The Roots are taking their annual Roots Picnic to Los Angeles in 2024, and so they’re bringing Common, Queen Latifah and extra alongside for the journey.
Taking place on June 29 on the Hollywood Bowl, the lineup for the occasion dubbed ‘Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life’ may also embrace Digable Planets, Arrested Development, The Pharcyde, Black Sheep and extra acts to be introduced.
Tickets go on sale on Thursday (December 14) at 10am PT right here.
In an Instagram put up in regards to the occasion, Questlove mentioned: “for all the non tri state ‘WHY WONT YALL BRING THE PICNIC TO US!!!!’ crew: This lineup is so incredible I WANNA BUY TICKETS TO SEE THIS. After last night’s Grammy Celebration I kept saying ‘yeah cause it ain’t like we are gonna celebrate the 51st Anniversary so let’s just do it now…”
He continued: “But then it’s like: WHY NOT CELEBRATE HIP HOP’s 51st & 52nd & so on and so on….? Who knows…..just maybe this thing might be our lil summertime jawn in your neck of the woods eh? Get tix now, you already know it’s gonna be sold out pronto and even if my music idols came back from the next world asking for a +1 imma have to be all “I don’t know what I can do for ya.”
You can view his put up under.
In addition to their many musical endeavors, The Roots’ frontman Black Thought just lately penned a memoir, The Upcycled Self. In it, he mentioned how he and Questlove as soon as acquired right into a bodily altercation within the early days of the group, and he elaborated on the incident in an interview to advertise the ebook final month.
“We had a brief sort of scuffle, kerfuffle, a little 30-second altercation when we were young and just starting out,” he informed NPR. “We were displaced, living in London and there was just lots of angst and anxiety … with all the energy associated with anyone’s first time putting out a record. … So, yeah, just the perfect storm of events.
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“It led to us coming to blows right quick. And it was the sort of thing that I’d forgotten about it before we left the place [where] it had taken place. But I think it’s the sort of thing that it stuck with him in a different way. Is it a grudge that he’s held? I don’t think so. But I definitely don’t think it’s something that he has ever forgotten.”
The Upcycled Self is out there now.
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