snoop, bobbie womack, bela fleck, chuck d, and that is not even half of them. this is a wonderful tribute that they wanted to appear on your stuff. >> this was a town home meeting of the minds and souls to just have people like dr. west, reverend al sharpton, samuel l. jackson. these people are really not noticed as musicians, artists. what i wanted to do was to have a musical biography of people that i looked up to. where i get my funk from. the people that encourage me and inspire me. the people who really brought me through. i was having really tough times. these voices. where are these voices? i wanted to make sure that these voices showed up today because we need to these voices more now than ever. tavis: how do they do when they get in the studio with bootsy collins? how did they do when you pick up the base? >> they just at the full -- act the fool. no pockets of resistance. everyone wanted to be on this record. it was amazing to me. the real shocking thing for me was to see dr. west come in the studio. we were laughing, talking, and everything and he as