The Roots feat. Bilal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Oct. 30, 2017, Abby O Neill Can you believe it Yes, those are The Roots packed behind the Tiny Desk. Black Thought, Questlove and the crew carved out a few hours in their hectic Tonight Show schedule to visit NPR headquarters in Washington D. C. Why travel four hours for a 12minute concert when you own the latenight airwaves The answer can be found in the lyrics to The Roots new song, It Ain t Armed with the incredible vocalist Bilal, The Roots performed the signature track from Detroit, a film about the race riots in 1967. It Ain t Fair glares unflinchingly, takes a knee and raises a fist against the societal construct that has systematically denied equality of experience to those presumed inferior, to quote one of Bilal s verses. And it achieves all this while covering its heart with its right hand. This reflective hymn tenderly yanks your heart strings and offers a window into the ethos of those who would like to stand for the flag but cannot in good principle, lest these same evils co