#Philadelphia has honored long-running hometown hip-hop act the Roots by naming a stretch of a city street “Avenue of the Roots.” The sign on the stretch of East Passyunk Avenue between South Street and Bainbridge Streets, near where the group got their start, received one of the city’s distinctive red footnotes, according to the Philadelphia Tribune. “They had first started there on Passyunk and South Street, that’s where they would go and do their singing at night,” said Councilman Mark Squilla, who introduced the resolution to rename the street on Thursday at City Council, according to the Trib. “Philadelphia is still a land of music and arts and culture, and the more we bring attention to it, the better we are.”Ya The sign was unveiled earlier than expected, on Friday morning, to the apparent surprise of drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who founded the group with rapper Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter in 1987. #theroots #streetnaming @questlove @blackthought @theroots 🥂 (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B89XkyAJi5d/?igshid=137zoqa6ibv90
