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Undun [Explicit] [+Digital Booklet]

The RootsMP3 Music
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)

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  • This version contains: 14 songs and 1 digital booklet
  • Original Release Date: December 6, 2011
  • Format - Music: MP3, Digital Booklet PDF
  • Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
 
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Play   1. Dun (Album Version) The Roots 1:16 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   2. Sleep (Album Version) The Roots 2:15 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   3. Make My (Album Version) [feat. Big K.R.I.T., Dice Raw] The Roots 4:27 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   4. One Time (Album Version) [feat. Phonte, Dice Raw] [Explicit] The Roots 3:55 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   5. Kool On (Album Version (Explicit)) [feat. Greg Porn, Truck North] The Roots 3:48 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   6. The Other Side [Explicit] The Roots 4:03 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   7. Stomp (Album Version) [feat. Greg Porn] [Explicit] The Roots 2:23 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   8. Lighthouse (Album Version (Explicit)) [feat. Dice Raw] The Roots 3:43 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play   9. I Remember (Album Version) The Roots 3:14 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play 10. Tip The Scale (Album Version) [feat. Dice Raw] [Explicit] The Roots 4:17 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play 11. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) (Album Version) Sufjan Stevens 1:52 Album Only
Play 12. Possibility (2nd Movement) (Album Version) The Roots 0:55 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play 13. Will To Power (3rd Movement) (Album Version) The Roots 1:03 $1.29  Buy MP3 
Play 14. Finality (4th Movement) (Album Version) The Roots 1:31 $1.29  Buy MP3 
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It's like the album is one perfect song that takes you on a journey that you'd never want to end. Chris L. Floyd  |  11 reviewers made a similar statement
Great production, good lyrics. C. Palacios  |  15 reviewers made a similar statement
GREAT ALBUM.... definitely worth buying and listening to over and over again! branjenliv  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars DEAR MUSIC APPRECIATORS December 6, 2011
Format:Audio CD
Dear Music Appreciators,

I come to this album as one who knows nothing of The Roots beyond the few dozen times I've been flipping channels and decided to watch a bit of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Based on their work on that show I knew they were an incredibly talented and versatile band, and this, their latest studio album, is simply further evidence of that fact.

Unlike many of their more popular peers, this is not simply a vehicle for a few hot singles with some filler in between. This is a real "record" in that old school sense of the word - a collection of carefully crafted songs that go well together and are meant to be experienced in order, one after another. This is the kind of record that would sound best on a record player, or at least on a Discman with some big ol' headphones while you're pounding the city pavement or shooting down a subway line.

On their late night television gig The Roots are a band that flies high above the anchors of musical genre and this album is no exception. This is not really just a rap album or a hip-hop album or a soul album or a funk album or a pop album or a rock album, it's...well, it's a ROOTS album. And it's something of a concept album, centered around one Redford Stephens, who happened into a life of crime in inner-city New York and died at twenty-five.

The album opens with Redford dead, moves backwards to explore his story, and ends with four short, hopped-up. classical sounding instrumental tracks - a sort of "Redford Stephens Suite" to memorialize the fallen character.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Undun is art December 6, 2011
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Roots tenure in the music business spans much of hip hop history from the late 80s, through the 'golden age' of hip hop, to its current state of affairs. Each of their albums has a different tone, and this is by far the darkest and most poetic. A 'concept album,' undun tells the story of a poor kid who thinks he's making the right decisions, but gets drawn deeper into the drug game until he's killed. Yet the story is told in reverse, kind of like Pulp Fiction.

As a Roots fan since Do You Want More, this album inspires me. Their musicianship is perhaps better than it has ever been. Quest and Co. are experimenting with lush classical tones amid the boom-bap-blip, especially on the album's closing suite of four instrumental songs. The MCing is inspired. Black Thought is ill, and more precise than ever. Great guest spots from the likes of Greg Porn, as usual, and haunting hooks and verses by Dice Raw.

