Q-Tip

Oh, yeah.

A- A Tribe Called Quest song called Sucka Nigga, where Q-Tip talks about, like, how good it feels to say that word.

Dog, like, of course.

I be calling, like, white niggas niggas, you know what I'm saying? [laughs]

Shout out the whole Queens, man.

Q-Tip.

That put on, man.

It goes on and- Yeah.

I love Donald Byrd, man.

I mean, I almost want to give Donald Byrd to Q-Tip.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, uh, Q-Tip, Tri- A Tribe Called Quest.

Hello.

Leaders of the New School.

What Ultra Magnetic MCs did at that moment is extraordinary.

And then you have the intricate, beautiful flows of people like Q-Tip.

There's so much, so much.

But anyway, I was of the understanding that...

They don't know it, but you know, like who, how did he see Tupac? Yeah.

You know, like, how did he see Q-Tip as the boyfriend in the beginning? You know, how did he see Brenda from 227, you know, drinking a 40 and talking shit, you know? So he would see us in...

in a way that we had never imagined ourselves.

I had that same experience and I think James Samuel is similar in that way of just being the visionary in the ability to see people in spaces that they would never even see themselves.

Mm-hmm.

What about your favorite producer's producers? 'Cause Q-Tip is on everybody's stuff.

Well, that's, that's a, that's a tricky one because people have weird ears when it comes to producing, and they-

Yeah

[laughs]

Mm-hmm.

I mean, Q-Tip is in that.

Yeah.