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Questlove Biography

Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove (stylized as ?uestlove), is an American percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor. He is best known as the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. The Roots have been serving as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since February 17, 2014, as they have for the entire run of the show under Jimmy Fallon. Questlove is also one of the producers of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He is the cofounder of Okayplayer and Okayafrica. Additionally, he is an adjunct instructor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.

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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

Average, Four, Like, Real, Things

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

Cartoon, Cartoons, Parent, Parents, Strict

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Block, Machines, Start, Talk, Write, Writing

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.

Artist, Awards, Bank, Becomes, Losing, Refuse

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

Coming, Coming Out, Heads, Point, Sneakers, Term

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

Dad, Road, Seven, Teaching, Traveled, Two

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

Artist, Banging Your Head, Elite, Like, Wall, Working

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

Amount, Creativity, Fear, Frustration, Jobs, Struggle

At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2. 5 kids. " But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.

Guys, Ideas, Kids, Silly, Success, Telling

I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

Art, Defeated, Fonts, Hate, Mixing

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Art, Hip Hop, Hips, Product, Standpoint

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist, Educating, Ipods, Making, Obsessed, People

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Life, Live, Live Your Life, Record, Records

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Keeps, Music, Power, Stop, Stop Time, Time

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Cities, Gig, Gigs, Hall, Music, Radio

I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

Boys, Power, Prefer, Saws, Unwind

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

Believe, Man, Men, People, Republicans, Wealthy

I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

Minutes, New York, Secret, Shows, Tweet

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

Appreciate, Fame, Issues, Self, Topic, Voice

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

Cities, College, Crack, Entertainment, People, Result

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