Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. No Hometro / Proceed 2 - (remix, with Roy Ayers) 2. Distortion to Static - (Black Thought mix) 3. What They Do 4. Next Movement, The 5. Good Music 6. Lesson, The - (with Dice Raw) 7. Star 8. Hypnotic, The - (with D'Angelo) 9. Silent Treatment 10. You Got Me - (Black Thought mix, with Jill Scott) 11. Clones - (featuring Mars/Dice Raw) 12. What You Want - (with Jaguar Wright) 13. Act Too (Love of My Life) - (with Common) 14. Do You Want More?!!!??! 15. It's Comin' - (featuring ELO/A.J. Shine) 16. Double Trouble - (with Mos Def)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | A.J. Shine, Common, Dice Raw, ELO, Eve, Jill Scott, Mars | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | The Roots (Rap): Black Thought. Additional personnel: Common, Jill Scott, Roy Ayers. With their organic, live sound, laid-back jazzy grooves, and fierce intelligence, the Roots have been the kings of alternative hip-hop since they appeared on the scene in the early 1990s. HOMEGROWN! is a collection of outtakes, live recordings, remixes, BBC sessions, and other oddities that span the group's career up to the mid-2000s. Not surprisingly, given the Roots' musicianship, a great deal of the material is top-notch, and the best of it highlights the band's brilliant inventiveness as well as their unabashed love of hip-hop's rich past. In addition to the beats, drummer and band historian ?estlove provides exhaustive track-by-track liner notes.
| | Editorial reviews | The virtuosic jazz-inspired and soul-spiked singles of VOL. ONE are a better listening experience than any of their six albums... -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- They've successfully maneuvered their live hip hop sound around the acid-jazz ghetto and neo-soul cliches...with straight-up head-nodders coming to the rescue. Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- Label-bosses rarely appreciate such fearlessness and invention, but here are 30 strong reasons why The Roots remain hip hop's very own Arkestra. Mojo
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