Mint Condition

So, yeah.

so yeah i just think the audio too like nobody ever brings up their names you know what i mean if it's outside of that um and again this is a time where you didn't have to be lyrical miracle you didn't have to do any tricks and just like just be dope and i thought milk was dope for that time um and then on the r b tip i'm gonna go with mint condition You know, I don't feel like people, well, I don't hear, I don't hear mint's name mentioned a lot.

People love pretty brown eyes and some may know forever in your eyes.

But I told my man, I'm saying something about my best of mint condition.

He was like, damn, you make a best of mint condition.

I'm like, nigga, these niggas have like 10 hours out.

Like, yeah, you know what I mean? So 91 meant to be mint with pretty brown eyes and forever in your eyes.

That's my favorite.

most of that money came from the $5 and $10 donations.

And that's what we see also is that groundswell of support from the fan who wants to be able to be close to those things and wants to see whether it's Jelly Bean's hat or Prince's guitar or something from Alexander O'Neill or Mint Condition, some memorabilia thing that they can see, that they can be close to, that can bring back that memory.

Because what is important to people or you see jelly beans hat and Marty sees jelly beans hat.

You both have memories of that, but they're very different memories and they touch people differently.

Okay.

In Pretty Brown Eyes, what does she keep telling Mint Condition? A, to call her.

B, let's chill.

C, don't call her.

Yeah.

they they help they poured into me and just by being in that environment and watching them i mean i gotta realize i was around mint condition one of the best bands to ever do it um i was there with sounds of blackness i was there with low key i was there with lisa key uh terry lewis let me sit in and watch johnny gill cut vocals and you know watching terry move and comping vocals and Man, it just opened my mind up to another world that it was like, you know, this thing has levels.

And that became that level for me where it's like, all right, this is what it looks like.

Yeah, see, that's legendary.

Ortiz my-

What about Mint Condition?

They had, like-

[laughs]

the problem is-

I want you to quit

... niggas complain, Mint Condition-

I want you to quit while you're ahead

... ascendant.

When I was in college, I was listening to D'Angelo and Erykah Badu and Tony! Toni! Tone! and, and, uh, Mint Condition, a lot of these soulful, um, R&B artists.

And then there were a lot of soulful hip hop groups that we were listening to, like The Roots and A Tribe Called Quest, et cetera.

Yeah.

Okay.

I came in and he listening to Mint Condition.

I said, "What you know about Mint Condition?" What you know about that [laughs]?

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? So the one thing I tell people is that the thing that you can't escape, no matter what, is gonna be quality.

But he has some, uh, up-tempo cuts that I like.

I like The Floor, and I just found out that Mint Condition did the background vocals.

I don't know if you remember the little Floor chants?

Yes, I-