-That was one of the best halftime performances
of all time.
Congratulations! I loved it!
[ Cheers and applause ] I loved it!
-Thank you. -It was unbelievable.
You killed it.
You know, you make me nervous, though,
when you do -- you do that -- you do that mic flip.
-Oh. -And you flip the microphone.
You spin it around.
I can't even do it with a Sharpie.
You spin it around -- -There. You did it.
-Yeah, but then, you hit the high note.
And I -- I could do this,
and I'd be like... [singing gibberish]
[ Laughter ] You know, and I...
You did it twice, and I -- maybe I was nervous.
I was welling up. I was like, "Don't..."
-I'll be honest. No one knows this.
We're just -- This isn't live, right?
We're just in Minneapolis, right?
[ Laughter ] -No, we are live.
We are live, live.
-Oh. Uhhh.
That's my nervous tic onstage. [ Light laughter ]
-You flip the microphone? -I flip the microphone.
I don't know where I started doing that, but...
-It makes me nervous. -I haven't dropped it yet.
-What happened -- What would happen if you dropped --
[ Laughter ]
Trust me -- you've dropped the mic a couple times, yeah.
Bing! Yeah. -Yeah. That's --
-But what if you dropped it? What would happen, dude?
[ Laughter ] -All right.
-Dang. That's -- No one says that.
-Yeah. -You know, by the way,
thank you for doing -- -"Trust me, man.
You dropped the mic a couple of times."
-"Well, let me tell you something."
[ Laughter ] "I can't even believe it!"
-"I can't believe..." -"I can't believe it --
you picked up the mic, and then you dropped it!"
-"I was in Minneapolis..." -"I couldn't believe it."
[ Laughter ] -"...looking for love."
[ Laughter ] -Oh, unbelievable.
-"All I had posted was post a picture.
All I got was three likes."
-"I got three likes." [ Laughter ]
We did -- Thank you for -- -Who was that character?
-That character we're doing -- We do these characters,
and turn -- they turn into sketches.
But we did "Songversation." -"Songversation."
-Thank you for doing that. -Which is basically...
-[ Cheers ] -Oh, yeah, it's pandering.
Stop it. [ Laughter ]
Which is basically you and I after a bunch of gin and tonics.
Let's be honest. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah, all right, I hear you. -Yep.
-♪ White chocolate macadamia nut ♪
[ Percussion plays ]
-♪ White chocolate macadamia nut ♪
[ Percussion plays ] -Uh. But we --
It took us -- That sketch was probably two minutes.
It took us two hours to shoot.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, that's true.
-This is a true story. Quest, you were there.
-Yep. -Yep.
-Two hours. -[ Laughing ] Quest --
Calling Quest out -- God bless you, man.
He's like -- He -- Like, what happened when he walks in
is like... ♪ Da-da-da-da ♪
-Yeah. -...is, like, very genuine,
'cause he's constantly just waiting on Jimmy and I,
'cause we were -- yeah. -Well, I'll show you.
I have a -- I have a clip of outtakes.
-Of bloopers?
-Dude, we put together... [ Laughter ]
Let me show you. [ Cheers and applause ]
We put together -- I put together a blooper,
and it was seven minutes long. [ Laughter ]
So I cut it way down. -Wait, wait. Hold on.
Just to clarify -- the sketch two minutes long.
The blooper reel [Chuckling] is seven minutes long?
[ Laughter ]
-I'm trying not to laugh now. I don't want to laugh.
I'm not gonna look at you. But I want to show --
Here's -- Here's -- Here are some of the --
the bloopers to "Songversation." -Okay. All right. Oh, man.
-Want a cookie? [ Both laugh ]
You want a cookie? [ Both laugh ]
-♪ It's not the last cookie ♪ [ Laughter ]
♪ It's a new shirt ♪ [ Laughing ]
♪ It's a -- ♪ [ Laughter ]
-Have you been watching the new season of "Riverdale"?
-[ Laughs ]
-Oh, man!
Have you been watching the new season --
[ Laughter ]
That's my best acting, dude.
Ohh! Ohh!
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
My bad acting.
-I liked it, honestly. The last one is the best.
-No, it was the worst acting ever.
-No, the last -- "Oh, man!" [ Laughter ]
Like you're that excited
to ask me about me watching "Riverdale."
-My acting -- My acting is just awful.
That's why -- -Oh, man. I'm crying.
I'm crying. [ Laughter ]
-Dude, there were so many -- I had so many favorite moments.
I totally forgot. I was, like --
I was going through all your songs.
I'm like, I totally forgot "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
Of course, you have to do that one.
The -- The Prince moment. -Oh.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Beautiful.
[ Cheers and applause continue ]
Beautiful.
[ Cheers and applause continue ]
You made Minneapolis turn purple
and had the Prince symbol on it.
It was -- -The...
-Yeah. -He's...
It's a moment for me, if I'm being quite honest,
because he's always been
the pinnacle of musicianship for me,
and when we decided that, like,
the serendipity and synergy that we would be in Minneapolis
and that, you know, he's such a special thing here,
aside from what he is all over the world,
I just felt like I wanted to do
something for this city and something for him
that would just be the ultimate homage
to what I consider the GOAT of musicians.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Cheers and applause continue ]
-Two fingers up.
-And then, also, like...
I'm not gonna lie to you guys,
because Questlove is
the encyclopedia on music... -[ Chuckling ] Yeah.
-...but, also, like the... -Yeah.
-...I feel like -- like a gatekeeper
on -- on Prince.
So like, if I got the thumbs-up from Quest, I'm good.
-Well, you got it. It was, like, a rare...
-It was dope. It was dope. [ Cheers and applause ]
-It was dope. -It was dope.
-That's -- That's what you get. -It was dope.
-It was dope. [ Cheers and applause continue ]
-I mean, you have to understand --
we got the actual, real vocal stems...
-Exactly. -...from "I Would Die 4 U."
-See, that's like the nerdy stuff Quest loves.
-Yeah, exactly. The record--
You see, he didn't want to go in, but let's go in.
[ Laughter ] I got --
We got the actual vocal stems from "I Would Die 4 U,"
the actual recording,
and then we got uncut footage
from his performance of it in "Purple Rain."
And somehow, some way, by the grace of...
probably Prince looking down on us...
[ Laughter ]
...it synched up.
Like, it was like this, like, crazy, serendipitous moment.
And I just was like -- This is like...
-It was beautiful harmony. -I -- I don't know.
I just wanted to use that opportunity
to do something special for this city,
but most of all,
for my favorite musician of all time.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
[ Cheers and applause continue ]
I can't tell you how enjoyable it was,
how great it was.
"Man of the Woods" is out.
You had your birthday this week. -[ Chuckling ] That's true.
Yeah, I did. -You had a big week.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-You're gonna go on tour with this, with "Man of the Woods."
Last time, you did 20/20 Experience Tour,
and I saw it like five times. [ Light laughter ]
I was like, "Can I get tickets, man?"
And it's one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Please go see it. -You can always get tickets.
-Thank you, man. -Yeah.
-"You can always get tickets." -"You can always get tickets."
-"You can always get tickets." [ Laughter ]
"And just drop the mic whenever."
-"You got to get more than three likes on Instagram."
-What is -- What is -- Are you gonna give us any hints
of what the tour is gonna be like?
-[ Clicks tongue ] No. -Okay.
[ Laughter ] -Uh. Uh.
-Like, 20/20 was nuts -- like, the stage lifted up,
came out to the back of the room.
It was insane. It was like a Transformer.
-Yeah. -It's insane, dude. I had --
No -- No one does anything like you do.
No one performs like you do. It's great.
-I'm not proud of the bill that came my way
after the tour was over, but...
-Yeah, still, it was fantastic. [ Laughter ]
-The whole idea around what we could do in an arena,
and, very specifically, I wanted to do the show in arenas
because I wanted to bring the outside in.
And that's all I'm gonna tell you.
-Ah! That's good. I'll take that.
[ Audience cheers ] -All right.
-Well, you're gonna close our show tonight...
doing "Say Something"... -I am?
-...with Chris Stapleton, yeah. -Chris Stapleton!
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah, that's right!
Justin Timberlake, everybody! [ Cheers and applause ]