The 5th installment of okayplayerTV exclusively features The Roots . Check it out above as Los Angeles okayplayerTV crew Greg The Dude and Tunji capture interviews with Black Thought and ?uestlove from when they performed at the 2008 UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival. Then click here to get full videos of the gang performing "Rising Up" and "Long Time." Episode 1: Janelle Monae Episode 2: J*DaVe...
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It's that time of year, October 3rd to be precise. A very special double birthday shout out to two of the best emcees on the planet. Show some love, y'all! Also accepting b-day wishes in this board post here.
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--- - |- I hope that its safe to say that we're all big fans of the band The Roots here on EardrumZ. Long heard rumors are finally true, they'll play a series of midwest colleges hitting Purdue and IU and smaller venues. I'm excited for this concert, in good roots fashion I'm going to put up Don't Say Nothin' Valient remix I found a while ago. I know Nimz loves the Roots much more than me, a...
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Many of us were on vacation, so I apologize for that shitty week of no posts. Hopefully this week makes up for it. The Roots new album "Rising Down" is set to release April 29th. It will be their tenth album and has been described to be darkly funky, politically charged, and filled with special guests. One track that has been gaining a lot of popularity has been their track "Birthday Girl", pro...
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Last Friday, Erykah Badu joined The Roots on Jimmy Fallon to pay homage to the late great Michael Jackson. I've been waiting for a video rip, but this works for me. Big shouts to ItsAllTheWayLive (and ?uestlove) for the HQ audio. UPDATE: Brought this back up for two reasons. I feel it got overlooked in [...]
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The idea of The Roots being in the studio with Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, recording songs for revolution, makes me very happy. Especially with Black Thought reportedly on the mic - I loooove Black Thought's voice...According to Okayplayer, The Roots teamed up with Kyp and Tunde to record a song for Soundtrack For A Revolution. According to a description on Louverture Fi...
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ALL POINTS WEST: Day 2:If Day 1 ran like butter- easy access to the ferry- easy waltz into the park, Day 2 ran unfortunately more like peanut butter. Two hour lines to get on the ferry; a line 200 people long for VIP entrance and a big wall of people just standing and sweating at General Admission. Chock-a-block crowds. Everywhere. Sure, the park had sold out Day Two, 30,000 people strong, but ...
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Game time!http://mog.com/Hello_Mimi/blog/230581Here are the instructions from Mimi's post:Step 1: Put your music player on random.Step 2: Post the first line (or so, some are hard) from the first 21 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.Step 3: Post and let everyone guess what SONG AND ARTIST the lines come from.Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly (No lyri...
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Here's more footage from this weeken'ds Rock The Bells in D.C. The Roots and Skillz are up top, Tabi down bottom.
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Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction, Brooks Waterman of Bad Religion and ?uestlove of The Roots, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Byron McMackin of Pennywise and the Street Drum Corps are among the badass drummers that will be present at the 9th annual Drum-Off Grand Finals. They will perform at the drum-off finals at the Music Box in Hollywood on January 5th.Finalist will head to Hollywood after prel...
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In college I flipped across interstate 80 driving from Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City, UT for a ski trip. The Toyota LandCruiser I was in flipped three times across the highway before stopping in the median of the divided road on a cushion of snow. Blackout. Dead silence. Complete stillness. Moving slowly, a little to make sure you are indeed alive and nothing is broken. Saying something...
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What happens when Philly's The Roots stumble upon a mushroom patch in a cow pasture??? I believe the song is titled "Love My Family"
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A laid back but throughly swingin' groove hooked with some guitar work that wouldn't be out of place on Philadelphia International Record from the 70's(Many of which had writing or production from the featured Bunny Sigler), sets the table, but Black Thought's first verse makes this my fav track on the record.He mentions the statue on city hall (William Penn), calls out his neighborhood (Sout...
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The Roots - Rising Down(Def Jam, 2008)8 out of 10This band deals, as participant-observers, in turbulence. "The Pow Wow" opens the scene in 1994; we get a glimpse of a band conference call, discussing some shit that went down at a Geffen meeting, pre-major-debut, and quickly shit starts to go down at this meeting, at least one man screaming. Not a shocking consequence of a conversation featurin...
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I don't know what took me so long but I finally had a listen to The Roots. I guess perhaps it was that I've been so preoccupied with so many other artists that I just didn't get around to checking them out. Maybe it was also that none of my trusteds were into them. Then again The Roots have been around long before I joined Mog, in fact they began back in '87! Their first album came out in '93 w...
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