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- Summary: The latest studio album from the hip-hop group features Common, Malik B, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Styles P, Wale, and DJ Jazzy Jeff, amongst others guest artists.
- Record Label: Def Jam
- Genre(s): Rap
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Top Track
Birthday Girl | |
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What is it we wanna do? Now that I'm allowed to be alone with you Birthday Girl it's your birthday Wherever you wanna go Now you are old enough to go... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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With an incongruent Fall Out Boy track set aside for single duty and all those rappers a dream community taking the burden off Black Thought, this is the most accomplished pure hip-hop album in years.
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Encapsulating everything that has come to pass since their debut with "Organix" in 1993, Rising Down is the best The Roots release to date, bar none.
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With "75 Bars" being the only real dud on the album, Rising Down proves to be more of a collection of songs that work together as a whole than one cohesive album.
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Elsewhere, 'Criminal' and 'I Will Not Apologize' find the group making its most acute, nail-driven points in years.
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Rising Down isn't always an easy listen, but it's an exciting one, and its abrasiveness never gets in the way of a good throw-your-hands-up beat or a well-crafted lyric.
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The production style displays unique shadings and shifts in sound, suggesting an attention to sonic detail emblematic of a drummer with the deep musical (especially jazz-related) knowledge that ?uestlove owns. But this may also sustain the most oft-heard complaint against the Roots: the seeming inability of their lead vocalist, Black Thought, to unfailingly deliver "hip-hop quotables."
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Rising Down is pretty much same old same old.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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RadoslavP.Jul 12, 2008Simply the best rap has to offer - phylosophical and politicly aware - it just makes you think about life.
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DunDMay 1, 2008Thanks for save "Real Hip-Hop".
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LouisD.May 8, 2008
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jayApr 30, 2008
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ScotTMay 1, 2008Great album....probably my 3rd favorite of theirs. "Criminal" is one of their most solid songs EVER. Get his album now.
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WarrenL.May 1, 2008
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PaulCMay 6, 2008This is a great album. While I think The Roots peaked with Things Fall Apart, this album is one of their best in recent years.
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