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The Roots Songs

(with biography below if available)

Below is a list of The Roots songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: MCA 4309
chart position: RandB #11, US #39, UK #31
weeksinr&bchart: 20
written by: Black Thought, ?uestlove, The Roots, Jill Scott and Scott Storch
album: Things Fall Apart
comments: [neo soul]
The Roots featuring Erykah Badu You Got Me
1999 MCA
2 record label: Geffen 1047
chart position: RandB #21, US #34, UK #49
written by: Tarik Collins, Jimmy Gray, Hub , Raphael Saadiq and Questlove
album: Illadelph Halflife
comments: [hip hop]
The Roots What They Do
1997 Geffen
3 record label: MCA 40316 (UK)
chart position: UK #33
written by: Black Thought (as Tariq Trotter) and Antonious Bernard Thomas
album: Phrenology
The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt The Seed (2.0)
2003 MCA
4 record label: MCA 40330
chart position: RandB #55, US #99, UK #59
written by: Black Thought, Questlove, Hub, Kamal Gray, Scratch, Ben Kenney,Dice Raw,Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott
album: Phrenology
comments: [hip hop]
The Roots featuring Musiq Break You Off
2003 MCA
5 record label: Geffen 40386 (UK)
chart position: UK #92
album: The Tipping Point
The Roots I Don't Care
2004 Geffen
6 record label: MTV Digital
chart position: US #98, UK #97
written by: Lennon, McCartney
album: Hope For Haiti Now
Jennifer Hudson ft. The Roots Let It Be
2009 MTV Digital
7 record label: Geffen 22216
chart position: RandB #62, US #101
album: Illadelph Halflife
The Roots Clones
1996 Geffen
8 record label: MCA 22004
chart position: RandB #79, US #123
album: Do You Want More?!!!??!
The Roots Proceed I
1995 MCA
9 record label: Geffen
chart position: RandB #66, UK #138
album: The Tipping Point
The Roots Don't Say Nuthin'
2004 Geffen
10 record label: G.O.O.D.
chart position: RandB #53, UK #179
written by: Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead
album: Wake Up!
John Legend & The Roots Featuring Common & Melanie Fiona Wake Up Everybody
2010 G.O.O.D.
11 record label: Def Jam 6978 11
chart position: UK #200
album: Game Theory
The Roots Don't Feel Right
2006 Def Jam
12 record label: MCA 4281
chart position: RandB #73
album: Things Fall Apart
The Roots Adrenaline99
1999 MCA
13 record label: Columbia 79288
chart position: RandB #82
album: The Roots Come Alive
The Roots featuring Jaguar What You Want
1999 Columbia
14 record label: DGC 4652
chart position: RandB #93
written by: Questlove, Hub, Scott Storch, Smart Abdul Basit and Black Thought
The Roots Distortion to Static
1994 DGC
15 record label: Geffen
chart position: RandB #105
album: Do You Want More?!!!??!
comments: [neo soul]
The Roots Silent Treatment
1995 Geffen




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