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Was R85.95Now R81.65(eB 817)
Delivery time: Usually within 6 working days.
Average customer rating:  Format: CD
Label: Def JamProduct code: FPBCD 538
Origin: Local
Audio Encoding: PCM Audio
Game Theory
Artist(s): ROOTS
Was R85.95
Now R81.65
The Roots, known for their innovative album concepts, return after a two year break to release their new album, 'Game Theory', filled with 14 tracks that express their views on the state of the world. 'Game Theory' is The Roots' most thought-provoking album since their 1999 breakthrough 'Things Fall Apart' and will be the group's debut for Def Jam Recordings, home to the world's premiere Hip-Hop artists.
"There was too much going on that we couldn't just sit back and not speak on it," says lyricist Black Thought. Drummer ?uestlove describes the album as "very mature, serious and very dark."
The band addresses everything from their uneasiness about society on, "It Don't Feel Right," to troops at war on "False Media" and government monitoring on "New World." The band also honors their fallen friend and producer James Yancey a/k/a J-Dilla whose death from kidney failure in February devastated the Hip-Hop world.
All tracks are wrapped around hard hitting beats and murky grooves deploying samples from Sly Stone, the Ohio Players and the Jackson 5 among others. Disc 1 1. Dilltastic Vol Won(derful) 2. False Media 3. Game Theory 4. Don't Feel Right - Maimouna Youssef 5. In the Music - Malik B 6. Take It There - Wadud Ahmad 7. Baby 8. Here I Come - Malik B 9. Long Time - Peedi Peedi / Bunny Sigler 10. Livin' in a New World 11. Clock with No Hands - Mercedes Martinez 12. Atonement - Jack Davey 13. Can't Stop This
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It just feel right!Reviewed by The O.G.C. from Pretoria, South Africa on 26 October 2006
164 of 332 people found the following review helpful:
Once again the Roots totally obliterate my perception of what hip-hop should be!
Black Thought's lyrics are of the highest calibre and once again he cements his place as the most criminally underrated emcee in the
game today. ?uestlove holds down the rhythm and keeps you tapping your feet in time to his infectious beats.
I have to be honest I haven't really been a Roots fan for very long, my first acquisition being the Tipping Point but in this little jazz/hip-hop band I have found a message and a new hope for hip-hop heads everywhere who are sick of the violence, hatred and braggodacio that so pervades our most beloved of musical genres.
To paraphrase XXL, I hold hip-hop to a higher level and Black Thought and his band of merry men not only step up but raise the bar incredibly high. Not caring about album sales or commercialism, the Roots just come as they are and what they are is much loved by me and many others.
If you're contemplating adding this album to your stash, my advice is to get off your sorry posterior, race to the music store, put down your R150, pop it in your cd player, sit back and be prepared to be overwhelmed by track after track of pure lyrical and musical genius.
I won't give you a track by track analysis since that's not my style but I will say that not since Common's Be have I been able to close my eyes and just step into the world of a thoughtful, socially aware emcee!
To the Roots, my brothers please come home to Africa! We'd love to see you live!
Peace
The O.G.C.
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