Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Nov
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I was one of those people though, because at one point I thought there was honor in sort of matching James Brown and the hardest working man in the show business.
Once I stopped doing everything,
then a whole new world of magic opened that I never knew of.
And one of them is what I call storytelling or directing, which this definitely wasn't on my bingo card back in 2005.
But if you look at it,
Everything I've done to this point is preparing for- This moment.
This point.
Because I mean, those 40 hours could go, the 40 hours of the footage that's set in the basement for five decades.
I directed this film and I refuse to believe it.
I get word backstage at the Tonight Show that these two gentlemen wanna talk to me about these so-called Black Woodstock.
And I was like, Black Woodstock?
Well, I'm thinking of Woodstock.
And you're saying there was a black version of that?
And then I was like, well, wait a minute.
I'd like to think that I was a music expert or knew things.
Like, how come I didn't know that over 300,000 people gathered in Harlem for a collective six weekend affair with Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, B.B.
King, Mavis Staples.
Like, how come I didn't know about this?
And you know, I was like, call another B. You heard of Black Woodstock and the Nerds?
No, I never heard of it.
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