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Robert Glasper: The Quincy Jones of Our Time? | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jul 29, 2025
Is Robert Glasper the Quincy Jones of our time? 🎶 Find out in this exclusive interview on Sway In The Morning! The multi-Grammy, Emmy, NAACP Image Award-winning artist, producer, and creator of the Black Radio Experience sits down with Sway to discuss his unparalleled contributions to music, his work with legends like Common and Snoop Dogg, and his groundbreaking festival celebrating Black excellence. 🌟 From his incredible residencies at the iconic Blue Note to unforgettable moments with stars like Andre 3000 and John Legend, Robert Glasper shares stories that define his legacy. Plus, get the inside scoop on the upcoming Black Radio Experience Festival happening Labor Day Weekend—an event you don’t want to miss! 🎤✨ Subscribe for more exclusive interviews with your favorite artists and icons. Stay tuned for the latest updates from Sway’s Universe and join the conversation! #RobertGlasper #SwayInTheMorning #BlackRadioExperience #SwaysUniverse #ExclusiveInterviews #jazz #michaeljackson #musicproducer #wearetheworld #quincyjones CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - What is the Blue Note 08:11 - Big Announcement 11:02 - Ed from Queens 19:40 - Happy Birthday Talib Kweli 23:50 - Robert Glasper on Blue Note Jazz Club LA 26:34 - Why Robert Glasper Opened Blue Note Jazz Club LA 29:53 - Robert Glasper Announces Black Radio Experience Lineup 32:30 - Robert Glasper on Sway In The Morning 34:34 - Khalid Joins Black Radio Experience 36:03 - Heather B and Robert Glasper Discuss Black Radio Experience
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I'm very excited about our next guest. He he actually came early and this is unusual. He he
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so we're a little thrown off right now, but that's not as you know him being on time and responsible is something new
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and respectful to you. And respectful to me now. I've only gotten five jabs at me since he been
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here. Normally, you know, um this man has won Emmy awards. Wow.
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Grammy awards. Wow. Webbies. Webbby awards. Peabodies. Peabody awards. Puler.
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Uh, not a Pulitzer. Oh, I'm I'm a new image award winner. Image NAACP
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now. Yeah. Yeah. You you you for the Luther do. Oh,
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and the BET Awards just more recently. Okay. BET Awards. Wow. That's right. For the Luther. I've been out here, man.
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I I I called out here for a minute. I I often call him our generation's
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Quincy Jones. Right. I've said that many of times. Absolutely. I'm going to keep saying it till I
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believe it. But uh Wow. Yeah.
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That Wow. You know, you're becoming the king of backhanded compliment. That was that was that was really back.
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I was first. I'm like, "Oh, that's so nice." Nice to him. Surprisingly. Yeah. Surprisingly. Um he's the creator of the Black Radio
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Experience. Oh my gosh. Um, he's the franchise when it comes to the Blue Note. I don't even understand
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what Blue Note is, but you know the label. I'm not sure what it is any longer. It's a black radio.
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Is it a Is it a venue? I'm not sure what is Blue. So, it's Blue. We're talking about Blue
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the venue. Yes. The Bluno. There is a Bluto label as well, but they're separate. They have nothing to do each other. Nothing.
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Not the same people. Nothing. How? So that they had a whole there there was a whole lawsuit back in like
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the 50s or something to separate it. So that's why Blue Note label can't do they
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can't they can't do specific things because Blueotee the Club is a live music venue. You know what I mean? So
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yeah, it's very confusing. I get it. I understand that what we're talking about is the Blue Note venue.
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The venue. Absolutely. We're talking to the one and only Robert Glasber
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every day. Come on now. You hear us promoting the Black Radio Experience coming up Labor Day weekend.
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August 28th through the 31st cuz I'm coming on the 28th. You're coming on 28th, right? Friday the
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29th, 30th, 31st. It is. But listen, it's not just what happens on stage. It's what happens on the ground, what
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happens off stage, what happens at night. You know what happens in the crowd. Like the so the social atmosphere
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is amazing. People are looking great. The food is awesome. The merch is awesome. Come on. The wine. The wine.
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And the guests. You got Jeezy walking around last year just hanging out. Bro,
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I saw and took a picture with Danny Glover. Like I was hanging out. I
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freaked out. I walked by. I was like, my mind was telling me one thing, but my I was like, it can't be. Don't do that.
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Is he coming in 2080? But I'm just saying,
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yo, Danny Glover was there chilling on the side of the stage. We put him on the side of the stage. I didn't even
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know he's coming. That was a surprise. Him and his wife like bought tickets. They came like Oh, they bought tickets. They came like, "Hey, we coming. We
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coming to hang out." As far as as far as No, I didn't know. As far as I know, cuz I asked his wife like, "I didn't know
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y'all were coming." She was like, "Yo, we just want to come." So, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Y'all should have let somebody know." But maybe they did.
