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).
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
Phrenology
- 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)
- 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?)
- 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
- 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]
- 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
Best of Roots
- 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 [*]
- 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]
How I Got Over
- 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]
- Apologize
- It's About That Time
- Somithng in the Way of Things (In Town)
- Table Of Contents Part 3
- The Hypnotic (remix)
- The Show
- Lost Desire
- Adventures in Wonderland
- Concerto of Desparado
- Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
- Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix)
- Birthday Girl
- The Lesson Part 3 (It's Over Now)
- Black's Reconstruction
- Hurricane
- Rhymes And Ammo
- Rising Down
- Rising Up
- Water
- Yout Got Me
- What Goes On Part 7
- Ya'All Know Who
- You Know That U Got Me
- Break You Off (Dub/Sound Check At Bogart's Cincinnati, OH 2003)
- Meiso
- The Notic
- Why (What's Goin' On?)
- Act Too (Love Of My Life)
- Table Of Contents Part 1
- Criminal
- The Lesson Part 1
- Singer Man
- Live From the D.J. Stretch Armstrong Show
- Get It On Tonite
- Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
- Act Won.. Things Fall Apart
- Act Fore... The End?
- Act Too.. The Love Of My Life
- The Show Must Go On
- It's All About You (Not About Me)(remix)
- The Roots Is Comin'
- The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
- Ital (The Universal Side)
- Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
- The Good The Bad and the Desolate
- I'm Out Deah
- Proceed IV (AJ Shine's Proceed w/o a Pause)
- Proceed III
- The Grand Return
- Super Lyrical
- Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
- Writters Block
- Get Busy
- I Can't Help It
- Melting Pot (Bonus Track)
- Proceed II
- Stolen Moments Pt. II
- Table Of Contents Part 2
- The Seed 2.0
- Unwritten