yea biggie might of been the greatist butt the rooots got that shit on lock wtf are u on dude come for real terms the roots got moreskills then biggie he was early commericalise inthe game i think every one wil lagree to that terms they dident get enought reconiznition cuz they were under ground other then that they are good
@organikness Sorry? Biggie wasnt that great? Dude Biggie Smalls is ferkin legendary and as a lyricist he would easily be in the all time top 5 he was a clever dude when it came to gettin busy on the mic
Black Thought!!... " The glow of the moon over the melancholy metro..... my poetry ascends like a UFO"... I remember that line from when i first saw the video on rap city and still feelin it now!!!
I'm so glad I'm 17 and can enjoy The Roots, true Hip Hop and Rap and it's complete finest. So dissapointed that most kids my age can't grasp the concepts this band has said... True shame, long live The Roots
@IEtherianSoul9 Solid list as about half our in my top 10, but you MUST have Elzhi, Nas, Big Pun, Kool G Rap, 97-02 Em....Love One Be Lo, Pharoahe, Thought, Andre 3000, Kweli, and Common though as all are in my personal top 3-15 somewhere...
@jezumbread I agree with you, this is their best album in my opinion. Do you want more goes, but this whole album just takes me back to some good times in life...."No Great Pretender" is another one of my favorite songs on the album. I love the album cover too, I'd like to get a shirt with that image.
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@TheFlako8888 WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SKINNY JEANS?!?!? people act as though skinny jeans themselves ruined hiphop. u know what it was? the niggas in skinny jeans with their wack ass rhymes. new boys? not wack cuz they rock skinnies, but because they suck at rapping. believe me, im an avid wearer of skinny jeans, but i know real hiphop when i hear it.
@bigelow345 yea, i may be. eh, whatever. im just tired of saying "oh, skinny jeans ruined hiphop" it's like, WTF? how can clothes ruin a genre of music?
This is an absolute classic and musical masterpiece. I can't say enough about it. Everytime I think I have outgrown Hip-Hop, tracks like this remind me how impossible it would be to outgrow genuine and pure Hip-Hop.
Hey I'm a young artist, and I really would like everybody to check out my original ballad on my channel entitled "Why Can't I Live in Your Heart." It's a quiet storm ballad that sounds sounds like a cross between Boyz II Men's "End of the Road," Mariah Carey's "Can't Let Go," and Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best for Last."
How do you go from creating banging songs like these to doing a late night tonight show? Is the economy that bad? Is the music industry crumbling that much because the internet is decreasing album sales because it's easier to download music then to pay for it? Always gonna be a ROOTS fan but damn..... Just expected more.
@phesterjr have you heard some of the fantastic music that has come out them doing late night? they've recreated and backed so many classic hip hop tunes & artists on the show. public enemy, ice cube, clipse to just name a few...
you act like that's their only gig. late night is their paycheck. trust, the roots stay busy.
@Tyler1888 I guess that's okay. It just seems odd. Like Larry Fishburne for example. Dude was in box office movies like DeepCover, Boyz N The Hood, King Of New York, Hoodlum, and all The Matrix movies. Seems kind of weird for dude to be apart of all of that and now he's doing a CSI series. That's damn near like if Samuel L Jackson went from the Star Wars movies to being on Grey's Anatony. The names just seem too big to be doing that, u know what I'm saying?
Killer lyrics with real musicians. How could you not love it ? Half these cats will buy some B.S. then turn their nose up to this. Let em have there music and Ill keep listening to the real shit.
Do You Want More, Illadelphhalflife, & Things fall apart are classic albums in my book. I'm not knocking the rest of their albums but those three are definitely my favorites.
this album is a fuckin lyrical masterpiece every member of the group has they own style unlike this young money bullshit where every member is a carbon copy of lil wayne wit the "its goin down...... basement type flow
It's a toss up between illadeplh half life and things fall apart as my favorite Roots albums then it would go to Do you want more? But I love them all.
crunck didnt kill hip hop the radio killed hip hop and the internet helped out. cats got lazy in there creativity do to the ease of which you can now make tracks and put it up on youtube so easy now. and the powers that be at the radio play the same joints ova and ova so if thats all the youngins hear thats all they will duplicate
Peedi mentioned Ultra Mag on their new album as well.....Shout out to the Roots for constantly bringing the fresh and shouts to Ultra Magnetic MCs for Critical Beatdown!
