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Article: The Roots; Tipping Point
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- July 21, 2004
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I remember people saying that Phrenology was actually what Black Thought's solo CD was going to be, that the Cody Chestnutt anthem and Tourette's skits were added to make it more Roots. However, maybe Tipping Point is what Black Thought's solo CD was supposed to be, because Phrenology did sound as frenetic as its title imagined it to be, whereas Tipping has the mono-personality that Black Thought seems to possess.
Tipping is the most sedate they've ever sounded, like they recorded the whole thing in their basement, but with major tour-lag.
Lead vocalist Black Thought has long since abandoned the scat and five-speed gear-switch rhyme style he employed heavily on Organix and Do You Want ...