Questlove

Questlove

1971-01-20 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born on January 20, 1971), known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion, Questo or Brother Question), is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, which is now the in-house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has produced for artists such as Common, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa and more recently, Al Green,...

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

2025

Acting

Spinal Tap, England's loudest and most punctual band, reunite following a 15-year hiatus for one final concert.

I Was Born This Way

I Was Born This Way

2025

as Self

Acting

Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he knew...

I Was Born This Way

I Was Born This Way

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he knew...

We Want the Funk!

We Want the Funk!

2025

as Self

9.5
Acting

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

2025

as Self

7.3
Acting

Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-...

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

7.9
Directing Writing Producing

Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

2025

Director, Executive Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone – the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic Sly Stone – that captures the band's ...

Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular

Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular

2024

as Self

9.0
Acting

Jimmy and his friends present a hour long special inspired by his album, "Holiday Seasoning".

Bilal: Live at Glasshaus

Bilal: Live at Glasshaus

2024

as Self

Acting

Bilal: Live at Glasshaus is a tribute to Bilal’s extraordinary vocal and musical range, as well as his status as one of the most unsung innovators in ...

Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary

Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary

2024

as Self

7.1
Acting

This documentary chronicles the rise, fall, and rise again of the soft rock epitomized by artists such as Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny L...

A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop

A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop

2023

as Self

8.5
Acting

A once-in-a-lifetime live concert special celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the two-hour tribute special features exclusive performances fr...

A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop

A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop

2023

Executive Producer

8.5
Producing

A once-in-a-lifetime live concert special celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the two-hour tribute special features exclusive performances fr...

American Symphony

American Symphony

2023

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

Musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.

May The Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

May The Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

2023

as Himself

Acting

May the Lord Watch follows the rise, breakup, and reunion of Little Brother, detailing the vast impact of the preeminent 2000’s rap group.

The League

The League

2023

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

The triumphs and challenges of Negro League baseball in the early 20th century. Through rare footage and interviews with iconic players like Satchel P...

The Legacy of J Dilla

The Legacy of J Dilla

2023

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

In his short lifetime, J Dilla was a musician, producer and visionary who profoundly influenced rap and hip-hop. Given how prolific he was in his 32 y...

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

2023

as Self

Acting

The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from t...

Descendant

Descendant

2022

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

History exists beyond what is written. The Africatown residents in Mobile, Alabama, have shared stories about their origins for generations. Their com...

The Reverend

The Reverend

2022

10.0
Acting

Winner of the DOC NYC Audience Award, Director Nick Canfield’s first film follows gospel-rock icon and activist Reverend Vince Anderson. After enterin...

Hargrove

Hargrove

2022

as Self

7.0
Acting

Jazz trumpet legend Roy Hargrove, deemed by his peers as a musical prophet, up close and personal like you have never seen him before. The film follow...

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2021

as Self

7.0
Acting

Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner, Carol...

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021

as Self (uncredited)

7.6
Acting

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and pr...

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021

Director

7.6
Directing

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and pr...

Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days

Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days

2021

as Self - Guest

6.5
Acting

For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools...

Chris Rock Total Blackout: The Tamborine Extended Cut

Chris Rock Total Blackout: The Tamborine Extended Cut

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Chris Rock takes the stage filled with searing observations on fatherhood, infidelity and politics.

Soul

Soul

2020

as Curly (voice)

8.1
Acting

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an acciden...

Herb Alpert Is...

Herb Alpert Is...

2020

as Self

7.2
Acting

From the success of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, through the founding of A&M Records, to giving away more than $150 million to arts and education ...

One World: Together at Home

One World: Together at Home

2020

as Self

7.0
Acting

A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise...

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

2020

as Self

7.5
Acting

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show ...

Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story

Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story

2020

as Self

Acting

After three decades as the colorful bandleader to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, master trumpeter Doc Severinsen defies nature with a relent...

Siempre, Luis

Siempre, Luis

2020

as Self

6.3
Acting

A story that embodies the tenacity and passion of the American Dream, this documentary is a portrait of the pioneering activist Luis A. Miranda Jr. Lu...

Stucco

Stucco

2019

Music

5.3

An agoraphobic woman notices a strange hole growing in a wall of her home as she fights off a growing illness.

Devil's Pie: D'Angelo

Devil's Pie: D'Angelo

2019

as Self

10.0
Acting

D'Angelo had it all: two platinum selling albums, a sold out world tour and a body chiselled to perfection. However, one day at the height of his care...

Someone Great

Someone Great

2019

as Questlove

6.4
Acting

An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To n...

