Black Thought says attempting to please everyone when it comes to The Roots Picnic lineups has become an impossible task, but pulling it off for 17 years and runnin', must mean he's doing something right!
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00:00Roots Picnic, people were kind of like, listen, this is like the new grown and sexy, because
00:07you know, Method Man was at Summer Jam, and you know, even though I got him and he said,
00:10hey, you know, I didn't mean it like that, but now people are kind of heralding you guys
00:13as like having the sophisticated kind of crowd.
00:18Is that going to be the trend where like you might be more selective in picking talent?
00:22I think, you know, it's always been like, you know, a really scrutinous sort of process
00:28for us.
00:30I think this year was the 17th annual, sorry, I think this year was the 17th annual picnic,
00:36you know, and we built it out organically, so it's something that, you know, just evolved
00:41in a really authentic way.
00:43But, you know, from day one, the idea has always been, you know, to sort of serve as
00:48all things to all people, a little something for, you know, everyone.
00:52So I mean, I mean, well, it's saying that you guys also had sexy regs.
00:57There was a little pushback, but in saying that, you're saying you got to have a little
01:01bit of both?
01:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03I mean, you know, sexy reg wasn't for everyone, neither was Babyface, but you know what I
01:07mean?
01:08Yeah, there's a demo that was definitely, you know, entertaining.
01:11Like for some people, Babyface was the highlight, you know what I mean?
01:14For my kids who are 17 to 18, they said the sexy reg performance was life changing, you
01:19know?
01:20So yeah, it's beautiful for both of those things to be valid and for that to be, you
01:25know, the picnic to be the space for them to coexist.
01:28I love that.
01:29Thank you so much.
01:30Oh, no, thank you.