DX: Is there any contemplation at all though that your guys major-label days may be coming to an end, just with the way that the business is going now?
?uest: We’re absolutely prepared for it. If it is gonna come to that, we’re ready.

DX: And I guess just [with] the final question I wanna tie everything back together, Byron Crawford thinks you guys should call it a day, so how long before The Roots pull a Toni Braxton and head off to Vegas to play out those remaining years?
?uest: We’ve gotten offers already. Atlantic City’s offered us like eight months residencies. Hard Rock Café was like, “Yeah man, it’d be great [for] the first resident Hip Hop show [to be] you guys.” But you know, that’s like…

DX: What’s the barrier to just ya know…
?uest: What’s holding us back from doing that?

DX: I mean, just maybe doing a shorter stint, setting that precedent of being the first Hip Hop act to do that.
?uest: Because we enjoy being the first Hip Hop act everywhere else in the world that [no other acts] go to. We’re trying to make Antarctica this year. We hit some spots over in Southeast Asia that Hip Hop’s never gone to before. We’re gonna hit Russia, and a lot of places in the Czech Republic that haven’t been touched before. There’s a whole slew of [places] that haven’t been touched yet.

DX: But you don’t have a timetable on when you just wanna slow it down and limit it to just that one gig?
?uest: When the demand for The Roots actually stops, that’s when we’ll stop. But contrary to what [Byron] says, my tax [bracket] goes up every year.

Additional Reporting by Aliya Ewing.