The Roots - False Media

This place just needs more roots.

[@gerbilsqueex]

I looooove this album. Constantly on in my car. False media is a beast of a tune.

[@datsfunnyy]

this might be the hardest Black thought has ever gone. Every line kills it.

[@tomashorvath6323]

Best live show ever for me, Olympia Theatre Dublin. Right after release of this dope LP, The Roots played the whole album from start to finish just no words. Such a great inspiration you are the roots crew forever.

[@scazxr]

I was at a poetry festival in NJ to keep my wife happy, like in 05. And on the last day, these dudes hop on stage and own my white arse.

[@oscarmike1131]

One of the few hip hop songs I know that’s multi metered. The switch from 4/4 to 5/4 around 1:43 mark then back and forth till the song ends is amazing. Creates a very uneasy feel

[@cannenschilling2826]

This album is very timely right now. It probably always will be. Great work.

[@kenmorrison3200]

Awesome Track been a fan as long as Black Thought has been putting a mic to his lyrics

[@TurtleeyTY]

10 years ahead of its time...

[@kotep777]

simply incredible

[@MiguelT2006]

Best hip hop album of all time. Period.

[@sandansaiyan5675]

Before their next albums 😎How tf these masterpieces lost Eminem few times?

[@RiseDemUp]

False media we don't need it do we....... Fuck no, look where it's got us so far,we gotta let it go.. -CNN, Fox and all of them alike -food industrial complex -parmacutical industry -military industrial complex -the music industry

[@DXHellfire666]

Nine years ago and man was fully damn awake. CNN AND Fox are the damn devil - the R vs. D BS is nothing more than false media. MIC still has us and the environment fucking us over, pharma has us stuck in a pandemic... we don't need em, do we?

[@Rubbadubbwise]

Feelin this joint and gives dap to Public Enemy as well....

[@jns2820]

This is possibly the best Roots album, let alone one of the best hip hop albums in the history of the industry, yet it is one of the least popular ones.

[@sfknns]

Its a good album but to me Illadelph Halftime is my fav roots album.

[@sandansaiyan5675]

How I got over, Undun are a little bit better 😁

[@RioWilliams797]

this is real hip hop

[@katenash9903]

Black Thought's verse here might be the best rap verse of all time.

[@Taxidermistification]

+Kate Nash You reckon? That's like choosing the best grape in a vineyard.

[@Itzbandeto]

feel the same way and I'm a HUGE fan of Act Won on "Things Fall Apart"

[@LHollisIII]

@TheRonin5 - It's good to see someone who is truly enlightened. Keep passing the knowledge on...it matters.

[@alwayslive187]

Word!! Black Thought the illest M.C ever!!

[@bc146]

how crazy is that first verse. thought does a first person "gangsta rap" verse, but it is from the perspective of Pres. Bush. that shit is crazy

[@bondservant4Him]

"If I cant work to make it, then ill rob and take it"

[@jp21588]

America is lost some inside Littleton

[@AbbottSupreme]

DOPE! Peace!

[@matthewklotzbach4855]

Questlove, you not in the house.

[@TheStimie]

this is a diss track to bush and every one who voted for him great song

[@Sainted187]

when i heard this, i rushed to the store and had a fight just to get to the album ....

[@JesusCristo2002]

In examining and analyzing the lyrics a little more closely and directly the song can be interpreted different ways. Yes, one can interpret it from the perception of President George W. Bush, another would be the idealistic, cliche' African-American hood or gangster - or perhaps on a broader scale, a simple text of fundamental manipulation of power. Lyrically, unqestionably one of Black Thought's most intricately sophisticated and substantial works to date.

[@pscomics]

Fear and laziness too.

[@Takoshinobu]

grande The Roots!

[@TomatoOtters]

send our troops to get my paper

[@enyjuan]

even b4 d fallon gig, i already dig this...puff puff pass

[@kincamell2]

No Joke.

[@Constitusean]

they should of promote this album more.

[@Thomeoo]

2:08 iPhone ringtone :D

[@BretLovetro]

Anyone know who's speaking the quote in the sample at the beginning? Is that Bertrand Russell? It's been driving me crazy trying to figure it out...

[@asazimbabwe]

i think it is Wadud Ahmad (not Bertrand Russell); he's actually on a few tracks on this album, presumably recorded by the Roots, not a sample per se.... "Take It There" (featuring Wadud Ahmad) ... Wadud Ahmad - additional vocals (2), spoken word voices (6);

[@HectorSchechner]

Journalist Walter Lippmann, 1961

[@Jay_Flippen]

False media is a pleonasm to me... pleonasm = "the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning" -Google (like a phrase or series of words that is repetitively redundant... like repetitively redundant)

[@heybert05]

@bigrobdeezey 9th wonders remix to american gangster is nuts makes the album that much better i heard the album was done by a fan of 9th wonder though the beats are definitely 9th though just not mixed by him

[@pacrox2]

chorus sounds like ice-t

[@Lucrative_24]

Are Black Thought's lyrics in this album corresponding to the Illuminati possibly?

[@vincentomodeo5968]

JP VANDALASKIIII

[@suggahsosweet]

@TurnOffTheRadio u already kno...

[@SteVickery]

rename this the indrik stomphowler affair

[@aBDKstan]

@NasNY How does Jay-Z suck?

[@rulertaz7777777]

2 people are on ritalin...

[@rayallen0]

@NasNY wtf does jay-z have to do with anything? u feel the need to demean another artist just so u can say something nice about another? kinda sound like a hater.

[@militantmarxman5275]

Trump brought me here

[@jalapeano]

The human ego is our own worst enemy

[@musicllife]

10 years later and I couldn't agree more