“That entire summer, I had to dress in the exact outfit,” the Roots musician recalls.
These daysQuestloveis known as the drummer of the Roots, the bandleader onThe Tonight Show, and anOscar-winning documentarian.
Tarik Trotter, and the members of Boyz II Men also attended that same school.
Questlove in 2023 and in the ‘Motown Philly’ music video.Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Boyz II Men/YouTube
That’s how Questlove wound up with a cameo in the quartet’s “Motown Philly” music video.
“So they asked me to play drums in that video.
I milked those 1.9 seconds.
Wait, let me rephrase it: Tarik milked those 1.9 seconds.
I’m like, ‘What?’
He’s like, ‘C’mon, man, put the shirt on.'”
He continued, “That entire summer, I had to dress in the exact outfit.
[We’d] walk up and down South Street, we would do like nine rotations.
‘Wait, ain’t you that, oh my God!’
and Tarik would take their numbers down and everything.”
“Suddenly, the magic’s not working any more,” he lamented.
