Sublime

The album opened up with a tribute to Dilla, “Dilltastic Vol Won(derful),” which sampled Slum Village.

He’s a very childlike presence. And it worked like a charm.

He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.

Quest Loves Records, Part I “When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”™ 1971: Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind

sometimes it was an African-American group wanting us to come over to UPenn.

Twitter hadn’t arrived yet, so I went on the online community I had created, OkayPlayer, and asked, “Does anyone know about this guy? It’s one of the best demos I’ve heard since Jill Scott or Slum Village.”

Sometimes when you delve into the past, it lets you down.

Questlove is a polymath—an

With most of the records, we wanted the titles to work on three levels: as a reflection of our own career, as a reflection of the hip-hop scene, and as a reflection of the world at large.