Questlove Tried To Get Recognized From His Boyz II Men Cameo | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

we were also in school. the same time that boys to men are. becoming Boys to Men so. it's literally like they're in the. bathroom harmonizing and you know they. won every contest they would like cheat. and put like glitter in their hands and. do something like that and girls would. be like and I'm like. no fight Nate sheets and Calculus class. like you're falling for that like all I. have to do is have some glitter in my. hand man do that Michael Jackson.

three-handed Point yeah yep dude I did. it for a while in my monologue on The. Late Night show killed every time it. works in comedy too so we were I mean at. that time if you were an extra. on a unmentionable Philadelphia comedy. icons number one rated show you went to. the school right uh. every person who's a jazz God now went.

to the school so we were like invisible. and even with the pedigree of like yeah. I've been playing with my dad since I. was five years old my first gate was. already like first day of school Miles. Davis is in my school. uh picking one of the kids to be his new. keyboard player because one of his guys. has a drug happen it has to go to rehab. so you'll you'll fill in Joey. Defrancesco at the age of 16. like. that's just how it was so we you know we.

graduated and now it's like well okay I. guess I gotta live my dad's dream and. audition for Juilliard so. I auditioned for the new school and for. Juilliard in around like 92. Tariq just. you know it's a free trip to New York so. he comes with me we're on a train ride. back home. and this is somewhere out of uh either a. gray Poupon commercial or that last. scene and Dumb and Dumber. the world's most beautiful woman it's.

always a beautiful woman behind this. thing. and it's a slow motion walk. yep to me now here's the thing the. previous year. uh is when Boys to Men started to blow. up they had it they had they came out. the box with a single called Motown. Philly and of course they're you know. calling up their high school friends hey. be in the video whatever so they asked. me to play drums in that video so you. know I've milked those 1.99.

wait let me rephrase it Tariq milk those. 1.9 seconds because literally like after. the video became like heavy rotation on. MTV. we'd be ready to go out for whatever and. he'd just look at me like what are you. doing I'm like what he's like come on. man put the shirt on I was like come on. dude it's like the same shirt yes that's. higher summer I had to dress in the. exact outfit that I yeah. no it's true.

I'd have had a t-shirt made that would. say or I'd wear a hat that'd say yes I'm. that guy from one minute 32 seconds the. entire summer of 1991 I'd have to put on. the hoodie that dingy ass t-shirt those. OshKosh B'gosh uh uh thing and walk up. and down south street we would do like. nine rotations and you know wait ain't. you there oh my gosh and Tariq would. take their numbers down on everything. and that's literally like our social you.

know the way your staff is holding their. hearts right now yeah I feel like such a. dweeb anyway not at all. anyway so. it's a year later and nothing is more. painful than the slow oh yeah dim fate. of like you know Al Bundy's always. bragging about those like four. touchdowns at polkai like I didn't want. to become that guy but suddenly I. noticed like oh the Magic's not working. anymore like.

it's not working there's no glitter in. my hand anymore. so the world's most beautiful woman. walks up to me and Tariq and she's like. you're the drummer and the Spike Lee. Levi's commercial right now there's a. guy there's there's a bucket drummer the. guy that pioneered the idea of when you. see Street musicians bucket drumming his. name is chocolate he's from DC he moved.

to New York and he was you know playing. buckets and whatnot and Spike Lee saw. him and put him in a Levi so now he's. the new drummer of the moment like he's. in the Mariah Carey video and I'm a. little jealous like oh damn you're like. those are buckets I gotta find a new. team. so she's like are you the drummer. and Spike Lee Levi's commercial and I. was like. no oh I'm not that's where you and I are.

different. I just said yes I am and you are a black. thought. and just and just like that commercial. in Dumb and Dumber she's like oh. okay and she walks back and got off the. next stop and Tariq was just look like I. felt the you London idiot he. kept right he kept writing the whole.

time calling my people. and next day. where uh we crashed in my parents crib. living room next day Soul Train's on. the commercial's on and then that. becomes like our our Doc Brown flex. capacitor sitcom sort of like. you look at each other and why don't we. do that like literally that commercial. came on it's like well why don't we do. that and literally an hour later like.

we're and grabbing buckets and. everything sneaking out and we went on. South Street if we didn't make 120 then. it would have been a one-time only thing. but in like two hours like we're rich. and our whole thing was like 60 for you. 60 for me this is date night money you. can buy a quarter pound of turkey some. bread steal some uh condiment packages. and that's a date you know make your own. sandwich yes we we go to like the park. or whatever and yeah.

oh my God. if you're from Philadelphia if you're. from the Tri-State Wawa is a religion so. for five bucks you can buy like a half. gallon of lemonade a whole bunch of. turkey meat some pepper jack cheese some. bread and still the condiments and I'm. writing this down right. me now at my age excuse me there young.

lady. oh and Questlove has given me the. following lists and I have all these. items. right so you would you would you would. do that no and that was like romantic. and movies were cheap back then if you. see it before 6 p.m you can see the. matinee for like you know whatever 2015. that was Date Night money so we were. like hell yeah we're doing this again. told my friend about it the next week. and he's a bass player in my jazz class. and he's like well you guys gonna do it. again I was like yeah he's like well can.

I join you guys sure now he drives I. didn't drive he drives with the station. wagon his dad station wagon he shows up. and he has his upright bass in the back. and I'm getting my buckets he's like. well dude I got the station wagon so. get your real germs and I was like oh. man my dad will kill me man I can't do. that he's like well he's not home. I said yeah you're right so Snook. uh you know very stealth operation of. you know putting uh loading my drums in.

the in the in the station wagon and. that's literally how the roots were were. born.