The Roots’ Questlove Declares New Hip-Hop Is Historical past Guide

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is freeing every other ebook. The Roots drummer and acclaimed director will factor Hip-Hop Is Historical past on June 11 by way of his personal Auwa Books. See the ebook’s quilt, designed via Reed Barrow, underneath.

Questlove wrote Hip-Hop Is Historical past with Ben Greenman—the musician’s collaborator on 2016’s One thing to Meals About: Exploring Creativity With Cutting edge Cooks; 2018’s Inventive Quest; 2019’s Mixtape Potluck Cookbook: A Dinner Birthday party for Buddies, Their Recipes, and the Songs They Encourage; and 2021’s Song Is Historical past.

A press free up provides the next preview of Hip-Hop Is Historical past:

Questlove skillfully strains the ingenious and cultural forces that made and formed hip-hop, highlighting each the forgotten however influential gemstones and the simple chart-topping hits—and weaves all of it along side the tales nobody else is aware of. It’s immediately an intimate, sharply seen tale of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand concept of the evolution of the nice inventive motion of our time. And Questlove, after all, approaches it with now not simplest the encyclopedic fluency and fervour of an obsessive fan but additionally the experience and originality of an leading edge player.

Questlove gained the 2022 Academy Award for Easiest Documentary Characteristic Movie for his directorial debut, Summer time of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Now not Be Televised). Together with his tasks with the Roots, the drummer has been laborious at paintings on a brand new model of The Aristocats.

Learn the 2021 interview “Questlove on Restoring Black Song Historical past and Making One of the crucial 12 months’s Easiest Movies.”

Questlove: Hip-Hop Is Historical past