Questlove Reaches Into The Mailbag & Answers - March 15
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this mailbag mini-episode, Questlove answers listener questions on James Brown’s polarizing late-period track “Deep in It” and why he loves the so-called “mustache era” of JB. Quest' gives practical advice to an aspiring collaborator in Spain, talking busking, community-building, and creative ways to find like-minded musicians offline. He weighs in on the rise of listening bars and vinyl-centric spaces. Finally, he goes deep on his favorite snare drums, and discusses some of the kits from his own historic drum collection.
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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. |
| 0:11.2 | All right, y'all. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Letters to The Questlove Show. |
| 0:14.4 | Again, if you have any letters, slide into our DMs. |
| 0:17.7 | First of all, follow QLS on all the socials, please. |
| 0:21.6 | And also, subscribe |
| 0:22.9 | and like on YouTube. |
| 0:24.8 | That is the |
| 0:26.1 | fuel to our fire. |
| 0:28.7 | If you like these episodes and whatnot, |
| 0:31.6 | look, it just takes a second. |
| 0:33.1 | Please like and subscribe. |
| 0:34.5 | We're trying to build a nation of |
| 0:36.6 | informed music heads here. Yeah, thank you. |
| 0:39.7 | I like doing this. Give me more questions. All right. |
| 0:43.9 | Stephen asks, you've been getting into this James Brown mustache period quite a bit, |
| 0:48.1 | and I wanted to ask you your opinion on the track deep in it. My favorite period, by the way. |
| 0:52.9 | Yes. You and Christian McBride, right? Yes. |
| 0:55.3 | It sounds like he was trying to get into his very white bag, but to me, it also sounds just like one |
| 1:01.2 | uncle who's past his prime and is trying to holler at the young 20, something at the bar. Any thoughts |
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