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the roots - how i got over - def jam - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop

1. Peace Of Light (feat Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian and Haley Dekle)
2. Walk Alone (feat Truck North, PORN and Dice Raw)
3. Dear God 2.0 (feat Monsters Of Folk)
4. Radio Daze (feat Blu, PORN and Dice Raw)
5. Now Or Never (feat Phonte and Dice Raw)
6. How I Got Over (feat Dice Raw)
7. Dillatude: The Flight Of Titus
8. The Day (Blu, Phonte And Patty Crash)
9. Right On (feat Joanna Newsom and STS)
10. Doin It Again
11. The Fire (John Legend)
12. Tunnel Vision
13. Web 20/20 (feat Peedi Peedi and Truck North)
14. Hustla (bonus - feat STS)

The Roots release their 9th studio album (and third for Def Jam Recordings). The album, which takes its name from Clara Ward’s gospel classic (made popular by Mahalia Jackson), is the Roots’ first new release since joining Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a full time gig as the show’s house band. Grammy Award winners the Roots characterize the songs here as “depicting the everyman’s search for hope in this dispiriting post-hope zeitgeist”. The lead single from the Roots new set will be “Dear God 2.0.” The track re-imagines the Monsters Of Folk song “Dear God” and features MOF members Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and M. Ward. Ther album also includes two appearances from Grammy-winning soul man John Legend: “Doin’ It Again” a re-working of his track “Again,” and “The Fire,” an original song written for the Roots’ 2010 Olympic concert performance. Other guests on HIGO include Joanna Newsom on “Right On,” Phonte Coleman (Little Brother, The Foreign Exchange), Blu (Blu & Exile), Peedi Peedi, Mercedes Martinez, Icelandic alt-pop singer Patty Crash, newcomer Sugar Tongue Slim as well as long time Roots’ Crew members Dice Raw, Truck North and P.O.R.N.