Questlove Talks About The Early Days Of The Roots, Shares His Early Influences, Gives Black Thought His Flowers, And Reminisces About The Soulquarians

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of People’s Party with Talib Kweli, Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh chop it up with the wildly talented and endlessly curious Questlove. The conversation spans Questlove’s career -- from bucket drumming in Philly to forming The Roots to launching OkayPlayer to taking a gig as Jimmy Fallon’s band leader. Kweli and Quest are close friends and it shows throughout the episode, as they recount stories from the “Soulquarian” era, early tours, and in-studio collaborations. The episode offers a fascinating look into one of the most creative minds working today -- a relentlessly eclectic musician who takes sincere joy in his craft.

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0:00.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to be came see the MCO
0:03.4	I love the fact that y'all checking out the people's party and showing us a lot of love
0:07.2	You know what we do we bringing you all the live guests we bringing you the best podcasts on the internet
0:12.1	Just make sure you subscribe and leave a review people's party tell it quality let's go
0:30.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality is the people's party we are back for another week
0:34.0	A fantastic cultural conversation giving up for my lovely and talented and thoughtful co-host
0:39.4	Jasmine Lee in the house. What's up Jasmine? What's up? I need some claps I can't clap I'm good how are you doing
0:48.0	Good I know how you're doing I can tell by your Instagram
0:52.2	My Instagram is legendary I had the best weekend of my entire life
0:56.4	Yes, I can I'm very jealous, but I'm glad you're enjoying yourself
1:01.3	Now one of the reasons why I had such a good weekend is because of this guest that we have coming on today
1:06.0	This guest that we have coming on today is one of my favorite people on earth
1:10.0	He's one of the chief inspirations from my musical career
1:13.6	He is a co-founder of the legendary roots crew
1:16.6	He played a major role in the whole sole querian era of hip-hop music and by the way he came up with the name sole querian
1:23.3	From organics to do you want more to Eladil Halflife him and his band
1:28.4	Was killing shit in the hip-hop scene in 1999 things fall apart that album really cemented their place
1:35.1	In black music
1:37.4	while most bands
1:39.2	fall apart literally
1:41.9	The roots kept going they dropped for knowledgey tipping point game theory rising down how I got over all in
1:48.4	2000s. That's a lot of output. This man is very prolific. I read an interview
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