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	YouTube - Roots Manuva - Witness
		A word of unknown origin ingeniously used in the hip-hop song "Witness" (artist: Roots Manuva) - referring to a man-made hidden meaning, probably a South London word-mix of prophet and crocheting.
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		Roots Manuva Witness Hip-hop music video run come save me
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=wbuSdXKtJX4 (441 words)

	BIG DADA Albums - Ninja Obsession
		Roots Manuva est depuis son premier album catégorisé par la presse comme un leader d'une scène dite "UK hip hop", qui n'a vraiment plus aucun sens.
		Mais il faut bien l'admettre, Roots Manuva fait partie d'une catégorie à part, une sorte de "hors pistes" du hip hop anglais, dans laquelle on trouvait jadis Tricky, aujourd'hui Dizzee Rascal ou Wiley.
		Qui nient les traditions du mainstream années 80-pop-rock pour réinventer un hip hop qui n'attend qu'à fusionner avec des traditions vraiment roots et d'autres vraiment modernes.
	www.timec.net /ninjatune/index.php/Big-dada-albums (731 words)

	MySpace.com - Roots Manuva - Hip Hop / Dub / Electronica - www.myspace.com/rootsmanuva
		Roots Manuva's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
		It was more of a life-giving bass.” In this simple recollection it’s easy to locate the driving force of a whole lot of what Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is all about, what he remains all about right up until this very day.
		Roots replied that he was tired of making one-off singles and would only sign to do an album.
	www.myspace.com /rootsmanuva (1306 words)

	Big Dada Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
		Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva released his MOBO-winning debut album, “Brand New Second Hand,” in 1999 and his Mercury-nominated, gold-certified follow up, “Run Come Save Me,” in 2001.
		When Roots Manuva called his album “Awfully Deep” he wasn’t necessarily talking about how profound it was or how profound he was.
		Perhaps influenced by the birth of his son, Manuva constantly refers to the battle to do the right thing in the face of temptation.
	www.bigdada.com /release.php?id=939 (824 words)

	Low-Life \| UK Hip Hop Story \| Roots Manuva - Witness
		Roots Manuva chose potentially the hardest route for himself, riding both sides of the equation.
		As a result of this relative success and hard work Roots' lyrical skills were in demand and he rapidly became something of a cameo king, destroying microphones for the likes of Leftfield, Skitz, Mr Scruff, Mica Paris, 23 Skidoo and Pharoahe Monch, amongst several others as well.
		Roots could have headed more underground or jiggy, but having produced three quarters of the new material himself his refusal to conform shows at every turn.
	www.low-life.fsnet.co.uk /ukhiphop/artists/roots_manuva-dreamy_days.htm (1487 words)

	Amazon.com: Brand New Second Hand: Music: Roots Manuva (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the main appeals of Roots Manuva's work, isn't just the swaggering beats or the distinctly original approach to production, which is a mixture of swaggering rhythms, hard-edged beats, syncopated percussion, a strong tendency toward dubwise beats, bottomless bass and reverberating vibes, or oddball squelches and aggressive sounds and energetic thumps.
		Roots Manuva is blessed with the ability to unfurl and communicate life's subtleties through his rhymes...
		Roots Manuva is intellectual enough and mature enough to cross that hip hop border I've set up.
	www.amazon.com /Brand-Second-Hand-Roots-Manuva/dp/B00000ICLB (2131 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Awfully Deep [Limited Edition]: Music: Roots Manuva (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roots Manuva has been a troubled man and he does not hide this in Awfully Deep.
		Roots Manuva is a man with an incredible talent, a very deep mind, and the best album in years.
		After seeing roots manuva only last night, i felt i had to review his latest offering to the uk hip hop world with awfully deep.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Awfully-Deep-Limited-Roots-Manuva/dp/B0006VXG86 (1189 words)

	Perfect Sound Foerver: Blunts and Crumpets- Britain’s Manuva's in the Hip Hop Game
		The UK boasts many such artists, including the sci-fi surrealists New Flesh or the dubby, beat mechanic Roots Manuva, whose shimmering, self-made tracks seem to point the way to some future school of hip hop, where everyone is an auteur and no one needs to specialize.
		Without Pro Tools, without drum machines, without a mixer, Roots Manuva, armed with nothing but his abstract lyrics and a two-man crew of nervous-looking British heads, has to find a way to turn out a club filled with increasingly disinterested yanks (mostly pale of face) to prove he is on the real.
		But whether he knew it or not, Roots had something to prove to us, he was there to represent his neighborhood (a bigger, more remote hood than most).
	www.furious.com /perfect/rootsmanuva.html (1882 words)

