The most beautiful thing about (Peter Jackson's Beatles) documentary [Get Back] is that it shows the true way that creativity starts is you have to go through old ideas ... And you see Paul McCartney do that. He goes to old Beatles songs or old Tin Pan Alley. And John Lennon, he is either referencing Little Richard or Chuck Berry. The reason that's super important for the world to see is because I know the framing of hip-hop is as "that's not real music. They're just taking other music and claiming it as their own." So what we just watched [the Beatles do] for those nine hours, that's hip-hop. That's them using other songs to spark an idea for another song. So finally, you get absolute proof the world's most loved band did their version of what Pete Rock and DJ Premier and J Dilla always did, which is you take old records, and you try to make them into new records. And that, to me, is the important lesson in it all.
-- Questlove, Rolling Stone Q&A, February 2022
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