As much as it inspires me, it also depresses me. That's the point. The Roots are making real art here, a work with a poignant message that can be interpreted on many different levels. For me, they are telling a dark story that contains a message about life's value and how humans cannot survive faced with only bad and worse choices.

The stand out track for me is Sleep, which marks death. The music is so weird and hard hitting. Almost like something from Portishead circa the mid-90s. The lyrics and the imagery of falling leaves create a mood of bittersweet release.

I'd recommend this album to anyone who likes hip hop but yearns for something beyond the sophomoric slogans that dominate the genre these days. It might be dispiriting thematically, but simple pop doesn't wake people up.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Stop Watching The Throne and Get Undun! December 6, 2011
Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Roots continue to prove that they are the most consistent music group out there. Even some of their older albums that were perhaps not as good as we might have liked, were still leaps and bounds better than seemingly 80% of the other music out there.

In my time of doing reviews on my blog I've only given four albums a perfect five rating. The Roots' album from last year, How I Got Over, their collaboration with John Legend "Wake Up", Hidden Beach Unwrapped Volume 1 and "The Carnivale" by Wyclef Jean, which remains today one of my top 10 albums that I've ever heard in my life.

Today The Roots get the fifth 5 Rating (and third album to get that that they are involved with). I've been a fan of the Roots for a long time, having come to them via D'Angelo who is my favorite artist. I heard some collaborations that he had done with them in some live recordings that I have and was just hooked.

Here you have a rap group that's an actual BAND. They play their instruments, and they play them well. It's not often you come across a hip hop band, but the Roots have been putting it down for hip hop in a serious way for years now and show no signs of creative drop off.

Never more clear than on their newest album "UnDun" which in a first for the legendary Roots Crew, is a concept album. Undun chronicles the life and death of Redford Stephens who embraces some bad choices in his life and ends up paying the ultimate price for it, and tells said story in reverse.

The album begins with his dying and works it's way back to the beginning of the story -- the end of the album.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing
This is an ambitious, fascinating album -- musically and lyrically great. It reminds me of The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come for Free," though that's (intentionally) musically much... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Raghuveer Parthasarathy
2.0 out of 5 stars Track 6 is the Best
The Other Side is the best song on this album & it's just OK. What's w/the Roots making these depressing, suicidal sounding albums lately? Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jabari Edmondson
5.0 out of 5 stars Dope dope dope
I don't really know how else to describe this. I love this band, I have seen them in concert a few times and they never disappoint. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kylor2
5.0 out of 5 stars Funky jazzy-The Incredible Roots Crew!
What are you waiting for? Buy it! You can't go wrong here. My only issue with Undun is it's too short. Stop wasting your time reading reviews. Buy it...Undun is good for your soul.
Published 3 months ago by Lee W. Dabagia
5.0 out of 5 stars C
This is another hit from The Roots. I listen to this and HIGO on a continuous loop at work almost daily. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Latasha Young
4.0 out of 5 stars Another great effort from the Roots!
Many of the Roots longtime fans haven't appreciated the direction they've headed in since "How I Got Over," but I'm one of them. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jeff Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Unstoppable
The roots killed it again. Maybe not as good as How I Got Over but still really good. This album felt a little more laid back.
Published 5 months ago by Jack Diddly
5.0 out of 5 stars Good album
I buy all their albums. Didn't realize the hip opera format, so not as many tracks as usual, but the actual songs are great. Got in sale for cheap, so definitely worth the money
Published 6 months ago by Roots fan
5.0 out of 5 stars An album, not a collection of songs
You can't get the full picture by listening to just an individual track. This is an album that needs to be listened to all the way through without interuption to get the full... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Richard E Jackson
3.0 out of 5 stars Undun
As a longtime, dedicated Roots fan I've noticed a pattern lately; release one near perfect LP, then release a haphazard, slightly lackluster effort as a followup. Read more
Published 8 months ago by WILLIE A YOUNG II
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