The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale Plessow's Raw Cuts series seemingly

Plessow's Raw Cuts series seemingly never goes out of style: those filtered beats age like Paulina Porizkova and wheels of cheese that Mario Batali has hoarded in his basement

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The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale Plessow's Raw Cuts series seeminglyThe third Roots album (counting Organix) is still criminally slept on. Thankfully DGC has given it a proper vinyl reissue so more heads can get up on this 1996 hip hop classic. Illadelph Halflife is the starting point of the sound that has dominated their subsequent records: half live, half studio with a thin line in between. Illadelph captures that dynamic in its rawest state, when The Roots still flaunted home studio type EQs and non radio hooks