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With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void

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Twenty years later I received a message asking me to meet with my two future producers Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein about a Harlem cultural festival that was like a “Black Woodstock”. Immediately the music snob inside of me said, “I’ve never heard of that before.” So I looked it up on the internet. It’s … Read more

Questlove talks ‘Summer of Soul’ and Black joy, says Roots Picnic will be back next year

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Besides The Roots and her nightly appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson has many other jobs. “Usually I jump into the ignorant lake of creativity with absolute devotion,” says the drummer, A-list DJ and podcast host of Questlove Supreme. “Write a book? I’ll do this. Teach at NYU? Yeah, I’ll … Read more