The Roots Album & Lyrics

Album

2014: …and Then You Shoot Your Cousin

• 1 Theme From Middle of the Night
• 2 Never
• 3 When the People Cheer
• 4 The Devil
• 5 Black Rock
• 6 Understand
• 7 Dies Irae
• 8 The Coming
• 9 The Dark (Trinity)
• 10 The Unraveling
• 11 Tomorrow

2013: Wise Up Ghost

• 1 Walk Us Uptown
• 2 Sugar Won't Work
• 3 Refuse to Be Saved
• 4 Wake Me Up
• 5 Tripwire
• 6 Stick Out Your Tongue
• 7 Come the Meantimes
• 8 (She Might Be a) Grenade
• 9 Cinco minutos con vos
• 10 Viceroy's Row
• 11 Wise Up Ghost
• 12 If I Could Believe

2011: Betty Wright: The Movie

• 1 Old Songs
• 2 Real Woman
• 3 In the Middle of the Game (Don't Change the Play)
• 4 Surrender
• 5 Grapes on a Vine
• 6 Look Around (Be a Man)
• 7 Tonight Again
• 8 Hollywould
• 9 Whisper in the Wind
• 10 Baby Come Back
• 11 So Long, So Wrong
• 12 You & Me, Leroy
• 13 The One
• 14 Go! (live)

2011: undun

• 1 Dun
• 2 Sleep
• 3 Make My
• 4 One Time
• 5 Kool On
• 6 The OtherSide
• 7 Stomp
• 8 Lighthouse
• 9 I Remember
• 10 Tip the Scale
• 11 Redford Suite: Redford (For Yia‐Yia & Pappou)
• 12 Redford Suite: Possibility (2nd Movement)
• 13 Redford Suite: Will to Power (3rd Movement)
• 14 Redford Suite: Finality (4th Movement)

2010: How I Got Over

• 1 A Peace of Light
• 2 Walk Alone
• 3 Dear God 2.0
• 4 Radio Daze
• 5 Now or Never
• 6 How I Got Over
• 7 Dillatude: The Flight of Titus
• 8 The Day
• 9 Right On
• 10 Doin’ It Again
• 11 The Fire
• 12 Tunnel Vision
• 13 Web 20/20
• 14 Hustla

2010: Wake Up!

• 1 Hard Times
• 2 Compared to What
• 3 Wake Up Everybody
• 4 Our Generation (The Hope of the World)
• 5 Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)
• 6 Little Ghetto Boy
• 7 Hang On in There
• 8 Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)
• 9 Wholy Holy
• 10 I Can't Write Left Handed
• 11 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
• 12 Shine

2008: Rising Down

• 1 The Pow Wow
• 2 Rising Down
• 3 Get Busy
• 4 @15
• 5 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)
• 6 Becoming Unwritten
• 7 Criminal
• 8 I Will Not Apologize
• 9 I Can’t Help It
• 10 Singing Man
• 11 Unwritten
• 12 Lost Desire
• 13 The Show
• 14 Rising Up
• 15 Birthday Girl
• 16 The Grand Return
• 17 The Pow Wow 2

2006: Game Theory

• 1 Dilltastic Vol Won(derful)
• 2 False Media
• 3 Game Theory
• 4 Don’t Feel Right
• 5 In the Music
• 6 Take It There
• 7 Baby
• 8 Here I Come
• 9 Long Time
• 10 Livin’ in a New World
• 11 Clock With No Hands
• 12 Atonement
• 13 Can’t Stop This
• 14 Bread and Butter

2004: The Tipping Point

• 1 Star/Pointro
• 2 I Don’t Care
• 3 Don’t Say Nuthin’
• 4 Guns Are Drawn
• 5 Stay Cool
• 6 Web
• 7 Boom!
• 8 Somebody’s Gotta Do It
• 9 Duck Down!
• 10 Why (What’s Goin On?) / In Love With the Mic / Din Da Da
• 11 Melting Pot

2002: Phrenology

• 1 Phrentrow
• 2 Rock You
• 3 !!!!!!!
• 4 Sacrifice
• 5 Rolling With Heat
• 6 WAOK (AY) Rollcall
• 7 Thought @ Work
• 8 The Seed (2.0)
• 9 Break You Off
• 10 Water
• 11 Quills
• 12 Pussy Galore
• 13 Complexity
• 14 Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
• 15 [silence]
• 17 Rhymes and Ammo / Thirsty!
• 18 [silence]

1999: Things Fall Apart

• 1 Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
• 2 Table of Contents, Parts 1 & 2
• 3 The Next Movement
• 4 Step Into the Realm
• 5 The Spark
• 6 Dynamite!
• 7 Without a Doubt
• 8 Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New
• 9 Double Trouble
• 10 Act Too (The Love of My Life)
• 11 100% Dundee
• 12 Diedre vs. Dice
• 13 Adrenaline!
• 14 3rd Acts: ? vs. Scratch 2… Electric Boogaloo
• 15 You Got Me
• 16 Don’t See Us
• 17 The Return to Innocence Lost
• 18 Act Fore… The End?

1996: Illadelph Halflife

• 1 Intro
• 2 Respond/React
• 3 Section
• 4 Panic!!!!!!!
• 5 It Just Don’t Stop
• 6 Episodes
• 7 Push Up Ya Lighter
• 8 What They Do
• 9 ? vs. Scratch (The Token DJ cut)
• 10 Concerto of the Desperado
• 11 Clones
• 12 UNIverse at War
• 13 No Alibi
• 14 Dave vs. US
• 15 No Great Pretender
• 16 The Hypnotic
• 17 Ital (The Universal Side)
• 18 One Shine
• 19 The Adventures in Wonderland
• 20 Outro

1994: Do You Want More?!!!??!

• 1 Intro / There’s Something Goin’ On
• 2 Proceed
• 3 Distortion to Static
• 4 Mellow My Man
• 5 I Remain Calm
• 6 Datskat
• 7 Lazy Afternoon
• 8 ? vs. Rahzel
• 9 Do You Want More?!!!??!
• 10 What Goes On, Part 7
• 11 Essaywhuman?!!!??!
• 12 Swept Away
• 13 You Ain’t Fly
• 14 Silent Treatment
• 15 The Lesson, Part 1
• 16 The Unlocking

1993: Organix

• 1 The Roots Is Comin’
• 2 Pass the Popcorn
• 3 The Anti‐Circle
• 4 Writer’s Block
• 5 Good Music (prelude)
• 6 Good Music
• 7 Grits
• 8 Leonard I–V
• 9 I’m Out Deah
• 10 Essawhamah? (live at Soulshack)
• 11 There’s a RIOT Goin’ On
• 12 Popcorn Revisited
• 13 Peace
• 14 Common Dust
• 15 The Session (Longest Posse Cut in History 12:43)
• 16 Syreeta’s Having My Baby
• 17 Carryin’ On

EP

1999: The Legendary

• 1 Intro / Jusufckwithis
• 2 Table of Contents, Part 3
• 3 The Ultimate
• 4 The Battlestar ?uestacula, Part 3: The Search for Scratch
• 5 The Next Movement

1994: The Roots From the Ground Up

• 1 It’s Comin’
• 2 Distortion to Static
• 3 Mellow My Man
• 4 Dat Scat
• 5 Worldwide (London Groove)
• 6 Do You Want More?!