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Monarch.(Sound recording review)
On a Monday evening in August of 1996, I went to see the Roots perform at the Knitting Factory, in downtown Manhattan. The band had come from Philadelphia for a three-night stand in support of their "illadelph halflife" album. At one point during the set, I noticed a tall woman with an enormous head wrap standing in the front row of the crowd. Toward the end of the evening, the group's bassist, Leonard (Hub) Hubbard, gestured for the woman to come onstage. The lead rapper, Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter, announced, "This is a friend of ours from Dallas, Texas. Her name is Erykah Badu."
"I was skeptical about her jumping onstage," the band's leader, Ahmir ...
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