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The Roots join Billboard for an R&B panel conversation covering their 2026 Hip-Hop Hall of Fame moment, four decades of brotherhood, and what’s next—including updates on the long-teased project “Endgame.” Black Thought and Questlove also talk the “secret sauce” behind their creative synergy, how fans are giving Thought his flowers in the algorithm era, Roots Picnic’s massive growth, and why “creativity is transferable.”
Plus: studio stories (including how deep the vault really goes), the “no spoilers” approach to features, and a throwback to performing at the 2002 Grammys with Eminem.
Plus: studio stories (including how deep the vault really goes), the “no spoilers” approach to features, and a throwback to performing at the 2002 Grammys with Eminem.
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00:00I would have thought you were a Knicks fan for a second, the way you were yelling when that tip
00:03-in happened.
00:04I mean, what was I gonna boo?
00:07I'm in New York City. I would have thought you were a Knicks fan for a second.
00:13Look, I'm a forever Philadelphia. Don't get it twisted.
00:17But, I mean, you know, this is my 18th year here.
00:21I know, I just, you know. I gotta go somewhere.
00:23I'm just seeing who you reppin'.
00:33We have a Hall of Fame group in the building today. We're giving flowers today.
00:39This group is straight out of Philly. We're talking four decades of straight heat, of longevity, of success.
00:49I'm talking about The Roots. Come on now. Come on now.
00:56Black Thought, Quest Love. They are our 2026 Hip Hop Hall of Famers.
01:06So we're gonna really dive into their career, their marvelous year.
01:11And I'm just gonna stop talking. I'm gonna bring the brothers out here.
01:14Can we have the brothers, please? Black Thought, Quest Love.
01:20Come on now.
01:23Ah!
01:25Woo!
01:27My brother.
01:37I just gotta say, I could have went with a Roots record. I wanted to, but I was like, I
01:41was bumping ho.
01:42And it just was so befitting, the rhymes.
01:45Never been a nigga this good for this long.
01:47What?
01:47Come on!
01:48My question's looking at me like...
01:49Aight.
01:51For a second, I was like, oh, we did record that song.
01:57No, as I mentioned, you know, 2026 Hip Hop Hall of Fame, I feel like this was the year of
02:06the flowers for what y'all been doing.
02:08And as we spoke about in our interview, you know, do y'all, now that we are here, do you
02:14feel the Hall of Fame energy moment today?
02:17Like, yo, we here, we already been here. Like, I'm curious.
02:22Uh, you know, I think what, I think the secret sauce behind the synergy that Tariq and I have, creatively,
02:31is that we both have arrived at a place where we just live in the present.
02:36Um, I used to be the person that was, like, panicking, like, alright, what are we gonna do in 2005?
02:42Alright, what are we gonna do in 2010, 2015? Like, you know, and playing it in the head.
02:46But, I think, for the most part, we are in a zone right now, especially with this year, every day
02:55is a new adventure.
02:56Like, immediately after Jay-Z, there was, like, 17 other epic things we did, just as epic as the Roots
03:03picnic at the beginning of the summer.
03:05So, I think we're just in a zone in our career where today's the greatest day ever, and then tomorrow,
03:13and then so on.
03:13On to the next.
03:14Yeah.
03:15I'm a ooh-ah guy. Let me explain what that means.
03:18Like, I get awestruck when I see some fire.
03:23Obviously, this is four decades of brotherhood, of friendship.
03:26Can you recall when you guys got that ooh-ah moment about each other creatively?
03:32And when's the last time you felt that ooh-ah?
03:34I definitely remember, um, so kind of my entry into the creative and performing arts school.
03:43There were cliques, you know, different demographics, the goth kids over there, the blah blah kids over there, the blah
03:49blah kids over there.
03:52So, in my eyes, Tariq was part of the cool kids club, you know, most graffiti writers and whatnot.
04:00And I feel like my entry from dweebdom to cool kids zone was my ability to do this on the
04:08lunch table and keep the beat.
04:11So, um, and it's as the person that was the designated beat maker of that lunch table.
04:19This is the first time I'm witnessing somebody, like, play the dozens and rhyme at the same time.
04:26Like, I never saw freestyling on that level.
04:28So, Tariq's pretty much my entry into seeing that in the flesh.
04:34Besides, you know, not just listening to it on the radio, but actually seeing a real life person talk about
04:39your green shoes or your mitchmatch socks or that sort of thing.
