The Roots news

As the rapper for Grammy-winning band The Roots, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, has performed in front of millions on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Still, he said he felt butterflies when ...

The band has been around since 2009 ... All the acts mentioned are going to be on the Rhythm Stage, but I highly suggest the Roots and Dance Stages as well. The former has a lot of talented ...

A standalone LP from the voice of the Roots was rumored for two decades at least. Finally here, Cheat Codes isn't just excellent: It's a product of all the years it went unmade.

Black Pumas burst onto the music scene with the release of their self-titled debut in 2019. The group racked up a number of Grammy Award nominations including Best New Artist, Record of the Year and ...

Madonna and Jimmy Fallon performed a charged-up rendition of her hit single 'Music' alongside The Roots on The Tonight Show ...

Chicago-based journalist Catalina Maria Johnson will use music illustrations as a way of understanding the history, roots, and concerns of Latinos in this land when she appears at the Normal Public ...

Tariq Trotter — known as “Black Thought” from the Philadelphia hip-hop group The Roots — is now a venture capitalist ... But in 2014, the lead MC of the house band for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy ...

Seacoastonline caught up with Merenda to trace the roots of his band, the impending show, his history with this neck of the words, the variety present in his musical diet, and to discuss his classic ...

It’s an interesting development, given that the musician wasn’t thinking about things like term sheets or return on investments for most of his career.

What Impellent Ventures Managing General Partner Philip Beauregard initially “thought was going to be a casual dinner conversation with a friend,” turned out to be anything but.

When did rappers stop performing with the Roots when they were appearing on Jimmy Fallon? That used to happen with practically every Fallon rap performance, and we might need to bring it back. Last ...