Things Fall Apart

[adam_f]

Hands down the best Roots album and the best album of 1999.

[Extra Cheese]

neither


their best album was illadelph halflife

[LOBSTER PRIZE!]

neither


their best album was illadelph halflife



their only good album that is.

[DipDipDive]

their only good album that is.

:rolleyes:

Things Fall Apart is good. I personally think Do You Want More is their best.

[Mr Films]

I recently got Things Fall Apart.

the only other roots record I got is Tipping Point so I can't say what their best is.

Things Fall Apart is wonderful though, "Without a Doubt" is the jam.

[Vladimir]

It is a seriously tight album. The Next Movement is a ridiculously bangin song. 100% Dundee as well.

[laserx54]

"Without a Doubt" best showcases what they sound like live

[mickill]

"Without A Doubt" is probably one of favorite Roots tracks, period. But the music is entirely built off of Schoolly D's "Saturday Night".

[adam_f]

I like Act Too (Love of My Life). Common's verse on that is one of the best on the album.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by mickill
"Without A Doubt" is probably one of favorite Roots tracks, period. But the music is entirely built off of Schoolly D's "Saturday Night".

?uestlove even says that in the liner notes of the album. He really writes a damn novel about each song.

[adam_f]

Fuck off.

[adam_f]

Oh my God. They dissed the Beastie Boys. Well golly, you're an idiot if you actually took that to heart.

[King of Rock II]

i love that album

[adam_f]

Well, ?uestlove and Black Thought met in 1987. Because they coudn't afford DJ equipment, Thought rapped over ?uestlove's rented drum kit. Rahzel, Malik B, and Scott Storch joined over the band over the next few years and they realeased Organix in 1993. If what you're saying is that the Roots shouldn't diss the Beastie Boys because the Beastie Boys used live instruments before them to rap over, you'd be wrong.

Yeah, the Beastie Boys used them before Licensed to Ill, but they were a punk band who rapped only for fun. Check Your Head wasn't released until 92, by then the Roots were already famous underground for their live shows with live instruments.

[Vladimir]

Actually, if Slimm is referring to ?uestlove's review of TT5B, that was very clearly not a diss. He simply said that he did not like the new record. He very specifically said that the Beasties were one of his favorite groups, but that he was simply disappointed in the new record. That's not a diss, sorry. In that review he went over every other album they've released and why it was so innovative, and I believe on Check Your Head (though I've searched and searched and I can't find his review again, i think it was on a forum and got archived) he credited the Beastie Boys as beating the Roots to the organic hip-hop-with-instruments thing.

[Tone Capone]

a diss is a diss.

they should have a little more respect for a rap band that paved the way for them.

actually alot more.

no disrespect to you and what you like.

to me there pretty fuckin ingnorant.

:D

The Beastie Boys in no way -shape -or form paved the way for The Roots....

[adam_f]

When a band forms, they don't release an album right away. Like I said, Black Thought and ?uestlove met in 1987, and with the others released the first Roots album in 1993. That doesn't mean they weren't performing local shows or recording the album when the Beastie Boys released Check Your Head. My God.

[hotzappa11]

wasnt it Stetasonic (sp?)

[Tone Capone]

really,

who was the original hip hop band?


Check Your Head wasreleased before the Roots instrument stuff no?

:confused:

The fact the the Beastie Boys played their own instruments have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Roots play their own. If the B-Boys had never existed, the Roots would be in the same spot as they are now.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by Slimm
man who is the first original hip hop band?


the very first one?


:confused:


Stetsasonic was one of the first ones. They formed in 1981.

[adam_f]

They debuted at number 4 last year with the release of the Tipping Point, they had a hit single with 'Don't Say Nuthin' and their releasing a new album in February called 'Game Theory'

They put on the most amazing live show you'd ever see too. Not that you'd give a shit, G-Unit.

[DipDipDive]

what position are the Roots in other then they get no play anywhere anymore?


:D

Right. Cause the amount of airtime that a band gets on mainstream radio and mtfuckingv determines whether or not they're talented and worth discussing. And like, ya know, unless everyone else is jocking some band, you probably shouldn't. That wouldn't be cool at all.

[adam_f]

Their debut last year with the Tipping Point was their highest debut ever. And no one puts out an album a year anymore. That's why they don't have a song on the radio.

Would you have said the same thing in, let's say 2000, when the Beastie Boys were in the middle of their six year hiatus?

[Tone Capone]

ok Mr F.

I'm gonna call my inside source and ask him whats up with the Roots?

he works with big dj's and has his own website www.mixvault.com

anyhow.

he will give me an honest answer and i'll post what he says.


:D

Well... as long as he has his own website then I'll go along with it (ps. that was sarcasm)

[steve-onpoint]

man who is the first original hip hop band?


the very first one?


:confused:


Bee Gees

[adam_f]

Originally posted by Slimm
ok Mr F.

I'm gonna call my inside source and ask him whats up with the Roots?

he works with big dj's and has his own website www.mixvault.com

anyhow.

he will give me an honest answer and i'll post what he says.

:D



That's Mr. _F to you, bucko!


Though some of that shit y'all pop true it, I ain't relating
If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hating
- Common from the song 'The 6th Sense'


If you're still referring to what ?uestlove said in his review of a Beastie Boys CD, then just read the lyrics.