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I was mad that I was missing the Roots performance during the Rock the Bells concert even though in my mind I knew I would still break my neck to see them do their weekly set at the Highline Ballroom. That stage at the Highline belongs to them. Once you see them get down there you know they own the stage.

Sometimes it comes to you in a ridiculous Questlove drum solo where he nearly beats a hole into the drum kit.

Sometimes its Black Thought rhyming a mile-a-minute while slicing and dicing the beat like a surgeon with a laser-guided scalpel.

I’ve been there when James Poyser goes the fuck off and takes us all to church from the keyboard pulpit.

Captain Kirk does his virtuoso bid with the axe and the bassist O-Ski ain’t nothing to fux with either.

But mostly the Roots Jam Session has been an assembly of some of the greatest musicians known to man who enjoy making other people shine their brightest. I would not appreciate Amanda Diva and all of her efforts if not for the Roots. The Roots finally brought the ladies back into the rap music equation. No one before them has even tried to do that on a real level.

There are no gimmicks afoot when the Roots play on the Highline stage.

There’s only good music.

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