Steve Rifkind Part 1
The Questlove Show
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The Dilemma of My Dad
My very first musical memory was I was around five years old at the Apollo Theater of Bratran in Jackson 5. So my dad managed a DJ called Tommy Smalls. And Tommy had a club up in Harlem called Smalls Paradise. My dad had James Brown, you know, and he had Joe Simon, Fatback Band. But it was really getting to a place where I was like, go to jail or get killed.
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