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How I Got Over

Album

How I Got Over

The Roots

2010Hip-Hop/Rap · Music · Hardcore Rap · Alternative Rap

Higher profile, higher stakes for the bar-raising Philly band.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Def Jam Recordings
Tracks
14
Content rating
Explicit

℗ 2010 The Island Def Jam Music Group

Tracks

  1. 1
    A Peace Of Light (feat. Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian & Haley Dekle)
    The Roots
    1:50
  2. 2
    Walk Alone (feat. Truck North, Porn & Dice Raw)
    The Roots
    3:54
  3. 3
    Dear God 2.0 (feat. Monsters of Folk)
    The Roots
    3:51
  4. 4
    Radio Daze (feat. Blu, Porn & Dice Raw)
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    4:16
  5. 5
    Now or Never (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
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    4:34
  6. 6
    How I Got Over
    The Roots
    3:33
  7. 7
    Dillatude: The Flight of Titus
    The Roots
    0:42
  8. 8
    The Day (feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash)
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    3:44
  9. 9
    Right On (feat. Joanna Newsom & STS)
    The Roots
    3:36
  10. 10
    Doin' It Again
    The Roots
    2:23
  11. 11
    The Fire (feat. John Legend)
    The Roots
    3:41
  12. 12
    Tunnel Vision
    The Roots
    0:40
  13. 13
    Web 20/20 (feat. Peedi Peedi & Truck North)
    The Roots
    2:46
  14. 14
    Hustla (feat. STS) [Bonus Track]
    The Roots
    2:56

About this album

With their new late-night TV gig in 2010, The Roots were suddenly America’s most visible hip-hop group. But instead of going mainstream, the Philly group’s ninth album uses the platform to deliver sombre, direct raps overlaid with the textures of neo-soul and indie folk. “Right On” deftly flips a Joanna Newsom sample into hypnotic boom bap, while the title track has a laidback but powerful funk groove over which Black Thought both sings and raps, advocating against apathy.