{"id":191,"date":"2003-09-16T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/09\/hip-hop_group_seeks_the_tipping_point\/"},"modified":"2003-09-16T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T12:13:09","slug":"hip-hop_group_seeks_the_tipping_point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/16\/hip-hop_group_seeks_the_tipping_point\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Group Seeks the Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

References to The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference<\/a><\/em> just keep popping up. Now the legendary Roots Crew<\/a> are trying to reach the tipping point:<\/p>\n

Another Roots Album, Another Book Title<\/strong>
\nThe Roots have started recording their next LP, tentatively titled “The Tripping Point.” Once again does the title refer to a book, this time by author Malcolm Gladwell. Amir ‘Questlove’ Thompson said that the group chose the title because it fits their ambition of taking their careers to the next level. The group also has a new guitarist, Kirk Douglas.
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I’d love to see them blow up, but I hope this doesn’t mean that they’re gonna water-down their music & do some radio-friendly ish! (via Verbal Mutilation<\/a>, via Urban Smarts<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Side note:<\/b> Apparently Apache doesn’t like URLs with the word ‘root’ in them. I’ve tried to post this so many times with ‘The Roots’ in the title, but the individual archive page would never load. I tried several things to fix it but nothing worked until I took the word ‘root’ out of the title. Very strange.
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References to The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference just keep popping up. Now the legendary Roots Crew are trying to reach the tipping point: Another Roots Album, Another Book Title The Roots have started recording their next LP, tentatively titled “The Tripping Point.” Once again does the title refer to… Continue reading Hip-Hop Group Seeks the Tipping Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":189,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/16\/why_people_dont_vote\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Why People Don’t Vote","date":"September 16, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Dave does it again... This time breaking down the reasons people give for not voting, complete with Tipping Points. (And he gives a great comparison to the reasons that people give for not exercising.) I used to be guilty of using reasons 1 through 6 as rationalization not to vote.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":491,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/the-secret-on-oprah\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":1},"title":"“The Secret” on Oprah","date":"February 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"(In case anybody's still reading this blog :-) I just posted this on my main blog and thought I'd post it here too...) I think the movie The Secret is about to hit its tipping point. 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Too bad they didn't mention my man Roots Manuva, who, in my opinion, is one of the best examples of a mixing hip-hop\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"Shop at Amazon.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rcm-images.amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/rcm\/468x240.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":230,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/24\/uestlove_breaks_it_down\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":4},"title":"?uestlove Breaks it Down","date":"October 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The Believer Magazine has an excellent interview with Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson of the Roots. If you're a hip-hop fan I highly recommend it. 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