The Roots undun Album – All We Have
The Roots new album undun is set to release December 6th, but they’ve made sure that you get tons of tidbits along the way including photos, videos, lyrics, sneak peeks and much more. So to keep you from killing yourself and going place to place to get it all, we’ve collected their offerings and put it on one big page. Here you go!
To start, the album was originally slated to be just 10 tracks, but a photo released by Questlove showed the demo CD displaying 11 tracks. And now that they’ve allowed the album to be pre-ordered via iTunes, it’s now showing 14 tracks. No notice on what are segue tracks, instrumentals, etc, but here are the tracks as they have been made available on iTunes as of today;
1 – Dun
2 – Sleep
3 – Make My (feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Dice Raw)
4 – One Time (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
5 – Kool On (feat. Greg Porn & Truck North)
6 – The OtherSide (feat. Bilal Oliver & Greg Porn)
7 – Stomp (feat. Greg Porn)
8 – Lighthouse (feat. Dice Raw)
9 – I Remember
10 – Tip the Scale (feat. Dice Raw)
11 – Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) – Sufjan Stevens
12 – Possibility (2nd Movement)
13 – Will to Power (3rd Movement)
14 – Finality (4th Movement)
Digital Booklet – Undun
They have additionally released Make My (feAturing Big K.R.I.T.) on SoundCloud and you can listen to that here;
They have also released videos for Make My, Tip The Scale and Stomp. Since there’s a story being told with this album, here they are in order, even though there are songs in between these;
Make My
Stomp
Tip The Scales
Plus, here is a sneak peek at the photo shoot that took place to initially promote the video;
And lastly, they have been releasing lyrics from the album at the rate of a couple per day off and on and now they’ve stopped which either means that these are all of the songs that have lyrics and the rest are instrumental or they’re making us wait with baited breath. Regardless, here are the song lyrics that they’ve released put in the order that they appear on the album. And to break it up some, we’ve inserted some photos that were also released. Enjoy!
Track 1 – Dun (No lyrics provided)
Track 2 – Sleep
Verse 1 (Aaron Livingston) Like when autumn leaves fall Down from the trees There goes, my honey bee I’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams And I do not miss them yet I wouldn’t wish them on than worst of enemies Let them burn, go from here Like when autumn leaves Verse 2 (Black Thought) To catch a thief Who stole the soul I prayed to keep Insomniac Bad dreams/Got me losing Sleep I’m dead tired My mind playing tricks Deceit A face in the glass /Unable to admit defeat All that I am all that I was is history The past unraveled adding insult to this injury I’m fighting the battle for the soul of the century Destiny is everything that I pretend to be Look, and what I did came back to me eventually The music played on and… Told me I was meant to be awake It’s unresolved Like everything I had at stake Illegal activity controls My black symphony Orchestrated like it happened Incidentally Oh… there I go From a man to memory Damn I wonder if my fam will remember me Verse 3 (Aaron Livingston) I’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams And I do not miss them yet I wouldn’t wish them on the worst of enemies Let them burn, go from here Like when autumn leaves
Track 3 – Make My (feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Dice Raw)
I did it all for the money Lord
It’s what it seems But in the world of night terrors-it’s Hard to dream They hollering cash rules everything Let’s call it cream Cause when it rises to the top you get… The finer things Ocean fronts, rolling blunts With model chick and saying grace over lobster and steak Like please forgive us for riding Benzes with camera plates Too busy looking backwards for jackers to pump my brakes For help sign to symbolize the live that hunger takes Addicted to the green if I don’t ball I get the shakes I’d give it all for a peace of mind for heaven sakes My heart so heavy that the ropes that hold my casket break Cause everything that wasn’t for me I had to chase I had to take They told me that the ends would justify the means they told me at the end, it would justify the dreams That I’ve had since a child, maybe I’ll throw in the towel And make my, make my, make my, make my Departure from the world Tryna control the fits of panic Unwritten and unraveled It’s the dead man’s pedantic Whatever.. See it’s really just a matter of semantics When everybody’s fresh out of collateral to damage and… My splayin got me prayin like a mantis I begin to vanish feel the pull of the blank canvas I’m contemplating that special dedication To whoever it concern…My letter of resignation Fading back to black… my dark coronation The heat of the day …the long robe of Muerte That soul is in the atmosphere like airplay If there’s a heaven I cant find the stairway Chorus Oohs
Track 4 – One Time (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
