While it isn’t quite news to us that Questlove is one of the coolest people roaming this warming globe, TIME Magazine has written it in stone by bestowing the official title of the Coolest Person of 2013 to Mr. Quest himself.
Quest, who can most commonly be seen on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon rocking out in a Dee and Ricky Lego pin, beat out Pharrell for the title, mostly because he does a wide array of cool shit. While TIME has a list of their own, we’re going to go ahead and add that article he wrote following George Zimmerman’s acquittal titled “Trayvon Martin and I Ain’t Shit,” saying what every single broken-hearted person in America wanted to express.
Oh, and there was that other time he found and returned J. Cole’s iPhone. But we’ll let TIME tell you why they chose him:
We needed someone who was classically cool. A person in a hip-hop band, a music producer, a DJ. A man who has his own line of Nike sneakers and owns a hoodie shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A guy who has lived in Europe and loves art-house movies. A person who goes by many names, several of which have a question mark in them. We were so traditional in our choice that the 2013 Coolest Person of the Year has the most clichéd cool job in the world: he’s a drummer.
And they continued on to elaborate on all the kickass things he has done, listing:
- He wrote two cool books, Mo’ Meta Blues—a smart postmodern memoir—and a coffee-table book chronicling Soul Train.
- He composed the music for Comedy Central’s very cool Inside Amy Schumer.
- His website, Okayplayer, which allows alternative musicians to create songs together online, made the dopest Christmas sweater ever.
- Every Thursday night, he deejays at a bowling alley in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- He’s about to become the bandleader on The Tonight Show.
- He also deejayed at 13 weddings this year, including that of 2013 Coolest Person runner-up Pharrell Williams. We picked Questlove over Williams because there’s no song titled “Last Night a Recently Married Guy Saved My Life.”
We all have as many hours in the day as Questlove, people!
Congrats to Quest on the accolades.
SOURCE: TIME