04:43So, yeah, I was hella impressed.
04:46Thought? What about you?
04:47For me, I think it was around the same time, you know, in high school.
04:52Yeah, I was, you know, I've been rapping for, I guess, for years by the time I started high school.
05:00But never taking it seriously, never had teamed up with anyone, you know, since maybe the first talent show that
05:08I did.
05:10And, yeah, you know, it was something about whoever was sort of tasked with the duty of keeping the pace.
05:17Whether it was, you know, human beatbox or, you know, banging on their chest or the floor or the table.
05:23And there was a certain musicality in the way that Amir did it that, you know, felt like a drummer,
05:29you know, was doing it.
05:31And it was my first time really experiencing that pocket.
05:34And it was like, oh, wow, you know, there was a freedom in it, you know, that, I don't know,
05:40it was enlightening for me.
05:41So, yeah, I think, you know, for Amir, I was his entree into, you know, hardcore hip hop and lyricism
05:49and things that he hadn't been exposed to up until that point in time.
05:52And he was my intro into musicality and vice versa.
05:57And I also feel like in 87, like a year after Peter Piper by Run DMC, that was also the
06:07beginning of those records that were in our parents' record collection that we would otherwise ignore.
06:14I would ignore it, but suddenly I'm listening to music.
06:17I'm like, wait a minute, I know that from someone, you know, that sort of thing.
06:21So having grown up in a household in which all those breakbeats were already embedded in me, suddenly, like, I
06:31had more value in the school because I could play those breakbeats I grew up with.
06:36You know, they see it as, oh, this was using this rap song, but I'm like, no, this is Bill
06:40Withers, this is Mandrell, this is James Brown, you know, so that's kind of how the Eureka moment happened between
06:48us.
06:48Right.
06:49I love that.
06:49You know what's so interesting, the algorithm, man, is crazy in the sense that, I don't know, Thawd, if you've
06:55seen it or Quest, you've seen it, but for you specifically, Thawd, like, you have been circulating the algorithm in
07:02the sense of, I feel like now, which is so crazy, Cats are waking up and giving you flowers.
07:08Like, I'll give you an example, like, I saw this influencer, he was spitting your verse on Benny's Crown for
07:12Kings, and Cats is like, yo, got it.
07:19Are you, like, surprised at Cats giving you your flowers now?
07:24No, I'm not surprised, I'm receptive, you know what I mean?
07:27Yeah.
07:28And appreciative, like, I think that's great.
07:31It's, you know, I think there's the beauty in, you know, the layers, you know, that go into the creative
07:41process for me, and, you know, the way in which I write is, you know, the intention is for folks
07:48to discover different things over time, right?
07:51For, you know, like, one jewel to sort of dawn on you now, and for something else to cook until
07:56sort of later, and then you realize, oh, wow, he said this.
08:00So, yeah, I think there's, you know, there's beauty in someone who, you know, is expressive of just that moment,
08:08right?
08:08Mm-hmm.
08:09You know, yeah, like someone who actually gets it all at once, you know, as I felt that young man
08:15who was doing it.
08:16I guess it's a, you call that a reaction video, right?
08:18Yeah, reaction video.
08:20And he, ball for ball, cadence, everything, he got it.
08:23Yeah, yeah, yeah, he really got it, you know what I'm saying?
08:26Yeah.
08:26Everything went over his head.
08:28So, yeah, that was beautiful.
08:30I remember during our interview, Quest, you had mentioned, you feel like you guys are like
08:3780-ish, 90% there with Endgame, and some of my homies hit me, they were like, you know
08:45they've been talking about this shit for me.
08:47Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
08:48All the time.
08:48Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:50Yeah.
08:52Yeah, it's...
08:53He said, I'm sorry.
08:55No, I think one of the things that's hard to let go is my micromanaged nature and my perfection
09:06nature, I'm the person that, if inspiration hits me, my, our dressing room set up at The
09:15Tonight Show is also a studio.
09:18Like, we've made four or five high quality albums in that studio, in that unit.
09:24So, to have a place in which, I mean, there have been times where I've, you know, after
09:32SNL stops taping at 1am, I'll go back down to 6 and then record until, if something hits
09:39me or inspires me.
09:41So, now I'm, I realize that my habit to try to figure out how to top this idea with a
09:50better idea, with a better idea, with a better idea.
09:53Like, I just have to stop and let it go.
09:55So, no one was more relieved than this guy when I was just like, okay, I'm contributing
10:01no more new songs to it.
