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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Questlove’s follow-up to ‘Summer of Soul’ is a darker film that explores the question through the famous frontman of Sly & the Family Stone “SLY LIVES! (a.k.a The Burden of Black Genius ...
By Mesfin Fekadu As a kid, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson would go to bed on Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m., but his parents were “cool enough” to wake him up to watch the musical performances ...
Questlove can be seen asking André 3000 if ... Energetic dance moves, flamboyant costumes, oversized sunglasses, and a towering afro set the stage for highlights of Stone’s career, all ...