The Roots - I have heard a little of them and would like to

[andresG]

This is especially directed at Lardlad95 since I have heard him mention them several times.

What album do you suggest I should get to start me off?

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from andresG on 3:21 am on Aug. 26, 2002
This is especially directed at Lardlad95 since I have heard him mention them several times.

What album do you suggest I should get to start me off?


Well I suggest you talk to my brother BigBlakAf he just signed up and he knows alot more about them than me.

So just messege him or track him down

[BigBlakAf]

Aight andres, if u want their best album, get Things Fall Apart, to me its a classic. And if it doesnt get u into them, then none of their previous albums will. Do You Want More is also very good, Iladelph was okay, and I haven't listened to their first album (Organix). So if there is anything else u wanna know, just ask. And Aaron can help too.

[Lardlad95]

I suggest seeing them live but I've been told they are some of the best live performers.

AbstractMentality has seen them live so ask him.

THe Roots COme Alive is a live album its pretty good, but it would be better to here the studio songs before hearing the live versions

[andresG]

Alright thanks a lot guys!

I'm going to go download Things Fall Apart.
Thanks for all the help.

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from andresG on 10:12 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
Alright thanks a lot guys!

I'm going to go download Things Fall Apart.
Thanks for all the help.


uh things fall apart is an album...find the songs on the album and or buy the album

[andresG]

Yes I know.
I am downloading the whole album.
Again, thanks for the help.

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from andresG on 10:39 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
Yes I know.
I am downloading the whole album.
Again, thanks for the help.

oh and get "What they Do" from illedelph halflife its really good Jazz and Hip Hop mixed

[ovrproofmentalz]

i think all of thier albums are classics... from organix, do you want more?, illadelph, things fall apart are all great.... each has a progression from jazzy instrumental tracks to solid intelligent lyrical driven songs....

if you like the emcees on the cd's, i suggest go look for some blackthought, where he works independantly with such artists as mos def and common.... dice raw is nice also, but doesn't concentrate on society's issues as much....

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from ovrproofmentalz on 11:06 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
i think all of thier albums are classics... from organix, do you want more?, illadelph, things fall apart are all great.... each has a progression from jazzy instrumental tracks to solid intelligent lyrical driven songs....

if you like the emcees on the cd's, i suggest go look for some blackthought, where he works independantly with such artists as mos def and common.... dice raw is nice also, but doesn't concentrate on society's issues as much....

yeah its more of a jazz hip hop and or funk hip hop as opposed to revolutionary or concious hip ho

[BigBlakAf]

Quote: from ovrproofmentalz on 11:06 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
i think all of thier albums are classics... from organix, do you want more?, illadelph, things fall apart are all great.... each has a progression from jazzy instrumental tracks to solid intelligent lyrical driven songs....


if you like the emcees on the cd's, i suggest go look for some blackthought, where he works independantly with such artists as mos def and common.... dice raw is nice also, but doesn't concentrate on society's issues as much....


Well i agree about looking for his independent stuff. But Black Thought ain't much on the societal issues either. He's mostly a battler, for the societal issues Mos Def and Kweli are the best out there

[andresG]

I have so far dowloaded half of "Things Fall Apart".
These are some of the greatest rhymes I have heard.
I am loving the beat.
(I have always liked hip hop but this definitely is some of the best I have heard. How can Mazdak say hip hop is garbage?)

[BigBlakAf]

Exactly! It has a groove to it... rhythm that gets your head noddin... not head banging. Its both smooth enough to relax and hard enough to get you hyped.. the perfect blend (cuz we know how to rock with the beat come in).

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from andresG on 3:41 am on Aug. 27, 2002
I have so far dowloaded half of "Things Fall Apart".
These are some of the greatest rhymes I have heard.
I am loving the beat.
(I have always liked hip hop but this definitely is some of the best I have heard. How can Mazdak say hip hop is garbage?)



becuase mazdak is a closed minded stalinsts who would kill his own mother for power.


He has no soul......and I don't just mean reliously....his heart is as black as stalins.....only with less power

[Lardlad95]

but yeah the Roots are ill.


Sounds so much smoother than other shit like fuckin Nursery Rhyme Nelly.

THe real instruments is what makes it good.

[andresG]

I am loving this album.
Can't stop playing it.
Suggest anyone, even if you don't like hip hop, to get this album.

[Lardlad95]

I mos definelty agree with you on that one