Organix Part 2

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of our season long interview with Questlove, we hear the next step in the journey of The Roots through the process of recording their first LP, 1993's Organix. They entered the studio as a busking group and had to learn how to become recording artists on the fly. Hear how this process formalized the group's membership and how these sessions began the tug-of-war between live instrumentation and sampling that will be a part of every Roots album to follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	on the kids and you
0:02.0	and many to the Sony Island.
0:05.0	Stoney Island
0:08.0	What up, what up, this is open Mike Eagle.
0:10.0	Welcome to season 4 episode 3 of what had happened was.
0:15.0	Last we left off, the routes are gone from playing on the sidewalk
0:19.8	to playing in the strip club and to getting into the studio to make their first LP organics.
0:25.9	They had no idea how to make songs.
0:28.2	So in this episode we hear a lot about the roundabout way they used to come up with tunes and through this process the group also adds
0:37.1	Leonard Hubbard on face may he rest in peace in Malik B as an MC may he also rest in peace in an addition and the group
0:44.0	rest in peace in addition to those two the group is rounded out by a young
0:48.7	Scott Storch on the keys. You can support what it happened was by using the ad codes in the ad reads
0:56.8	and spreading the words, people who might be interested in this history, this oral history of the first four albums of the Roots.
1:04.8	Speaking of albums, you can come see me do my own damn songs this December.
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1:41.0	And with that, let's get into it.
1:43.0	Episode 3, Organics Part 2.
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