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Greetings, Earthlings.
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My name is Questlove, and this is my Wired autocomplete interview.
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I am definitely afraid to Google myself, even if I have to look for something, I will type Questlove because I don't want to see what the uh, so me doing this is facing my biggest fear.
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What, Questlove?
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That's a good one.
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What is in Questlove's hair?
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This is a good question.
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I'm known for my humongous Afro.
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I come from a family of Chia Pets.
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The more you try to cut my hair, the more that it grows.
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I think that people want to know is the object that normally is in my hair, which is the Afro pick.
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I keep it there because, uh, my scalp often itches.
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One time my Afro got me in trouble, is, uh, I went to the strip club in Atlanta the first time they made it rain, $80 fell right in the hair between the cre the crest of my Afro pick and my Afro, and the second I went to take it to, to give to like the nearest person, like security was on me in like three seconds, like, ah, we got that, we got that, even on my body, I couldn't touch it.
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What is Questlove's real name?
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My real name is Amir Khalif Thompson.
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If I know a person of Arabic descent is asking me what my full name is, I will say Amir Khalif Thompson.
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I got my hero Prince, he cold-called me at a studio once.
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So I pick up the phone, he's like, "Hello, Prince."
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I was like, "Wait, is this you?"
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And this is back when we didn't know if we were allowed to still call him his name or not.
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Inside secret, he's he's still that black people call him Prince because we weren't going to try and pronounce that symbol.
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He's like, "I'm calling you Prince because you know that's what your name means, right?"
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And then, uh, I'll say four years later when I was at a concert, he was singing the song, "Sign o' the Times," and there's a really famous line, uh, "Fall in love, get married, have a baby, we'll call him Nate if it's a boy."
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He knew I was on a blind date, he changed the lyric to, "Fall in love, get married, have a baby, we'll name him Amir if he's funky."
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And he kind of looked at me and like, I knew my date was really impressed, like, "Yeah, that's right, Prince thinks I'm funny."
2:28
What drums does Questlove play?
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Uh, Ludwig, uh, I started off on a Ludwig set, my very first real drum set at the age of eight.
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For the beginning part of my career, I went with Yamaha because that was like the biggest name, but I learned early in life that sometimes like the biggest name, the most popular name doesn't suit you well.
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I like a really trashy, dirty sound to my drums, so oftentimes like drum makers will go for these long drawn out stories of like they went to a particular forest in Japan to chop down this particular type of tree that's like real expensive, like, "This drum is worth $90,000 if we use this particular type of wood," and da da da da da.
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I'll go along like, "Oh, it's really interesting," but I'd never play that stuff.
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So like, I have about 70 drum sets right now, which I never touch because I want the cheap high school version.
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Like, I want I want their lowest, most accessible drum, like that to me is the sound of America's garage, and I like that.
3:31
What type of headphones does Questlove use?
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Okay, so really it it depends when I'm DJing, depending on what my hair situation is, you need a sort of a durable set of headphones because I'm known to break them if they like stretch out too much or whatever.
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So Audio Technica M50X, that's the specific brand that I use, they're high quality.
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However, when I'm on stage, I use uh, custom in-ear mics by the one and only Jerry Harvey Audio.
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They are the best in-ear monitors ever.
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My favorite part of getting into your microphone customs is you have to get the foam uh, put in your ear.
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So it's like a weird feeling, it's like taking pancake batter and someone just like squeezing it in your ear and then, you know, and I'm I'm weird, I'm sorry.
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Where does Questlove live?
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I'm a rolling stone.
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I was born in Philadelphia.
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I still have property in Philadelphia.
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Ever since The Tonight Show, I've relocated to Manhattan.
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In the dawning of uh, COVID-19 and quarantining, I've done something I never thought I'd do before.
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I used to make fun of everyone, every professional, every author and actor and director I knew that got that place uh, in upstate New York, and now I've become that person.
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It's not a farm, it's not a ranch.
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I think my girlfriend likes to call it a chateau, it's an artist community.
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When I drive drive up that I feel like I'm in the beginning of a Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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Like it's like a fantasy land thing.
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It's kind of cool.
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Where to buy the Questlove cheesesteak?
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Good question.
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At most Live Nation venues and, uh, my hometown of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies.
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My cheesesteak is made of impossible meat.
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I'm not a vegan, I'm not a vegetarian, but I do want to eat uh, way better.
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So this would have came out way earlier, but I had to strike a deal with Amoroso to make the rolls because if it's not on an Amoroso bread, it's not a cheesesteak from Philly, I don't care what anyone says, you can't put on our bag head.
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Okay, The Questlove Supreme Podcast.
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I taught at NYU for about six years.
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It was just 25 students.