	Roots Manuva - HIPHOP - I Like Music
		For the first single from his forthcoming album, "Awfully Deep," Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva takes one of his trademark body-swerves and reminds us just who the boss is when it comes to innovative, original and straight up catchy Black British music.
		2005 is here and Roots Manuva is about to infect your senses in these numbing winter months with a revitalising game for his forthcoming single 'Colossal Insight', to be released on the 17th January off his fourth and most highly anticipated album yet, 'Awfully Deep'.
		Roots Manuva is off on tour from the 23rd February until the 4th March and what a momentous occasion it promises to be.
	www.ilikemusic.com /hiphop/Roots_Manuva-953 (648 words)

	Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep : album review
		It looks as if Roots Manuva had to travel through some kind of personal hell in the making of this album, and the fact he's emerged the other side with a grin and sense of humour still intact says much about the strength of his personality.
		The album's title track relates the depths to which he plunged, as he was sent to "the farms of the funny", where "nurses poke you in the arse and measure your schlong - that practise is wrong!" It's the darkest moment of the record, and hits hard only two tracks in.
		However you choose to interpret this record one thing's for certain - Roots Manuva is one of a kind, instantly recognisable yet difficult to track down musically, obviously British but cosmopolitan in his outlook on life.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/roots-manuva.htm (574 words)

	Amazon.com: Dub Come Save Me: Music: Roots Manuva (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manuva has always fancied himself something of a dubmeister, paying homage to his Jamaican roots.
		Manuva turns his hand to, Dub Come Save Me is weirdly sophisticated and serves as an essential companion to the original long player.
		It was great to hear Roots Manuva expand his musical horizons, and he came up with some great songs.
	www.amazon.com /Dub-Come-Save-Roots-Manuva/dp/B0000695UB (1018 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com - Roots Manuva: Awfully Deep
		Roots Manuva’s still here, but his dubby, reggae-flavored Brit-hop’s stuck in the pre-millennial womb of its origin.
		Manuva’s stuck between a rave and a hard place, where his aging introspection looks to slip some rufies of pseudo-philosophy into the cocktails of a lost demographic; under the waving glowsticks Awfully Deep creeps, calling itself more intelligent and mature while breaking out a few gimpy dance moves.
		Then Roots talks about how he’s tired of the rap game, and, golly gee, he’s convincing.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/manuva_deep2005.html (206 words)

	Roots Manuva: Brand New Secondhand: Pitchfork Record Review
		Manuva doesn't play this scenario for laughs; it's more of a warning against loss of self- control and dignity.
		Manuva has selected the anti- Bomb Squad approach-- little more than a bassline and a beat box.
		Similar to labelmate DJ Vadim, Roots Manuva revels in the abstract sounds of everyday objects (check out the cover art of a tumble of ancient microwave ovens and furniture held together with duct tape).
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/manuva_roots/brand-new-secondhand.shtml (674 words)

	Special Feature - Roots Manuva (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In January 2005 Manuva released Awfully Deep to critical acclaim.
		It’s a record Manuva describes as a “sonic daringness.
		Roots Manuva: I remember The Prince’s Trust gave me £250 about 10 years ago as a marketing grant for my label.
	www.princes-trust.org.uk /umf3/features/roots.shtml (357 words)

	Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
		Roots replied that he was tired of making one-off singles and would only sign to do an album.
		But the process of the promoting the record and the pressures of recording it left Mr Manuva feeling battered and bruised, which goes some way to explaining the long gap until his new album, "Awfully Deep".
		Smith is too aware of the importance of music to leave it to other people: "It's not just the lyrics that speak.
	www.okayplayer.com /nowhearthis/nhtrm.htm (1142 words)

	Roots Manuva, Brixton Academy, March 4 2005
		Roots Manuva may just have topped 2001’s Mercury nominated ‘Run Come Save Me’ with this year’s ‘Awfully Deep’, and while he may rap about bitter and cheese-on-toast, with a performance this slick he’s proved he’s got the live skills to match.
		Blending DJ Diplo’s hip-hop, ragga and electro beats with her spitting lyrics, her debut album due next month should be a blinder.
		Similarly, the irony of Roots Manuva’s synonymous ‘Best UK Hip-Hop’ tag is that it’s debatable whether Rodney Smith’s music can even be described purely as hip-hop.
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=70848 (374 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
		Roots Manuva is a lone wolf, a lyrical rogue trader who skirts the periphery of a genre where ego has more clout than musical competence.
		Now Rodney Smith aka Roots has stepped from the underground shadows of 1999's 'Brand New Second Hand' classic to remind the braggadocios what real hip-hop is all about.
		Although hip-hop is the mainstay of the album, this is a slick hotchpotch of styles, running the musical gamut of Ambient Breakbeat to Zulu stopping off at electronica, funk, ragga and blues in between.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/0823/rootsmanuva.html (389 words)

	BIGBAER Urban Alternative: Roots Manuva Awfully De/EP
		Roots is raw in the Brit sense with style and skill to match anything and anyone on this side of the pond.
		ROOTS MANUVA "Awfully De/EP" EP “It’s the R O D, the N E Y, that’s that bloke, that geez, that guy.”
		Roderick Manuva returns with a blood ‘n’ thunder EP inspired by but not totally in thrall to the magnificent “Awfully Deep” album, now MOBO-nominated and generally agreed to have been a very surprising omission from the Mercury shortlist.
	www.bigbaer.com /archives/2005/10/roots_manuva_aw_1.html (623 words)

