Questlove Says His Film Held Up The Roots New Album

Questlove the multi-talented artist who’s the current face of a new Gold Peak Iced Tea campaign talked about the highly anticipated follow-up to 2014’s …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. As he explained, winning a Oscar for Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) was a speed bump he never saw coming a welcome speed bump but a speed bump nonetheless. “Here’s the weird thing,” he said. “In a normal world, I would’ve done this film, it would’ve came out and I would’ve promoted it for maybe eight to 12 weeks. And then, once it’s done its thing, then it’s over. And of course, a funny thing happened was that Disney’s like, ‘Hey, this is Oscar caliber.’ And I’m like, ‘Huh? You sure?’ “And so, that part of my life, I didn’t plan. I mean, I’m glad it happened, but what it did do was it pushed our album back from happening. So right now, there is a very short window before I start my second movie. Questlove was referring to his next documentary about Sly and the Family Stone which he begins shooting in October. So technically, The Roots have roughly two months to finish the project. I have a short window now to just knock it out,” he said. “And so we’re doing a bunch of dates right now. As soon as we get back from Japan in August, I’m just going to It took us two weeks to do Organix. It took us three months to do Do You Want More? “We’ve been working on this album for six years, so I’ll say that we’re 60 percent done. And the fact that it still sounds good, even after six years of starting and stopping, that’s how timeless it is, and it’s a return to form.

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