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Wild Style Wednesday Review: The Roots, Things Fall Apart

Jul 22, 2009, 7:25pm

Wild Style Wednesday Review: The Roots, Things Fall Apart

The Roots will forever be one of my favorite groups in Hip-Hop because I love their utilization of a live band and their natural sound. Not to mention that Black Thought is also one of my top five emcees, the guy is pretty much a god emcee on the microphone. I like every single album in The Roots catalog, but Things Fall Apart is the album that introduced me to them. I look at this album that came out ten years ago and part of me still feels like even not this album would still be ahead of [...]

Artists: Black Thought, Common, Jay Dee, Mos Def, The Roots

Tags: Mos Def, Music Reviews, Common, Roots, jay dee, black thought, things fall apart, Wildstyle Wednesdays

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