As we impatiently await tomorrow’s release of The Roots first ever concept album undun, NPR has allowed us to sneak a quick listen (stream only) to the album in its entirety, and glimpse into the life of fictional character Redford Stephens, the protagonist of the aforementioned conceptual album. Make sure to cop that tomorrow! It’s The Roots family, not Rihanna.
Death pervades undun; it follows Stephens, a poor kid from Philadelphia and victim to the drug trade, from the moment he surrenders himself to the game all the way to his inevitable end. Along the way, no verse is wasted, no optimism is spared; each line is like a shovelful of dirt on Redford’s coffin. At 39 minutes, undun feels like a lifetime, because it is one. – NPR’s Charlie Kaplan
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