Revisit The FADER’s 2002 cover story on Questlove’s hip-hop ensemble group. The Roots, Black Thought.

French graphic designer Zaven Najjar spent three months of 2013 creating imaginative representations of rap lyrics. These are some of the best (and available as t-shirts!)

The Roots’ bandleader and legendary drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson shares his formative experiences of record collecting. Even the biggest record collections have to start somewhere. In his new autobiography Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According To Questlove, the drummer goes right back to the beginning of what is now by all accounts a 70,000+ collection […]

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