UPDATE: Watch The Roots “undun” Mini-Movie…Unless You’re Lame (Video)

Ah, I see what you're up to Roots. Each of the four videos off your upcoming "undun" album will build off the previous one in a sort of mini-movie, telling the entire life story of Redford in reverse order. Kind of like Kanye's "Fantasy" movie, except without the hot bird women and the terrible acting. Dope, I see why they call you the legendary Roots crew.

Instead of creating a new post every time I'm simply going to add each new scene to this page as it drops - two down, two to go. "Undun" drops December 6. Until then....

UPDATE: Added a new video "Sleep" below.

"Sleep" 10/21/99 12:02 PM



"Make My" | 10/21/99 11:59 AM



undun is an existential re-telling of the short life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999). Through the use of emotives and Redford's internal dialogues the album seeks to illustrate the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out 'on the corner'. Utilizing a reverse narrative arc, the album begins as the listener finds Redford disoriented--postmortem--and attempting to make sense of his former life. As he moves through its pivotal moments he begins to deconstruct all that has led to his (and our own) coming undun.

"Stomp | 09/09/93 9:52 PM



"Tip the Scales" | 11/15/90 10:31 AM



undone is the story of this kid who becomes a criminal, but he wasn’t born criminal. He’s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner… he’s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment… At the end of the day… isn’t that what we all do?