Hip-hop is history

Questlove is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, cofounder of the Roots, and the musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , where the Roots serves as the house band. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Mo' Meta Blues , Creative Quest , Music Is History , and his first children's book series, The Rhythm of Time , as well as the James Beard Award-nominated somethingtofoodabout , Mixtape Potluck , and the Grammy-nominated audiobooks Creative Quest and Music Is History . Questlove made his directorial debut with the Academy Award-, Grammy Award-, and BAFTA Award-winning documentary film Summer of Soul , which broke the record for the highest-selling documentary to come out of the Sundance Film Festival. Questlove is a cofounder of Two One Five Entertainment. He is the publisher of AUWA Books, an imprint of MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad . He has been Questlove's collaborator on a series of books, including Mo' Meta Blues , Creative Quest , and Music Is History , and he has written memoirs with Sly Stone, George Clinton, and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in numerous publications.