“Cancellations that mighta made it look like we were biased in our choices. One, he revealed, was that two “crucial” acts canceled 10 minutes before air. But if your pick wasn’t there there might be a reason. The notoriously methodical drummer said he had some criteria he wanted to follow (“alive? harmonizing? turntablism? fighting shape? NYC? LA? BAY? ATL? NAWLINS? HOUSTON? MIDWEST born before 1960? born after 1995? Superlyrical? Stylistic? Original? generally known by at least 2 generations?”). at one point I said ‘we should do ALL women!!’ -that idea didn’t get too ….far (we didnt have time to do a ‘Some Kind Of Monster’/Kumbya thing to make that a reality).” “You’ll be shocked how fast 25-40 secs goes by and you don’t even get the halfway mark of 1995l remember 1973 to 2023 was the goal… we were aware of playing our biases out (if it were me alone? idda just skewered to my teenyears).
all my suggestions were 20 min presentations with Breakbeats/Graf Legends/Dancers/DJ/Beatboxers,” Quest continued. In the end, the impassioned, mind-bending medley roped in everyone from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Salt-N-Pepa, Rakim and De La Soul’s Posdnous (Kelvin Mercer), to Scarface, Ice-T, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Outkast’s Big Boi, Method Mad, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Nelly, Too Short, Swizz Beatz and the Lox, as well as new schoolers Lil Baby and Glorilla. So he had to cut it down to around 12 minutes for the heart-racing final version. The Roots timekeeper said in an interview that his original cut for the special segment ran to nearly a half hour, something the Grammy brass said was obviously untenable. “And WAY too many legends passed so someone’s estate was gonna be heated.” “We decided to eschew those who passed away, & give flowers to the living - for starters I learned with VH1 Honors not all rappers are good MCs and bad karaoke is a danger slope,” he said. or a third option im not gonna get into.” A fourth reason, he noted, was that the team made the decision to wait for a two-hour taping of a special slated to take place in August that will give the team more space to fill in the blanks.
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