so folks dont make a million threads..when the show comes on post about it under here...I will kill you if you dont.

1/4 over and all we got was one song. damn this thing needed to be 2 hours.

common was awesome tho.

yea, but com breaking was the hot s.

... is Brother Com. The second he broke out the windmill it was over ... but Thought took the loss like a man, so both did well. Peace.

DITTO

Damn, it started already?!? Oh yea, 9 eastern...well, I hope they air this ish again, kinda sucks when ya don't have cable..was gonna get a friend to tape the whole thing

this is my 1st time hearin' "Water" and i'm diggin' it these cats nice with it!

riiiight...

I seen 'em live 3 times... IN PERSON... but I can settle for this :)

Peace,
Hotep7

Could there possibly be anymore commercials? I know when they have a sorry as made for tv movie the present it commercial free I wish this was the same.

Rich

i thought i'd be the only one to get that, most of ya'll wouldn't 'fess up to having seen that.

so of course they'd do Spirit fingers

*drum roll*

LOL.

What is the song/video they are playing before commercials? I don't recognize it.

what you want f/ jaguar

He's got his own unique style of clothing, looks like he got some elbow pad lookin' things on...

Shit, half finished already... Anyone got an idea what else they'll be playin on this show? I got my hopes up for 'Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New" and 'Adrenaline'

was kinda tight, as in close fitting

common can definitely be a funny lookin dude sometimes. My man was rockin leg warmers on his forearms, and an undershirt that was bigger than his overshirt.

at least he wasn't wearing a bright orange basbeall jersey.

I belive the correct term for those are "Baby Blue Knitted Forearm Guards".

Knitted by Erykah of course. Seriously, who does all that cat's knitting?

*********
Now it seems that things
are really getting better, in
my life...
Is it just today or things are
getting better, in my life?

-N.E.R.D.

I don't wanna hurt nobody,
but there's something I
must confess...

-R. Kelly "Bump and Grind"

[]its just him rummaging for crap to throw on, the Roots have a style, Common is desperatley seeking one

the roots have a style of dressing?

they were wearing random t-shirts.

LOL.

he has his own individual style.
meanwhile....i think the thing that has hurt us the most is our non des cript style.

riq is village hip.
i love pop culture tees (now that im smalleri might tread on riq's dodain)
mal is street.
and ...well---what's the rest of us?

com has style.
y'all aint used to it.

Hub got that Mr.T sleeveless thing going on.

ka-"mal" or "mal"-ik?

if you call malik b "mal", i'm fairly sure he'd stab you with a pencil.

- he showed why he had the elbow pads. i didn't know he could break.

this might be a silly question to most, but i was wondering if anyone out there knew who makes the fedora that black thought is wearing in the two dollar bill performance. if not who makes it, then where i can find one like that...thanks

I love some Jill Scott, but she's lookin' like Ozzy right about now... whaddupwiddat??

Peace,
Hotep7

okay now that's she's smiling, it's better

Peace,
Hotep7

a cross between Grace Slick and a CBGB groupie. But she sang her ass off.

Was feeling the leather red/black/green wristbands.

ma
meudontno@hotmail.com

more like grace jones, don't get me wrong when i saw jill i got chills, i love that woman. i wish eryka could have been there too though.

jill's really different live.

I was feelin' that joint...

I think it read Fahari or sumthin'. I want one.

She gave one of her wrist bands to the dude next to me. I wanted to snatch it but I ain't want to start no fightin' up in there. lol


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“I'm down to Earth, at times I feel closer to Mars.
The world is yours, I'm hopin’ it's ours...” ~ Common

“I find it distressin', there's never no in-between.
We either niggaz or Kings. We either bitches or Queens.”
~ Mos Def in Blackstar

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
~Nikki Giovanni

she looked real fierce - her whole style was tight - and though she didnt keep em on her shoes was like that - but even if she came out w/ a white tee & some jeans she still woulda been the highlight of the show...

Adds new life to a song ive heard 33,821 times before.

I wasn't really feelin' the echo she had when she spoke, I felt like it kinda chimed out some of the beat.

freaked "You Got Me" with an entirely different flow. What amazed me was how he kept the same cadence throught the ENTIRE song

Jill made my jaw drop. She was doing the damn thang

>freaked "You Got Me" with an entirely different flow. What
>amazed me was how he kept the same cadence throught the
>ENTIRE song
>
>Jill made my jaw drop. She was doing the damn thang

halfway through the song, i was like, "there's no way he's going to continue this flow throughout he whole thing"...whoever did the rearrangement is a genius!...for me, it was one of those moments where i couldn't believe what i was hearing!

I taped the show, and I've watched it about 10 times already. Maybe its just me, but it looked like ?uest was caught offguard when rahzel started beatboxin after thoughts 3rd verse and jill's hook/?uest's amazing drumming. He's like oh damn, i gotta play the hi-hat for this, and it gets sketchy for a second or two. I don't know if y'all saw that, but it happened. I wonder if maybe it wasn't planned or something.
either way the concert was incredible, i just wish i woulda been there.
Much Love and Respect

i saw that too. for a split second he forgot he needed to be playing. but it still sounded good.

[]

That was definitely an ill version. That was probably my favorite part of the whole show. I think that was worth the 2 bucks right there.

[]wished they just kept w/ the instrumental/sun ra jam of it, ya know like 1:30 and then move on to the next song

they cant be keeping this in the rotation forever cant they?...can they?

we jammed like for 5 mins, before jill hit her first note....
they cut it?!?!

... I wasn't watching the clock (other than during the commercials), but the intro seemed to be about that ... I didn't notice anything being cut ...

... Big up to the crew. I can't imagine that show being presented any better. Peace.

i couldn't believe her, she even had my boyfriend buggin out! that's real

Man, the magic of TV. First of all...

-How the HELL can MTV2 put up "Live" in the right hand corner, when I'm at home at 9pm watching myself in the crowd? That's kinda shady. At least say "taped in front of a live studio audience" like they did on "Good Times". :)

-The show was tight, but they did edit a lot of dopeness out. I was tripping how they mixed everything up, cause Thought's shirt was soaked on the second song, then it was dry as a bone on one of the last joints. :) I'm so glad they kept the Common/Thought breakdance battle in there. That was classic! Especially when Com hit the Windmill....

