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The World According to Questlove
Grand Central Publishing
June 2013
On Sale: June 18, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 1455501352
EAN: 9781455501359
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
MO' META BLUES
The World According to
Questlove
Mo' Meta Blues is a
punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove
tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the
greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and
the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into
the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments
in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir
"Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer,
producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is
one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in
this, his first book, he reveals his own formative
experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son
of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through
the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up
with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on
Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some
(many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop,
the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as
well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and
fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to
Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince
roller-skate?!?
But Mo' Meta Blues isn't
just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory
and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some
post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book
like Mo' Meta Blues really is.
It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind.
It's a
rare gift that gives as well as takes.
It's a record
that keeps going around and around.
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