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Questlove Tells The Story Of The Birth Of Hip-Hop… Drunk (Video)
February 9, 2018
This excerpt of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” is gold! Comedic, historically actual, Hip-Hop factual GOLD!
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Questlove Speaks On How F*cked Up It Would Be To Cut The EPA’s Budget (Video)
September 5, 2017
Questlove and the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) put together this light-hearted PSA on what is ultimately a life or death situation. C’mon, current Administration… What? You don’t think it’s important to ensure that we have drinkable water, breathable air, and uncontaminated produce?? That really is f*cked up.
(All jokes and subtleties aside, don’t mess with the Environmental Protection Agency in ANY way. The EPA’s work is too important for scoring political points.)
Questlove’s ‘Q&A’ Discusssion with De La Soul (Video)
September 30, 2016
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Questlove Reflects On His Career, Music, and Life (Video)
January 24, 2016
It’s kind of like asking “What’s your favorite breath you ever took?”
– Questlove
In this episode of ‘The Reflection’ featuring Questlove, he speaks on how he fell in love with music, the beginning of The Roots, meeting musical heroes, what it takes to truly succeed and more.
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Ice Cube Talks About The N.W.A. Biopic. Black Thought And Questlove Talk About Cutting Class To Listen To N.W.A. (Video)
August 19, 2015
Hahaaa! Li’l Black Thought and Li’l Questlove were ditching school to bump that filthy Gangsta-Gangsta N.W.A. music. That’s right, the purists were had their ears on the gulley gritty sounds of Ren, Dre, Yella, Eazy and Cube back in the day. And oh damn, Cube is a guest on The Tonight Show, talking to Jimmy Fallon about the biopic “Straight Outta Compton.” Watch them trip… and take a quick memory lane trip in the above clip.
Classic Clips: Questlove Captures Recording Session With J Dilla, Common, & The Soulquarians (Video)
February 15, 2015
Check out this classic clip that Questlove of the legendary Roots crew unearthed recently in honor of J Dilla. It’s behind the scenes footage of the recording process for one of Common’s most talked about albums ‘Like Water For Chocolate.’ Crafting the soundscape for the project was J Dilla, James Poyser, & the rest of the Soulquarians who were recording it at the time. Check what Questlove had to say providing some interesting background history on the video, the process, & a few other little known facts…
“The Roots & Common were midway recording followup albums to their breakthrough Things Fall Apart & Like Water For Chocolate projects. two unapologetic “Neo Soul†joints. Having formed an unofficial collation sometime in 96, using the Native Tongue blueprint. The Soulquarians were born.
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Questlove Speaks On Beef With Notorious B.I.G. And Diddy Back In The Day, With Chris Rock Being Around For The Best Music EVER (Video)
December 9, 2014
The world felt the loss of Biggie. BUT… Y’all don’t know nothin’ about the pain real Hip-Hop heads felt… in Chevy Chase (Maryland, USA)!! Ha!
Well, Rosenberg will tell you. Then quickly move to the meat of the video – Questlove and Chris Rock. The Roots’ main man and percussionist supreme starts by telling the story of beef before the fall of B.I.G.; and never getting to squash it with him…THENNNN… almost catching a 15-man beatdown by Puff Daddy and his ‘family’ soon after (okay, that got squashed… sorta). THENNNN… Chris Rock talks about his contributions to the Hip-Hop world library; and how Kanye’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” was the best ever.
PREVIOUS: QUESTLOVE + CHRIS ROCK
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DJ Jazzy Jeff And Questlove (of The Roots) Remix The ‘Super Mario Brothers’ Theme (Video)
July 8, 2014
You gotta be kidding! The Super Mario Brothers theme? They flipped it like that? This would be a shutdown performance at any show… To the enjoyment and amazement of the ‘Welcome America’ crowd gathered in Philly this year, Questlove and Jeff put together an epic ‘battle beat’ submission.
Philly’s own DJ Jazzy Jeff Master DJ takes on Jeremy Ellis in a Super Mario Brothers Beat duel at Philadelphia’s Welcome America Jam 7/4/14 Questlove on the drums
Black Thought And Questlove (Of The Roots) Talk About What’s Happened Since That High School Talent Show (Video)
June 30, 2014
The Roots’ Black Thought and Questlove chat with HuffPost Live; speaking on (among other things) Kellogg’s cereal, the latest LP, their gig at The Tonight Show, playing with Dave Chappelle again, and going head-up with Boyz II Men in a high school talent show… and LOSING! Hahaaaa. Everybody made out okay since then though. All good. Good clip.
