The Roots 2010 masterpiece “How I Got Over” was a major treat for the Bboys and Bgirls as well as Hip-Hop and Funk heads in general.
“How I Got Over” is another perfect melding of Hip-Hop and Soul, which we’ve all come to expect from Philly legends The Roots (@theroots) along with Bboy Hero ?uestlove (@questlove), and the also-expected massive presence of Black Thought’s (@blackthought) vocals hang heavy over the track.
The album, also titled “How I Got Over”, is among my favorites for The Roots, with a smooth and often jazzier feel than more action-packed albums like “The Tipping Point” and “Phrenology”.
The percussion is probably the most intriguing part of this track from the Bboy perspective, and the source of the drum loop is even more dope breakery, from Ralph Carmichael for the “Switchblade” theme:
From a 2010 review of “How I Got Over” in Rolling Stone:
The Roots sound so good in the pocket that sometimes they need something to push them out of it: On their ninth album, that thing is the indie rockers they’ve played with since becoming the house band for Jimmy Fallon. On How I Got Over, they cover Monsters of Folk (“Dear God 2.0”), scat like the Dirty Projectors (“Tunnel Vision”) and — most thrillingly — make Joanna Newsom sound as funky as Erykah Badu (“Right On”). And when they come back to Roy Ayers-style funk (“Radio Daze”), they prove nobody does it better. Let’s hear it for steady employment.
And dig the Bboy remix by BreakerMFC:
