Questlove Reaches Into The Mail Bag & Answers - January 16
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this special mini episode, Questlove answers questions pulled from the QLS DMs, Facebook inbox, and comments across YouTube and other DSPs. Along the way, he shares the origin story of The Questlove Show theme—touching on J Dilla, D’Angelo, James Poyser, and Questo. He also revisits The Roots’ Game Theory, offering lesser-known history behind the 2006 album. Questlove also responds to a Jazz collaboration suggestion that hits close to home, and more. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | The Questlove show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:13.0 | What's up, good people? |
| 0:14.0 | This is Questlove. |
| 0:14.8 | In addition to our weekly interviews of the Questlove show, |
| 0:18.3 | I'm going to be doing some things periodically |
| 0:20.6 | where I'll tell |
| 0:21.7 | you a little bit more about a guest or what's going on in my life. I think they call this |
| 0:26.3 | musings. You know, another thing we want to do is take your feedback, take your questions, |
| 0:32.5 | and I will answer them to the best of my ability. So I'm giving you the listeners a chance to engage with me. |
| 0:39.4 | You can DM me to either the QLS account. |
| 0:42.9 | Matter of fact, only DM the QLS account. |
| 0:46.2 | Don't DM my account because I barely check my own account, okay? |
| 0:49.6 | Follow QLS on IG or go through questlove supreme.com and you know we'll be recording |
| 0:56.6 | these a few times a month where I'll basically you know answer letters okay people |
| 1:05.9 | this is a first for me I am going to go, I guess this is like letters to the editor or letters to the podcaster. |
| 1:17.3 | And we get a lot of email and the last configuration of the show. |
| 1:23.5 | We have not answered fan mail or fan email. |
| 1:29.8 | But we're going to change that and do a little bit. |
| 1:42.0 | You know, one rule in life I have is to never read the comments, and I know y'all are never going to let me live down the open mic eagle episode. |
| 1:43.7 | Yes, people, I know. |
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