The Roots Things Fall Apart
1999 CD
Conscious
Jazzy Hip-Hop

Main image
MCA Records, MCA Records, MCA Records
a&r Wendy Goldstein
art direction Kenny Gravillis
cover [cover image] Corbis
design Kenny Gravillis
design Russell Robinson
executive-producer Richard Nichols
executive-producer [co] Derek Jackson
executive-producer [co] Francesca Spero
management Watch Your Back Management
mastered by Tom Coyne
photography by MobHouse
photography by [photos of rahzel and malik b.] Tom Zoli
tracks 54, 55, 58, 61 to 63, 65 to 70 producer The Grand Wizzards
sequenced by Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson
Phonographic Copyright (p) MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) MCA Records, Inc.
Recorded At Ivory Studios
Recorded At Sterling Sound
Mixed At Sterling Sound
Engineered At Sterling Sound
Recorded At Battery Studios, New York
Recorded At The Studio
Mixed At Sony Music Studios, New York City
Recorded At Sony Music Studios, New York City
Mixed At Battery Studios, New York
Recorded At ?uestlove's Soup Kitchen
Recorded At Sigma Sound Studios
Recorded At The Hit Factory
Recorded At Jay Dee's Village Of Promiscuous Homosapiens In Search Of Thickness
Recorded At Studio A, Dearborn Heights, MI
Recorded At The House Of Chaos (2)
Mixed At The Hit Factory
Recorded At The Cutting Room
Recorded At Big Zone Studios
Mixed At Ivory Studios
Recorded At Scott's House O' Broken Hearts
Engineered At Sony Music Studios, New York City
Engineered At Axis Studios
The tracks are numbered from 54 to 71 on release.

Track 70.3 isn't listed on the back cover or booklet but it appears on the tray card as track 71: (Act Fore (...) 71 There Is No Hidden Track... We Think). It starts after a period of silence between 5:36 and 7:09; total duration for track 70 is 11:55.
Track 71 has no audio.

Track 54 contains excerpts of dialogue from Mo Better Blues.
Track 60 contains elements from Saturday Night performed by Schooly D.

54: recorded at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA; and at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. Mixed at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. Protooled at Sterling Sound, New York, NY.
55: Part 1 recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; Part 2 recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Both versions mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
56: recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY; Sony Studios, New York, NY; and Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
57: recorded at ?uestlove's Soup Kitchen, Illadelph, PA; at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
58: recorded at The (Old) Hit Factory, New York, NY; at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
59: recorded at Jay Dee's Village Of Promiscuous Homosapiens In Search Of Thickness, East Detroit, MI; at Studio A, Celarborn Heights, MI; and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
60: recorded at The House Of Chaos, Illadelph, PA; at Ivory Way Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York, NY.
61: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
62: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Cutting Room, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
63: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; at The Cutting Room, New York, NY; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
64: recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY; and at Big Zone Recording Studio, Coshaken, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
65: recorded at Sigma Sound Service, Philadelphia, PA; and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA.
66: recorded at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
67, 70: recorded at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA
68: recorded at Scott's House O' Broken Hearts, Philadelphia, PA; at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA; at Sony Studios, New York, NY; and at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Protools at Sony Studios, New York, NY and at Axis Studios, New York, NY.
69: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.

℗ 1999, 1998 © 1999 MCA Records, Inc.

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