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To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
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Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
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Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, 1, 2, 3, 4.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids. But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.
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I hate holidays because it's the quietest it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.
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At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.
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I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.
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I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
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