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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
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Philadelphia
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?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of Why should I share my money with these people? We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.
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When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, I want that.
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I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
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I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.
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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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It's easy for me to say, Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid.
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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 never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.
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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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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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