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Between '97 and 2003, our home base became Electric Lady Studios, primarily to record D'Angelo's Voodoo. But it really provided us a great reason to have extended slumber parties. It's where we ended up recording Common's Like Water for Chocolate and Electric Circus, Erykah's Mama's Gun, the Roots' Things Fall Apart and Phrenology, parts of Slum Village's Fantastic Vol. 2. Basically, there's 90 seconds in D'Angelo's minute, so if he's going to be at the studio at three, he's going to be there at seven. Which means that, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., me, Dilla, and James Poyser would work on Common stuff, and then we'd start fucking around with D'Angelo from eight until four in the morning. That was an ongoing system for six years. At one point, it just became such a factory that we would create five to seven tracks a day, and then people would just kind of auction on them. So Common was the initial owner of the music to D'Angelo's "Chicken Grease" and D'Angelo had "Geto Heaven, Pt. 2", and they just traded them. That was the golden era.

Harry Weinger from Universal Music sits with Musician Questlove as they dive into the original multitracks of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On."