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And I didn't know they let somebody know. All I know is they were just chilling and we were like, "Yo, y'all want to be, you know, come on the side
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of the stage and hang out?" We think we give him a little couch area, you know, like. But Rob, do you get freaked out? Because
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obviously you've been doing this for a moment. You you sway list some of your accolades. You've worked with so many
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amazing, legendary people, but does something like that even freak you out? Like, bro, Danny Glover is just at my
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event chilling. Absolutely. No, because it's like it's beyond music, you know what I mean? like he's not even a musician so
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he's outside of that, you know what I mean? Like he's Danny Glover, you know what I mean? Yeah. So that that was just
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that was just like yo this is so legendary and it it speaks to the it speaks to the festival how great the
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festival is because not only musicians want to come hang out amazing actors and you know just people of of our culture
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want to be a part of this thing that is that is the culture. You know what I mean? And it's so so dope. And not even
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cuz it's so funny like when I do a festival, I go play my piece, my my part of the festival and I leave, you know,
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that's normal. I might spend the night maybe, but normally I play the festival and I leave. I'm going go into my next thing.
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There have been so many artists that come to the and they plan like, yo, I'mma stay all three days. Or they'll
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plan like, yo, I'm going to stay another day. And most of the time that's not the case with with festivals. You know what I mean? So, it's so cool that
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the festival is so loose and so open and it's like no other festival also because
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like I said, musicians and artists just want to come and just dope people just want to come and hang out,
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but at the same time, you never know what's going to crack off at the festival because most festivals when you
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go to festival, it's like, okay, everybody does their set. You could have saw that set anywhere. You didn't even have to see that set at that festival.
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You could have you could have just took that one hour and brought it somewhere else. But we provide something that
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you'll never see anywhere else because I might get this artist that was here yesterday to jump on stage with me today
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mixing with this artist from over here. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. You know, you seen us do it. It's Marsha Ambroas. Yeah. From last year.
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You know, just man. Um, everybody that she was Marsha was backstage hanging out
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with Letty. Then I saw I was like what's happening right now? John Legend walked by. I was like my mind couldn't even
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register what was happening. I introduced I don't even know if I told you other story. I personally introduced
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DJ Premiere to Three Stacks. Oh my. To Andre. They never met.
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Stop it. Andre 3000. Andre 3000 and DJ Premiere had never
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met. They talked on the phone once until Premiere came over to me. He's like, "Yo, man. You think I can meet Andre? I
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was like, "Huh?" He's like, "Yeah, man. I never I I never met him. We talked one time in the '9s or something like that.
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Yo, first that was good, bro. I Your DJ premier is
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I've never done that either. That was You know what I'm saying? For sure. Yo, maybe it's cuz we, you know, Houston,
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you know, town." Um, but yeah. So, and I walked him over to the to Andre's trailer, knocked on the door. Andre at
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the door. I said, "Yo, Primo, three stacks." Boom. And then they h we got it
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on video. You got it on video? Absolutely. Oh, that's an a magic moment right there, man. And then I took him to see Andre's
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set. You know what I mean? I took to see the set. That was in this wine celler. In the wine celler. Yes. We saw that set. We saw that set,
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man. Was amazing. Dre told me it was the best place he's ever played. I believe for this project that he's
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best place he's ever played. He's like, he pulled me to the side to tell me that. He's like, "Yo, this is the best place we've ever ever had a chance to
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play." Did you cuz and I were talking after that. Did you select that place for him? Did he see it ahead of time?
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Like how did that particular We selected it for him because we were like we got to do something in the wine celler. We have this wine seller we
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we're doing nothing with and we were jogging our brains and we were like yo Andre that makes sense. Then we told him
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hey you're going to play in a wine seller that holds no more than 200 people at a time.
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The festival's like whatever six 7,000 people or something something like that. So it's like everybody's not even going to be be in there, but it'll be
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secluded. It'll be quiet. He was like, "Oh man, you know, matter of fact, I want to play three times a day."
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We only wanted We only asked him to play once. He did three. He did three because he wanted to do three.
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He wanted to do three. We wanted We asked him to do one a day. Like everybody else, you do one show a
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day. He asked to do three shows a day. Three stacks, man. He wants it, man. Robert Glasper is here. We're talking
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about the Black Radio Experience coming up Labor Day weekend. Now, what's available, Rob? Like
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speedo every I told you about this earlier, right? What? Um, you could Well, I was going to have people pay extra, but this is going to be free.
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Okay. U, this is just an announcement we're doing today. Give me a drum roll, Ka. Hold on. Give me a drum roll.
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Somebody give me a drum. Who got the drum roll? There we go. Big announcement by Robert Glasper. Emmy
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award, multi- Grammy award, mini award winner. Absolutely. I will be walking around in the speedo. Um, we're not for for 1 hour
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a day. We're not sure. We're not sure which hour it's going to be, but and I
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will be featuring a different print every day. So, there'll be cheetah. You know what I mean? I'm not going to
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tell you the other two, but you know what I'm saying? I threw the cheetah out there. I'm not going to I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you what. You know what I'm saying? But
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we'll see. I like you. Yeah. Like a vision, right? You got an
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idea. Make a great America again. American bargain speeds.
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Oh my gosh. Wow. Wow. I'm just saying y'all. Hey, we bumping
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up. Watch the ticket sales now. Okay, this is it, man. Watch the bump we get now. Tell them where to go to get the tickets.
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Radio experience.com. I'm actually I'm uh I called Rob. Well, I DM' Rob cuz I didn't want to invade
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his space and Rob was so sweet was like, Heather, call me. Just take my number. Absolutely. But I'm excited because I
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get to come a day early this year because I found out afterwards that there's like all of these cool dinners
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and wine stuff happening. Yeah. So, we're doing a we're going to do like a welcome dinner slashcon slash
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kind of like, "Hey y'all, thanks for coming thing on Thursday, the day before, which I tell everybody, y'all should definitely come on Thursday,
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because then Friday you get the whole experience, the the festival." cuz if you try to get in there on Friday,
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the traffic and blah blah blah blah blah. You don't want you don't want to be traveling on the day of, you know what I mean? So, I'm going to be doing a
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show and you never know some of the people that are coming early to, you know, jump on with me and do a little
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welcome thing, some dinner, you know, some wine, whole thing. So, you know, how do people get tickets to that
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though, Rob? Like, is that available for tickets? That's No, I believe I feel like that's if you're there,
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you just you just kind of roll in. I might be making this up. Um,
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but I'm not sure. He looks like he's lying. Yeah, I have no idea. I never let y'all know that. I never thought of that about that part.
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Yeah. Well, I got my part I think about then they got, you know, the team got that part. I'm coming to that. Rob was like, "Pull
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up. I'm coming." Robert Glasper is here. 8887423 345. We got callers every day that ask
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us about these tickets. You know, some people wanted to do one day tickets, two day tickets. Two day passes.
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Yeah. You know, and now that we announced the one day passes are available. Uh Ed from Queens called yesterday and
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he was on the fence. Oh, that's right. Right. Right. He was on the fence. Been a couple years. He's been a couple of years. He was
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trying to decide if he was going to do it this year. Ed, you there? Yes, sir. Good morning, family. Good
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morning. How are you, family? Yo, Ed, tell me tell me where else will you go in the world
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where we bring you the person who's actually throwing the festival so you
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can speak to him directly and let him convince you. Absolutely. To come to the festival. Go ahead, Ed.
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Robert Glasper. Ed, what's up, Ed? Yeah. Yo. Yo, Robert, what's up, man?
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Uh, I met you uh I met you last year with Shelley Wade, but anyway. Oh, killing. Forget this.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I met you at um at the Blue No Shel backstage with uh Mary Jay
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that Mary Jay was there. Y Nonetheless, yeah, I'm off the fence, man. I'll be there Friday and Saturday.
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Come on now, man. Come on now. Let's go. Come on, man. So dope. Now you special. You know, special ed.
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Let's go. Come on, man. Got it, man. What made you choose Friday and Saturday, Ed?
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Well, um the last two years I did Saturday and Sunday. like I said yesterday. So, um I wanted to do
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something different and just like listening to y'all now, I always miss out on a welcome dinner. So, it's like um people Yeah. people I
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met through the years who gone um the like I said the first year I went by myself, but I met mad people. I had a
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whole bunch of fun. And the second year, it's like um everybody who missed out, I had like 10 people we met up with
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between Houston and Chicago. So, last year it's like it's like I worked for you dudes, man. I had like 10 people
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come by. Come on now. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Come on, man. Well, hey.
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Hey, we going to see you there, man. All right. And we'll take pictures and the whole nine. I'll definitely make sure you're able to take a picture next to
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Rob in his speedo. Okay. Don't want that. I don't want that.
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No, he was just off the fence. Now you got you didn't put him off the fence again. Can we put him off the fence on your speedo?
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Okay. Now, hopefully I Yeah. Hopefully I see him walking around like I did the last two years.
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That's the best part about it. Ed, thank you for your call. You a citizen. Rob is different, bro. Like Rob, you know, him
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and I joke around a lot and it's fun to be able to joke with somebody who's as accomplished as he is, who has who is as
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important to this culture and industry as he is. And I try to put things in perspective. Reason why we joke, I
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really consider this dude like my little brother, like really small. Um. Wow.
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Oh, what's up with your back hand? You seen the back hand, man. That's my brother. I said that's my brother.
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Emphasized on little You catching it. Y'all catching it. Y'all catching it. Your pop said I'm family.
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He did. He did. Say that. Shout out to Pop. I'm family. I'm older. So, I'm your
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my little brother, bro. For sure. For sure. For sure. Okay. But I always say, and when you're
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not here, I I I don't joke about you. I speak seriously about you. We bring up Quincy, you know, we bring up people
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like Stevie Wonder. Um, when we talk about Robert Glasper and I saw early on
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when, you know, when especially when it comes to hiphop, it it we we we struggle with longevity and we we we struggle
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with ourselves with this whole divide about older and younger and all of these different things. And then we struggle
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because now you can't find venues that want to invest in hip-hop artists. Uh
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this man has created a platform that can live on for decades. Well, we will always be able to see some
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of our favorites. Whether it's Common, whether it's Big Daddy Kane, Rock Kim,
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Lupe Fiasco, Pete Rock, Warren G, Lupi,
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Chance the Rapper, the Plum Village. And by doing these residencies,
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these artists will be able to perform for decades to come, whether they got a chart topping hit
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or not. Absolutely. And that's what I think is amazing. He's creating you are creating an ecosystem
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that will live on beyond your years. Yep. That's amazing. That's a part of your
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legacy. It's the rewards are amazing that people finally recognize your gift and your talents that we recognized a
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long time ago when people said him. Yeah. I'm I'm sorry. Who's that? No more. No more back no more backhead
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coming. I I think it's Did you see that vision or were you just putting together a jamboree?
