Photo: Roots Picnic 2012 Recap, Part 1!
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
St. Vincent
Roots Mural Arts Project
Mercedes and Tracey from the JazzyFatNastees
J. Period and Stretch Armstrong
Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards and Spank Rock
DJ Sicksentz from Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire
OKP Photog Mel D. Cole
Capn' Kirk
Yameen Allworld
?uesto and Fela Kuti necklaces - coming soon to the Okayplayer Store
DJ Maseo from De La Soul with ?uesto
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Yasiin Bey FKA Mos Def
Wale
Black Thought aka Riq Gees
Black Thought x De La Soul with Yasiin Bey in the background
Plug 1 and 2 of De La Soul
Coco from Quadron
the crowd
Diplo, Walshy Fire and Jillionaire collectively known as Major Lazer
Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
Rakim
Rakim
Rakim