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Article: CONCERT REVIEW: The Roots rock Alumni
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- University Wire
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- May 12, 2005
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Tara Lynch
University Wire
05-12-2005
(The Mirror) (U-WIRE) FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- When Black Thought, the rapper for the Roots, swaggered onto Fairfield's stage last Friday night, he made his mission clear: he wanted to own the crowd.
"You are now rocking with the best! You are about to hear the sound of the legendary Roots crew," he yelled into the microphone before bursting into rhyme and opening the show with the song "Boom!"
The Roots played an almost two-hour-long set to a crowd of about 1,300 people in Alumni Hall, which included a combination of songs from several of their newer albums as well as almost a dozen covers.
"I had never actually seen the Roots perform live before, but I ...
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