LISTEN: Lil' Wayne & The Roots - A Millie (live)

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Live in Miami last night. Questlove is doing all those "amillie" parts vocally while drumming. From his Twitter: many things i can do on my day job and 90% of you seen em: talk and jokes while drumming, pick my hair and bandlead, penalize frank or the guilty party and not lose the beat, even blogged and posted on okayplayer.com while drumming
girlfriend once made me a sandwich and i dropped nary a crumb while i played 16th notes
but ladies and gents...a first in my 20 years as a Root....i got stumped, i cannot drum and sing "AMILLIEAMILLEAMMILLIEAMILAMILAMILAMILAMILLIEAMILLIEAMILLEAMMILLIE" at the same time, never in my life have i ever prayed for a moment to pass. i can do 200 crunches w/o bitching even deal w/ moms crying i dont call her enough, but i really thought i couldn't make it through this song without turning purple. much thanks to Weeze for holding us down.

VIDEO: The Roots On Registering To Vote

LISTEN: Muja Messiah - Give It Up ft. Black Thought

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Off of Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy out July 29th.

VIDEO: The Roots & Diplo Keys To The City

Imeem takes on Philadelphia in their Keys to the City feature. It includes interviews with The Roots, Diplo including a Diplo premiere (see below) and others, video premieres of Okay Player¹s Roots Picnic Webisodes, Mad Decent's Block Party footage and dj mix, ?uestlove's quintessential playlist of songs recorded by Philadelphia natives and much more. Check it out here and below.

The Roots - Keys to the City


Diplo

LISTEN: Kaz Money - Scratching The Surface ft Scratch

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Kaz Money is the first ever MC from the United Arab Emirates featured on SDSU, and he sound like he's straight out of Philly, with a little dash of a Eminem/Big Pun homage in there. The Roots crew's Scratch is a featured guest on this track. Download his full album for free.

LISTEN: Black Thought Freestyle New Year's Eve @ Jay Dee's House

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Rare old Black Thought freestyle recorded at the late J Dilla's house. Off of Washington DC's Chris Instrument's Places Everyone mix project. It also includes an unreleased A Tribe Called Quest track. Download the whole mix here.


The Roots @ Rock The Bells 07. More pics here

VIDEO: The Roots On Colbert Report

The Roots performed the opening theme song and the national anthem on the Colbert Report.

Via Eskay.

LISTEN: The Roots - Birthday Girl ft. Patrick Stump

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Yup, that's Fall Out Boy's lead singer Patrick Stump on the hook for The Roots's lead single 'Birthday Girl', an excellent cross-over attempt that even starts similarly to 'Got You' lyrically.

NEWS: The Roots & Arrested Development Performed @ Langerado

The Roots and Arrested Development were only two of the many acts performing at this weekend's Langerado in Florida. Our buddies at Jetty Productions were there and sent us some excellent pictures taken by Nicholas
Monaco.

Arrested Development



The Roots

VIDEO: The Roots - Get Busy ft. Dice Raw, Peedi Crakk & DJ Jazzy Jeff

The Roots drop yet another video for their upcoming new album Rising Down and it features long-time collaborator Dice Raw, Philly head and Jigga hater Peedi Crakk and the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff.

VIDEO: Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul Now

The Roots's very own ?uestlove 'shot' an unofficial video to Gnarls Barkley's second single 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul Now'. The song is almost Moby-esque, which I feel dirty for saying since Moby is kind of eh, and I actually like this song, but still.

VIDEO: The Roots - 75 Bars (Black Thought’s Reconstruction)

Rik Cordero directed The Roots' new video for '75 Bars (Black Thought’s Reconstruction)'. Moving on up!

VIDEO: Behind-The-Scenes @ The Roots's 75 Bars Video

LISTEN: The Roots - Black’s Reconstruction

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Black Thought goes hard for 75 bars. He didn't need a hook on this shee-it. This is a track off of the upcoming album Rising Down and it's reminiscent of 'Thought @ Work' off of Game Theory (see video below). Props to Skeezo for sending this over. Read more about the album here.

VIDEO: Skillz - Crazy World

Skillz will be dropping his new album Million Dollar Backpack this spring and this is the first video for 'Crazy World'. Below that a live rendition together with The Roots.

Skillz - Crazy World


Skillz - Crazy World (Live) w/ The Roots

NEWS: Rahzel Set To Drop New Album

Rahzel has announced he will release the follow up to 2004's Rahzel's Greatest Knockout this summer. It will be called Greatest Knockouts The Album, Vol. 2. Rhazel: "It's still hip-hop. It's like the music I grew up on, the music that made all of these things that are present now in existence. So I'm continuing that with raw beats, raw rhymes, beat-boxing, rhyming. The whole nine." (Billboard) If you need to remind yourself of why exactly Rahzel is the greatest beat boxer of his time watch the video below.

VIDEO: Philly's Major Rhymes

Philadelphia's new major Michael Nutter rhymes ovr 'Rapper's Delight' with ?uestlove playing DJ in the back.

LISTEN: Al Green - Thought It Out (Prod. by ?uestlove)

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As you may remember ?uestlove of The Roots fame produced soul legend Al Green upcoming new Blue Note album. 'Thought It Out' is the first song to find it's way to you. (Audio via SoulNYC.

VIDEO: Jay-Z/?uestlove - Roc Boys Rehearsal

Regardless of the crappy sound quality (at times) this is a great behind-the-scenes look at a Jay-Z/?uestlove rehearsal for 'Roc Boys'.

VIDEO: Wyclef Jean + 2 Girls & 1 Cup

Hip Hop is a few months late on this 2 Girls, 1 Cup phenomenon, but after The Roots watched it, and Miss Info, now it's Wyclef Jean's turn. He's manages to continue eating his corn on the cob while watching and claims to have seen something similar in person. My favorite is still the grandma one however.