Contributions:

Instrumentalist Producer Vocalist

The virtuosic drummer of The Roots, the rap band he and MC Black Thought have led since 1987 through 14 albums, Questlove wears many other hats -- make that Afro picks -- as a producer, sideman, and DJ, as well as an author, director, and podcast host, among other pursuits.

In the '90s, The Roots built on the advancements of the Native Tongues crew and laid the groundwork for neo soul, a movement driven by the Soulquarians collective, of which Questlove was a linchpin, heard on classics D'angelo, Common, and Erykah Badu released in the early 2000s.