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Article: Growing Their ROOTS; Acclaimed Hip Hop Group Set To Release New Album, 'The Tipping Point'
- Article from:
- Sacramento Observer
- Article date:
- July 7, 2004
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Sacramento Observer
07-07-2004
The year was 1987. The place was Philadelphia High School for the Creative
and Performing Arts -- second day of school. A student named Ahmir Thompson
walks into the principal's office seeking a lunch pass.
At the same time, a freshman named Tariq Trotter stumbles in, gripped by
school guards who caught him engaging in "extracurricular" activities with
a ballerina in the ladies bathroom.
Luckily, Thompson has designs larger than lunch, and Trotter's game is
wider than women. Thompson is a jazz drummer and Trotter is an MC, and
decides to create music together. They can't afford turntables,
microphones, or DJ equipment. But then again, they are secretly glad about
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