Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve noticed that much of the Eastern seaboard has been covered in snow. Still, D.C. fans last night at the 9:30 Club didn’t care and began tweeting drummer of The Roots, Questlove, messages saying:
Well, Questlove responded and he kind of went in:
On Tuesday 28th December 2010, @questlove said:
RT: catirah “I’m pissed at @questlove and the @tariqtrotter for pulling a lauryn hill last night. I had to leave and can’t get my $ back or go tonight.”
pulling a lauryn hill.
let’s examine that:
lauryn hill like shoveling myself out of a foot (tariq had 3 feet) of snow?
lauryn hill like tour bus breaking down mid trek?
or lauryn hill like waiting at amtrak for 3 hours?
or lauryn hill like exhausting EVERY outlet until all 8 Roots had to troop down 95 flintstone bald foot style and independent of each other?
lauryn hill like me taking one for the team and djing from 7pm for 3 and a half hours because i knew that people would be on their feet for 4 hours BEFORE the show started?
lauryn hill like me on a consistent basis TWEETING that due to a horrible snow storm that we been trying to escape since 12pm (philly is just under 2 hours from dc, which should explain alot) that the show would be delayed?
lauryn hill like me announcing every 30 mins the status of the missing roots members struggling to get to the venue?
lauryn hill like us putting on a 2+ hour show despite the fact we had spent the last 13 hours in hell without shower/rest/food/energy trying to get to a show any other person woulda cancelled?
lauryn hill is your term for me and tariq being inconsiderate assholes because an act of god prevented us from being onstage when we should have been.
well in front of the whole twitter community. let me be the first to apologize for letting you down. next time i promise to walk on the amtrak tracks should we be put in that position.
matter of fact DC…..i offer extended apologies for disappointing you.
Oh, aight.
The band did manage to perform with Questlove acting as DJ to get the crowd warmed up. By 9:30 p.m., Black Thought popped out onstage doing a freestyle. The Roots also showed a lot of love to local artists including Wale, Skillz and Wayna who sung Erykah Badu‘s part on “You Got Me”.
No one cares about his whining. First of all Philly is 3 hours away. You see there’s snow, know in advance there’s Amtrak delays, you either reschedule the show or travel a day in advance.
by A