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I mean, I was just putting together a jamboree. It was basically put cuz I've been doing that for years on smaller
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stages, you know what I mean? Just like whenever I play, you don't know who going to be the audience or who I'm going to jump who going to jump up and
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call up and then it becomes a jam session like all the time. And so, we just wanted to make that a
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bigger version of that on a on a on a festival stage. I mean, so and it's just who I am and what I like to do. And I'm
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just been blessed to be around dope people, you know what I mean? Like that can do that, that know how to just jump
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up. Don't some, you know, we've all come across the people who can't be in the moment, you know what I mean? Who don't know how to be in the
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moment, jump on stage, don't know what to do. Yeah. Or got to got to do something written or, you know what I mean? All the
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things. But it's it's so dope when you really find people who are and it takes courage to be in the moment. It takes
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courage to just not know what's going to happen, not know what you gonna say, not know what you know, just jump in the
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moment and just and trust the universe. You know what I mean? And that's what happened. And you trusted the universe
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all together. And it's like when you find those like minds to do that, it's just like, oh man, you know what I mean?
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It's so it's so dope. What was the official Oh, go ahead, Trace. Um, you know what?
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I feel like you can because sometime it's just cracking. It's just making somebody it's just it's just their
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confidence, their own confidence. Sometimes you got to help people find their confidence. It's in there somewhere. You know what I mean? And you
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can do that. You know, a matter of fact, you know who I I I just had that happen uh at the Blue No when I was doing my
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residency maybe two, you know, I do a residency at the Blue No Club in New York every October. We call it Robtober.
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And that's where the that's where this festival comes from. Well, we're doing it blue for I do it every month. I mean,
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I do it every year in the month of October and I have different guests and I take over the whole club for the whole month. Different guests popping on and
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off all month and then Bloom was like, "Hey, do you want to try to make this this vibe a three-day festival?" So
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that's literally where it comes from. Oh, it comes from my residency. When did it start? The residency started in 2018 at the
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Blue Node. Okay. So that's when the Black Radio Experience started in 2018, which Well, no. So it's called It was called
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the Black It was called the Blue No. I mean, it was called just Rob We call it Robtober. They renamed the month October
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after me and when so once we started doing the festival then we came up with
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like yo let's call it let's call this the black radio experience you know what I mean three-day festival black spirit I
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think we started calling it that last year we just started calling it that last year but we had the festival already but
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and we have the pride the albums too yeah you know with with with the records and everything you know what I mean but
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uh like two two years ago at my at my rap At Robtober in New York, I had uh Denzel Curry.
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Yeah. Denzel Curry. That's our guy, right? You know, that's my guy. Yes. And he But yo, I I caught him up on
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stage. He never really had a chance to just You would think he did, but not so
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much really go back and forth freestyling. Uhhuh. Because Joey Badass pulled up.
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Uhhuh. Too at the show. And I called Joey up. That's what he do.
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Yeah. You know what I mean? That's New York. You know what I'm saying? So Denzel had never really done that.
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So they started going back and forth and Denzel, you know what I'm saying? Denzel was starting to Oh, okay.
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You know, learned learned. Yeah. And and as dope as a rapper he is, you would have thought, oh, you've been doing that
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already. Yeah. Well, he came out in a different time period, too. Absolutely. You know, true, right? Less stage, more posting, most
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more platform, digital platforms. Right. Right. But then Zel Curry has been coming.
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We've been up on that dude for how long now, Heather? Decade or so. He used to come to South
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by Southwest and wait outside just to be heard. And look at him now. Absolutely.
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And look at you fostering these um these careers for these artists. Man, give that man a round of applause.
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Matter of fact, we did the song when he was there with me. We did a song. We went to this we went to Electric Lady that that same night
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and I think the same night or maybe the next morning, something like that. But we did the song. It's like the first song on his last record. Maybe it's
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called Walking. Uhhuh. Something like that. And and anyway, but then Denzel like Yeah, he's he's nice. Robert Glasper is here. We
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talking about the black radio experience. Rob, today is a very special day. Okay.
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And I was hoping that you know I I'm your big brother, Rob. Yeah.
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But I actually have a big brother, too. Okay. Right. And you know how cool you think I am.
