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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Questlove Part 2

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Questlove talks about how he got involved with D’Angelo’s Voodoo record, the evolution of his drumming style, how he approaches DJ’ing, and tells the best Obama story ever. Part 2 of 2.

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0:00.0

I'm a man.

0:06.6

Pushkin.

0:08.6

Hi, this is Steve Martin.

0:12.7

Throughout my career, I've been a member of various duos.

0:15.6

I was a wild and crazy guy with Dan Acroid, and more recently I teamed up with Martin

0:19.8

Short.

0:20.8

We've done a live show and who lose only murders in the building.

0:24.4

Now, Pushkin Industries is bringing another pairing into the world.

0:28.2

Me and my friend of three decades, bestselling author, SAS New Yorker writer, Rack Untur,

0:35.2

Adam Gopnik.

0:36.4

Our audio original, So Many Steves, Afternoons with Steve Martin, is a series of conversations

0:42.2

about my career and created life recorded over the course of a year in my apartment.

0:47.5

You can find So Many Steves at Pushkin.fm and wherever audiobooks are sold.

0:59.2

Welcome back to Broken Record and part two of our interview with Questlove.

1:03.2

I'm Malcolm Gladwell.

1:05.4

Rick Rubin and I didn't expect to sit down with Questlove as long as we did, but after

1:09.5

he told us in part one about how we wooed DeAngelo into collaborating with him, we just had

1:15.1

to have him sit at the drums and show us how he did it.

1:19.0

And then the stories kept flowing, including the best Obama story ever.

1:25.1

Here's part two of our interview with Questlove.

1:31.0

You mentioned way back when that you played DeAngelo that little bit that lowered him in.

1:37.3

Can you play that?

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