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 How I Got Over (2010), Rising Down (2008), Best of Roots (2006), Game Theory (2006), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1 (2005), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2 (2005), The Tipping Point (2004), Phrenology (2002), The Roots Come Alive (1999), Things Fall Apart (1999), Organix (1997), Illadelph Halflife (1996) and Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995).
The Roots released the following albums including How I Got Over (2010), Rising Down (2008), Best of Roots (2006), Game Theory (2006), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1 (2005), Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2 (2005), The Tipping Point (2004), Phrenology (2002), The Roots Come Alive (1999), Things Fall Apart (1999), Organix (1997), Illadelph Halflife (1996) and Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995).
Jun 2010
- A Peace Of Light
- Walk Alone
- Dear God 2.0
- Radio Daze [Explicit]
- Now Or Never [Explicit]
- How I Got Over [Explicit]
- Dillatude: The Flight Of Titus
- The Day
- Right On [Explicit]
- Doin' It Again [Explicit]
- The Fire
- Tunnel Vision
- Web 20/20 [Explicit]
- Hustla [Explicit]
- The Pow Wow
- Rising Down featuring Mos Def & Styles P
- Get Busy featuring Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi
- @ 15
- 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
- Becoming Unwritten
- Criminal featuring Truck North & Saigon
- I Will Not Apologize featuring Porn & Dice Raw
- I Can't Help It featuring Malik B., Porn, Mercedes Martinez & Dice Raw
- Singing Man featuring Porn, Truck North & Dice Raw
- Unwritten featuring Mercedes Martinez
- Lost Desire featuring Malik B. & Talib Kweli
- The Show featuring Common & Dice Raw
- Rising Up featuring Wale & Chrisette Michele
- Pow Wow 2 [Explicit]
Sep 2006
- Rock Star
- Come Together
- The Next Movement
- Thought Is Like Freestyle [J. Period Exclusive Freestyle]
- Clones
- Subliminal Minded
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- Concerto of a Desperado
- Concerto of a Desperado [J. Period Remix]
- Been Thru the Storm
- Superlyricism/R.I.P. Big Pun (Interlude)
- Superlyrical
- Supposed to Represent (Interlude)
- All in the Music
- Don't Feel Right
- Members of the Band/Proceed II (Interlude)
- Essaywhuman?!!!??!
- Live from the Pj's
- Pj's [J. Period Remix]
- Influences/Native Tongue (Interlude)
- P*ssy Galore
- Stay Cool
- Stay Cool [J. Period Remix]
- De La Soul/Ego Trip (Interlude)
- What They Do
- You Got Me [Me Tienes Remix]
- Me Tienes [J. Period Remix]
- Don't Say Nuthin [J. Period Remix]
- Nuthin [J. Period Stick Up Remix]
- Nuthin [J. Period Shot Ya Remix]
- Adrenaline
- Adrenaline [J. Period Remix]
- Yes Y'all [J. Period Remix]
- Beat Street/B-Boy (Interlude)
- Thought @ Work [J. Period Remix]
- 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 [Remix]
- You Got Me [J. Period Remix]
- Break You Off [#]
- Murder in the First [*]
- Dilltastic Vol Won (derful)
- False Media
- Game Theory
- Don't Feel Right
- In The Music
- Take It There
- Baby
- Here I Come
- Long Time
- Livin' In A New World
- Clock With No Hands
- Atonement
- Can't Stop This
- Bread And Butter
- No Hometro/Proceed 2 [Explicit]
- Distortion To Static [Explicit]
- What They Do [Explicit]
- The Next Movement [Explicit]
- Good Music [Explicit]
- The Lesson [Explicit]
- Star [Explicit]
- The Hypnotic [Explicit]
- Silent Treatment
- You Got Me [Explicit]
- Clones [Explicit]
- What You Want [Explicit]
- Act Too (Love Of My Life) [Explicit]
- Do You Want More?!!!??! [Explicit]
- It's Comin' [Explicit]
- Double Trouble [Explicit]
- Sacrifice [Explicit]
- No Alibi [Explicit]
- Essaywhuman?!!!!! [Explicit]
- Break You Off [Explicit]
- Quicksand Millennium [Explicit]
- Pass The Popcorn [Explicit]
- Don't Say Nuthin' [Explicit]
- Adrenaline [Explicit]
- The Lesson Pt. 3 [Explicit]
- Ya'll Know Who [Explicit]
- Thought@Work [Explicit]
- Boom! [Explicit]
- The Seed/Melting Pot/Web [Explicit]
- Din Da Da
- Star/Pointro
- I Don't Care
- Don't Say Nuthin'
- Guns Are Drawn
- Stay Cool
- Web
- Boom!
