Questlove recalls winning the Oscar just moments after the Will Smith-Chris Rock incident: 'I really wasn't aware of that.”
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"Of course, that happened in the cyclone of a whole other situation with two very good friends of mine," Questlove said, referencing Smith and Rock."I really wasn't aware of that. It's weird to say, because they tell you ahead of time, 'This is your category,' so in that moment, you're either going to be full of anxiety or, for me, I've been meditating for the last two years.
As for what was going through Questlove's mind as he sat next to his mother, Jacqui Andrews, the moment his name was called, he said,"We were the only two people. It was that moment that I realized, we went through so much from them sacrificing to put me into music school. It was either our bills or my future. I just thought about all those moments."
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