Questlove Supreme Podcast | Shanice Wilson & Tracie Spencer

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After years of manifesting, Questlove Supreme welcomes Shanice Wilson and Tracie Spencer—together. These two songstresses talk about their overlapping music industry experiences, making songs that define a generation's adolescence and what they have been doing in recent years. This fun in-studio interview checks a bucket list for Team Supreme.

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0:00 - Rollcall and introduction to Shanice Wilson and Tracie Spencer, appearing together on QLS
6:10 - The search for Tracie Spencer and some explanation as to where she has been
9:50 - Shanice and Tracie talk about shelved albums
11:40 - Why Tracie Spencer left the music industry for a lengthy period of time
13:00 - Tracie Spencer and Team Supreme talk about Iowa
14:20 - Tracie recalls her Iowa upbringing
16:30 - Shanice describes being a child star, and recalls doing a commercial with Ella Fitzgerald.
20:00 - Shanice's husband, Flex Alexander, has a Michael Jackson connection
21:00 - Tracie Spencer shares her earliest musical memory and recalls her foray with Star Search
29:30 - Shanice shares her own Star Search experience
37:20 - Why John McClain NEEDS to be on Questlove Supreme, and his mentorship of Shanice
41:00 - Shanice talks about her 1987 debut album Discovery
42:50 - Teena Marie, Leon Ware, Dick Rudolph, and Bryan Loren were all helping Shanice at the onset of her career as she recalls making Discovery
46:55 - Tracie Spencer talks about her 1988 self-titled debut album and why she opened it with a ballad, "Hide & Seek"
51:30 - Tracie Spencer speaks about covering a John Lennon classic as Questlove makes a big confession
54:20 - Who does a young R&B songstress in the 1980s look up to?
55:10 - Shanice and Tracie recall promoting albums in the 1980s and 1990s in malls
57:00 - Shanice talks about her recent work on Mecha Builders
58:30 - Tracie and Shanice talk about sop****re album experiences
59:00 - Shanice talks about her hit song "I Love Your Smile," working with Narada Michael Walden and past QLS guest Branford Marsalis, and Chris Brown sampling the classic
1:06:20 - Shanice speaks about remaking a Minnie Ripertson classic on her Inner Child album and the Dick Rudolph connection
1:07:10 - Tracie Spencer also worked with Narada Michael Walden
1:08:30 - Life as a teen star, and Shanice reveals that her grandmother was her roommate on the road
1:14:20 - Talents beyond music
1:17:25 - Shanice talks "For You" and playing Michelle Obama in a musical, her vegan lipstick line, Smile By Shanice (link: https://www.smilebyshanice.com/), and reality TV work
1:20:10 - Reflections of Kids Incorporated
1:21:00 - What does the future hold for Tracie Spencer and Shanice Wilson?
1:23:00 - Tracie and Shanice recently jammed with El Debarge
1:25:00 - Closing remarks to an episode we have all been waiting for

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