10:03But...
10:04Because I, I had read, you had said in a past interview, like, you guys got up to 300
10:09songs.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Like, how did you even narrow that down?
10:14Um, I mean, you know, we're still in the narrowing it down process.
10:19But that's enough, right?
10:20Like, I feel like we've got the, you know, we just gotta chisel out this statue from this,
10:26out of the mass.
10:28Yeah.
10:28You know?
10:29Our, our ability to also create, like, even the very first time we recorded, um, the moment
10:36from which we stopped being, uh, the busking band on the corner.
10:41Mm-hmm.
10:42You know, we spent all the summer of, uh, 1992 busking.
10:46Um, and when the moment came for us to finally go in the studio, typically, uh, especially when
10:53you're working in hip hop, it's time consuming.
10:55Mm-hmm.
10:55Because of the programming you have to do and all this stuff.
10:58Like, just to do the music might take you four hours to put together.
11:01I mean, of course, now with today's technology, you can do it in mere seconds.
11:05But back then, it was a time consuming process.
11:08But because we were a band, um, we actually, I think we finished, what, past the popcorn almost
11:15like in two hours, which it was sort of like, well, we got six more hours left.
11:19What do we, oh, let's do another song.
11:21And another, and so we created like four songs in our first session, but we've always been
11:26lightning fast.
11:27Like right now, I'll say that, um, since we've been in that studio unit at, at work, um, you
11:37know, there's close to, I'll say at least 6,000 songs in the database.
11:43I mean, I mean, some of them are repeats and improvements of things.
11:49And some are songs that will never see the light of day, but just in terms of getting
11:54ideas out, like we've never been, um, in terms of the, the sheer volume of it all.
12:01We, you know, we could knock out eight songs if, if challenged to.
12:08Yeah.
12:09If challenged to.
12:10Uh, there was a record, man.
12:11Flex had permitted a couple of years ago.
12:15Y'all Tierra, Erykah Badu.
12:18It's still on it.
12:19Oh, okay.
12:20Cause my man's, he knew I was doing this today.
12:22He was like, I'm gonna need you to check if it's still on the project.
12:24Yeah.
12:25Yeah.
12:25Yeah.
12:26Yeah.
12:27Um, if I may ask, um, is there any feature that you guys are super excited about on Endgame?
12:40Um, it's still to this day, it's like, oh, it is.
12:42You gotta wait.
12:43You gotta leave.
12:44No spoilers.
12:45Yeah.
12:47Yeah.
12:48There's, there's some guests.
12:52Okay.
12:52End quote.
12:52I will, I will take that.
12:55Um, but what I, what I want to ask, man, like, obviously you guys have graced the stage.
13:00I mean, Jay, Nas, you know, Erica, D'Angelo.
13:04The one that crossed my YouTube, and I totally forgot.
13:07I was like a little youngin.
13:09Y'all did, uh, I think it was 2002 Grammys with Eminem.
13:13Yeah.
13:13I think for Lose Yourself.
13:15Yeah.
13:16Yeah.
13:16Yeah.
13:16What was that experience like?
13:18Cause obviously I know the J and not.
13:20What was that like?
13:21That specifically?
13:22Cause it came across my YouTube.
13:23So I, I wonder how was that?
13:26You know, what's weird about that night?
13:28Um, yeah.
13:29So, uh, the Grammys have made, uh, their return to New York.
13:35Yeah.
13:36After like, there was a point where like, sometimes it would be at Radio City or Madison Square Garden.
13:42Um, maybe like once every three years and whatnot.
13:48Um, you know, I mean, as, as far as the actual, uh, lose yourself thing.
13:55I mean, that was kind of the easy part.
13:58All I remember was sort of the excitement around it.
14:01Number one, um, fifties, uh, give rich or die try and didn't come out yet.
14:07So I remember us being like one of the first people to hear was about to come out on, on
14:14his label.
14:15Um, I also remember that we were sharing a dressing room with No Doubt and that their writer, that their
14:23writer was way more elaborate.
14:25Yeah.
14:25Like M&M's was like plain and simple.
14:27Like, here's some bread, here's some cheese.
14:30And no doubt I had Mucillix over here.
14:32And I was just like looking at the juxtaposition of, of the two.
14:36Um, yeah, but that was, that, that whole period, um, I think is, is sort of like the beginning result
14:46of a very slow tortoise in the hair, um, movement that was sort of the 10 year mark from busking
14:58on the corners to really working, working out at the gym in Europe, doing those festivals.
