The Roots Picnic was bigger than ever this year, with a Fugees reunion, a wild set from Lil Uzi Vert, and much more. questlove and blackthought tell us about how they built the ultimate Philly hip-hop festival, now celebrating its 15th year.
in particular have suffered harrowing personal and health-related tragedies over the last decade. The crowd was overwhelmingly supportive and appreciative as Beans fought through his verses, a lovefest thanking the collective for their indelible body of work, and the moment when they briefly put Philly on top of rap.
The slate also had room for a generation of Philly acts raised in the shadow of the Picnic. When Lil Uzi Vert played his first Roots Picnic in 2016, he was literally on the bottom line of the flier. By his next visit in 2018, he had made the middle; this year, he was one of the headliners. Uzi justified his placement in the massive crowd he drew, which far exceeded the ostensible headliner, a densely standing crowd one football field across and two football fields deep. As a rapper, Uzi arguably has more in common with Hayley Williams, with whom heat Madison Square Garden the previous weekend, than Black Thought — but one thing the two MCs do share is the ability to command a stage.
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