-Jill was amazing. Amazing. And the Roots destroyed it...as usual. I'm really digging the addition of the guitar player (can somebody provide a name?) When he hit "Under the Bridge" everybody lost it!

-Cody Chestnutt was ill as hell...smilin' and chewing that gum, singing about fertilizing the bush...

-And Common's "Baby Blue Knitted Forearm Guards" were the best...

Great show!!!!

*********
Now it seems that things
are really getting better, in
my life...
Is it just today or things are
getting better, in my life?

-N.E.R.D.

I don't wanna hurt nobody,
but there's something I
must confess...

-R. Kelly "Bump and Grind"

>Man, the magic of TV. First of all...
>
>-How the HELL can MTV2 put up "Live" in the right hand
>corner, when I'm at home at 9pm watching myself in the
>crowd? That's kinda shady. At least say "taped in front of a
>live studio audience" like they did on "Good Times". :)

same thing me and my girl said...LOL!!!!!!!

and Quest, it was cut...

I'm gonna copy/paste my other two posts on this show in this thread...

didn't see it but in that case..they should've had 'almost live' on the screen.

I hope Label Guy can get this shit on DVD to go along with Phrenology, I'd like to see all that was cut.

i was there,and made it home to catch the 2nd half...fuckin MTV man!

>-Jill was amazing. Amazing. And the Roots destroyed it...as
>usual. I'm really digging the addition of the guitar player
>(can somebody provide a name?) When he hit "Under the
>Bridge" everybody lost it!

i think the guitar players name is ben kenny.
anyone have the new fader mag? why did the photo editor only include his ear in the first pic? dude was kind enough to draw a slammin portrait of himself in my copy.

That shit was ace, fab, groovy and brillyant.

That I didn't get my lazy ass out of the bed to go get tickets. This version of you got me would have been worth it. I really did not think that Jill would be there!!!

from the show, and damn if "You Got Me" still sounds just as beautiful on tv as it did live. MTV edited too much of the intro though. It was this surreal, trippy, and beautiful sound.
Damn. The shizzy.

If The Roots don't get props for this show in itself, I might have to protest.

I gotta take a nap. I'm worn out.
My dic gave me another four weeks to recuperate, so I'll see ya'll at Smokin' Grooves. Nice to see everybody though.

real setlist? please

I SAY GOTDAMN!

that was just...amazing. i can turn the tv off now and be happy.

~~wbg~~
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"you never know what you cant do until you get a restraining order filed against you" (c) highnoon

i was like "say word jill??!! it's like THAT tonight??"

I'm baffled at peoples complaints with Jilly's performace. So she was yellin'...shyt sounded ill! So her voice was echoin'....shyt was lovely and added to the feel. So they played a different version of You got me...that shyt was too bangin'! So she was rockin' the black eye shadow...homegyrl was lookin' fly and ripped it! I'm done.


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“I'm down to Earth, at times I feel closer to Mars.
The world is yours, I'm hopin’ it's ours...” ~ Common

“I find it distressin', there's never no in-between.
We either niggaz or Kings. We either bitches or Queens.”
~ Mos Def in Blackstar

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
~Nikki Giovanni

I'm sorry, call me a hater, but I absolutely HATED the performance of "You Got Me". I was not feeling Jill's tribute to Sun-Ra. Also, from a business standpoint, why fool with your most popular song? The first half of the show was cool, but the second half was ehhh. I just hope I like the album better.

"It's gettin' hot in herre" Nelly

Word up to that. Jill ripped it ya'll.
She had a brother catchin chills and goosebumps as soon as she walked on stage. She brought a trully positive energy to the jawn with her sexy a$$.

One!




"My Ancestors When I'm Writin, I see em and Talk with em, Hopin in the Promise Land I can Walk with em"
~~Common~~

Continue to Elevate

I'm surprised. cool though

I'm diggin it!!!

Peace,
Hotep7

[]was going to pop out and do his version

but i'm glad though showed us all that singing ability everybody keeps talking about

dope cover

[]does he just show up for the high profile gigs?

please dont tell me black jack does "under the bridge"? last thing i need to hear is this....

The Mos Def-ites are gonna get you hahaha

Seriously, he did a version of it for "Brooklyn"...or was it "rock and roll"...It was on Black on Both Sides I know that for sure...

Cool show, but MTV2 had Tipper Gore on the censor button. How da hell are you gonna bleep out "soft"?

[]"...the city i live in, the beautiful Brooklyn..."

"brooklyn"

surely you knew this?

y'all changed city of angels to city of brotherly love. he changed it to city of brooklyn.

hee-hee.

maybe y'all can have a battle of the bands (instigate, instigate) <--- kidding, really.*

* but it would be dope to see.

you are right about the one!!!!!!!!! i stopped groovin' to see who else was gonna pop up!

"... always do you ..."

I get to hear water.

forreal


"2.As essence said,Pistons will return to sucking donkey balls,and will be 10 games below .500.They score less than A.C. Green." - cantball

"creative differences.....them niggas wanted more money and I was doin all the work" - von p on the breakup of the waas

Now if I broke my leg, tell me, would I be carried?
And would you still love, baby, if I was married?
Or will I make the shot even if I was hurried?
And will I still be remembered even after I'm buried?
I'm in this for something so different that you couldn't imagine
The style, the flyness, the beautiful hoes
The pile, the higness, the pitiful lows
That keeps a major player like me up on his toes
No, not quite, I want my props on the merit of the hands
That I use to mould myself to the spirit of a man
- DJ Quik

Nuff said

I'm lovin it!!!

Peace,
Hotep7

is hot. nuff said.

Yeah I thought that was the best beat of the show, next to Next Movement.

found this this morning; it's REALLY good stuff.

http://www.loungetown.com/player.asp?ItemNo=9201

I thought that was the best song of that whole show last night...uh-oh, gotta go, it's coming on now on the clip!



