Legendary Music Producer Quincy Jones Launching Line of Sugar Free Popsicles Today After Suffering Diabetic Coma in 2015: “Don’t Nobody Tell U Purple is Better than Red!!”

Legendary producer Quincy Jones, 85, never stops. He’s peerless when it comes to licensing his name to products. I love the headphones he makes for AKG. Their sound can’t be topped.

Now Q is launching a line of sugar free popsicles. In 2015 he says he went into a diabetic coma, mostly from alcohol consumption. He cut the drinking, learned to love the pops, and lost 50 pounds. I love this this line: “Having come up with the likes of Ray Charles & Frank Sinatra, I had enough alcohol to last multiple lifetimes…” Q has lived a lot longer than either of those superstars, and I hope he keeps going for a long time.

If and when this popsicle video surfaces on YouTube, I will add it here. Keep refreshing…

Here’s what Q posted to Instagram:

In 2015, I went into a diabetic coma & took what should’ve been my last breath. By the grace of God I made it through, but not without having to make some MAJOR adjustments. Having come up with the likes of Ray Charles & Frank Sinatra, I had enough alcohol to last multiple lifetimes, & the doctors told me I had to call it quits!! After substituting drinking with eating sugar free popsicles, I lost 50 pounds, & started feeling 37 again. My mind cleared up & it brought back incredible memories I shared with mentors who helped me along the way. When I was a kid touring on the road, jazz greats used to tell me, “Youngblood, step into my office. Let me pull your coat for a few ticks.” (slang for “Come over here. I want to teach you something”). I valued those pieces of advice more than anything & now that I’m back on track, it’s only right for me to share what I’ve learned with some of the talented rugrats out there today…Man, these kids got a lot of it down already, but as someone who’s been there done that, it don’t feel right keepin’ it to myself. I wish I could’ve recorded the lessons my mentors shared with me but we didn’t have technology like y’awl got now, so now that we got it, we gon’ share it! And because I cain’t have a drank no mo, we’re sharing it over a sugar free popsicle…So I hope y’awl will join me on my @youtube channel tomorrow (Friday, 12/20/19 at 9AM PT – link in bio) for the breaking of our first popsicle \(^o^)/…Don’t let nobody tell U purple is better than red!!…xxoo..q…<3

 

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In 2015, I went into a diabetic coma & took what should’ve been my last breath. By the grace of God I made it through, but not without having to make some MAJOR adjustments. Having come up with the likes of Ray Charles & Frank Sinatra, I had enough alcohol to last multiple lifetimes, & the doctors told me I had to call it quits!! After substituting drinking with eating sugar free popsicles, I lost 50 pounds, & started feeling 37 again. My mind cleared up & it brought back incredible memories I shared with mentors who helped me along the way. When I was a kid touring on the road, jazz greats used to tell me, “Youngblood, step into my office. Let me pull your coat for a few ticks.” (slang for “Come over here. I want to teach you something”). I valued those pieces of advice more than anything & now that I’m back on track, it’s only right for me to share what I’ve learned with some of the talented rugrats out there today…Man, these kids got a lot of it down already, but as someone who’s been there done that, it don’t feel right keepin’ it to myself. I wish I could’ve recorded the lessons my mentors shared with me but we didn’t have technology like y’awl got now, so now that we got it, we gon’ share it! And because I cain’t have a drank no mo, we’re sharing it over a sugar free popsicle…So I hope y’awl will join me on my @youtube channel tomorrow (Friday, 12/20/19 at 9AM PT – link in bio) for the breaking of our first popsicle \(^o^)/…Don’t let nobody tell U purple is better than red!!…xxoo..q…<3

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