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THE ROOTS - Game Theory
| Times Online |
| For their first release since Jay-Z signed them to Def Jam, the veteran Philadelphia rap band display a knuckled-down determination that utterly becomes them....full text |
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| Entertainment Weekly |
| They're now signed to Def Jam, but Philadelphia boho rap band The Roots don't try to fit in with the label's decidedly mainstream roster. In fact, Game Theory is their toughest, weightiest, and most uncommercial effort yet. Opening with the antiauthoritarian ''False Media,'' it's all ghetto vérité and political paranoia, with claustrophobic production to match the doom and gloom....full text |
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| Guardian |
| With their liberal politics and rock-band set-up, the Roots are the hip-hop group it's OK for Jools Holland to like, but they pall over long distances. Blame their weakness for jamming, and the dry, earnest rapping of frontman Black Thought. Like fellow rap mavericks Common and Cee-Lo, the Philadelphians have at last twigged that ambition and brevity aren't mutually exclusive; this album, their first for Jay-Z's label Def Jam, is as tight as a fist....full text |
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