The Roots’ Questlove Publicizes New Hip-Hop Is Historical past Ebook

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is releasing one other e book. The Roots drummer and acclaimed director will difficulty Hip-Hop Is Historical past on June 11 through his personal Auwa Books. See the e book’s cowl, designed by Reed Barrow, beneath.

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 Progressive Cooks; 2018’s Inventive Quest; 2019’s Mixtape Potluck Cookbook: A Dinner Social gathering for Associates, Their Recipes, and the Songs They Encourage; and 2021’s Music Is Historical past.

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

Questlove skillfully traces the artistic and cultural forces that made and formed hip-hop, highlighting each the forgotten however influential gems and the plain chart-topping hits—and weaves all of it along with the tales nobody else is aware of. It’s without delay an intimate, sharply noticed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand concept of the evolution of the nice creative motion of our time. And Questlove, in fact, approaches it with not solely the encyclopedic fluency and fervour of an obsessive fan but additionally the experience and originality of an revolutionary participant.

Questlove received the 2022 Academy Award for Greatest Documentary Function Movie for his directorial debut, Summer time of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised). Alongside along with his duties with the Roots, the drummer has been laborious at work on a brand new model of The Aristocats.

Learn the 2021 interview “Questlove on Restoring Black Music Historical past and Making One of many 12 months’s Greatest Movies.”

Questlove: Hip-Hop Is Historical past