Parsing The Roots Picnic
Two days of ascendant Black music, in celebration and in conflict
“This ain’t for the conscious; this is for the mud-made monsters…”
Pusha T voiced this dedication (growled it, gutter-triumphal) on Sunday afternoon in Fairmount Park, Day 2 of The Roots Picnic. It’s a lyric from “The Games We Play,” off his excellent 2018 album Daytona. Of al…
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