From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Today we continue our celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a

mere quest love Thompson, drummer and co-founder of the roots. He was born in

1971 and says he and hip-hop grew up together. Probably the most

seminal moment for me is public enemies. It takes a nature of millions to hold

his back. When that album came out in 1988, that was a Sergeant Pepper's moment.

We'll also hear from public enemies Chuck D. He talks about the song,

Fight the Power, and the powers they were fighting. The powers of a lot of

different things, economics, education, enforcement, you know, the powers that

keep the black community remaining in the plantation state that it remains in.

And we'll listen back to a conversation with Sean Diddy-Combs, aka PuffDaddy or

P Diddy. He made his name or names in the hip-hop world as a record producer and

rapper. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm

Tanya Mosley. And celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary, we're featuring

interviews from our archive with some of the genres groundbreaking performers.

Our guest today is Quest Love, a mere Thompson. He co-founded the hip-hop group The

Roots, which is also the house band for the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon.

Quest Love has described the roots as the last hip-hop group, the last of a dying

breed in an era of solo acts. Quest Love grew up in West Philadelphia, but it's been a

lot of time on the road traveling with his father, the late Lee Andrews, of the

duop group Lee Andrews and the Hearts. Lee Andrews' record collection gave

Quest Love a head start and becoming an encyclopedia of music references. We'll

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