The Roots - Rising DownLabel: Def Jam Reissue 2023, Originally Released 2008 Lets face it: The Roots are not looking to supply the beats for your backyard barbecue. This is deadly serious music angry, disturbed, gloomy, urgent, raw, and fearless. Led by the always adventurous? Questlove, the band puts most of the pieces together (hip hop, rock, psychedelic soul) in just the right way, balancing the cohesiveness of earlier albums with the daringness of later ones. Black

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Bat Out of Hell has been certified 14 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America

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We Had a Deal

freed of adornment and embellishment

Black is Golden is a rallying cry for people of color

" guitarist John Engle remarked

This limited edition picture disc is a collection of cover songs by bands like U2

and there was little doubt that if given the opportunity

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