The Roots
The Roots are an American hip hop/neo soul band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The Roots are known for a jazzy and eclectic approach to hip-hop featuring live musical instruments.Malik B., Leonard "Hub" Hubbard, and Josh Abrams were added to the band (formerly named "The Square Roots").
Since its first independent album-length release the band has released 10 studio albums, two EPs, two collaboration albums (with other artists), and also collaborated on recordings and in live shows with a wide variety of artists in many musical genres. The Roots served as the house band on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014, and in the same role (and accompanying show guest artists) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014. The Roots' work has consistently been met with critical acclaim. About.com ranked the band #7 on its list of the 25 Best Hip-Hop Groups of All-Time, calling them "Hip-hop's first legitimate band."
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The Roots
ALBUMS
- … And Then You Shoot Your Cousin released: 2014
- undun released: 2011
- Betty Wright: The Movie released: 2011
- Wake Up! released: 2010
- How I Got Over released: 2010
- Dilla Joints released: 2010
- Rising Down released: 2008
- Game Theory released: 2006
- The Best of the Roots released: 2006
- Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 2 released: 2005
- Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 1 released: 2005
- Nagoya Blue Note: September 7, 2004 released: 2004
- The Tipping Point released: 2004
- Do This Well released: 2004
- Phrenology released: 2002
- Instrumental Album released: 2000
- The Roots Come Alive released: 1999
- Things Fall Apart released: 1999
- Illadelph Halflife released: 1996
- Do You Want More?!!!??! released: 1995
- Organix released: 1993
- Mellow My Roots released:
- Distortion to Static Remixes released:
Wake Up!
Released 2010- Hard Times
- Compared to What
- Wake Up Everybody
- Our Generation (The Hope of the World)
- Little Ghetto Boy (prelude)
- Little Ghetto Boy
- Hang On in There
- Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)
- Wholy Holy
- I Can’t Write Left Handed
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
- Shine
- Shine (Waiting for “Superman” version)
- Wake Up Everybody (live in studio performance)
The Best of the Roots
Released 2006- Rock Star (intro)
- Malcolm X / Roots of a Tree (interlude)
- Pity the Child / Come Together
- The Next Movement
- Thought Is Like Freestyle
- Clones
- Subliminal Minded Freestyle
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- Concerto of a Desperado
- Concerto of a Desperado (J.Period remix)
- Rakim (interlude)
- Been Thru the Storm
- Superlyricism / R.I.P. Big Pun (interlude)
- Superlyrical
- Suppossed to Represent (interlude)
- In the Music
- Don't Feel Right
- Members of the Band (Proceed interlude)
- Essaywhuman?!!!??!
- Live From the PJ's
- PJ's (J.Period remix)
- Influences / Native Tongue (interlude)
- Pussy Galore
- Stay Cool
- Stay Cool (J.Period remix)
- De La Soul (interlude)
- What They Do
- You Got Me (Me Tienes remix)
- Me Tienes (J.Period remix)
- Don't Say Nuthin (J.Period Knight remix)
- Don't Say (J.Period Stick Up remix)
- Nuthin (J.Period Shot Ya remix)
- Adrenaline
- Adrenaline (J.Period remix)
- Yes Y'All (J.Period Goodness remix)
- Beat Street / B-Boy Interlude
- Thought @ Work (J.Period Apache remix)
- Crazy Legs / Rock Steady Crew Interlude
- Boom! / Wrath of Kane (J.Period Blend)
- Din Da Da (J.Period Volume remix)
- Rahzel Interlude
- Act Too... Love of My Life
- Love of My Life (remix)
- Streets of Philly
- What You Want
- Like Water
- You Got Me (J.Period remix)
- Jill Scott Interlude
- Break You Off
- Murder in the First
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 2
Released 2005- Sacrifice (live on BBC Radio One's Worldwide Show With Giles Peterson)
- No Alibi
- Essaywhuman?!!!!! (Organix version)
- Break You Off (dub/sound check at Bogart's Cincinnati, Ohio, 2003)
- Quicksand Millennium
- Pass the Popcorn (Revisited)
- Don't Say Nuthin' (remix)
- Adrenaline
- The Lesson, Part 3
- Y'all Know Who
- Thought@work
- Boom!
