{"id":261455,"date":"2026-08-08T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261455\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:40:16","slug":"questlove-reveals-he-called-police-on-his-own-philadelphia-parties-in-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261455\/","title":{"rendered":"Questlove Reveals He Called Police on His Own Philadelphia Parties in 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questlove, the longtime Roots frontman Ahmir Thompson, revealed in a new YouTube video that he once called the police on his own <a href=\"https:\/\/957benfm.com\/tag\/Philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> parties when guests got out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday, July 30, episode of The Next Move with Questlove, Questlove admitted he would rather host parties, but he often found himself frustrated with party guests.<\/p>\n<p>The parties, he said, occurred &#8220;back in &#8217;97, back when Jill Scott and everybody was coming over.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/questlove-says-he-called-police-his-own-philly-parties-new-youtube-episode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to FOX29 News<\/a>, the era Questlove was referring to was when The Roots were working on their album Things Fall Apart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city of Philadelphia also knows me for being famous for&#8230; calling the police on my own parties,&#8221; Thompson said. &#8220;Everybody was coming over; it would get too rowdy and\u2026literally, I would call the cops on my own parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a people-person until people start like putting their cigarettes and stuff out on, you know, my couch or whatever&#8230; So then it&#8217;s like, you gotta get out,&#8221; he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>The July 30 episode featured Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles, actor Jesse Williams, and &#8220;It girl&#8221; Olandria for a &#8220;Dinner Party&#8221;-themed game night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Questlove wasn&#8217;t the only participant who made a stunning revelation. Williams revealed he broke a school suspension record and sold things he &#8220;definitely shouldn&#8217;t have been.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questlove, the longtime Roots frontman Ahmir Thompson, revealed in a new YouTube video that he once called the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-261455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}