This little treat dropped over the weekend. Remember that Roots Dilla Joints mixtape that was released a few weeks ago? Dice Raw took the Roots instrumental tracks and lent some lyrics to them. He can do that. TRACKLIST: 1.) Long Time Coming 2.) Pregunta 3.) Hello World 4.) Full 5.) Doot Doo Dah Da 6.) [cont.]

Fresh is the word….. There was a time in the early 1990′s when people were trying to figure out what this song meant.

Wha..huh? The Roots cover Dilla classics… Leaked by ?uestlove via Twitter a month ago, then re-released into the blogosphere by KNOWxONE. 01. Donuts Outro 02. Hot Shit (I’m Back!) 03. World Full Of Sadness 04. Upper Egypt 05. Stereolab 06. The Stars 07. Antiquity (feat. The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Dillchestra) 08. She Said 09. Hall & [cont.]

To Have & To Hold – Taster Tape from Jony Lyle on Vimeo. How about we balance out the WMC posts with a documentary about the love of vinyl? This documentary is still in production, but features interviews with ?uestlove, Bobbito Garcia, Chuck D of Public Enemy, and others.

Taken from The Stimulus Package, in stores now.

“It’s The Chronic, what? Culls of Narina!” E’rebody now…. Recorded Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, March 9th, 2010.

Lead single from Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part II: Return of The Ankh, dropping March 30th.

Lead single from Luda’s Battle Of the Sexes, dropping next week.

Vampire Weekend, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Mayer Hawthorne, Clipse, Pattern Is Movement, The Legendary Roots crew, and more. Check the clip for full rundown.

The Roots present to you a good reason to spend money on music = collectability. What separates this 12″ single from every other boring piece of vinyl is the etched design. Yes, this 12″ is actually factory etched on the vinyl itself with the silhouettes of the legendary Roots crew. Plus, it includes the title [cont.]

The Roots have evolved their sound once again, this time going for the kind of funk-revival sound found on recent releases from artists like El Michels Affair and The Dap Kings. “How I Got Over” amazingly did not leak on the internet in MP3 form, and made it’s debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon [cont.]

Shit is fucked. Whether on the micro scale of hip-hop itself, to the median of the descent of the music industry, to the macro scale of world politics, shit is fucked. The seeds of discontent germinating within The Roots crew date back to their humble beginnings, as demonstrated in the album’s opening skit, which offers [cont.]

      Remember when Def Jam used to make classic records? The Roc-A-Fella imprint era of Jay-Z or Kanye West doesn’t count, either.  Referring to Def Jam, the label itself. It’s been so long, that a lot of you probably don’t remember something like this ever happening. That was back in the 1980′s - when the label launched [cont.]

     With most acts that reach their seventh album, The Tipping Point, usually means they are just about to “tip” over and fall off. While the legendary Roots crew has come a long way since the days of “organic hip-hop jazz” that was found on both Organix and Do You Want More?!?!, this has never [cont.]

Though it took nearly a decade for the “record buying” public to acknowledge their obvious talents, the inevitable finally happened in 1999 as The Roots took a major step out of the underground with Things Fall Apart and the Grammy award winning single the LP spawned “You Got Me” featuring Erykah Badu. If we have come [cont.]

Scratch (Of The Roots), if you’re not familiar with by now, is that integral ‘human-instrumental’ member of The Roots ensemble, amazing fans worldwide from stage to stage with his vocal variations in sound. Now with his first solo release, the purpose and true entertainment value of listening to a human beat box for an entire album, [cont.]

It’s questionable to me as to why The Roots decided to remix the supherb “You Got Me”. This one is completely different from the original version, as the track is much more rugged than it’s predecessor. The lyrics from the original version remain in tact, although rather than shorty from the original coming in during verse [cont.]