James Brown singing a version of the spiritual D'Angelo mentions singing backstage before shows, cause I'm a hunter.

The Notorious B.I.G. was not happy with The Roots after they released the video for “What They Do”. He felt that The Roots were taking a direct jab at his work and commented in The Source that he had been disrespected by them. In the early years of their career, The Roots were relatively unknown, but they had one very famous supporter in The Notorious B.I.G. He was a huge fan of the band and went out of his way to support them whenever he could. Questlove said, “Biggie was like our biggest champion. When he did Ego Trip magazine he championed us and Jeru higher than anyone. He put Brooklyn onto The Roots.” However, things took a sour turn when The Roots released the video for their song “What They Do.” The video was a sarcastic take on the rise of champagne culture and the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Questlove said that while they didn’t intend to directly reference someone’s video, they ended up making a video that was similar in style to Biggie’s “One More Chance.” “We told the director we don’t want to do a direct reference to someone’s video,” Questlove said. “We just talking about the impending lurking of this new — at the time it seemed like the new apartheid — the have-nots versus the haves. Based on the way the set looked, we didn’t know we were doing a direct reference to ‘One More Chance.’ So, when we saw the final cut, they showed it to us and I was like ‘Oh, damn.’ But it was too late. When The Source reached out to Questlove for a comment, he offered instead to write an op-ed fully explaining himself. However, the next day, Biggie was k*lled. Questlove: I said, let me do an op-ed. What I wanted to do was kind of explain the dangers, New York was kind of becoming divided by the haves and the have-nots and I wrote this beautiful manifesto. I faxed it to The Source, and literally, I called The Source. It took me 10 hours to do it. It was great. Called The Source and said ‘Okay, I’m ready to send the response-to-Biggie op-ed.’ And they’re like ‘Oh God, you didn’t hear what happened did you?’ And I was like ‘What are you talking about?’ They said ‘Biggie’s dead.’ And that k*lled me. I never made it right.”

My birthday present will arrive seven days early. CAN'T WAIT!!!

Congrats to @clipse on their 5 GRAMMY nominations

Midnight Mauraders, The Chronic, the Purple Tape and 3 Feet High are way too low.

Charlie Sheen lent Chris Tucker his Ferrari… and almost FORGOT 😭🔥 ALL THE SMOKE with the Hollywood legend is out now on YouTube 💨

These are magical little experiments that make kids fall in love with science 😍 ✨️ 👇

Working on a few.

This will never stop being funny.

Gotta add Jay Pharoah too.

Hear me out: A Verzuz match, but it’s just Jamie and Godfrey doing celebrity impressions.

👀 Aaron Rodger’s on @ShedeurSanders being doubted about being able to play at the FBS level because he came from a HBCU . Shedeur had 510 yards game 1 with Colorado. The league knows he can play , they are just hoping that we somehow forget . #IRemember

Gerald "Prince" Miller for Denim Tears (2025)

This was Ike Turner and Phil Spector's dream. Take that as you will.

officially official 🥹🥹🥹🥹 thank you to everyone who helped i’m gonna cry

I was there. House of Blues. July 4th 1996.