The Roots

live rap group (MC, drums, keyboards, bass) · Philadelphia

Live-instrument hip-hop group built around MC Black Thought (Tariq Trotter) and drummer Questlove (Ahmir Thompson). Their fourth album, Things Fall Apart (MCA, 1999), is labeled jazz rap by Wikipedia.

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Styles

• Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz

Landmark tracks

• The Next Movement (1999)
• Double Trouble (1999)
• Act Too (The Love of My Life) (1999)

Sources

• Source

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