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	The Music Box: The Roots - The Tipping Point (Album Review)
		In comparison with its previous efforts, The Roots’ latest endeavor The Tipping Point is a simplistic, no-frills affair that serves as an attempt by the ensemble to get back to basic hip-hop grooves without losing the artistic credibility that it has amassed over the course of its five previous outings.
		At its best, The Tipping Point is positively brilliant, though the album also suffers from the notorious industry practice of front-loading.
		Granted, The Tipping Point is far more focused than The Roots’ previous efforts — containing nothing that feels like filler within the collection’s 10 primary tracks and 2 bonus selections — but it’s also not the picture-perfect cultural phenomenon that the ensemble undoubtedly hoped to create.
	www.musicbox-online.com /rt-tip.html (472 words)

	Bagatellen: The Roots - The Tipping Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nonetheless, the guest spots on "The Tipping Point" are wonderfully spaced, never stealing from the main act, and always on point as elements -- rather than cosmetics -- to the music.
		This album is full of subtle-enough hooks, but maybe this is a good place to add that the record has its own philosophy, which makes it a candidate for study and for casual listening.
		Tipping Point for me marks a return to the original live sound and thats a very, very good thing.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/row/000884.html (741 words)

	BBC - Urban Review - The Roots, The Tipping Point
		album was a calculated risk, but the tipping point album is tipical evelotion of the tipe of style they first tride on phreno.
		This album sucked more than phrenology, which sucked way more than Roots Comes Live, which was a mix of most of their best songs and probably the last best album they released, which was 5 to 6 years ago.
		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 (1445 words)

	The Roots New Album Tipping Point - SOHH.com Global Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While the album isn't due until early April 2004, the group hopes to wrap the jam sessions in November.
		"Tipping Point" will be the follow-up to 2002's "Phrenology," which debuted at No. 28 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 614,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
		And also, stop hatin on Phrenology, because although it pales in comparison to the three albums directly before it, it is still better than most albums in the last 2 or 3 years.
	forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=388314 (765 words)

	Albums of the artist singer songer: Roots - album albums songs work works
		The album is capped off with Can't Stop This, a touching tribute with sometime producer J Dilla, who produced two songs on this album, who succumbed to lupus after a three year battle.
		It is obvious this tipping point was to crossover to fans of the less introspective side of hip hop, a huge gap to fill for a sadly underappreciated group in dumbed down, big money, mtvworld.
		This album is a foreboding one in the fact that it does point to a future without any raw instrumentation, where thumping over-produced brags will always outsell genuine composition and atmospherics simply because more people have more money who have the attention for that..Let us hope the Roots do not forget their's.
	www.poemhunter.com /lyrics/roots/albums (3502 words)

	The Roots - The Tipping Point - Review - Stylus Magazine
		But The Tipping Point showcases a group a bit too smart to be caught in that trap.
		While hip-hop albums frequently run long with bloated guest tracks, unfunny skits and tiresome filler, great mainstream singles, and even quite a bit of the not-so-great ones, are characterized by a tight sense of pop brevity.
		At a time when hip-hop seems to feverishly race toward the outer edges of the genre, the Roots, playing the middle ground, balancing at the tipping point, run the risk of condemnation from all the disparate groups likely to hear them this year.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2198 (803 words)

	The Roots “The Tipping Point” Review — Soulmind Online Archive
		Perhaps The Tipping Point is meant to have that anticipatory edge, the sense that The Roots are attempting to revitalize their genre by threading mainstream hip-hop’s idolatry of the hook with underground hip-hop’s consciousness raising and worshipful sense of musical genealogy.
		That nick sounds most evident in some of the lyrical low points that seem stunted by their attempt to mimic the ricochet of freestyling, but only serve to highlight the imaginative constraints of rhyming on the fly.
		The Tipping Point is a caught breath on their way to their next incarnation, a melding momentum that just might lead the promise of it’s title.
	www.soulmind-online.com /2006/01/24/the-roots-the-tipping-point (1245 words)

	Eye Weekly - Cue Tipping - 05.13.04
		Though their new album, The Tipping Point, won't come out until mid-July, The Roots are already on tour, lining up about 170 gigs, some as far away as Istanbul.
		After reading Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point, which discusses how minor cultural phenomena develop and spread into movements like a virus, ?uestlove suggested it be the title of their follow-up to 2002's epic Phrenology.
		Their goal was to make a "real" hip-hop album that wasn't about "keepin' it real." For too long that overused slogan has justified the rote thug rhymes that have kept commercial rap locked in stasis.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.13.04/beat/roots.html (1062 words)