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Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I got it from him. Okay. Okay. All right. Just want to let you know. Okay. You might have met him last year, maybe
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not. He got more attention than your headliners because he's the mayor of Northern California. All right. But
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today is his birthday. Oh. And I told him I wanted to do something special for him. And I got a Grammy
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award, Emmy Award, NAACP Image Award, BET, BET Award,
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Peody Peody Award. My bad. Whatever. Um, artist, producer, songwriter, singer,
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and rapper Robert Glasper is here. And this is my birthday present to my
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brother T. Callaway who's on the line right now. Come on now.
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Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.
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It's from T. Happy birthday, dear
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Tal. Happy birthday,
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Tal. Welcome to the show, man. How you doing? Indeed. Hey, hey, hey. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. I'm feeling good this morning here at work. About to do a half a day and uh start parlaying.
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Hey T, I got Robert Glasper here, man. You want to ask him for some birthday tickets here? What's up?
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about that cuz I watched him do a couple of interviews in the grass area last uh
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uh when we were at Napa, not last year, but the year before that. And then I was thinking about it. I was planning and
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yes, I do want backstage passes. I do. Oh, okay. There we go. I'm not going to
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say anything else. You can take Sway spot. We good. We good. We only got a few, you know,
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not so much room back there, so we'll just kick out Sway. You We got you, T. Yo yo, I appreciate I appreciate it.
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Robert, if you if you come to uh to the Bay Area and come and hang out with us at Lake Meritt, we're doing uh my
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birthday celebration Saturday 2:00. 2 Lake Meritt, let's go. Tell Let them
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know where I'm flying in town. Horse. Where horse at? Horse. You horse will be in the town this weekend, right? Big
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horse. I'm there for that. Okay. So, this is happening all of Northern California. Bring your family. Bring
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your kids. Bring your grandparents. Bring your great attitude. This is about
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community. T Callaway celebrating his birthday 2:00 p.m. Saturday. Lake Merritt on Lakes Shore. Tell them where
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it's going to be at. T Oh, it's going to be on Lakes Shore and uh Cleveland Cascades. And yes, bring
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your babies. Bring your grandmas. We doing a family affair. And also bring a
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side dish. Bring the side dish. I heard something else.
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Yeah, everybody bring your grandma, your side chick. Everybody's welcome. You're all welcome.
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Everybody is welcome. Coldplay concert. Okay.
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Yo, that's crazy. Bring up, right? Hey, but uh T, I love you, man.
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You're you're an amazing outstanding spirited individual. Solid. You always standing on 10 toes down. Um and I'm
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looking forward to celebrating another year with you. Amen. Oh, it's gonna be fun. Uh, like I
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said, I'm really excited. Uh, you know, these days come up, you know, once every year. And again, like I said,
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I'm looking for a great time. I like to share a great time with, uh, anybody who wants to have a good time. So, uh, it's
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happening 2:00 Saturday, Lakeshore and Cleveland Cascades. We're going to be in
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the house. There it is. T Callaway, man. Get that money, T. Have a beautiful day, brother. I'll talk to you later.
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Yes, sir. All right. Thank you, T. Callaway, man. The legend. He's legendary. Rob,
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word up. All right. Um, listen. Um, Robert Glasper is here. 8887423345.
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Rob, what are you working on right now? Um, just now. So, oh, so the the the the
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newest venture is the Blue No Jazz Club opening up in LA. That's right.
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Opening up here in LA. Uh, are you part of the ownership? I'm a
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partner in Yes, I'm a partner. I'm a brand ambassador. Yes. Congratulations, Rob. That's dope.
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When When is it is When is So, the grand opening The grand opening. I'll be doing the first two shows. The
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The grand opening is August 14th and 15th. August 14th. I'm in a building. Yeah, we're in the I
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talk with Vinnie. Um and you Well, what what I asked Vinnie for
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agree my manager, y'all. Okay. Sway bugs him a lot for free things. Yeah, I do.
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As you can see, absolutely. We have a mutual understanding, Vinnie and I.
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Yo, Rob Sway just called an actual rent a car, man. What's happening?
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What do we do, man? You know, Vinnie a penny pincher. Oh, yeah. For sure. So, I do that on purpose just to drive
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him bad. For sure. But I did ask him if Heather and I could have lifetime
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passes. No, you did not. Vinnie Sway does not speak with my mask. No, he said yes. Why you don't don't
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blow it? No, I'm not blowing it. But Vinnie, that was not my request. Vinnie, but wow. You
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did that? What? You know what? Said Wait a minute. Rob got a club in LA. I should never have to stand in
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line. I should never have, you know, I should have like a a a couch that no one else or section is like, you know
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how Prince has that he used to have that? Oh, you What do you mean? Oh, so there
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are certain places definitely in Minneapolis. There's a club there. Um, and he had a section in the club and it
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had a purple curtain. It was in the corner. Wow. And no one could go into that section because that's where he would pop in and
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out of that club. It's not that club that's on the corner with all the stars on it. His club. Uh, what's uh It wasn't his
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club. It was not not not his club. Not his club. Yeah. So, you're saying that's what you want
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to do for me? I was saying that's you might want to talk to Vinnie about that. You know what I'm saying? Have a little curtain there.
