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The Seed (2.0)" is the second single by The Roots from their fifth album Phrenology (2002). The track, which features Cody Chesnutt on the guitar and vocals, is an "uptempo retooling" of his song "The Seed" from the album The Headphone Masterpiece. [2] The song's music video was nominated for the MTV2 Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. [3]
His closest brush with mainstream success came in 2002, when the hip hop group The Roots remade a song from The Headphone Masterpiece, "The Seed", for their album Phrenology, as "The Seed (2.0)". Chesnutt plays guitar and sings vocals on the track, and appears in its music video , which received heavy airplay on MTV and BET .
Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released on November 26, 2002, by MCA Records.Recording sessions for the album took place during June 2000 to September 2002 [1] at Electric Lady Studios in New York. [2]
The Roots released two live concert albums, the first being The Roots Come Alive in 2000, and the next The Roots Present in 2005. In 2009, the Roots became the house band for the late-night show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and in 2014, upon Fallon's take over of The Tonight Show , the Roots moved to that series.
On July 22, 2013, they released a music video for the first single, "Walk Us Uptown". [34] The Roots released ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin on May 19, 2014. The first single, "When the People Cheer", was released on April 7, 2014. Black Thought described the album as a satirical look at violence in hip-hop and American society overall. [35]
How I Got Over is the ninth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots.It was released on June 22, 2010, by Def Jam Recordings.. Produced primarily by band members Black Thought, Questlove, Dice Raw, and Rick Friedrich, How I Got Over features a subtle, somber sound and lyrics concerning themes of self-determination, existentialism, and African-American middle-class angst. [2]
Do You Want More?!!!??! is the second studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released January 17, 1995, on DGC Records. [11] The band's major label-debut, it was released two years after their independent debut album, Organix (1993). Do You Want More?!!!??! has been considered by critics as a classic of jazz rap.
Things Fall Apart is the fourth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released on February 23, 1999, by MCA Records.Recording sessions for the album took place at Electric Lady during 1997 to 1998, coinciding with recording for other projects of the Soulquarians collective, including D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun (2000), and Common's Like Water for Chocolate (2000).