QLS Mini: Questlove Flips The Script On 3 Questions He Asked Flea
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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After interviewing Flea in the studio, Questlove asked the Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder about the 1980s Los Angeles Punk scene. In response for this mini episode taped moments after, Questlove reflects on the Philly Hip-Hop ecosystem of the 1990s—the power of a KRS-One lyric and the raw talent of his fellow Philly peers and Roots collaborators.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Questlove show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:22.1 | What's going on? |
| 0:24.8 | This is Cousin Jake, producer of the Questlove show. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm sitting here with the man himself, Questlove. |
| 0:34.5 | Amir, we just finished a conversation with Flea, and you asked three questions that I thought were really interesting, |
| 0:36.2 | and I want to put them right back on to you. |
| 0:41.1 | When you think of your showgoing years and the formative years of the roots, |
| 0:48.5 | what are two or three concerts when y'all were cutting your teeth and you're looking at peers and looking at the bands, the groups, the crews that you're modeling yourselves after or taking this or that from. |
| 0:55.7 | What comes to mind? What concerts? Okay. So we finished, we were mixing that scat on December 31st, |
| 1:05.6 | 1993. And for New Year's, it was Souls of Mischief, De La Sol, and a tribe called Quest. |
| 1:15.7 | This was the last concert that Tariq and I went together, really asked fans, even though we had a record deal. |
| 1:24.4 | Like, we grew up in the period where, you know, we got to the venue early so we could be in the front row. |
| 1:32.9 | And it was 91. |
| 1:34.8 | So everyone was just having jump, go, Ida's. |
| 1:39.0 | Go, go, go. |
| 1:40.6 | 93, right? |
| 1:42.0 | Right, 93. |
| 1:43.0 | But I'm just being like that whole early period of, you know, |
| 1:46.4 | Keros one comes home and say, chum, chow, ch'all. |
| 1:48.8 | But it was weird, look, because this time it was almost like, |
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