"this life is a heist, and the strong get a percentage..." I live by those words... On Allah, Black Thought has to go down as one the greats....BAR NONE!!!!!!
Black Thought...one of the most underrated MC's ever! Thoughts skillz was off the charts, don't know, cop Illadelph Halflife, listen and get back to me.
"The implorer, the universe explorer, treat emcees like the cities of sodom and gomorrah, leavin this niggas open like a box of pandora with styles thats newer than the world order, approximately three quarters of yall are water"
DAMN...top 5 rappers right there, such a underrated rapper...
That's da kind of piece that reconciliate me with hip hop... (especially when you listen to actual "so-called" hip hop)...What a fuckin' All-Star band! I love it! Classsssssic!
Black Thought is so smooth in his delivery and the only hip hop act with a real band. They are must see live ive seen them 7 times and are fresh everytime.
The lyrics,the word play,the flow,the on pointness of this nigga make him one of the best ever.These two verses are two of the best in rap history.....If you cant figure everythang he is sayin then im sorry..The video made the shit that much hotter how they end up fightin for the mic.....Classic shit....
@CootaMagnolia Word. Black thought is so percise with not just every word he says, but when he choses to say them throughout the course of his verses. My man is just crazy nice.
toby bought me here cute win fail !!!
unlockwall 1 week ago 2
Gano dug out a mic & got tackled for it. fyi, he's the graff artist who did all the major Wu graffiti (except logos, w/c DJ Mathematics helmed).
eutue 2 weeks ago
the roots and outkast are my two favourite hip-hop groups
mrbrownstone75 3 weeks ago
The most under rated hip hop groups.
masoodqayyum 1 month ago
black thought is a great storytelller and the roots are just legends.
bigjerry69 1 month ago
God; where did Hip-hop go?
luk4tolu 1 month ago
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luk4tolu 1 month ago
Skinny jeans are just leggings. Dudes should not wear leggings.
...This dude, talkin bout skinny jeans. What the fuck.
therealmikebrown 1 month ago
totally respect your decision dude and i agree man, the roots are the GOAT in the hiphop game fuck yea dude
mmmblnts 2 months ago
yea biggie might of been the greatist butt the rooots got that shit on lock wtf are u on dude come for real terms the roots got moreskills then biggie he was early commericalise inthe game i think every one wil lagree to that terms they dident get enought reconiznition cuz they were under ground other then that they are good
MrJKILLA7 2 months ago
imagine big L freestyling with black thought and MAlik B
bigblackpimpin080 2 months ago
no space for GURU in the top ten?
Dasjabal 3 months ago
@Dasjabal ALWAYS room for GURU!
MyPheenix 2 months ago
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Christ, vevo, WHY CAN'T YOU REALIZE THAT NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE?
jmarrvin 3 months ago
f**kin vevo
organikness 4 months ago
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check out the new roots mashup people its the bomb youtube.com/watch?v=tpYkrXIZmZM
BallsDeepStudios 4 months ago
I'm here because of the x factor competition
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youngreem23 4 months ago
This album was the shit.
rcole718 4 months ago
@IEtherianSoul9
whoa! wheres rakim, nas, big n tupac?
ivckins 5 months ago
@ivckins Biggie wasnt that great, especially to be top10 of anything
organikness 4 months ago
@organikness Sorry? Biggie wasnt that great? Dude Biggie Smalls is ferkin legendary and as a lyricist he would easily be in the all time top 5 he was a clever dude when it came to gettin busy on the mic
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and for the record, the modern american audience ruined hip hop by supporting the most talentless people posing as musicians trying to get rich quick
ivckins 5 months ago
@AtomAntNoom
not only is he underrated actually he is by far the single most underrated.
truely he is a top 10 mc of all time and he is very unrecognized
ivckins 5 months ago
Black Thought!!... " The glow of the moon over the melancholy metro..... my poetry ascends like a UFO"... I remember that line from when i first saw the video on rap city and still feelin it now!!!
