If you watch the Jimmy Fallon show, chances are that you know them from there as the house band, and may even be surprised that they’re a pretty big deal also, when not stuck being his musical sidekicks.

Well they are.

The are the best hip hop band in the world, and probably one of the most underrated at the same time. It’s sounds like two things that should’t be able to be true at the same time, but alas they are.

I’ll let the quality from their 2006 album “Game Theory” speak for itself. An album that in my opinion is one of the greatest rap albums ever. (here come the haters) And has been described as..

“Game Theory is the Roots’ equivalent of a Funkadelic playlist containing “Wars of Armageddon,” “Cosmic Slop,” “Maggot Brain,” “March to the Witch’s Castle,” and “America Eats Its Young.” It’s a vivid reflector of the times, not an escape hatch (of which there are several readily available options). Spinning turbulence, paranoia, anger, and pain into some of the most exhilarating and startling music released in 2006, the group is audibly galvanized by the world’s neverending tailspin and a sympathetic alignment with Def Jam. Batting around stray ideas and squeezing them into shape was clearly not part of the plan, and neither was getting on the radio. The songs flow into and out of one another to optimal effect, with an impossibly stern sense of peak-of-powers focus, as if the group and its collaborators instantly locked into place and simply knocked the thing out. “

But now they group is plotting a new album, between greeting guests with music, and doing gigs in the Big Apple area. Not many details have been revealed about the release, other than unlike the two las albums, this is going to be a lot more positive…

I think the first single reflects that perfectly…

I can’t fricking wait….

Streetbeat