---
title: "Questlove’s Story About Pink Limos, Finding Nemo and Prince"
description: "And it’s exactly as amazing as it sounds."
date: "2016-01-30"
modified: "2016-01-30"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/1948/questloves-story-about-pink-limos-finding-nemo-and-prince"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "People"
tags:
  - "Music"
---

# Questlove’s Story About Pink Limos, Finding Nemo and Prince

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The Roots are fantastic. Part soul, part hip-hop, part whatever they feel like that day. They came out of Philly, this local sensation during the late Eighties, a quirky rap outfit playing their own instruments with aplomb. Now, they backup Jimmy Fallon on *The Tonight Show*. If you’ve ever feared for the stinking garbage fire that is popular music, The Roots will restore your faith in humanity. And [Questlove](<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/11/12/the-rhythm-in-everything>) is the backbone of it all.

![123016\_qestlove\_art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/123016_qestlove_art-1.jpg>)
**Lex van Rossen/MAI/Redferns**

He’s the group’s drummer and musical director, the son of Fifties doo-wop crooner Lee Andrews. Questo is a stocky 350-pound wonder-man with an Afro that’d make Pam Grier proud. He’s also one of [the best storytellers](<https://www.amazon.com/Mo-Meta-Blues-According-Questlove/dp/1455501352?tag=drive09e6-20>) in the industry.

Hence, the video below, *Storyville Part 2, The Electric Boogaloo!* From Okayplayer. In it, our man tells the tale of his blind date in a hot pink Hummer limousine, Prince in a runaway golf cart, Nigerian Afrobeat guru Fela Kutiand, and a shamefully bizarre episode involving *Finding Nemo*. You should watch it.

https://youtube.com/embed/WfhoI6iX5ng

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