Secure Da Bag
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The Prophets of Rap.
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The Roots "What They Do" Appreciation Thread
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The Prophets of Rap.
Eastside Get The Money
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Never doooooooooo 
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Classic.
get these nets
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this video and ego trip by de la soul are the exact same thing
i fukk with malik b and black thought, but I never dug this song or the idea of making a song about what other rappers are supposed to be doing
roots and de la were cornballs for doing that
especially when the roots fukked with jay z years later.......on a song talking about some of the SAME things they called out on never do
i fukk with malik b and black thought, but I never dug this song or the idea of making a song about what other rappers are supposed to be doing
roots and de la were cornballs for doing that
especially when the roots fukked with jay z years later.......on a song talking about some of the SAME things they called out on never do
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get these nets
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Lootha VanDraws
'The Night I Fell in Love' is the GOAT R&B album
this video and ego trip by de la soul are the exact same thing
i fukk with malik b and black thought, but I never dug this song or the idea of making a song about what other rappers are supposed to be doing
roots and de la were cornballs for doing that
especially when the roots fukked with jay z years later.......on a song talking about some of the the things they called out on never do
The Roots and cornballs should not be uttered in the same sentence.
Classic and the snares were
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
"Lost generation, fast paced nation
World population confront they frustration
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken"
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
World population confront they frustration
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken"
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
get these nets
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Roots minus rahzell and malik b = cornballs
DJ Paul's Arm
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That instrumentation at the end is 
What Thought rapped about then is full blown music fukkery today.
What Thought rapped about then is full blown music fukkery today.
MajesticLion
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The eternal striving for balance re: what you do vs what you're about. That's not necessarily cornball territory, that's just life under the capitalist umbrella.
get these nets
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the drummer is a circus clown
Speaking in interviews, and imagining himself to be some authority about hiphop & musical purity.
Like for real
Questlove: The Roots & Notorious B.I.G. 'Never Made It Right' Before Biggie's Death
11/26/2014 by Colin Stutz
Misha Vladimirskiy/Butchershop Creative
?uestlove opens for Justin Timberlake at The Coppertank at SXSW
After years of The Notorious B.I.G. supporting The Roots, Questlove says he and the band were regrettably not on good terms before his sudden death in 1997.
The Roots' drummer spilled the story on the Juan Epstein podcast Tuesday alongside Chris Rock, saying in the time before the Brooklyn rapper's Life After Death album was released "not all was good between The Roots and Biggie."
Exclusive: Faith Evans Talks Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Ready To Die' & Bad Boy Records
He explained, "We was always good. Biggie was like our biggest champion. When he did Ego Trip magazine he championed us and Jeru higher than anyone. He put Brooklyn onto The Roots."
But it was a video the Roots made for their song "What They Do" that turned Biggie off, feeling their mocking chapping culture was a direct jab at his clip for "One More Chance."
"So, we did this 'What They Do' video," says Questlove. "And it's sort of like a sarcastic look at what was then becoming champagne culture. ... We told the director we don't want to do a direct reference to someone's video. We just talking about the impending lurking of this new -- at the time it seemed like the new apartheid -- the have-nots versus the haves. ... Based on the way the set looked, we didn't know we were doing a direct reference to 'One More Chance.' So, when we saw the final cut. ... They showed it to us and I was like 'Oh, damn.' But it was too late."
And it caught feelings, Questlove said, and from the Biggie commented in The Source he had been disrespected by The Roots. When The Source reached out to Questlove for a comment, he offered instead to write an op-ed fully explaining himself. The next day, Biggie was killed.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...igs-ready-to-die-at-20-classic-track-by-track
"I said, let me do an op-ed. What I wanted to do was kind of explain the dangers.... New York was kind of becoming divided by the haves and the have-nots and I wrote this beautiful manifesto. It was like a 1,000 pages. I faxed it to The Source, and literally, I called The Source. It took me 10 hours to do it. Proofread it. It was great. Called The Source and said 'Okay, I'm ready to send the response-to-Biggie op-ed.' And they're like 'Oh God, you didn't hear what happened did you?' And I was like 'What are you talking about?' They said 'Biggie's dead.' And that killed me. I never made it right.
11/26/2014 by Colin Stutz
Misha Vladimirskiy/Butchershop Creative
?uestlove opens for Justin Timberlake at The Coppertank at SXSW
After years of The Notorious B.I.G. supporting The Roots, Questlove says he and the band were regrettably not on good terms before his sudden death in 1997.
The Roots' drummer spilled the story on the Juan Epstein podcast Tuesday alongside Chris Rock, saying in the time before the Brooklyn rapper's Life After Death album was released "not all was good between The Roots and Biggie."
Exclusive: Faith Evans Talks Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Ready To Die' & Bad Boy Records
He explained, "We was always good. Biggie was like our biggest champion. When he did Ego Trip magazine he championed us and Jeru higher than anyone. He put Brooklyn onto The Roots."
But it was a video the Roots made for their song "What They Do" that turned Biggie off, feeling their mocking chapping culture was a direct jab at his clip for "One More Chance."
"So, we did this 'What They Do' video," says Questlove. "And it's sort of like a sarcastic look at what was then becoming champagne culture. ... We told the director we don't want to do a direct reference to someone's video. We just talking about the impending lurking of this new -- at the time it seemed like the new apartheid -- the have-nots versus the haves. ... Based on the way the set looked, we didn't know we were doing a direct reference to 'One More Chance.' So, when we saw the final cut. ... They showed it to us and I was like 'Oh, damn.' But it was too late."
And it caught feelings, Questlove said, and from the Biggie commented in The Source he had been disrespected by The Roots. When The Source reached out to Questlove for a comment, he offered instead to write an op-ed fully explaining himself. The next day, Biggie was killed.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...igs-ready-to-die-at-20-classic-track-by-track
"I said, let me do an op-ed. What I wanted to do was kind of explain the dangers.... New York was kind of becoming divided by the haves and the have-nots and I wrote this beautiful manifesto. It was like a 1,000 pages. I faxed it to The Source, and literally, I called The Source. It took me 10 hours to do it. Proofread it. It was great. Called The Source and said 'Okay, I'm ready to send the response-to-Biggie op-ed.' And they're like 'Oh God, you didn't hear what happened did you?' And I was like 'What are you talking about?' They said 'Biggie's dead.' And that killed me. I never made it right.
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