DeezNutz1130 6 months ago 2
nice song
sockmen09 6 months ago
man he got off on this track. one of his hardest tracks ever.
bigelow345 6 months ago
I'm so glad I'm 17 and can enjoy The Roots, true Hip Hop and Rap and it's complete finest. So dissapointed that most kids my age can't grasp the concepts this band has said... True shame, long live The Roots
reaper70723 6 months ago 2
10. Aceyalone
9. Common
8. Talib Kweli
7. Andre 3000
6. Gift of Gab
5. Black Thought
4. Mos Def
3. Pharoahe Monch
2. One Be Lo
1. J-Live
IEtherianSoul9 7 months ago
@IEtherianSoul9 J-live #1? I don't know about that. He's tight, but #1, to each his own I guess.
bigelow345 6 months ago
@IEtherianSoul9 Solid list as about half our in my top 10, but you MUST have Elzhi, Nas, Big Pun, Kool G Rap, 97-02 Em....Love One Be Lo, Pharoahe, Thought, Andre 3000, Kweli, and Common though as all are in my personal top 3-15 somewhere...
jthesnake77 4 months ago
MY FAVE HIP-HOP BAND!!! THEY R ORGASMIC LIVE!!! LOVE AMEL LARRIEUX SINGING OPERETTA IN THE BACKGROUND!! PHILLY 4EVA!!!!
aligned576 7 months ago 2
This song is sick! Real Hip-Hop forever!!
BlueConscious 7 months ago
go away vevo!!
droop1993 8 months ago
I cant stop listening to do you want more but this is ther best album
jezumbread 8 months ago
@jezumbread I agree with you, this is their best album in my opinion. Do you want more goes, but this whole album just takes me back to some good times in life...."No Great Pretender" is another one of my favorite songs on the album. I love the album cover too, I'd like to get a shirt with that image.
StickyCal420 7 months ago
@jezumbread dawg! its happens teh same to me, classic shit spit fire rite here!
pherstah 7 months ago
i miss the good shit. fuck mainstreem
MegaBongboy 8 months ago 3
this video should have at least 1000 000 views
stylekilla1 9 months ago
type in "ceej in for the kill" man this dude is sickk!!!!
MrJfam1 9 months ago
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Cerandubois 9 months ago
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RuthlessYoung 9 months ago
ONE OF MY FAVORITE RAP SONGS EVER
SuperBIGSTEELE 9 months ago
this is hip hop..not them skinny jeans
TheFlako8888 9 months ago 32
@TheFlako8888 WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SKINNY JEANS?!?!? people act as though skinny jeans themselves ruined hiphop. u know what it was? the niggas in skinny jeans with their wack ass rhymes. new boys? not wack cuz they rock skinnies, but because they suck at rapping. believe me, im an avid wearer of skinny jeans, but i know real hiphop when i hear it.
megamaneggaman 6 months ago
@megamaneggaman it's what they symbolize. sure he could hav e elaborated, but i think you're taking it out of context
bigelow345 6 months ago
@bigelow345 yea, i may be. eh, whatever. im just tired of saying "oh, skinny jeans ruined hiphop" it's like, WTF? how can clothes ruin a genre of music?
megamaneggaman 6 months ago
@megamaneggaman i cosign that shit... preach!!!
bigsoso20 2 months ago
the song is sik...but you gotta love the name!
HipHopHeadGunner 10 months ago
What are the best The Roots albums?
FINbball 10 months ago
@FINbball illadelph halflife hands down their best album
BerksBeats 9 months ago
@FINbball illadelph halflife
macdoman1996 9 months ago
@FINbball illadelph halflife without a doubt.
6angelo9 9 months ago
@FINbball all their albums my friend
Wiggitywigg323323232 7 months ago
@Wiggitywigg323323232 but which ones are the best? the ones I should cop first
FINbball 7 months ago
Do you want more!?!? ...illadelph halflife.. things fall apart..listen to those three albums first@FINbball
jezumbread 7 months ago
@FINbball Do you want more, illadelph halflife and things fall apart
Wiggitywigg323323232 7 months ago
&hearts
TheLangleypark 10 months ago
This is an absolute classic and musical masterpiece. I can't say enough about it. Everytime I think I have outgrown Hip-Hop, tracks like this remind me how impossible it would be to outgrow genuine and pure Hip-Hop.
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Cerandubois 10 months ago
Roots will be in The Chi on the 10th this month im there!!!
bornwisedistruction 10 months ago
this isnt rap.. its poetry
MattMacAulay27 11 months ago
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philajerzmore 1 year ago
Black Thought is the MOST Underrated Lyricist in the Game......
AEG1906 1 year ago 51
@AEG1906 I was just thinking that.. he's maybe one of the best ever
noho40 1 year ago
@AEG1906 sadly he's not underrated. "the game" only has room for shake your booty or "im a gangster" artist these days.
