{"id":2416,"date":"2017-10-06T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:45:21","slug":"questlove-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/10\/questlove-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Questlove memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finished Margo Jefferson\u2019s. Finished Questlove\u2019s. Rick James\u2019 in progress.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed Ahmir\u2019s book. It was fun and funny enough, it gave me answers that I was wondering about when I was a teenager looking at The Roots as if they were my answer to a lot of things. Following their weird pace and label changes through early 2000s, the break out \u2018You Got Me\u201d single. Here\u2019s his take on a Jay Dee\u2019s track:<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t into hip-hop at that time BUT I tripped on that particular track after borrowing the album from a friend because those beats sounded real good. I wrote about it in my upcoming book:<\/p>\n

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Yes, I felt validated by the fact that I loved that track and that it fucked up Questlove too.<\/p>\n

I share a lot of his opinions and I know why: we\u2019re only six years apart. He\u2019s my big brother, same generation. Questlove wonders how to get more fans while keeping the old fans and it turns out that it\u2019s complex. But it\u2019s in the end, simple: a creative endeavor, especially music, is generational. It attracts people from one generation more than others. The Roots being a Gen X band, and the Gen X population being the smallest generation alive\u2026 Millennials had Kanye, Boomers don\u2019t care about hip-hop. That\u2019s why it was hard and weird for them and why becoming a backup band for a TV show made a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m super surprised that Quest doesn\u2019t mention MC Lyte or Queen Latifah from the golden era or Missy Elliott from the very productive end of the 90s\/start of the 00s. Those girls destroyed! It seems to me that if one of hip-hop\u2019s strongest feeling is unity, then you have to talk about the divide and women rapping, because they have been since the beginning. You know, a chapter about it would have been cool. I guess I\u2019ll read their books.<\/p>\n

Five stars. I always rate everything good or good enough five stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finished Margo Jefferson\u2019s. Finished Questlove\u2019s. Rick James\u2019 in progress. I really enjoyed Ahmir\u2019s book. It was fun and funny enough, it gave me answers that I was wondering about when I was a teenager looking at The Roots as if they were my answer to a lot of things. Following their weird pace and label […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}