Singer/producer nice guy Michael Best, aka ”Nitty Green”, is a member of RIFF, an R&B/Pop vocal group from Paterson, NJ - Episode 20, season 3 of Music Matters Podcast

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Listen in on my great chat with singer/producer nice guy Michael Best, aka ”Nitty Green”, is a member of RIFF, an R&B/Pop vocal group from Paterson, NJ. He‘s a true Entertainer, Singer-Songwriter, Vocal Producer, & Actor, with musical influences like Michael Jackson, Prince, Bobby Brown, Justin Timberlake, JayZ & Dr.Dre. He first burst onto the music scene as a member of The group RIFF appearing in the 1989 biographical-drama film, with Morgan Freeman - ”Lean on Me” as the ‘Songbirds‘ in the famous bathroom scene. This episode 20, season 3 as well as our entire episodes from seasons 1, 2 & 3 are available for you on all podcast outlets! Catch up with Michael Best, aka ”Nitty Green” on his various social media channels below: https://www.facebook.com/iamnittygreen/?ref=page_internal https://www.instagram.com/nittygreen/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/c/NittyGreen/featured https://open.spotify.com/artist/1rrX8pvXDxW3V46XqXfjm8

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switcher Chats. Music interviews brought to you by Music Matters with
0:09.7	Kyle Craig Harris and Music Tribes Tonight.
0:22.2	Hi everybody, I have Mr. Michael Middie Green Best with me today from the Rift
0:27.4	Manavision. You saw his group and the film Lee and I me with Morgan Freeman,
0:32.2	which we're going to talk about all this stuff. How you doing, man?
0:34.5	Good man. Thank you. How about yourself?
0:37.2	I am good. I've been beautiful Las Vegas. Oh, nice. Yeah. So you're at Jersey, right?
0:42.8	I am in Jersey. There's a little rainy out here right now. I wish I was out there, but you get.
0:47.5	Oh, yeah. Well, that's windy today here. So that's all good. Not ready. We don't get a whole lot of
0:52.1	raid. Cool. So your group, you've been into a bunch of different groups, I should say. And you
0:57.6	started actually kind of got your start. You guys were in the film, lean on me with Morgan Freeman.
1:02.0	There's a famous bathroom scene where you're doing a do-op thing, which is what's a really cool
1:06.4	compelling scene in that film. And how did that happen for you guys? Like how did
1:10.5	you guys already a group when the film was going on or how did that how did that all come
1:14.5	coming about? Well, we actually went to that school, Eastart High School in Jersey.
1:19.9	Oh, okay. And I don't know what our brothers got wind of the things that the principal
1:26.4	was staring up in Jersey with children at the school who was crossing out all the bad seeds and
1:35.2	one of our brothers called wind of it. And you know, it's called such a big disturbance. They
1:40.1	wanted to do a movie about him. And we were doing things at the school. We weren't really a group
1:48.4	yet. So fortunately, I got called down to the principal officers. Mr. Clark had this big
1:55.7	thing about learning the school song. We had this school song that we had to learn or to be
2:01.8	suspended on site, on site, if you did not know it. No pressure, right? If you did not know it,
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