{"id":973911,"date":"2019-12-06T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922614"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:19:39","slug":"so-how-was-your-decade-questlove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/so-how-was-your-decade-questlove\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Was Your Decade, Questlove?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, How Was Your Decade<\/a> is a series in which the decade\u2019s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the people, places and things that shaped their decade. We\u2019ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. <\/em><\/p>\n

Few artists can truly stake a claim to the James Brown Honorary \u201cHardest Working Person in Show Business\u201d Title, but Questlove<\/a> is certainly a contender. At the top of his docket, of course, remains the Roots<\/a>, with whom he released four studio albums in the 2010s, plus three collaborative LPs with John Legend, Betty Wright, and Elvis Costello. And of course, the Roots did all that while serving as the house band on Late Night <\/i>before making the jump with Jimmy Fallon to the big time when the comedian took over The Tonight Show<\/i> in 2014.<\/p>\n

But that was just the tip of the Questlove iceberg. In 2013, he published two books \u2013 a memoir, Mo\u2019 Meta Blues<\/i>, and a book on Soul Train \u2013<\/i> and would write three more (including a cookbook) by the time the decade was done. He started a podcast, Questlove Supreme<\/i>. He appeared in movies and TV shows (Popstar<\/i>, Law & Order<\/i>, Empire<\/i>), he produced movies and TV shows (Top Five<\/i>, Finding the Funk<\/i>, Roots<\/i>) and he composed music for movies and TV shows (Vincent-N-Roxxy<\/i>, Inside Amy Schumer<\/i>, Sesame Street<\/i>). He DJed around the world, even spinning records at Barack Obama\u2019s White House farewell party, and later curating the musical soundtrack to accompany Michele Obama\u2019s memoir, Becoming<\/i>. That\u2019s a lot for anyone, but for Questlove, it still feels like the half of it.<\/p>\n

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So, how was your decade?<\/strong> Welp\u2026we lost icons. We lost the elections. Lost loved ones. We lost a King. We lost a Prince. We lost Queens too. We lost old traditions. We lost our patience. We lost our minds. We will lose more\u2026\u2026\u2026and I feel fine?<\/p>\n

10 records I listened to\u2026..like they were\u2026.records? <\/strong>Dangelo & The Vanguard\u2019s Black Messiah<\/em>, Tig Notaro\u2019s Live<\/em>, Solange\u2019s When I Get Home, <\/em>Kali Uchis\u2019 Isolation<\/em>, Jay-Z an Kanye West\u2019s Watch the Throne<\/em>, Erykah Badu\u2019s New AmErykah Part Two: (Return of the Ankh)<\/em>, Karriem Riggins\u2019s Alone Together, <\/em>Unknown Mortal Orchestra\u2019s Multi-Love, <\/em>Jamar Neighbors\u2019 Amerikkka\u2019s Nigga<\/em><\/p>\n

The 10 songs that really moved me in the 2010s were<\/strong>: Rihanna\u2019s \u201cJames Joint,\u201d Bon Iver\u2019s \u201cPerth,\u201d Earl Sweatshirt\u2019s \u201cBurgundy,\u201d Pusha T\u2019s \u201cLunch Money,\u201d
Kali Uchis\u2019 \u201cIn My Dreams,\u201d Solange\u2019s \u201cThings I Imagined,\u201d Thundercat\u2019s \u201cThem Changes,\u201d Radiohead\u2019s \u201cGive Up the Ghost,\u201d Raphael Saadiq\u2019s \u201cMovin Down The Line,\u201d Hiatus Kaiyote\u2019s \u201cNakamarra.\u201d<\/p>\n