Illadelph Halflife 1996 Album

The Roots

At long last I venture into older Roots material, and this is more to my liking. The production on their latest couple of albums I've heard, have often left me disappointed and wondering where all the hype and love comes from with these guys. These beats though are nice boom bap/jazz rap beats which feel like they could have come a few years earlier in '94 and are more enjoyable. There still ain't anything I find amazing here, but there are plenty of good tunes, albeit maybe a few too many as the album stretches 80 minutes, and the beats ain't really different enough to do that with great success. Best Tracks: Respond/React, Clones, It Just Don't Stop, What They Do, Universe at War