The Roots

Happy Tuesday! Thank you @chicodsolo and @iambrookemonroe for this @chakaikhan mood! #chakakhan #blackgirlmagic #dad

South Beach at Miami Beach Pop Festival @miamibeachpop on Saturday November 9! Unlock exclusive presale access to single day tickets from now until Thurs, Aug 8 at 10PM EST Click the link in bio to purchase your single day tickets now! Secure your pass to paradise for the ultimate festival vacation weekend on November 8-10 in Miami Beach See you on the sand! #MiamiBeachPop #BeComeOne

Philly, bringing it home. Free screening of @songsthatshook tomorrow, Friday Aug 2 @blackstarfest — meet us at 7pm at @annenbergcenter to see it first, and stay for the Q&A afterwards with @blackthought and @questlove #215 #blackstar #songsthatshookamerica

Throwback to 2017 #rootsapalooza #radiocity #davechappelle #newyorkcity #august

If you’re in Los Angeles this weekend, stop by @caaminla and support our friends @jadapinkettsmith @willsmith @tinafarristours for Queens of the New Age:Festival of Extraordinary Women! #queensofthenewage #festivalseason #ittakesavillage #music #losangeles #californiaafricanamericanmuseum

WAKE UP! #monday

What Happens In Vegas... #questlove #dj #poolparty #vegas

When @ybncordae SHUT DOWN @jimmyfallon @fallontonight wt @anderson._paak and @theroots !!!! #THELOSTBOY DROPS THIS FRIDAY #live #music #hiphop #bars #newschool

There's something in your heart And it's in your eyes It's the fire, inside you Let it burn. #thefire #tbt #theroots

Excited to announce that I’m bringing my #Delirious platform to the biggest comedy festival in the world. It’s going down at @justforlaughs this weekend in Montreal. Tickets are still available to see me and some of my favorite stand up comedians. Hope to see y’all there. @blackthought #justforlaughs #comedy #delirious #montreal #laugh

The steady heavy legendary, all praise is overdue Same cloth as the chosen few, rap Noble Drew. #mondaymotivation #lyrics #dostoyevski #streamsofthought

🎼 M-I-C... 🎵 #mickeymouse #disney #mickeymouse #mickeymouseclubhouse disco #dc #questlove

Check out our #ComplexConChicago Hip Hop: @songsthatshook America conversation featuring Executive Producers @QuestLove & @BlackThought discussing hip-hop’s impact on culture. Sunday 12P.

How can you make any sense of a life ending? Richard Nichols, who managed the Roots since the beginning, since before the beginning, passed away on July 17, 2014 after a long battle with leukemia (CMML). Rich was 55... Rich was loved, is loved, will always be loved. He will live on in me, in Black Thought, in the rest of the Roots, and in every artist and project he touched. Recently, Rich was asked if he felt less creative after two decades in hip-hop. “I feel even more creative, honestly,” he said. “Creativity hasn’t ever been the problem, because I’m still trying to work on the idea.” We will continue to carry forward his model and his creativity, to work on the idea, for better or worse. It may be better and it may be worse, but we’ll keep things moving. To say that there will never be anyone like him is an understatement. He is what he was: the only one. - @questlove. First printed by @vulture 2014 #richnichols #richardnichols #theroots #tbt

Thank You London! 📸: @rayangry #timetomakethedonuts #monday #backtowork #europe #europetour #londontown #theroots

THANK YOU BERLIN! #berlin #theroots #europe #tour

In honor of the 15th anniversary of our 7th album #TheTippingPoint (July 13th 2004), we (The Roots) are pleased to announce a special limited edition Orange vinyl reissue being released today! (Also a special announcement coming soon in the next few weeks stay tuned!)

・・・ #TheListening the 2002 debut by #LittleBrother is for hip hop what the self titled #NewYorkDolls 73 debut was for punk culture. What 1974’s #InspirationInformation by #ShuggieOtis was for abstract funk. What @GaryNuman’s 81 “Dance” album was for @Prince’s Minniapolis creative assault & perhaps the entire #Sylvers MGM/Pride catelogue was for bubblegum soul. It provided context and a vision for the future very quietly. When history is written, many a revisionist will bestow #CollegeDropout w accolades and props on introducing the world to a 3 dimensional flesh and blood view of modern black struggle. Something hip hop avoided its first 2 decades. Truth is North Carolina’s Little Brother was Ye’s blueprint long before he had a deal. Drake has gone on record to sing Little Brother’s praises in how instrumental their line blurring of singing and mcing was for him. This album pioneered SoundCloud producers & blog mcs. I laughed so hard when @9thwonder told me he used something called #FruityLoops & garage band to record this entire album. “Fruit What!!!??”—-I’m not laughing no more. Until the @westsidegunn movement (we can add @freddiegibbs @anderson._paak & @rocmarci too) LB was truly the last hip hop movement I cared about AS A FAN w/o dissecting & listening as a peer. Peep the documentary on @okayplayer tomorrow on the making of a revolution that you don’t even know about. @questlove #littlebrother #music #hiphop #phontigallo

TBT I'm not a typical arrogant American On prescribed medicine I'm sick as I ever been Rolling out of the dealership and the McLaren These rappers is Peter Pan, I'm pan-African" @blackthought #tbt #lyrics #blackthought

SOLD OUT Verti Music Hall in Berlin on Thursday July 11. #soldout

Thank You LISBON! 🎥: @sharon_arbiv_ #osiris #odb #olddirtybastard #dirtmcgurt #wuwednesday #wutangforever #rootstang #blackthought #reekgeez #europe #summerfestival

Thank You FRANCE! 📸: @ianhendricksonsmith #france #europe #tour #theroots #stage

Thank You Spain! 📸: @yaywande #theroots #eurotour #europe #summer #spain

The True And Living @blackthought #theroots #europe #europetour

EUROPE (Swipe left) #theroots #europe