The Roots Dump the Birthday Girl
The Roots have decided to axe their initial first single from Rising Down.
From Okayplayer:
We told you a few weeks ago that "Birthday Girl" could easily get dropped off of Rising Down. We received word over the weekend that the song is now the International Single and will be an iTunes exclusive. It will not appear on the North American release.
That’s pretty interesting. I understand the new single might be Rising Up which features two verses from Black Thought, one from Wale and a Chrisette Michele hook.
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March 25th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Bad starts.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Thank God. Leave the album gutter. Marketing teams need to be burned at the stake!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Niggas are really sleeping on Birthday Girl. SMH @ Roots switching it cuz some little reggins don’t understand G.O.O.D. music
March 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
i liked birthday girl … but it didnt sound like it would fit with the other stuff ive heard from the album
March 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
that song is horrible…
March 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Good call..catchy song but not really deserving to make the album..Id love to see the Roots go balls out on this one and just bang some hard hip hop..
Although cant complain much about most of their material
March 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
If that track with Peedi Crakk is anything to go by this album will be an industrial strength banger. Like that Pete Rock. Anyone know who produced that Pete Rock/Little Brother ‘Bing Y’All Back’ joint? Billy?
March 25th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
lol
March 25th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeMd8EzP04&feature=user
March 25th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
That pete rock is bangin i must agree
March 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
EnglandRepresent Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
If that track with Peedi Crakk is anything to go by this album will be an industrial strength banger.
^eskay’s Peedi Hate-O-Meter just went up 10 degrees.
What it is chief?
And nah, I don’t know who produced that track but that album is solid. “We Roll” will be gettin’ much bump when the weather breaks for good.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
good news
March 25th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
>>Anyone know who produced that Pete Rock/Little Brother ‘Bing Y’All Back’ joint?
^Pete
March 25th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Nada Billy, gettin ready to head up to Sydney for the weekend to get properly messy for a change. What’s the chat in B’More? Yup ‘we roll’ is a tidy joint but it’s got nothing on ‘Bring Y’All Back’ in my opinion. The beat on that joint is incredible. I think it’s Joe Scudda is it or maybe it’s a 9th beat but it’s some serious shit whoever did it. *daps* And that Redman track is NICE.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
whudup Eng?
are you blind? the comment before I just said Pete Rock did the beat to Bring y’all Back. lol.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
>>Anyone know who produced that Pete Rock/Little Brother ‘Bing Y’All Back’ joint?
^Pete
^^Oh real talk? Well he’s outdone himself on that one. It’s a fuckin tough beat. What up G Funk? Beckham’s gettin his 100th cap tonight, big achievement for the free kick Don. A true warrior that dude, 3 Lions all the way.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
G7… What it is?
EngBing… In B’more, shits disgustin’. Maryland tax recently went up from 5% to 6% and they about to add like 4 more tolls… 2 goin’ north on I95 and 2 goin’ south.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
whudup Eng?
are you blind? the comment before I just said Pete Rock did the beat to Bring y’all Back. lol.
^^Oh I see you’re gettin a bit lippy G Funk???!!! Get back in ya box moose boy
March 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
What’s up, DBillz, ERep, G7?
March 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
eng!!! you’re going to sydney without me? rare you going to our favorite bondi restaurant too???
March 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Dps, Billz…*daps*
March 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
EngBing… In B’more, shits disgustin’. Maryland tax recently went up from 5% to 6% and they about to add like 4 more tolls… 2 goin’ north on I95 and 2 goin’ south.
^^Yeah but they don’t tax musty lookin muthafuckas with grease stains ridin shottie in the horse and cart so you should be sweet Billy. Ain’t you got a University course or somethin goin on at the minute? And nah that shit is disgustin actually. In Sydney to drive over the Sydney Harbour Bridge it costs like $10 or somethin, outrageous shit B.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
>>Oh I see you’re gettin a bit lippy G Funk???!!! Get back in ya box moose boy
^sekkle my yute. lol. nice to see Becks finally get his 100th cap. he just needs to stay healthy and maybe he can stick around for a few more. n/h
March 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
DPS… What up chief?
March 25th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Lol @ EngBing… you jack-legged lookin’ ass ninja. Stop stalkin’ them midget chicks.
