Quincy Jones is out here spilling tea again.

The music legend revealed he developed a brief addiction to heroin after hanging out with a 17-year-old Ray Charles and several other musicians when he was 15 years old.

“The guys, when they finished playing, they'd go in the corner, Ray wouldn't let me get in the corner, and they had it on their thumb,” Jones told The Hollywood Reporter. “Usually, I would sneak in the line and get me a little hit.”

Jones said he got clean after he fell down five flights of stairs while he was high.

“The mistakes are what help you grow and learn. That was a big one,” he said. “If I hadn't done that, I would have been in New York when I was hanging out with Charlie Parker; I would've been a junkie forever. Thank God we did it there and got it over with.”

Jones eventually worked with bandleader Lionel Hampton, and that’s when he met Malcolm X, who provided drugs for the band.

“We used to call him 'Detroit Red,' he'd have his Italian suits on,” he said of the famed activist.

Despite his struggles, Jones knows it could have been worse. He described his childhood in Chicago as a “nightmare.” He believes sneaking into a music hall to tinker with its piano was life-saving.

“That turned my life around,” he said. “I'd have been dead or in prison if I hadn't done that.”

His family later moved to Seattle and when he linked up with Ray Charles, he learned how to read braile and music, according to The Daily Mail. 

He’s learned a lot of lessons in his decades-long career and had a tip for people with doubters and haters.

“I found out a long time ago that the best position to be in is to be underestimated,” Jones said. “If they underestimate you, they get out of your way.”

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