The Tipping Point (album)

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The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point cover
Studio album by The Roots
Released July 13, 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Hip hop
Length 55:05
Label Geffen Records
Producer ?uestlove, Scott Storch
Professional reviews
The Roots chronology
Phrenology
(2002)		 The Tipping Point
(2004)		 Game Theory
(2006)

The Tipping Point (released July 13, 2004) is the sixth album from The Roots. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200, at #2 on the R&B chart and at #71 in the UK. It is arguably the most commercial of all Roots albums with radio-friendly tracks such as "Don't Say Nuthin'". At the same time, The Tipping Point stays true to The Roots style of going deep into a groove for longer than most hip-hop artists; this is evident on the album's hidden track "Din Da Da".

The album is named after the Malcolm Gladwell book of the same name, while the album photo is the mugshot of an 18-year-old Malcolm X before his conversion to Islam in prison. Some later releases of the albums, including the iTunes version, replace Malcolm X with a similarly-posed image of Black Thought as seen in on the "Stay Cool" single cover (see below).

Comedian Dave Chappelle is uncredited on the hidden track "In Love With The Mic."

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Star/Pointro" (featuring Waduud Ahmad )
  2. "I Don't Care" (featuring Dom)
  3. "Don't Say Nuthin'"
  4. "Guns Are Drawn" (featuring Aaron Livingston)
  5. "Stay Cool" (featuring Martin Luther)
  6. "Web"
  7. "Boom!" (featuring Dice Raw) (Black Thought impersonates hip-hop legends Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap on this track)
  8. "Somebody's Gotta Do It" (featuring Devin The Dude, Jean Grae & Mack Dub)
  9. "Duck Down!" (featuring Dom)
  10. "Why (What's Goin On?)"
  11. (Bonus Track) "In Love With The Mic" (featuring Dave Chappelle, Skillz & Truck North)
  12. (Bonus Track) "Din Da Da" (cover of George Kranz' single "Din Daa Daa")
  13. (Bonus Track on Japan version) "Melting Pot" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s cover)

[edit] Singles

Single cover Single information
"Stay Cool"

[edit] Album chart positions

Year Album Chart positions
Billboard 200 Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums Top Internet Albums
2004 The Tipping Point #4 #2 #15

[edit] Singles chart positions

Year Song Chart positions
Billboard Hot 100 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Hot Rap Singles
2004 "Don't Say Nuthin'" - #66 -

[edit] Band members

Vocals: Tariq Trotter
Bass: Adam Blackstone & Leonard Hubbard
Drums: Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson
Guitars: Anthony Tidd, Kirk Douglass & Martin Luther
Horns: Kevin Hanson
Keyboards: Kamal Gray & Omar Edwards
Percussion: Frank Knuckles Walker

[edit] External links

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