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The Roots co-founder Tariq Trotter on music and his friendship with Questlove : NPR

Nov 7, 2023 | exactrelease.org | Peter Maccoy |Tariq Trotter

Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Philly Fights CTariq Trotter — known by his stage name Black Thought — didn’t grow up thinking he’d become a musician. In fact, as a kid in North Philadelphia in the 1980s, the MC, a founding member of the rap group The Roots, wasn’t sure he’d even make it to adulthood. “Lots of us didn’t think we could see ourselves making it past 25 or 30, just because we didn’t know that many people who had,” Trotter says.
‘Music was there for me when I needed it,’ The Roots co-founder Tariq Trotter says

Nov 7, 2023 | newspub.live | Tariq Trotter

Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Philly Fights CTariq Trotter — known by his stage name Black Thought — didn’t grow up thinking he’d become a musician. In fact, as a kid in North Philadelphia in the 1980s, the MC, a founding member of the rap group The Roots, wasn’t sure he’d even make it to adulthood. “Lots of us didn’t think we could see ourselves making it past 25 or 30, just because we didn’t know that many people who had,” Trotter says.
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Oct 18, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Francesca Peacock. Pegasus, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63936-603-3Journalist Peacock debuts with an excellent biography of 17th-century English author and “proto-feminist” Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas). Born in 1623, Margaret grew up in a wealthy family whose Royalist sympathies during the English Civil War inspired her at age 20 to join Queen Henrietta Maria’s court as a lady-in-waiting.
The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution

Oct 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Ryan Grim. Holt, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-86907-4The celebrated coterie of congressional progressives—representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and their glamorous leader, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—has started a civil war in the Democratic Party, according to this insightful political study.
THE UPCYCLED SELF

Sep 5, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Tariq Trotter |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

An eloquently insightful autobiography from an iconic rapper and wordsmith. Renowned hip-hop artist Trotter, aka Black Thought, describes how his most important relationships affected his art and his life. At the age of 6, Trotter accidentally burned down his family’s home.