Rising Down

...Records and subsequently to its joint venture with Interscope. That year, Wale appeared on The Roots' single "Rising Up" from their Rising Down album before remixing his own "Nike Boots" track to feature Lil' Wayne. Most recently, Wale...

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...album with the label, following Game Theory '' (2006). The album's title comes from William T. Vollmann's 2004 book ''Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means. Similar to the book, the role of violence in...

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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means is a seven-volume treatise on the subject of violence by American author William T. Vollmann. First published by McSweeney's in November 2003, it was nominated...

In this article: William T. Vollmann, McSweeney's, Somalia, Cambodia, and Iraq

...including the National Book Award-winning Europe Central, and, now, seven of nonfiction. One of those seven was Rising Up and Rising Down, a seven-volume, 3,299-page treatise on the history of violence. The thing is, despite the...

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The Roots "Rising Down" | The Japan Times Online By PHILIP BRASOR Who says hip-hop acts can't get better with age? Since they started working for The Man (i.e., Jay-Z) two albums ago, The Roots have hardened their sound; and whether or not...

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The best of the new releases this week is Rising Down, by The Roots, reviewed by Tom Horan It was Stevie Wonder who gave the Fender Rhodes electric piano legendary status, its rounded chime characterising many of his best moments in the...

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he final track on the Roots' latest full-length, Rising Down, is conspicuously cheerful. "Rising Up" features the '70s-funk synth pads and super-solid Tropicalia rhythm section you might expect from the first track on a Kanye West record. In...

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...turns out, it's also a timeline for where the world is during the release of each of their albums, and evidenced by their new disc Rising Down, the world is not a pretty place. Full of acerbic lyrics and rough-hewn melodies, The Roots' new...

In this article: The Roots, Public Enemy, Dice Raw, Bruce Springsteen, Black Thought, Def Jam, and Game Theory

...?uestlove's fierce, crisp percussion makes for some diabolical rhythmic low-end, and since it dominates Rising Down's personality it gives the album the feeling of being this bionic monstrosity that just so happens to have a lot of headknock...

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Music Review: The Roots Keep It Serious On CD 'Rising Down' April 28th, 2008 4:52pm EDT Post a comment The Roots, ''Rising Down'' (Def Jam): Over the course of 15 years and seven studio albums - ''Rising Down'' being their eighth - The...

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