	Album The Tipping Point by The Roots - AOL Music
		Album The Tipping Point by The Roots - AOL Music
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	The Tipping Point :: Sixshot.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is the kind of album most groups drool over making once in their careers: the Roots have accomplished the feat twice in ten years (If you don't believe me, leave again to cop illadelph halflife from your local record store).
		The sixth Roots studio album begins with a cover of the classic Sly and the Family Stone "Everybody is a Star", simply named "Star", which sounds simpy beautiful.
		The Roots had one of the most anticipated albums of the year on their hands with the Tipping Point, and this is that one in a million album that delivers on the hype.
	www.sixshot.com /print.asp?id=3903 (891 words)

	The Roots: The Tipping Point (2004): Reviews
		The Tipping Point may not boost The Roots' Soundscan numbers to a point commensurate with the acclaim and respect it commands, but the set marks another triumph from a group that seems incapable of producing anything less.
		Ultimately, The Tipping Point is an ironic title, given the fact that the Roots sound like a group recharging its batteries rather than triggering a momentous shift in how it approaches its music and the world at large.
		The Tipping Point is a nice effort that will definitely garner new fans but also turn off people who were fans since Organix.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/roots/tippingpoint (917 words)

	Slant Magazine - Music Review: The Roots: The Tipping Point
		The Tipping Point, which was reportedly constructed from snatches of improvisation, might not be as ambitious as their cultural ultimatum Things Fall Apart, or as zeitgeisty as Phrenology, but it might just be their most jovial effort yet.
		As if to announce their intention to school some of their fan base on the importance of well-rounded musicology, the album is bookended with unexpected near-covers.
		The opening, "Star," is a stunning revisit of Sly and the Family Stone's "Everybody Is A Star" that, according to the notes, was created simply because a fan told them she dreamed that they would do a cover and it would be one of their best tracks.
	www.slantmagazine.com /music/music_review.asp?ID=470 (377 words)

	The Roots MP3 Downloads - The Roots Music Downloads - The Roots Music Videos
		The delivery of any new Roots album is rarely talked or written about without the words "highly" and "anticipated," and The Tipping Point is no exception.
		Sounds like a don't-care-about-the-final-package, music-for-music's-sake release, but the album is a well-constructed ride from start to finish that's perfect for a headphones-on, lights-out evening and a gift to fans who found 2002's Phrenology a bit mannered and forced.
		The Tipping Point is too modest to be the "idea that spreads like a virus" that's explored in the Malcolm Gladwell book the collection cops it title from.
	www.mp3.com /albums/636035/summary.html (530 words)

	Just Soul - Albums
		But for me ‘The Tipping Point’, really does tip over the edge of commercial, and now you’ll hear a much blander and less inspiring side to the roots.
		The highlight of the album is the last track, which has an incredible switch, from the ‘Love it or Leave It Alone’ with Mos Def and Common, to ‘Jam Rock’ with Domain Marley.
		The album starts of with a Sunday morning church vibe, with the gospel sounding acapella to the god filled lyrics, but this reaches nicely to the pumping songs of ‘Karm’ and ‘Heartburn’, both offering some fine horn sections and energy.
	www.justsoul.net /albums/albums16.htm (1655 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tipping Point [Explicit Lyrics] [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On The Tipping Point, their sixth album, the Roots backslide a bit on the creative promise they showed with 2002's Phrenology.
		There are definitely some great moments here: the album opens with near-magic on "Star", a mesmerising 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.
		But The Tipping Point also has some of their blandest production ever, and, at 11 songs (plus two bonus tracks), the compactness of the album amplifies the problems.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002A2WAY (349 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Tipping Point [PA] - The Roots (Rap) at Epinions.com
		The Tipping Point [PA] by The Roots (Rap)
		Starting with the release of their 2004 album, over the next two weeks I will be reviewing the albums of what I feel is the greatest hip-hop group of all time (rivaled only by the legendary Tribe Called Quest), and arguably the best artist to ever hit the studio-- Illadelph's own Roots crew.
		The Roots could not have opened their album in a better way, an immediate breath of fresh air in a year filled with stale rap releases left and right.
	www.epinions.com /content_147969511044 (879 words)

	New from The Roots - The Tipping Point - Thread
		The Tipping Point surprises again, not because it is pushing new boundaries in hip-hop as their previous album did, but because they have fallen back on their hip-hop heritage.
		Some Roots fans may be disappointed that this album is not so varied but the result is a cohesive collection of ten tracks that won’t have you reaching for the skip button.
		The Tipping Point is solid and will definitely draw in some new listeners to the band while maybe turning off some old fans at the same time.
	www.thread.co.nz /article/997 (492 words)