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The Full Questlove Interview With ‘Democracy Now’ – An Hour Of Politics, Hip-Hop and More (Video)
September 9, 2013
Remember the clip we posted of Questlove (of The Roots) speaking with Democracy Now? That was just a piece of a hour-long conversation covering his book, The Roots’ beef with Notorious B.I.G., Hip-Hop history and MUCH more. We have that for you to view above.
EARLIER POST: QUESTLOVE SPEAKS ON HIP-HOP’S 40TH BIRTHDAY…
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Questlove Tells Story Of How He Found J. Cole’s iPhone (Video)
August 28, 2013
In The Roots co-founder’s own words, this is the “long-winded version of the ‘how did Questlove find J. Cole’s iPhone.” Random. What are the chances???
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Questlove Speaks On Hip Hop’s 40th Birthday, ‘Stop & Frisk’, the Zimmerman Verdict, and His Experience With Racial Profiling (Video)
August 15, 2013
Amir “Questlove” Thompson is on video talking about all kinds of stuff for a hour… that ought to be enough, knowing that The Roots co-founder is an insightful societal and music industry commentator.
Questlove talks with DemocracyNow.org about his musical upbringing, stop and frisk, Hip-Hop’s 40th, his book “Mo’ Meta Blues” … and there’s more. Got a clip above. More video footage after the jump below….
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Questlove Speaks On The Trayvon Martin Verdict (Video)
July 26, 2013
In an interview with host Alex Wagner of MSNBC’s Now, Hip-Hop icon and co-founder of The Roots, Ahmir “Questlove†Thompson declared that he was so taken aback when he found out that George Zimmerman got off (e.g. was acquitted of the murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin) that he walked off of a DJ gig in Amsterdam. He noted that “it felt like I was watching my own trial,†adding later in an Internet post that “this whole Trayvon case has taught me: you ain’t sh!t. That’s the lesson I take from this case.â€
Watch the interview MSNBC interview clip above.
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10 Questions for Questlove (Video)
June 18, 2013
Time Magazine’s Belinda Luscombe talks with ?uestlove (of The Roots) about his upbringing, records that influenced his career, his take on the direction of Hip-Hop, his new book (Mo Meta Blues), his group’s ‘retirement gig’ on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ and more.
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AZ and Questlove Bless ‘Sway in the Morning’ With An Impromptu Freestyle Collaboration (Video)
June 12, 2013
‘Sway in the Morning’ with an INSTANT CLASSIC collaboration: AZ and ?uestlove. Look ma, no drums… ?uestlove backs up Tha Visualiza’s freestyle rhyming with some beat boxing! Keep watching after the jump, as Sway and AZ keep chit-chatting after the jump – giving some reflections, some advice, and some memories… of Jay-Z in the high school days.
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Questlove vs. Nardwuar 2013 (Video)
May 6, 2013
For Pharrell Williams’ iamOTHER channel, Nardwuar interviews Questlove (of The Roots) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Been a minute since we posted a Nardwuar interview. Watch the goodness above. Questlove obviously had a great time in this one!
Black Thought Of ‘The Roots’ Speaks On Meeting ‘Questlove’ & His Rumored ‘Beef’ With Nas (Video)
April 22, 2013
Black Thought Of The Roots stopped by Complex TV’s ‘Combat Jack Show’ to speaks on the early beginnings of his group upon first meeting Questlove & also provides details on the brief beef he had with Nas.
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Questlove Spins J Dilla Classics For RBMA Party (Video)
November 30, 2012
Got to give the people what they want… and they always want some J Dilla at the dopest parties. So, since ?uestlove (of The Roots) was behind the tables… J Dilla it is. Check out the video above for a DJ set featuring spins of a few J Dilla classics!
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R&B/Jazz: Robert Glasper – “Twice” (Questlove Remix) feat. Solange Knowles x The Roots
October 12, 2012
Pretty dope. Gotta admit it. And Solange is not to be slept on! ?uestlove’s remix of “Twice” (featuring Solange Knowles and The Roots) is another hot one off “Black Radio Recovered (The Remix EP).†Listen (and buy) via the links here.
ROBERT GLASPER – TWICE (?UESTLOVE’S TWICE BAKED REMIX FEAT SOLANGE KNOWLES X THE ROOTS) | BLACK RADIO RECOVERED (THE REMIX EP)
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Questlove Cheesesteak Roll (Video)
March 19, 2012
Questlove, leader of the legendary Roots crew, partners up with Chef Zama back home in Philly to create the official “Questlove Cheesesteak Roll”. Shout out to my homegirl Daisha back in Japan for making me hungry looking at this…..
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