Verse 1 (Phonte) Yo, the spirit in the sky scream homicide But it was time to ride Then some niggas funny talking and too much money talking We make em economize Real rap – no tails spinning, such is the life of a Kam-I-Ka-Ze pilot We wylin out of control until we all make the funny papers like Comic-Con Feared in all streets so, if you ever see me out in y’all streets Find another one to occupy I never hope for the best I wish a nigga would Turn around and walk away I wish a nigga could Listen to my instincts and say fuck the rest But once you’ve had the best better ain’t as good Weak-heartedness cannot be involved Stick to the script nigga fuck your improv Like the samurai The street’s Hammurabi Code Play your part shut the fuck up and do as I was told Chorus#1 I was always late for the bus Just once can I be on time Then I start to think what’s the rush Who wants to be on time Feeling unlucky and if I ever got lucky it was one time In this crazy world Verse 2 (Black Thought) Not a thing I fear besides fear itself This is clearly a lesson learned for someone else Reach for the crown of thorns upon the shelf Cross around my neck I’ve been taught by stealth Capture this moment in time… it’s a smash and grab And where my party people y’all finna have a blast You say goodbye… I say hello first and last Hello-Hello… Now all of y’all elevate your glass To an example of what time will do to you When those nameless things just keep on eluding you When shit is new to you and lies is true to you Words of suspects-usual… coming though to you Man, I guess if I was ever lucky it was one time Then I went missing looking for the sublime A nigga stayed low left the ladder unclimbed Time after time, verse blank, the line unrhymed Chorus #2 You ever wonder what’s the big fuss.. For everyone be on time What’s the big deal, why do they feel The need to have as marching on line Feeling unlucky and if I’d ever got lucky it was one time In this crazy world Verse 3 (Dice Raw) I wonder when you die do you hear harps and bagpipes If you born on the other side of the crack pipe Niggas learn math just to understand the crack price Then drive in head first like the jack knife Cause out here, yo you niggas can’t belly flop If you wanna make the noise inside your belly stop One time means being on the front line Being on the front line means ducking one time The pendulum swinging my way- couldn’t be more blind Niggas talk to the cops? Not even one time Cause we all going down just like the subprime Or a cheap ass half gallon of Ballantine But hopping over gates to escape is sublime Then through the alley way and down to the sub line Tales from the streets A life of high crime To make it to the bottom Such a high climb Chorus #1
Track 5 – Kool On (feat. Greg Porn & Truck North)
Ooh Come get your kool on Stars are made to shine (4xs) Stars are made to shine Verse 1 (Greg Porn) I’m in the double G, three-piece tux Screaming dressed to kill Hope somebody call my bluff It’s a full house… sipping on a royal flush Two queens is on my cuffs Good times is in the cards Living on borrowed time I’m paying the extra charge To feel like something small is worth a hundred large Swag is on retard, charm is on massage Wit is on guard, I challenge you to a duel Who needs a chain when every thoughts a jewel God bless the weirdo when everyone’s a fool Fuck a genie and three wishes I just want a bottle, a place to write my novel I am like heroin to those that hear a rhyme and think How do you find this upper echelon this time Let’s toast to better days a beautiful mind and a flow that never age Chorus Verse 2 (Black Thought) Yo, I’m never sleeping like I’m on meth-amphtamines Move like my enemy ten steps ahead of me Say my reputation precedes me like a pedigree Gentlemanly gangsta steez beyond the seventies Holdin fast money without running out of patience Move in silence without running up in places Cake by the layers Rich but never famous Hustle anonymous still remain nameless In hindsight gold come in bars like a klondike The minute before the storm hit is what I’m calm like Suited and booted for a shooting like it’s prom night It’s suicide right pursuers tried like To no avail and a heroes what they died like I’ve got em waiting on the news like I’m Cronkite Not in the lime light or needed for the crime right No boasts, just bodied, chalked close to the line tight Chorus Verse 3 (Truck North) Yeah outside where the killers and the dealers swarm And inside they dressed up like it’s a telethon Black tie affair but they holding heavy arms Straight cash with a stash in the cummerbund More Bacardi and the bouncers of the party hum Riots erupting around and still we party on Made the quantum leap to a king from a pawn But it was destined the conclusion was foregone Serenade of the former slave promenade Cause them long days in the sun Have now become shade So we doing high speeds in a narrow lane Say cheese Free falling from the aeroplane Another feather in the cap for all the years That we spent in luxuries lap Without looking back Cause memories could sting like hornet Damn it felt good to see people up on it
Track 6 – The OtherSide (feat. Bilal Oliver & Greg Porn)
Originally called “The Jump”