- The Seed / Melting Pot / Web (live on BBC Radio One's Worldwide Show With Giles Peterson)
- Din Da Da
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Volume 1
Released 2005- No Hometro / Proceed 2
- Distortion to Static (Black Thought mix)
- What They Do
- The Next Movement
- Good Music
- The Lesson
- Star
- The Hypnotic
- Silent Treatment
- You Got Me
- Clones
- What You Want
- Act Too (Love of My Life)
- Do You Want More?!!!??!
- It's Comin' (live at the Trocadero, Illadelph December 1993)
- Double Trouble
Do This Well
Released 2004- It's Comin'
- Distortion to Static (Ques Jim mix)
- Proceed (live at The Supper Club)
- New Year's at Jay Dee's
- What They Do (live on Jenny McCarty)
- Silent Treatment (Street mix)
- Da Jawn
- Distortion to Static (Black Thought mix)
- Burnin' & Lootin'
- Proceed II (Butcher mix)
- Still Out There
- You Got Me (live on David Letterman)
- Sprite Commercial
- Proceed IV (AJ Shine's w/o a Pause mix)
- The Lesson, Part 2 (instrumental)
Things Fall Apart
Released 1999- Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
- Table of Contents, Parts 1 & 2
- The Next Movement
- Step Into the Realm
- The Spark
- Dynamite!
- Without a Doubt
- Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New
- Double Trouble
- Act Too (The Love of My Life)
- 100% Dundee
- Diedre vs. Dice
- Adrenaline!
- 3rd Acts: ? vs. Scratch 2… Electric Boogaloo
- You Got Me
- Don't See Us
- The Return to Innocence Lost
- Act Fore… The End?
Illadelph Halflife
Released 1996- Intro
- Respond/React
- Section
- Panic!!!!!!!
- It Just Don’t Stop
- Episodes
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- What They Do
- ? vs. Scratch (The Token DJ cut)
- Concerto of the Desperado
- Clones
- UNIverse at War
- No Alibi
- Dave vs. US
- No Great Pretender
- The Hypnotic
- Ital (The Universal Side)
- One Shine
- The Adventures in Wonderland
- Outro
Organix
Released 1993- The Roots Is Comin’
- Pass the Popcorn
- The Anti-Circle
- Writer’s Block
- Good Music (Prelude)
- Good Music
- Grits
- Leonard I-V
- I’m Out Deah
- Essawhamah? (Live at Soulshack)
- There’s a RIOT Goin’ On
- Popcorn Revisited
- Peace
- Common Dust
- The Session (Longest Posse Cut in History 12:43)
- Syreeta’s Having My Baby
- Carryin’ On
The Roots
ALBUMS
- The Best of Nelly Furtado released: 2010
- Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume Three released: 2004
- Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume Two released: 2004
- Chant Down Babylon released: 1999
- Swagalicious! released: 1996
The Best of Nelly Furtado
Released 2010- I'm Like a Bird
- Turn Off the Light
- On the Radio (Remember the Days)
- Fotografía
- Powerless (Say What You Want)
- Try
- Força
- Promiscuous
- Maneater
- Say It Right
- All Good Things (Come to an End)
- In God's Hands
- Broken Strings
- Girlfriend in the City
- Night Is Young
- Stars
- Manos al aire
- Crazy (Radio 1 live Lounge session)
Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume Three
Released 2004- It's a Cry'n Shame
- Phantom
- It's Gonna Change
- It's Allright
- Be Nice
- Baby (Better Get on Home)
- Don't Burn It
- It's Been a Long Journey
- Half Peeled Banana
- Please Tell Me Why
- In and Out
- Free Soul
- Almost There
- I Hope I Please You
- I Wanna Know
- She's the Girl for Me
- Little Latin Lupe Lu
- Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Trippin'
- Mercy Mercy
- I'll Come to You
- Ching Bam Bah
- Watch Me
- You're on My Mind
- Mister You're a Better Man Than I
Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume Two
Released 2004- Route 66
- I'll Go
- Alibis
- Night of the Phantom
- My Confusion
- Lost One
- Jack the Ripper
- You Deceived Me
- I'm All Right
- Splash Day
- Come On
- My Kinda Woman
- Evil Hearted You
- Never Again
- Run and Hide
- Live and Die
- Take a Ride
- Mister, You're a Better Man Than I
- Sad Sack
- Garbage Man
- Everybody Needs Somebody
- I'll Never Be Happy
- She Said Yeah
- I Can't Go on Loving You
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The Good The Bad And The Desolate
by: The Rootsfeaturing Dice Raw and Shanky Don
Shanky Don Intro:
Now this one is dedicated to the good the bad and the desolated. And The
Roots crew you know them lyrically orientated program you lose in life
instantly ? we're like acid we burn you. Watch a rude bwoy now.
