RISING DOWN - The Roots Grammy award winning hip-hop trailblazers The Roots are set to release Rising Down on April 29th via Def Jam Recordings. Known for their prolific lyrics and live instrumentation, the Legendary Philadelphia crew is composed of Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter (vocals), Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson (drums), Kamal Gray (keyboards), Frank Knuckles (percussion), Kirk "Captain Kirk" Douglas (guitar) and Owen Biddle (bass). Garnering critical praise throughout their career, The Roots recently jumped ship and signed to major label Def Jam. This is their 2nd release on Def Jam, and the way things are working out with The Roots & DJ, there won't be many more Def Jam-Roots albums. But regardless, The Roots pump out another monster album full of that real live instrumentation and improv hip-hop. TRACK LIST 1. The Pow Wow 2. Rising Down featuring Mos Def & Styles P 3. Get Busy featuring Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi 4. @ 15 5. 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction) 6. Becoming Unwritten 7. Criminal featuring Truck North & Saigon 8. I Will Not Apologize featuring Porn & Dice Raw 9. I Can't Help It featuring Malik B., Porn, Mercedes Martinez & Dice Raw 10. Singing Man featuring Porn, Truck North & Dice Raw 11. Unwritten featuring Mercedes Martinez 12. Lost Desire featuring Malik B. & Talib Kweli 13. The Show featuring Common & Dice Raw 14. Rising Up featuring Wale & Chrisette Michele