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The Roots and Common on Friday, July 27, at 8 p.m.

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Philly hip-hop outfit whose live instrumentation and liqueur-smooth flow has earned four Grammys joins fellow Grammy-winning legend Common

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The Roots

  • Who’s in the band: Black Thought on the mic and ?uestlove on drums, backed by “Captain” Kirk Douglas on guitar, Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson on assorted brass, Mark Kelley on bass, Kamal Gray on keys, and F. Knuckles Walker on percussion
  • Aliases: The Square Roots, the Fifth Dynasty, that band that’s on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
  • Latest album: 2014’s …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, a concept that AllMusic.com describes as “an examination of self-destructive cycles”
  • Before that: 2013’s Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs, a collaboration with Elvis Costello
  • Number of Grammys won: four
  • Black Thought’s five hottest MCs of all time: Kool G Rap, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS-One, and Big Daddy Kane, all of whom you can hear in his flow, which alternates between liqueur-smooth poetry and a righteously angry bark. He even imitated Big Daddy Kane for a verse on 2004’s “Boom!”

Common

  • The Man: He’s a rapper, hip-hop star, actor, and activist who’s earned an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, three BET Hip-Hop Awards, and one Golden Globe Award.
  • The Music: Common built up an underground following in the ’90s before bursting onto the scene with 2000’s Like Water for Chocolate and topping the charts with 2007’s Finding Forever.
  • The Movies: This renaissance man can be seen in Smokin’ Aces, Now You See Me, Selma, and Suicide Squad.

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