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All right, people, you know, I can't have this moniker, this name, Questlove, and not display my mastery of what it is that I really, really do.

And, you know, I know I'm all things to all people, but at the end of the day, I'm a curator,

I'm a pruner, I'm a farmer of music at heart, meaning having grown up in a household with 3,000 records, currently owning 200,000 records,

I will say that I believe that I know a thing or two around the kitchen, if you will,

when it comes to curating music.

And of course, there are various times out the year

where a lot of my friends will tap me to make them a mixtape right quick. Thanksgiving,

I'm always asked to put together a two to four hour Thanksgiving mix, which is harder than you think because you want something

that fills the room with music, but you don't want it too wordy so often for like dinner requests.

I do instrumental jazz, but like vibrant because, you know, if you play something too mellow then that that'll bring the

mood down of course i'll get the birthday request or you know the office party request or

some of my chef friends will have a opening and need a five-hour playlist and you know i do i do do, I do playlists like most people do the New York Times puzzles.

Like, I just, I got to challenge myself to discover new songs.

But I will say that February 14th of every year of my life is probably the busiest.

Now, back when I was in the Do You Want More El Adelf Half-Life Days?

Yeah, I would make customized mixtapes, meaning individual cassettes specifically for that person and make a pretty penny doing it.

Nowadays, I just, I want to share the love and share the joy.

So Valentine's Days represents two types of playlist for me.

Playlists of people in love and playlists for people who are depressed because they lost love.

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