The Questlove Show - Happy New Year From The Questlove Show

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

In this mini episode, Questlove discusses the song that captures his 2025—and it was released this year. He also talks about how he's spending the new year, including shows with The Roots. This brief check-in also updates the public on the status of the long-awaited album from the band, which... just listen. Happy new year from the team at the Questlove Show.  P.S.: Don't forget to send questions to our DM or through our contact forms at QuestloveSupreme.com for answers on upcoming mini episodes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In 2026, I'm going to do something that I never do. Actually, I started this exercise maybe six years ago. Of course, you know, you're supposed to have a resolution. I'll say around 2018, 2019, I would write list out. Right now, I'm just in the daily practice of 24 hours at a time. So this will probably be the first year in which I don't write a list out. But literally, one of the things that I'm known for is just writing lists. I will say that the message of getting through, and we shouldn't have to get through a year.

We should be thriving. And I think the only way to get to that is literally, kind of do the things that we, I roll about. And that includes things like season the day, you know. And yeah, there's some days where I wake up and I don't feel like doing affirmations or getting out of bed or I'm in a foul mood and whatnot. But that's how I got through 2025. And here's a weird thing. I kind of had a great 2025 despite the times that we've lived in.

And, you know, a lot of tragedy has happened this year. But you have to rigorously just fight for a sense of peace and a sense of joy. And that's the only advice I can give you is you have to do this one day at a time, waking up and saying that this is going to be, you know, every day I wake up. Today is going to be the best January, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah of 2026. whatever date it is. So that's my advice to you guys. So in the pandemic in which I really got very serious about, like, therapy and whatnot, one particular year, I think in 2021, right when we were about to release the movie,

Summer of Soul and whatnot, my therapist decided to try a new exercise with me and made me list the 100 things. that I fear the most or the one things that I don't like or the 100 things that I am not cool with. And somehow Jedi mind tricked me into kind of jumping in head first, not knowing what's down there waiting for me, piranha or a trampoline or whatever. And I got through that list of 100 by like August. And there's something that happens to you when all the things that you previously feared is behind you. Like this is almost like an invincible feeling.

A thing is a Jeff Bridges movie. Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez were in a movie in which I think he avoided an accident or he survived a plane crash, whatever, and then suddenly he became like a super daredevil. Like he had, and he was looking for stuff to scare him and he couldn't find it. And so that's kind of like what I've been on in the last five years. years of this very puzzling decade. Yeah, New Year's Eve, the roots are in Los Angeles at Disney Hall. As promised, we are more than past the halfway point of the new album as far as mixing

and creative and all those things. But kind of speak now forever, hold your piece stage of the record. So I pretty much plan on spinning at least. the first four months of January, besides getting older, really just delving into whatever maintenance cleanup I have to do for endgame so that it's ready to go in-hands. Like we're already planning like a major tour behind this record. Every day my manager is like, so we're going to have a record, right? Because you know like we plan this tour based on an album coming up, right?

Yeah, you're going to have it. Yeah, so the album will be out. Now that I've finished Earth, When and Fire, the next project I'm about to do, which is a mammoth project, meaning it's going to be my first documentary that's also going to be a multi-episode, a four-parter, if you will. The only thing is that my producer, shout out to the great Alyssa Payne, who hopefully is on the road to her friend. Oscar, I highly recommend you watching the Netflix documentary called The Perfect Neighbor. She's the producer of that documentary. She is kind of right now doing the shuffle that I was doing back in 2020 and 2021 to get my Oscar.

And when she is done with that, then she will join me to start the dismantling or or the putting together of this new project that I have coming. So that said, I have five months in which I have nothing to do but work on the roots. So this is where you all want me to be, right? You want me to just work on the roots and the roots only. So there's no distractions from any project. It's roots time. What song best describes 2025?

You know, it's weird. it haunts me so much, man, but I wasn't ready emotionally or otherwise for the closing song on De La Sol's Cabin in the Sky.

So just hearing how Dave closes that album and how they close that album for those that are like, hey, you promised you were going to turn that Roots album in in November. You didn't do it. Why? I heard that, and I was like, oh, God, I don't have no song on this record that makes me want to just sit and cry or whatever. I'm not saying that it's actually probably the most non-emotional roots album ever.

I mean, this is the closest that I believe that Tariq and I have gotten to capturing the spirit of the first five records, mainly because one, you know, a major component of Roots albums, Richard Nichols, isn't here right now. So I will say that the last album in which, I'm not framing it like the lion's share of the work, but the last album that I really truly like micromanaged as in, I got this, I got this, was things fall apart. You know, because also when you're in a group, I know democracy is, kind of a suggestible, like, illusion. And that theme has explored a lot in the Earthwood and Fire dock.

Philip Bailey makes it absolutely known that democracy in a group is not real at all. There's always one leader who says it and everyone else follows and you just cosplay like your group. But, you know, for the greater good of us being here for 35 years, you have to give agents, give agency and leeway for people's ideas. So, you know, I kind of haven't really controlled A-Root's out. In other words, like, yeah, I don't agree with this, you know, but I lost the vote, so it happens.

So I will say that this is probably the album that will be the closest to, you know, I'lladelf Half Life and Things Fall Apart, where somehow I'd allow, of my ideas made it to the fertilized egg, you know. So, yeah, y'all. So, yeah, in general, let me know. Hit me with the song that best described your 2025.

Mine, of course, was don't push me by De La Sol. Yeah, don't push me because I'm close to the edge. Try not to lose my head. How apropos. But yeah, follow QLS and share in the comments. comments and we'll discuss those. Thank you. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Clivert Taylor the 4th.

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If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah. It would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck.

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