The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale Think of these as classics

Think of these as classics that never were

Nellee Hooper returns to lend a hand to six tracks

Rare original copies from 1980 are always in-demand and still catch a pretty penny

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub manga was wildly popular upon its initial release in 1970

Now if that doesn't heat things up

The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale Think of these as classicsThe third Roots album (counting Organix) is still criminally slept on. Thankfully DGC has given it a proper vinyl reissue so more heads can get up on this 1996 hip hop classic. Illadelph Halflife is the starting point of the sound that has dominated their subsequent records: half live, half studio with a thin line in between. Illadelph captures that dynamic in its rawest state, when The Roots still flaunted home studio type EQs and non radio hooks