The Roots
biography
Though popular success has largely eluded the Roots, the Philadelphia group showed the way for live rap, building on Stetsasonic's 'hip-hop band' philosophy of the mid-'80s by focusing on live instrumentation at their concerts and in the studio. Though their album works have been inconsistent affairs, ...
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