One dude wants The Roots to hang it up because they keep doing the same "parlor tricks?" It was cool for X AMOUNT OF TIME, but it's getting old at X+1 AMOUNT OF TIME.

Another is mad because they keep calling Tariq by his NAME? (Because NBC don't want people using the word "black" too much??) Jesus Christ, Pepper Potts calls him Tony, not Iron Man.

The Jazz dude thinks that The Roots are losing their chops because they're rehearsing 5 hours a day to play 10 minutes of music? (Were they playing that much pre-Fallon, I bet not.)

They didn't even seem to know the output The Roots have done since the show, BUT THEN they keep saying it wasn't as relevant as it was in the past?

Honestly, would the Roots output be very relevant in today's market place? The kids are listening to garbage, Chief Keef, Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Young Money, Wiz Khalifia , you think a Phrenology II is going to change music?

Another dude thinks they should quit now because it's been 5 years and they haven't crossed over and become huge, so why keep going that way? (The other way to look at it is that the Roots are as popular as ever, very few artists can say that who've been around since 1995.)

Honestly, these dudes sound like backpackers from 1998 arguing about music.

It's 2014, hip-hop *is* dead, or at least hip hop from Loud Records is dead.

Want them to be Brotha Ali? Wants them to stop making music so it somehow preserves the image you want left?

They aren't

And why is bad for The Roots to expand into Late Night Comedy Skits?

Since The Roots have joined the Fallon Show they've had this output:

Nominated for Six Grammies

Albums:
How I Got Over
Wake Up! (with John Legend)
Betty Wright: The Movie
Undun
…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin

and..
Duffy - Endlessly
Jimmy Fallon - Blow Your Pants Off

Plus on the Tonight Show they:
Played with THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Played Lyin Ass Bitch for Michelle Bachman
Played more hip-hop than any other band on a talk show ever.


And they've done:
The Philly July 4th concert (more than half-a-million watch this.)
Rally To Restore Sanity
Played The Winter Olympics

And they've had a number of "super viral" videos with jimmy Fallon, including "Let it Go" with Idina Menzel, Sesame Street, Mariah Carey, Robin Thicke, Christina Aguilaira, and probably more.

EDIT: And they've played with hundreds of musical guests from all styles of music from hip-hop to country.

Maybe the hosts could explain what they want The Roots to do. If it's to forever change the face of all music and to get NBC executives to joint the Nation of Islam then I agree, The Roots are a huge disappointment,