U.S. stocks were down Friday morning, with the S&P 500 shedding 0.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 500 points, or 1.1%, while the Nasdaq dipped 1.1% at around 12:50 p.m. in New York.

Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, frontman for The Roots, goes wherever the wind takes him when he’s visiting his hometown ...