The Roots “Make My” featuring Big K.R.I.T
Mark December 6th (a day late if you choose to participate in the Saint Nick festivities round my ‘hood) on your calendars as it’s the day The Roots will release the next chapter in their highly acclaimed career. The album titled ‘undun‘ will chronice the life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999) and despite all of their albums being focused and cohesive records it’ll be their first true concept album. As Questlove puts it:
At this point in our career we’d like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality. We’ve been intentionally making our albums shorter in length so that they can be experienced as a continuous work. The music is band-oriented with an eye on the moody cinematic. As a DJ, I am the King of playlists, but I don’t want our albums to feel like a playlist or a mixtape for that matter. We want to tell stories that work within the album format and we want the stories to be nuanced and useful to people. Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn’t born criminal. He’s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner likeTupac’s character Bishop in Juice… he’s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment… At the end of the day… isn’t that what we all do?
Tracklist:
1. Sleep
2. Make My
3. One Time
4. Kool On
5. The Jump
6. Stomp
7. Lighthouse
8. I Remember
9. Tip The Scale
10. Redford
Check the first leak (featuring new Def Jam labelmate Big K.R.I.T.) above. Hat tip to (where else?) Okayplayer.
