If u listen hip hop u have to know The Roots, a legendary band from Philly. They’re just about to release a new CD Rising Down and u can download it right now thanks to group RACEME which pred it one week before the street date. This is a must have for all lovers of ol’ good hip hop and RnB.

Grammy award winning hip-hop trailblazers The Roots are set to release Rising Down on April 29th via Def Jam Recordings. Knahwn for their prolific lyrics and live instrumentation, the Legendary Philadelphia crew is composed of Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter (vocals), Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson (drums), Kamal Gray (keyboards), Frank Knuckles (percussion), Kirk “Captain Kirk” Douglas (guitar) and Owen Biddle (bass). Garnering critical praise throughout their career, The Roots have firmly established themselves as a band with uncompromised artistic control & integrity. With Rising Down, the band’s 10th CD release, The Roots continue to take bolder steps adding new depths & range to their repertoire.

The Roots, a.k.a. The Legendary Roots Crew, are an influential, Grammy Award-winning American band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound & live instrumentation. They made their debut in 1993 and have gone on to collaborate with artists from a range of genres, such as Roy Ayers & Cody Chesnutt. Inspired by Stetsasonic, The Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced later beat and R&B acts.

Tracklist:

1  The Pow Wow                                            1:15
2  Rising Down (Feat. Mos Def and Styles P)                3:40
3  Get Busy (Feat. Dice Raw and Peedi Peedi)              3:29
4  @15                                                    0:51
5  75 Bars (Blacks Reconstruction)                        3:15
6  Becoming Unwritten                                      0:36
7  Criminal (Feat. Truck North and Saigon)                4:08
8  I Will Not Apologize (Feat. Porn & Dice Raw)          4:34
9  I Cant Help It (Feat. Malik B., Porn, Mercedes        4:39
Martinez and Dice Raw)
10  Singing Man (Feat. Porn, Truck North and Dice Raw)      4:07
11  Unwritten                                              1:22
12  Lost Desire (Feat. Malik B. and Talib Kweli)            3:58
13  The Show (Feat. Common and Dice Raw)                    3:44
14  Rising Up (Feat. Wale and Chrisette Michele)            4:23
15  Birthday Girl                                          4:05
16  Bonus Track                                            3:18

Artist  : The Roots
Album    : Rising Down
Genre    : Hip-Hop
Label    : Def Jam
Quality  : 180kbps    44100  kHz    Joint Stereo
Tracks  : 16
Time    : 51:24 min
Size    : 66.97 MB

Release name: The_Roots-Rising_Down-CD-2008-RACEME
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