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Keep on you pampers, man It's just a
hamstergram from Amsterdam
-- MC Paul Barman
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i think it's cuz they didn't know he was.

that sucks.

i hate that about people.

LOL.

i was hype tho!

i guess its just me. But i wasn't feelin that joint with cody. And im pretty sure it wasn't just me because i also noticed a significant loss of energy in the crowd.

somesongs had to be redone twice so thus, energy would be semi lesser. (ebonic master)......anyway....energy was high.

hence the howls when jill walked out before she even did anything.

people do NOT respond to anonymity.

hence the silence while the cody song ran (b/c it was a new song no one knew, basically low-key overall, and no one knew Cody...."water" has a bit more energy to it and came early in the set, thus the crowd's more enthusiastic response...)

unknown Cody + unknown song + slow tempo + song performed late in the set = lethargic audience reaction (until Thought urged the crowd "get involved! clap your hands to what he's doing" james brown-style, livening folks up a bit and partially invalidating something Quest posted a long while ago in a "Brooklyn Babylon" thread about Thought's inability to read crowds during shows (referring to the shooting of the performance of Roots tunes during a Carribbean parade in Brooklyn for the film).

"I just thought it sucked"(c)Garth...via The Bird

Peace-Like Stylie,
J-Bird

"Life separates us with its apparently casual happenstance, and when one day we shake our heads as if waking from a reverie, our friends have become strangers and can't be retrieved." - Salman Rushdie

"Every time you inhale, imagine it's the first breath you've ever taken. Every time you exhale, imagine it's the last breath you'll ever take."

my life sucks.

Com break dancing, Jilly Rock shock'n "You Got Me"...

Under the Bridge was cool, and Cody was ill...

I'm feeling the Roots semi-new guitar player!!

i wonder how long the real show lasted and what other songs they did. they should've just thrown on unplugged afterwards to give us a lil more action.

That was my only complaint it should have been longer. Seed is the jam. Props to Scratch for wearing the Air Force 1 'Sheeds. Excellent performance.

Rich

Woooooooooooooooooooooooweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Some folks up front had to get some bows but it I'm sure it was well worth it. I hadn't seen our friends the Roots since I was in 8th grade and they played at University of Virginia with Mad Skillz. With Common (I wanted to be a Common Sense groupie when I was younger) and Jill Scott you can't help but go to bed full tonight.

[]they take their live show seriously and they tinker with it for a long ass time to get it just right

a lot of the stuff that was on tonight has been popping up in their sets for the past few months(years...?) and it was good to see it all evolving

can't wait to see them @ smoking grooves to see what else they have added

>[]they take their live show seriously and they tinker with
>it for a long ass time to get it just right
>
>a lot of the stuff that was on tonight has been popping up
>in their sets for the past few months(years...?) and it was
>good to see it all evolving
>
>can't wait to see them @ smoking grooves to see what else
>they have added

the muscianship is incredible, you definitely get your moneys worth

yooooooooooooooooo i'm no longer PO'ed yall!!! guess why, guess why... after forever and a day i finally got tix to the damn thing (SOUPED) and the whole vip treatment cuz me n my girl went thru hell plus comin down from jerz to see the show... regardless of what everyone else says the shiznit was tight, can't help the length or the re-do's cuz that's jus how MTV does things (been to a couple of their things, and its always like that) anyway, much luv peace and blessings to the roots, common, jill, cody, the crew and everyone cuz yall are jus the peacest ppl... alot of positive energy tonite; was happy to b involved

oneluv
~is

I know the show was longer than MTV2 wanted to show us. What did those of us watching TV miss?

you missed the roots doing the intro twice. You only caught the second time around. It was kinda bugged when they stopped and did the whole beginning over again. The first time was much more energetic than the second. Wonder what happened...

Yeah, they did a few joints twice, and each time, the energy was significantly less. When Common came out the first time, folks went nuts! Then, they redid the song and he made his "intro" again. It didn't work as well...

Also, same for the intro. But I think they aired the first take...I think...

*********
Now it seems that things
are really getting better, in
my life...
Is it just today or things are
getting better, in my life?

-N.E.R.D.

I don't wanna hurt nobody,
but there's something I
must confess...

-R. Kelly "Bump and Grind"

and this cat that I think goes to Maryland with me,

Wed 07/03 10:00 AM
Wed 07/03 11:00 PM
Tue 07/09 12:30 AM
Wed 07/10 8:00 AM
Thu 07/11 1:00 PM
Sat 07/13 8:00 AM

1) tickets to $2 bill sold out before i could get mine
2) i don't have mtv2
3) none of my friends have mtv2
4) they're not rerunning it on regular mtv

love, ugly.

in ya ear:

just try to come out and hustle to get in...in my 10 year long history of concert-going, the rule I learned is "if there's a will, there's a way and you CAN get in the show" regardless of whether they say it's sold out or whatever....

i second that cuz me n my girl was tryna find parking when
we heard the 95.5 cats say to come get tix... got lost around dc
trying to find the damn place (we from ny/nj) and needless to say there were no more tix when we did get there. BUT after waitin around long enough they came up w some more, and after waiting some more they started sellin again (we ended up gettin tix plus some for my cuzn n hr girl and got to meet everyone)
WELL WORTH IT!!!
keep hustlin out there cuz it was damn tight...

did u see that cat that takes your lunch money and pimps you for ur extra value meal every day? aka me.

HOT AS HELL!!!!!
First of all...props to all the EARLY folks in line...
from 12:30-2:00), props to Mike who gave out water and ice..

