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In addition to being the drummer for the Grammy Award-winning group The Roots (who you've probably seen as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), Questlove is also a huge fan of the hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. Born Ahmir Khalib Thompson, the musician opened up to Billboard back in 2015 about discovering the music that would change his life — and his name. Questlove revealed that he first heard one of the group's songs while standing "in an endless line to get into The Arsenio Hall Show" while on a family vacation to California in 1990.
"While my eyes were getting a glimpse of celebrity, my ears were getting a glimpse of the future, courtesy of the music on the P.A. system," Questlove recalled. "It was hip-hop, and it was two types of hip-hop at least. On the one hand, it was Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted, the epicenter of aggressive L.A.gangster rap and (along with Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet) one of that summer's major statements. On the other, it was A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels Along the Path of Rhythm."