The Roots - Ital (The Universal Side)

[BigExtc]

Q-tip and Black though compliment each other so fucking well.  blows my mind

[Kabijo23]

Whoever disliked this song need to be arrested. I'm serious!!

[fonkeemonk]

ooohhh weeeee!

[Dramacydal18]

"I want to be able to reach an MC and a little child in the same degree" - that's a Q-Tip quotable.

[plasvaletritec]

Q-TIP RULES !!!

[WeGotSplashers]

ppl always wanna get into the "HIP HOP IN WEIRD TIME SIGNATURES" game but nobody ever mentions this shit

this song is two bars of 4/4 followed by a bar of 7/4 every single time the beat comes around, it's a 15-beat bar instead of 16, and that's why the verses flow into each other so smoothly

roots crew are pretty fucking ill yall

[jz900]

@WeGotSplashers re: "hip-hop in weird time signatures" - i'm a hip-hop head but music noobie, what are some other good examples?

[Haeter2]

this is defo in my top 10 greatest albums of all time

[moi60186]

Just under 16k views....that is a tragedy.

I'm forever down with da ill 5th dynasty. Real music then, now and forever. ITAAAAAAL!!!!

[ieattrolls1]

you upload the best music (ratm, the roots...) keep it up

[yoyomamagawd]

15/16 time signature. brilliant.

[skillztube]

Damn!! Yo I still listen to this...I have it on a wicked roots playlist. I miss this type of Hip hop...Illadelph Half life!!!

[younghiphopsoul]

I still got this album, classic for real, i loved it and played it so much that it got all scratched up. im going to get it cleaned asap.

[gatman0]

black thought & qtip the abstract.. say no more.

[caseloaks]

this song as well as "guns are drawn" stay on repeat on my ipod aha!

[spongeaang98]

The Roots are the only thing giving Jimmy Fallon ratings.

[zunez0rz]

Is Q-Tip featured on here?

[aunicornist]

@zunez0rz

Yeah

[sodiumfan]

@zunez0rz do you not have ears?

[zunez0rz]

@sodiumfan Dick.

[sodiumfan]

@zunez0rz fucking clown, why ask such a dumb ass question then?

[zunez0rz]

@sodiumfan Dude.. I made that comment a long time ago.

[sodiumfan]

@zunez0rz you made it a couple weeks ago, it was a fuckin stupid question then and its a stupid question now, now fuck off

[zunez0rz]

@sodiumfan Why are you getting mad?

[Anim3fr3ak100]

@zunez0rz yea thats him

[mattcribbin]

this beat has a strange time signature. You have to catch when it comes back around abruptly because it ends with two kicks and instead of kick and a snare. Illy for really and never the mili vanilli.

[warfakaneopets]

last  verse destroys this track

[aunicornist]

Tip's last verse is legendary.

[AMZERO1]

Great Sample from Teruo Nakamuras　Rising sun Band /　Cat (from the album "RISING SUN")!!

[rekTHEirrational]

this album is amazing

[YaSuzukiCycle]

The only hip hop song I've heard to use a key signature other than straight 4/4 the whole time...roots stay original

[ill23will4]

great album, great rhymin, great jazzy beats, great themes

[beef2taco]

cant believe how much this track can still bang till today. its real hip hop at its best. q tip and BT.. listen to them drums.. those keys ... just everything.. one of the best albums ever.. who needs dr dre lol

[IceKr3aMm]

The Roots are consistant. 4 of their albums are in my top 100. (Illadelph, Do You Want More?!!, Things Fall Apart, Game Theory)

[TairyHesticles]

Illadelf Halflife and Do You Want More?!!!??! are in my top 30. Illadelph Halflife is probably in my top 10 or 20.

[Metaltigercprlt]

@TairyHesticles Since I respect you a lot for putting up all of these Roots songs (I actually got to know their records about 1,5 years ago because of your vids as I started to explore youtube searching for good music) I'd like to know which album you think is even better than this one, cause from what I have heard this could easily make my top 5 if it isn't my number 1 album of all time. Peace!

[blackstar21595]

@IceKr3aMm is it just me or does every roots album seem like its just as good as the other?

[raddiesNIPNIPS]

@IceKr3aMm how i got over is up there too...although i dont think that was even out when you posted this haha

[machine1418]

@IceKr3aMm I have to say I liked Things Fall Apart and Do You Want More, but I didn't love them. I absolutely love Illadelph Halflife. I think it's a masterpiece. Amazing lyricism, great smoove sound and so much substance. I've listened to all the all-time great albums in rap history. I know a lot of experts might not agree with me, but I truely have this being in my top 10 rap albums of all time. If not in the top 10, just outside. Amazing album!

[dhunter888]

is this the only track abstract and thought ever did a track together? They just seem to be to skilled to be separated. This is just an unreal display of lyricism even the wackest rhyme rapes the shit out of anybody new I've heard.

[Diggy22]

@dhunter888 The Roots and Q-Tip did a whole tour in 2010 together that was sponsored by Hennessy, if I remember correctly. I remember seeing the poster of Tip with ?uestlove and Black Thought together promoting the tour.

[inharmonicity]

A truly under-rated classic.

[beef2taco]

just picked up mines today at FYE for 9 bucks.. man i missed this cd soooo much..

[canihave20cookies]

im bouts go to best buy rite now,

im buyin Illadelph Halflife

[canihave20cookies]

my favorite song,

the roots are like one of those groups

everyone lisens to

and no one talks about

[TairyHesticles]

I know exactly what you mean.

[hydeph]

@canihave20cookies the music speaks for itself

[jvance2230]

@canihave20cookies

funny you should say that.. i just read a mark twain quote that states: "a classic is a book which everybody reads but nobody talks about" hahaha

[Tubztele]

I bang this then now and forever, peace out

[haines1979]

is that Qtip in this track??

[Cerlov]

yes

[xXxoSNOWoxXx]

I second what janmorez sad. I don't see why The Roots aren't bigger than they are.

[TairyHesticles]

They're pretty big now. I just saw their new CD under the "top sellers" rack at Best Buy.

At least they didn't sell out though. The Roots are one of the only groups to go mainstream (which they pretty much are at this point) and still make good music.

Sure, they will never make another "Do You Want More?!!!??!" or "Illadelph Halflife" but the shit they make now is still worth the $15.

[Sainted187]

@TairyHesticles I will happilly give my last quarter 4 they music, no doubt.

[janmorez]

One of my favorite Roots tracks. Fuckin' A!