The Roots
Rising Down
Label: Def Jam
The Roots just continue to rock on, even if folks haven't come around to the band's hip-hop-with-live-instrumentation concept in as large of numbers as might be expected for a group that's this damn talented. Never a band to shy away from the topical, ?uestlove, Black Thought, and company take up issues of race, crime, and drug addiction on the group's tenth full-length. Rising Down is even getting released on the sixteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Rodney King riots. Guests on the album include long-time Roots collaborators Dice Raw and Common as well as Mos Def, Wale, and Chrisette Michele. One guest who you won't find here is Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump; the track Stump helped out on, "Birthday Girl," was conspicuously cut from the album's track list at the last minute.
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Band: http://www.theroots.com
Label: http://www.defjam.com
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| 1 | The Pow Wow | |
| 2 | Rising Down featuring Mos Def & Styles P | |
| 3 | Get Busy featuring Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi | |
| 4 | @ 15 | |
| 5 | 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction) | |
| 6 | Becoming Unwritten | |
| 7 | Criminal featuring Truck North & Saigon | |
| 8 | I Will Not Apologize featuring Porn & Dice Raw | |
| 9 | I Can't Help It featuring Malik B., Porn, Mercedes Martinez & Dice Raw | |
| 10 | Singing Man featuring Porn, Truck North & Dice Raw | |
| 11 | Unwritten featuring Mercedes Martinez | |
| 12 | Lost Desire featuring Malik B. & Talib Kweli | |
| 13 | The Show featuring Common & Dice Raw | |
| 14 | Rising Up featuring Wale & Chrisette Michele |
4 Responses
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I still don't have a copy of this. :( |
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3.0 out of 10
This record is a major disappointment. |
| Nick |
Wow Banger!?!?! |
I can't wait for the album. Its ashamed though that they had to cut Birthday Girl. The song even though I didnt particularly like it, seemed to be one they put alot of work into and it is ashamed that they decided to take it off the albums final cut. I do understand the reasoning though from their standpoint. I have the Roots second to Run-DMC as most significant hip-hop groups ever. Their work is amazing.