Questlove
- Born
- January 20, 1971 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- music_department
- Actor
- Producer
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born on January 20, 1971), known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion, Questo or Brother Question), is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, which is now the in-house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has produced for artists such as Common, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse and John Legend. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, and The Grand Wizzards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Questlove,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography · 29 credits
- 2026Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear · Self (Self - Drummer, The Roots)
- 2026Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) · Director
- 2026Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) · Composer
- 2026Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) · Producer
- 2025Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) · Director
- 2025I Was Born This Way · Actor
- 2024Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary · Self (Self - Musician, The Roots)
- 2024Bilal: Live at Glasshaus · Actor
- 2023May the Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story · Self (Self)
- 2022Hargrove · Actor (Questlove)
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised) · Director
- 2021The Reverend · Self (Self)
- 2020Soul · Actor (Curley)
- 2020Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story · Self (Self)
- 2018Mr. Soul! · Self (Self)
- 2016Vincent N Roxxy · Composer
- 2016HR Finding Joseph I · Self (Self - The Roots)
- 2014Top Five · Composer
- 2013Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records · Self (Self)
- 2013Finding the Funk · Self (Self - Narrator)
- 2012Sample This · Self (Self)
- 2011Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest · Self (Self)
- 2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 · Self (Self)
- 2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 · Composer
- 2008From the Mouthpiece on Back · Self (Self)
- 2002Philly Boy: A Movie About M.C. Breeze · Self (Self)
- —Phila.sophical · Self (Self)
- —Untitled Tariq Trotter Project · Producer
- —Give the Drummer Some · Self (Self)