No one give a fuck bout The Roots anymore

[ChrisZimbo]

check my previous post for a new track


Tracklisting provided courtesy of Okayplayer.com and MTV:


RISING DOWN Track List.

Questlove annotation in (parentheses), and yes, we realize some of this might be a little too rap-nerd fan-boy:


· The Pow Wow [Intro] (The 1994 meeting between Black Thought, Questlove and former Roots manager, AJ Shine, after they got threatened with being dropped from their record label)

· Rising Down [with Mos Def and Styles P] (and Dice Raw on the hook)
· Get Busy [with Dice Raw & Peddi Crack & Jazzy Jeff]
· @ 15 (Tariq freestyle at 15 years old)
· 75 Bars (Reconstruction) [with Tuba Gooding Jr.]
· (Up Theme) Becoming Unwritten (instrumental)
· Criminal [with Truck North (a Philly MC bubbling under) & Saigon]
· I Will Not Apologize [with Porn (another Philly MC bubbling under) & Dice Raw & Talib Kweli (on the hook)]
· I Can’t Help It [with Malik B & Porn] (This is Malik B’s response to The Roots’ song “Water”)
· Singing Man [with Porn (as Virginia Tech-like Shooter) & Black Thought (as Sierra Leone youngin’ soldier) & Truck North (as suicide bomber)]
· (Up Theme) Unwritten [with Mercedes Martinez]
· Lost Desire [with Malik B & Talib Kweli]
· The Show [with Common]
· Rising Up [with Wale & Chrissette Michelle] (p.s. Wale says “this is not a go-go song”)
· Birthday Girl [with Patrick Stump]
· HIDDEN TRACK: Live at WPFW (Howard University), 1994
· HIDDEN TRACK: The Pow Wow 2 (end of the phone conversation)

 

[ChrisZimbo]

The Roots - Birthday Girl {Official Video}
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[roaches]

The Roots f. Saigon & Truck North - Criminal | Hip Hop Songs > HipHopDX.com

This shit is hard... I can't wait to hear the rest of the album. "Birthday Girl" and "Rising Up" seem pretty out of place, though. Rising Down sounds like it's shaping up to be just a continuation of Game Theory but rawer. I always felt that a problem with the Roots is that ?uestlove tried to be Brian Wilson too much and forgot to capture what people want - the sound of the Roots' live show... when it goes too far you get Phrenology (to be fair it also gave us their best album, but that was them just making a straight-up rap record, not trying to be progressive). The new stuff all sounds live, though.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

^ wow, didnt realise another track had leaked

NEW VIDEO

Rising Up
[youtube]UJSfABHTxLE[/youtube]

 

[roaches]

Wale stays wearing the same beanie, lmao.

 

[ARon]

^If you're holding that Skyzoo and Wale track Lyrically Inclined please hook it up.



Think it's the real thing.

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zSHARE - the_roots-rising_down-2008.rar

 

[S O F I]

^It's the non-group rip I'm thinking.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

yeah non-group rip

whats the quality like on it though, if its 192 imma fiend for that hum drum track otherwise fuck it

 

[S O F I]

yeah non-group rip

whats the quality like on it though, if its 192 imma fiend for that hum drum track otherwise fuck it

256.

It sounds better than the one we had previously. I'd upload it for you, but I'm jacking the wireless from some asian neighbor and it's too slow.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

256.

It sounds better than the one we had previously. I'd upload it for you, but I'm jacking the wireless from some asian neighbor and it's too slow.

Peace man.

Gonna download it now then :thumb:, reps Aaron for the links

 

[roaches]

A few weak hooks but otherwise I'm satisfied after the first couple of spins.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

group rip is out
The_Roots-Rising_Down-CD-2008-RACEME.rar

 

[ChrisZimbo]

oh shit. Was wondering which beat they were jamming the fuck out of in the ny sessions. I Will Not Apologise is fucking dope.

 

[Chronic]

Definitely a dope album, just a couple of weak hooks like roaches said.

 

[ImmortalTech]

good album, not the greatest roots release out there, but definitely better than alot of the other bullshit thats comin out right now

peace