funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

JorisE73 said:

That still makes him a regular fan. Just because someone gave him a load of unreleased things doesn't make him some uber scholar or uber fan. It takes more than having a lot of material to be a scholar.
There are some out there with much more than what he has but they don't call themsleves 'scholar' or pound themself on theere chest like he does regading anything Prince.
Questlove is in the dark about Prince's output beyond the 80s so not really a 'scholar' in my mind he isn't even a 'regular fan' if he dosn't even know shit about those beyond 80s eras and can't even get wellknown dates right for legendary 80s shows.
Quest is just a Purple Rain poser.
It wouldn't surprise me if D'angelo was the 'real' fan in that crew and Quest is just some hanger on in Prince fandom.

[Edited 3/11/24 4:40am]

what does real fan mean?

he doesn't have to love everything, nowhere did I say that.
To me a real fan knows at least the basics and he doesn't even know that.

He seems like someone most interested in the golden eras (of any of his favourite artists or genres)
So its not surprising he has less knowledge of prince post 88
[Edited 3/12/24 15:12pm]

NouveauDance said:

Some of the posts in this thread remind me of similar posts that crop up about Prince's past romantic partners. You sound like still hung-up ex-lovers. The guy makes one off the cuff remark and you pile on, giddy at having found in a chink in his armour. IDGAF about Questlove, I'm not white knighting for him, just pointing out the parasocial pile-on reflects more on you than it says anything about him or his fandom.

You can pull up old threads, I pile on this clown even without the armor and aforementioned chink or no chink, Archie Bunker, off the cuff, on the cuff, no cuff, full cuff, remark or no remark.

And you claim you're not "white knighting", yet I don't see you making this little speech when someone disses various purple podcasters and prince.org YouTube channel hosts or Dr. Dingleberry or whomever, which is literally what ?uestlove is a glorified version of.

Sorry, sorry, he ripped off J Dilla and successfully pulled the rouse that the "Soulaquarians" style was his creation instead of J. Dilla, like how neo-soul was Dilla and "The Ummah" was Dilla and D'Angelo's Voodoo was Dilla and everything remotely progressive about 90s and early 00s hip-hop/R&B was Dilla, so we gotta put respect on ?uestlove's name, after all, he was damn impressive at ripping off J Dilla and re-purposing his work as "Soulaquarians" so we gotta give him props.

No, literally, without J Dilla, without Fallon, bro is Dr. Funkenberry, without the clout.

So everyone stop white-knighting this con artist hack, kthx.

And The Roots still suck. Worst rhymes ever.

questlove was working with badu and dangelo before they ever worked with dilla. so he had a big part in neo soul in the 90s. there was neo soul before dilla even got involved with questlove, badu, dangelo, bilal. this idea that dilla was ripped off is weird, as that dilla sound was never neo soul in its entirety. and voodoo and mamas gun only really show that dilla influence in places. they arent slum village albums.

questlove would be the first to say that those artists second albums were very much influenced by dilla. he was never trying to claim otherwise. he gave dilla credit to the point of over generosity.

dilla was IN the soulquarians, so id say he was okay with this, but the soulquarians were questloves creation. he was leading it, after all, not dilla.

JorisE73 said:

Exactly, he's a clown

olb99 said:

You just described 85% of the Org.

Everyone has their favourite bands/eras.

Ndorphinmachina said:

olb99 said:

I had that realization as well. It's a little weird. He seems to be very much into 80s Prince, but not much into 90s/00s/10s Prince.

You just described 85% of the Org. Everyone has their favourite bands/eras.

Fair enough. Being in the remaining 15%, I'm not surprised to hear/read opinions from the other 85%, but if you pretend to be a scholar/specialist about a topic, like Questlove often does, at least implicitly, you should probably know a lot even about your least favorite bands/eras.