Black Thought and Questlove Partner With Disney Jr. For Animated Series (Image: Disney) Disney is going hip-hop! The hip-hop band known as The Roots is collaborating with Disney Junior for a new animated-short series that will be focusing on race, racism, and social justice. The animated series is titled, “Rise Up, Sing Out.” The Roots group members, Ahmir Khalib Thompson, who is better known as the drummer and DJ Questlove, and Tariq Trotter, the lead lyricist, and wordsmith, who goes by Black Thought have teamed up with Disney Junior in collaboration with Academy Award®-Winning Lion Forge Animation. In a joint statement, Questlove and Black Thought said, “It is an honor to work with the Disney Junior team to help create a series of shorts that will empower and uplift the future generations in the way we know best, through music. We hope these shorts will encourage the young audience to recognize and celebrate our differences as human beings while learning the tools to navigate real-world issues of racial injustice.”