Questlove Supreme

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Questlove Supreme is a fun, irreverent and educational weekly podcast that digs deep into the stories of musical legends and cultural icons in a way that only Questlove and Team Supreme can deliver. Led by Each episode is driven by conversation ranging from the guest’s origins (along with a few never-before-revealed secrets to their success) to their life passions and current projects. This is not your typical interview show. This is about legends and legends in the making bringing their legacy to life in their own words. Previous guests have included Usher, Michelle Obama, Chris Rock, Steve Miller, Maya Rudolph, Weird Al, Chaka Khan, Babyface and many more. read less

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Questlove Supreme is a podcast that presents a fresh and fascinating take on music and culture. In each episode, listeners get a front-row seat to a conversation between celebrities of all types. The host, Questlove, invites guests to open up about their lives, careers, struggles, and successes. If a musical icon or pop culture legend has made an impact on the world, Questlove and Team Supreme are ready to discuss.

Host Ahmir Khalib Thompson, aka Questlove, is the drummer of the band The Roots. He is a cultural critic, music producer, DJ, and filmmaker. He brings his expert knowledge and years of professional music experience to the show. His interviews are intriguing, well-researched, and hard-hitting. Questlove received a nomination for Best Host at the Webby Awards in 2018 for his work on the podcast.

Each episode of Questlove Supreme can last from one to three hours. This gives the host and guest ample time to get comfortable and develop meaningful conversations. Rick Astley discusses his biggest hit and leaving the music industry. Fred Hammond takes listeners into the less-talked-about world of gospel music. Hip hop legend Pharoahe Monch talks about how the pandemic affected him. There is so much for listeners to learn about music and cultural history from the educational and entertaining Questlove Supreme podcast.

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Introducing: Hip-Hop is History by Questlove
11-06-2024
Introducing: Hip-Hop is History by Questlove
This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award–winning musician, an Academy Award–winning filmmaker, a New York Times bestselling author, a producer, an entrepreneur, a cofounder of one of hip-hop’s defining acts (the Roots), and the genre’s unofficial in-house historian. In this landmark book, Hip-Hop Is History, Questlove skillfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits—and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. And Questlove, of course, approaches it with not only the encyclopedic fluency and passion of an obsessive fan but also the expertise and originality of an innovative participant.  Hip-hop is history, and also his history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.