Raheem DeVaughn Shares A Great Aretha Franklin Story
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This week, Raheem DeVaughn kicks off the Say Yes Tour alongside a reunited Floetry and Teedra Moses. His full Questlove Show episode is coming soon, but we’re sharing an exclusive segment as a mini-episode, where he talks about the tour and tells a great story involving Aretha Franklin.
Raheem DeVaughn’s new release, The Quiet Storm Lover: Tome Un, is out now. Stay tuned for the full-length conversation, arriving in May.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Questleff show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:27.4 | All right, so tell me about this tour that you're on with teacher Moses and flowetry. |
| 0:31.2 | The say yes tour with poetry, man, I'm super excited about it. |
| 0:55.7 | Got the call, you know, when certain calls you get in life, you just say, well, what time do I need to be there? Right. And when do we start, right? And, you know, preparing for tours is always intense, you know, for me. You know, I just got off for one tour and, you know, it's really a few weeks off and then I'm, and then I'm on the road, you know, with flow of tree. But I feel like it's going to be incredible, man. |
| 1:01.4 | You know, we all have a really dope catalog, great showmanship, love Tees You to death, you know what I mean? |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | Both members of Florida tree, you know, Natalie and Marcia to death. |
| 1:07.7 | So it's going to be dope, man. |
| 1:09.2 | You know, who knows what's going to happen out there? |
| 1:12.7 | You know, I can definitely tell you that I have towels. |
| 1:16.3 | Yes. |
| 1:20.9 | Nice. |
| 1:21.5 | There will be towels and merch and all the things. |
| 1:25.4 | I'll be doing meet and greets you know after each show come |
| 1:28.4 | meet and greet with me what is your vocal care routine or process like when we tour you know |
| 1:36.6 | by show four it's we have to pace it so that tarreek doesn't wear out his voice but for say I always wanted to know especially |
| 1:45.7 | like for various singers that I work with do you have a particular exercise of routine you do to |
| 1:51.6 | preserve your voice or is definitely to warm up you know having smoked weeds since probably like |
| 1:57.6 | 2020. Okay. I don't drink. You know what I mean? |
| 2:02.3 | Sleep is an absolute must. |
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