Someone Has To Care

The Roots “How I Got Over”

How I Got Over sounds more or less exactly like the sort of hip hop record a band of guys who have become accustomed to performing in nice suits every day would make. It’s clean, it sounds expensive and “classy.” Relaxed and content, but concerned and engaged. To some extent, it’s The Roots being The Roots, but it’s also a different direction for them, something that looks to the future of what they can become as they age, and as their methods change with their day job as a late night television house band. They’ve sounded darker, they’ve sounded hungrier, but this new sleek, adult tone suits them well, and if someone was going to explore this territory for hip hop, I’m glad that it’s them.

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