Watch Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek Perform With the Roots on "Jimmy Fallon"

In the underground rap landscape, Talib Kweli and the Roots are old allies; I saw Kweli guest at a Roots show in Central Park back in 2000. So when Reflection Eternal, Kweli's duo with producer Hi-Tek, rolled through "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night, house band the Roots backed them up. Reflection Eternal performed the Revolutions Per Minute standout "Ballad of the Black Gold". And if Kweli felt weird rapping on a song that decries oil-based militarism to a studio audience featuring...

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