Questlove & Black Thought’s Two One Five Entertainment Brings AGBO Vet Josh Williams On Board As Scripted Development Director
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the Sundance debut of Ahmir “Questlove’ Thompson’s Sly Lives! documentary and an SNL50 celebration weekend that saw the Roots literally centerstage, the Oscar winner and MC frontman ...
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Questlove Regrets Not Having an 'Intervention Talk' with Black Artists Who Suffered a 'Career-Ruining Moment'
Her work previously appeared in CNBC, PAPER Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine. Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Questlove is opening up about mental health and what he wishes he could have done for ...
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Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson & Joseph Patel Discuss ‘Sly Lives!’ | Billboard in Conversation
Billboard‘s Deputy Editorial Director Damien Scott spoke with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (executive producer and director) and Joseph Patel (producer) of Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black ...
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Questlove’s ‘Sly Lives!’ Shows How Black Artists Are Both Geniuses and Everyday People
After more than 30 years out of the spotlight — and another 10 in which his personal and legal troubles sadly dominated more headlines than his music — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s ...
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Questlove Watched Literally Every Episode Of ‘SNL’ While Making His Documentary On The Show’s Music
Saturday Night Live is going big in celebration of its 50th anniversary, and part of that effort was announced last month, when it was revealed Questlove and Oz Rodriguez co-directed a new ...
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Questlove uses photo of Will Smith in Sly Stone documentary 3 years after slap overshadowed his Oscar win
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is interrogating the burden that comes with Black fame, and he's reflecting on his eventful 2022 Oscar win to do it. The montage, which puts a photographic black strip ...
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Questlove Speaks About Including Will Smith in ‘Sly Lives!’ Montage About ‘The Burden of Black Genius’
The infamous Slap, an example of "multiple sabotagings happening at once," per Questlove, was an example of many of the ideas presented in his new film about the pressure Black artists are under.
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‘Sly Lives’: Questlove and Producer Joseph Patel Unpack the Documentary, Sly Stone’s History and the ‘Burden of Black Genius’
Like its predecessor, the Oscar and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul” — which was also directed by the Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and produced by Joseph Patel — “Sly Lives ...
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Questlove’s Brilliant New Documentary Is About So Much More Than Sly Stone
Some of the most striking insights here come from Questlove’s longtime collaborator D’Angelo, an artist whose musical gifts, tumultuous personal and professional history, and penchant for ...
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Questlove on Parsing 50 Years of Music for His ‘S.N.L.’ Documentary
The experience didn’t disappoint. By Alan Light When “Summer of Soul” debuted in 2021, the director Ahmir Thompson, better known as Questlove, was inundated with offers — and that was ...
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Sundance: Questlove On ‘Sly Lives!’ Secret Heart, His Park City Return, ‘SNL’ Music Film, New Roots Album & Self-Sabotage
The first time Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson had a film at the Sundance Film Festival, The Roots co-founder never got to share it with a live audience due to the Covid lockdown that saw the 2021 ...
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Questlove Goes Deep Into ‘50 Years Of SNL Music’ – Q&A
“I really can’t think of another thing that is as powerful, inspirational and huge as SNL is,” Billie Eilish says in Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music documentar ...