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[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #31 The Roots (feat. Cody Chesnutt)- The Seed (2.0)

Posted on | November 30, 2009 | No Comments

SONGS OF THE DECADE #31

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The Roots (feat. Cody Chesnutt) – The Seed 2.0 (2003)

The Seed (2.0) – The Roots

As the decade winds down, people are looking for ways we’ve irrevocably gone bad. “The Seed (2.0)” provides a blueprint for how music, like the world, proves remarkably adept at curing seemingly irrevocable ailments. Reinventing a Cody Chestnutt song about giving life to make it about knocking up a girl (and about mixing the pop music genome) would seem like a cynical touch, but the song’s success on just about every level imaginable only confirms that the Roots are one of the smartest hip-hops bands ever. The song takes the bleak realities affecting hip-hop and American life–the kind featured in Cannibal Ox’s debut–and mixes in soul, funk, and full rock band and finds a way to squeeze out some hope. Released in March 2003, days after the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was difficult to see just how perfect the timing of “The Seed (2.0)” would seem today. As soon as America would give birth to a conflict it was not prepared for, here was a song that gave you hope, however fleeting, that there’s a way out of any quagmire.

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