For anyone who may have just crawled out from under a rock, this review is
for you. Everyone else will already own the album (Phrenology) and will be
buying this single as a matter of course.
The Roots are regularly touted as the finest hip-hop group on the planet -
and I find it difficult to disagree with that view.
The Seed (featuring Cody Chesnutt’s vocals) is by no means the finest track
on Phrenology, but should still be owned by anyone with even just a passing
interest in hip-hop.
It is bouncier, and dare I say it, more poppy than most of The Roots’
previous singles (particularly with Chesnutt’s R’n’B chorus), but Black
Thought could rap over the Six O’Clock News theme tune and it would still
sound earth-shatteringly brilliant.
Buy it.
Reviewed by Fraser Syme
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