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A lot of my students are actually notable uh, people right now in the industry.
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Uh, you guys know Maggie Rogers, he was one of my students.
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One day my manager told me like, "Well, instead of spewing this knowledge that you have on just 25 kids a year, why don't you make it national?"
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So Questlove Supreme is uh, my podcast with my friends, and we just we just talk music and pop culture.
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It's not just music, it's acting, it's film, it's just everything, pop culture, politics and everything.
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So you can hear it practically anywhere where you get podcasts.
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Okay, what hi-hats does Questlove use?
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Full disclosure again, I like there's a very specific trashy, dirty, unprofessional sound.
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I like kind of like taking brand new jeans and really destroying them so that they look used and worn.
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That's what I do with my drums and with my symbols.
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I will just get very, very old Zildjian symbols.
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There's a guy in Chicago named Sonny Berman and he does these custom, he'll take the symbols, he'll destroy them, he'll cut holes in them, they'll just make them sound like trash cans, and oftentimes uh, I will use that.
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But the company I endure Zildjian, they have a a brand called uh, FX Stack, which is the same thing, they uh, poke holes in the in the symbols to give it more bite, more edge to it.
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So those those are the symbols that I use.
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What is Questlove's vinyl collection?
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When I was five years old, a complete stranger asked me what type of music I like and she brought me my first three records and a record player.
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I found the note that she wrote to my parents, like, "I love Amir, he's so cute, I want to buy him records," and she wrote it on a cocktail napkin, and I found that note like two weeks ago and I put it on my Instagram and I wanted to find this woman.
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Her name was Ellie, she lived in Portland, Maine, they just found her.
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So I guess I get a chance to thank her because now I own 200,000 records.
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She planted a seed that sort of grew out of control and now I need to buy houses just to stack my records.
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What Questlove lost?
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I can't believe this is actually on Google.
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Like I don't know what I lost.
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I I I don't recall any bet I've ever lost or if I ever lost like my oh, I've lost my luggage.
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Oh, I lost weight.
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Wait, as I'm thinking of real time, everyone on the side is like, "I was like, oh yeah, I did."
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Early 2018, I was a very dangerous, morbid, uh, 400 and like 15, 16 pounds.
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A lot of people in my genre and whatnot, they were sort of succumbing to strokes and heart attacks, and I didn't want to be that cliché.
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I want to live to the age of 90 and see my full life through.
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I'm at the happiest ever been in my life, I will say that quarantining, I know that people uh, got into the habit of panic eating and my girlfriend is not having that.
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Nothing will ever beat the moment when my band saw me, they all put on like five pounds and I took off like 60.
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So of course Questlove yacht rock.
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Alright, here's the thing, my friendship with Anthony Bourdain sparked because of his hatred for yacht rock music.
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When I met Anthony Bourdain, I asked him, I was like, "Is it true that you fired three chefs in your kitchen because they were listening to Billy Joel?"
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And he says, "No, I hung a sign up saying I will fire you if you listen to Billy Joel in my kitchen and they defiantly put Billy Joel on so I fired him."
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To me that was like, "Oh, challenge accepted."
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So whenever Bourdain would come on this on The Tonight Show, he would ask like, "What walkout music are you going to play for me?"
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And I tell him something like whatever, like, "Yeah, do some Led Zeppelin songs."
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He's like, "Yeah, yeah, something real cool."
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And then whenever he walks out, I just play Billy Joel just to get him angry.
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When he passed away, I figured the best way to pay tribute to him in the way that really described our friendship, like me getting the last word was I made him uh, like a 700 song yacht rock playlist on my Spotify.
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It's one of my favorite playlists, like Jimmy Jimmy Fallon's obsessed with this playlist.
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Like it's it's cool, I dig it.
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All yacht rock fans just know that I'm the king of yacht rock.
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What of Questlove's favorite albums?
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During quarantining, I I did this challenge and on my Spotify I put in order my 100 favorite records.
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Now I'll just tell you my top 10 but all 100 in there.
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So my number 10 is Stevie Wonder's "Music of My Mind."
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My number nine is A Tribe Called Quest, "Midnight Marauders."
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My number eight is "1999" by Prince.
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Number seven is "Voodoo" by D'Angelo.
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Number six is "De La Soul Is Dead."
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Number five is Rufus and Chaka Khan's "Ask Rufus."
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My number four is Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall."
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My number three is "Fantastic, Vol. 1" by Slum Village.
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Number two is "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" by Public Enemy.
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And my number one record of all time is "Person to Person Live 1976" by The Average White Band.
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Google went kind of light on me because I think when any of my other friends do this, like it's the meanest things ever.
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So it shows me that people might actually like me, so that's cool.