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Biography

The Roots are a hip hop band.

Born

?/?/1989, Philadelphia, PA

Birth Name

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (1)

Role
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
  House Band
  - S 3: Ep 2371 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 05/15/2012
    5/15/12
  - S 3: Ep 1702 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 02/01/2012
    2/1/12
  - S 3: Ep 807 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 08/10/2011
    8/10/11
  - S 3: Ep 784 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 08/05/2011
    8/5/11
  - S 3: Ep 760 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 08/02/2011
    8/2/11
  - + 217 More Credits
Recurring Role (1)

Role
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guests
  - S 15: Ep 104 Show #2911
    4/28/08
  - S 6: Ep 115 Show #1180
    3/2/99
Guest Star (18)

Role
- Dancing With The Stars
  Performer
  - S 11: Ep 16 Episode 1108A
    11/9/10
- The Colbert Report
  Themselves
  - S 4: Ep 49 Michelle Obama
    4/15/08
- VH1's Top 20 Countdown
  ?ueslove (Himself)
  - S 6: Ep 40 October 6, 2007
    10/6/07
- I'm From Rolling Stone
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 3 Bi-polar Express
    1/21/07
- VH1's Top 20 Countdown
  Black Thought (Himself)
  - S 5: Ep 17 October 14, 2006
    10/14/06
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  Guest
  - S 15: Ep 53 Jessica Simpson; D.L. Hughley; The Roots
    9/7/06
  - S 11: Ep 169 Show #2443
    3/4/03
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
  Musical Guests
  - S 4: Ep 130 Lauren Holly, Vinny Parco, The Roots
    9/5/06
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guests
  - S 14: Ep 2 Show #2611
    8/29/06
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
  Musical guest
  - S 1: Ep 66 5/10/04
    5/10/04
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 11: Ep 129 Show #2160
    4/30/04
  - S 10: Ep 82 Show #1945
    2/4/03
- Saturday Night Live
  Themselves
  - S 29: Ep 16 Donald Trump/Toots and the Maytals
    4/3/04
  - S 24: Ep 13 Brendan Fraser/Busta Rhymes feat. The Roots
    2/13/99
- Chappelle's Show
  Musical Guest
  - S 1: Ep 9 Ep. #109
    3/19/03
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Musical Guest
  - S 5: Ep 147 Paula Abdul, Louis Mandylor, Bruce Vilanch, and The Roots
    3/17/03
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  Guest
  - S 10: Ep 43 Lisa Kudrow, Dondre T. Whitfield, The Roots
    11/29/02
- $2 Bill
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Roots
    7/2/02
- Last Call with Carson Daly
  Themselves - Musical Guest
  - S 1: Ep 33 Forest Whitaker, The Roots
    3/26/02
- Soul Train
  Guests
  - S 29: Ep 23 Montell Jordan/ The Roots/ Lil' Zane
    3/4/00
- Glastonbury
  Themselves (Jazzworld Stage)
  - S 1: Ep 28 Glastonbury 1998
    1/1/98
Additional Music (1)

Role
- UFC Primetime
  Additional Music
  - S 3: Ep 2 Episode 2
    5/19/10

The Roots News

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Jimmy Fallon's talk-show band is a shocker

By Tim Surette, Nov 18, 2008

Behind every great talk-show host is a great house band. Letterman has Paul Schaffer, Carson had Doc Severson, and Conan O'Brien has Max Weinberg. Former Saturday Night Live rubber-faced man Jimmy Fallon will be joining the late-night talk-show ranks next… read more

Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia
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- The Roots were nominated for Outstanding Duo or Group in the 2005 NAACP awards.
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- The Roots were nominated for a MTV2 award for "The Seed 2.0" in 2003.
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- The Roots were nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for "Star;" nominated for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for "Don't Say Nuthin'." at the 2004 Grammy's.
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Quotes
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- The Roots: Behold, my mental piece could shatter your peace, to pieces, pieces and portions of rhythmic distortion relax me The echos reverb and feedback of reality disturb my peace forcing me to retreat, to the below beneath.
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- The Roots: Of life I find that the strife behind, that pushes and pulls and pulls and pushes me into all of the bullsh*t that I experience from day to day is the reason.. for my search, or journey, or struggle to find.. the broken pieces of the sign that combine, to form the crooked line that we call.. peace y'all.
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- The Roots: Tell me what you would do with no phone or pagers, no Kinko's, no Fed Ex and no ATM's.
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