A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly line approach...

A joyous exploration of imagination and finding inspiration, The Idea in You is the debut picture book from Questlove—New York Times bestselling author, six-time GRAMMY Award–winning drummer, producer, and Academy Award–winning filmmaker—and Coretta Scott King Honor Award–winning illustrator Sean QuallsAn idea can come from anywhere.Start here: reach up into the skyAnd unhook a star.Questlove’s debut picture book, an...

“Mixtape Potluck never wavers from its earnest stated intent: to help readers plan the best possible dinner party.” —Eater“Thank you, Questlove, for this inspired book on a theme that is having a resurgence.” —Martha Stewart, from her forewordWhat if Questlove threw a dinner party and everyone came? Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series o...

A unique guide to creativity from Questlove—inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life—Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by: Esquire , PopSugar , The Huffington Post , Buzzfeed , and Publishers Weekly"...

The spectacular first entry in a middle-grade sci-fi trilogy by six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby.It’s not easy being a teenager, and it’s no different for Rahim, who is trying to balance everything in his busy Philly life: school, parents, bullies, his secret hopes of becoming a hip-hop star, an...

The thrilling conclusion to a middle grade sci-fi trilogy by six-time Grammy Award–winning musician and Academy Award–winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, and bestselling author S.A. Cosby.Rahim and Kasia have one final adventure left.When their parents are kidnapped and their alternate selves speak of a threat to the universe’s balance, the duo must team up with their doppelgängers to stop the sinister, time-manipulating organization Aevum once an...

A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alikeTime'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book'Craig Charles'Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological retelling of the genre's story with occasionally hair-raising memoir 'Guardian'Sharp and lyrical analyses of hip-hop's evo...

An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate‘Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths … [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years’ Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving ‘far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beat...

Book 2 in the electrifying middle-grade sci-fi trilogy by six-time Grammy Award–winning musician, Academy Award–winning filmmaker, and New York Times–bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and New York Times–bestselling author S. A. Cosby.On the heels of their thrilling appearance in Rhythm of Time, best friends Rahim and Kasia are back traveling through time in Time for a Change. Last time around, they were on their own—now they are workin...

From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award–winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of television's Soul Train.Foreword by Gladys KnightPreface by Nick CannonSoul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation celebrates the television show that was a two-decade cultural phenomenon from the '70s through the '90s, launching the careers of artists such as T...

In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food.In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever f...

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last century, decides to finally tell his life story, it can’t be called anything else.As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s (“Everyday People,” “Family Affair”), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Sto...