of signature records——and the choices behind phrasing, silence, and dynamics. We get into the bandstand, the poem-to-melody pipeline, collaboration that serves the story, and what she’s chasing next in the studio and on stage.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | R&B money. |
| 0:09.6 | We are, |
| 0:11.8 | Jake, |
| 0:13.3 | Jake Valentine, |
| 0:15.2 | we are the authorities on all things R&B. |
| 0:21.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Jay Valentine. |
| 0:24.3 | And this is the R&B money podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Man. |
| 0:28.6 | The authority! |
| 0:31.3 | The authority! |
| 0:33.0 | We don't take no short walks around here. |
| 0:34.5 | On all things. |
| 0:35.8 | All things. |
| 0:36.6 | All things. |
| 0:37.3 | R&B. And then short about what we do. Even if we're walking, it ain't short. It's got to be long. The walk's got to be long walk. Come on, come on, come on. Because you can't get nothing done on no short walk. You can't get nothing. I can't get to know nobody. To nobody. |
| 0:55.0 | On a short walk. |
| 0:56.0 | On no short walk. |
| 0:57.0 | Anybody worth getting to. |
| 0:59.0 | Huh. |
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