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Your early afternoon playlist with Questlove

Questlove - musician, producer, film-maker, and founding member of The Roots - chats to Craig about the upcoming Roots Picnic in Crystal Palace Bowl.

Questlove - musician, producer, film-maker, and founding member of The Roots - chats to Craig about the upcoming Roots Picnic in Crystal Palace Bowl, his latest film 'Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World)', and his work on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'.

Plus, we step into a Flip-Flop of Hip-Hop, and you get to pick the last song of the show!

Fancy getting involved? Email craig@bbc.co.uk.

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Music Played

  • Kavinsky

    Nightcall (feat. Lovefoxxx)

    • Nightcall.
    • Universal Music Division Virgin Music.
    • 1.

  • Röyksopp

    So Easy

    • Tellé.

  • bar italia

    my little tony

    • Matador.

  • Air

    All I Need

    • Source Records.

  • Tricky

    I'm Yours (feat. Mitch Sanders)

    • False Idols.

  • The Maccabees

    Can You Give It

    • CD SINGLE.
    • FICTION.
    • 1.

  • Miike Snow

    Animal

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Florence + the Machine

    Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Aldous Harding

    Coats

    • 4AD.

  • Nora Dean

    Peace Begins Within

    • Bullet.

  • Bob Dylan

    I Want You

    • Columbia.

  • Roots Manuva

    Let The Spirit

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Big Dada.
    • 1.

  • Tierra Whack

    SIREN

    • Interscope.

  • The Roots

    The Seed (2.0) (feat. Cody ChesnuTT)

    • MCA.

  • Keyside

    Echoes

    • Keyside.
    • Modern Sky Entertainment UK.

  • GANS

    DO YOU GLOW?

    • Strap Originals.

  • Charli xcx

    Wink Wink (6 Music Session, 5th August 2026)

  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Voodoo Ray

    • Rham!.

  • Beck

    In The Night

    • Iliad / Capitol.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Clover

    • Head To The Sky.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.

  • Blondshell

    Violins

    • Partisan.

  • Small Faces

    Whatcha Gonna Do About It

    • Deram.

  • St. Vincent

    Fast Slow Disco

    • Caroline International/Loma Vista.

  • This Is Lorelei

    Billy Came Back

    • Matador.

  • Sea Power

    Remember Me

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • L’Rain

    soulless cycle

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Lime Garden

    Cross My Heart

    • So Young.

  • Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 & Kabaka Pyramid

    Problems

    • Django Music.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Emerald (Live At The Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 1977)

    • Live And Dangerous (Super Deluxe).
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 2.

  • Sade

    Hang On To Your Love

    • The Best Of Sade.
    • Epic/Legacy.
    • 2.

  • Ezra Collective

    Well Organised (feat. Lila Iké)

    • Partisan.

  • Dragonflies

    Slower

    • Dragonflies.
    • Dark Horse Records / BMG.

  • The Notorious B.I.G.

    Unbelievable

    • Bad Boy Entertainment.

  • Foxy Brown

    Foxy's Bells

    • Ill Na Na.
    • RAL (Rush Associated Label).
    • 3.

  • Run‐D.M.C.

    My Adidas

    • BMG.

  • HAAi & Pat Alvarez

    DIGITiSE

    • Mute.

  • The Streets

    Weak Become Heroes

    • 679 Recordings.

  • Fat Dog

    Cancel Me (I'm Tired)

    • Domino.

  • My Life As A Moth

    Closer To Earth

    • The Parade of the Starlet & The Broken Hearted.
    • Self-release.

  • Wings

    Arrow Through Me

    • Columbia.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Brussels Is Haunted

    • BMG Rights Managment (UK) Limited.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)

    • Epic.

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