Questlove is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer who has a net worth of $16 million dollars.
He is the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the hip hop band, the Roots. The Roots has been serving as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since February 17, 2014. Questlove is also one of the producers of the cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He is the co-founder of the websites Okayplayer and OkayAfrica. Additionally, he is an adjunct instructor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.
Questlove has produced recordings for artists including Elvis Costello, Common, D’Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa, and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse, and John Legend. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, the Randy Watson Experience, the Soultronics, the Beat Biters (with producers Just Blaze and 9th Wonder), the Grand Negaz, and the Grand Wizzards. In 2018, Questlove curated the soundtrack The Michelle Obama Musiaqualogy for Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming. He also released the book Creative Quest in April 2018
