The Roots (was Re: Bands, books or web pages)
Erik Gaderlund
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:44:17 -0800
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>At 19:00 20/02/98 PST, Hugh wrote:
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>>Uh, yeah, is what you refer to as "the roots" a band or are you assuming
>>that I know the roots of hip-hop and should know, well I don't, I am a
>>dummie.
>
>There is a hip-hop band out there called 'the roots', the only track I know
>of theirs is 'Concerto of the Desperado', which is fairly straight
>hip-hop/rap, any ppl know any more? Worth listening to?
>
>Tim Kemp
>pp0u7078@liv.ac.uk
>
There have been discussions on this list over the years that have basically
come to the conclusion that The Roots are probably one of the best TRUE
hip-hop groups around, get any of their albums: "Organix", "do you want
more ?!!!??!" and "illadelf halflife", they also have some great guest
musicians like Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson.
later,
erik g