Where is the Love?

That's how my week in Vegas felt...but with considerably more tits n ass

The Roots' albums keep showing up in my collection somehow someway... and it definitely isn't because I am particularly looking forward to peeping their releases either. Granted they get my respect but the love for them deaded at Things Fall Apart and that was 4 jawns ago. After that they went and got all "experimental" (see: boring) and switched their lineup to feature the "new guy on guitar" (see: former studio musician) in place of "that other guy who used to play guitar" (see: demoted back to studio musician).

Yet somehow they (mostly that drummer guy with the afro) keep showing up on blogs, in conversations with white people who discovered hip hop in college, on tv shows, on critic's most anticipated albums of the year lists...and in my case logic.

Now I'm not sure if this is a product of hangin around okayplayer too much but the anticipation for their latest effort: Game Theory has been quietly brewing in my psyche. To be honest, the simple fact that Malik B would be back for this album was enough to quell my complaints about another boring Roots album with Blackthought rollin solo at the helm. I won't front, I checked out some of the cuts off the album and have been compelled enough to listen from start to finish. Promising...

So who wants to burn or send me a copy of their new album?