The Questions: Questlove Shares His Most Embarrassing (and Gruesome) Onstage Moment

The Roots drummer on that one time he put his leg through a milk crate in front of J Dilla and Frank N Dank

Leave it to a vet like Questlove to brush off a potentially life-threatening injury as a merely "embarrassing" moment. As if a pint was a throwaway to the cumulative blood lost onstage over 25 years of leading the hardest working band in the game.

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Last week, The Roots founder and rhythmic backbone revealed just how he gets into Roots Picnic mode in the first installment of a special five-part edition of The Questions, and yesterday, we learned just how integral Spike Lee and a Levi's commercial were to the establishment of The Roots as we know them. Today, we get a bit deeper into that fateful Detroit performance in the sequel with the drummer's account of sustaining a gruesome gash before taking the stage, busting through a milk crate on the way to a riser where his rig was setup. Only after J Dilla and Frank N Dank's gasps from the wings did he realize that adrenaline alone had been propping him up as blood covered the floor around him. Scary shit.

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Watch Questlove tell the whole tale below and hold tight for the next episode.