?UESTLOVE // Pitchfork Interview

Just a great interview to scan through, chatting through the last 15 years or so.

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Excerpt:
Back to the show– when I spotted Puffy, Q-Tip just happened to be within reach. Unbeknownst to all of us, Tip had invited Puff so that Puff could sign Mos to Bad Boy. Tip was the only artist that had one foot in the Soulquarian underground and one foot in the champagne rap that was going on at the time. He was the delegate. So anyway, Puff’s like, “Yo, I want a meeting now!” We went backstage and Tip’s playing the role of Minister Farrakhan with me and Mos on the right, and Puffy on the left with his 14 hitmen. That’s when I realized how he came into power. It was basically hearing Puff go off like he does at the end of “My Downfall” on Life After Death. Screamin’ it. He was like, “Let me tell you something, playboy. Big had nothing but love for y’all motherfuckers! And y’all shitted on him! Y’all shitted on my man!” I thought we were in the principal’s office. And he just went on and on for an hour. Thirty minutes into it, I realized I wasn’t going to get killed. It was just strange.