	IGN: The Tipping Point Review
		But beyond the lean number of tracks and the under one hour elapsed time of the disc The Tipping Point is a somewhat jolting departure from the neo-experimentalism the group displayed on Phrenology.
		For most of the album's 10 tracks the band seems to have forgone much of their organic richness in favor of more streamlined sounds of the day-styled production.
		Yet even though portions of the album show ?uestlove and the rest of the crew taking a breather from being an experimental band and instead regressing into rap's past and dipping into slick, studio crafted R&B vibes, it still has several noteworthy high points—most notably Black Thought's nickel slick verbiage and dominating microphone presence.
	music.ign.com /articles/530/530118p1.html (888 words)

	Popjournalism :: Pop Reviews :: The Roots, The Tipping Point
		Unlike its predecessor, The Tipping Point is culled together from a series of jam sessions and it gives the album a looser feel.
		But the best track on the album is the hidden song that puts together funk and African style beat boxing.
		The Tipping Point is a stylish album that focuses on building grooves as opposed to creating strong singles.
	www.popjournalism.ca /pop/reviews/2004/00083.shtml (203 words)

	The Roots :: The Tipping Point :: Geffen Records/Okayplayer
		With no less than a half-dozen albums under their belt since 1993, this group has been at the forefront of a revolution in hip-hop sound and culture.
		Some of that dissatisfaction is clearly evident in "The Tipping Point." While their 2002 "Phrenology" album was a high water mark, an intense journey through lyrically and musically ambidexterous hip-hop, "The Tipping Point" feels more like a resigned shrug at their predicament of Geffen's inability to understand their vision or push their product properly.
		The sum total of the album is a 60/40 percentage split, which might be good enough to win an election (something titling the album "The Tipping Point" almost seems to hint at) but really isn't up to the standards one expects of the legendary Roots crew.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2004_07_tipping.html (1297 words)

	AfricasGateway.com - Tipping Point - The Story About The Roots
		The band names it The Tipping Point, based on the Malcolm Gladwell book, expecting the sum of their good work since 1987 to finally push them to their own epidemic of success.
		The album features Jean Grae, Martin Luther, Devin the Dude and Dave Chappelle in an appearance on "In Love with (The Mic)" and an homage to Sly and the Family Stone in a “virtual” duet on “Everybody Is a Star.”
		The brilliance of The Roots is not that they are “real musicians” or that they make insightful literary references in their album titles, but the shifts they constantly make, which make them analogous to time--always moving.
	www.africasgateway.com /article-print-746.html (743 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Reviews
		When The Roots released their sixth album, Phrenology, in 2002, the general consensus was that while great moments were there, it left you more scratching your head than nodding it.
		Lending to the dark feel of the album's first single is Black Thought's mumbled chorus which, perhaps unexpectedly, serves as an appropriate vocal accompaniment.
		?uestlove has been quoted as saying that his favorite albums are all under 35 minutes and the brevity of the album only reinforces the strength of the music.
	www.allhiphop.com /reviews/?ID=363 (1018 words)

	The Roots: The Tipping Point [2004] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
		The Roots' new album The Tipping Point sounds like the work of a band reeling from a lack of support from its label, and more than a little pissed off at the current political climate in America.
		The Tipping Point is comparatively compact (clocking in at under an hour) and far more minimal in both its beats and lyrical content.
		Rather than build on the innovative samples and improvisational elements that have defined the band's progressive identity, the Roots instead tip their caps to familiar groups and artists from yesteryear.
	www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2004/roots_tipping_point_2004.html (609 words)

	The Roots - The Tipping Point : album review
		Expectations for The Tipping Point are understandably high - it is not for nothing that these Illadelphs have global respect in the music industry.
		Web, The Tipping Point's sixth track, is The Roots at their bare-bones best, comprising of a minimal drum break and a three-minute lyrical onslaught from Black Thought.
		The Tipping Point is entirely easy to absorb, and perhaps a little too easy in that sense.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/roots.htm (575 words)

	village voice > music > The Roots' The Tipping Point by Oliver Wang
		With The Tipping Point, the group scampers in retreat toward functional street anthems and radio hits, their inventive spirit notably absent.
		The Tipping Point begins auspiciously with the sublime "Star," opening with the analog crackle of Sly Stone's "Everybody Is a Star," then quickly stripping the sample into ribbons of ghostly voices and curling basslines.
		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.villagevoice.com /music/0429,wang,55233,22.html (689 words)

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