Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Roots Picnic Lineup: Naughty By Nature, Macklemore, Solange, DJ Premier, Trinidad James Identity Ink PreSale

June 1 The 6th Annual Roots Picnic

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Lineup 

The Roots
Gary Clark, Jr.
Macklemore
Ryan Lewis
Grimes
Naughty By Nature
Araabmuzik
DJ Premier
Solange
Trinidad James
Gaslamp Killer
Hit Boy
How To Dress Well
Joey Bada$$
Robert Glasper
Sonnymoon
Lushlife

The roster of artists for the 6th Annual Roots Picnic Festival, taking place June 1 at Festival Pier at Penns Landing in Philadelphia, has been announced.

This year, the lineup includes headliners and festival organizers The Roots backing Naughty By Nature for a full set. Performers during the event include Grimes, Gary Clark Jr., Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Solange Knowles, Joey Bada$$, How to Dress Well, Sonnymoon, Jennah Bell, Trinidad Jame$, Robert Glasper, Lushlife, DJ Premier, Hit-Boy, The Gaslamp Killer and araabMUZIK.

Shawn Gee, executive producer of the Roots Picnic who co-manages the group with Richard Nichols, explains that event organizers including Questlove and Black Thought spent months curating a lineup with promoter Live Nation. Like with previous years, which has featured The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley and Rakim, Gee says that the intention is to offer a diverse group of artists and expose fresh talent.

"We feel this is probably our most balanced year," says Gee, who is also president of music and entertainment at SEFG and serves as a touring consultant for the Blueprint Group. "From an artist's perspective, people understand that the talent pool is handpicked by ?uestlove and the team. They want to play, because they understand what The Roots stand for and what we've built for the past five years."

"The hardest thing is catching acts that are just getting buzz so you can get them on the cusp," Questlove told Billboard. "I thought instantly that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were going to be poppin. And just on a hunch, I was like, 'Alright.' We hit them and they agreed. Sure enough, after the album came out, they just became unstoppable."

Questlove uses the relationships he's buit on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to handpick acts. "Now that we've worked at 'Fallon,' it's more sweet than it's ever been," he said. "You have to keep in mind that the picnic started three years before we started with Jimmy Fallon. So the process in the beginning was really tough because we had to go through agents and managers. Once I realized that the real advantage of working at Fallon kind of cut the red tape, it allowed us to deal with the artists one-on-one."

Last year, the festival was spread out over two days, touting performances from Wale, De La Soul, Rakim, Major Lazer, Danny Brown and more. Instead of taking up a full weekend, Gee says that this year's consolidation to one day is the only change that attendees can expect from the concert, which will feature its signature DJ tent as well as a main stage.

"Last year was very successful based on the talent we were able to go after," says Gee. "Every year, it all starts with the talent. When we laid out the talent list, we thought it would be more effective to focus on one day and really balancing out one day versus stretching out for two days based off of the talent that we wanted to go after this year." 

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 http://www.billboard.com/column/the-juice/roots-picnic-lineup-naughty-by-nature-macklemore-1008106162.story?utm_source=most_recent#/column/the-juice/roots-picnic-lineup-naughty-by-nature-macklemore-1008106162.story?utm_source=most_recent

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Mitchell & Ness x K.R.I.T. Snapback & Crewneck Collaboration K.R.I.T. will be in attendance



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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The 100 Sexiest Women of the 21st Century" Beyonce

Beyonce is still bootylicious after baby!

The 31-year-old singer puts her insane body on display for the February issue of GQ -- gracing the cover in a very revealing crop-top and what looks like a leopard print thong.

Hard to believe she looks like this one year after giving birth to Blue Ivy, who was born a year ago this past Monday.

The magazine is celebrating "The 100 Sexiest Women of the 21st Century" and they clearly couldn't have picked a hotter cover star.

And this is just a teaser. GQ promises "better (and hotter)" from Beyonce next Tuesday, when they release the rest of the photo shoot and her full interview.

Bey is off to a great start to 2013. Earlier today it was announced she'll be performing at Barack Obama's inauguration later this month, she's playing the Super Bowl and has her own HBO documentary airing in February.



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