Quincy Jones

But at one point, Rene had this wonderful... theme soundtrack for the film that he had, you know, he was a music producer in, in Europe.

And he was kind of like a Quincy Jones for years.

He was a really big time producer in Europe, musical producer.

And he, He had put together a combo, and he wrote and recorded this incredible soundtrack for Massacre at Central High.

We mythologize the studio auteur, and the pantheon we're handed is almost all men.

George Martin, Rick Rubin, Quincy Jones.

Geniuses, sure.

But where's the reverence for Sylvia Robinson?

Before that, his rap, his style of rap was common cut, and the videos that went with it, this time, this is VCR, and all the videos of the American rap and everything, do you know what I mean? But his style of rapping, was comical that's how

we knew and the maddest thing is yeah even just how he got fresh prints is crazy I always just think to myself I hope there's a Quincy Jones out there for me in the UK but he had no acting experience bro literally Quincy Jones said yo like I like you he didn't even have to audition I think he did to be fair just screen testing that he built a whole show around him everything and then boom they trusted him and they put the show on but no acting experience

I don't think he's a comedian.

The reason why is because I think you're more of a comedian actor than he is.

Who co-wrote and produced the music for Coca-Cola's famous 1971 Hilltop commercial, I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke? Is it A, Barry Gordy Jr.

as a favor to McMahon Erickson's ad team? B, Raquel Billy Davis, the Black Motown era songwriter and McCain Erickson music director? Or C, Quincy Jones, who scored it? who scored it between film projects.

I wanna, I wanna say it was C Quincy just because like he had his hands in so many pies at any, at like any point in his, in his history that like, it feels like it tracks that it would just, it would be Quincy, but I'm going, you know what? I'm going with C.

All right,

original right can you imagine the work that went into deconstructing that and rebuilding it yeah you know a michael jackson production

right right and well that's one thing so like this is this was he would have recorded that in 87 late 87 and So this is before you can go on the internet and get isolated tracks and all that stuff, right? He's just listening to bad like we are, right? And then his band took and recreated the production of Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Bruce Sweden, and Greg Fillinghans, right? Because when you listen to that...

right but no one realizes like people think oh well he just took the bad thing and you know put like no they reconstruct that and then so you move to track two on that album is like a straight up rock song that's an original Weird Al song completely different sounding production from bad because it's not a synth pop song like that is third song on the album they do i got my mind set on you which is the that big lush jeff lynn production it's

uncanny it's uncanny

completely different production than anything quincy jones ever did that's why quincy jones and jeff lynn both have jobs because they do totally different things you know that you need jeff

lynn sound yeah

But here's Weird Al and his band, and they're just recreating that, right? So no one realizes that on every album, every song, you're him and his band are recreating the exact sound that you're used to and then he's adding his own spin on it

So I thanked Mr. Miller for pushing me to practice, and it finally happened, of course, later on.

But in the house, the music that was playing was Quincy Jones was playing because my dad hosted a radio show from – It was around eight years from the mid-'80s through the mid-'90s.

He also had a radio show on WBAI called Musical Expression.

So he had so many different jazz records.

So Public Enemy, their message to counteract what was going on and to provide like a social commentary on what was happening in this country, that inspired me to enjoy hip-hop.

Them and also, you know, Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One.

and especially listening to Quincy Jones' Back on the Block, that record kind of changed me because from that album, it was such a mix of rap and jazz, soul, and such a unique mix of that.

And you had those great rappers like Big Daddy Kane and Ice-T on those records, on that record, excuse me, and it was so influential to me And then I saw the connection between jazz and hip-hop.

No one has been this popular for over 20 years like him.

Not Quincy Jones, even.

Not the Beatles.

Yeah, he's got number ones.

Who's Quincy's mum? What's her name? I don't know.

Quincy Jones? No, not Quincy Jones.

Quincy is in Diddy's stepson.

Oh, really? And