the roots: classic or dud?

i don't understand either of those sentences xp

i thought CB4 was our 'this is spinal tap'

maybe it comes from being a writer and always analyzing things such as "pop music writ large", I dunno

Rock and Roll helped to change a lot of things imo. I think it contributed to the liberalization of certain social attitudes and probably gave consumerism and materialist individualism a big boost.

what is a roots show like these days? ive not seen them in quite a few years but am curious to know what kind of set they do now (theyre in london next month). is it just lots of jamming? lots of covers?

black thought just put out a record, anyone hear it?

RIP Malik B.

ahh man no fuckin way =(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt-K7DwrG90

fucking jam. rest in peace.

Damn, I don't listen to as much rap as a lot of people around here do, but Illadelph Halflife was a big record for me when I was about 18, and nowadays, if a random hip-hop lyric pops into my head for some reason, it's probably Malik B.

npr swipe.

just. . . man.

fuck man, always had a soft spot for him.

i trained wack emcees in camps like ex-marines

Damn he was my favorite, especially on Things Fall Apart, him and Dice Raw

best ever malik b:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnrUePtOcXA

I'm symbolic to a ballot, it's Abdul Malik
Don't approach with bullshit, I'm quick to call it invalid
Route through your district, we keep it simplistic
No need for the rapper to talk, put it on halt
Show me the vault, or the safe, cause I'm on the paper chase
Wade through route states for bout thirty down my waist
I'm tryna get it, these rain bottling thoughts become acidic
With one in the chamber, ready to aim and spit it
A girlfriend and team made million cash just splintered
I take what you got to give, cause I got to live
The last hour, I bet your ass in rack shower
Might act up, but I still can pass Da'wah
I'm using new ways to try to reach these better days
Instead of tryna take you under, I just make you wonder
I still fast, make salaat and pay zakaat
I didn't make Hajj yet, but that's my next project
Living two lives, one of turn and one with true lies
Keeping up hope, knowing he's answering to my du'as
In the quarters living modest with my nigga Trotter
I circle my foes like a tawaf around the ka'ba
I used to live life like there was no mañana
Now I'm treating every breath like it was Your Honor
I'm Mill-itill-itant with the Fifth that stand firm like a pillar
I'm I and T-L like Manilla

THIS
IS
WHAT
IT'S
ALL
ABOUT

Just dropping in to say this album Black Thought & El Michels Affair released this week is extremely fine.

Thanks for the head’s up, JF!

Black Thought is one of the if not the single most underrated MCs. That Funk Flex show where he free-styled coherently for like 10 minutes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQgSpV3fA

Will check that out, thanks JF. I enjoyed this podcast going back through Things Fall Apart, which still hits me as one of the best *sounding* records ever made.
https://player.fm/series/the-questions-hip-hop-trivia/making-illmatic-the-roots-things-fall-apart-w-supastition

Also I'm calling it now, based on the clips one heard, the next Roots record will be their best since TFA.

Thanks for the heads up!

Things Fall Apart sounds *sooooooo* good that I can barely listen to it anywhere but on a good stereo.

Beanie Sigel's verse on "Adrenaline!" with the "n' nem" flow is one of my favs of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlu0W-mHAIw

YES

THAT SONG RULES SO HARD

one time it came on at a club i was in in Chicago and my sisters and i lost our minds. others seemed bemused.

gotta listen to it right now

great getting ready music

will make you feel invulnerable

THEY USED TO TALK SHIT
BUT IMMA QUIET 'EM

Now I'm enjoying Open Mike Eagle's podcast series w/Questlove, currently going through Things Fall Apart (they already did the first three records). I'll never tire of learning tiny nerdy production details about this record.

For one I always thought this was one of the records done at Electric Lady, but it was all in Philly (drums/instruments recorded at Sigma Sound). Truly a testament to the '90s music industry funding seemingly infinite studio time.