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The Roots Already Working On Next Album

Monday, February 12, 2007
By: Kenny Rodriguez


The RootsJust six months after their Def Jam debut “Game Theory,” the Roots are planning another full-length album.

“We are using a lot of synthesizers, but I don't know if I could call this the electronic album or not,” drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson told Billboard.

“Pretty much five or six songs are done, and four of them are synth-heavy.”

?uestlove added that he isn’t intimidated by the lackluster sales of “Game Theory,” which sold 61,000 copies in its first week and only 113,000 since. He points to Def Jam president Jay-Z who also saw a relative dip in sales.

“Even my president with a $20 million campaign has a victory at 1.3 million copies,” he says, referring to Jay-Z’s latest LP, “Kingdom Come.”

“We knew this album [“Game Theory”] was going to have as much to do with the marketplace as Barbra Streisand on the soul charts. But the way I look at it, this is definitely a return to form for us. Critics say we got our mojo back and our fan base agreed. That’s really all we were concerned about.”

The Roots’ album will be dropping either in October 2007 or February 2008.

In related news, ?uestlove is also working on legendary singer Al Green’s upcoming release, which has been two years in the making.


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Hip hop will never die baby!...word up. The roots is deffinately one of the most original and illest groups. I'm deffinately coppin there new album. Game theory was a banger!!....
Posted by The MAsta
No one cares about these nobodys! the only thing i know about them is the n*gga with the fro with the big ass watermelon head! they are boring!
Posted by bigwalt
Bigwalt - you obviously dont know sh*t about real hiphop you need to keep your lil comments to yourself or risk revealing your ignorance-the roots dont do hiphop they are hiphop!
Posted by kngdub
^^^^whuuuutttttttt!!!! you must be smoking dope laced wit some deadmans toe nails dipped in gofer shyt!!!! rightt noow you got me holding my chest like fred g. Sanford...ohh lawddy elizabeth im commin...smh. I cant believe someone had the gull to trash the roots. Wtf..!!! nobody smiling has to come up with a board to delete shyt like this....im sure more are to follow in your footsteps...smh....wtf?
Posted by kalliope4eva
My bad kngdub...you obvioulsy detected this error in the system as i did...smh..time to break out the lead pipes, rusty screw drivers, razor blades and duct tape..!!! i think we gotta punish his azz...lmao...leeme get my super glue too..
Posted by kalliope4eva
Game theory was the best album of 06 imo. Can't wait for the new one!!!!
Posted by Martin89
"nobodys"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!! pleeeeeez stop posting your 1001 lame ass comments. U r not doing a bid, u don't know sh&t about hustlin', u sittin' around w8stin space. Pleeeeeezzzz stop!!!!
Posted by enuff iz enuff
Why do yall get so excited about the roots! they are not a factor in todays game besides a couple of fans in philly and their families! when was the last time one of their joints played on the radio or tv! never is the answer! all the big fat n*gga does is bang on drums like he was an african! the other n*gga rap about some bulsh*t! they are trash! you saw the numbers 161,000! enough of garbage like this and trash like j-dilla!
Posted by bigwalt
Kngdub was right. Bigwalt's ignorance has been displayed. Roots are the truth! lookin' forward to the next album.
Posted by Big Steve
All the way live, from the 2-1-5!
Posted by e192c
There is a reason the roots are underground artists! if you are a underground artist that means you didnt make it you were never a success! all you dilla, roots, talib kweli tip riders make me laugh! you think when all these no talent having bastards started out in their careers they aspired to be underground artists! hell no! they wanted to be like the way jay-z or 50 cent or suge knight became ! rich and famous! if you were rapping whos position would you want the roots or 50! cmon wake up! yall know nothing about hiphop!
Posted by bigwalt
True story,the roots is trash!!!they dont apeal to real street n*ggas !!just because a n*gga wears a koofi doesn't mean that hes nice on the mic!!the roots do have talent with quest love tho.hes the only 1 in the group that sounds good,and he doesnt even speak!!!black thought is not even a betta rapper than beanie sigel,he cant even get pass beans' lil goons "chris and little leafy",and those 2 little n*ggas is pumpkin pie !!it seems like u underground clowns like every rapper that doesn't sell records!!50 cent sells 11 million records ,so u clowns say his trash,but slum village sells 30 cds ,and you dyck ryders think they are the dopest mc's of all time??c'mon u n*ggas stop hating on succesful mcs..i got bills though the roof,so i cant do numbers like the roots!!! i used to rap like common ,but rapping like common dont make cents!!
Posted by GAMEISAFAG
Ya stay likin these unknown trash rappers!! ya' gotta get up on 50,beans,lil jon now those is tru emcees!!! sh*t i cant front i went to a vanilla ice concert and i was actually feelin that sh*t,but with the roots they bore me to death!!! bring back young mc!!
Posted by GAMEISAFAG
