Daily News | Review: Roots Picnic’s return is a triumph, with Mary J. Blige and more
The Roots Picnic made a triumphant return on Saturday, with the Philadelphia hip-hop band drawing its biggest crowd ever as it came back to the Mann Center after a two-year absence for the first of back-to-back daylong celebrations of Black music and culture in Fairmount Park.
But the Roots rapper also displayed his verbal and rhythmic mastery earlier during a Black Thought Live Mixtape seqment which was the pure hip-hop highlight of the day, featuring rat-a-tat musical repartee with rappers Rick Ross and Benny the Butcher, plus surprise guest Pharoahe Monche. Longtime visitors to the Mann might wonder how 30,000 people — a number expected to be matched on Sunday when Summer Walker, Wizkid, Kamasi Washington, Tierra Whack and DJ Jazzy Jeff and Rakim are among the performers — could possibly fit into a venue whose TD Pavilion holds less than half that number.By expanding the venue so it’s tripled in size, that’s how.
It was there that Tribbett played with his 16-piece, high-energy ensemble. The Grammy-winning bandleader is a good example of what Roots manager Shawn Gee says isAlong with Kirk Franklin, who was scheduled for Sunday, there is more praise music at this year’s Roots Picnic than ever before, and the crowd responded in boisterous fashion to Tribbett’s message. He didn’t mention gun violence specifically, but spoke of “a lot of craziness going on.
Along with the Picnic’s growth came growing pains. As the day wore on, it became apparent that sets weren’t starting at either the times listed on the Roots Picnic Instagram or the festival app.
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