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10 Years Strong, Roots Picnic Remains a Singular All-Star Festival Experience [Recap]
10 Years Strong, Roots Picnic Remains a Singular All-Star Festival Experience [Recap]
Photo Credit: Averie Cole for Okayplayer.

Watch Pharrell and The Roots Blend "Break You Off" and 702's "I Still Love You"

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. Photo Credit: Averie Cole for Okayplayer

One last highlight from a historic Roots Picnic with Pharrell

The 10th Annual Roots Picnic has come and gone, but the memories are still vivid of our time in the cool silhouette of Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Bridge.

WATCH: PHARRELL AND PUSHA T PERFORM A CLIPSE MEDLEY WITH THE ROOTS 

We've already brought you one of Mobb Deep's final runs as a duo and offered a sliver of a Roots-assisted medley of Clipse hits, featuring a meaty freestyle from Philly's own Black Thought. Today, we're capping off the 2017 campaign with yet another highlight from Skateboard P & The Yessirs' decades-spanning headline set. Fitting their own hit "Break You Off" between the spacious Neptunes strings from 702's "I Still Love You," the all-star ensemble masterfully blends the best of each respective world into one dreamy composition. Now, if we could just get that reworked Hidden Figures soundtrack from The Roots, that'd really be something.

WATCH: MOBB DEEP DELIVER AN ELECTRIFYING PERFORMANCE OF “SHOOK ONES PT. II” AT ROOTS PICNIC 2017

Watch Pharrell and The Roots join forces and frequencies at The 10th Annual Roots Picnic below. On to the next one.