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	The Roots: The Tipping Point - PopMatters Music Review
		The Roots have long been critical darlings for their skill as well as their belief in having a serious and committed musical sensibility.
		Even given it's periodic soft spots, The Roots deserve flooding praise for creating a lit fuse of a record that feels bigger than my immediate capacity to absorb, a long-term joy whose architecture I will still be surprised by years down the road.
		The Roots are the perfect marriage of credibility and accessibility.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/r/roots-tipping.shtml (1138 words)

	The Roots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Roots' debut album, Organix, was actually a live recording from a concert in Germany that the Roots sold at their shows.
		The album earned enough industry buzz to earn the Roots offers from major record labels, and they signed with DGC records, which at the time was better known for its grunge music releases.
		The album's sales were boosted by radio and TV airplay for two duets on the album, "Break U Off" (featuring Musiq Soulchild) and "The Seed 2.0" (featuring Cody ChestnuTT).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Roots (550 words)

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	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Roots (105 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Tipping Point [PA] - The Roots (Rap) at Epinions.com
		Album after album of excellence finds the lead emcee Black Thought spitting his poetic and descriptive lyrics and the Roots band pumping out some of the best beats and live instrumentals known to mankind, there's really nothing left for the band to do.
		The Roots are hell-bent on interjecting some of that old hip-hop flavor in paying main focus to the beats and rhymes and ignoring all of the gimmicks and experiments, returning back to what made The Roots so damn good: Their skill.
		The funny thing is that being so simple in crafting an album could perhaps be percieved as a concept in itself, because it's certainly breaking the norm of most of their previous work, as well as other artists.
	www.epinions.com /content_146685398660 (1540 words)

	BBC - Urban Review - The Roots, The Tipping Point
		That The Roots can transform a bona fide classic into a reaffirmation of their own strengths ("hip hop it's not pop like Kylie Minogue") while also retaining the positive sentiment of the original is no mean feat.
		album was a calculated risk, but the tipping point album is tipical evelotion of the tipe of style they first tride on phreno.
		A very good album, possibly their best, by a band that doesn't just respect its roots but has a vision for the future too, where mediocre music will give way to real talent and originality (this is the meaning of the ‘Tipping Point’).
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/urban/reviews/theroots_tipping.shtml (1446 words)

	Sepultura - Roots \| sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If Sepultura's album Chaos A.D. established the band as more than just another death metal outfit, Roots expands both its search for identity and its quest for sheer aural destruction.
		Once again, this is one of the best songs on the album because after hearing the same song many times, you’ll take just about anything else and like it.
		This album was disappointing because it just didn’t seem to amount to the first album I heard by them, Chaos A.D. The guitars aren’t really all that difficult to play, a person who has been playing for less than a year could do them.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3314&genreid=12&styleid=18 (1407 words)

	Pop Life
		It wasn't that I felt bad being so critical of the album: though I respect that others enjoyed the album, I found it to be disappointing (to say the least) and quite simply put: the worst album the Roots have ever produced.
		Some have argued that a mediocre Roots' album is better than most other rappers' good albums and I might have bought that argument a few years ago but really, I'm just tired of coming up with a "redeeming" compliment to say.
		For the first time in their long career, the Roots turn out less a cohesive album and more a collection of tracks in which nothing much makes sense: not the sequencing, not the concept, and definitely not the song selection.
	www.o-dub.com /weblog/2004/07/tipsy-they-wobble-but-they-dont-fall.html (1061 words)

	Reggae CD Store ... Updates
		The compilation album "5 Borough Fire" presents the digital vibes that were popular in New York during the 80's.
		Sean Paul's new album "The Trinity" is a straight hardcore dancehall and reggae album, which certainly keeps him in front with his grassroots fans.
		The "Doctor Echo" album as a whole is more or less a sound landscape ready to be explored.
	www.reggaecd.com /update.htm (6584 words)

	Anemic Magazine: Faithless - No Roots album review
		The acid like synth that Sister Bliss spat out of the decks like venom was shattering while the hydraulic vocal touch from Maxi Jazz added the perfect flavour to Faithless, which in conclusion, has made them one of the trademark dance acts in the past 10 year's.
		Faithless has broken the commercial scene of dance, but unlike their contemporaries that have done the same thing, Faithless still manages to make music that is respected at the highest level.
		Their place in dance music has been well established in the past and with "No Roots" being as good as it is, the respect will continue to blast through the flood barriers.
	www.anemicmagazine.com /faithlessreview.htm (535 words)

	CUBAN ROOTS
		The album "Cuban Roots" featured amazing performances from the top names in Latin jazz (including Kako, Chick Corea, Bobby Valentin, Mario Rivera, Tommy Lopez Jnr., Jullito Collazo) but was poorly recorded and has since become super scarce.
		In the midst of recording it became obvious that the new Cuban Roots project was capable of turning out a heavy album, an album equally as impressive as the inspirational "Cuban Roots" from 32 years ago.
		While inspired by legndary recordings of the past this album is firmly rooted in the present.
	www.ubiquityrecords.com /cuban_roots.html (594 words)

