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"Even in hip-hop we have to get back to the true musicality of the art form and stop looking for a scapegoat. The bottom line at the end of the day we have to keep it musical."illRoots.com: How are you doing today sir.
Q: I’m great and how are you?
illRoots.com: Oh man I gotta be honest with you I’m so tired.
Q: Are You.

illRoots.com: Up late grinding
Q: I can dig it.
illRoots.com: Thank you so very much for giving us the greenlight to go ahead
and knock out this interview.
Q: No problem man.
illRoots.com: Who is Quincy Patrick?
Q: Quincy Patrick is a talented guy, I’m a blessed man and just a man out here just trying to utilize the gift.
illRoots.com: One song that summarizes your entire life and why?
Q: Wow, I don’t think I’ve written that song yet. I really don’t, I’m striving though to make that song one day. Yet a very special song to me is the one I wrote that was covered by Babyface called “Reason for Breathing”. I wrote that because it started out as a gospel song “Reason for the Season’s” and to make it more secular so it just hit me “Reason for Breathing” an over exaggerated love song. So yea that’s the song that’s very special to me.
Babyface - Reason for Breathing
illRoots.com: From the songwriter aspect what is the most important or vital facet of a songwriters arsenal?
Q: Just being real and saying what people want to say. The ability to take what others can’t figure out how to say and that makes a good songwriter. So I like to point to R.Kelly he, in a ghetto way, I always like to say he writes like a roach on the wall. He’ll write exactly what goes on in the hood and that’s what makes him such a good writer. So I think a good song writer would just basically say what others want to say but don’t know how to say and just go beyond the norm.

illRoots.com: Okay, out of all the things that you’ve done in your career what is the most satisfying?
Q: Just being able to do it and get paid for. Have a dream a watch it come into fruition is a beautiful thing.
illRoots.com: To me hip-hop is stagnant phase, what do you feel would be a relatively realistic solution for the problems in music right now?
Q: I think we need to go back to real musicality. As well I think we need to study the pioneers, like the Gladys Night’s, Barry Gordy’s, and the whole MoTown movement. They were musicians, that was clever written songs, back then it took three minutes to write a song and now you’ve got five minute songs that you kind [of] like. Really a hit song you could get it off in three minutes. Even in hip-hop we have to get back to the true musicality of the art form and stop looking for a scapegoat. The bottom line at the end of the day we have to keep it musical.

illRoots.com: As far as Qwilite what do you want to people to get out of the music that comes from it as well as yourself?
Q: I think that we definitely want to take it back to the music, we all get caught up into the commercial aspect of the industry but we do want to keep it music. My twist to Qwilite is to bring in artists that labels wouldn’t normally bring and kind of flip it a little bit. Such as Ranjini, who is an R&B/Pop Indian, that’s a flip. I want to give the industry a new twist, you can reshape the mold, but you can put your own twist on it because it is what it is. I want to bring like an international thing to it, but that’s what Qwilite will be focusing on….Real Music…Real Musicality…with a different twist.



Ranjini Performing "Medley" on the NY Circuit
illRoots.com: If you could be president of any nation which one and why?
Q: Well I would choose the United States, because the United States leads in this world we live in. Everyone follows our lead and we can reshape life period if we could just get somebody in that could lead by example and reshape the life that we live then all would be better.
illRoots.com: How do you feel you have influenced the game?
Q: Again that listening to me and the people that I’ve worked with its deeply rooted in the old school and musicality. Even rap, if I did rap, I recently did a rap song that I was told it was so musically put together that it sounded like a sample. Real musicality I think that I’m deeply rooted in that whether it would be the lyrics, the beat, or the melody it will always been some real music in it.
illRoots.com: Thanks to Quincy and Nola at Qwilite Entertainment. You Can Catch Part II of this interview live in the Studio with Quincy where we break down the severity of musicality and the actual steps that he takes to make a hit record, stay tuned.