Questlove on the Origin of The Roots

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the season 4 premiere of What Had Happened Was, host Open Mike Eagle sits down with legendary band-leader, drummer and Oscar winner Questlove for the first session of their season-long interview series. In this initial conversation Questlove unpacks his childhood musical beginnings, his introduction to hip-hop and the lie that led to the formation of The Roots in high school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's been a long time for the kids and you.
0:03.0	Nighting to the Tony Island.
0:06.0	Stony Island.
0:08.0	It's been a long time.
0:10.0	I shouldn't have left you without a P tag get through. I'm open Mike Eagle
0:16.6	welcome to season four of what had happened was I got to say when I first started doing a show with Prince Paul in season one I had no idea
0:26.2	Whether or not we'd make it this far part of the reason we have the esteemed guest that we have for this season
0:35.2	It's because of the success of the seasons prior to this. Shout out in a big thank you and much gratitude to our guests for this
0:40.4	entire season, the one and only quest love and throughout this
0:45.4	season we'll discuss the first four albums of the Roos crew. So that's
0:51.9	organics, do you want more, it's Eladelve Half Life, and its things fall apart.
0:59.2	This is the Stony Island audio network, your home for hip-hop storytellers we tell our own stories over
1:05.2	here so check us out and get the dad by a rap pod the fatherhoods podcast
1:11.1	creativity and captivity the, hip-hop trivia, super duty, tough work, and more.
1:19.4	In addition to being your host, Open Mike Eagle, I'm also a fully full-blown fully developed
1:25.7	rap artist I'm announcing some tour dates and December 6 I'll be in Houston
1:30.8	December 7th in Dallas December 8th in New, December 7th, and Dallas, December 8th, and New Orleans, December 10th in New York,
1:36.4	December 11th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12th in DC, December 13th in Boston, December 16th in Miami, Florida, and December 17th in Orlando.
1:48.2	Go to Mike Eagle. slash open Mike Eagle. We have a discord there. We do a secret podcast that's there only and we'll be doing
2:06.2	some extras for this season and what it happened was that stuff we'll be dropping there.
2:11.6	Also you can support the podcast by using the codes in the ad reads.
2:16.4	If you want to use those products, please do use those codes and with that without
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