Presenting #NewBlueSun live: welcome @Andre3000 to @rootspicnic 2024
Amazing Human.
Hydeia Brodbent June 14th 1984/Feb 20th 2024
One of the wisest activists
Having been born infected w HIV she was told from the gate she would pass away before age 5.
She used her entire life to become a mission and educate us all. I thank her for that. Cause sometimes it’s hard carrying the pressure of the world so young on your shoulders. And she did it fearlessly in the face of ignorance & hostility
Thank You Hydeia.
@hydeiabrodbent
Please welcome Grammy award winning Best New Artist @victoriamonet to @rootspicnic 2024!
My 8th book #HipHopIsHistory got its unofficial start in March of 2020 while quarantining at an apple orchard not quite upstate NY.
It was really just me sourcing material to play for those nightly 3-5 hour pandemic DJ sets & not wanting to just spin what I normally spun “during normal times”
Most DJs got their “go to 200” muscle memory songs but when this went from “oh that seems fun” to “hmmm now this is a service for my fellow citizens!!!” to “ok now this feels like work” to “🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵” (the anxiety of keeping it fresh and creative) I thought it would be wise for me to start documenting songs just so that I’m aware of what to repeat or not to repeat.
Once we came up for air in 2021 the feeling was “well, we did #MusicIsHistory….can we do the same for hip hop since “you know what” is gonna happen in 2023?
tbh I thought I was gonna take a break from documenting so much——but now that I’m immersed in the film doc world I clearly see that for most people? Memory starts to fade late 40s.
I don’t wanna be the person at 79 years old struggling to remember my life and everything I’ve been through. As is I can give you sharp details from birth to prolly 2006…..after that then it’s anyone’s guess. (This is why I told the discography story on @open_mike_eagle’s podcast so I can rest knowing SOMEWHERE I left the trail of stories of the first 4 Roots albums—-before I forget)
This is a story of how I see hip hop: mostly through the self soothing pain of of vices that helped create it:
62-67 (soul/religion) 67-72 (psychedelic/lsd) 72-77 (funk/heroin) 77-82 (disco/cocaine) 82-87 (boom box beats golden era/40 oz) 87-92 (the classic era/crack) 92-97 (gfunk/weed) 97-02 (jiggy era/ecstasy) 02-07 (crunk/sizzzurp) 07-12 (trap/mdna molly) 12-17 (drill/perc) 17-22 (fentanyl) 22-27 (opioids) 27-32 (????)
I mean the above is my own opinion, but you can’t deny that our choice of the “clutch” of the moment is what reflects the sound of the movement.
This book is under the @auwabooks imprint and will be available June 11th.
Please spread the word.
Thank you 🙏🏾
The 16th Annual @RootsPicnic festival in this year of 2024. In the City Of Philadelphia———given to you by first family in organizing entertainment/fiod/fun/music/vibes/jams/& culture @theroots
Couple of cats in 1999 not knowing they hit jackpot.
#ThingsFallApart #TFA25 #ThingsFallApart25 #OkayPlayer #TheRoots #TheLegendaryRootsCrew
Feb 23rd 1999
Welcome Home @MissJillScott to @rootspicnic 2024 for the first time!!!!!!!
The @blackthought & @jperiodbk live mixtape presents #MethodMan & #Redman (@methodmanofficial & @redmangilla) at @rootspicnic 2024!
Please welcome @nas back to @rootspicnic 2024!
Haaaaaaaa!!!! @mykelogram @qtiptheabstract & @officialjdilla taught me (individually? collectively?) taught me how to use a #Sp1200 and man I was off to the races.
I know how to chop that Police sample
I know how to mix my drums
I knew I was gonna improve the #JungleFever drum break with a harder snare (Dilla told me hit snares with cotton mallets made for xylophones ——-it’s a new texture…..so I “thought” perhaps I’d remix the #Dynamite gem #JDilla gave us & but I never got to it once il realized we’d prolly not get a #Illa5thDynamite remix or budget. So we put this idea to bed.
A coulda been-er
#ThingsFallApart #TFA25 #ThingsFallApart25 #OkayPlayer #TheRoots #TheLegendaryRootsCrew
Feb 23rd 1999
The New Orleans Celebration featuring #LilWayne (@liltunechi) @TheRoots @TromboneShorty @PJMorton & about oh perhaps some other surprises & tricks up the sleeve.
Thank You City Of Philadelphia!
This is our 16th Year!
We started out with just a 3000 capacity festival! Now look at us! Damn near hitting 60,000!
Get tix rootspicnic.com
The good deals are NOW good people!
The New Orleans Celebration featuring #LilWayne (@liltunechi) @TheRoots @TromboneShorty @PJMorton & about oh perhaps some other surprises & tricks up the sleeve.
Thank You City Of Philadelphia!
This is our 16th Year!
We started out with just a 3000 capacity festival! Now look at us! Damn near hitting 60,000!
Get tix rootspicnic.com
The good deals are NOW good people!
