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This is dope, Dj Heat put together a lil mixtape compilation of appearances on late night with the roots. Tracklist and download are right after the jump off. Read more…

The Presence of Greatness.

Last week I flew out to New York to sit in with The Legendary Roots Crew on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I’m a huge fan of these dudes. Questlove is one of the greatest producers/band leaders of all time, Black Thought is among the greatest MC’s and The Roots are in my top 10 most influential Hip Hop groups. -Look for an article on my top 10 later this week.- We played “The Preacher” and “Tight Rope” along with a few freestyle pieces. It’s a shame that most of what we did was during the commercial breaks but here’s the entire episode from last Tuesday.

Poppin’ bottles with Jimmy and The Roots.

Hit the jump for footage of Brother Ali at OKP’s ‘09 Holiday Jammy.

Read more about that night on his blog.

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Sandwiches are the sets they play before and after commercial breaks on Late Night.

In honor of making 1000 of those original compositions, Questlove liberated 22 of them on twitter and All The Way Live compiled it into an EP.

Tracklist & download after the jump.

Gotta love the roots, click the image at top for the full size 3000×3000 shot.

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I heard this was a pretty entertaining interview.

Walk on music: “Money, Power, Respect.”

Hit the jump to see Curtis perform with The Roots.

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