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Looks like NPR has come through big time. My favorite and quite frankly one of the best hip-hop groups of all time, The Roots, drop their 13th album “undun” next week. I’ve known about the album for a while but NPR has posted the entire LP for streaming bliss. I know what I’ll be doing for the next few hours. Check it out here.
Update: In my opinion, this album is an absolute masterpiece. You can buy on iTunes now.
Undun is the story of a man, Redford Stevens, dying in reverse, rewinding from the moment he became a statistic and hitting the points in his life where he’s at his most self-aware. That he’s a criminal who got caught up in the familiar street-hustle trappings that the modern media’s documented countless times is a pivotal detail– it’s hit at an angle that seems to emphasize the futile inevitability of it all. His life could be any number of misdirected narratives that ends with a toe tag, and what details listeners learn about him are hazy, buried under archetypal turns of fate and decisive struggles.
