>> absolutely, because aretha could sing anything. i mean, anything from -- as you saw on the grammy's that time. anything from opera to blue's. everything inbetween. jazz, rock, whatever it was. aretha could sing the phone book, brother. >> there you go. >> yeah. >> it's a good way to leave it. thank you, sir, i appreciate it. i'm so sorry for your loss. >> oh, man, well, you know what? but i'm celebrating her life, man. when we were kids growing up, man, all we used to talk about -- everybody in the neighborhood, we grew up in a neighborhood diana ross was in the neighborhood, the four tops lived a couple blocks over. the temptations. we grew up in that neighborhood. you know what i mean? we were all hoping to do this, and some of us were -- there's some people that i can't even name, some groups and people like that who could really,