The Roots
Things Fall Apart 2LP

Things Fall Apart (also referred to as When Things Fall Apart) is the fourth studio album by hip hop band The Roots, released 23rd February, 1999 on MCA Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Electric Lady Studios during 1997 to 1998, coinciding with recording for other projects of the Soulquarians collective, including D’Angelo’s Voodoo (2000), Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun (2000), and Common’s Like Water for Chocolate (2000). The album is a landmark moment for The Roots and the collective, as it “swelled the Roots clique into a movement-style posse”.

The album has been considered by music writers as The Roots’s breakthrough album, earning praise from major publications and critics, while becoming the group’s first record to sell over 500,000 copies. It includes the song You Got Me, which won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, while Things Fall Apart was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the same year, losing to Eminem for his The Slim Shady LP.

NEW / Released in 1999 / Reissue 2014

Tracklist:

A54 Act Won (Things Fall Apart)

A55.1 Part 1

A55.2 Part 2

A56 The Next Movement

A57 Step Into The Realm

A58 The Spark

B59 Dynamite!

B60 Without A Doubt

B61 Ain't Saying Nothin' New

B62 Double Trouble

C63 Act Too (The Love Of My Life)

C64 100% Dundee

C65 Diedre Vs. Dice

C66 Adrenaline!

C67 3rd Acts: ? Vs. Scratch 2...Electric Boogaloo

D68 You Got Me

D69 Don't See Us

D70 The Return To Innocence Lost

D71 Act Fore... The End?