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Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement
youtu.beHe 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.
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Questlove is a polymath—an
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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
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And thanks to a music teacher at Locke High School in Watts, who would pick up the young prodigies from school to take them home after rehearsals, he joined an orchestra for gifted teens. Everyone who’s anyone on the current LA scene was there at some stage. The collective West Coast Get Down, which lacks a true leader but whose most well-known mem... See more
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