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Black Thought offers his creative critique of America with his latest album, Streams of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Abel. For this project, Black Thought sheds the fun-loving image that accompanies nightly appearances on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show. To do this, he taps Schoolboy Q, Killer Mike, Pusha-T, and others to help him prove why he’s well-respected among hip-hop’s top […]
Black Thought has announced that his new Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel is set to release on July 31. Alongside news of the project, The Roots rapper has shared the single “Thought Vs. Everybody.” Vol. 3 was entirely produced by Sean C and includes appearances from Swizz Beats, Portugal The Man, Pusha-T, […]
Roots Picnic 2020 is taking place on the virtual stage. Earlier this month, organizers announced the in-person event had been postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Though this was disappointing news, many were pleased to hear that the festival had pivoted to a virtual experience that would also serve as a voter registration drive. Former first lady Michelle Obama was […]
Continuing one of his most memorably active album promo campaigns in years, Lil Wayne dropped in on Tonight Show headquarters Wednesday night for a performance of a Funeral highlight. Up top, catch footage of Weezy’s pretty fucking perfect (and notably energetic) performance of “Dreams,” complete with assistance from The Roots. Wayne also joined host Jimmy Fallon, as […]
Friday, the Lupita Nyong’o-starring Little Monsters will hit Hulu just in time for peak Halloween festivities. But first, we have the Us and Rise of Skywalker star freestyling as her alter ego Troublemaker on the latest Tonight Show. After some quick talk about serving as lyrical inspiration for Beyoncé and JAY-Z, Lupita was asked about the Troublemaker name, […]
DaBaby returned to The Tonight Show Monday night, bringing a medley of Kirk tracks to the stage with some help from the Roots. Excerpts of “Intro,” “Really,” and “Bop” were included in the performance. DaBaby also brought out Stunna 4 Vegas. Disappointingly, NBC did not give DaBaby the full hour of The Tonight Show to run through additional […]
In a perfect world, Will Smith would be the nightly guest on The Tonight Show and/or any other late-night entity. Though we don’t live in said perfect world, we got close enough with Smith’s Aladdin-promoting appearance Monday night. Speaking on his role of Genie in the live-action update of the 1992 classic, a fan-celebrated part […]
Schoolboy Q isn’t fucking around. Wednesday night, Jimmy Fallon welcomed Q to The Tonight Show studio as the musical guest for the evening. Instead of simply going through with a performance of his recently released new single “Numb Numb Juice,” Q took the opportunity to also unveil another new one. Up top, catch Q’s mini-medley of […]
Few in life reach the same heights of general legendariness as Samuel L. Jackson, one of the many stars of M. Night Shyamalan‘s third entry in the Eastrail 177 series Glass. Monday night, Jackson—who recently celebrated his 70th birthday with some DJing from Questlove—joined Fimmy Jallons and company on The Tonight Show to discuss working with Shyamalan […]
For his new Streams of Thought sequel, Black Thought only needed three sessions to bag what he needed. “From convo to concept,” Black Thought teased earlier this month. “Trust the process.” That process, at least for Streams of Thought Vol. 2, also encompassed a pair of flights to Miami and an impressive nine-track new project […]
