Tuesday August 12th, The Clipse will be performing at The Highline Ballroom. illRoots has two tickets to giveaway to the first person who can answer this trivia question correctly:

CONTEST OVER

Email your answer to Contact@illRoots.com.
Many thanks go out to John Seroff for setting this whole thing up as well.

Click here for more information on the concert event »

With Wale & Chrisette Michelle.

PREVIOUSLY: The Roots - Rising Up [Video]

With the greatness of Paisley Fontaine better known as Ghostface Killah we want to see you, our family tree, remix the cover of Ghostface’s “The Big Doe Rehab”. More after the jump…

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EDIT: Entry has ended. Congratulations to those who won. Please check your email.

The first FIVE people to e-mail contact[at]illroots.com with the correct answer to this question will receive a Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams t-shirt and a copy of the official 8 Diagrams mixtape.
Please subject your email “WUTANG”.
Good luck!

Who was the last member to join the Wu-Tang Clan?

Yo!
Help PDA & His Army of DJ’s get nominated for the 2008 Justo awards.
It only takes two minutes to register and nominate at TheMixtapeAwardsOnline.com.
We’re going for best mash-up, so vote ‘PDA - Kanye vs. Fall Out Boy’ in that category.
Thanks again!

In case you missed it, you can listen to the tape over at DatPiff.

We got a chance to catch up with ‘The Silver Screen DJ’ himself DJ SWB. Read the interview inside.

We also are giving away three copies of his new street certified Mixtape DVD ‘The Godfathers’. Contest info inside as well.
EDIT:
Contest is over. All 3 DVD’s have been won.
We will have a new contest next week though, so get ready!

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No we havent partnered with iTunes or Apple. They wanted to but we said no. They tried to bribe us with 5 free iTunes songs so we said maybe and then dipped. 5 dollars worth of iTunes credit to whoever can name which MF DOOM beat has a Michael McDonald sample first.

CLOSED
SK93 WON

Were having our first contest here at illRoots, and its over at our forum.
Make sure you sign up if you havn’t, and peep the thread here for more info.

Whoever can reffer the most people to the boards by April, 15th 2007 will win a copy of Redman’s ‘Red Gone Wild’ and J Dilla’s ‘Ruff Draft’.