Damn, people are saying the Roots Picnic this year was on some Fyre Festival shyt. A straight disaster.
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Yea. I refuse to believe out of two decades of doing this, they started to fukk up now. And as meticulous to attention to detail as Quest and his team is, nah
Same reason I didn't go. I was only thinking about going on Saturday, but once D'Angelo backed out, I passed. They used to have the J. Period Mixtape thing on Saturday, but they moved it to Sunday this year...and I definitely didn't care about seeing Meek or Lenny Kravitz. I'm glad they started doing single day tix.
Not even remotely close to what Frye Festival was.
Unrelated ..but this festival wont last much longer
I went to the first one (I think) that wasn’t even in Philly..it was in NYC at Bryant park..tickets were cheap as hell..it was like 2016..saw uzi and he had the small crowd he had there lit.. a lot of the people who went for the roots and their style of music had no idea what was going on
I remember seeing freeway perform for the black thought “live mixtape” shyt too
Then I went I believe the first year in Philly …saw pnb rock and playboi Carti early during their initial buzzes …didn’t stay around past those performances which was like 4pm
After that they tried to be too artsy in my opinion ..I get their concept of mixing genres but it’s a weird environment of people who don’t care about 95% of the artists there..and adding podcast guests that literally nobody has interest in
They tried to expande it to a real festival but without actually being a real festival .they should scale back and just call this shyt a block party and have like 4-5 artists in the same lanes
I went to the first one (I think) that wasn’t even in Philly..it was in NYC at Bryant park..tickets were cheap as hell..it was like 2016..saw uzi and he had the small crowd he had there lit.. a lot of the people who went for the roots and their style of music had no idea what was going on
I remember seeing freeway perform for the black thought “live mixtape” shyt tooThen I went I believe the first year in Philly …saw pnb rock and playboi Carti early during their initial buzzes …didn’t stay around past those performances which was like 4pm
After that they tried to be too artsy in my opinion ..I get their concept of mixing genres but it’s a weird environment of people who don’t care about 95% of the artists there..and adding podcast guests that literally nobody has interest in
They tried to expande it to a real festival but without actually being a real festival .they should scale back and just call this shyt a block party and have like 4-5 artists in the same lanes
DaveyDave
Superstar
Not like its Quest & Black Thought actually handling and organising themselves. Of course the hit runs up hill and the buck stops with them an they should take responsibility but we can't "blame" them for it 100%
Unrelated ..but this festival wont last much longer
I went to the first one (I think) that wasn’t even in Philly..it was in NYC at Bryant park..tickets were cheap as hell..it was like 2016..saw uzi and he had the small crowd he had there lit.. a lot of the people who went for the roots and their style of music had no idea what was going on
Then I went I believe the first year in Philly …saw pnb rock and playboi Carti early during their initial buzzes …didn’t stay around past those performances which was like 4pm
After that they tried to be too artsy in my opinion ..I get their concept of mixing genres but it’s a weird environment of people who don’t care about 95% of the artists there..and adding podcast guests that literally nobody has interest in
They tried to expande it to a real festival but without actually being a real festival .they should scale back and just call this shyt a block party and have like 4-5 artists in the same lanes
This started long before any of those people ever came up. the first was in '08 and was The Roots and Gnarls Barkley. I didn't start going until that following year. But it was even more underground in the initial years. It only just started expanding with the variety during the second half, more so over the past 5ish years. I actually liked it better when it was The Roots and friends, but it's always a great event.
If anything it keeps getting larger. They can easily get up to 25 years of it.
Ducktales
Brehs be flexing
I went in ‘10 and ‘11 when it was geared more towards upcoming acts, then the headliner would be a big name. It was a lot more indie bands and white acts back then, mixed with indie rappers and old school rappers, neo-soul.
I liked the Penns Landing location too.
Shyt, Vampire Weekend was the headliner one time I went
I understand it got too big for that spot and they cashed out by serving an older demographic instead of college aged folks.
It’s goood Philly still has a music festival since Made In America seems to be done with
I liked the Penns Landing location too.
Shyt, Vampire Weekend was the headliner one time I went
I understand it got too big for that spot and they cashed out by serving an older demographic instead of college aged folks.
It’s goood Philly still has a music festival since Made In America seems to be done with
Womb Raider
sigh….*unzips pants*
Go to an outdoor festival after thunderstorms, brehs
Patrick Kane
Superstar
watching this makes me hate getting old
I remember when he debuted on BET back in 2000 I was in elementary school
When he dropped Half Crazy
had my young ass wanting to be in love so bad We old breh
Disappointing hearing about the festival I was thinking of going to a future show but I’ll pass till they fix this up.
Black Keys I think was the headliners first year I went. But I found out about Mayer Hawthorne & Thundercat from the early picnics. I was there for Vampire Weekend. Ghost, Rae & Meth performed and they came on like 5pm. I think Vampire Weekend came on after John Legend, but I left after him. I remember Amanda Diva being the hostess and saying there was still more performances, cause Clipse had showed up late so they got put in a side stage...so the headliner could take main stage.I went in ‘10 and ‘11 when it was geared more towards upcoming acts, then the headliner would be a big name. It was a lot more indie bands and white acts back then, mixed with indie rappers and old school rappers, neo-soul.
I liked the Penns Landing location too.
Shyt, Vampire Weekend was the headliner one time I went
I understand it got too big for that spot and they cashed out by serving an older demographic instead of college aged folks.
It’s goood Philly still has a music festival since Made In America seems to be done with
I always felt Made In America was trash. It shut down North Philly, Fairmount and downtown for the entire weekend, was in the same spot as our free concert. Hell, I think way more OTers attended than Philly. My godmother lived in that complex on the Pkwy, so she would ask us to take her grocery shopping that Wednesday before, because she knew she couldn't leave the complex after Thursday afternoon.
I like this location, and it being a 2-day...but I was happy when they started allowing single-day tix.
Watching the Mixtape Clipse performances - why didn't Roscoe come out? Crowd would've been crazier. He's right in the backround.
