If you want to know the true meaning of love, find someone that looks at you the way Mamoudou Athie looks at a chair in ...
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 ...
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 ...
50 Years of SNL Music | Official Trailer “Ladies & Gentlemen” was co-produced by Oz Rodriguez and Roots drummer and Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove, who wrote in an Instagram post over the ...
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.
Yet Questlove & co. would like to put the complete story of the man behind it in context, as well as rescuing him from a narrative that puts its emphasis on the past few erratic decades.
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 ...
Filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s experience as a DJ taught him enough about beats per minute and musical keys to meld things seamlessly. The thrill ride took 11 months to put together ...
Questlove's second documentary levels up from "Summer of Soul," exploring Sly Stone's life and legacy in a kaleidoscopic and profound way. Jammed with penetrating interviews and extraordinary ...
By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Sly Lives! Questlove sets out to understand the tensions faced by Black geniuses, artists who always seem ahead of the curve and whose talents defy ...
“Ladies & Gentlemen” was co-produced by Oz Rodriguez and Roots drummer and Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove, who wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend that “every second of this doc ...