The Roots Hip Hop

Above the album worked the Rhino '100 Greatest Rap Songs: The Greatest Hip-Hop Tracks Ever ', and his release took place on 2020. The album has got 20 songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Boombox 2’ is a new selection of early rap music from the period 1979 – 83, with barely a household name in sight. Featured here are some the earliest hip hop records that came out of New York City following the enormous commercial success of the first ever rap record, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ by the Sugarhill Gang, in September 1979. Artists and producers alike tried to jump aboard the new commercial possibilities of hip hop. By the end of the year there were 30 hip hop singles, all released by independent New York labels.

Made From Scratch is a 1996 sampler CD released through the hip-hop division of DGC/Geffen Records. It highlights songs by artists that were just released along with artists meant for release but whose deal was scrapped from the company, including The Large Professor of Main Source and the group Madd Head. It is a "sampler" CD so some tracks are just excerpts.

Above the album worked the 'Greatest Ever R&B & Hip Hop', and his release took place on 2020. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Wake Up is the 2010 collaborative album between American singer John Legend and American hip-hop band The Roots, who serve as Legend's backing group on this release. This was their only collaboration, released on the G.O.O.D./Columbia labels on 21 September, 2010. This would lead to becoming the Best R&B album in the 2010 Grammy awards.

Long-rumored and shrouded in mystery, this collaborative album between Elvis Costello and hip hop/neo soul band, The Roots promises to be one of the most unexpected and surprising releases of 2013. Definitely a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of the amazing parts, this album lives up to all of the intrigue and expectations.