Yea the big homie cant F*ck with trash like this neitha!!! rememba back in the days listening to real sh*t like fresh prince parents just dont understand in the bing!!now that was some real life sh*t,not these nobody's from philly!!
Posted by bigwalt
For some reason,i would love to braid quest loves hair!!ill let him sit between my legs while i give him cornrows down his back!!and then ill grease his scalp .then i will give him some black thought if u know what i mean.
Posted by PELLE PELLE
Hey yo,this lil n*gga pelle is a fagg !what kind of sh*t do yall n*ggas on this site be on??first ,u faggs twist my words to put a fagg twist on it,and now pelle is coming out of the closet!!damm u n*ggas on here r really lame!!
Posted by GAMEISAFAG
Ya 'n*ggaz need to calm down with that sh*t!!! i only mess with real "rainbows" like bigwalt not no fake ass n*ggaz like pelle pelle!!
Posted by GAMEISAFAG
Did gameisafag really diss the roots and say that 50 and lil jon are the real mc's? hell no...anyone who thinks the roots are boring or bad obviously doesn't know anything about hip hop. The roots are undoubtedly one of the best bands ever!! they are talented, intelligent, and innovative...every single one of their albums is off the chain good! they bring it so much harder than the boring, non-talented commercial "artists" that most of hear on the radio. I can't wait for the next album!
Posted by 2BReal
Oh, i'm sorry i guess i got it wrong. Millions of sales= talent. Hmmm - vanilla ice, mc hammer, tone loc, young mc, milli vanilli, 50 cent. Please think b4 spewing this sales = talent rhetoric. I respect the argument of not everyone wakes up saying "i wanna go double aluminum". True, not every non platinum mc is hot, but please stop w/ the sales argument. Give your posts deeper thought. I.e. Look at the one of the current formulas for mega-sales. Have some kinda of thug history - hmmm - i dunno - sold drugs, got shot, stab somebody, smack 'da sh*t outta somebody publicly, etc. Please understand uncle charlie's plan - it's called - "coonin"- oops, i mean "marketing"!!!! stop talkin' about sales becuz u r really arguing about how much suburbia wants to buy the "hood story" so they can seem cool to their friends and go back and use the new slang they heard off of "mc killa thug hustla's" cd. Or post on websites about "being on house arrest and can't wait to get off and go back to slangin' 'dem birds" (yeh, riiiight!!) yes, we know - consciousness doesn't sell - until u covertly "market" your product. Remember - the fugees didn't go diamond right off the bat, until they "softened" some of their consciousness and started singing more. Class over for now.
Posted by sp
Damn now sp just kicked some knowledge, but 50 has to be payin yall dudes some money for yall to be boasting about his sales that much. Please show me the check he sends yall in the mail after he goes platinum, cause i want some of that too. But anywho can't wait for that new roots album, lol and that new al green. And black people yall do something for black history month, act civilized or somethin at least for once. Peace and god bless
Posted by Ahmad
The roots suck
Posted by jason
Once again to that chump ass dip-stick watch yout back cause we "rainbows" will be regulatin in the '07 u lame ass n*ggaz!!!roscoe is c*cked and loaded for u bird ass n*ggaz!!!
Posted by bigwalt
Your moms suck too so what u talkin bout jason!! she swallowed my babies and had you!!!
Posted by GAMEISAFAG
Big walt you a fat fase liar you fat F*ck
Posted by PELLE PELLE
Big walt you get dumber and dumber with every post. The roots will go down as one of the greatest groups in hip hop history. You have to see a live show to get the full effect. If listening to fake as thugs and drug dealers is what matters in the streets, then oh well. There's more to true hip hop than that. Sp is right, sales don't equal talent. Kweli might not ever sell a million records, but you can't tell me that he's not relevant. Nobody in the whole boot camp click ever sold a million, but the definitely matter. Mase sold a couple of mil once, is he nicer than black thought? the answer is no. You dummy's that think that probably listen to the radio to find out what the next hot ish will be.
Posted by StinsoC
The reason i like the roots is they aint caught up with all the flashy commercialize shyt thats happening. And they dont do the whole gangsta and then have a soft p^ssy song with some r&b singer like all these so called gangsta rappers
Posted by lyrical monster
Bigwalt - 'fat n*gga that drummer drums like an african' n*gga --- african--- ...........isnt it regardless of offensive terms, referring the same race... Big walt???? the most unintelligent comment ever made, go back to school mate. Or F*ck off and sit in a corner, bite your toenails, that would probably be the most productive thing you've attempted and can easily achieve. Anyway...people have different tastes, but if you really want to argue a point, whether its based on ones better than another because they sell '10 million' than do it in a much more human, educated way. If you really want me to dumb down my words for you you are a dumb retarded C*nt --- bigwalt.
Posted by bigwalt sucks
And the roots are amazing. (im not trying to make that a big issue, my concern is the unintelligent choice of words bigwalt had to say.)
Posted by bigwalt sucks
Pick up jay-z new cd kingdom come in stores today. It's gotta be the hottest album in the last five years.
Posted by HOV's a bitch

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