MixedThe Los Angeles TimesOccasional informal shifts from objective and omniscient narration of \'important events\' that sound like traditional history to incredibly personal and subjective opinions ... Questlove makes his musical likes and dislikes known with little reservation throughout, dismissive of anything that isn’t directly related to the nation as he knows it ... The indices containing Questlove’s playlists are perhaps the book’s most instructive and representative parts.