Questlove Remembers The Great Bob Power
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The QLS family lost a great friend, supporter, and one of music's greatest ears in the passing of Bob Power. In a small mini episode, Questlove reflects on Bob, who appeared on the second episode of Questlove Supreme back in 2016. He credits as one of hip hop’s greatest advocates and a defining force in boom-bap. He recalls how Bob’s work with De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest helped inspire and shape the sound of The Roots, comparing Bob’s role to George Martin’s with The Beatles. Questlove shares stories about Bob’s meticulous studio approach—mixing quietly and balancing clarity with gritty texture. Quest' also touches on recent collaboration with Bob, a funny phone call in the past, and more. The Bob Power episode of Questlove Supreme has been posted atop the feed. Bob Power forever.
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| 0:00.0 | The Questlove show is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.1 | Hey, y'all, what's up? |
| 0:19.0 | So check it. |
| 0:20.2 | We are still dealing with the passing of, really, of hip-hop's greatest advocate, Bob Howard, master engineer, producer, musician. |
| 0:32.2 | I would like to say that Bob really, really enhanced uh what we know as boombap hip hop |
| 0:42.7 | i felt it was rather apropos for us to pay tribute to him by replaying his episode and what's |
| 0:51.6 | notable about this episode is that it's the second episode of Quest |
| 0:59.2 | Love Supreme. I mean, right now, Jake, we are, we're at least 300 plus. Yeah. Yeah. So we're 300 plus |
| 1:08.1 | strong. So for you to agree to be our second guess, I mean, that's just, that really speaks |
| 1:15.9 | of Bob's character, of really being there for you. |
| 1:21.3 | Like, I will have to say this probably, I've gotten narrow a note from Bob for any thing that I've requested to mix the song |
| 1:32.6 | or recall this mix or any of those things. And the thing that I want people to really know |
| 1:39.5 | about Bob besides all of his achievements is just what a really, and I know like words like a |
| 1:48.7 | sweet guy, a lovely guy, all heart and all those things, but I mean, Bob was like even based on |
| 1:57.5 | how hip hop heads met Bob. If you a day law fan you can uh hear him various |
| 2:05.8 | times on tribe records or day law records and you know kind of in their their humorous uh stratosphere |
| 2:13.3 | in the galaxy of humor that is the native tongues, Bob plays a big part of that world. |
| 2:20.6 | And also, I will say that Bob kind of entered my life in a transitional period. |
| 2:28.7 | We started recording what you guys know as Do You Want More? |
| 2:34.1 | In the third week of December of |
| 2:38.6 | 1993 the music world normally shuts down for the second half of December you know for |
| 2:46.5 | the holidays and usually gets back into business maybe the second week of January so |
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