Your weekend playlist of the music videos you should be watching.
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Weekend Visuals: Playlist 217
Your weekend playlist of the videos you should be watching.
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Weekend Visuals: Playlist 187
Your weekend playlist of the videos you should be watching.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & MICK Release “Summertime 8” Mix
The dynamic DJ duo are back for another feel good summer mix.
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BET Awards Announces Performers For Prince Tribute
It’s been nearly two months since the passing of the great singer and performer. Since then, a handful of tributes from his close friends have graced nightclubs and stages.
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Twenty Years Later: Illmatic
Story originally published on The 5th Element Magazine Spring/Summer 2014 Issue Do you remember Hip-Hop in 1994? Some key events may come to mind: Warren G heralded the G-Funk era previously established by Dr. Dre, with his West Coast anthem, “Regulate.” Southern hip-hop flourished with OutKast’s debut and the release of Scarface’s The Diary . […]
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2015’s Best: The Most Memorable Hip-Hop Moments
Just as any year before it and sure to come, hip-hop’s 2015 was momentous, disastrous and triumphant in a slurry of events, often dissected both as mega and minutiae. There were beefs, there were memes, there were endorsements and reunions. We saw many a classic album hit a milestone and many a rapper ignite and […]
Read moreGame of Thrones Rap From The Roots is a Must Watch
Winter is coming for the upcoming season 5 of HBO’s Game of Thrones and The Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter is bringing the heat with this catch-up rap. Too dope. Will you be watching this season? Which character will reign supreme? Dear Jimmy, can Tariq rap all the new episode recaps for GoT? “…folks are loving […]
Read morePeep This: Ludacris x The Roots – “What’s Your Fantasy”
Ludacris showed up to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to promote his newest record, “Ludaversal,” and dub a live performance of its single, “Grass is Always Greener.” But what notched our attention was this warm-up performance of one of his biggest hits, “What’s Your Fantasy,” backed by none other than the Roots. […]
Read moreConverse Partners with Musicians to Create Free Music Samples and Support MyMusicRX Program
Converse and James Poyser (bassist for The Roots), Daru Jones and Dominic Davis (drummer and bassist for Jack White’s band) and Luther Dickinson.(lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars; former lead guitarist for The Black Crowes) came together Friday (Feb.6) at the Converse Rubber Tracks pop-up studio in Los Angeles to support MyMusicRx, a one-of-a-kind pediatric “music medicine” program. […]
Read morePeep This: Nas x Q-Tip x The Roots Perform on Jimmy Fallon
Whatever Illuminati-fountain-of-youth-elixir that Pharrell and apparently Nas and Q-Tip have access to, we want in. Does the blogger-Illuminati not have a connect or what?! Anyway, a week away from the drop of his special edition 20th anniversary “Illmatic XX,” Nas and Q-Tip paid a visit to Jimmy Fallon and the Roots last night to remind […]
Read moreJam On It: The Roots – When The People Cheer
Our favorite purveyors of that ill headnodic from The Illadelph, The legendary Roots crew, have their 11th studio album on the horizon entitled “And Then You Shoot Your Cousin”, which is being lead off with their latest single, “When The People Cheer”. Enlisting the rhyme stylings of Greg Porn to accompany Black Thought, the track […]
Read moreJam On It: Cosmo Baker Presents The 6th Annual Roots Picnic Mixtape
If you’re looking for the perfect soundtrack to your Memorial Day weekend, search no further. Cosmo Baker has presented for all our listening enjoyment the official mixtape to the upcoming Roots Picnic, going down on June 1st. So go ahead and get your media piration (it’s not a word, but it should be) on and […]
Read moreAnd the 2013 BET Award nominees are…
Today, the BET Network announced the nominees for the 13th annual BET Awards to be held at Nokia Theatre on June 30. The press conference kicked off with BETs President of Music Programming and Specials, Stephen Hill, taking the mic to introduce the first ever BET Experience. If you haven’t heard by now, the BET […]
Read moreJam On It: Statik Selektah ft. Raekwon, Joey Bada$$ & Black Thought – Bird’s Eye View
If you want to find out the definition of a banger or something that would absolutely have you on head nod 1000, then turn your attention to Statik Selektah’s latest track, “Bird’s Eye View”. Don’t try and google the definition of a banger unless you want to catch knowledge about sausages and English cuisine. But […]
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