Nappy Roots
Album: The Humdinger
Release Date: August 5, 2008

review:
Nappy Roots will release their fifth album, The Humdinger, on August 16th. This time around, the Kentucky hip-hoppers worked with a slew of producers: Sol Messiah (TLC, Dead Prez), Rick Rock (Jay-Z, Fabolous), Mr. DJ (OutKast) and Groove Chambers, who produced the group’s hit "Awnaw" off 2002’s Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz.
"I feel like hip-hop has noticed Nappy Roots and the realness we bring to the music," says B. Stille. "And that realness is on The Humdinger."

All six members — B. Stille, Skinny DeVille, Big V, Fish Scales, R Prophet and Ron Clutch — shape the group’s trademark blend of uptempo beats and down-home lyrical flow. "The Nappy Roots sound is six parts: one-sixth street, one-sixth conscious, one-sixth club, one-sixth booty-shaking, one sixth ’it is what it is,’ and one-sixth backpacker," says DeVille. "We’re in a lane on a highway that’s not heavily traveled on. The South ain’t all just hard gangsta rap and crunk. It is as vast and as deep as the ocean, and I love it."

Nappy Roots debuted "Rewind," the album’s club-friendly first single, in New York late last month. The track — a plea to a DJ to replay a song — shows off the group’s sunnier side. "Everything isn’t going to be positive, because we deal with real life," Skinny says. "But you can still get off a good record without mentioning the words ’gun,’ ’bitch’ or ’gang of diamonds.’"

Track listing

1. Intro
2. Beads & Braids
3. On My Way To GA
4. Pole Position (w/ Slick & Rose)
5. Flex
6. Swerve And Lean
7. Good Day (w/ Greg Street)
8. Down ’N’ Out (w/ Anthony Hamilton)
9. Tinted Up (w/ Groove Chambers)
10. Fresh
11. Kalifornia Dreamin’ (w/ Slick & Rose)
12. Who Got It????
13. No Static (w/ Greg Nice)
14. Don’t Stop (w/ Groove Chambers)
15. Panic Room
16. Small Town

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