	Big Dada Roots Manuva
		In this simple recollection it’s easy to locate the driving force of a whole lot of what Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is all about, what he remains all about right up until this very day.
		His fascination with and love of soundsystem culture informs not just his music and lyrics but his whole attitude towards life and goes some way to explain his popularity both as an artist and an individual.
		He debuted as Roots Manuva the same year on Blak Twang’s “Queen’s Head” single, before releasing his own single, “Next Type of Motion” the following year through the same label, the hugely influential Sound of Money.
	www.bigdada.com /artist.php?id=14 (969 words)

	BBC - collective - roots manuva video session, interview, music video and track
		Don’t worry though, the elements that make Roots Manuva a unique proposition - warped baritone chants, lucid leftfield patter, off-kilter beats and digital dub bass - have not been diluted by the extra production.
		I suggest it has something to do with the lyrics, the fact that he makes himself vulnerable, admitting to all sorts of inner unrest, that it’s not riddled with machismo and “frontin’”, that it’s more British.
		It may not be a Roots Manuva record, it might be a collaboration with a number of people.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3587998 (740 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Listings - Artists - Roots Manuva
		It is hard to underestimate the impact of the record on a genre of music, which seemed to have gone into hibernation in the UK of the early nineties.
		Manuva has produced three quarters of the new material himself and his refusal to conform shows at every turn.
		The range of the sound is a reflection of the Manuva mindset – seemingly disparate but all pushing in the same direction.
	www.drownedinsound.com /bands/1689 (954 words)

	Roots Manuva - New Music - Peoplesound
		A loping, instantly catchy mixture of music hall, musical, self-loathing and unfeasibly large bass, all the trademark parts of the Roots Manuva package are here, just wrapped up in a way we haven?t heard before.
		Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva takes one of his trademark body-swerves and reminds us just who the boss is when it comes to innovative, original and straight-up catchy Black British music.
		Some have been used as downloads or B sides or exclusives, some have never been released before, but this is the best way to be sure of having them all.
	www.peoplesound.com /artist/roots_manuva (432 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
		Roots Manuva's long-awaited return sees the Stockwell MC taking a tilt at reclaiming the crown of UK hip-hop don.
		As the others entered the limelight, Roots Manuva crept back into the shadows.
		This album might not blow away the competition, but the strength of this release leaves little doubt that Rodney Smith has quashed the creative demons that have hounded him.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2005/0214/rootsmanuva.html (339 words)

	GIANT STEP™ \| Artist - Roots Manuva
		Recorded during the 'Awfully Deep' sessions, Roots Manuva is set to release his fourth studio...
		Roots Manuva Set To Play An Exclusive DJ Set in NYC
		In NYC with the Gorillaz, Roots Manuva is set to make a quick stop at Cielo (NYC) to play an...
	www.giantstep.net /artists/603 (136 words)

	Roots Manuva . Alternately Deep [prefixmag review]
		Roots Manuva, portrays scenarios of head doctors torturing his fragile mind, threatens to quit the biz, and generally complains of being anointed a figurehead for U.K. rap.
		Granted, Roots Manuva is no stranger to re-imagining studio albums, what with his
		On the first track, Roots Manuva is "shaking [his] tush" to the music and calling himself the fl George Clooney.
	www.prefixmag.com /reviews/cds/R/Roots-Manuva/Alternately-Deep/2106 (700 words)

	Roots Manuva \| Music Artist \| Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones \| MTV
		British rapper/producer Rodney Smith established himself as Roots Manuva in the late '90s and began releasing a series of highly regarded albums through Big Dada (which were usually distributed...
		British rapper/producer Rodney Smith established himself as Roots Manuva in the late '90s and began releasing a series of highly regarded albums through Big Dada (which were usually distributed by Ninja Tune).
		Smith's work spanned the music spectrum, firmly rooted in dub and ragga but also incorporating much of the trip-hop style often associated with Ninja Tune.
	www.mtv.com /music/artist/roots_manuva/bio.jhtml (243 words)

	Roots Manuva News - Topix
		Roots Manuva News continually updated by readers like you.
		Even those who did predict one probably thought it would be led by one of London's male rap - not a turbo-tongued pipsqueak like Lady...
		I edit the Roots Manuva News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
	www.topix.net /who/roots-manuva (213 words)

	Roots Manuva : interview
		Rodney Smith was a upcoming rapper and producer until he started recording in his own right as Roots Manuva.
		A lot was made of the three-year gap between the Manuva second and third albums, but Rodney says about the new record: "I tried just to be lyrically cloaked and cryptic rather than giving a plain open thesis.
		A key development point for Roots Manuva was working with Leftfield on their Dusted track.
	www.musicomh.com /interviews/roots-manuva.htm (856 words)

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