Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year, the Roots Picnic transforms the city of Philadelphia into a living mixtape — one where Hip Hop, R&B, soul, house, ...

Bob Power, a musician and engineer who worked closely with some of the top hip-hop and R&B acts of the 1990s and 2000s — ...

The Roots evolved from a friendship that Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter formed as Philadelphia high schools students in the late 1980s. The Roots have gone on to release ...