{"product_id":"the-roots-things-fall-apart-1","title":"The Roots - Things Fall Apart","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Roots made four albums before this one and have made plenty since, but \u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e is the one that got them a Grammy, a gold record and a permanent place in the canon. Released in February 1999, it came out of the Electric Lady sessions that also produced D'Angelo's \u003cem\u003eVoodoo\u003c\/em\u003e and Erykah Badu's \u003cem\u003eMama's Gun\u003c\/em\u003e — the Soulquarian moment, with all the players circulating between rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"You Got Me\" is the hit, written with Jill Scott and sung by Badu, and it still does the thing where a drum-and-bass breakdown arrives in the last minute and nobody objects. But the album's spine is elsewhere: \"The Next Movement\" and \"Adrenaline!\" for the pure kinetic pleasure, \"Act Too (The Love Of My Life)\" with Common, \"Double Trouble\" with Mos Def trading bars with Black Thought at a speed that still sounds like showing off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt opens with dialogue from Spike Lee's \u003cem\u003eMo' Better Blues\u003c\/em\u003e about black audiences abandoning jazz, which tells you exactly what the record is worried about. Twenty-five years later that anxiety reads as prophecy, and the album as the best case anyone made against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDouble LP on 180 gram vinyl, from Geffen and Okayplayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47638167355554,"sku":null,"price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/2176020.jpg?v=1788985204","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/the-roots-things-fall-apart-1","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}