Lalah Hathaway joins Toure to talk her new album, going to school in Boston, the basic standards of singing that should never be skipped, and the musical and spiritual legacy of her father, the legendary Donny Hathaway.
There are so many elements in her Dad's voice that can't be recreated. I wish that people would stop and just enjoy his music! She is also one of a kind! JUST LIKE HER DAD!
“It’s like I sourced It to myself”. These words & expression is what I believe she said initially, we’re about to get deep…. This is soooo deep & dope… Lalah is now Dr Hathaway & she speaks like it…. She’s the consummate Pro on so many levels…& just a pure Joy to watch, listen to, understand & view…. Source….!!!! I thank ya!!!❤🙏🏽👍🏽✌🏽❣️❣️❣️
I love you and your music. I love your father and his music. You are so spiritual and I love Vanta Black and your other albums that I have heard. You are indeed blessed. I hope to see you soon in concert. I understand that you have Sourced --it to yourself! You are so beautiful!
[4Agreements: Don't make assumptions.] I absolutely love this conversation. Laylah Hathaway is the standard I strive for musically PLUS her aesthetic and beliefs are so similar to mine. 🥳👏🏼❤️🥳
Her father voice was in-between a church & Juck Join with the hole in the wall voice. Her farther voice was a one of a kind. Where I respect her father's voice when he sang a song by a 1960s artist called "Sake Full of Dreams." Love you❤
26:36-26:44 Was that agreement you weren’t recalling ‘Don’t assume anything’?! I deliberately didn’t google anything to think on my feet too. Thank you for this whole interview Lalah & Toure. Ultra relatable to me in my own bubble of a life.
I believe she is explaining that the source has given that gift, and that source has an expectation of her good stewardship of it to cultivate it to nourish and influence others. God gives the increase for you to bless others. Just like your show!
I grew up in Boston, in Mattapan specifically. I agreed with EVERYTHING they said about what it's like to be there - especially growing up or as a young adult in the 80s & 90s. I left in 2001. I've been back to visit my mother a few times. I wouldn't go back to live there though.
36:18 You all are inspiring me to pick up where I left off in an Octavia Butler book that I had started reading where the protagonist does time travel like this to observe yet does get involved. Thank you, even though I am probably so preaching to the choir here. ; )
Lalah’s conversation about Boston’s cultural vibe reminds me of Ann Arbor, in MI…a totally great college, foodstuff city-town and getting called the N-word.
I don't think all singers are their own producers, and some singers need producers. Not to sing, but to objectively and commercially make A RECORD. There are astronomical singers that are horrible at recording, because of lack of discipline, taste, etc. And there are average singers that would sing them under the table in making a record, because they know their limitations and how to convey emotions to enhance the recording without overkill..
