Public record
The Roots
Hip-hop | Philadelphia, PA | since 1987
- alternative hip hop
- alternative rap
- conscious rap
- hip hop
- jazz
- progressive rap
- progressive soul
- rap
Shows, releases and artist details collected from 11 credited sources. This public record does not confirm booking availability. Source links accompany the published facts.
4
Shows on record
4
Rooms played
2008
On record since
37
Releases
Show history
2025 · 2
2009 · 1
with Digable Planets, Common Market, Dujeous
2008 · 1
with Third Eye Blind, Carbon Leaf, AbsentStar, Frontiers
Photos, art and posters
Lineup
- “Captain” Kirk Douglas
- Frank “Knuckles” Walker
- Mark Kelley
- Black Thought
- Dame “Tuba Gooding, Jr.” Bryson
- Kamal Gray
- Dave Guy
- Ebony Joi
- Martin Luther McCoy — electric guitar
- James Poyser
- ?uestlove
Former
- Rahzel
- Scratch
- Owen Biddle
- Scott Storch
- Malik B
- Ben Kenney
- Hub
Releases
- TR
The Roots Come Alive Too: DYWM30 Live at Blue Note NYC
2025 · album
- TR
The Roots Come Alive Too: DYWM30 Live At Blue Note NYC
2025
Begining of JourneyThe R.O.O.T.S. (ROCK OUT OF TIME SOCIETY)
Dec 28, 2023 · album · 5 tracks
INSTINCTSThe R.O.O.T.S. (ROCK OUT OF TIME SOCIETY)
Dec 28, 2023 · album · 7 tracks
- MF
Music From The Film Detroit
2017
- TD
Tiny Desk Concert
2017
- WC
Wonderful Christmastime / Peace (Live At The Sheen Center)
2017
- WC
Wonderful Christmastime / Jesus Christ
2017
- …T
…and Then You Shoot Your Cousin
2014 · album
- .T
...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
2014
- WU
Wise Up Ghost
2013 · album
- RT
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Live From Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)
2013
- WU
Wise Up Ghost (And Other Songs 2013 Number One)
2013
- WU
Wise Up: Thought (Remixes & Reworks 2013) (Number Two)
2013
- WU
Walk Us Uptown
2013
- BW
Betty Wright: The Movie
2011 · album
- UN
undun
2011 · album
- HI
How I Got Over
2010 · album
- WU
Wake Up!
2010 · album
- RD
Rising Down
2008 · album
- GT
Game Theory
2006 · album
- TB
The Best of the Roots
2006 · album
- HG
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 1
2005 · compilation
- HG
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 2
2005 · compilation
- HG
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vols. 1 & 2
2005 · compilation
- DT
Do This Well
2004 · compilation
- TT
The Tipping Point
2004 · album
- PH
Phrenology
2002 · album
- TR
The Roots Come Alive
1999 · album
- TC
Things Come Together
1999 · compilation
- TF
Things Fall Apart
1999 · album
- RA
Retour aux sources
1997 · ep
- IH
Illadelph Halflife
1996 · album
- DY
Do You Want More?!!!??!
1994 · album
- TR
The Roots From the Ground Up
1994 · ep
- OR
Organix
1993 · album
- DT
Distortion to Static Remixes
album