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Undun

Album

Undun

The Roots

2011Hip-Hop/Rap · Music · Rap · Alternative Rap

A tragic concept album with deft bars and folk touches.
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Details

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

℗ 2011 The Island Def Jam Music Group

Tracks

  1. 1
    Dun
    The Roots
    1:16
  2. 2
    Sleep
    The Roots
    2:15
  3. 3
    Make My (feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Dice Raw)
    The Roots
    4:27
  4. 4
    One Time (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
    The Roots
    3:55
  5. 5
    Kool On (feat. Greg Porn & Truck North)
    The Roots
    3:48
  6. 6
    The OtherSide (feat. Bilal Oliver & Greg Porn)
    The Roots
    4:03
  7. 7
    Stomp (feat. Greg Porn)
    The Roots
    2:23
  8. 8
    Lighthouse (feat. Dice Raw)
    The Roots
    3:43
  9. 9
    I Remember
    The Roots
    3:14
  10. 10
    Tip the Scale (feat. Dice Raw)
    The Roots
    4:17
  11. 11
    Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
    Sufjan Stevens
    2:02
  12. 12
    Possibility (2nd Movement)
    The Roots
    0:55
  13. 13
    Will to Power (3rd Movement)
    The Roots
    1:03
  14. 14
    Finality (4th Movement)
    The Roots
    1:31

About this album

Beginning with a beeping flatline and ending with a four-part instrumental suite, Undun tells the tragedy of Redford Stevens—according to ?uestlove, a character who’s “young, gifted, black and unravelling”—in reverse. Juxtaposing Black Thought’s bittersweet bars with indie folk, the group’s tenth album encompasses wordless, heart-wrenching Sufjan Stevens samples (“Redford [For Yia-Yia & Pappou]”) as well as the poignant boom bap of “Make My” where, alongside Big K.R.I.T. and Dice Raw, Black Thought raps, “If there’s a heaven, I can’t find a stairway”.