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The Roots: Tuber Soul

Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 April 1997

THE EARNEST young man sitting in a corner of London's empty Colombia Hotel bar on this late March afternoon doesn't look like a difficult customer at all. He might be forthright and speak ten to the dozen, but you wouldn't expect him to be the militant MC on THE ROOTS' exceedingly good Illadelph Halflife LP.

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