Things Fall Apart Part 3

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of our season-long sitdown with Questlove we dig even deper into the creation of Things Fall Apart starting with the conclusion of the You Got Me sage then unpacking album highlights like Act Too (Love of my Life) featuring Common and Doube Trouble featuring Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def. The latter story containing a retelling of the moment Questlove knew he needed to level-up his production following a link-up with Dilla, Q-Tip, DJ Premier and The Alchemist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What can I say? I get it. I get it.
0:08.0	What can I say? I get very excited when I hear that little instrumental stinger.
0:13.5	Welcome to season 4 episode 12 of what it happened was with our
0:17.4	esteemed every week guests, the one and only quest love from the Roots
0:21.9	crew and we are getting down to it y'all and in fact for
0:26.0	most seasons of what had happened was this would have been the last episode but
0:30.4	spoiler alert there is one more after this so when you get to this week's cliffhanger ending
0:36.7	don't fret there is one episode remaining. Currently we are deep into the story of things fall apart and pick up where we left off.
0:46.4	Hearing the story of You Got Me.
0:48.6	We also get the origins of Act 2 love of my life and Double Trouble featuring Most Deaf, which in itself the song, story of the song
0:58.0	contains another of the greatest stories in what had happened history.
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1:11.0	legendary hip-hop classics and giving us 10,000 stars on your favorite
1:16.2	podcast platform. In fact, you can also give us 10,000 stars on your second favorite
1:21.8	platform. It's all okay, it's all perfectly legal, and it's
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1:29.8	rap podcast you can, you know, listen to, including shows like stories about songs but
1:35.8	Kevin Beecham, The Questions, Hip Hop Trivia, The Dad Bod, Rap Pod, and more.
1:42.2	With that, let's get into it. This is the penultimate episode. Things
1:47.3	Fall Apart Part 3. One Two One Two. One Two.
1:55.0	One Two.
1:57.0	Yeah.
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