Black Thought:
Yo you should see some of these cats that vocalize
They get props from they local guys and try to raise
Speaching through the mic like "Yo I apologize"
They blind and wasn't as wise and fail to realize the com-
Plectual sexual side of the rhyme
When I make love to the mic the crowd respond
Your promoter love the vocal over dub when I control the club
So throw your hands up in the air show your love
We waste not the bangingest beats but make use
The Roots get you open like parachutes
Yo who in the house only deal with hip hop that's authentic?
Back to renovate your state of mind for a minute
It's I, Bad Lieutenant represent fine lye
Delphia empire fifth dynasty
Your third eye couldn't wait for you to relate to what I activate
While the fake spectate
I'm less then immpressive for beyond stressin'
And battle as a reveloutionary adolescent
But now in the present with fake masters of ceremonies yo that's phoney
You'll get capped with colonial force that of a cannon
Examinin the compact disc to start rammin'
To put the diagram in effect and get fly
On immature MC's who try
Wake 'em up outta they High School High
Shakny Don:
Yo bumbading bumdadabedang
The Roots crew boy we mash things again
Bumbading ripapadededang The Roots crew bwoy we runnin' back again
Bumbading dumdadadedang The Roots boy dem run the island
Bumbading ripadededang look ? I mash up the scene
Malik B (M-illa-tant):
I blast off the roof to prove she lay in there blazed
Enslaved by the soundwaves as the skills amaze
Insight skin type annalitic cause I live it
My ? brow pivot over your style like "give it"
The lyricism I'm contemplatinng your neighborhood or legion
Brutalize your section stalk your whole region
When you blink it's hell then you drink Sifendale
You wonder what's goin' inside of my thinkin' cells
We bomb like militias I'm trying to stack riches
Look first comes the money the power then the (?)
They all will bring you down but I Milliant the sound
With a bargaid of pirate raps that's running through your town
Surrounded by a wise dome my ledge knows horizons
I keep at a distance confused and feel cyclones
You know I'm trying to make it because I probably take it
Hustlin' stickin' pickin' it or scrape it
Tracks appeal that's why I'm trying to mack a mil
I stay sedated worth a Zantac that's a pill
It gets hectic that's why niggas try to exit
Stress relates to those who walk around protected
Shanky Don:
Yo bumbading ripadingdedingdedang
The Roots crew man dem mash up the scene
Bumbading bumdadadedang The Roots crew man is running back again
Bumbading ripadingdedingdedang
The Roots crew man them come back again
Bumbading bumdadadedang The Roots crew man they run the islang
Dice Raw:
Naw nigga what's up then? Thanks for the man outroduction
Go ask your girl inside my world is the duction
No frontin' finger on the button of destruction
Play nice like entice and keep your styles on the hush and
Step inside the illafifth dungeon
Where it smells of pungent
The underwater the brotherly lovin'
Where crabs get knocked out respect from
Brought back to the lab were the scientist will dissect 'em
The old heads sniffin' start bitchin' when we testin'
Interupting my class when my class is in session
Was when I manifestin' or come to teach a lesson
What's inside of my dome I'll have all you clones guessin'
Lets begin as the color gets tossed in with the pen
It feels good that's when you know it's a sin
Everytime I rhyme I might get charged for murder
Slicing your back with rap turn a brain into burger
Lyrically I shot with radioactive waves
Like Kolby and Big Kev on fridays
Your styles older than dolo we on the top of ?
Claim to gettin' over but you ain't makin' quota
Shanky Don:
Bumbading bumdadadedang The Roots crew man they mash up the lane
Bumbading bumdadadedang this a poor rap boy you might not see again
Bumbading bumdadadedang The Roots crew man they run things again
Bumbading bumdadadedang Rufugee Camp step on thee scene
Bumdading bumdadadedang
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