15:05And then, um, the ripple effect of things fall apart, doing what it did and the jam sessions that we
15:12had and all the artists and like-minded people and, you know, people started to discover us.
15:18And, you know, I guess that was the beginning stages of us being, uh, America's band.
15:24And if you want to frame it that way, I like that title.
15:28So we're America's band.
15:30Trademark?
15:30Yeah.
15:31Yeah.
15:33Let me pose you this.
15:34Um, the success of Roots Pitnick, man, in a time where, as you know, it's been on the news, a
15:40lot of tours, a lot of shows are being canceled.
15:42You guys are just thriving, taking it from Philly to London to, to LA.
15:47Um, speak to the longevity of Roots Pitnick and how it's been able to grow into this behemoth that, that
15:54we see today.
15:54Roots Pitnick.
15:56I mean, I think it's just that, man.
15:57It's, uh, it's the sort of thing to which there's no shortcut.
16:02Right.
16:03Um, you know, we've been, you know, out on the road performing gigs and touring and putting out albums for
16:1240 years.
16:13Um, you know, half that time, the Roots Pitnick has been a brand that we've been building.
16:18So, um, yeah, I mean, I think it just, where we are now and, um, sort of the, I feel
16:24like, like the tipping point that we've hit with the, with the Pitnick brand, um, just speaks to, um, just
16:30longevity.
16:31And, you know, sort of having kept our heads down and, you know, grinded for as long as we have.
16:37Um, yeah.
16:38And this is the year that we decided to expand it.
16:42Um, again, when we lived, I mean, I, I say exile.
16:48It was never an exile.
16:49When we lived in, um, London for that period in the early nineties, like just working out of Europe, um,
16:58we weren't aware.
16:59Like all the only thing America had to offer in terms of festivals was just like Lollapalooza and maybe like
17:05Farm Aid, you know, an occasional Bonnaroo.
17:08But, um, America really didn't know festival culture.
17:12And the reason why we had to go to Europe is because there were at least, uh, 400 festivals to
17:20choose from, um, in Western Europe.
17:24And it was always like, okay, when we make it, we gotta bring this idea to Philly.
17:29Like the idea that you can see all these artists under one roof.
17:33And, um, you know, we started off as just a small festival.
17:40Um, you know, the first year was like, what, 3,000 at least?
17:43I mean, if that, I think 2,500.
17:45There were more people backstage than that we were performing for.
17:50Um, yeah.
17:51Now, you know, to, to cap it off with this summer, which, you know, we easily did two days for,
17:58I think, 80,000 people.
18:01Um, the next step is to bring it to the world.
18:04Cause pretty much all the comments were like, can you bring this to LA?
18:08Can you bring this to the, can you bring this to the UK or whatever?
18:12So this is, this is the year we tested the waters to see, could we be the Ringling Brothers of,
18:21you know, of festivals?
18:23We're gonna take it, take it around to people.
18:26And, yeah, I think they've been responsive to it.
18:31Yeah.
18:31Quest, let me pose you this.
18:33Uh, you had tremendous success with the Earth, Wind & Fire documentary.
18:37I'm curious, when you were making that documentary and seeing how they operated as a group,
18:43is there anything you learned from that and try to instill into what you guys established with The Roots?
18:49Yeah.
18:50Um, so the thing is, is that what I wanted to,
18:56avoid in the storytelling.
18:58I wanted to make very clear, cause usually with documentaries, there's this thing where it's, you know,
19:03you discover a talent and a skill and then you monetize it, you hone it, you get the success.
19:09And then when the down part starts, that's when the infighting and all that stuff starts.
19:16And, um, you know, the, the, the main difference between Earth, Wind & Fire of the seventies and say, uh,
19:25a group like the Jacksons in the eighties was the idea of sponsorship.
19:29You know, Pepsi paid for the victory tour, Pepsi paid for all those Michael Jackson tours, whereas Earth, Wind &
19:36Fire had to come out of pocket for those things.
19:39And so when we kind of got to the third part of the, the third quarter of that documentary where
19:46it's falling apart, um, it's, I realized that, wow, okay, it's, it's a communication thing.
19:54You know, feelings might've been in hurt where maybe one member said something to another member, which it didn't seem
20:03like a big deal to the person, you know, saying what they said.
20:07And when you don't communicate, um, you run a narrative into your head.
