The Roots

Roots drummer ?uestlove was good friends with Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011. The two used to Skype back and forth sharing tidbits about music. ?uestlove told MSN that he had "never met a woman that knowledgeable about music."

The group signed with Geffen Records in 1993 but left the label in 2005 on bad terms, with the band claiming they felt restricted. After leaving Geffen, The Roots took matters into their own hands and recorded themselves almost entirely using Apple's Garageband software. Game Theory, the resulting album, was released by their new label, Def Jam, in 2006. The album landed The Roots a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.

Unknown to many fans, the person in the photo on the cover of The Roots' 2004 album The Tipping Point is Malcolm X. The picture was taken when he was only 18 years old before his conversion to Islam in prison. The iTunes version of the album features The Roots' MC Black Thought in the same pose in place of Malcolm X.