The show was Wonderful...Jill was beautiful!!!!
the intro to "you got me" ...got me!!! it was some ol babies making babies type ish! thing is...all the raw emotion came from the first three songs (as far as the crowd was concerned)
and recreating the same vibe for the second time was...well...
we did it!

oh the joys of TV!..the entire time that Sway was talking all i could hear in my head was, "Hi, this is you boy Sway from MTV" ya'll know his catch sentence. Common doing the back spins was a flashback to him doing it once before! and thought can move
i say lets give these 2 some cardboard and an old school radio and lets see who has the freshes moves....

yo, the seed....had me going. im gonna push my seed in her bush
(resque)loved it cody rocks...cause he looks good in leather..lol

peace to mother earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damian donna Ida, Sosena..ya know all the usual suspects

all in all, grav, had a ball!
peace to all.





damn it it erased all my old sigs...
www.startrakmusic.com
www.n-e-r-d.com
www.okayplayer.com -they got some wack ish on it

I'm working on making that footage only accessible to folks that BUY an OFFICIAL Phrenology CD.....whether the CD is enhanced with the footage, and extra DVD with the first run, or a coded CD that unlocks an area of this site where you can view it......I yain't figured it out yet....whatever the hardest and trickiest for y'all is what I'm rolling with......more details to follow.
Y'all shoulda seent the MTV folks drooling over the legendary.....

LG
now officially on vacation til 7/15 (hope the album is finished when I get back)

a limited edition DVD is the only way to do that show justice. is there any way to put the whole show on DVD rather than the MTV version?

Y'all shoulda seent the MTV folks drooling over the
>legendary.....
>
so a roots unplugged should be a posibility right?

DVD beats the heck outta encoede compressed CD or Net sdtrwam.

Please a DVD.....

I eman the only DVD with a live Roots performance is Circuit Issue #6... we need a real one.

And put that Riotos vs. Biz promo tape on there too....

Holding out on us.

Label_guy...I heard that was you sittin' on the top level right above the stage beside Res and others. Was that you with the glasses just chillin'? If so, why were you starring at me like the whole show...I thought we had a moment a couple of times but I was too much into the show to tell.(I'm playing)

If that was you...I saw ya.


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“I'm down to Earth, at times I feel closer to Mars.
The world is yours, I'm hopin’ it's ours...” ~ Common

“I find it distressin', there's never no in-between.
We either niggaz or Kings. We either bitches or Queens.”
~ Mos Def in Blackstar

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
~Nikki Giovanni

>Label_guy...I heard that was you sittin' on the top level
>right above the stage beside Res and others. Was that you
>with the glasses just chillin'? If so, why were you starring
>at me like the whole show...I thought we had a moment a
>couple of times but I was too much into the show to
>tell.(I'm playing)
>
>If that was you...I saw ya.
>
Naw that wasn't me.....I was in the MTV crew section right below the top bar in the balcony. I was in the sky blue/beige Sean John plaid picnic shirt who had all the honeys around me buzzing cuz I opened a big-ass bar tab courtesy of MCA Records. Being a label-guy, that's what I am supposed to do.....its my job.

LG

Now officially on vacation and unreachable til 7/15.
Mark 11:24

remember when charlie brown would fly a kite...and mess around and get all tangled in that shit? sorta like the kite started flying him about?

that was com the first time we ran TAW (we had to run TAW/love of../next movement 2ce).

he tried to windmill and his foot got caught in a web of mike cables. and the more he spun, the more he was trapped under the web. so at the end when he freezes, which is of course the DEFINING moment when you are breaking....he tryna look all hard and shit, but all he winds up looking like is defeated, under a sea of cables....

and the look on his face.


that wasn't no tech shit keith!, com made you do that shit again didn't he?

you should've seen the cat who was b-boying in the crowd while the dj was spinning. He did a kick flip and his shoe flew about 70 feet and almost took out the bar.

Just goes to show, labels need to provide that healthcare. Hip hop is a dangerous business.

is the bar ok?
the way people was drinking in that piece last night, if the bar got hurt, there might have been mass hysteria.

>that wasn't no tech shit keith!, com made you do that shit
>again didn't he?

partially correct! LOL! Com didn't want to have to turn in his Rock Steady card! "AHH...can we do any retakes?" Rah wasn't tryin' to go out like that on national TV. Second time was a better take anyway.

Peace,
Keith Mack

i was a few rows back.

damn, that sucks.

he redeemed himself by serving Thought with the floor moves. LOL. kidding.

did d.c. represent?!?...just curious because y'all have been blessing us with some memorable experiences that usually only happen in NY or PHILLY and we want y'all to keep coming back!...i played the bar near the back of the room, but the crowd seemed to have a lot of energy from where i was standing...highlights for me were:

-"you got me"...by far the biggest highlight (the rearrangement was ill!)
- "eric b for president" during last verse of "next movement"
- "thought at work" LIVE!
- com breaking out the windmill (thought don't wanna see him for real)
- CAUSE I DON'T REALLY WANNA FEEL!!!

thanks y'all!...keep it coming!

KD

>>>he tried to windmill and his foot got caught in a web of mike cables....he tryna look all hard and shit, but all he winds up looking like is defeated, under a sea of cables....

Shot from above on that lil balcony. We'll stream that video clip soon... CLASSIC!!! I think you can damn near hear RES laughing behind me. The 2nd attempt was a BLAZIN' one. Go Comm!

B.Kyle

glad i got a chance to see it live....now i just have to see it on TV to see how much they edited (cuz there was no way i was making it back from DC to Philly in an hour).

the multiple takes were kinda weird, but it was a great performance....wonder which take of Com's breakdancin they got (i hope it was the 2nd).

com and thought breakin
you got me - im still feeling the echoes from that shit
water
cody

the bomb!!
the editing had to be done by a kid just pushin buttons, they missed when thought said "fucking with girlfriends"

the question is how much more did they do at the show
my minidisc is on blast right now - listening to it

negnoire

emm-pee-three ??


;)

I've never seen the Roots perform and I must say I was impressed... they had some mad energy... Jill Scott... wow... I love that woman... she can really blow... I wasn't feeling the echo, but dang that woman can sing... I might have to see her live sometime. Great show...

