The Roots will headline a SummerStage show from "the heart of the city" -- Central Park -- on Friday night in NYC. For Roots rapper Black Thought, the pastoral pleasure of playing SummerStage in ...

Fish Scales, one of the founding members of Nappy Roots, is recovering from injuries sustained during a Wednesday night ambush. The Atlanta Police Department confirmed the incident took place at ...

A Nappy Roots rapper was robbed at gunpoint outside his Atlanta brewery Wednesday, police and the group said. Rapper Fish Scales, whose real name is Melvin Adams, was leaving Atlantucky Brewery, ...

For early fans of the Philadelphia-born rap group The Roots, it might seem impossible to believe just how well-known and popular the band has become. Led by Questlove and Black Thought, The Roots are ...

While The Roots have provided laughs via their walk-on music, Black Thought has taken notes when called into action elsewhere on the show. Rap music is full of comedians, from the clownish rhymes of ...

PHILADELPHIA — Mars Co-Op, the Philadelphia rapper known for the standout verse he contributed to the Roots’ song “Clones” from 1996, has died. His death last week was confirmed on Sunday by Dice Raw, ...