On the latest episode of the “Jalen Rose: Renaissance Man” podcast, Raphael Saadiq chats with Jalen Rose about the Oakland music scene, Tony! Toni! Toné! and hanging out with Tupac and …
, what he told me was also a vocal love letter to his hometown of Oakland, California – it’s a musical city that made this R&B super talent what he is now.
“I was trying to work in a record store just so I could be around music. I just wanted to be around it,” he said. “All the singing stuff? That just happened, bro … and I was like, ‘Oh, I better rock with it.’ ” Though, Raphael made it clear that the Oakland love can dry up pretty fast if you’re not giving it all you’ve got while performing – especially at city-stopping events like the KMEL Summer Jam from back in the day.“The town is a hard place to play for. They love you and they respect you, but you have to bring it,” he explained. “They love you because you’re from the hometown, but if you’re garbage, you’re trash, they’re gonna treat it like that.
“At the time, he was on tour and on his day off, he flew back to have a meeting with these people, with about four or five people. I got the biggest love for MC Hammer.” , a rap icon who called Oakland home for some time. He said the moments they spent alone just shooting the breeze, especially at parties, had always come as a breath of fresh air.
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