?uestlove’s famous stories (OKP forum thread)

First, let me give credit where credit is due.  DJ01 of ML fame posted this thread earlier and I happened to stumble upon earlier this afternoon when I took a sick day.  A great find!  How great?  That I’ve been reading it for 3 hours now.  Basically, earlier this month Questo invites the Okayplayer heads to post any celebrity’s name and he’ll explain his brush of fame with them.  Imagine the Fat Joe on Juan Epstein episode times a hundred thousand trillion.  After the jump are my faves.  Here is the link for the whole thread.  I warn you now, it will take up your evening or afternoon like the time you popped in Malcolm X and realized how late it was when it ended.

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Lauryn Hill - World is a hustle (Unreleased)

?uesto dropped a gem on the world today via his Twitter. (By the way, I’ve joined the bandwagon and became a Twitter person too.) Anyways, I thought it was cool that we hit the 10th anniversary of “Miseducation” last week and now we get some unreleased material. I am still bumping the Unplugged album and the “Lose Yourself” joint from last year is still slept on. Let me know whether you guys think its garbage or not…

Lauryn Hill - World is a hustle

Myspace Bloggery

Although Myspace is old and Facebook is jumping the shark, I do go to a few people’s blogs on Myspace.  Pam from the Office is one and Questo is the other.  After the jump is there  recent postings.  Rainn Wilson jumps onto Pam’s blog and Questo breaks down sneakerheads.

UPDATE: FreeJennaNow.com is pretty cool.

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Questo speaks on it…

Questlove is one of the few voices/minds in hip-hop that I always look forward to hearing speak (whether its on his myspace blog or in the Roots liner notes, or any other media he chooses). I feel that with the serious turn in subject matter that Rising Down took and the murkier sound, ?uesto is being asked a lot of questions to explain it. The cool thing about him is that he is not afraid to answer. Some people may say that is complaining or hating but I think he is just fed up with simple-mindedness. See what he has to say to HHDX about Def Jam, porn, and people born in the 80’s. Full article after the jump…

UPDATE: URB Interview with Questlove and The Roots make the cover with Nas

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5 Days of The Roots… Day 5

On this last day of “5 Days of the Roots”, we bring you a special treat. This is a public radio recording of Chuck D and Cornell West interviewing and following The Roots on tour earlier on their career. Despite the critics of those that say Hip-Hop is all about cars, drugs, and money - this is an audio argument to defend your stance on what hip-hop is really about. Its a long listen, so clear some time and hard drive space. As a bonus, here’s a recording of their MTV $2 Bill concert in 2002 and some interviews after the jump…

Hip-Hop 101: The Roots w/ Chuck D and Cornell West

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The Roots - Live on MTV $2 performance w/ unaired material

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5 Days of The Roots… Day 3

Today, I wanted to showcase some of the best unreleased and roots-affiliated albums over the last few years. You should have Do It Well from Day 1 already. I know my OKP visitors got more to add. Feel free to, its all love.   Tomorrow, we got some live ish for you. Full tracklistings after the jump….

Questlove presents True Notes

J. Period - Best of the Roots mixtape

The Roots - Legendary EP

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5 Days of The Roots… Day 2

Today, we are giving props to Questo. The most recognizable and fan favorite of the The Roots crew has made hip-hop an art to be studied and envied. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him DJ at several clubs in LA and the Bay and he puts on a show that gets you feeling the music and learning something. Which I feel is exactly the intent of hip-hop. (Sidenote: Questo dispalyed his white Serato Box recently at Santa Clara). Check out his blog for great commentary on his projects and OKP heads always know where to find him. Any faithful readers with Questo Remixes, feel free to post them in the Comments. Full tracklistings after the jump..

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Questlove - The Instrumentals

Questlove X Pharrell & The Yessirs - Out of My Mind

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?uestlove X Travis

I was looking all over the internet for this on Sunday night after I was told about it earlier that day. Nah Right beat me to the punch. OK, I didn’t look that hard but it was still on my mind to search again after Monday. Procrastination gets ya every time. Anyways, two individuals doing what they do best. Drummers, step yo’ game up.

Represent, Represent

Vote. If you can today, you should. I got my sticker already. And if you don’t have enough celebrity endorsements for Obama from the video, then believe Questo. For my Cali people, find your polling place here. P.S. stop bothering OBEY for the Obama “PROGRESS” prints. They have no more. So I heard…

**Update: Blind I has a dope post about Q-Tip’s thoughts on Barack and Davey D gives his insight to the election. Must reads.

Quest’s Library…

I wish I had this library. Its up there in competition with Malachi’s basement. Questo is a hip-hop figure that I have a lot of respect for and always impressed with his hip-hop knowledge from a musician’s POV. Plus, I know he is a hip-hop nerd…just like us…who collects random DVDs, gets hype about our fav cartoons getting turned into movies, and always looking for a remix that no one else has. Now go buy a roots shirt from Okayplayer.