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VIDEO: Dirty Projectors win over the Roots

Questlove on Dirty Projectors before their performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night: "based on their setup and sound....imma take a wild guess dirty projectors are from BK?"

Questlove on Dirty Projectors after their performance of "When the World Comes to an End," one of the songs from that Housing Works benefit thing they did with Bjork: "I will follow y'all to the ends of the earth."

That last remark wasn't a Tweet; it's what he said to them after they did another version "When the World Comes to an End" in the Roots' dressing room. Quest took video and posted it just so he could prove that they were really doing the alternating vocal thing as seamlessly as they did during the televised performance. Watch below. First Solange Knowles covers "Stillness Is the Move" and now this:

via Stereogum

Dirty Projectors are a music group led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dave Longstreth. Based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, with connections to the Port

The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning hip hop group based out...

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