The Roots - Rising Down

"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.” -Questlove

The Roots newest album entitled "Rising Down" is now in stores and is a must hear. The Roots continue to break norms and push limits while still producing classic feel good hip hop. The album is brighter than a usual Roots record while at the same darker than anything they've ever done. It's described by Questlove as,"the most incendiary, political album of our career to date." The cover work is in reference to what the general confederate fear was of blacks during reconstruction after the civil war. The fear that blacks would engulf everything and everyone, and destroy it soon after.

this drawing is entitled NEGRO RULE. and it pretty much sums up the
feeling of the Confederate Union towards the newly freed slaves and
the idea that if given power they would reek havoc and chaos on the
country.

somehow in watching this election one can't help but wonder if those
unspoken feelings----- (btw..."if obama was a white man" is also the
new nig---ok...im sorry....black)---reflect the looming figure of the
old figureheads of washington now? - ?uestlove

This album is an essential, make sure to give it a listen.