Episode 236: Jean Grae & Quelle Chris

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Jean Grae was our show’s first-ever guest back in 2012. She is one of the finest rappers out there, and a great producer as well. But in recent years, she’s expanded her horizons even further, pushing into comedy, sitcoms, instructional albums, audiobooks, talk shows, variety shows, and even her own church.

Quelle Chris joined us in 2016. Since then, he’s released the acclaimed album Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often and the instrumental project Lullabies for the Broken Brain.

Now Jean and Quelle have joined forces for the incredible new album Everything’s Fine. The project has been met with critical raves from pretty much everywhere, and rightly so. It shows Jean and Quelle in absolute top form: rapping, singing, producing, and playing on a group of songs that respond to today’s often-frightening world with humor, sadness, and a reminder that when we tell people that everything’s fine, we almost never mean it.

Tracks featured in this episode:

1. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
2. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Denmark Vessey, “The Smoking Man”
3. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Everything’s Fine”
4. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
5. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
6. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
7. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
8. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
9. Mr. Len & Jean Grae f/The Melon Bayside High Drama Club, “Taco Day”
10. Fight Club Changeover
11. Mr. Len & Jean Grae f/The Melon Bayside High Drama Club, “Taco Day”
12. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “My Contribution to This Scam”
13. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Hannibal Buress, “OhSh”
14. Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”
15. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Hannibal Buress, “OhSh”
16. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Big Tone, Anna Wise, & Jonathan Hoard, “House Call”
17. Ohio Players, “Funky Worm”
18. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Big Tone, Anna Wise, & Jonathan Hoard, “House Call”
19. Quelle Chris, “Eight Bih”
20. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Gold Purple Orange”
21. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Nick Offerman, “Everything’s Still Fine”
22. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Gold Purple Orange”
23. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Gold Purple Orange”
24. Mobb Deep f/Q-Tip, “Drink Away the Pain (Situations)”
25. The Goonies - Chunk confesses to the Fratellis.
26. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Mosel & Anna Wise, “Waiting for the Moon”
27. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Mosel & Anna Wise, “Waiting for the Moon”
28. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Gold Purple Orange”
29. The Oprah Winfrey Show, “Black for a Day”
30. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Peacock”
31. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Peacock”
32. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Peacock”
33. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Dane Orr, “Peacock”
34. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Denmark Vessey, “The Smoking Man”
35. They Live (2/4) They Live Fight Scene - FULL (Explicit Language) (1988)
36. South Park, “Cripple Fight!!!”
37. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Denmark Vessey, “The Smoking Man”
38. B2K f/Diddy, “Bump Bump Bump”
39. Biz Markie, “Nobody Beats the Biz”
40. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Breakfast of Champions”
41. A Tribe Called Quest, “Jazz (We’ve Got)”
42. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Breakfast of Champions”
43. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Breakfast of Champions”
44. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Breakfast of Champions”
45. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Breakfast of Champions”
46. The Cipher Episode 1: Jean Grae
47. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Zero”
48. TOP 10 Tekken Music
49. Jean Grae, “Chapter One: Destiny”
50. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “Zero”
51. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “River”
52. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “River”
53. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “River”
54. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, “River”
55. Kendrick Lamar f/Bilal, Anna Wise, & Thundercat, “These Walls”
56. Melanie Charles, “Damballa Wedo”
57. Sathima Bea Benjamin, “Winnie Mandela - Beloved Heroine”
58. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris f/Your Old Droog, “Scoop of Dirt”
59. Queen Latifah’s “Living Single” Inspired “Friends”
60. Alessia Cara, “Here”
61. Khalid, “Location”
62. Cavalier f/Quelle Chris & Iman Omari, “Bar Therapy”

Show notes:

1. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - ZERO | Official Music Video
2. Wired, “Jean Grae’s New Music Video Is a Trip Through Classic Arcade Games”
3. Jean Grae & John Hodgman on Marvel’s Eat the Universe
4. Pitchfork, “The Story of Jean Grae, One of Rap’s Greatest Lyricists, in 8 Songs”
5. The New York Times, “Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter”