The one thing about The Roots that I’ve respected, they’ve reached that point in their careers where record sales does not have any say in their creative output and hence the music is still great and ageless. The legendary crew’s thirteenth album drops soon (December 6th is the date), and you can get an idea of the whole thing below.
1. The Un
2. Sleep
3. Make My f. Big K.R.I.T.
4. One Time f. Phonte & Dice Raw
5. Kool On f. P.O.R.N.
6. The Other Side
7. Stomp f. P.O.R.N.
8. Lighthouse
9. I Remember
10. Tip The Scale
11. Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou)
12. Possibility
13. Will To Power
14. Finality
AH, PHONTE AGAIN, MY NIGGA.
Going to be sick. New tigallo new tigallo new tigallo.
No one other than you rap nerds on the interent blogs care about the roots. Its all about Take Care which drops next week, its a dope album fuck this BORING SHIT. 1
No one other than you rap nerds on the Internet blogs care about the roots. Its all about Take Care which drops next week, its a dope album fuck this BORING SHIT. 1
Haha shut the fuck up OVOXO, its people like you that make your favourite artists look bad. For the record, I love the new Drake album and Weeknd is my favourite new artist, but The Roots are my favourite artist ever. Drake would probably correct you himself if he saw that comment.
@maccaveli honestly i tried to give the roots a listen before but their shit is a SNORFEST to me, it gets boring real wuick. noone listen to roots any more bruh its 2011 bout to be 2k12
^it’s dumb ignorant fucks like u that give hip hop a bad name the roots are fucking legends
lol at the drake fan that shit is most boring depressing shit gtfo u fag
got cut urself listening to drake fag
restpect the roots
drake = borefest and girl music
@OVOXO
It’s grown man music, it’s probably not for you if you’re still a teenager or younger. I’m not trying to offend you but that’s just what it is
agree with @Chicago right there, but then I am a teenager myself and all I need in my music is The Roots, The Foreign Exchange, and OutKast, not any of that shit on the radio nowadays…
agree with @Chicago right there, but then I am a teenager myself and all I need in my music is The Roots, The Foreign Exchange, and OutKast, not any of that shit on the radio nowadays… but to the point, I really can’t wait till this drops, this is what you call expanding your horizons.
Drake can be dope, but ever just think ur to fucking stupid to enjoy mature music like the Roots?
You may not appreciate the roots but you have to respect them. This hip hop is critically acclaimed and probably way too complex for you to ever truly grasp
@OVOXO The Roots are not only a great rap group, but their band production, drumming arrangements and jazz roots make them next level. I’m guessing that you’re in the younger generation, but so am I, and you should respect them for what they’ve done.
And also, stop fucking using OVOXO. I like Drake/The Weeknd too and I bet that they appreciate a group like The Roots, especially if Phonte is collaborating. You’re just giving it a bad and ignorant name.
Even if you dont like the roots you have to admit that they have the tightest instrumentals out there
So hyped for this album! I love me some new Roots
lol @ the guy who said their critically acclaimed and the kid who said i don’t listen to the radio critics are always like 40year white guys they shouldnt have a bearing on what you listen to and just cuz u dont listen to radio dont make u kool smh
Can’t wait for this album.
^ why don’t you spell “kool” with a “c” I mean it is not like it makes it any easier to use a “k” and it definitely makes you sound like a 12 year old girl.
LOL @ THE SHITSTORM OVOXO caused
Phonte!
The Roots have created their own genre within hip hop. There is nobody else out there like them, which is what makes them so great. Cannot wait for this album. So pumped. Click my name to check out my blog if you are looking for another source for new music. Thanks.
Lmao at this entire comment section.
Pac Div album is one of the illest of the year by the wsy.
i listen to drake and the roots. i listen to J…ay – Z and J…ay Electronica. I actually listen to bluegrass, jazz, r&b, and every other genre. i got flavor and taste. unlike most one minded peoples on here that come in and hate. but lets save this for a another day.lol
i thought they were always at a point were record sales didn’t matter.
DOPE!
Meka, could you also post Locksmith’s new video?
GREAT LIL WAYNE WORDPLAY-
3peat: “i dont give a motherfuck, get your baby kidnapped, and your baby MOTHERFUCKED(baby mother)”
“if not now than never, dont you ever fix your lips unless you’re about to suck my dick, bitch swallow my words, taste my thoughts, and if its too nasty spit it back at me”
“i just do this shit for my click(clique) like adam sandler, i control hip hop and imma keep it on my channel..watch me bitch watch me bitch watch me, but they cannot see me”
“young money baby, yeah we right here, imma make sure we BALL(ball up and cry/ be rich) til we fall like tears”
Phone Home: “im used to promethazine in 2 cups, im screwed up(messed up/dj screw)”
“no brake(no taking breaks) lights on my car-rear(CAREER)”
Comfortable: “bedroom in the bank, baby we safe(bank safe)”
“im through talking so imma let you ‘face(baby face the singer on the hook/let her face the facts)”
“i will never 1, 2, 3, forget(4 get)”
Tie My Hands: “they talked that freedom at us
and didnt even leave a ladder(for the katrina flood)”
“my whole city’s under water, some people still floating(still in the water/some still getting by)”
Shoot Me Down: “i aint kinda hot im sauna, i sweat money, and the bank is my shower, and that pistol is my towel, so stop sweating me coward”
“i would die for ours, ride for hours(ours), supply the flowers(drugs/funeral flowers)”
“d-boys are the only alphabet boys i know(not DEA/or FBI)”
“my picture should be in the dictionary, next to the definition of definition(example of repetition), because repetition is the father of learning, and SON(father in previous line) i know your barrels burning but please dont shoot me down”
“let me talk to my daddy, poppa i did it to em, im a bastard(made it with no dad)”
“watch(with your eyes/wrist WATCH) me get high like TIMES UP”
“i see ya boys hating, and i see ya girls naked”
Playing With Fire: “the bitch say im hot, and i say no bitch im blazing
Like, what the fuck you expect im a motherfuckin Cajun(the people/spicey hot food)”
“i feel caged in my mind, its like my flow doing time, i goes crazy inside(like a person in jail), but when it comes out its fine(like when ppl get out of jail)..like wine, wait, watch(watch him/wrist watch), see i get better with time like a watch”
“Osh B’Gosh(oh my gosh), Posh Spice husband(david beckam) couldnt kick it like i kick it(how wayne kicks rhymes), bitch i KICKS(kix) it, no cereal”
“hey pussy, play wit pussy or play pussy(get fucked either way)”
“i dont rap, i film movies, with my rap, you can call me Mr. Directors chair
yeah, and thats a wrap(rap)”
“you can see the(ci-ta) Cita(mom), see the(ci-ta) Cita in my features”
Nothing On Me: “get you 3(3rd verse,4 get(forget you), like the number after 1, imma get me 2(of most things that he wants)”
“its weezy F YOU(baby is after F), now you gotta have a baby”
“my money dont fold nor bends(benz), mercedes”
“i got a 44. and a K(AK), like 8 stacks(4+4= 8, k+8= 8000)”
“fuck your city and your town, i state(says) facts”
“after mine there will be nine(nein, german for no), damn i mean there will be none, i will be ONE, of the greatest things you’ve ever felt, you’ve ever seen, or heard, Car-ter, hov-er(better than jay-z)”
“i’ll bring ral to your fune(fune-ral), damn I mean funeral, funeral, you say tomato, I say tomahto(tomorrow), you say get em, I say got em, yeah i got em”
“you better keep paying me, you dont want my problems, ill be wildin like capital one, what is in your wallet(steal from you)”
Mrs. Officer: “she knows i get high, above the law(weed/above the law)”
“i said ‘lady what’s your number?’ she said ’911′, emergency only! head doctor perform surgery on me(like an emergency)”
Misunderstood: “aint it funny how people change like Easter Sunday(changes every year)”
“what are you asking? if I dont have the answer
It’s probably on the web(internet), like i’m a damn tarantula”
CLASSIC WORDPLAY FROM LIL WAYNE-
Dr. Carter: “excuse me if im late but like a thief, it takes, time to be this great(discrete) so just wait”
“got a pistol on the playground, watch the gun-play”
“too paid to freestyle”
La La: “hip hop addict, hip hop addict, man i swear im on top like the attic(addict)”
“wittier than comedy, nigga write a parody, but i aint telling jokes…apparently, a parent(APPARENT) yeah my daughter be the twinkle of my eye”
A Milli: “sister, brother, son, daughter, father, mother-fuck a copper”
“okay you’re a goon but whats a goon to a goblin? nothing, nothing, you aint scaring nothing”
“it aint tricking if you got it, but you’re like a bitch with no ass, you aint got shit”
Lollipop: “he so sweet make her wanna lick the wrapper(rapper), so i let her lick the rapper(wrapper)”
“that pussy in my mouth had me lost for words”
“i get her on top, she drop it like it’s hot
and when im at the bottom, she Hillary Rodham(ride him)”
Let The Beat Build: “believe that like a true story, rims big make the car look like its two stories(1st story in the other line), if i hop out that’ll be suicide(suicide doors)”
“no BACK(=paralyzed) seats call that paralyzed”
“i tote a tool box, bitch its hammer-time(gun time/mc hammer time), so excuse me as i nail em to something”
“like a silk wife beater and a wave cap like the wave pool
at Blue Bayou and I wave fool as i blew by you(blue bayou)”
“nigga fuck your plan, fuck your man, you aint a pimp
unless you get the same bitch to fuck your man, and fuck your plan, and all my bitches know thats my plan, oh god damn theres my sam-ple, playing(simple plan, from the bitches line) like its my band”
SUPER-MEGA-ROFL @ Drake is dope and ROOTS are NOT =)) fuckin holy shit. Drake and the whole young money team are a piece of turd, only 14 year old girls buy their records, the fact is Drake is not a hip hop act his shit is emo music. grow up kids quit ignorance.
DRAKE ??? that guy sound like a duck. id rather listen to Lady GaGa instead.
Drake is hot garbage. dont mention that here again people just laugh at you.
YESSSSSSSSS!! I’ve Been Waiting For This I Love The Roots!
Was hoping for some more Dice Raw after he asphyxiated those tracks on How I Got over…either way, gonna be gnar-nasty!
Another Roots album. Meaning… Another Roots cd in my hands come December.
Is anyone in the Roots Greek? Yia Yia and Pappou means Grandmother and Grandfather in Greek, wierd