AtomAntNoom 5 months ago
@AEG1906 and Andre 3000 though honestly it is probably just understood because of how fresh their lyrics are tight flows are on POINT!
MyPheenix 2 months ago
This song is so much more relevant today than it was back in '96!
BooMBAPManiaK 1 year ago
How do you go from creating banging songs like these to doing a late night tonight show? Is the economy that bad? Is the music industry crumbling that much because the internet is decreasing album sales because it's easier to download music then to pay for it? Always gonna be a ROOTS fan but damn..... Just expected more.
phesterjr 1 year ago
@phesterjr have you heard some of the fantastic music that has come out them doing late night? they've recreated and backed so many classic hip hop tunes & artists on the show. public enemy, ice cube, clipse to just name a few...
you act like that's their only gig. late night is their paycheck. trust, the roots stay busy.
Tyler1888 11 months ago
@Tyler1888 I guess that's okay. It just seems odd. Like Larry Fishburne for example. Dude was in box office movies like DeepCover, Boyz N The Hood, King Of New York, Hoodlum, and all The Matrix movies. Seems kind of weird for dude to be apart of all of that and now he's doing a CSI series. That's damn near like if Samuel L Jackson went from the Star Wars movies to being on Grey's Anatony. The names just seem too big to be doing that, u know what I'm saying?
phesterjr 11 months ago
memories
dieselgal26 1 year ago
fuck rihanna and all that other mainstream bullshit from these days
geblokkeerd 1 year ago
One doo doo chaser hit the link
KushLesko 1 year ago
Killer lyrics with real musicians. How could you not love it ? Half these cats will buy some B.S. then turn their nose up to this. Let em have there music and Ill keep listening to the real shit.
phonenerrd 1 year ago
what, lady gaga, vitor right, she just a bitch, that fucking kind of music, just something...ewwww, here is the real hiphop, fuck.
BboyStepOn 1 year ago
Do You Want More, Illadelphhalflife, & Things fall apart are classic albums in my book. I'm not knocking the rest of their albums but those three are definitely my favorites.
DirtyMekanic 1 year ago
who's the muthafucka that disliked it?
InfinitoVezesDois 1 year ago
@InfinitoVezesDois I did. Why? Because it wasn't LOUD enough!!! Real Hip Hop 4 eva!
TheTallMan35 1 year ago
why rappers are listen to Lady Gaga today??? She is a cheesy bitch....this right here is real Hip Hop!
VitorVitoriaBaia 1 year ago
wow one dumbass dislike you know that shit had to be a mistake
africanmaan 1 year ago
DAMN YOU COMMERCIALS!!!!!
verdemanthe1 1 year ago
this album is a fuckin lyrical masterpiece every member of the group has they own style unlike this young money bullshit where every member is a carbon copy of lil wayne wit the "its goin down...... basement type flow
beastmode1980434 1 year ago 2
@beastmode1980434 - yo i only just started hearing Roots, whats the name of the album brother???
Mikebutla2002 1 year ago
@Mikebutla2002 the name of the album this track was on is "illadelph halflife"
bolandjf 1 year ago
@bolandjf thanks
Mikebutla2002 1 year ago
what can i say,that they didn't,when they found the MIC an then destroyed it in there fight to posses.
quincy25100 1 year ago
i think the correct translation is "concert of the desperate" cuz they're desperate to get this new fake shit outta here.. gotta listen close :)
kricket428 1 year ago
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zaki612 1 year ago
It's funny to me that a lot of people feel like they can't like Jay-z and The Roots at the same time.
MarlUnit 1 year ago
@MarlUnit U think they sound the same? because I like the Roots but Jay...meh..
MrHankyTheHipHopPoo 1 year ago
"pulling my hair out" trying to figure out how hip hop turned into what it is today.........what went wrong???????????????when?????????how????????
....lil wayne and soilder (trash) boy will need a dictionary on hand to understand this song.
MrMk4life 1 year ago
@MrMk4life none of us know...... Its like the dissapearance of Atlantis.... The Latin Language and shit........
gingeraleandvodka 1 year ago
k buenos recuerdo!!!!PAZ!!!
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K2AStarVision 1 year ago
classic!
naijawitluv 1 year ago
i miss the original Roots crew. Hub on the bass, Kamal on the keys, Rhazel on the beat box and Malik B.
crunk617 1 year ago
this joint bumb off of jay-z shit hip hop should remain raw at its fullest
MrJKILLA7 1 year ago
Un...fukn...belivable...Black thought: MY nigga....PEACE!
rccola8282 1 year ago
The girl is beautiful.
