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The Unified Theory of Music in Philadelphia
I was lucky to have both foots in both sides and Philly was just electric at the time. Because it has a little money from that R&B scene and there was like this new thing where we were just making parties on our own. And I remember Questlove even came to one of our parties. He was like, who are these people? We're playing acapellas and just mixing things live. Back then you had to do it live. You had to put acapella and scratch the record and cut into another record at four turntables. But we would download it is Brazil. It's kind of what they made a song out of...We played our music
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