On Thursday night, the City Parks Foundation 2025 Dinner & Dance Party Benefit, this year honoring Grammy-and-Oscar-winning drummer, filmmaker, author, DJ and producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, ...
Questlove is an amazingly accomplished artist, with six Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a slew of books and movies to his name. Likewise, fellow Philadelphian multihyphenate Quinta Brunson has a ...
Questlove is remembering the late great, Sly Stone. In a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, the musician — who directed the documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), about Stone’s ...
On Friday, October 10, musician, filmmaker, and activist Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson was honored with the 2025 Peabody Trailblazer Award during an intimate celebration at The Sun Rose Hotel in Los ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson attends the premiere of “Sly Lives!” during the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at the Library Center Theatre in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles ...
Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In Questlove’s fascinating new book “Hip-Hop Is History,” he rewrites hip ...
An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a historic moment for hip-hop: a diss concert, so to speak, ...
Questlove's "Hip-Hop Is History" could end up being one of the year's most expensive books. I'm not talking about the book itself, which is a standard hardcover $30, but about the music it'll make you ...