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Things Fall Apart

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Things Fall Apart

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 The Roots - Act Won (Things Fall Apart) 0:54 36,575
2 Play The Roots - Table of Contents (Parts 1 & 2) full track 3:37 19,028
3 Play DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Next Movement full track 4:10 43
4 Play The Roots - Step Into the Relm full track 2:49 13,704
5 Play The Roots - The Spark full track 3:53 34,599
6 Play The Roots - Dynamite! full track 4:46 33,941
7 The Roots - Without a Doubt 4:15 31,636
8 Play The Roots - Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New full track 4:34 32,877
9 Play The Roots - Double Trouble full track 6:23 47,098
10 Play The Roots - Act Too (The Love of My Life) full track 4:55 13,528
11 Play The Roots - 100% Dundee full track 3:54 37,359
12 Play The Roots - Diedre vs. Dice full track 0:47 35,385
13 Play The Roots - Adrenaline full track 4:28 18,811
14 Play The Roots - 3rd Acts: ? Vs. Scratch 2 ... Electric Boogaloo full track 0:51 364
15 Play The Roots - You Got Me full track 4:19 77,214
16 Play The Roots - Don't See Us full track 4:31 33,856
17 Play The Roots - The Return to Innocence Lost full track 5:40 12,782
18 The Roots - Non-Musical Silence/Act Fore...The End?/Non-Musical Silence 0:05 1

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© Universal Music AS (1999) Released: 22 Feb 1999 18 tracks (64:51)
The classic Roots LP that is perhaps their best loved work and it’s easy to see why. It has litle of the difficult lyrics and dark music of later genius like Game Theory and is not too experimental for the more narrow minded hip hop fans like Phrenology was. Updating the live jazzy sound of earlier work and introducing ever improving songwriting and a fine use of guests of some renown, Common, Mos Def and Dice Raw all add something to the record. It is the mighty Erykah Badu who steals the show on the guest front though with her contribution on the records best known track “You Got Me”. A hip hop classic that started to show what a great band The Roots are and continue to be. I would say if you are looking to start a Roots collection this is where I would start as a best example of the core sound of the band.
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