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Other Songs 100% Dundee @15 75 Bars A Peace Of Light Act Fore Act Too Act Too (The Love of My Life) Act Won (Things Fall Apart) Adrenaline! Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around Aint Sayin Nothin New Atonement Baby Becoming Unwritten Birthday Girl Bittersweet (Bitter) Black Rock Boom! Bread and Butter Break You Off Break You Off [Radio Edit] Burn Can You Hear Me? Can't Stop, Won't Stop Carolina Agents Cinco Minutos Con Vos Clock With No Hands Clones Come The Meantimes Common Dust Compared To What Complexity Concerto Of The Desperado Criminal Dat Scat Datskat Dear God 2.0 Diedre Vs. Dice Dies Irae Distortion To Static Do You Want More?!!!??! Doin It Again Dont Feel Right Dont Say Nuthin Dont See Us Double Trouble Duck Down! Dynamite! Episodes Essaywhuman?!!!??! False Media Feel It (You Got It) For The Love Of Money Friday Night Game Theory Get Busy Glitches Good Music Grits Guns Are Drawn Hang On In There Hard Times Here I Come How I Got Over Humanity Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be) Hurricane Hustla I Cant Help It I Cant Write Left Handed I Dont Care I Remain Calm I Remember I Will Not Apologize I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free If I Could Believe I'll Stand by You Im Out Deah In Love With The Mic In The Music Into Darkness It Ain't Fair It Just Dont Stop Ital Kool On Lazy Afternoon Leonard I-V Lighthouse Little Ghetto Boy Livin In A New World Long Time Lost Desire Make My Mellow My Man My Father My New Haunt My Shot [Rise Up Remix] Never No Alibi No Great Pretender No Hometro / Proceed 2 No Hometro / Proceed 2 No John Trumbull (Intro) Now Or Never One Time Our Generation Our Generation (The Hope of the World) Panic!!!!!!! Part III Pass The Popcorn Peace Phrentrow Popcorn Revisited Proceed Proceed II Proceed III Proceed IV Proceed V Push Up Ya Lighter Quills Radio Daze Refuse To Be Saved Respond / React Respond / React Rhymes And Ammo Right On Rising Down Rising Up Rock You Rolling With Heat Roots And Aphillyation Unreleased Sacrifice Section (She Might Be A) Grenade Shine Signed, Sealed, Delivered Silent Treatment Singing Man Sleep Somebodys Got To Do It Somebody's Gotta Do It Something In The Way Of Things Something in the Way of Things (In Town) Star Star / Pointro Star / Pointro Stay Cool Step into the Realm Step Into The Relm Stick Out Your Tongue Stomp Sugar Wont Work Swept Away Table Of Contents Take It There Tao of the Machine The Adventures In Wonderland The Anti-Circle The Coming The Dark The Dark (Trinity) The Day The Devil The Fire The Good The Bad And The Desolate The Grand Return The Hurricane (a/k/a Hurricane) The Hypnotic The Hyponti The Jump The Lesson The Lesson Pt. 1 The Lesson Pt. 3 The Next Movement The Notic The Notice The OtherSide The Puppet Has Cut His Strings The Return To Innocence Lost The Roots Is Comin The Seed The Seed 2.0 The Session The Show The Spark The Ultimate The Unlocking The Unraveling Theme from Middle of the Night Theme From The Middle Of The Night Thought @ Work Tip The Scale Tomorrow Tripwire Understand Universe At War Unwritten Viceroys Row ? Vs. Rahzel Wake Me Up Wake Up Everybody Walk Alone Walk Us Uptown Water Web Web 20/20 What Goes On Pt. 7 What They Do What You Want When The People Cheer Who Tells Your Story Wholy Holy Why Why (What's Goin On?) Wise Up Ghost Without A Doubt Writters Block Ya All Know Who! Yall Know Who You Aint Fly You Don't Know What Love Is You Got Me You'll Be Back
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The Roots are an American hip hop/neo soul band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Roots served as the house band on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014, and in the same role (and accompanying show guest artists) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014. -Wikipedia
Also Known As: The Legendary Roots Crew
The Fifth Dynasty
The Square Roots
Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Band
Members:
Black Thought -
rapping (1987-present)

Questlove -
drums (1987-present)

Kamal Gray -
electronic keyboard (1994-present)

F. Knuckles -
percussion (2001-present)

Captain Kirk Douglas -
electric guitar (2003-present)

Tuba Gooding, Jr. (Damon Bryson) -
sousaphone (2007-present)

James Poyser -
electronic keyboard
(For The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and occasional performances only)

Mark Kelley -
bass guitar (2011-present)


From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genre(s): Alternative hip hop, neo soul, jazz rap
Active From: 1987-present
Associated Acts: DJ Jazzy Jeff Jill Scott Jaguar Wright Amel Larrieux John Legend Dave Chappelle Erykah Badu BT Big K.R.I.T. Jimmy Fallon Elvis Costello
Did You Know:
The founding members met at Philadelphia High School for Creative Performing Arts

Quotes:
Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.
Black Thought

My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.
Black Thought

We go under the industry There is no subculture anymore, hip-hop used to be the subculture of the music industry; it was the underground. Now it's the mainstream of the music industry.
Black Thought

In Italy once I caused a car crash, that was the sweetest revenge. It was the sweetest vindication I have ever had in my life. Four assholes were driving in their car in Rome and they rode by me, rolled down the window, shouted out derogatory comments, and drove straight into a pole.
Black Thought

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