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Game Theory

Album

Game Theory

The Roots

2006Hip-Hop/Rap · Music · Alternative Rap · Hardcore Rap · Hip-Hop

Tight rhythms and sharp swords from the jazz-rap masters.
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Details

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

℗ 2006 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Tracks

  1. 1
    Dilltastic Vol Won(derful)
    The Roots
    0:28
  2. 2
    False Media
    The Roots
    2:43
  3. 3
    Game Theory
    The Roots
    4:01
  4. 4
    Don't Feel Right (feat. Maimouna Youssef)
    The Roots
    4:08
  5. 5
    In the Music (feat. Malik B.)
    The RootsPorn
    4:06
  6. 6
    Take It There (feat. Wadud Ahmad)
    The Roots
    2:50
  7. 7
    Baby
    The RootsJohn John
    2:50
  8. 8
    Here I Come (feat. Dice Raw & Malik B.)
    The Roots
    4:11
  9. 9
    Long Time (feat. Peedi Peedi & Bunny Sigler)
    The Roots
    4:21
  10. 10
    Livin' In a New World (feat. John John)
    The Roots
    1:47
  11. 11
    Clock With No Hands (feat. Mercedes Martinez)
    The Roots
    4:23
  12. 12
    Atonement (feat. Jack Davey)
    The Roots
    2:35
  13. 13
    Can't Stop This
    The Roots
    8:35
  14. 14
    Bread and Butter (Explicit)
    The Roots
    3:40

About this album

Tightening up the jazzy, jam-friendly style they’d mastered over the previous decade, The Roots’ seventh album shows the group at their darkest, sharpest and most lyrically purposeful. Against gorgeous string arrangements from legendary Philadelphia composer Larry Gold, Black Thought spits nostalgic bars about his South Philly childhood on “Long Time”. “Atonement” flips a Radiohead sample into hazy, slow-motion neo-soul, but the album’s emotional climax is “Can’t Stop This”, a bittersweet eight-minute homage to the recently departed J Dilla.