- Somebody's Gotta Do It
- Duck Down!
- Why (What's Goin' On?)
Nov 2002
- Phrentrow
- Rock You
- !!!!!!!
- Sacrifice
- Rolling With Heat
- Waok (Ay) Rollcall
- Thought @ Work
- The Seed
- Break You Off
- Water: The First Movement/The Abyss/The Drowning
- Quills
- Pussy Galore
- Complexity
- Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
- Live at the T-Connection
- The Next Movement
- Step into the Realm
- Proceed
- Mellow My Man/Jusufckwithis
- Love of My Life
- The Ultimate
- Don't See Us
- 100% Dundee
- Adrenaline!
- Essaywhuman?!!!??!
- Silent Treatment
- You Got Me
- What You Want
- We Got You Listen
- The Lesson, Pt. 3 (Its Over Now)
- All I Know
- Ya'll Know Who
- For the Love of Money
- Act Won...Things Fall Apart
- Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
- The Next Movement (ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff)
- 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 Act: ? Vs. Scratch 2...Electric Boogaloo
- You Got Me
- You Don't See Us
- Return To Innocence Lost
- Act Fore...The End?
- Roots Is Comin'
- Pass the Popcorn
- The Anti-Circle
- Writers Block
- Good Music (Reprise) [Preclude]
- Good Music
- Grits
- Leonard I-V
- I'm out Deah
- Essawhamah? [Live]
- Popcorn Revisited
- Peace
- Common Dust
- The Session [Longest Posse Cut in History]
- Syreeta's Having My Baby
- Carryin' On
- 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
Other Songs
- Act Fore... The End?
- Act Too (Love Of My Life)
- Act Too.. The Love Of My Life
- Act Won.. Things Fall Apart
- Adventures in Wonderland
- Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
- Apologize
- Birthday Girl
- Black's Reconstruction
- Break You Off (Dub/Sound Check At Bogart's Cincinnati, OH 2003)
- Concerto of Desparado
- Criminal
- Get Busy
- Get It On Tonite
- Hurricane
- I Can't Help It
- I'm Out Deah
- Ital (The Universal Side)
- It's About That Time
- It's All About You (Not About Me)(remix)
- Live From the D.J. Stretch Armstrong Show
- Lost Desire
- Meiso
- Melting Pot (Bonus Track)
- Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
- Proceed II
- Proceed III
- Proceed IV (AJ Shine's Proceed w/o a Pause)
- Rhymes And Ammo
- Rising Down
- Rising Up
- Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix)
- Singer Man
- Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
- Somithng in the Way of Things (In Town)
- Stolen Moments Pt. II
- Super Lyrical
- Table Of Contents Part 1
- Table Of Contents Part 2
- Table Of Contents Part 3
- Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
- The Good The Bad and the Desolate
- The Grand Return
- The Hypnotic (remix)
- The Lesson Part 1
- The Lesson Part 3 (It's Over Now)
- The Notic
- The Roots Is Comin'
- The Seed 2.0
- The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
- The Show
- The Show Must Go On
- Unwritten
- Water
- What Goes On Part 7
- Why (What's Goin' On?)
- Writters Block
- Ya'All Know Who
- You Know That U Got Me
- Yout Got Me
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