(((((((((((((0)))))))))))))))
(((((((((((( 1 ))))))))))))))

"And tell your momma quit paging a brotha at work and leave this rappin' shit to the experts" Mc Ren


"Let freedom ring with a buck shot but not just yet, first we need to truly understand the nature of the threat, the pale man walks in the threshold of darkness...." Ras Kass

"My mental is the bullet and my tounge is the finger to pull it..." Ras Kass


"What good is a beautiful dame with a rolls royce frame with a volkswagon brain" J-Ro

my power was out for like 4 hours yesterday
luckily the show reairs this morning so i'll tape it and watch it after work today
oh well

-even though it didnt happen, a highlight was the possibility that Malik B woulda been there....

-how peace all the guest were before and after the show. Mad interaction amongst all. Pictures, autographs, whatever..

-scratch beatboxing Clipse "grinding" when they had to start the beginning over. I thought they were playing the instrumental... thatjoint was perfect.

-They manner and excuetion of every song. You could tell how everything was on point, percussion, bass, gutiar. straight sharp!

-when black thought threw his water bottle filled with sketchy ass green tea and cats were like "here" "here". that was just too funny and nasty!

-when the dude behind me yelled to common, "eh yo com, my mom needs her oven mitt back!"

all and all, The Roots are the livest Hip Hop show that has the talent to do the things they do. Others may have the energy, but lack in talent. The Roots have it all, energy & talent, and top it off with 100% dundee style.

question, who has a SMOKIN WITH SUPERMAN CD

My favorite part is that I knew that every other person on this board...If not at the show then they were glued to their set like I was. I was happy just to know that I was simultaneously saying "the hot music, the hot music" with all okayplayers...kinda a weird thing..

Anywayz this was a hot show. Theres ONE thing though...I know
?uest you say that you can play the same thing for two different crowds and be fine because the new crowd didnt see it yet...However, You know now you just went on TV...I best not hear this same shit when yall go on Smokin Grooves and then do your own tour. I love the roots so much, but my favorite thing is when they switch up their set...and when they dont...it gets kinda disappointing. Well Word hot show...let the spotlight linger.
peace

Oh and yea...Jill Scott looked like Ursula from The Little Mermaid...they all rocked it though

-Mine were while standing in line in the freakin heat and we were right by their tour bus and got a chance to say whats up to everybody, and see ?love with his hair in braids, (he looked so much shorter)
-Scrach & Rahzel were tight as shit!!
-Jill Scott (that echoe was tight up in the balcony)
-Black Thought singin!!! Oohh god!!

Overall all it was my first Roots show and and I loved it!!

I caught the tea. I think it was more "green" in it than just tea.


Not compassionate only polite (but who the nicest);
Not good but well behaved,
Chasin after death so we can call ourself brave,
Still livin like mental slaves.
- Mos Def & Talib Kweli

the whole show was tight. still can't get over jill scott. her voice is still in my head. you know when you hear something and get a instant buzz. that's when it really hit.

Jill was excellent! One question, I caught the concert in the middle, did Common perform? Or did he just make an appearance to break dance?

he performed a couple of times. that must've been the end of the second one. the first was a warm up.

I was highly impressed with theshow. It seemed like the Roots and Co. wanted to break throguh the antics of MTV and stay longer. Looked like they thoroughly enjoyed the crowed as much as we enjoyed them, and that was peace.....
Salaam, to my buddies who waited in line for those damn tickets with me!!!!!!! IT WAS WORTH IT, JOSE3030, JAMAL, STILLWATERS, and BARTICUS.
Jill was good, and maybe I was the only one, but I was feeling the echo. Being there, and hearing it live made life complete. Other things that made my life complete: Me being in Common's way, and me giving him Salaams, seeing Black Thought in that pink t-shirt before the show, hearing Scratch solo beat Grindin' (the man's a freaggin' jean-ius), oh.......

HOW COULD I FORGET.....LIFE IS COMPLETE.... I caught ?L's drumstick.....NO HATING.PLEASE.

PEACE.......?
Salaams.
Rob Aziz Abdul Rahman



Subhaanakallahumma wabihamdika ashhadu anla ilaha illa anta astaghfiruka wa atuubu ilaika

Glory be to you, Oh Allah and I praise You. I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except You I seek Your forgiveness, and I turn to You in Repentance.

i would have paid 2$ and bus fees to get there just to hear scratch do that ish. alas, i sat at home and watched what was probably a third of the real show. can anyone who was there tell us what they actually played?

that was rahzel brotha. :) wasnt it? :

...the whole time there i was clueless that i won anything. man! just saw it this morning. being able to go period was good enough. if the offer is still available that'll work too.

it was hot as hell in that piece! but the show was doooooooopppppppppppeeeeeeeee.

the vibe in the 9:30 was electric. My Mickey retro jersey got sweated out but aint nobody care. The Legendary rocked like we all knew they would....and Jill. Man, words cant describe it. Seeing this on TV will only give me a deeper appreciation since standing four rows from the front I spent a large part of the earlier set gawking at Res.

Thought walked past me and my peoples out front before we even got in the venue and I knew the night would be memorable. This was one for the ages, definately the best live show I've been blessed to see since Outkast a year back. Mad respect to Jilly from Philly and the P fi dee reppin Next Movement ish to the next dimension and back. Glad y'all got to experience the nitty gritty of my city.... Respect

(posting story knowing full well some moron will bring it up in an unrelated thread later and call me a dickrider...but I just don't give a fuuuuuuuuuu....)
Anyway, in the line outside the 9:30 waiting for doors to open, I see Cody Chestnutt walk up to the tour bus, which is right beside the line to get in. No one else recognizes him because...well...he doesn't even have an album out (somebody put that album out!*)...

me: Cody Chestnutt, rock star!

Cody turns, smiles, and waves. tour bus door opens.

Who should be holding the tour bus door open other than a now much thinner Mr. Questlove? Thin enough for the crowd not to recognize, but not thin enough to escape my well-trained Okayplayer eye (LOL).

Me: Questlove, rock star! (hey, it's 100 degrees, I'm too hot to be too creative here)

Quest smiles, waves, Cody gets on, Quest closes door.

Quest re-opens door.

Quest: (something I can't hear)

Quest waves me over.

Quest: (no doubt noticing that I am wearing Okayplayer shirt) Who do you post as?

me: Spirit.

