Mickey Guyton
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Black Music Month kicks off in a major way. Mickey Guyton joins Questlove for a deeply personal conversation about carving out space as a Black woman in Country music, from her church roots in Texas to performing on global stages like the Super Bowl and in China. She opens up about her religious upbringing, perfectionism, anxiety, creative burnout, and finding her true audience among marginalized fans who feel seen in her story. Along the way, Mickey and Quest geek out on Brandy, karaoke etiquette, gatekeeping in Country music, and what it really costs to pioneer a lane that didn't exist before.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Questleff show is a production of I-Heart Radio. All right. |
| 0:27.1 | So with the exception of Darius Rutgers episode, I don't believe that we here at QLS, |
| 0:35.9 | be it Questlove Supreme or the Questlove show, has had a bona fide, bonafide |
| 0:40.7 | country music artists in our presence. I've had the pleasure of playing drums with our guest |
| 0:48.5 | today at, of all places, the Essence Festival. I knew then that I wanted to have her as a guest on the show |
| 0:56.8 | our guest today has definitely created a lane for herself where I guess one seemingly |
| 1:02.1 | really didn't exist and one fascinates me about her story is not just you know all the |
| 1:10.5 | accolades that she's had, the Grammy |
| 1:12.7 | nominations, or the TV appearances, the high-profile appearances, magazine covers, yada, yada, |
| 1:17.8 | but it's the journey that sometimes the path to finding your voice means that you got to get |
| 1:24.9 | it, you know, out of your comfort zone and step into a space that wasn't exactly built with you in mind and deciding that you're going to own that space and |
| 1:35.6 | be there anyway. And that, you know, there's a lot of commonality. I guess, I felt commonality. |
| 1:43.6 | It's just in my experiences. |
| 1:45.2 | So I definitely wanted to have this conversation. |
| 1:47.9 | And her music, especially with songs like Black Like Me, |
| 1:52.2 | remember her name, of course sparked. |
| 1:55.5 | Conversations that country music basically has been on my sideline view, |
| 2:00.3 | sort of avoiding. She miraculously hosted the uh the |
| 2:05.7 | cms a cms oh acms i'm sorry yeah is there cms it's all they all sound the same there's acms and the |
| 2:13.8 | cms and the c ms is the academy of country music Awards. I did not know the difference for you. |
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