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Roots Picnic 2024 Unites Old School and New With Lil Wayne, Shaboozey, Andre 3000, Sexyy Red and More

The Roots' Picnic in Philadelphia brought its usual stellar lineup, with Lil Wayne, Sexyy Red, Shaboozey, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Method Man and more.

Los Angeles will soon get a taste of Philly pride when Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life — featuring Queen Latifah, the Pharcyde, Jungle Brothers and more — hits the Hollywood Bowl on June 29. Along with gorgeous instrumentals such as “The Storm Shall Pass,” Blackstone welcomed gospel giant Tasha Cobbs Leonard to sing out loud her praises of God on the squelchy churchy “Burdens Down,” before hosting Fantasia Barrino for several songs. But Babyface closed out the weekend with typical suavete: The over-50s in the crowd swooned to his elastic crooning on “Soon as I Get Home” and “For the Cool in You,” but he brought the house down with hits he’d written for other artists, such as the Whispers (“Two Occasions,” “Rock Steady”), Bobby Brown (“Don’t Be Cruel,” “Every Little Step”) and the Philly-favored Boyz II Men cover “End of the Road.”

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