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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
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Philadelphia
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?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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