Season Finale: What is a Soulquarian?

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In our season 4 finale we conclude the story of The Roots' 4th studio album Things Fall Apart. In discussing the release and reception of that album we hear the story of the infamous Soulquarian photo shoot for Vibe magazine featuring Questlove, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Dilla, Erykah Badu and more. Where it may have looked like the start of a movement to fans of these artists, according to Questlove himself it was really the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	on top of the trip and news
0:03.0	to 90 business on the high and the
0:06.0	Stony Island
0:08.0	y'all here we are ladies and gentlemen and everyone we are at the
0:15.0	at the finale of season four of what it happened was the end of our season long
0:21.0	sit down with the one and only Quest Love and, wow, it really did take a lot to make this
0:28.0	come together so I want to send out a few giant shout-out. Shout out to a mirror, Quest Love himself for his desire to even want to do this.
0:38.0	Man, so I got to wrap over one of Quest Love Beets.
0:42.0	Quest loves Beets. Quest loves Beets had to be like 2016 or 17.
0:48.0	MC Paul Barman had me get on a song with him that happened to be produced by Questlove.
0:53.4	So shout out to M.C. Paul Barman.
0:57.3	And that was really the only direct connection to Questlove I had outside of just being
1:02.0	a fan.
1:03.0	And then I want to quickly tell y'all a story how me and
1:07.2	Questlove actually met.
1:08.3	It was South by Southwest.
1:11.8	It had to be 2018, South by Southwest, it had to be 2018 by Southwest.
1:15.0	Me and video Dave, we're going to do some shows out there.
1:20.0	A lot of it was centered around the announcement of the new Negroes with Comedy Central
1:26.2	that me and Baron Vaughn working on at the time. So Comedy Central sent us out there to do a bunch
1:30.6	of shows for South by Southwest. It's either 18 or 19 I can't remember which year. But we're at the
1:39.0	airport bar and we look over and we're like hey this mother motherfucking quest love over there.
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