Jazz, Funk, Soul and Hip-Hop: The Best of the Roots

RISING DOWN [2008]
Along with 2006's Game Theory, Rising Down explores darker, in this case often political, themes, including poverty, terrorism and police brutality. [LISTEN]

Key Track: On "Singing Man," Black Thought and local MCs P.O.R.N. and Truck North rap from the perspectives of the Virginia Tech shooter, a child soldier in Liberia and a suicide bomber. [LISTEN]