The New Orleans Celebration featuring #LilWayne (@liltunechi) @TheRoots @TromboneShorty @PJMorton & about oh perhaps some other surprises & tricks up the sleeve.
Thank You City Of Philadelphia!
This is our 16th Year!
We started out with just a 3000 capacity festival! Now look at us! Damn near hitting 60,000!
Get tix rootspicnic.com
The good deals are NOW good people!
The New Orleans Celebration featuring #LilWayne (@liltunechi) @TheRoots @TromboneShorty @PJMorton & about oh perhaps some other surprises & tricks up the sleeve.
Thank You City Of Philadelphia!
This is our 16th Year!
We started out with just a 3000 capacity festival! Now look at us! Damn near hitting 60,000!
Get tix rootspicnic.com
The good deals are NOW good people!
A super clean (relatively way cleaner) first draft mix of #TableOfContents (before I discovered how compression IS my friend!)
#ThingsFallApart #TFA25 #ThingsFallApart25 #OkayPlayer #TheRoots #TheLegendaryRootsCrew
Feb 23rd 1999
Please welcome @gunna to @rootspicnic 2024!
Yall got me to thank for this.
I begged @harryweinger at @universalmusicgroup for this album to be digitally available for at LEAST 2 decades (yes even CD)
I feel so accomplished right now!
Besides Anita on @spotify is there any reissues we need now?!
The @auwabooks family is proud to announce the second book in our arsenal #LOUD written by @DrewAfualo
Coming in the summer (JULY 30th) #Auwa
#Repost @drewafualo
・・・
🫵🏽THE TIME HAS COME!!!!!! 🫵🏽
I am so excited to officially reveal the cover of my first published book LOUD: accept nothing less than the life you deserve 😭😭😭
This book is such a huge accomplishment that I could never have done myself. Having the greatest team, literary agents and publishers in @questlove @auwabooks @mcdbooks has been paramount in bringing this piece of my heart to life … and now it’s ready for all of you.
You can FINALLY pre-order LOUD & it will officially release to all retailers (both online & in store) July 30, 2024!!!! A hot girl summer manifesto!!! I KNOW THAT’S MF RIGHT!!! 🫡
Thank you all for your endless & undying support in everything I do. I hope this book helps you find your voice, so you can be just as LOUD AS ME AMENNNNNN LMFAO
#GOGETHERNOWstagram
The @auwabooks family is proud to announce the second book in our arsenal #LOUD written by @DrewAfualo
Coming in the summer (JULY 30th) #Auwa
#Repost @drewafualo
・・・
🫵🏽THE TIME HAS COME!!!!!! 🫵🏽
I am so excited to officially reveal the cover of my first published book LOUD: accept nothing less than the life you deserve 😭😭😭
This book is such a huge accomplishment that I could never have done myself. Having the greatest team, literary agents and publishers in @questlove @auwabooks @mcdbooks has been paramount in bringing this piece of my heart to life … and now it’s ready for all of you.
You can FINALLY pre-order LOUD & it will officially release to all retailers (both online & in store) July 30, 2024!!!! A hot girl summer manifesto!!! I KNOW THAT’S MF RIGHT!!! 🫡
Thank you all for your endless & undying support in everything I do. I hope this book helps you find your voice, so you can be just as LOUD AS ME AMENNNNNN LMFAO
#GOGETHERNOWstagram
s/o to @brooklynsudano (& her amazing genius awesome mother whose voice I always wanted to sample) for that amazing #DonnaSummer doc. I knew if i told you this was my initial submission to the #YouGotMe remix back in 98? I’d be FORCED to find it.
Took me 4 months but I knew I had this!!!!
@officialdonnasummer
#ThingsFallApart #TFA25 #ThingsFallApart25 #OkayPlayer #TheRoots #TheLegendaryRootsCrew
Feb 23rd 1999
The @adamblackstone #LegacyExperience w @munilong at @rootspicnic 2024!
Presenting the @blackthought & @jperiodbk live mixtape at @rootspicnic 2024!
In an alternate universe I would be saying “long time coming but here it is on @qls the president of my label #EdEckstein!!!!” ( @twoezes )
If you’re familiar with how @TheRoots wound up on GeffenRecords in a weird nail biting 11th hour move then you also remember a time when we were pretty much singed to Mercury/Polygram
The gentleman on the show today is a legendary figure of music history. Having gotten his start working under Quincy Jones’ wing in the 70s & then becoming the president of Polygram in the 80s/90s—-so much history under his belt for you music heads. Enjoy!
#questlovesupreme
In an alternate universe I would be saying “long time coming but here it is on @qls the president of my label #EdEckstein!!!!” ( @twoezes )
If you’re familiar with how @TheRoots wound up on GeffenRecords in a weird nail biting 11th hour move then you also remember a time when we were pretty much singed to Mercury/Polygram
The gentleman on the show today is a legendary figure of music history. Having gotten his start working under Quincy Jones’ wing in the 70s & then becoming the president of Polygram in the 80s/90s—-so much history under his belt for you music heads. Enjoy!
#questlovesupreme
