Questlove: Healthier, Happier & Beating To A New Drum

You know him, but just may know his name. Drummer, afro, afro pick with the black fist. He and his bandmates are the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon house band. That’s right: Questlove, whose real name is Ahmir Khalib Thompson, is best known for his role in The Roots band as drummer extraordianaire. He is also a DJ, record producer and a music journalist. Impressively, he balances all of this with a healthy lifestyle. When one realizes the importance of great health, there is always time for it!

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“I’m trying to even drop another 100 pounds just to live in the area of 200. You know, only because now I’m settled and I’m kinda steady in New York, and I want a future. I’m tryin’ to get a wife and kids, that type of stuff. I gotta take care of me,” Questlove said in an interview with ORIGIN magazine in 2012.

At his heaviest weight, Questlove was 488 pounds.  His reason for losing weight? Simple. Too many of his friends died from strokes…in their 40s.

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