Quest gives "of course" shrug (we met once before, actually twice, but only once post-OKP) smiles, gives dap.

Me: (in damn near 100 degree weather, mind you (LOL), an hour before the show is set to start) So, what are you doing still on the tour bus?

Quest: (smiling) Because it's air conditioned. (slamming door before a heat exhausted Spirit can storm in)

LOL.

*shaking fist angrily to the sky and cursing the weather gods for the humidity*

It's not like I actually expected to get on the bus. I could be a serial killer for all he knows. Ha-ha.

Anyway, I was gonna try to get Questo to sign a copy of my DYWM? liner notes, but he didn't have a pen. Nor did I. What I really should have tried to do was hit him with a copy of my CD. It was too hot for me to think straight though.

Did I say it was hot out there?

* Cody says he is very close to settling on a distribution deal for "Headphone Masterpiece", he was just fighting hard for a fair contract/deal. so everyone who has been waiting to hear it will hear it soon.

when you said questlove rockstar

i thought you said "im fonsworth!!!"

we was all ready to break out the water guns and cereal...

then i called u over and realized it was you.

doh!

lol

hahaha

but I thought you said you knew who fonsworth was?

maybe you know his name but not his face?

argh!

here i was thinking you literally knew fonsworth, like he was a celebrity lurker starting trouble or something. apparently dude works for XXL. he sounds like elliot wilson in his posts. LOL.

(hey, Steve said he only wanted one thread on the MTV2 show...so I decided to re-post this in case Steve deletes the other thread (Common Breaks!!))





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17. "yeah, that was hot"
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they did it twice for the folks in the 9:30 Club audience (for some reason, they did "Thought At Work" and "Love of my Life" twice). I think the second breaking session was the one they showed, when Com did the ill backspin.
Thought busted a few moves too.

They looked like they were havign a ball. I think they had a breaking routine at an earlier Roots/Common show, also in 9:30, if my poor memory serves (the same show where Buckshot made a surprise appearance).

Jill Scott's vocals were amazing. Hypnotic, even. Hearing her live is much more powerful than on CD, as a brother from Philly was trying to tell me and a few other folks around me before the show started (this same cat almost killed six people trying to catch a Questlove drumstick...lol!*).

Rahzel and Scratch have a really good chemistry...and Scratch kept the crowd from being restless by beatboxing/vocally recreating "Grindin" in-between songs (for some reason the MTV2 folks made the band stop periodically b/t songs).

Ben Kenney is a very welcome addition and the Red Hot Chili Peppers cover was classic.

ps: big up to my man Divine (Fong Sai) who came onstage outta nowhere during "water" to enthusiastically encourage the crowd to clap along to Quest's drum pattern...lol...he was hype up in the V.I.P. section for the rest of the show, wilding out next to Res...I assume the guy in the orange jersey by Res was Label Guy (the master of ceremonies kept giving him a shout-out by his government name).

* I asked the guitar tech to throw me Hub's bass, but he wouldn't comply. LOL.

he
>was hype up in the V.I.P. section for the rest of the show,
>wilding out next to Res...I assume the guy in the orange
>jersey by Res was Label Guy (the master of ceremonies kept
>giving him a shout-out by his government name).
>

damn, i didn't even see her in the house!

balcony adjacent to the stage like the entire show. Me and my man were four rows back blowin kisses in true groupie fashion, and I'm man enough to say that. (It worked once! LOL)

>balcony adjacent to the stage like the entire show. Me and
>my man were four rows back blowin kisses in true groupie
>fashion, and I'm man enough to say that. (It worked once!
>LOL)

that's funny as shit!...i was about 4 rows from the BACK and on the opposite side of the balcony...i couldn't have been anymore out of view if i tried...damn, i gotta start standing near the front!...peace!

I assume the guy in the orange
>jersey by Res was Label Guy (the master of ceremonies kept
>giving him a shout-out by his government name).
>
REPOST from earlier in thread......

"Naw that wasn't me.....I was in the MTV crew section right below the top bar in the balcony. I was in the sky blue/beige Sean John plaid picnic shirt who had all the honeys around me buzzing cuz I opened a big-ass bar tab courtesy of MCA Records. Being a label-guy, that's what I am supposed to do.....its my job."
LG

Now officially on vacation and unreachable til 7/15.
Mark 11:24

i moved to the area 'bout 5 months ago and was anxiously awaiting this show. DC ya'll are lovely! the vibe in the club was all love, no beef (which is a strong possibility in cali) no nothin! folks were so chill and the show was phenomenal. jill ripped shit and cody chestnutt left people with jaws on the floor. i was behind like 5 women who were COMPLETELY offended and i was trying soooo hard not to laugh!

had a wonderful time...props to DC, ya'll did your thang!

I mean, I'll take a nice beep over the complete dropping of the audio signal.....

And why come MTV2 care about cursin' anyhow? I mean there was no cover vers of Ice-T's G.L.G.B.N.A.F or Gheto's Boys Gangster of Love.....

Are there any plans to re-edit the sound and just drop the microphone volume during the naughty bits?

That being said, the show sounded and looked lovely. Great production values. And the music, well the folks on this thread have covered it pretty well by now.....

-Tom Hayes
http://www.tomhayes.com

yeah, why the hell did mtv bleep out "lucy cigarettes" from water??? thats one of my fave parts too...

-1Mind

a live feed was fed to the new york.
they got it in complete form at 730
which meant that they had 1 1/2 hours
to mix sound, and beep out all the curse/offending
words.
i knew this shit was coming cause they were a nightmare for me on the jay z project. it's more than just four letter words.
references. sound alikes. whatever...

Let me say that I think they did a real nice job with the sound *EXCEPT* on the drop outs.

The show was amazing...probably the best I've seen. The Roots, Jill Scott and COM all at once! For 2 freakin' bucks! Aside from it being just short of a quickie...I mean the shit was dope. Jill Scott just ripped it. Common touched my hand TWICE! The floating camera almost hit me up side the head like 6 times...but it was cool (just had to remember to dodge and duck everytime I saw a black figure in the corner of my eye).