20:12So I think for me, I just learned, uh, how to be a more effective leader and coach.
20:19And, you know, previously I think I was more, uh, the reluctant leader.
20:24I didn't want that responsibility.
20:26I just wanted to be part of the guys.
20:28But, you know, I think both of us had to learn to, to, to own, to own our own, own
20:36our kingdom.
20:37Yeah.
20:37And so, um, and I believe that's pretty much why I don't know.
20:44I mean, I don't know how, how it is for him, but, um, you know, this is like our, our
20:4934th year as the roots, as you know, it, this is, this is the most fun I've ever had.
20:55Like, I actually look forward to performing, you know, most people would phone it in by this point, but it's
21:04actually fun.
21:05Yeah.
21:06Yeah.
21:06Yeah.
21:06Yeah.
21:07Yeah.
21:07Yeah.
21:07I agree.
21:09Thought, let me pose you this, man.
21:11Uh, Knife Wonder came outside and he was like, yeah, so me and, me and Black Thought got a, got
21:17a collab album coming.
21:19Yeah.
21:19What's up with that?
21:20Yeah.
21:20Let's talk about that.
21:21Yeah.
21:22Came on a podcast.
21:23Like, yeah, we, we, we, we got something coming.
21:24Yeah.
21:25When is that coming?
21:27And, and, and if so, uh, talk about working with Knife cause you have a history of working
21:31with a plethora of producers.
21:33Uh, what was different about this one?
21:35Um, well, you know, Knife, Knife Wonder and I worked together for the first time in like
21:41maybe 2017 or so.
21:44Um, when I started a series of albums called Streams of Thought.
21:51Yup.
21:51And the idea was to do some projects that were more stream of consciousness, um, and give
21:58some of my fans an, an, an, uh, an opportunity to see me alongside, you know, other composers,
22:05arrangers, producers, um, outside of the roots collective, so to speak.
22:09But, you know, still like family and still roots adjacent.
22:12Um, so yeah, the first of, you know, that series was, um, Knife Wonder and I.
22:18And I think just because of, um, some scheduling constraints and just the distance, um, we didn't
22:26like, it's one of the shortest projects.
22:28Like it's a, it was a beautiful record, but I think in its entirety, it may have been 17
22:32minutes long or so.
22:35Um, so in that we always wanted to do a project that we recorded together.
22:39In the same space under the same roof, um, you know, which is, uh, what this project is.
22:44And it's called Brick and Mortar.
22:46Um, so yeah, but in those, the Streams of Thought, uh, you know, series, I did, uh, I recorded
22:51four, three of which, um, have been released in volume four.
22:56I, I have, uh, as well.
23:00And you got a residency, I peeped.
23:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:03You have peeped.
23:04Yeah, yeah.
23:05Cool, cool.
23:06A little something, something coming up.
23:07Uh, yeah, yeah.
23:08I mean, I try, I try to keep busy, you know, I don't, I don't know when the Roots album
23:11is coming out.
23:12So I just say.
23:13He's holding you accountable right there.
23:15What'd you say?
23:15He's holding you accountable right there.
23:17Yeah.
23:17Yeah.
23:18I know.
23:18Integrity, blah, blah, blah.
23:20Yeah.
23:20Um, I think what's super interesting, man, a lot of cats don't talk about this.
23:26Mm-hmm.
23:26The talent that has come out of Philly, it's always the New Yorks, the Atlantis, the L.A.
23:32days, but if we run down the gamut, I mean, obviously you guys, obviously Jill, um, freaking
23:39Boyce, it just doesn't stop, Meek, Uzi.
23:42Do you guys feel like Philly is still underappreciated from a talent standpoint regionally when it comes
23:49to hip hop, hip hop, R&B across the board?
23:54I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't feel that way.
23:57I think people know.
23:58Yeah.
23:59I think, you know, that a common question, um, is like, what's in the water in Philly?
24:05Like, you know, what is it about Philly that, you know, makes it so, um, artists are able
24:10to break through in the, in the way that they are.
24:12And, um, I think, you know, it just goes back to, you know, people say that about New York
24:16City, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, but I don't, I could, I'm from
24:21Philly.
24:22And if you can make it in Philadelphia.
24:24Yeah.
24:24We will boo you first.
24:25Y'all know where we at, right?
24:27Don't, don't, don't do that.
24:28The world.
24:29We still living off that next championship.
24:31Yeah.
24:31True.
24:32True.
24:32True.