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No one can sit there but you. You Vinnie's boss, bro. You know, we trying to pass the [Â __Â ]
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You could talk to Vinnie. Get out of here, Rob. Is this really opening October 14th
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and August? Next month. Next month. August 14th and 15th. The grand opening.
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Blue Jazz Club in LA right in Hollywood. Smack dab. Right off Sunset. Sunset and
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Ivar. When do you take a time to do you? I I know some people some some people don't
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like to who who we had up here said they don't like to look back. I can't think of who. Will I am? Will I am said he doesn't like to look
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back because you don't want to be snagged. All amazing things he's done. Right. He came up here last week and talked about
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it. Yeah. But Rob, you're doing things people in your genre have not. At least not in our
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generation. Not been able to do. Not been able to do. And it doesn't sound like it's a plan. It just sound like you're following your heart.
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Yeah. Absolutely. That's the great thing. I'm literally doing what I love. Yeah.
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Like I'm I'm so I mean shout shout out to Blue Note for just giving me the platform to kind of just do what I do.
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You know what I mean? And and bring in who I want to bring in. They kind of gave me like comp blouns are like, "Hey, just you're in the driver's seat. What
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what what you want to do? How you want to do this?" You know what I mean? So it's it's amazing. I get to do what I
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want with people that I want. You know what I mean? I no longer have to work with people that I that I don't want to work with. I
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haven't I haven't done that in a long time. And it's a blessing. It's a blessing to be like, "Nope.
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Nope." You know, "No, I'm good. Thank you." You know, I don't you know, I just cuz in in this day in music, like a lot
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of times a lot of people have to work with people they don't want to work with just because they might be hot for a second. You know what I mean? You're you're hot,
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but you're whack. No thanks. Yeah. No thanks. You know, no thanks. I'm good. Hot whack.
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Hot whack. You know what I mean? and and I it's just a blessing to be able to just work with who I want to work with,
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man. I can't ask for that. Proud of you, brother. Look at that, man. That is incredible. Look at my look at my one one of my
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rides. You know what I'm saying? One of them. I've never known you to be You got the stuff. Yeah, man. I don't flaunt it. I don't
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flaunt it. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I haven't What do you I haven't seen that Porsche since I did the photo
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shoot. But where where is it? Was it back at the rental? I'm not really Probably Probably with
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the owner. with the the owner. Rob, when you when you step out on something like this to open up a club,
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why did you choose LA? Like because LA is a big it's it there's New
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York, then there's LA, you know what I mean? Like those two are the biggest like but I would think LA would already have
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so many like they do, but they don't have a blue note. You know what I mean? And throughout the years, LA's lost clubs
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like everybody else, you know, has lost clubs, especially during the pandemic. They've lost so many places that
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musicians and artists can go and and do stuff at, you know what I mean? And just jam at, you know what I mean? I've been
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coming here. I moved into Terrace Martin's apartment. I've been coming here with Terrace for since 2010. He's always had me out here.
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He's had me in CR show. I've been everywhere with Terrace just in, you know, in the gutters like just spreading
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music, like doing music and and been with the community here for a long time. And I I've been by coastal here since
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like 2016. I had a spot here, you know what I mean? And so I've been a part of the culture and I've
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been I've been going to the jam sessions, going to all the place. So I know all the places and like now there's not that many anymore. You
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know what I mean? And so I think Blue No is adding some fresh air to, you know,
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to the LA culture. Culture LA culture is already dope and, you know, full of legacy, but I feel like having the
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Blueno Jazz Club here will just those two together is going to be crazy. That's going to be dope. Robert Glass,
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he'll give this guy a big round of applause. We got a few callers, man. We got the group atmosphere is about to join us. Minneapolis, stand up. That's
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happening momentarily. But Leslie has something to say in North Carolina. Leslie, say what up to Robert.
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Hi, everybody. Hey. Hey. Hey. Um, I just wanted to say Robert, I saw
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you in at Roots Picnic last year. Yes. And I didn't really know what to expect,
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but it was amazing. I think I think her name was Yea that you brought out. Yes. Yes.
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And I had never heard of her. So, it was a really cool experience. I've only been there once, but I'm trying to get
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September, right? I'm trying to get out to the Black Radio experience. So, it's the last three days of August right before September. So, it's Labor
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Day weekend. 20 29. Wait, wait. 29 30. Yeah. 29th through the 31st.
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Leslie, absolutely. Please come through. Y weekend, but I remember that. Absolutely. And and Yeba will be there
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too. Me and Quest Love are doing a special set featuring Yeba. Crazy.
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Yes. Oh, that would be amazing. And they have one day, Leslie, there's one day passes available, two-day passes, and three-day passes as well.
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So, you got your choice. Absolutely. We'll see you there. Yeah, I'mma figure it out for sure. I'mma figure it out somehow. And Sway, I
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just wanted to say for you real quick, it is so I called you had me singing on the radio that day.
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What day? Um, you PKed me into singing um Cynthia Arivos. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. That that
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when I when I hit the wicked note in the end. Yes. I don't know Rob if you saw that. I went viral.