Thanks yous and Shout outs:

-Thanks Kyle and Friends for providing with good laughs and conversation while waiting in line and for buying me a sprite. It was MAD hot outside. (And dude with the ice thanks!)

-Thanks to the dude with black coofie for lettin' me use your cell like 5 times. I know I was gettin' on your nerves lol.

-Thanks Kyle's friend again for letting me take your spot right up front! (*Hugs*)

-Shout outs to the camera guy for only getting my side of the crowd like twice. Dude beside me got on like every front row shout and I was straight cut off lol. I know I'm ugly but damn!

-Thanks to my man B Kyle for hooking me up. My friends and I love you dearly!

-Thanks to Rahzel, Res, Thought, and Sway for allowing us to take pics w/ yall!

-Shouts to Barticus and his crew (beside us once again)...first in line for the tix and right up front for the show!

-Thanks everyone up front and in my vicinity for wearing deordorant (I was mighty surprised not to smell any funk)...we was mad cramped and still rocking. My head was shoved under dude next to me arm pit almost the whole show.

-Thanx MTV and the whole Roots crew for making this shyt happen!!

Definitely an experience that will be deeply embedded in my memory for years to come!!! :)

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“I'm down to Earth, at times I feel closer to Mars.
The world is yours, I'm hopin’ it's ours...” ~ Common

“I find it distressin', there's never no in-between.
We either niggaz or Kings. We either bitches or Queens.”
~ Mos Def in Blackstar

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
~Nikki Giovanni

I watched the 9:00 pm show last night and was on the lookout to see if Okayplayer was representing. I saw a white kid wearing the blue ?uest shirt and two sistas throwing up the OKP sign during a crowd shot, which was nice. The show was off the chain, "Water" and "Thought at Work" are ridiculous, as well as Scratch's interludes. I'm thoroughly digging Cody Chestnutt and "The Seed." I think he will be a nice addition to the album. I had to do a double take when I first him speak, but then it started to make sense. I also dug the b-boy/rock & roll theme of the show. Once again, the 5th dynasty crew comes through!

that was meee man....repin wit tha OKP sighns.

Yeah, thanks to BKyle! Good lookin' with the tickets dog! And I did get a Howard shirt after all to get that birdcrap off my car...

Jokes! :) Thanks again!

*********
Now it seems that things
are really getting better, in
my life...
Is it just today or things are
getting better, in my life?

-N.E.R.D.

I don't wanna hurt nobody,
but there's something I
must confess...

-R. Kelly "Bump and Grind"

sup friends-

dope show, 930 club is the best venue , y'all got to see it on TV, so my words are backed up. took the day off from work to go and it was well worth it (gotta use them vacation days boy!)

jill was dope, cody chestnutt should do a commercial for like Bubblicious bubble gum or something (ha!) and the Roots brought it, as did Common - like always. Good job out there guys.

Now, did anyone tape this ish? I need to get a dub dub dub like some Big Tymers.

company coming over tonight---the replay at 11 or whatever will be the treat o' the night-- if i had a vcr id tape it -haha

the rhytym of 'you got me' was tight and the intro to it was real cool---like the vocal effects mimicing the cabassas or shakers or whatever --i dont think it was cut...seemed a good length of time...they ended up flashing the title up again when jill started since it had been a while

'the seed' and cody were dope -- nice voice and presence -- thought sounded good too on the under the bridge joint

real good energy (especially considering the fact as i read here that multiple takes were done)

wish there wasnt so much beeping out---this was cable after all

was hot though -- inspiring show

saw grav in the crowd a few times

only caught the last 10 minutes, but mad props to the roots for that ish with cody. bridging musical gaps like that is important, and it takes talent and good understanding of the music to make it sound so tight. i saw em with bt on letterman or conan or something a while back, and was impressed. i mean, it wasn't my favorite song of theirs, but it was another good example of the roots crossing stylistic and cultural barriers. how else we gonna come to a common cultural ground and make it sound so raw?

peace

hot show, dc represented like we always do when the roots come to our city. only complaint was that they should've sold more tickets so people could see what it's really like when the roots play at the 9:30 club.

more tickets?, damn, looked like you couldn't fit another person in there if you wanted to.

sorry it wasn't truely live

thoughts?

- Ben adds ridic depth to the performance, I'm wordless

- Scratch shined, though Ra didn't seem to do any beatboxing except that one small part

- Water, I have to hear that so I can fully get the lyrics, I felt where they are going with it and it does sound like it has something to do with Malik B imho. sounds like message to a "friend on drugs" song... but that's their business

- YOU GOT ME psycadelic(sp) version with the Mamma's and Pappas type sound mixed with easternish influence... damn! all I needed to see was a sitar I HAVE TO have that version, somebody anybody inbox me

- com

- love on the Cody joint he deserves the exposure, looked like a Jay/Roots love share thing - pay it forward right?

- I was happy with everything but the amount of time they gave them


k

back to hell, thank god it's friday for me


one

first of all, peace to everybody in my immediate vicinity at the front of the stage, especially the little light skinneded shorty who I kep elowing in the side of the head and whos hair I was pulling..

i sported brighly colored head gear which managed to make it onto MTV's cameras a total of 0 times..

best part of the show was Jill of cours. Took me a while to figure out what the hell she was saying at first but she raised the intenity of the show in my opinion.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioning the Roots' version of Sardines. Easily my 2nd favorite moment of the show

ridiculous

classic moment. go-go is slowly reaching its way out of dc!

and you were sure that it would git you on tv, ha...

i've been to a lot of roots concerts mainly in the midwest (chicago) so it was a different feel.

i can say that it was pretty good overall, too short. it was kinda nerve wrecking that they had to do songs over...welcome to the wonderfiul world of television.

i especially like the first song it had a nice beat. wish they had of did a few more classics.

of course i appreciated com, despite the baby tee and arm warmers. he made it up with the breakin..i'm sure dem dare would be proud

jill was nice but it was a lot of feedback so it was hard to understand what she was sayin at times.

cody chestnut- personally i was not feeling the song and from the looks of it neither was the audience. a lot of us just kinda stood there and stared at him.

crowd seemed like it was hype as hell

Neosoul special Thought said something to the effect that cats who are influenced by us will look to us to see where we are going to take it next. If that is true, cats were fu(king staring last night especially after that version of "You Got Me"
It had me before Jill started singing, from what I hear they played for about 5 minutes before she sung. So mad they cut that out. Not the Best Roots Show I've seen but it was up there.
But the "You Got Me" was all stupid.

i know i didn't say it before the show, but i had a feeling the roots would bring cody along. they seem to really be pushing this cat. cody's a cool guy. his songs that are supposed to be funny are funny as hell too.

