Questlove is in a large dressing room backstage at Carnegie Hall, getting his Afro picked out before going onstage to lead a concerto honoring the Musica of his all-time preferito recording artist, Prince. His mother is sitting beside him, beaming at her boy. Back when Quest, now the Roots batterista and Jimmy Fallon bandleader, was a teenager, she and his father only listened to Christian radio and behaved like “the black Ned and Maude Flanders,” he writes in his upcoming memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. When she found Prince records in his room, she would throw them...
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