The Roots

The Roots are a Grammy Award-winning, American alternative hip hop band. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals. Their debut album was released in 1993 and they have collaborated with a wide range of artists from different genres, including Roy Ayers and Cody Chesnutt. The Roots have generated a great deal of critical acclaim and influenced numerous rap and R&B acts.

The Roots released the following albums including Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995), Illadelph Halflife (1996), Organix (1997), Things Fall Apart (1999), The Roots Come Alive (1999), Phrenology (2002), The Tipping Point (2004), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2 (2005), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1 (2005), Game Theory (2006), Best of Roots (2006), Rising Down (2008) and How I Got Over (2010).

Do You Want More?!!!??!

Jan 1995

  1. Intro/There's Something Goin' On
  2. Proceed
  3. Distortion To Static
  4. Mellow My Man
  5. I Remain Calm
  6. Datskat
  7. Lazy Afternoon
  8. ? Vs. Rahzel
  9. Do You Want More?!!!??!
  10. What Goes On Pt. 7
  11. Essaywhuman?!!!??!
  12. Swept Away
  13. You Ain't Fly
  14. Silent Treatment
  15. The Lesson Pt. 1
  16. The Unlocking

Illadelph Halflife

Sep 1996

  1. Intro
  2. Respond/React
  3. Section
  4. Panic!!!!!!!
  5. It Just Don't Stop
  6. Episodes
  7. Push Up Ya Lighter
  8. What They Do
  9. ? Vs. Scratch (The Token DJ Cut)
  10. Concerto Of The Desperado
  11. Clones
  12. Universe At War
  13. No Alibi
  14. Dave Vs. Us
  15. No Great Pretender
  16. The Hypnotic
  17. Ital (The Universal Side)
  18. One Shine
  19. The Adventures In Wonderland
  20. Outro

Organix

Oct 1997

  1. Roots Is Comin'
  2. Pass the Popcorn
  3. The Anti-Circle
  4. Writers Block
  5. Good Music (Reprise) [Preclude]
  6. Good Music
  7. Grits
  8. Leonard I-V
  9. I'm out Deah
  10. Essawhamah? [Live]
  11. Popcorn Revisited
  12. Peace
  13. Common Dust
  14. The Session [Longest Posse Cut in History]
  15. Syreeta's Having My Baby
  16. Carryin' On

Things Fall Apart

Feb 1999

  1. Act Won...Things Fall Apart
  2. Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
  3. The Next Movement (ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff)
  4. Step Into The Realm
  5. The Spark
  6. Dynamite!
  7. Without A Doubt
  8. Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New
  9. Double Trouble
  10. Act Too...The Love Of My Life
  11. 100% Dundee
  12. Diedre Vs. Dice
  13. Adrenaline
  14. 3rd Act: ? Vs. Scratch 2...Electric Boogaloo
  15. You Got Me
  16. You Don't See Us
  17. Return To Innocence Lost
  18. Act Fore...The End?

The Roots Come Alive

Nov 1999

  1. Live at the T-Connection
  2. The Next Movement
  3. Step into the Realm
  4. Proceed
  5. Mellow My Man/Jusufckwithis
  6. Love of My Life
  7. The Ultimate
  8. Don't See Us
  9. 100% Dundee
  10. Adrenaline!
  11. Essaywhuman?!!!??!
  12. Silent Treatment
  13. You Got Me
  14. What You Want
  15. We Got You Listen
  16. The Lesson, Pt. 3 (Its Over Now)
  17. All I Know
  18. Ya'll Know Who
  19. For the Love of Money

Phrenology

Nov 2002

  1. Phrentrow
  2. Rock You
  3. !!!!!!!
  4. Sacrifice
  5. Rolling With Heat
  6. Waok (Ay) Rollcall
  7. Thought @ Work
  8. The Seed
  9. Break You Off
  10. Water: The First Movement/The Abyss/The Drowning
  11. Quills
  12. Pussy Galore
  13. Complexity
  14. Something in the Way of Things (In Town)

The Tipping Point

Jul 2004

  1. Star/Pointro
  2. I Don't Care
  3. Don't Say Nuthin'
  4. Guns Are Drawn
  5. Stay Cool
  6. Web
  7. Boom!
  8. Somebody's Gotta Do It
  9. Duck Down!
  10. Why (What's Goin' On?)

Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2

Nov 2005

  1. Sacrifice [Explicit]
  2. No Alibi [Explicit]
  3. Essaywhuman?!!!!! [Explicit]
  4. Break You Off [Explicit]
  5. Quicksand Millennium [Explicit]
  6. Pass The Popcorn [Explicit]
  7. Don't Say Nuthin' [Explicit]
  8. Adrenaline [Explicit]
  9. The Lesson Pt. 3 [Explicit]
  10. Ya'll Know Who [Explicit]
  11. Thought@Work [Explicit]
  12. Boom! [Explicit]
  13. The Seed/Melting Pot/Web [Explicit]
  14. Din Da Da

Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1

Nov 2005

  1. No Hometro/Proceed 2 [Explicit]
  2. Distortion To Static [Explicit]
  3. What They Do [Explicit]
  4. The Next Movement [Explicit]
  5. Good Music [Explicit]
  6. The Lesson [Explicit]
  7. Star [Explicit]
  8. The Hypnotic [Explicit]
  9. Silent Treatment
  10. You Got Me [Explicit]
  11. Clones [Explicit]
  12. What You Want [Explicit]
  13. Act Too (Love Of My Life) [Explicit]
  14. Do You Want More?!!!??! [Explicit]
  15. It's Comin' [Explicit]
  16. Double Trouble [Explicit]

Game Theory

Aug 2006

  1. Dilltastic Vol Won (derful)
  2. False Media
  3. Game Theory
  4. Don't Feel Right
  5. In The Music
  6. Take It There
  7. Baby
  8. Here I Come
  9. Long Time
  10. Livin' In A New World
  11. Clock With No Hands
  12. Atonement
  13. Can't Stop This
  14. Bread And Butter

Best of Roots

Sep 2006

  1. Rock Star
  2. Come Together
  3. The Next Movement
  4. Thought Is Like Freestyle [J. Period Exclusive Freestyle]
  5. Clones
  6. Subliminal Minded
  7. Push Up Ya Lighter
  8. Push Up Ya Lighter
  9. Concerto of a Desperado
  10. Concerto of a Desperado [J. Period Remix]
  11. Been Thru the Storm
  12. Superlyricism/R.I.P. Big Pun (Interlude)
  13. Superlyrical
  14. Supposed to Represent (Interlude)
  15. All in the Music
  16. Don't Feel Right
  17. Members of the Band/Proceed II (Interlude)
  18. Essaywhuman?!!!??!
  19. Live from the Pj's
  20. Pj's [J. Period Remix]
  21. Influences/Native Tongue (Interlude)
  22. P*ssy Galore
  23. Stay Cool
  24. Stay Cool [J. Period Remix]
  25. De La Soul/Ego Trip (Interlude)
  26. What They Do
  27. You Got Me [Me Tienes Remix]
  28. Me Tienes [J. Period Remix]
  29. Don't Say Nuthin [J. Period Remix]
  30. Nuthin [J. Period Stick Up Remix]
  31. Nuthin [J. Period Shot Ya Remix]
  32. Adrenaline
  33. Adrenaline [J. Period Remix]
  34. Yes Y'all [J. Period Remix]
  35. Beat Street/B-Boy (Interlude)
  36. Thought @ Work [J. Period Remix]
  37. Boom!/Wrath of Kane [J. Period Blend]
  38. Din Da Da [J. Period Volume Remix]
  39. Rahzel (Interlude)
  40. Act Too... Love of My Life
  41. Love of My Life [Remix]
  42. Streets of Philly
  43. What You Want
  44. Like Water [Remix]
  45. You Got Me [J. Period Remix]
  46. Break You Off [#]
  47. Murder in the First [*]

Rising Down

May 2008

  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
  15. Pow Wow 2 [Explicit]

How I Got Over

Jun 2010

  1. A Peace Of Light
  2. Walk Alone
  3. Dear God 2.0
  4. Radio Daze [Explicit]
  5. Now Or Never [Explicit]
  6. How I Got Over [Explicit]
  7. Dillatude: The Flight Of Titus
  8. The Day
  9. Right On [Explicit]
  10. Doin' It Again [Explicit]
  11. The Fire
  12. Tunnel Vision
  13. Web 20/20 [Explicit]
  14. Hustla [Explicit]

Songs

  1. Apologize
  2. It's About That Time
  3. Somithng in the Way of Things (In Town)
  4. Table Of Contents Part 3
  5. The Hypnotic (remix)
  6. The Show
  7. Lost Desire
  8. Adventures in Wonderland
  9. Concerto of Desparado
  10. Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
  11. Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix)
  12. Birthday Girl
  13. The Lesson Part 3 (It's Over Now)
  14. Black's Reconstruction
  15. Hurricane
  16. Rhymes And Ammo
  17. Rising Down
  18. Rising Up
  19. Water
  20. Yout Got Me
  21. What Goes On Part 7
  22. Ya'All Know Who
  23. You Know That U Got Me
  24. Break You Off (Dub/Sound Check At Bogart's Cincinnati, OH 2003)
  25. Meiso
  26. The Notic
  27. Why (What's Goin' On?)
  28. Act Too (Love Of My Life)
  29. Table Of Contents Part 1
  30. Criminal
  31. The Lesson Part 1
  32. Singer Man
  33. Live From the D.J. Stretch Armstrong Show
  34. Get It On Tonite
  35. Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
  36. Act Won.. Things Fall Apart
  37. Act Fore... The End?
  38. Act Too.. The Love Of My Life
  39. The Show Must Go On
  40. It's All About You (Not About Me)(remix)
  41. The Roots Is Comin'
  42. The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
  43. Ital (The Universal Side)
  44. Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
  45. The Good The Bad and the Desolate
  46. I'm Out Deah
  47. Proceed IV (AJ Shine's Proceed w/o a Pause)
  48. Proceed III
  49. The Grand Return
  50. Super Lyrical
  51. Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
  52. Writters Block
  53. Get Busy
  54. I Can't Help It
  55. Melting Pot (Bonus Track)
  56. Proceed II
  57. Stolen Moments Pt. II
  58. Table Of Contents Part 2
  59. The Seed 2.0
  60. Unwritten

The Roots