Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, yet another improbable collaboration went down, which is to be expected with The Roots holding down the music on the show. Rick Ross was the guest on hand to perform his new single "Magnificent." The Roots band backed Ricky up with Black Thought and Cap'n Kirk subbing in to sing John Legend's part on the track. Song sounds kinda fresh with the live instruments, though Baawse does slip up on that last verse.
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does it piss any one else off when people don’t rap their whole verse and need people to finish their lines for them? I feel like if you write sumthing you should be able to perform it without running out of breath
im not hatin im jus sayin
but damn the roots sound tight on this
this sounds…. magnigicent. you can tell the roots are zonin right now.
is it june yet?
alot of people cant finish there lines,even when recording a song,artists rarely can spit the whole verse without running out of breathe,i record music,and perform so i know this,but yeah…anyone think that the roots actually enjoyed backing up this homo?
I agree w/ zNY Ross the Boss was drowning fast…I think the band was too much for homeboy. They sounded better than the record. When P.E. was on a couple of weeks ago though…Whoa! Chuck & Thought murdered it.
So this is what the Roots sound like
with a horrible rapper..
hip hop ‘American Idol’
Roots sound nice.
Roots was great…Ross was okay, not great and not bad….
I am very curious to hear more of Black Thought’s singing voice.
By the way Captain Kirk and Black Thought made that chorus sound very well.
oh yeah, and i second that zNY…I want my MCs to finish their lines…those are the parts u pay for.
The Roots sooner or later need to be recognized as one of the greatest bands ever. I hate when they get dubbed “the best hip hop band” Fuck hip hop band, they are one of the best bands period, any genre of music. Period
The music was super dope. The dopeness of the live sensation must’ve overwhelmed “The Bawse” because that was a sloppy performance. That song has been out how long and he still doesn’t know his own song?!
Can we just get a live instrumental of that joint. The roots killed it! Captain Kirk and BT were harmonizing with the hook. Rick Ross sad to say, but he didn’t help his own song. I was zoning out to the roots though. I have to catch this live one night. Adown, I second that! Thing is we need the next generation to step up.
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Adown, I would like to hear them as the best band of something higher than hip hop too…but i think there’s a rationale behind why they are not…there most recent albums have a more digital influence than instrumental influence.
Personally, I would like to see the roots just fuck their fan base and do something hella different….i mean okayplayers aren’t gonna like it anyway…I would like to see them competing with U2 and perl jam more than common and talib…cuz that shit’s old.
they sounded real fresh together. fuck this us vs them mentality. Ross did his thing.
the reason he doesnt finish all his lines is
1)for a more playful back-and-forth live performance with BT as hypeman, and
2)because there are curse words that he cant say on primetime tv.
not because he is a lackluster rapper or whatever you are trying to imply.
they sounded great together.
this is what hip hop needs…
a bridge in between the gap.
magnificent performance from an unlikely pairing
LMFAO! at the unnecessary Rick Ross hate. Dude did his thing. The Roots were excellent as expected.
Dude, I had my drink in the air for this one. Granted it was just fruit juice. This was smoothed out for real. Props to Kurt and BT holding down that pimped out hook.
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that actually was acceptable, but it is really a no no to yell your way through a smooth song like that. Someone needs to tell him that he is holding a voice amplification apparatus and does not need to shout, RIKKKY RIKKY RIKKY ROOSSS, he shoulda listened to sade before he went on.
Rick Ross? lol He is wack i don’t care what nobody says if he’s with The Roots or not! He is horrible. Wack emcee Black shouldnt be backing him up! F this bs
Oh yeah and Kweli and Common are 10 times the artist as Pearl Jam or U2! They don’t compare. Talib is one of the great Artist of time. He transecends that.
“Oh yeah and Kweli and Common are 10 times the artist as Pearl Jam or U2! They don’t compare. Talib is one of the great Artist of time. He transecends that.”
Mike Shousky, I’m glad you have someone to look up to such as Talib. I don’t think there’s any need to lower U2 or Pearl Jam just to big up somebody u love. Talib’s success during this record industry flop is recognition enough. That “my favorite rapper ain’t getting no shine” syndrome is old…and doesn’t fly anymore because….the world is flat.
What I should have articulated better was that I would like to see the Roots in the same space as a James Brown, U2, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Zeppelin…I don’t think it’s done because their albums (not their live shows) are more hiphop producer driven than band driven.
Ross is sucha pretender:
not a gangsta,definitely not an MC
some folks are too naive and gullible. You’re blind to the facts!
Why do cats HATE so much….
Paulw, there’s a reason why their records sound the way they sound. watch this, ?uestlove can explain it better than anyone:
http://tinyurl.com/d3vaoh
and The Roots ARE up there with U2 and any other band, in terms of talent. Anyone that knows music, knows that. The general public doesn’t know that cuz they don’t know real music.
That’s the only thing that sucks about The MAGNIFICENT ROOTS being on Jimmy Fallon…sometimes they gotta play with WACK fools like RR.
Aside from that…what a wonderful set from the Band.
that goes for john legend being on the track with him too
really thought of performing with that garbage; but the Joell Ortiz “Hip Hop Confessions” answer, not the interview-in-a-magazine response. Like, when Thought first found out that they were gonna back this cat up, I wanna know what his initial reaction was. Something along the lines of:
?uest: Yo next week we’re gonna back up RR
BT: ….
lol, nahmean?
this is why the roots shouldn’t be on jimmy fallon….