Things Fall Apart

...on the path of live instrumentation, the album's sound was somewhat darker. The group released Things Fall Apart in 1999 (named after Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe, which in turn was named after a line from The Second...

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...over 500,000 copies. It includes the song "You Got Me", which won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, while Things Fall Apart was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the same year, losing to...

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...raps the second verse but does not appear in the music video. The track was released as a single from the band's fourth studio album, ''Things Fall Apart '' (1999). "You Got Me" was co-written by musician Jill Scott, who recorded vocals for...

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...the first tributes came from The Roots and Erykah Badu, who collaborated brilliantly in 1999 on "You Got Me" from The Roots' album 'Things Fall Apart'. During a break from being Jimmy Fallon's house band on his US TV chat show, The Roots and...

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...Fu Naki . The track is titled "Kung Fu San", and samples Carl Douglas's Kung Fu Fighting, and is available on . Diedre vs. Dice (from Things Fall Apart ) Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New (from Things Fall Apart ) Don't See Us (from Things Fall...

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...Want More, while 1996's Illadelph Halflife caught the attention of the alt-rap audience. Mainstream success would come in '99 with Things Fall Apart, which rose to #4 on the Billboard charts. They would follow with the critically acclaimed...

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...they are not, strictly speaking, popular. No Roots album has been certified platinum: of the group's eight albums, only two 1999's "Things Fall Apart" and 2002's "Phrenology" have gone gold. The band has never had a top 10 song on Billboard's...

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...bass response for what's still a fairly small set of headphones, and very controlled too- my old phones couldn't cope with The Roots' "Things Fall Apart", which is full of loud sub-bass, and would distort and "fart", but the Koss phones cope...

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...the years, partly thanks to the collegiate jam-band circuit. Commercially the group has rarely had a smash: the closest thing was "Things Fall Apart" (MCA) in 1999, which peaked at No. 4 and sold more than 500,000 copies within its first...

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...was slightly better at the whole conscious-anger thing. Some of the poli-sci here comes off as slightly textbook. On the whole, though, Things Fall Apart is probably a more accurate title for this album than it was for a record that featured...

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