- hip hop
- 54 min
- 17 tracks
- Def Jam Recordings
Rising Down is the eighth studio album by the American hip-hop band the Roots, released on April 28, 2008, on Def Jam Recordings. The album's title is adapted from William T. Vollmann's book Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2004).
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Spare, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 80/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB−
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A
- Pitchfork7.8/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
- Spin8/10
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Tracks
- 1The Pow Wow1:16
- 2Rising Down3:40
- 3Get Busy3:29
- 4@150:52
- 575 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)3:16
- 6Becoming Unwritten0:37
- 7Criminal4:09
- 8I Will Not Apologize4:34
- 9I Can’t Help It4:40
- 10Singing Man4:08
- 11Unwritten1:23
- 12Lost Desire3:58
- 13The Show3:45
- 14Rising Up4:23
- 15Birthday Girl4:05
- 16The Grand Return2:24
- 17The Pow Wow 23:19
17 tracks, 54 minutes.
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