Malik B, who has died at age 47, was the quiet heart of the Roots on their first four albums in the Nineties
Malik B of the Roots during the first week of recording 'Do You Want More?!!!??!' at Sigma Studios in Philadelphia, December 1993.were the pride of Philadelphia’s underground hip-hop scene. The quiet heart of that version of the Roots — an unforgettable part of the lineup that put them on the map, won countless devoted fans, and enabled all the success to come — was Malik B, whoMalik wasn’t the flashiest verbal technician in the Roots; that was always Tariq Trotter, a.k.a.
He and Black Thought had an easygoing bond on those early Roots albums, trading verses with an obvious affection for each other. “Mellow My Man,” one of the smoothest grooves from the Roots’ 1995 major-label debut,, begins with an invocation of their friendship: “Yes, the Roots laying back, relaxin’/Cooling out with my man, Malik B, we call him Slaxon,” Black Thought raps.
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