The first time Ahmed “Questlove” Thompson He had a movie in Sandans Film Festival, Roots The co -founder has never been able to participate with a direct audience due to the insurance of Kovid, who witnessed only 2021 virtual gathering. Tonight, with the first show from 9:30 pm A malicious life! (It is also known as the black genius burden) In Park City, the Eclis Theater will sure Summer summer Oscar director and winner.
And not only because Queatlove is widely expected to put his headphones and take some paths to mobilize dance this week in Utah. It is a completely new basis, because, it turns out that a 81 -year -old star, music and heritage in Sly Stone, may be punctuated by many aspects and multi -task tasks. QuestlovePrivate life and work.
“Until now, with Tariq and I am at the end of this new album ROOTS,” The End Game “, the impact of the osmosis has now begun,” the upcoming version of the next release group admits from a new album with a long collaborator Tariq “Black Thought” Troter. Fill in amazing shots often and the sounds of the “family” star and its band at its peak, A malicious life! It is also full of interviews with creative family offspring such as Outkast’s Andre 3000, George Clinton, D’Agelo, Chaka Khan, the tribe called Quest’s Q-Tip, family members, and more.
A malicious life! However, it is designed as something more ambitious than a memory lane. .
Questlove says about the largest image of his big screen of producers, Joseph Patel, and Derek Murray calls Holo On February 13, after its four shows in Sundance.
between A malicious life! Promotion here in Park City, the band’s reader on Show the night starring Jimmy Fallonand Managing the fingerprint of book, tours and more, the profession grows in Questlove as a classic Sandans film. There is a movie that has just started on The Legendary Earth Wind & Fire, and as part of Saturday night LiveFifty anniversary celebrations, there participated in the direction of Oz Rodriguez Women and gentlemen … 50 years of SNL music Hit NBC on January 27, with a decrease in the peacock after 24 hours.
At Park City directly from New York City, Questlove spoke to me to discuss A malicious life! (It is also known as the black genius burden)And how to make the film other than and its music. The Grammy Prize winner also reveals some of what happened to him after the 2022 Academy Awards and Fear on the stage by Chris Rock by Will Smith, and the difficult options of reconciling multiple products, and some lessons of self -awareness learned.
Delivery date: I want to read something for you from a book that you may recognize, because you wrote it, “Hip Hop is History”: “Help the big stars in formulating positions and philosophies, but others poured concrete for the basis.” Maybe I, but this definitely seems to be the sub -description line of Sly! Do you not think that?
Ahmed “Questlove” Thompson: As you know, there is a statement at the end of the movie in which he said that Sly organized the alphabet, from which we are still writing books and chapters, we speak creatively. My belief is that often, the pioneer does not get the credit they deserve. He is always the one who comes second. Sly is one of the first rare situations in which a pioneer was able to do so shortly to live outside the fruits of the Earth, if you will.
As you know, the decline is, as you know, a kind of his hands, which is in fact the goal of this entire film on self -sabotage. However, yes, he wrote the alphabet, as you know, we are still writing books from that alphabet to this day.
Delivery date: Why didn’t you do interview Sly directly, and instead it tends to three wide interviews, such as the difficulty of the journalist, Maria Shrefar?
Questlove: As you know, we had somewhat to build this story. It is not just a malicious stone story. This is every artist who worked with him at all.
Delivery date: how do you mean?
Questlove: Well (temporary stop), it’s funny, you can see the exact moment when D’Agelo realizes himself, like, I am not here to talk about “ordinary people”, right? Because everything is that the biggest leg in Sly is that it is the first Domino in a long series of artists who will end up in one way or another from sabotage themselves.
Delivery date: How does that play for you, with all stories and myths about Sly?
Questlove: When I first started this movie, I asked my mother, I asked people like them, what do you think of Sly Stone? They all say the same thing – as you know, ran with the wrong crowd and participated in the drug. But the drug is not just an option. The drug is a mechanism for covering up to cover up something else. Some people use drugs. I was food. There is drinking, shooting, inhalation, anesthesia, excessive work, self -destruction, tattoo, holes ..
Delivery date: This looks like a lot of my previous life …
Questlove: Well, yes, because it is like this like, right? For this reason, for me, the most difficult part of the story was to find certificates, and Andre 3000 was the only person who crosses and saw what it was.
Delivery date: Which was?
Questlove: This was a therapeutic way to tell people why I moved away from this 20 years ago. When we were talking, I said, my shout, I went to diamonds with Outkast, and I was literally at the top of the world, just as the world was in the shells, and your answer was to stay away from everything. It would have been something if it stayed, this, what happened to my Salili, was my destiny.
Delivery date: This is in fact not only a Sleg stone …
Questlove: never. For me, I always dreamed of talking to some of my colleagues, or I felt this was my chance to do this. I now think more than ever, we need clear artists to go to the board – especially where we are now.