Baby Come Back Verse 1 (Black Thought) Yo, we obviously need to tone it down a bit Running round town spending time like it’s counterfeit Everybody catching hay fever like sinuses Step in my arena let me show y’all who the highness is You might say I could be doing something positive Humbled head down low and broke like promises Soaking and broken in a joke like comics is Not enough paper to be paying folks compliments But when that paper got low so did my tolerance And it ain’t no truth in a dare without the consequence Listen if it not for these hood inventions Id just be another kid from the block with no intentions On the dock of that bay serving a life sentence Even if I’m going to hell I’m gonna make an entrance Yeah let em know I’m getting cheese like omletes is But I’m the toast of the town like Thomas is Chorus (Sung by Bilal Oliver) We’re all on a journey Down the hall of memories Don’t worry bout what you ain’t got Leave with a little bit of dignity Never loved what I had Always felt like I deserved more But when I Make it to the other side Make it to the other side That’s when we’ll settle up the score Verse 2 (Black Thought) Yo , we did this in remembrance of Faces from the past We no longer have an image of Carrying cold blood hearts That never been for love Brothers keep going for theirs but never get enough World travelers that seen it all And did enough Only to return to learn The world wasn’t big enough Damn, how long has it been? I guess the jig is up Now all I know is I’m about to wake this nigga up Yeah that hindsight 20/20 now niggas dead on the money Trying to take something from me It’s a wrap like mummy Undone I am becoming and… When he’s tired of running Through the layers of the onion He’ll probably shed a tear Cause they’ll be no more fast times Just his weak mind scrolled out like a bad sign He never had enough and got confused when they asked why Life is only a moment in time and it passed by Chorus Verse 3 (P.O.R.N.) I’m sitting on top of the world ready to jump off Thinking of various ways to break law Thinking that enough is enough but still I want more Thinking of how I’m playing with fire tht burned my young boy By any means necessary… don’t give a damn So every night I’m on a flight that never lands Be an asshole when the shit hits the fan Or bet your life on a bluff and a bad hand Can’t win/can’t lose Get ‘em gassed leave em leaking fuel Either way the market moves Cash rules kings, queens, prince and princess Every night I’m crossing a line that ain’t the finish Every thought is dark as a glass of fucking Guinness To far gone to come back to my senses Now I’m on the edge of my bed making love to my meds Every moments like a pistol to my head When I’m getting mine
Track 7 – Stomp (feat. Greg Porn)
(him) It’s about flesh and blood It’s about heart beat that beats strong It’s about passion That is unyielding And I want you men to know today It’s your hour It is your time It is your moment Go get it Verse 1 (Black Thought) Yeah speaking of pieces of a man Staring at a future in the creases of my hand It reads like a final letter I’m leaving for my fam but It’s written in language they will never understand A late repentant Never deviating from a plan I drive by headed for the valley of the damned The Wheels spin, I’m looking for a sacrificial lamb Then roll tactics like a soldier out in the Sudan Listen… Was this a matter of flesh and blood Yes it was Does it matter who win and lose Yes it does It ain’t about the most blessed love When you return to the essence What is it back to the essence of Greatness I wasnt in the prescence of Cause you was fake and never measured up You just a nigga on his regular But how far am I ahead of ya It just as easily coulda been me instead of ya (Just Blaze) We gone fight till we can’t fight no more Right right You cant fight no more You gone lie down and bleed a while You gone get up Fight some more Want you say it with me Repeat it after me when I say it We gone fight Verse 2 (Greg Porn) Fuck getting fuck Immaculate conception Now what’s beef ain’t even a question Calico kisses, cold blood and crime tape Flirt with death every night it’s a blind date One night stand paybacks a bitch Shit have you skinny dipping in a pool of your piss Blood sweat and tears broken teeth and spit Put the barrel in your mouth Blow the devil a kiss Put the knife in ya back cut down to the red meat Daddy should’ve let me be a stain on the bed sheets I’m one shot short of a Molotov cocktail Kick in the door like welcome to my world I’m an evil genius when it comes to this dumb shit Half of the time ima keep it one hundred Don’t play chicken when I’m driving them crazy Get hit in the wing thigh breast or drumstick We like
Track 8 – Lighthouse (feat. Dice Raw)
