{"id":64556,"date":"2013-04-18T08:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=64556"},"modified":"2013-04-16T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:57:05","slug":"64556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/64556\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots TV (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLj0ZLFrfso\" height=\"344\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So we had all these Roots TV episodes lying around in a shoebox (dunks, natch) full of VHS tapes. If you were born in this millenium Roots TV was a documentary series that followed The Legendary Roots Crew on their globetrotting grind; rocking stages from Japan to Glastonbury, signing autographs and bringing the funk to pre-Gryffindor tour busses. Today we bring you episodes 1 through 4, originally released as a single VHS tape in 1998. 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