	Roots' album harvested from jam sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Roots engineered the artistic collisions and fostered a tone of supreme whatever-happens looseness in the rehearsal space, which they transformed into a graffiti-walled hangout.
		A stripper's stage, with mirror and pole, was installed in the lobby, and on select nights the spot was active with entertainers imported from various gentlemen's clubs.
		Richard Nichols, the Roots' manager and guiding spirit, says that, for him, that was "The Tipping Point's" tipping point: "It was like the jam mentality continued after the sessions.
	www.messenger-inquirer.com /features/go/7365076.htm (1025 words)

	Roots Radics
		Roots Radics put forth a genuinely captivating mix of roots and lovers rock that reinvigorates my passion for the genre.
		Roots Radics return with another bona fide great album, featuring songs that aren't classics but that are consistently good enough to form a strong package.
		In typical Roots Radics style, the dominant dancehall sound is a fun and positive party-inducing experience without the slackness and gun lyrics that permeate other dancehall songs.
	www.reggae-reviews.com /rootsradics.html (894 words)

	The Roots: Phrenology (2002): Reviews
		Phrenology is the hardest-hitting Roots album to date, partly because it's their most successful attempt to re-create their concert punch in the studio.
		The album combines a deep reverence for rap's visceral power with a desire to move the genre beyond its primordial synthesis of beats and rhymes.
		What is different about the overall feel of this messy and ambitious album is that it marks The Roots' liberation from genre, the neo-soul meanderings of 'Things Fall Apart' only appear when they're wanted and never outstay their welcome.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/roots/phrenology (797 words)

	The Roots - Phrenology - Album Sampler
		Legendary Philadelphia hip hop crew The Roots, widely regarded as the greatest ever live hop hop band, follow the release of their universally acclaimed fifth studio album, 'Phrenology' with the March 31st release of their new single "The Seed 2.0".
		The Roots have long played an integral role in the development of the hip-hop genre, especially its live element.
		In a testament to their universality, Jay-Z chose the band to accompany him for his MTV Unplugged show and album and earlier this year, The Roots made history with their groundbreaking performance at the world renowned Lincoln Center, in New York City.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/therootsx26x03x03 (414 words)

	Linda Hirschhorn: Music: Roots & Wings album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roots & Wings - songs of great melodic, lyrical, and spiritual depths and heights, suffused with lush harmonies.
		The roots of the words are very similar to the Hebrew.
		Its people had roots and a history and a name.
	www.lindahirschhorn.com /roots_and_wings.html (946 words)

	The Roots: Things Fall Apart ---Ink Blot Magazine
		The Roots' decision to borrow the title of Achebe's best-known work seems to suggest a negative take on the state of hip hop, but instead the group follows Achebe's lead and continues their quest to push the artistic elements of hip hop until someone decides to pay attention.
		A lot has changed for The Roots since the street corner freestyle sessions of the late 80s, but the absolutely insatiable appetite they have for hip hop remains the foundation of their fourth album.
		Like those before it, this Roots album is defined by the bevy of tracks that require multiple listens, but two immediate head-nodders stand out.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Roots_Apart.htm (496 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: No Roots [Limited Edition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's never considered cool or likely to increase your chances of being seen as a veteran fan if you say the newest album is their best ever, but this is. It's a subtle yet blatent, soreen yet full-sounding exploration of, well, just about everything.
		The album is quite mellow most of the time though.
		i was surprised by this album in addition to the recycled mid road house it was actually refreshing in places.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00020US6E (1017 words)

	♫ Crazy Beat Records -roots
		From our shop in the UK we specialise in affordable roots music, we sell roots 45’s and we are one of the cheapest UK roots stores supplying the latest roots CD vinyl music in the UK.
		We can offer several roots deals that are available to you from a roots CD album to a roots vinyl album.
		With every latest roots product our roots team (uk) and music at Crazy Beat Records roots UK take the time to listen to you and find what is the best roots artist for you.
	www.crazybeat.co.uk /roots.htm (602 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Anglicana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although academically rooted in the traditional music of the British Isles (Mum and Dad, need it be reiterated, are Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy) ace fiddler and folk starlet Eliza Carthy describes Anglicana as "an expression of Englishness as I feel it".
		Listening to this album, nobody can be in any doubt that this is, at its heart, traditional folk music, even if it is updated slightly to appeal to listeners in the new millennium.
		Although one of the themes of the album is Englishness there are, as she says, no border controls and one of the songs, In London So Fair, comes from the Irish singer Mary Ann Carolan, while some of the album was recorded in Edinburgh.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JNAJ (1045 words)

	Sound Opinions Message Board -> Should I hear the new Roots album?
		I've never been the biggest Roots fan but I almost intentionally avoided their new album for some reason.
		This album was supposed to be The Roots "taking it back to basics" and while it doesn't have the sound of Do You Want More, it does have a certain "golden age" quality about it, featuring perhaps their most simple and barebones production yet.
		As a non-Roots-fan, this album was sorta dick.
	www.soundopinions.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=5200 (782 words)

