>>
>>>Of course they would play solo shit. And no, The Roots
>>outside
>>>production wouldn’t work because people would be like
>>“why
>>>y’all playing D’Angelo’s record?” as opposed to
>>Lauryn
>>>playing something like If I Ruled The World.
>>
>>Eh....writing and production credits have been in play.
>>Keith Sweat played “Let’s Chill”, Babyface and Teddy
>>played a bunch they wrote or had a hand in.
>>
>
>It’s not going to work the same because of The Roots set-up.
>Black Thought isn’t really involved in those production
>credits. So it’s just not going to hit the same as a
>ghostwriter playing a song would. AT ALL.
>
>>>And say what you want about the first album but Vocab and
>>>Nappy Heads remix hit WAAAY harder than anything on
>Organix.
>>>
>>>Y’all sounding like some blind fans now. Lol
>>
>>I’ll give them Nappy Heads Remix. Roots don’t have to
>go
>>to the first album - because they made more than 2.
>
>That’s fine. Roots still don’t have enough popular records
>for a 20 v 20 when we are adding in Lauren and Clef solo.
>Let’s not act like Clef won’t play some Shakira shit.
>
>I just wish y’all would be honest. Outside of You Got Me,
>what can The Roots really play that could get a win? Honestly.
>When we go record for record it’s a popularity contest at
>that point.
>
>And guess what, The Roots can play You Got Me and Lauryn can
>go to something like Ex-Factor and still take that round.
>

Yeah, that Wyclef and Lauryn solo stuff would definitely give them a strong 20. That is true.

I think the Roots got a little more than you’re recognizing though. Hell, wasn’t “The Fire” in the movie Creed? I think some of their stuff is more known now than it was back when they weren’t getting played on the radio in the 90s. They got 2.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify and they haven’t even put anything out in years.