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QUESTLOVE - MO' META BLUES: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO QUESTLOVE - BOOK
āYou have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless.ā āRobert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyoneās Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir āQuestloveā Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger,Ā Late Night with Jimmy FallonĀ bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiencesāfrom growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth.Ā Moā Meta BluesĀ also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to DāAngelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle toā¦you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!?
ButĀ Moā Meta BluesĀ isnāt just a memoir. Itās a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. Itās a book that questions what a book likeĀ Moā Meta Bluesreally is. Itās the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind.
Itās a rare gift that gives as well as takes.
Itās a record that keeps going around and around.
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyoneās Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir āQuestloveā Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger,Ā Late Night with Jimmy FallonĀ bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiencesāfrom growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth.Ā Moā Meta BluesĀ also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to DāAngelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle toā¦you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!?
ButĀ Moā Meta BluesĀ isnāt just a memoir. Itās a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. Itās a book that questions what a book likeĀ Moā Meta Bluesreally is. Itās the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind.
Itās a rare gift that gives as well as takes.
Itās a record that keeps going around and around.
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āYou have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless.ā āRobert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyoneās Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir āQuestloveā Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger,Ā Late Night with Jimmy FallonĀ bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiencesāfrom growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth.Ā Moā Meta BluesĀ also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to DāAngelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle toā¦you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!?
ButĀ Moā Meta BluesĀ isnāt just a memoir. Itās a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. Itās a book that questions what a book likeĀ Moā Meta Bluesreally is. Itās the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind.
Itās a rare gift that gives as well as takes.
Itās a record that keeps going around and around.
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyoneās Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir āQuestloveā Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger,Ā Late Night with Jimmy FallonĀ bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiencesāfrom growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth.Ā Moā Meta BluesĀ also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to DāAngelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle toā¦you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!?
ButĀ Moā Meta BluesĀ isnāt just a memoir. Itās a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. Itās a book that questions what a book likeĀ Moā Meta Bluesreally is. Itās the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind.
Itās a rare gift that gives as well as takes.
Itās a record that keeps going around and around.