Paradoxxxical 1 year ago
Just too many quotables. Saying that I love this song is an understatement, to me it's the Roots masterpiece.
liviti 1 year ago
From 0.43 - 0.45, is that Marlo Stanfield from The Wire?
vinnyvasquez 1 year ago
@vinnyvasquez
yep it is. aka Jamie Hector
NicolasYates 1 year ago
It's a toss up between illadeplh half life and things fall apart as my favorite Roots albums then it would go to Do you want more? But I love them all.
chatege75 1 year ago
Whoa I ve been looking for this. Black Thought is one of the greatest M.C.s and ?Love is one of the best drummers.
dnuke7 1 year ago
jay z cant fuck with this!
chezpiecedaking 1 year ago 4
DOPENESS....CLASSIC
V2000theultraemcee 1 year ago
check out this hot remix to that beat!!!
/watch?v=I_TZBfeuRjU
it's hot!!!
hardkorejackson 1 year ago
crunck didnt kill hip hop the radio killed hip hop and the internet helped out. cats got lazy in there creativity do to the ease of which you can now make tracks and put it up on youtube so easy now. and the powers that be at the radio play the same joints ova and ova so if thats all the youngins hear thats all they will duplicate
dynomitetucker 1 year ago 4
@dynomitetucker - SELAH!!!!!! Well articulated....
zeusforlife2002 1 year ago
"I'd rather Ultra Magnatize Your Brain."
Peedi mentioned Ultra Mag on their new album as well.....Shout out to the Roots for constantly bringing the fresh and shouts to Ultra Magnetic MCs for Critical Beatdown!
agilemktgatl 1 year ago
"this life is a heist, and the strong get a percentage..." I live by those words... On Allah, Black Thought has to go down as one the greats....BAR NONE!!!!!!
zeusforlife2002 1 year ago 2
weezy who? touch this wayne he talkin to u. respond react
war2277 1 year ago
One of all time favorite tracks
themasterbuilder7 1 year ago
keep this shit bangin' foreva!!
8989tom8989 1 year ago
a true banga nobody cqn get with this man on the mic
lucian1jud 1 year ago
Best rapper from philly. Hands down.
wall721 1 year ago 3
@wall721 Ah, no question!
-Stoicone!
StoicTwo 1 year ago
This is what hip hop sounds like
FDLRemmurd 1 year ago 2
is that a young marlo stanfield at 0:44?!
Dollabrand 1 year ago
Black Thought...one of the most underrated MC's ever! Thoughts skillz was off the charts, don't know, cop Illadelph Halflife, listen and get back to me.
jubesjr 1 year ago
"The implorer, the universe explorer, treat emcees like the cities of sodom and gomorrah, leavin this niggas open like a box of pandora with styles thats newer than the world order, approximately three quarters of yall are water"
DAMN...top 5 rappers right there, such a underrated rapper...
tharekhh 1 year ago 5
@tharekhh Yep!
-Stoicone!
StoicTwo 1 year ago
my physical play the role of a vessel.
kungblao 1 year ago
That's da kind of piece that reconciliate me with hip hop... (especially when you listen to actual "so-called" hip hop)...What a fuckin' All-Star band! I love it! Classsssssic!
minutmed33 2 years ago
Black Thought is so smooth in his delivery and the only hip hop act with a real band. They are must see live ive seen them 7 times and are fresh everytime.
poopish23 2 years ago 3
your right that 2nd verse was siick
HipHop226 2 years ago 3
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SHOCKEDKAT 2 years ago
this is hip hop
fdation 2 years ago 44
yeaahhh
da crunk shit kill hip-hop
ConfusionHiphop 2 years ago
The lyrics,the word play,the flow,the on pointness of this nigga make him one of the best ever.These two verses are two of the best in rap history.....If you cant figure everythang he is sayin then im sorry..The video made the shit that much hotter how they end up fightin for the mic.....Classic shit....
CootaMagnolia 2 years ago 67
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jwfeatherstone 1 year ago
@CootaMagnolia Word. Black thought is so percise with not just every word he says, but when he choses to say them throughout the course of his verses. My man is just crazy nice.
KrfNYC2 11 months ago
Wow..First Comment!
Love this track.
The second verse was too sick!
pops4u95 2 years ago 4