Delivery date: To date, A malicious life! For the first time in Park City on the opening night in Sandans 2025, then heads to Holo next month. So, as a second movie as a director and what I just said, I want to ask you a question I asked when Summer summer He went out: How did he make a malicious life! I influenced you as an artist, as an individual?
Questlove: This was Doozy. I jokingly said that I had to get a second processor, but this is the truth in reality. It made me do a lot of self -reflection, and to eat people’s pain. As you know, this was two and a half years of making this. This definitely made me more aware and improve myself as a group leader, as a commercial partner, especially as a human being.
Delivery date: How did he show that himself?
Questlove: Well, how do you feel now? Like, do you really need to eat sandwich at four in the morning, is there something you are, you run away from it, like a lot of self -analysis. Also, I am foolish, and I do not recommend this to anyone, I don’t work on three projects at the same time. The emotional weight of the land, wind, fire, story and malicious story is the reason for this SNL DOC is such a fun fun.
Delivery date: We have to go there, so …
Questlove: (He laughs). Because it was like, the curse of God, I cannot wait to reach Friday.
Delivery date: Friday? Like thank you tgif?
Questlove: somewhat. Look, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I was only working on my country SNL Something document. First, it was a regular donkey here, here are the 50 best offers. And you know that people were like them, and they were waiting for a minute, like, we did not know that you were doing it. And I think I had to make SNL My fun stadium, just to allow the pain of the malicious story to reach me.
Delivery date: This is a deadly balanced act, right? More treatment?
Questlove: Two years later, I was like a curse. Even in telling the story of Sali, I realized that no one could come in the field of this man without getting dirt on it – even as a movie director. I am very happy now, and I am happy because people have received it, but this affected me a lot. This made me the most beautiful in long hours with my processor to make sure that I do not drop this hole of the rabbit,
Delivery date: However, only what I know about the vast archives, tapes and other materials that were provided, you had to deepen to imagine the wicked surface, right?
Questlove: My friend! Many gemstones that we had to leave behind, a lot of stories and music. My first story was three hours and 15 minutes. It was as if someone had just led us to the fortified constellations, so we spent about a year and a half in listening, as you know, “Sessions of Something Fullly New”, which is the entire “dance to music” session. Thus, in “something new new”, they always kept the circulating tape, so you can hear a lot of rules.
The deadline: sly even recognized rules?
Questlove: Let me tell you this story about “Fresh”.
The deadline: Well
Questlove: So, for me, “Fresh” is an ideal album because of its stripping, Fonk naked, but it has begun exactly the opposite.
There is one point, where I think he might have been testing drummers at the same time, and they make a copy of “children who make children”. It is not like the song that Fresh hears. It is almost like A, what I call an African attack army. There are four drummers playing at the same time, which is just a higher assault. It seems as if the public enemy made the “Millions of Millions” in 1973.
The roots were presented on a march on the eve of the elections held at the Philadelphia Arts Museum on November 4, 2024.
The deadline: So, how does everything in the roots leak, if it is already?
Questlove: She has, yes. To date, since Tariq and I am at the end of this new album Roots, “The End Game”, the impact of the osmosis has now begun.
The deadline: What is the form required?
Questlove: Many different forms. There are all the ear of the ear worm that you used to hear. I am now asking myself, like, well, where is the melody in this? Does this have no melody? Is this just a groove? Do we need a melody? Perhaps we switch this part the way it writes small hooks, and has nine things that occur in the song at the same time? Now this affects me as a song writer. And only because I was living with this music for two and a half years, so, yes, I feel that this has changed me as a creator. This talks about weakness, and talks about being a human being and a person, just as I hope the movie will do with Sly.
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Delivery date: To take it, you have long been present, more than 20 years, and you are now a noisy cinematic suspicion and now with Sly’s life! Follow -up from Summer of Soul four years ago, you are for the first time in front of the direct audience. What does this feel, what does that mean for you?
Questlove: I think this project fell in my lap, because I also had a kind of self -getting out, such as immediately after the Oscars. Fortunately, I managed to pick up myself, perhaps, such as, seven or eight months.
The deadline: How?
Questlove: As you know, it was one of the confusing things that I discovered even when we met Stephanie, an assistant, I talked about his paralyzed fear of going on the stage. I like, well, it does not necessarily seem afraid, like looking at it. Go look at him, as he is participating in the audience. But I get it, it is like the moment that leads to the theater, and the time is paralyzed. Often, black artists are placed in a location in which they should be the official spokesman, as they must be for example, as they always have to do the right thing, as they have to serve as credit in their race, almost like a diplomat you know? It is only difficult to deal with your private life, not to mention the knowledge holder for your entire supreme. So, even for me, this film was necessary to learn how to be a human being.