	Mystic Roots Band
		This is the widely known breakthough album that resulted in international attention amongst young and old.
		Released in May of 2001, this is the longly-awaited, full length solo debut album for cootdog.
		Mystic Roots' contribution to this collection was a rendition of a classic Peter Tosh tune entitled "Reggae Mylitis".
	www.mysticroots.com /mrb/music.asp (647 words)

	Lennon v. Levy -- The "Roots" Lawsuit
		At the time damages were determined, the album had been out for over a year, and had sold 342,000 copies in the United States, despite generally unfavorable reviews, despite the album not being new compositions and despite a recession that caused record sales to be down generally some 15-25%".
		Lennon was awarded $35,000 in compensatory damages for injury to his reputation, and an additional sum of $10,000 in punitive damages (the punitive damage award was for both the royalty claims and the damage to reputation).
		In discussing the condition of the "Roots" cover and record, the judges said that the out-of-tune track and indistinct voices were "reasonably clear even to appellate ears unused to Lennon's style of music".
	abbeyrd.best.vwh.net /lenlevy.htm (5456 words)

	John Lennon: The Roots of Rock 'N' Roll
		John's friends thought the album might sound negative, since the songs dealt with his L.A. "lost weekend," but the record turned out to be refreshing and alive and marked the return of some of the magic that surrounded John when he was a Beatle.
		The idea of an "oldies" album seemed good in 1973, but now it would be at least spring of 1975 before the record could be in the stores.
		Capitol immediately informed TV and radio stations that Roots was not an "official" John Lennon album and that anyone who continued to advertise and sell it would be liable for criminal prosecution.
	www.rarebeatles.com /roots/roots.htm (6699 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tipping Point [EXPLICIT LYRICS]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On their sixth album, the Roots backslide a bit on the creative promise they showed with 2002's Phrenology.
		There are definitely some truly great moments here: the album opens with near-magic on "Star," a mesmerizing song that is one of the finest of the group's career, and Black Thought is a one-man tour de force on "Boom!" where he mimics Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap down to their velour sweats.
		Of course The Roots didn't feel this way and they decided to punish all of their new fans by changing the very thing that made people fall in love with them in the first place: their music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002A2WAY?v=glance (2197 words)

	Roots album needs music - Parry Sound North Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those emerging roots musician, can be part of it too.
		Dig Your Roots is a national compilation CD being released through the non-profit National Campus Radio Association early next year.
		“What we are trying to do through Dig Your Roots is give artists who may have released a CD or two independently, or not even released their own CD yet, a platform for their music,” he said.
	www.parrysoundnorthstar.com /1097685825 (446 words)

	The new Roots album - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		It's a perfectly acceptable mainstream album, but as a Roots album, there was nothing on here that blew my socks off.
		There's always 3 or 4 songs on a Roots record that are just so cool, so different from everything else in hip-hop, but this album didn't have that.
		Most of the Roots have said that it's 'The Tipping Point' for a number of reasons, one of them being their place in mainstream hip-hop.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=68138 (1946 words)

	The Roots - Phrenology Album Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		America's favorite hip-hop band, The Roots, are back and putting a good feeling on your brain with their latest album, Phrenology.
		The live effect presented by The Roots makes their music sound so real, intense and passionate.
		Although the album is quite diverse and slow in spots, overall it's a pleasurable piece of hip-hop progression.
	www.geocities.com /trizoy99/reviews/phrenology.html (156 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Tipping Point [Explicit Lyrics] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is their 6th studio album and it looks like this time the boys decided to go back to the drawing board to create something that they're core fan base would appreciate.
		A lot of these mainstream Roots fans seem to be only interested in them for the fact that they play live instruments...its funny to me because it seems as if these folks never digest one word that Black Thought spits out.
		The Roots are not tree-huggers or neo-soul yall...they are a well balanced hip-hop group and Black Thought is a dope MC and thats that.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002A2WAY (1507 words)

	andPOP \| New Roots Album Out June 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Drummer Ahmir Thompson says the album is the "sum of our 6 records and our 12 years as a band.
		Most of our album titles are chosen to reflect on the mood of where the group is and we feel as though this album is our biggest step."
		A video for the first single off the album, "Don't Say Nothin'," which is produced by Storch, is currently being filmed.
	www.andpop.com /article.php?id=3108 (212 words)

	The Roots - The Tipping Point: Album Review
		I knew this album wasn't going to be any good when the first single came out sounding like the kind of shit Lloyd Banks (What kind of name is that anyway?) might rap over.
		Like all their other albums, this one has a buncha extra shit tacked on to the last song (no bad poetry though), but I'm not going to bother "reviewing" it.
		the roots' new album is subpar, bol has been a dirty cracker all along...
	www.byroncrawford.com /2004/07/the_roots_the_t.html (3598 words)

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