“I jumped in the river and there’s piranhas and sharks, but I have a 500-foot lead on them.”

—  Questlove

On what he would tell his teenaged self in “The Last Word: Questlove on Why He Doesn’t Drink, Idolizing Dave Chappelle” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-last-word-questlove-on-why-he-doesnt-drink-idolizing-dave-chappelle-629466/ in Rolling Stone (2018 Apr 19)

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American rapper, multi-instrumentalist and journalist from … 1971

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