Tariq Trotter took his first meeting about making George S. Schuyler’s 1931 satiric Afrofuturist novel "Black No More" into a musical back in 2015.
The timing was fortuitous. Trotter sat down to talk about Schuyler’s Harlem Renaissance novel with writer John Ridley and director Scott Elliott right after seeing a brand-new show at the Public Theatre called "Hamilton."
“I was never a huge fan of musicals,” says Trotter, better known to most as Black Thought of The Roots, the Philadelphia hip-hop collective and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" house band.
