Last week The Roots held a listening party for their upcoming album Rising Down. (As a nerdy aside, I might be one of the only people on the planet who not only caught the reference to William T. Vollman’s 7-volume Rising Up, Rising Down, I also own it… sigh…). Anyway, so they had this listening party the other night for the album and I hear it was pretty awesome. One of their released singles off the album, Rising Up, features WALE, this DC rapper who I never thought would take off, even though everyone and their mother is like, yo, this guy is about to explode… we’ll see friends… we’ll see… But seriously, this is definitely a huge boost to a guy who has only released a (n albeit well-received) mix-tape of his stuff and has done a (great) D.A.N.C.E. remix.
Also, if you are in the Philly area - hell, if you are on the east coast - The Roots Picnic is on June 7th. $50. A little steep. But if you have a look at the line-up - The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones + The Dap Kings, Santogold!, Diplo, Cool Kids… y mas - you can’t go wrong. Starts at 2 and should be a lot of fun.
So, check out the video below. The album drops April 29th, so we’ve got a few weeks.
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