The Roots | Photo by John Vettese
?uestlove | Photo by John Vettese
Tuba Gooding Jr. | Photo by John Vettese
Crowd-surfing audience member | Photo by John Vettese
Dice Raw | Photo by John Vettese
The Roots | Photo by John Vettese
Sousaphone audience reflection | Photo by John Vettese
Captain Kirk Douglas | Photo by John Vettese
Black Thought | Photo by John Vettese
Captain Kirk Douglas | Photo by John Vettese
Black Thought | Photo by John Vettese
Captain Kirk Douglas | Photo by John Vettese
Dice Raw | Photo by John Vettese
Philly’s legendary jazzy-funky-rocky-hiphop act The Roots closed out their sixth annual Roots Picnic on Saturday night with a high energy, fast-paced set. Check out a gallery of images from their set above.
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Tomorrow is the Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing with a stellar lineup including Naughty By Nature, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Grimes, Joey Bada$$, Trinidad James, Gary Clark, Jr., Solange, Grimes, Robert Glasper, How To Dress Well, Philly’s Lushlife, DJ Premiere and others. The music starts at Noon; schedule is above. Being that’s it’s Funky Friday today, we bring you the Roots Picnic edition of Funky Friday with some of our favorite jams below. See you at the picnic!
This Saturday, June 1 is the 6th Annual Roots Picnic. There’s not a band on the lineup you will want to miss. 
Our friends at Okayplayer just tipped us to a new song, “Word Is Bond,” by Joey Bada$$ produced by Statik Slektah. It’s the first taste of a new release, Summer Knights. In case you missed JB’s 1999 mixtape, (highly recommended by the way), you can download it for free here. Bada$$ is in town this Saturday, June 1, for the Roots Picnic. Don’t miss it. Download “Word Is Bond,” below, with some serious beats by Selectah, and some fantastic flow by Bada$$.
Photo by John Keatley
Photo by Pete Troshak | flickr.com/photos/petryfrompa/sets | twitter.com/shak74
The lineup for the 6th Annual Roots Picnic includes Gary Clark Jr., Lushlife and more [link]
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