Amir “Questlove” Thompson (The Roots)
Arguably the most prolific drummers of this generation, Questlove is a Philly boy (Go Birds), who’s playing complex, old school hip-hop to an audience of predominately white young adults, despite all that, he’s kicking more ass than any single drummer really ever has before. That, and he's the official live drummer of SNL.
Roger Hawkins
Considered by some to be the actual best drummer of all time (that’s subjective, this is just hearsay information), Hawkins was known for being incredibly quick to learn complex songs, and further innovate on them in the same session. Homie is from another past time though, so we will never know who the objective best drummer is. Hawkins killed it for the time that he was around, though.
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