クエストラブのインスタグラム(questlove) - 7月13日 06時22分

Sitting backstage watching the masterful @GregoryPorter at the #VienneJazzFestival2014 at #TheatreAntique reminiscing on our debut here near 20 years ago in 95. Our 2nd album #DoYouWantMore?!!?!!! had come out and the future was up in the air (well if youda told me we'd still be "a thing" in 2014 I'd be like "wait.....there is life after 1999?") we were already in "plan B" mode (it had sunk in that the gatekeepers at radio weren't feeling us or our brand of hip hop & the mixtape gods could care less if we could spit Sapir-Whorf stanzas or Saffir/Souls Of Mischief bonanzas off the top or starting at the abyss now we nowhere (keep risin to the bottom years was more like it) so "plan B pill" was find a way to make a living til America got whiff of our 5 year masterplan by 1999 (dear #FallonTonight heads, our 4th lp #ThingsFallApart "the breakthrough" came out that year) so being as though rappers were living the high life in america, no one really thought touring Europe was necessary specially when (if they were popping) they could live nice with 600k from advances and side money show gigs (lease stuff here, rent and lie about it stuff there and basically not have to suffer for their art) so with the exception of a noteable few, most US rap acts would touch Europe somewhere tween 6 days to 6 weeks a year (we were more 6 months total) always appearing in places your favorite rapper would turn his nose to (or her nose---s/o to #DaBrat for turning down the tv gig that singlehandedly is responsible for the reasons why I'm even texting this gargantuan story from France. That #TaRaTata episode took us from ashy ---600 capacity clubs---to classy---the 20,000 Zenith Stadium in 3 weeks)---ok it's hard writing a book on Instagram so lemme get back to the memories: before the internet colonized culture there was a time where if you told a European resident you were from New York that was a "whoa!" moment. Instant respect. You still needed a connect to get the good stuff as far as music was concerned and it took months for something to go "viral". That said: this French rap group had committed the ENTIRE #ReturnToThe36Chambers to memory (part two in a minute) to be continued

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