"Man, the way we got the gig, Jimmy was always a huge music nerd,"
"He's a huge, huge Beastie Boys fan. That's the first band that took the Roots on tour. We learned the ropes from them."
"We would show up at a gig, and he'd be in our dressing room, like, 'Hey, hey, what's up? I was serious about what we talked about.' He was dedicated,"
"He showed up a bunch of times pitching it. This was around the time that we had just got done working on Dave Chappelle's show. It was so much uncertainty at that time that it sounded good to have a day job. But we didn't want it to mean the end of the Roots."
The Roots have served as Jimmy Fallon’s house band since his Late Night debut in 2009 and moved with him to The Tonight Show in 2014. Questlove and Black Thought co-founded the group and remained core members. Fallon persistently pursued the Roots for the band role, attending gigs and repeatedly pitching the idea. The group's early tour experience with the Beastie Boys shaped their approach. The Roots viewed the TV role as stable work amid uncertainty but resisted letting the engagement end their identity as a band. Redman regarded the hiring as a cultural win for hip-hop.
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