Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, the drummer for The Roots, was detained by the DEA sometime last week while attempting to board a plane at a Buffalo airport. ?uestlove wrote about the altercation on his MySpace blog, which he described as “possibly the most humiliating hour of my life.”
The incident occurred when ?uest purchased his plane ticket 24 hours before the flight, automatically placing him in a special security line. When his luggage was checked, authorities found a Louis Vuitton bag containing money from various countries.
“Thing is, I absolutely forgot that I was carrying around all of my post Roots show DJ ?uestlove gig money,” he wrote. “It was there they discovered my DJ money stash from countries all around the world.” ?ueset claims he forgot to deposit the money before boarding the plane and was subsequently transferred from the airport security to the DEA.
Authorities then questioned ?uest about his bag full of “$100,000 in China money.” When the heavyset drummer tried to convince security he was a Grammy award-winning artist, they picked up an issue of XXL out of his luggage and asked, “Where are you in this magazine? You said you were in a rap group, huh? How can a rapper not be in a rap magazine?”
Security then forced ?uest to remove his pants, which he describes as “single handily the most embarrassing moment of my career.”
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only reason u first iz because besides me no one else iz gone comment
now i gotta comment lol how the fuck u goin arrest ?uest love and then pull out the xxl and ask to pick himself out thats bullshit but damn a 100k in chinese doe.roots gettin their paper plus their albums are fuckin crazy classic shits
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This is why we dont help the COPS right here....
IT HAPPENS QUEST......IT HAPPENS!!!!
DAMN THIS IS SOME BULLSHIT... I BET IF IT WAS THE DRUMMER FOR A ROCK GROUP THEIR WOULDNT HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS TO THAT EXTENT
Damn the DEA trying get ?uestlove?? What the hell? C'mon b... Its the ROOTS?!? Dog, I know somebody in that Airport knew who he was.. This is bullshit. I'm checkin his myspace.
rapgod — about 2 hours ago
IT HAPPENS QUEST......IT HAPPENS!!!!
EXACTLY. CAN SOME ONE E-MAIL HIM AND REQUEST THAT HE PIPES DOWN.
Pipe down??? I'd be getty my lawyers ready for a massacre. He got the dough to get it done. Its us regular dudes that ain't got the time or money to do shit.
fuck any stans of g uint. Close your mouth Questlove. That stop snitching movement is real.
coolace u need to shut ur bitch ass up wit dat stop snitchin movement!!!!
SnappS you must be a fucking cop. Yeah you a currrrrtis, all yall new york niggaz is snitchez. That fake ass 50, Sammy the Bull, Nicky Barnes,Frank "Curly" Lino, Herny Hill and the list goes on. New York is the State of "State's Evidence". Yall punk ass snitchez That why I say fuck New Yoke
did this internet gangster just say fuck new york? go suck a fat baby balls u bitch made nigga
BLACK DRAMA ITS ALWAYS GONNA BE LIKE THIS I KNOW THEY KNEW HE WAS BUT THEY JUST WANNA FUCK AS UP LIKE THAT PLUS THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE BEST DRUMMER I MEAN THAT 100,000 IS NUFINK HE COULD HAVE CARRIED 1 MILLION AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM AND SAY NIGGA GOT SHOT
damn get the fuck outta here lol This shit is true? Yo Ghost, did you check up on it? Is it on his blog cause I don't feel like searching for his myspace unless someone puts up the link
See, this is when you find out most rapper get treated the same, keep ya head up!
These pigs don't give a fuck what your title is. Escpecially being young and minority with paper. Perfect profile for those bastards to fuck with you!
LMAOOOO. This was after The Roots performed at my school!!!
That's fucked up but Buffalo's police, and I don't doubt the higher agencies too, but they're some of the most RACIST BASTARDS in the country...so I feel for him, but I can't even say it's rare for a Black guy to get treated like that up here...these cops will BLACK the fuck out on you and have you missing...
I don't even live here, but please excuse my temporary city ?uest...my bad...
Damn... and they wonder why Cam and Busta wont talk to the Police. This shit right here, Stereotyping sonsabiches.
buffalo airports is fucked up-and not only if u black-my homeboy passed through there a month ago(and hes white)and he was detained questioned and searched for a couple of hours-and dats without having mad money from different countries on him
REALRAPMD — 14 days ago
rapgod — about 2 hours ago
IT HAPPENS QUEST......IT HAPPENS!!!!
EXACTLY. CAN SOME ONE E-MAIL HIM AND REQUEST THAT HE PIPES DOWN.
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True True, but the DEA didn't have to over do it by asking him to take his pants off.
Yeah, as if his ID was going to tbe in his pants.