On this day in Hip Hop history, The Roots released their fourth studio album, Things Fall Apart. Widely regarded as the group’s breakthrough project, the album elevated them to mainstream ...

Plus: Photographs of labor and solidarity at I.C.P., the Roots bring jazz rap to the Blue Note, the unstoppable Twyla Tharp, ...

February 2025 marks 26 years since the release of The Roots’ 1999 studio album, Things Fall Apart.That year also saw the launch of Okayplayer.com.Initially conceived as an online home for The ...

A watershed moment in hip-hop, ‘Things Fall Apart’ combined the raw energy of The Roots’ live shows with peerless production to birth a classic album. The album features stunning production ...

When life falls apart, it can feel terrifying—but it also creates space for growth, new possibilities, and deeper ...

Now we’re approaching the spring gardening season and watching the first of this year’s bulbs peaking through the soil, there ...

It is safe to say that everybody likes snapdragons. Children appreciate your making puppets out of them. Pinch the ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of married actors Kristen Bell ... BELL: To hear those sounds fall out of me. And so that, that started with me mimicking voices on the radio and from television.

FRIENDS or foes? Neither can decide! At best it’s peculiar, at worst, vague and a sordid affair. Both, until recently, ...

I never cease to marvel at plants that look fresh and clean despite a minimum amount of water, if any, needed for their care.

You have to know what you’re looking at to tell them apart morphologically ... but they are keeping track of sap flow in the roots. Fall comes, the trees send all of their nutrients to their ...