“When I opened my eyes, I didn’t realize like, ‘Why is everyone so quiet?’' Questlove recalled after missing Will Smith's slap at the Oscars.
Speaking about the moment he won the award during his Monday appearance on, Questlove — who was born Ahmir Khalib Thompson — said winning the best documentary award for his work on 2021’sfelt surreal, especially when considering the events that occurred between his friends mere moments before he took the stage for his acceptance speech.“We were the only two people in the room,” the musician said, referring to him and his mother, who joined him for the ceremony.
As for the now-infamous slap heard around the world? “I really wasn’t aware of that,” The Roots frontman told Fallon. “It’s weird to say because they tell you ahead of time, ‘This is your category.’ And so, in that moment you are either going to be full of anxiety, or for me, I’ve been meditating for the last two years. I do trans-med. Actually,taught me about that. A minute when the commercial break was happening, I was just in my ‘Mmmm.
He continued, “When I opened my eyes, I didn’t realize like, ‘Why is everyone so quiet?’ Like, I literally was not present for that whole entire moment, and as I’m walking to the stage, I’m putting two and two together and I realize that that was a real moment like maybe three seconds before I spoke words. In my mind, they’re just doing a sketch and I’m just like, ‘OK, Ahmir, remember to thank your mom, your dad …’ so I was not present at all. I was just in a blank state.
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