MAAAAN...i never thought i'd see such preposturousness in my fucking LIFE!!!!!!!(this isn't criticism of the performance by the way)-this corny ass white boy in front of me had the FUCKING NEEERRVE to rock a hat with fake dreads....not that i take it "offensively" or anything- i could care less to tell you the truth...actually come to think of it- that was the funniest thing i'd seen all week!! but anyways, if you remember seeing this cat- post something about it please- i want someone to laugh with!!

there are at least 4 other threads related to the show...no one listened....damn Internet posters...LOL.

due to the fact that i am currently cablically challenged i just saw the show - the show was awsome & though the mtv2 version was good i feel it didnt do it justice - mainly cause there's nuthin like actually being there...

highlights for me were:

-Jill Scott performing, she took my breath away - i mean ive seen her live before but this time was the best
-Com & BT breakdancin - com got all tangled up in the cords the first time - when they did it again he took time & cleared the mic cords away so those in tv land missed it
-whutever that first song was - yeah its my new favorite song - cant git it outta my head - whuts the title?

"Thought at work". I know it's a banger.


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“I'm down to Earth, at times I feel closer to Mars.
The world is yours, I'm hopin’ it's ours...” ~ Common

“I find it distressin', there's never no in-between.
We either niggaz or Kings. We either bitches or Queens.”
~ Mos Def in Blackstar

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
~Nikki Giovanni

....and Jill Scott was just amazing! The whole time all I could think of was here is the 2nd coming of Grace Slick, which seemed like a welcome departure from the sound of "Who is....". I would love to know how the new arrangement came about and if M2 is gonna release this as an album.

was politickin wit radio personalities in line
listenin to the bangin music
partyin wit lovely females

show was all around bangin!!! i give mtv a lil bit more props after that

"-scratch beatboxing Clipse "grinding" when they had to start the beginning over. I thought they were playing the instrumental... thatjoint was perfect"

that shit WAS tight... now anyone the front right side could agree w me n my girls when that dude would NOT SHUT UP: "hey!!
its me!!! on mtv!! i'm HERE!! SOUTHEAST!!! I'M HEREEEE!!!"
i wanted to hit him for real...
everythin else was peace too cept that i'm jus a lil too short and that tall ass photographer was all up IN my view lol...
(shorty in the red dress for yall who were there)

at first i was pissed of that JJ FAD wasnt one of the "special guests" as black thought had hinted on the hidden track from TRCA.

-common stood infront of me and pointed when he said "...and white dudes" but on the second take i got a point when he said "it's all for you"
-jill scott did the best version of "you got me" ever, it beat the new wave one, it beat the lounge one.
-tv is soo fake, pausing, stopping, and re-doing songs. i saw ?uests clutch broke in one song and he was opening and closing the hi-hat with his hand...i thought that was cool but they went and re-did everything.
-i didn't get into "the seed" when i first heard it, but when i saw it on TV and i could actully hear the lyrics i liked it alot more.
-shouts to all the okayplayers i saw
-it was very hot outside, some guy had ice, that was nice
-thought at work w/the percussion player ruled ass, the apache/watch me now b-boy battle was deffinitly a highlight of the show.

all the energy - a dope show

and in 2 weeks we'll be seeing the Roots with Lauryn Hill - probably singing Cumbaya & passing out tissue....

*sigh*
Ima have to tape this to store up the energy

That concert was ill as hell. I got hyped when I saw my man Common and Black Thought break. The jam session was pretty dope too! Yo who else is feeling that water song? Ill!!!!! man I got to go to smoking grooves in Chicago. Yo does anyone know the ticket prices by chance? Looking forward to the new album
Peace

I was pissed I couldn't get a ticket, but I loved the tv show, even if it was too short. My highlights:

--Com vs. Thought breakdance battle
--You got Me (of course!)
--Love of My Life (one of my favorites!)

Looking forward to Smokin' Grooves at Nissan Pavillion

GET READY FOR THE PICS.... I HAVE ALOT TO SHARE WITH THE FAMILY!!!

Nothing but love throughout the spot except when this "Big Worm" lookin brother bumrushed his way through the crowd smellin like pickled beets.

Com wrecked the floor with his house slippers and knitted elbow warmers.

Jill is beautiful! Nuff Said.

Cody was nicely planting the seed in the bush!

Scratch and Rahzel kept themselves occupied with that grindin joint. It was mastery.

Sounded like thoughts voice was going, but he still ripped! Big ^^up Black.

The Legendary Roots Crew Reigns Supreme.

Yo Quest I almost got caught in the head with the drumstick but luckily my man Rob caught it. I tried to grab it from him but he started swingin.

Res was looking good up in the balcony--No Doubt.


Peace to all the peoples that waited in the early dawn for ticks and the shouts to Jose, Rob, Marice, Mama, and the brother in the white shirt next to me who wasn't lettin those groupies get in front of us.

One!



"My Ancestors When I'm Writin, I see em and Talk with em, Hopin in the Promise Land I can Walk with em"
~~Common~~

Continue to Elevate

that is real, my man!!!!!!! That whole experience was LOVE!

peace....?
rob aziz abdul rahman


Subhaanakallahumma wabihamdika ashhadu anla ilaha illa anta astaghfiruka wa atuubu ilaika

Glory be to you, Oh Allah and I praise You. I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except You I seek Your forgiveness, and I turn to You in Repentance.