New Urban Media- The Roots ft. Bilal Tear the Roof Off Of National Public Radio with Music from the "DETROIT" Soundtrack

Bringing the house down: award winning vocalist Bilal guests with long time collaborators The Roots for NPR

From Oscar-Winning Director Katheryn Bigalow of THE HURT LOCKER and
ZERO DARK THIRTY,  "DETROIT"Premieres in Germany November 23, 2018

Earlier this November, America's grooviest hip-hop band The Roots rolled into NPR offices in Washington D.C. to perform a new song in their repertoire from the historical civil rights drama "Detroit" -  entitled "It Ain't Fair", featuring Grammy awarding winning vocalist (and fellow Philadelphia son) Bilal Oliver.  Before heading out to their Manhattan "day job" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Roots band members Questlove? and Black Thought hopped a four-hour train ride from New York to NPR headquarters in D.C. to perform on the radio station's critically acclaimed "Tiny Desk Concert" series - starting their mini-set with the funky instrumental "Gimme Some More" & gliding right into a heart-gripping performance with Bilal.  The song "It Ain't Fair" appears on the soundtrack for the August-released film "Detroit", a terrifying cinematic account of the civil unrest which rocked the city of Detroit in the summer of 1967.  The Tiny Desk Concert performance also features trombonist Jeff Bradshaw & his horn section Brass Heaven, and Black Thought reliably lends his top notch MC skills to the thought-provoking musical treatise that leaves the whole of NPR erupting in applause, and NUY 40+ in awe (this one might remind you of 70s social commentary by Curtis Mayfield with a hint of Prince, folks). Enjoy...