Rising Down to come out...on top.

The Roots. How do you describe them? Well let's take a quick peek back in time with their original name...the Square Roots. You could say they are a square root better than any live hip hop act out there. You could say that they are a square root and a half better than any live group out there. I wouldn't quote you wrong if that spit out of your mouth, but there is one thing about the Roots...they will go down in history coming out on top.



Rising Down, their latest effort finds this mega group taking it's organic hip hop to greater heights. The formula that's worked before is still intact, but are we hearing more of the same? I think not. What stays is the ground breaking beats of ?uest with a cast of individually talented phenoms. Black Thought is still at it with lyrics that ride political views galore. Hello hello hello. Get God on the phone. What we are hearing now is a band, in it's 10th album, still reaching it's primacy. No one is doing hip hop like this. No one. That is why they are on top.

The Roots are:

Black Thought (MC)
?uestlove (drums)
Kamal Gray (electronic keyboard)
F. Knuckles (percussion)
Captain Kirk Douglas (guitar)
Owen Biddle (bass)