The Roots - Things Fall Apart
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Rolling Stone Rating: 4
You've heard about the revolution, haven't you? The hip-hop vanguard that's ignoring trends -- musical, lyrical, sartorial -- and experimenting, forging ahead, creating new directions. It's working in the tradition of Gang Starr and De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as Thelonious Monk, James Brown and Roy Ayers. It's combining kinetic street energy with fresh, artful musical ideas. It's transporting you not to the world of, say, Tony "Scarface"...
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