The Black Phish Still Nailing Cool Covers
You really gotta love The Roots. I must admit I’m not a huge fan of most of the hip hop genre in general, but how can you go wrong with a group of talented artists that actually play their own instruments, write great songs and cover all subsections of music extremely fucking well? You can’t, methinks.
In Hidden Track’s infancy, we made a fairly big deal of The Roots’ masterful cover of the Lucious Bobby Dylan’s Masters of War at the Avery Fisher Hall tribute back in October. Today we’re proud to present another excellent, shining example of emulation and advancement from The Roots, this time on U2′s Pride (In the Name of Love) as a tribute to Bono at the NAACP Awards this weekend.
Many thanks to my good buddy J-Cantor, whose constant monitoring of the Okayplayer.com board for all things Roots-related has come in handy again.
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Who knew Black Thought and Captain Kirk had those voices! Also the setlist from that clip looks like something out of Big Birch 7.13.94.
Sunday Bloody Sunday Intro*> Pride (In the Name of Love) > War (What Is It Good For?) ** > Pride (In the Name of Love)
* With new rap by Black Thought
** Edwin Starr cover, played to the music of Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Good stuff.
Well done, MiH. Since the real job is kicking my arse this morning, I thought I’d glance over any such details and hope nobody noticed. Thanks for picking up my slack.
Cap’n Kirk does a great job with Masters of War, by the way, so I knew he could sing. Not so for Thought. That surprised me.
Black Thought’s voice surprised me very much. I knew Kirk had it in him and have seen black thought mess around live and in clips with singing and what not. but this seemed different. Keep an eye out for a danger mouse and black thought cd sometime in late 07-08. I think it will be more of the singing than rapping.
Ace I am not sure if you have looked around therootslive.com or not but there is some great stuff there.
Whole Lotta Love from Red Rocks
Black Betty from the 9:30 club
and this whole set
http://www.therootslive.com/archive/show_042605.html
The “new rap” on the setlist is the opening verse of “False Media” from their most recent album “Game Theory”. Check it out.