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Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots, Volume Two

The Roots

2005 · Hip Hop, Jazz

Rare pressing on Gatefold

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Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots, Volume Two by The Roots

Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots, Volume Two is a Hip-Hop album by The Roots, originally released in 2005. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked.

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Despite the promise of the title, the sprawling, two volume, <i>Homegrown: A Beginner’s Guide To The Roots</i> is, if anything, too accurate a reflection of The Roots’ bewilderingly eclectic career to serve as a concise primer for the uninitiated. Nonetheless, there is a wealth of stellar material on display here, and the dedicated listener ought to be able to form an accurate picture of The Roots’ career with a little luck and perseverance, while hardcore fans will be attracted by the high quality rarities and b-sides that fill out each volume. Though classic joints such as “Good Music”, “What They Do”, “Clones”, and “Star” are well represented, <i>Homegrown</i>’s disorganized, resolutely achronological tracklist might well leave newcomers bewildered, but the sheer volume of amazing material here ought to leave any listener suitably awed. Those reluctant to begin plumbing the Roots’ voluminous back-catalogue unaided could find worse places to start than the undisputedly brilliant material on <i>Homegrown</i>.

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Tracklist

  1. 1No Hometro / Proceed 25:49
  2. 2Distortion to Static (Black Thought Mix)1:58
  3. 3What They Do5:14
  4. 4The Next Movement4:07
  5. 5Good Music4:08
  6. 6The Lesson (feat. Dice Raw)5:04
  7. 7Star5:52
  8. 8The Hypnotic (feat. D'Angelo)4:52
  9. 9Silent Treatment6:48
  10. 10You Got Me4:56
  11. 11Clones4:54
  12. 12What You Want (feat. Jaguar)4:47
  13. 13Act Too (Love of My Life)4:54
  14. 14Do You Want More?!!!??!4:44
  15. 15It's Comin' (Live At The Trocadero, Illadelph December 1993)4:19
  16. 16Double Trouble (feat. Mos Def)6:22
  17. 2.1Sacrifice (Live On BBC Radio One's Worldwide Show With Gilles Peterson)6:14
  18. 2.2No Alibi5:26
  19. 2.3Essaywhuman?!!!!! (Organix Version)4:19
  20. 2.4Break You Off (Dub / Sound Check At Bogart's Cincinnati, OH 2003)5:27
  21. 2.5Quicksand Millennium4:08
  22. 2.6Pass the Popcorn (Revisited)4:03
  23. 2.7Don't Say Nuthin' (Remix)3:35
  24. 2.8Adrenaline (feat. Dice Raw & Beanie Sigel)5:18
  25. 2.9The Lesson, Pt. 33:34
  26. 2.10Ya'll Know Who3:59
  27. 2.11Thought@Work5:21
  28. 2.12Boom!2:55
  29. 2.13The Seed / Melting Pot / Web (Live On BBC Radio One's Worldwide Show With Gilles Peterson)16:02
  30. 2.14Din Da Da8:28
  31. 2.15The Pros3:15

Sound DNA

  • Hip-Hop
  • East Coast
  • bassheavy
  • intense
  • urban

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Rare pressing on Gatefold · 8 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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