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The Roots
The Roots


Background information
Origin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s) Hip-hop
Jazz
Soul
Rock
Funk
Years active 1987—present
Label(s) Def Jam Recordings
Geffen Records
Interscope Records
Island Def Jam Music Group
MCA Records
DGC Records
Website Website
Members
Black Thought
Questlove
Kamal Gray
F. Knuckles
Captain Kirk Douglas
Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson
Owen Biddle
Former members
Ben Kenney
Kenyatta "Kid Crumbs" Warren
Josh "Rubberband" Abrams
Malik B.
Rahzel
Scott Storch
Martin Luther
Scratch
Dice Raw
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The xx's Jamie Smith Records Album With Gil Scott-Heron

November 29, 2010
The xx's Jamie Smith Records Album With Gil Scott-HeronThe xx’s Jamie Smith is set to release a remix album of songs by Gil Scott-Heron.

The musician and producer has re-worked 13 tracks from the singer’s critically acclaimed latest effort, ‘I'm New Here’.

The album, ‘We’re New Here’, will be released on February 21 on on CD, vinyl box set and digital-download.

Meanwhile, the first single to be taken from the release, entitled ‘NY Is Killing Me’ is available to buy now on werenewhere.com.

Scott-Heron’s original album ‘I'm New Here’ was released in February earlier this year.

(by Jason Gregory)



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