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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Saturday Night Live is going big in celebration of its 50th anniversary, and part of that effort was announced last month, when it was revealed Questlove and Oz Rodriguez co-directed a new ...
By Mesfin Fekadu As a kid, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson would go to bed ... And then I get the hard drive for all the episodes and there’s a 1000-plus. So I prepared for that intro the same ...
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.
“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 ...
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.
Questlove talks to IndieWire about "Ladies and Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music," the NBC documentary he co-directed airing January 27 on NBC. Making a documentary about the last 50 years of ...
Questlove's latest music history doc is an examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the ...
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 ...