“Stomp” features Just Blaze going drill sergeant on the chorus (so you know it’s a hot track), and finds Black Thought “headed for the valley of the damned” and comparing hell to the Sudan. It’s hard to select highlights because there aren’t any lowlights among the rap tracks, but the ironic gangsta-lifestyle celebration “Kool On” might boast the best hook on the disc. The beats throughout the album provide mid-tempo, soulful backdrops that suggest a Southern, urban setting for the events depicted on the album (although Redford’s hometown is never explicitly stated). On the second track, “Sleep,” the Roots’ resident lyrical genius Black Thought spits 16 bars delivered from the point of view of a dying Redford reflecting back on his life: “Illegal activity controls my black symphony/Orchestrated like it happened incidentally/Oh, there I go, from a man to memory/Damn, I wonder if my fam will remember me. There aren’t many rap groups with the artistic skills (or the balls) to pull this off, but the Roots are definitely one of them.
Utilizing a reverse narrative arc, the album begins as the listener finds Redford disoriented-postmortem-and attempting to make sense of his former life.As he moves through its pivotal moments he begins to deconstruct all that has led to his (and our own) coming undun.” The Roots undun Review
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Through the use of emotives and Redford’s internal dialogues the album seeks to illustrate the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out ‘on the corner’. “undun is an existential re-telling of the short life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999). Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, play a concert. Pepper-y concept albums where the concept is something like, “the Beatles, under the guise of Sgt.
It’s also a hip-hop concept album, which is one of those things that you read about and wonder, “why don’t people make these more often?” until you realize it’s usually a major pain in the ass trying to follow a storyline when the narration is flying by at six or seven words per measure. It’s made up of 14 tracks with a running time amounting to only about 39 minutes, and of those 14 tracks, only nine actually feature any rapping. Undun is unlike any rap album I’ve ever heard before.
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