Pre-chorus Rhyme (Dice Raw) If you can‘t swizzim then ya bound to drizzown Passing out life jackets bout to go didown Get down with the captain or go down with the ship Before the dark abyss I’m gon’ hit you wit dis (2xs) Chorus (Dice Raw) And no one’s in the lighthouse You’re face down in the ocean And no one’s in the lighthouse And it seems like you just screamed It’s no one there to hear the sound And it may feel like there’s no one there That cares if you drown Face down in the ocean Verse 1 (Dice Raw) Smoking cheap weed sipping on cheap vodka You pick your poison down Davey Jones’ locker It’s rum we be wanting By the tons my consumption Take a look at my lungs and my liver It’s disgusting Take a look at the man in the mirror We start fussing Only one person gets hurt when throwing the punches Me And the man behind the glass just laughs The waves come over my head and just crash My hand start bleeding water starts receeding A feeling comes into my heart I start believing that I actually might survive through the evening Survive on my own thoughts of suicide that’s competing With thoughts of tryna stay alive which been weakened By the feeling of putting on a smile while being beaten The fear of drowning still diving in the deep end The waters carried me so far you can’t reach ‘em And it feels like there’s no one Chorus Verse 2 (Black Thought) After the love is lost Friendship dissolves And even blood is lost Where did it begin The way we did each other wrong Troubled water neither one of us could swim across I stopped holding my breath Now I am better off There without a trace And you in my head All the halted motion of a rebel without a pause What it do is done till you dead and gone The grim reaper telling me to swim deeper Where the people go to lo and behold the soul keeper I’m not even breaking out in a sweat Or cold fever but I’m never paying up on my debt or tolls either I’ll leave the memories here I won’t need them If I stop thinking and lie, now that’s freedom Your body’s part of the Maritime museum Face down in the past is where I’m being Chorus Reprise
Track 9 – I Remember
Verse 1 (Black Thought) I drew a 2 of hearts from a deck of cards A stock trick from my empty repertoire Another hopeless story never read at all I’m better off looking for the end Where the credits are It’s a pain living life against the grain I’m looking back and y’all look the same Troy, Mark, and little what’s his name Memory is rerunning it all It’s the flight of my fall and it’s right on the wall Chorus I remember Can you remember? How it was I do Remember, do you? (2xs) Verse 2 (Black Thought) I used to ride the train to the same two stops And look at the graffiti on the rooftops Like the same song playing on the jukebox Joint called “Faded Polaroids In A Shoebox” Regardless to what the cadence is It can’t be forgotten like old acquaintances I realize how depressing of a place it is And when I notice my reflection whose face it is Chorus Musical break Chorus It’s only human to express the way you really feel But that same humanity is my Achilles’ heel A leopard can’t change his spots and never will So I’m forever ill Now I can never chill What’s keeping me from breaking out like Benadryl When my baptism of fire resulted in a kill Sometimes it’s as cut and dry as a business deal You gotta cause the blood of a close friend to spill But you remember still
Track 10 - Tip the Scale (feat. Dice Raw)
Chorus (Dice Raw) I’m a side of suicide Heads or Tails Some think life is living hell Some live life just living well I live life tryna tip the scale My Way, my way My Way, my way Verse 1 (Black Thought) Yo, I’m always early I never take off cause I got a job Rob Peter to pay Paul Now I realize it’s the winner that takes all Do what I gotta do cause I can’t take loss Picture me living life as if I’m some animal That consumes it’s own dreams like I’m a cannibal I won’t accept failure unless it’s mechanical But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus Look, let he without sin live without sin Until then, I’ll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men Counting the faces of those that might have been It’s like living that life but I won’t live that life again Chorus Verse 2 (Dice Raw) Lotta niggas go to prison How many come out Malcolm X I know I’m not ….shit Can’t even talk about the rest Famous last words You under arrest Will I get popped tonight It’s anybody’s guess I guess a nigga need to stay cunning I guess when the cops coming need to start running I wont make the same mistakes From my last run in You either done doing crime now or you done in I got a brother on the run and one in Wrote me a letter he said when you comin Shit man I thought the goal’s to stay out Back against the wall Then shoot your way out Getting money’s a style that never plays out Till you in a box And your stash money’s paid out The scales of justice Ain’t equally weighed out Only two ways out Digging tunnels or digging graves out Chorus
Track 11 – Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) – Sufjan Stevens – (No lyrics provided)
Track 12 – Possibility (2nd Movement) – (No lyrics provided)
Track 13 – Will to Power (3rd Movement) – (No lyrics provided)
Track 14 – Finality (4th Movement) – (No lyrics provided)
So that should be enough to get any Roots fan excited. Time to pre-order that CD about now. And again, all of this info was obtained from OkayPlayer, so that would be where to tune in to get more up-to-date info.
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