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Malik Abdul Basit (aka Malik B.), a rapper, singer and longtime member of The Roots, died Wednesday. He was 47. The Roots announced Basit’s death in a statement on the group’s verified Twitter account but did not provide a cause of death. “We regretfully inform you of the passing of our beloved brother and long time…

The Roots, the house band for NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are drumming up new business for their production company Two One Five Entertainment after striking a first-look deal with Universal Television. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tarik "Black Thought" Trotter are to work with Universal Television…

With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World: Together at Home concert from their respective homes on different sides of the country. But, even with a joint "overwhelming gratitude" appearance by former First…

Black No More, a new musical by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter and American Crime creator John Ridley and The Roots’ Tarik Trotter (aka Black Thought), will launch The New Group’s 2020-2021 theater season at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Directed by Scott Elliott, with choreography by Bill T. Jones…

Over nine months after a racial discrimination and wrongful termination suit was filed against NBCUniversal and The Roots drummer Questlove by two former The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon crew members, the matter has been tossed out of the courts. An October 5 ruling by New York Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead…

UPDATE: Trevor Weldon Ingram has been arrested by the Austin Police Department with felony charges of making a terror threat. According to the Austin Chronicle, Ingram allegedly emailed Live Nation Music on Saturday afternoon saying that there was a bomb planted at near Fair Market in Austin, the event venue where The…

A year-round documentary series spotlighting two pop culture genres, horror and rap music, has been slated for 2018 by AMC. Called AMC Visionaries, the segments feature film director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) as EVP of the horror series, while Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roo…

Amazon has teamed with Grammy-winning hip-hop band The Roots and their Passyunk Productions to develop an animated children's series, South Street Sounds (working title), along with a live-action children's series. Both projects will be executive produced by The Roots' Tarik Trotter and Ahmir Thompson, their manager…

Is there a limit to how much NBCU promotion The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon fans will swallow? Fallon’s been doing his show this week from Universal Orlando Resort — already he’s made roller-coaster-phobic Kevin Hart ride one at the resort in exchange for plugging Hart’s new movie, Think Like A Man Too. Last…