Rising Down (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rap & Hip Hop  »  Rap & Hip Hop/General
• Format: CD
• Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Def Jam (USA)
• UPC: 602517672567
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112001007
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #58 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1 in Rap & Hip Hop (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop Bestsellers)
• #1 in Rap & Hip Hop/General (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop/General Bestsellers)

• DISC 1 for Rising Down (CD) Album
• 1   Pow Wow, The
• 2   Rising Down - (featuring Mos Def/Styles P)
• 3   Get Busy - (featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff/Dice Raw/Peedie Crakk)
• 4   @15
• 5   75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
• 6   (Time Up)
• 7   Criminal - (featuring Saigon/Truck North)
• 8   I Will Not Apologize - (featuring P.O.R.N./Dice Raw)
• 9   I Can't Help It - (featuring Malik B./P.O.R.N.)
• 10   Singing Man - (featuring P.O.R.N./Truck North)
• 11   Up There (Unwritten) - (featuring Mercedes Martinez)
• 12   Lost Desire - (featuring Mailk B/Talib Kweli)
• 13   Show, The - (featuring Common)
• 14   Rising Up - (featuring Chrisette Michele/Wale)
• 15   Birthday - (featuring Patrick Stump)

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TOWER.COM REVIEW

Rising Down - The Roots

This April 29th, 2008 release marks The Roots’ eighth studio album but only their second on Def Jam, following Game Theory (2006). The Philadelphia-based hip-hop group collaborates with stars such as DJ Jazzy Jeff, Mos Def, Saigon, Common, and several others to create their most politically-inclined album, Rising Down.

Named after William T. Vollmann’s book on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on violence, freedom and urgent means, the album exudes a dark ambiance although it is filled with many bright sparks.

In an attempt to describe the content of Rising Down, ?uestlove, the band’s producer and backbone, says: “Add up (the crime and high school drop-out rates in Philadelphia), plus being in your mid-30s and working 300 nights a year and this being an election year — yeah, all that’s what this album’s about.”

From the old-school aesthetic established by DJ Jazzy Jeff’s scratching (“Get Busy”) to the soulful singing of Chrisette Michele (“Rising Up”), this album may resonate forebodingly but there’s an impressive wall of sound that leaves little out. This is perhaps one of the most original and inventive albums released by The Roots.

Favorite Songs: “Get Busy”, “Rising Up”, and “Birthday Girl”

-Seb, Tower Pulse 04/30/2008

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