The Black Phish Still Nailing Cool Covers

You really gotta love The Roots. I must admit I’m not a huge fan of most of the hip hop genre in general, but how can you go wrong with a group of talented artists that actually play their own instruments, write great songs and cover all subsections of music extremely fucking well? You can’t, methinks.

In Hidden Track’s infancy, we made a fairly big deal of The Roots’ masterful cover of the Lucious Bobby Dylan’s Masters of War at the Avery Fisher Hall tribute back in October. Today we’re proud to present another excellent, shining example of emulation and advancement from The Roots, this time on U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love) as a tribute to Bono at the NAACP Awards this weekend.

Many thanks to my good buddy J-Cantor, whose constant monitoring of the Okayplayer.com board for all things Roots-related has come in handy again.