Live concert film of The Roots for « A Night of Symphonic Hip Hop », captured at the Irving Music Factory in Dallas, Texas, on 17 October 2017. Backed by the Dallas POPS orchestra, the Philadelphia collective — hip-hop’s most acclaimed live band and the Tonight Show house band — reworks its repertoire and genre classics in ambitious symphonic arrangements. Driven by Questlove’s drumming and Black Thought’s flow, the performance blends live instruments, strings and brass, with guests enriching the evening. This full concert illustrates the singular bridge The Roots build between rap culture and orchestral music, in a generous, virtuosic staging. The capture conveys the sonic richness of a show where improvisation vies with compositional precision. Backed by full strings and brass, the band recasts breakbeats and rap phrasing as orchestral music without losing the groove that made its reputation on stage. A must-see live concert to discover, in 2017, a symphonic reworking of hip-hop, filmed in Dallas.
Setlist
- Web
- Game Theory
- Concerto of the Desperado
- Long Time
- Panic!!!!!
- Star (avec Robert Glasper)
- 20 Feet Tall (reprise d'Erykah Badu, avec Erykah Badu et Robert Glasper)
- Afro Blue (reprise de Mongo Santamaría, avec Erykah Badu et Robert Glasper)
- You Got Me (avec Erykah Badu et Robert Glasper)
- Break You Off
- Act Too (Love of My Life)
- Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop) (reprise d'Erykah Badu, avec Erykah Badu)
- Silent Treatment
- Dear God 2.0 (avec Bilal)
- It Ain't Fair (avec Bilal)
- Earth Song (reprise de Rufus & Chaka Khan, avec Chaka Khan)
- Egyptian Song (reprise de Rufus, avec Chaka Khan)
- I Know You, I Live You (reprise de Chaka Khan, avec Chaka Khan et Robert Glasper)
- The Next Movement
- Clones
Personnel & credits
- The Roots — band
- Dallas POPS — orchestra
