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After more than fifteen years, the Roots continue to reinvent themselves and remain one of music's most enduring and forward-thinking groups. Their eleventh album features the single When the People Cheer.

The collaboration between Serengeti, Son Lux, and Sufjan Stevens, whose new project under this moniker is a self-titled album partly inspired by the art of Jim Hodges. It was commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series in Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

Jay-Z is the executive producer of the soundtrack which features original new music with an all star cast. Tracks include: 100$ Bill; Back to Black; and also Young and Beautiful.

"What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical (morality, criticism,...