24:33Respectfully, you know?
24:34Um, but yeah, you know, Philly, you know, they, they pelted Santa Claus with batteries.
24:39Yeah.
24:39So, um, yeah, yeah.
24:42I think it's true, but you know, Philly, you know, also.
24:46I'm on the opposite side of the coin loves and, you know, pours into, you know, its artists,
24:53you know, once Philly is rocking with you, they rocking with you, you know, and it's hard
24:57to sort of shake them.
24:58So there's that.
24:59It's a, it's the whole winning them over.
25:01And I think, you know, it's hardest to win the city of Philly over as a Philadelphian.
25:05It's like, you know, Philly, at least during the era that we came up, they, they almost
25:10had to hear it from elsewhere, which is why we sort of, you know, we circled the block
25:16and had them thinking we were from Europe and confused.
25:19You know what I'm saying?
25:19Like, the ambiguity in terms of genre and, you know, how many people were in the group
25:26and, you know, where exactly we were from or, you know, may not have been from served us.
25:32Yeah.
25:32Yeah.
25:33Well, I still think a thought, you know, speaking of my algorithm, cats, cats, never forget
25:40that OG tipping.
25:41You were at the game.
25:42You were, you were, I would have thought you were a Knicks fan for a second the way you
25:46were yelling when that tipping happened.
25:48I mean, I mean, what was I going to boo?
25:51I'm in New York City.
25:53I don't know how deep a run.
25:54I would have thought you were a Knicks fan for a second.
25:57I'm a forever Philadelphia.
26:00Don't get it twisted.
26:01But, I mean, you know, this is my 18th year here.
26:05I know.
26:06I just, you know.
26:06I got to go somewhere.
26:07I'm just seeing who you repping.
26:09That is how it starts though.
26:13But I love, I thought what you said, you know, in terms of like, you really got to earn
26:19Cassie's respect in Philly.
26:20And I think about it from a sports perspective, I think of AI and how he earned that love.
26:27Yeah.
26:28And, you know, obviously now LeBron signed to Philly.
26:31So, I'm curious, being y'all Philly through and through, what's some advice you would give
26:35the LBJ in terms of like, how to operate in Philly?
26:39Knowing how fans operate in Philly and knowing the history of AI and all that.
26:46In terms of dealing with fans and trying to win.
26:50Yeah.
26:52I, don't put me on the spot.
26:54Have a thick skin.
26:56Yeah.
26:56Don't, don't take too much personally.
26:59You know what I'm saying?
27:00Make sure his beard's correct.
27:01Yeah.
27:02Keep, keep, keep that line right.
27:03Keep the road game and everything.
27:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:06That's your word, son.
27:10Lastly, before we close out.
27:12If you guys could pick one word to define the Roots' legacy, what would that be and why?
27:19I mean, you know, I think the Roots' legacy lies in, of course, in my brotherhood.
27:25Right?
27:26So, something like that, like brotherhood, camaraderie, you know?
27:31Um, the true sense of, of, of those terms.
27:35Um, because of the, you know, the, the connection and the, the mutual respect that one has to
27:42have.
27:43Right?
27:44In order for that to exist.
27:45Yeah, it's comparable to any sort of business relationship or a marriage or a friendship
27:52or whatever.
27:53Um, but the epitome of that is, you know, what we have in the Roots.
27:57I love that.
27:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:59That's why he does what he does because my word was, now I'm not, now I want to share
28:04my word.
28:05Musical.
28:06Right.
28:07No, I think we're, we, we are, um, we're omnipresent and, uh, we are all things to all
28:17people.
28:18Yeah.
28:18Um, and there's, there's many, uh, if anything, I think we've learned in the last 15 years
28:27that creativity is transferable.
28:30So, be it festival organizers or, um, him writing a play, me directing movies or him acting
28:43or like the other mediums of him teaching at college.
28:50Uh, you know, me hosting, QLS or whatever.
28:54Like there's so many, um, sort of, uh, uh, avenues that we've, we've went down and mastered.
29:04Yeah.
29:05I just think we're all things, all people.
29:07And, uh, through, through the roots, all things are possible.
29:11Yeah.
29:11And that's, that's a mic drop moment right there.
29:14So, I kind of want to drop the mic, but I don't want Soul House to be mad at me.
29:18So, I will say, ladies and gentlemen, please give a hand for our 2026 Hip Hop Hall of Fame
29:25is the Roots.
29:27Thank you, Bill.
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