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You went viral. I went viral. Oh snap. Yeah. Yeah. Couple million people viewed it. You didn't you weren't one of those?
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No, I didn't see that. All right. You must have been sleep. We going to play it in a minute. Yeah. Yeah.
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I wanted to say it's so cool. Like I can see I worked in Hello. Yes.
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We here. I was like, I worked in corporate for so long and just based on
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what y'all saying, I feel like you just signed a contract because you put the numbers up and now you just doing you. I
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remember when you had John from Tennessee call in after that girl performed. He's like, "Man, that was garbage
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and you had to be nice, but now it's just like it's just real and I appreciate it and I'm proud of you."
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Oh, me or Rob? That's me. Oh [Â __Â ] Damn. Thank you, Lesie. Oh,
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Sway. so so disrespectful to people. Les, he doesn't even know how to take a compliment anymore cuz he's so used to
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mastering the back compliments. He doesn't know. He's always on guard, bro. He's terrible, Les. I tell everybody,
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you don't have to be nice to sway. It's not mandatory. It's not mandatory. Yeah.
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We love you, too. Lastly, thank you. I I really appreciate you, Leslie. You too, man. Hey, we got T
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from the DMV on the line. T, what up? What up, T? Hey, Heather. Hey, Sway. Hey. How y'all
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doing? Say what up to Robert Glas here. What's up? What's up? What's up? Yes, Robert. I met you. I'm originally
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from Detroit. I met you at the music hall. Nice. At an event. Um, and I just want to say you're amazing. I think it was it was an
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urban organic event and you and Colleen Rigggins were both there. Nice. Wow. It was amazing. It was amazing.
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Absolutely. I was just out that way um at Heather and uh Sway's event, the
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karaoke night in the garage series. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for coming. I actually made it to the BET Awards
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that week. So, I'm coming back to your event. I'm going to be there for the
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Napa event. I'm going to figure it out. Okay. Okay. I just want to make I just want to let you know that I love your music and I
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love Sway in the morning. You guys give us so much motivation to, you know, look
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outside of our bubble and just live life and I just really appreciate all of you. Thank you, man. That's amazing.
33:35
Absolutely. You know, Robert Glaser is actually a a silent member of the show, too, in case y'all didn't know. So,
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he's a member of Sway in the Morning, too. He's a low ranking member. See, but
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I gave him a little space just to see what how he's going to end up with. Okay. He's a low rank.
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Low ranking member. No, I was just going to say I was going to say I went to another event. It was kind of like um it
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was inside of an industrial building at Russ I think it's called Russell. Oh, I played there. Right. In Detroit.
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Yes. Fire. And you brought out all those. It was just amazing every time.
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Yep. That's right. I brought I had YBA with me and I brought out Black Milk was there with you. Black Milk. Yeah.
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Yeah. Absolutely. I remember that joint. Rob having fun, man. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to take one more call. T, you're a lovely individual.
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Thank you for calling. You're a super citizen. Khaled, what up Khaled? What up, Khaled? Yo yo,
34:32
what up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? How y'all feeling, man? I'm a long time
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listener. First time caller. Hold up. We got a first time caller.
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[Music] Welcome to the festival, the black radio experience. Absolutely.
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Thank y'all. Man, I met Robert uh a few years ago in Harlem, man, on a humbug. I was walking down the street and he was
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walking down the street. Yeah. And I said, "RG, what up, baby?" He came and gave me some love. We take pictures. I don't know if you remember that or
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not. Word up for a moment in Harlem in 2023. Dope. He remembers.
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Not the only fan I've had in 10 years. I'm going to be out there. I'm coming to the festival. I'm coming out.
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That's dope. Birthday week. I turned 50 on August 24th. Virgo energy, you know. Let's go. Get it. Let's get it. I love
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it. We'll see you there, man. Look for us. All right. We're easy to find. We'll be on stage. Absolutely. Wow.
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For sure. Khaled, is this your first time coming to the festival? This will be your first
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one. This will be my first time. Be my first time. I'm defin I was I was in San Jose,
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too, Spy, too. Okay. Okay. That's what's up, man. Um,
35:46
but I'll see y'all when I'm out there, man. This much love, Rob. I'm a big fan, bro. That Black Radio, the number one,
35:52
the first one, saved my life, man. I just It was a big time for me. I was going through a lot and that album is
35:57
the best, bro. I appreciate that, bro. Thank you. Beautiful. Hey, man. Thank you for your call, brother. You're a super citizen. Robert
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Glas, I want to thank you for coming by this morning. We're getting geared up, man. We talk about this every single
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day. We do. Yeah, man. I I actually want to thank y'all for jumping on board with this whole situation and and giving us
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the big push that y'all give us and just making us allowing us to be a part of y'all situation and back and forth. You
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know what I mean? Like this is this is great like combining with y'all. I just want to say something real quick. Rob Sway went that first year and um
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none of us had ever been there before. I've never been to Napa Valley before until last year, but Sway went the year
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before and he came back to work on the microphone. I'll never forget. And he said, "Robert Glasper is doing something that
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nobody in this world is doing right now." And he broke down the scenery. He broke down the energy. He broke down
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the fellowship. And he said, "Heather, I'm talking about Dave Chappelle, Mary J. Blah, this one,
36:55
regular everyday people. Snoop. Everybody walking around Dwayne W. We fellowshipping. We hugging. We happy to
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see each other. Whatever. Forget the news. Forget this. It's black people out here thriving, y'all. And doing their
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thing. And they coming out. It wasn't no beefs. Wasn't no arguments. It was just love. He said, "Yo, I got to find a way
37:17
to do this with Rob every year." He said, "Matter of fact, we have to find a way." And that was the the key, you
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know, to all of this. So, thank you, Rob, because you didn't even know. I mean, y'all are y'all y'all y'all
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legacies are here, but Sway coming back to paint this picture for our citizens and everybody else. We wanted to be a
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part of this. Absolutely. Just know that, bro. Just know that. And you you function on such a high
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level on a a high vibration. That's why you attract that, right? You attract the best of the best,
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the greatest of the great, the most authentic people. And so, I want to say salute to you.
