After announcing their 13th studio LP this past July, The Roots revealed on their Facebook page that their first concept album will be released Dec 6th via Def Jam. prefix
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[vodpod id=Video.14167269&w=540&h=350&fv=] Big Sean took a stop by Jimmy Fallon last night and with some help from The Roots, he performed his tracks, “I Do It” & “Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay”. Finally Famous in stores now. hhnm via nll
[vodpod id=Video.14118528&w=540&h=350&fv=] After hitting up The View earlier in the day, Hov’s ‘ol gal swung by the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show to perform a different version of her current single backed by The Roots. 4 is in stores now.
The baddest band in the land have the ball rolling for their 13th studio album and last night, ?uestlove
[vodpod id=Video.13446026&w=540&h=350&fv=] The dynamic duo are back. With The Roots backing them up, JT and Jimmy Fallon continued to cover some of Hip Hop’s most notable tracks on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show. Yup, they still got it.
Odd Future was just one of the many acts for this year’s Openair Frauenfeld this weekend in Switzerland and up top, Tyler and his goons perform Goblin‘s standout track. More acts during the 3 day music festival below.
[vodpod id=Video.12364589&w=540&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] For the Philadelphia Independence Day celebration concert last night, The Roots joined Michael McDonald on stage to perform the song “Taking It To The Streets”. Roll a doobie to that.
Coming off the success of last year’s release, The Roots plan to keep the concept LPs going by dropping one based on orchestrated melodies. So far, two sketch pieces have already been completed and ?uest and Black Thought tell Billboard what we can expect. This is going to be our first full-fledged narrative concept album. It’s a one-word title that’s spelled incorrectly…what a way to tease you, right? It’s going to be heavy on sort of orchestral chamber music with harder […]
Before The Roots capped off their picnic last night, Nas did his one-two thing. Here’s film of him performing “If I Ruled The World” and “One Mic”.
The Roots’ fourth annual picnic went down yesterday in Philadelphia. Wiz was on the bill and even brought out hometown heroes Beanie Sigel, Freeway, and the Young Gunz. Hopefully footage of that arrives shortly. Sidebar: Mel D. Cole event flicks
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