The Roots - Act Too (Love of My Life)

"Hip hop you're the love of my life."

Album: Things Fall Apart [4th album]
Recorded: Greenwich Village, New York
Album Release: February 23rd 1999
Length: 4.19
Producer: Questlove & James Poyser
Cuts: Scratch
Vocalist: Black Thought, Common
Label: MCA Records

Official Audio


Live in France from 2003


Live with Common and Talib Kweli

Charts, Streams & Sales

Canada (albums): #7
France (albums): #9
Germany (albums): #11
Holland (albums): #4
US (albums): Certified platinum on April 22nd 2013
US (albums): #2
Spotify = 4,200,000 +
YouTube Music = 200,000 +
Grammy Awards Nominee 2000: Best Rap Album

Credits

Bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, piano, viola, violin

Details

• The beat is an original composition. 
• Things fall apart is a phrase that's first known use is in W'B. Yeates' poem 'The Second Coming' (1919). 
• On Common's 1994 track 'I Used to Love H.E.R' he personifies hip hop as an ex-girlfriend who he's fallen out of love with. The H.E.R. in the title stands for Hip Hop in it's Essance is Real. Common sees his verse on Act Too as a continuation of his earlier track, making it in essence 'I Used to Love H.E.R. Part 2', or, as referred to by the title 'Act Too'.
• The track is about how hip hop has changed and grown over the years.
  

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