THE ROOTS LYRICS
Though popular success has largely eluded the Roots, the Philadelphia group showed the way for live rap, building on Stetsasonic's "hip-hop band" philosophy of the mid-'80s by focusing on live instrumentation at their concerts and in the studio. Though their album works have been inconsistent affairs, more intent on building grooves than pushing songs, the Roots' live shows are among the best in the business.
The Roots' focus ...full biography
ALBUM : "From The Ground Up" (1994)
ALBUM : "Do You Want More?!!!??!" (1995)
ALBUM : "Wake Up!" (2010)
ALBUM : "Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots Volume Two" (2005)
ALBUM : "Rising Down" (2008)
ALBUM : "The Roots Come Alive" (1999)
ALBUM : "Do You Want More?!!!??!" (1995)
- Proceed
- Distortion To Static
- Mellow My Man
- I Remain Calm
- Datskat
- Lazy Afternoon
- Do You Want More?!!!??!
- What Goes On Pt. 7
- Swept Away
- You Ain't Fly
- Silent Treatment
- The Lesson Pt. 1
- The Unlocking
ALBUM : "Wake Up!" (2010)
- Hard Times
- Wake Up Everybody
- Our Generation (The Hope Of The World)
- Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)
- Little Ghetto Boy
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
- Shine
- One Time (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
- Kool On (feat. Greg Porn & Truck North)
- Stomp (feat. Greg Porn)
- Lighthouse (feat. Dice Raw)
- I Remember
- Stomp
ALBUM : "Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots Volume Two" (2005)
- Sacrifice (Live On Bbc Radio One's Worldwide Show With Gilles Peterson)
- Pass The Popcorn (Revisited)
- The Lesson Pt. 3
- Y'all Know Who
ALBUM : "Rising Down" (2008)
ALBUM : "The Roots Come Alive" (1999)
ALBUM : "Things Fall Apart" (1999)
ALBUM : "Game Theory" (2006)
ALBUM : "The Tipping Point" (2004)
- Table Of Contents (Part 1 & 2)
- The Next Movement
- Step Into The Relm
- The Spark
- Dynamite!
- Without A Doubt
- Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New
- Double Trouble
- Act Too (The Love Of My Life)
- 100% Dundee
- Diedre Vs. Dice
- Adrenaline!
- You Got Me
- Don't See Us
- The Return To Innocence Lost
- Act Fore (The End?)
- Rising Down
- Get Busy
- @15
- 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
- Criminal
- I Will Not Apologize
- Rising Up
- Singing Man
- Unwritten
- Becoming Unwritten
- Lost Desire
- A Peace Of Light
- Act Too (The Love Of My Life)(Remix)
- Dear God 2.0
- Distortion To Static (Freestyle Mix)
- Essaywhuman?!!!??!
- For The Love Of Money
- Glitches
- I Got Over
- Make My
- One Time
- Proceed II
- Proceed III
- Proceed IV (A. J. Shine's Proceed W/O A Pause)
- Proceed V
- Rhymes And Ammo
- Rhymes And Ammo (Remix)
- Roots And Aphillyation Unreleased
- Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix)
- Sleep
- Tao of the Machine
- The Good, The Bad And The Desolate
- The 'Notic
- The Other Side
- The OtherSide
- The Show
- TIP THE SCALE
- Tomorrow
- Understand
- Walk Alone
- Walk Us Uptown
- When The People Cheer
- Ya All Know Who!
ALBUM : "Game Theory" (2006)
- False Media
- Game Theory
- Don't Feel Right
- In The Music
- Take It There
- Baby
- Here I Come
- Long Time
- Livin' In A New World
- Clock With No Hands
- Atonement
ALBUM : "The Tipping Point" (2004)
- Star / Pointro
- I Don't Care
- Don't Say Nuthin'
- Guns Are Drawn
- Stay Cool
- Web
- Boom!
- Somebody's Got To Do It
- Duck Down!
- Why (What's Going On?)
- Rock You
- Sacrifice
- Rolling With Heat
- Thought @ Work
- The Seed (2.0)
- Break You Off
- Water
- Quills
- Complexity
- Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
- The Seed 2.0
- Pussy Galore
- Respond / React
- Section
- Panic!!!!!!!
- It Just Don't Stop
- Episodes
- Push Up Ya Lighter
- What They Do
- Concerto Of The Desperado
- Clones
- Universe At War
- No Alibi
- No Great Pretender
- The Hypnotic
- Ital (The Universal Side)
- The Adventures In Wonderland
- Dave Vs. US