Boy Band

Boy Band

2019

as Alien

4.0
Acting

Decades after their last hit, the Heartthrob Boyz find themselves out of time, out of cash, and out of shape as they attempt to finish the album they ...

Rock Rubber 45s

Rock Rubber 45s

2018

as Self

Acting

A cinematic odyssey exploring the connectivity of global basketball, sneaker, and music lifestyle through the firsthand lens of authentic NYC culture ...

Mr. SOUL!

Mr. SOUL!

2018

as Self

7.0
Acting

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars...

Twenty Eighteen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Twenty Eighteen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2018

as Self

Acting

Recorded live, this special honors fivenew performer category inductees: Bon Jovi, The Cars, Nina Simone, The Moody Blues and Dire Straits.

Dave Matthews Band - Concert for Charlottesville

Dave Matthews Band - Concert for Charlottesville

2017

Acting

A Concert for Charlottesville was a benefit concert held on September 24, 2017, organized by the Dave Matthews Band to raise funds for the victims kil...

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016

as Ahmir-Khalib Thompson

6.6
Acting

When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collap...

All Things Must Pass

All Things Must Pass

2015

as Self

7.2
Acting

The explosive trajectory and tragic demise of iconic music retailer Tower Records, and the legacy of its rebellious founder Russ Solomon. Two hundred ...

Top Five

Top Five

2014

Original Music Composer, Executive Music Producer

6.1
Producing

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to ...

Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown

Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown

2014

as Self

6.9
Acting

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of t...

Finding the Funk

Finding the Funk

2014

as Self

7.2
Acting

Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands ...

Sample This

Sample This

2013

as Self

6.7
Acting

A documentary that reveals how a forgotten record by the Incredible Bongo Band helped cement the foundation of hip hop when DJ Herc extended its percu...

A Band Called Death

A Band Called Death

2013

as Self

7.1
Acting

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early '70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is cre...

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records

2013

as Self

7.1
Acting

Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records has consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-...

Bad 25

Bad 25

2012

as Self

7.3
Acting

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson re...

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

2012

as Self

5.0
Acting

A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Ra...

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

2011

as Self

7.2
Acting

Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called...

My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop

My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop

2010

as Self

3.5
Acting

Ava DuVernay focuses on the history of female MCs in the hip hop industry in this short documentary that features Missy Elliott, Salt-N-Pepa, Eve, Jea...

Downtown Calling

Downtown Calling

2009

as Self

Acting

In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption g...

Am I Black Enough for You

Am I Black Enough for You

2009

8.0
Acting

A creative documentary about the song recorded by soul-man Billy Paul in the 70's. But also about the Philly Sound, Philadelphia, racism, cocaine, mon...

Before the Music Dies

Before the Music Dies

2006

as Self - Musician: The Roots (as Questlove)

7.0
Acting

B4MD tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understa...

September in Brooklyn: The Making of Block Party

September in Brooklyn: The Making of Block Party

2006

as Self

Acting

Behind the scenes look at Dave Chappelle's Block Party.

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

2005

as Self (The Roots)

6.8
Acting

The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unpr...

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

2004

as Self

4.7
Acting

The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as ...

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

2002

as Self

6.7
Acting

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-...

Jay-Z: MTV Unplugged

2001

as Self

6.2
Acting

H to the Izzo, V to the Izza. That's right, "H.O.V.A." is descending onto the Unplugged scene, and things will never be the same. Get ready for an exp...

Jay-Z: MTV Unplugged

2001

Music Producer

6.2
Producing

H to the Izzo, V to the Izza. That's right, "H.O.V.A." is descending onto the Unplugged scene, and things will never be the same. Get ready for an exp...

Brooklyn Babylon

Brooklyn Babylon

2001

as Member of The Lions

5.0
Acting

A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.

All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!

All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!

2001

as Self

Acting

IMAX invites you backstage to the Rock n' Roll event of the year. The acts featured won a combined total of 13 Grammy® Awards in 2000. This exclusive,...

Bamboozled

Bamboozled

2000

as Alabama Porch Monkeys: Levi - Musical Director

6.2
Acting

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 2...

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

1994

as Self

Acting

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

Ferocious Drummers

Ferocious Drummers

N/A

Acting

FEROCIOUS DRUMMERS is the original groundbreaking documentary about the greatest rhythmic rebels, that was nearly lost forever. In this never-before-s...

Dilla Time

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

Documentary about legendary hip-hop producer, J Dilla.

The AristoCats

The AristoCats

N/A

Director

Directing

A live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of the classic animated film 'The AristoCats'.

Untitled Earth, Wind & Fire Documentary

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Examines the legacy, cultural impact, and body of work of American R&B/punk/jazz/soul/disco band Earth, Wind & Fire, and will feature exclusive access...