Unfortunately the Erykah Badu x The Roots MJ tribute we mentioned on Friday was mostly in the form of bumpers and commercial break performances during Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. If we find video of it we'll be sure to pass it along. However, while at NBC's 30 Rock Studios before the show started they snuck in these two recordings. ?uesto tweeted these audio links for their cover of The Jackson 5's "I Wanna Be Where You Are" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Yes, that's ?uesto handling vocals on the Bilie Jawn.
The Roots x Erykah Badu "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
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The Roots x Erykah Badu "Billie Jean"
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AHHH!!! I LOVE IT!!!
real nice. Quest. We need a vocal album from you big homie…
Quest you a fool for this one, lol.
it’s funny that even joking around the Billie Jean cover actually came out pretty good
Yo.. Im really feeling that.. yall defo added your own funky twist!!
lmao @ erykah
Questo got them iLL vocal chords son!
Why you think he plays drums, to give his voice a rest… Hahaha
?uesto- Hahahahaha
Chea! Glook
Here’s the episode Erykah was on with The Roots but they don’t do the songs that are posted above:
hhttp://www.hulu.com/watch/80029/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-fri-june-26-2009
They still do some great covers though.
Gorgeous!
why wouldnt they air this on tv,wow,nbc is retarded
Awesome idea on the Billie Jean. Joao Gilquesto! Rolling @ Erykah!
‘look at the chin, look at the nose…don’t do me this, you was the only one!’ MAN BADU CRACKS ME UP!
Nice vocals Questo!
Awesome!, great version!!
Erykah with The Roots – that is the perfect sounds,I love this Tribute and Erykah should back to Roots on her new album, it could be beautiful.
i like how she adds am ‘i want you’esq vamp at the end of “i wanna be where you are”. how very apropos
and billy jean….wha the whawha whaaaa??? *hand on face crying laughing*
say what you like about MJJ but one thing you could never deny the man wrote, compose, made classics that will forever outlive the negative. just look at the people that we inspired by him and know
qoolquest back on the mic…hell yeah…nice.
Whoa…I’m on cloud 19 right now!
the billie jean tribute gave me goosbumbs fucking genius!!!!!!!!
we need a proper recording of that. that shit was classic!!!
Thank you
These Tracks ARE AMAZING!! If these were recorded proper, it might actually hurt them. The live feel gives them their power. Thank God for Michael, Erykah, The Roots, and all the other positive lights in this world. Think of the Heavenly Woodstock/Wattstack/Block Party that is taking place! Richard Pryor, Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Sammie Davis, Jr., Josephine Baker, Biggie, 2PAC, Eazy-E, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, etc. What a show!!
questo great job..have nbc release the videos of you all performing mj covers on the show..thatd be great
The song quality sound horrible, i get really bad cracking. Anyone else have this problem?
It went down like elevators and escalators! I Thank the Creator for allowing me to hear my most abSOULute favorite vocalist and most bangingest beat making band on two different erffisses!!!
dont do me dis! LMAO!!!
The Billie Jean cover is true genius!!!
We need more ?uestlove vocals! ^^
PLEASE PUT ERYKAH ON HOW I GOT OVER..YALL GOT TIME!!!
ROFL… what version of billie jean is this actually covering. JRocc played it in his tribute saturday night.
WOWWW! luvin’ the Erykah cover, that Billie cover is raw!! the timing..Quest’s vocals sound crazy!
check out my tribute I flipped “can’t help it”
http://www.myspace.com/allstarmusicproductions
RIP Michael Jackson
peace
Vante’Soul
does anyone have the link to download billie jean?
The billie jean cover is the same cover by caetano veloso… thats pretty wild
We did a 2 hour tribute to Michael (HIS music|HIS Influences|HIS samples), I think y’all might enjoy this. You can listen to it right here: http://www.radiok.org/onthecorner
This is an aweful rendition of Billie Jean
all i gotta say is e.badu is a fool on that billie jean cover…look at the chin…look at the nose…u wuz the only one…rotrlmao
yes exactly the same as the caetano veloso version… good call.
the billie jean cover is very nice, but when i go to download, z share says it’s not found, any one else have that problem?
billie jean isn’t working. fuckin hilarious
lol look at the chin look at the nose look at the hair texture
It’s like Questo doing “Luis Guzmán” doing “Wyclef” doing “Michael Jackson”. – Genius
This link seems to work.
http://usershare.net/gowherehiphop/qy1lxkdqushd
That cover of ‘Billie Jean’, is lovely.
?uestlove them vocals & that Brazil beat.
Liverpool loves that.
Erykah – you just amazed me on that. It’s so hard to match the passion of that song….and u made it your own.
totally awesome
Erykah- just go head on with yo bad self!!!!!!!
Tight, tight, tight.
i gotta get that billie jean cover. none of the links work! help!
never saw the funny side of “billie jean”, it always sounded so dramatic…….but this time it’s a funny story……love you for this Erykah and Questo
ILL! I even hear my dude on the Tuba! And yes…I got the download.
Cool ~ “O”
GOOD LOOK! RIP MJ
WoW badu own that track drums were excatly exact
BILLIE JEAN LINK DON’T WORK!!! It’s actually right here just got to look in the code
http://blogs.okayplayer.com/audio/The_Roots-Billie_Jean.mp3
Don’t worry this isn’t some stupid virus link it’s real and it’s love
Pretty good. I know if that was the right song for Erykah to do in my opinion. Kinda fast for her. But that joint is one of my favorite young MJ solo joints. The one and “Got to be There”. I was kinda diggin’ the rendition of Billie Jean though. Real different… – Kani Ayubu, The Black Art Depot
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Billie Jean link if the other isnt working !peacenlove
http://www.mediafire.com/?yyjm3tzozwt
lol…..yo QUEST its time for that double LP.
“look at his chin, look at his forehead…” hahah
They are wilding on the billie jean joint. Hilarious. Don’t mean to be a hater in any way but the billie joint is a cover of a cover. Caetano Veloso. Do the knowledge. Great cover to take though.
I’m loving the Billie Jean one, 1960′s Brazil, and the horn in the back is funky. Can you PLEASE update the “Billie Jean” download link? Thanks, so much
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I was just listening to the Billie Jean cover my mum walked in the room with a screwd up face and asaid thanks for crucifying that, I said you dont understand you just dont understand, I guess she just dont know artistic creativity on the other hand I think it’s genius.
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