“You know, back in high school in Philadelphia, when the Roots first started, me and [Roots rapper] Black Thought just used sit in lunch making our album covers, what they would look like. We would put the Def Jam logo on the bottom. That was pipe dream. Now, some 12, 13 years later, nine albums later, we’re putting out an album and there is gonna be a Def Jam logo imprint on the bottom of it.

“It’s a legacy, it’s historical,” ?uest continued. “Of course, for the Roots, the most important thing for us is providing grade-quality, hip-hop connoisseur music. So we’re very excited to have a new home. We’re gonna maximize on it. [The new album] is 15 songs, it’s gonna be our darkest, craziest record since [2002’s] Phrenology, [1996’s] Illadelph Halflife. This is a dirty, dirty record