The Roots!

Just got back from the concert. Once a year, the college brings something worth seeing. Last year, it was two guys from “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” This year, it was The Roots.

I’ve seen them before, but it was almost five years ago, and it was at a huge outdoor festival, where we had lawn tickets. So we were really far away. Plus they played the shortest set imaginable. Also, I wasn’t even really listening to them at that time.

It was better this time around. They had cancelled an earlier show, and re-scheduled it for tonight. Apparently the gym wasn’t free, so they erected this huge circus tent out in back of the Campus Center. I had my doubts, but it was a cool set-up.

It wasn’t a really big crowd, but as the show got on it started to liven up. No opening band, but they played a nearly two hour set. Coming back from dinner I actually passed ?uestlove before the show. I don’t necessarily idolize musicians, so I wouldn’t of recognized him, but the afro stuck out. Some amazing drumming went down tonight

Ah. The faint buzzing in my ears, with everything else a bit muffled. My aching back and legs. Yes, a good concert indeed.

The Roots — 100% Dundee
Yo! On these seventy-three keys, of ivory and ebony
I swear solemnly that I’ll forever rock steadily
People wanna know where Malik? He right next to me
The weaponry, the secret recipe
Hard to peep this, deep shit, shows I eat with
Contaminated thoughts I walk the street with
I bayonnet cassettes and chop beats with
this olympic lyricism you can’t, compete with
Globe travellin, throwin your verse like a javelin
Things Fall Apart and MC’s unravellin
Backstage whisperin to management like
“change the order, it’s no way that we can rock after them”
My man sport the ‘fro like _What’s Happenin?_
From the latest hi-atus, The Roots back again
Your crew practicin to catch this natural blend
They packages read “care when handlin”
It’s all soft shit, batteries not included with
Matter of fact, your whole front’s a re-enactment
I blow your ba-tty ass into fragments, P-5-D
The new testament, mic specialist, what?