This episode originally aired on May 9, 2023, under the title “Questlove is Autistic.”
“He has won An Academy Award, a Grammy Award—oh, six Grammy Awards—a BAFTA. Yeah, dude has had a career. The man needs some more shelf space for awards.”
“OK, so we've got a stim—which is spinning things—and we've got a special interest—which is Soul Train. That leads to Black music history (and) music history in general. Put those two together and what do you have? A career as a DJ! Fantastic.”
“For each of the 200,000 records that he has, name any song and he can tell you the beats per minute of that song.” “Wow. Oh, that is super Autistic.”
“He's a filmmaker, he's a musician, he's a collector, he's a historian, he's now a publisher, he's had 11 albums with The Roots, he's produced about 36 to 40 albums including Common, Erykah Badu, Solange, he's got a podcast: Questlove Supreme, he's got this huge career as a DJ…He co-founded a whole bunch of websites like OkayPlayer, OkayAfrica. He's got, I think, six books now. One of them is on Soul Train, which is his special interest…(and) he has directed several documentaries, including a really key one called The Summer of Soul.”
“He has become a one-man Blacksonian museum.” “That is magnificent. That is that is the ultimate dream of becoming a living museum.”
Are you a living museum? What fabulous collection(s) do you have? Share it in the comments!
Fan Favorite Game, design #13 (get yours here)
Play the game! Fan Favorites Game rules
Freddie Mercury is Autistic (Episode 73)
Episode 64: Taylor Swift is Autistic
Episode 05: Washington, D.C. is Autistic
Check us out on Instagram
Find us on Apple podcasts and Spotify
Autistic Connections Facebook Group
AngelaLauria.com and Difference Press
Angela’s social media: Twitter and TikTok
TACP’s merch shop
Hip Hop {Fan Favorite Re-drop #13}