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The Roots, posing at 5th annual Roots Picnic at Festival Pier, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA- June 2 : The ROOTS attend the 5th Annual ROOTS Picnic held at Festival Pier at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA on June 2, 2012 in Phiidelphia, PA. The Roots is an American hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are known for a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which includes live instrumentals. (Photo by Terrence Jennings/PictureGroup)

Photo: Roots Picnic 2012 Recap, Part 1!

The Roots, posing at 5th annual Roots Picnic at Festival Pier, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia

Photos by Terrence Jennings.

Roots Picnic 2012 had it all: Ups, downs, history-making performances, sunshine, thunder, lightning, jerk chicken, soul, dancehall, trillwave and that good old rap and most of all more beautiful people than you could blow an airhorn at. Some of our favorite photographers--notably the homie Terrence Jennings--were on hand to record it all and since we have two days of musical madness to get thorugh (and each of the following flicks is worth at least 1,001 words) we better jump in. Let's go.

St. Vincent live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

St. Vincent

St. Vincent live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

St. Vincent

Roots Mural Project at the 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Roots Mural Arts Project

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Mercedes and Tracey from the JazzyFatNastees

J. Period + Stretch Armstrong at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

J. Period and Stretch Armstrong

Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards and friend at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards and Spank Rock

5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

DJ Sicksentz from Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire

photographer Mel D. Cole demonstrating beer goggles at the 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

OKP Photog Mel D. Cole

Capt. Kirk of The Roots backstage at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Capn' Kirk

Yahmeen Allworld backstage at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Yameen Allworld

Questlove and Fela Kuti together again at the 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

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DJ Maseo and Questlove on stage at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

DJ Maseo from De La Soul with ?uesto

DJ Jazzy Jeff onstage at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Yasiin Bey FKA Mos Def live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Yasiin Bey FKA Mos Def

Wale live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Wale

Black Thought of The Roots live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Black Thought aka Riq Gees

Black Thought of The Roots x De La Soul live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Black Thought x De La Soul with Yasiin Bey in the background

Plug 1 & 2 of De La Soul live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Plug 1 and 2 of De La Soul

Coco of Quadron live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Coco from Quadron

Crowd at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

the crowd

Diplo, Walshy Fire & Jillionaire AKA Major Lazer at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Diplo, Walshy Fire and Jillionaire collectively known as Major Lazer

Walshy Fire of Major Lazer crowd-surfing at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Walshy Fire of Major Lazer

Rakim Allah live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Rakim

Rakim live at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Rakim

Rakim says peace at The 5th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia

Rakim

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