37:55
Yeah. The the the reciprocal of what you're saying for seeing us in that light,
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you know, and allowing us to be a part of it cuz that's the light we see you in. So it's like another Rob Glasper
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collaboration. Yeah. You know what I mean? Us and y'all did it. No. 100%. Yeah, for sure. I got to ask you, I'll be remiss. We got
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Atmosphere, by the way, is here. Minneapolis Stand Up. We had 30 years in the game. Wow. I remember they came out
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and the first album in 97 I want to say. So 8887423345.
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I know Aunt is here. Slug is here. We went fishing and lake whatever that lake
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is that uh Prince had in Purple Rain. They took me fishing. Who knows the name. But before I go,
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man, Minnetonka, thank you. Um we got to, you know, I want to say salute to
38:43
you and congratulations for the work you've done with our brother Malcolm Jamal Warner, man. Jesus
38:49
children, man. Peace. And and he got a chance to win an award because of that song.
38:54
We got a Grammy. And you know what's funny? It wasn't that wasn't even planned out. So Malcolm, I met Malcolm
39:00
years ago here in LA and he was kind of like, "Yo, man, next time you come out, if you're ever in the studio, shout me out. I would love to just come to the
39:05
studio and hang out and watch your watch your process." So I had Ila in the studio with me. We're doing Jesus Children.
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So I hit Malcolm. I'm like, "Yo, I'm actually in the studio tonight if you want to pull up and just hang." He's like, "Oh, bet." So he came by. uh he
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was just kicking it, having a little drink and watching us perform while watching us record. And um uh a good
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friend of mine uh Jimmy Green, his daughter was killed in the Sandy Hook um tragedy. Sandy Hook tragedies. His
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daughter Anna was killed. So I did this song in in reverence to her and all and all the kids, you know what
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I mean? But my my my purpose was to do the song and have Jimmy write a poem for
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his daughter and say it in the for but the timing of it was just really bad for him. You know what I mean? To say the
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least. It was just not good timing. Um and so Malcolm heard me talking about
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that. He said, "Hey man, you know I'm a poet." And I was like, "What?" I had no idea. You didn't know at that time?
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Zero. This is like 2012, 13. I had no idea he was a poet. He's like, "Bro, I was a poet before I was an
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actor." He's like, "This is what I do." He said, "Let me just take a crack at it. If you don't like it, you ain't got
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to use it." I said, "Okay." And um we put the song somehow on his phone or
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whatever. And he just went to another part of the studio for like an hour and came back said, "Okay, I got something."
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Went the booth, iced it just like that. Literally, that's what happened.
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Jesus Children. Jesus Children of America. Yep. Absolutely. And Ila did in one take. Wow. That whole situation was just
40:35
special, you know. And sorry not to cut you off. The very first time I did Jesus Children
40:40
with Ila, the very first time was in Harlem
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the night of the Sandy Hood tragedies. So we woke up, we heard about that
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tragedy, and I happened to be doing a Stevie Wonder tribute show that night in Harlem,
40:57
and we did we did Jesus Children that night. You know what I mean? Yeah. on the day
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of that. So, that song is just so special in so many ways. You know what I'm saying? I'm so glad that I was able
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to connect with Malcolm and he came through and just spontaneously wrote that joint and then we ended up on a
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Grammy stage together. Quincy, you know what I mean? Come on, man. That's why I say it. Robert Glass, man. Thank you, brother.
41:20
Absolutely. Thank you for sharing. Me, too, Tracy. I got chills, too. Like, yeah. The Black Radio Experience, just
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more reason to come on out. Catch this magic, y'all. All right. We talking August August 29th through the 31st. Come out
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and fellowship, you know. Absolutely. Get them tickets, man, at black radioexperience.com. Day passes,
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one day, two day, three day big passes are available. Yep. All right. Three-hour passes. You only come for three hours.
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Oh, wow. I made that up just made up the speedo thing, too. Rob, have a great day, brother. Thank you for Love
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for sure. All right, man. Here it is, man. Let's play it.
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