The Roots Albums

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).

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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]
Rising Down
May 2008
Rising Down
  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]
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 [*]
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1
Nov 2005
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 1
  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]
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2
Nov 2005
Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vol. 2
  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
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 Roots Come Alive
Nov 1999
The Roots Come Alive
  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
Organix
Oct 1997
Organix
  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
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