DPS… Yo, what’s POPPIN’ in Philly on Sundays? The next Monday that I have off I’m gotta hit up Illadelph and do somethin’ new.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Birthday Girl > Lolipop
March 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
ive never lstened to birthday girl.. yall kept saying it was trash
March 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
sup green? birthday girl is very unRoots like. if you’re a core fan you’d be disappointed. if not you might dig it.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
hey g7, i might get around to checking it, but i doubt it
March 25th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
thank the lord jesus christ
March 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
What up SK?
How do Greenie? Yep I’m off to Sydders again luv, my apologies that you won’t be joining. And you know I’ll be hittin up that Italian joint at Bondi. The weather’s gonna be breezy up there too. That’s alright though Green Beans, you can get involved in some Dade County ‘We the bessssssss’ action, shit’s all over Sydney everytime surely??!! *hugs*
March 25th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Birthday girl is a good song, I liked it. It’s got a nice alternative feel. I think the roots is stepping out on the edge, and trying to make it on their own terms.
It’s a different song. Not typical roots, but if you had heard it from a white group, people would be going nuts. But since it’s some black conservative hip-hop rap group, people are up in shambles.
Video is garbage though.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
state property taxes are disgustin out this bitch (no beans licking peedi’s ear-hole)
March 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Does money really have a color?
Does race trump money or money trumps race?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
outkast fucked the game up with royal flush
“north korea got that shit that make LA look like japan”
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…SHIT
March 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Does race trump money or money trumps race?
^^I dunno but Trump’s money trumps race
March 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
is anyone else watching flavor of love
none of those ho’s could catch
all of them look like they might have AIDS and one of them doesn’t own a toothbrush
shit’s beyond disgustin
March 25th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
# EnglandRepresent Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Does race trump money or money trumps race?
^^I dunno but Trump’s money trumps race
^
my money makes cunts race to give the kid the rump, holler back
March 25th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
CAVLAR GOT SHOT UP, I THINK HE DEAD
SHIT IS REALER THAN NIGGAS THINK WOW
RIP CAVLAR
March 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
ok real spit if you’re oprah money trumps race
white people love her more than Whole Foods
but if you’re dave chappelle race trumps money
white people will always view him as a n*gger (no kelis’ girlfriend)
March 25th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
who is cavlar, i seen his myspace but who is duke
March 25th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
HE THE REASON PAPOOSE WALK AROUND WITH HIS 300 DOLLAR JEBUS PEICE
March 25th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
# Digital scales Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
HE THE REASON PAPOOSE WALK AROUND WITH HIS 300 DOLLAR JEBUS PEICE
^
OK WOW NOW I UNDERSTAND
ACTUALLY NO I DON’T
WHO THE FUCK IS CAVIAR
March 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
good, that song sucked.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
# fifty cents Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
ok real spit if you’re oprah money trumps race
white people love her more than Whole Foods
but if you’re dave chappelle race trumps money
white people will always view him as a n*gger (no kelis’ girlfriend)
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That’s interesting.
So basically Money is just a variable for power, and in reality it is masked. When it truly comes down to it, race trumps money and perceived whiteneness such ass oprah, people will let slide. But a nigger with money is just a nigger with money.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
*birthday girl crickets*
March 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
WHO THE FUCK IS CAVIAR
^^Sound like he one of Pap’s gully dudes am I right Digi? Murda had him capped? I dunno I don’t wanna be wet snitchin on niggas (none)
March 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Digital scales Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
CAVLAR GOT SHOT UP, I THINK HE DEAD
SHIT IS REALER THAN NIGGAS THINK WOW
RIP CAVLAR
^^^^^^
yeah i heard about that shit too…
in fort greene …
it’s fucked up… smh…
Cavlar was a real g…………
March 25th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
It’s not a bad thing and it’s not a good thing. Just a thing. Is that a Niggytardust on the album cover?
March 25th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
yeah i heard about that shit too…
in fort greene …
it’s fucked up… smh…
Cavlar was a real g…………
^^So who the fuck is Cavlar that is the question?
*daps Two*
March 25th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
My feet hangin out the window, they jock my shoe game
March 25th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
any1 who hates birthday girl is a lame.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
The best decision they have ever made. Thank GOD! That song is garbage. Yet the three other songs that they released sound amazing and embody everything the Roots have always been about. Now maybe this album will be classic.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
* Eats a steak and some Potatoes real late at night*
*realizes that nahright is a bunch of nerdy/corny cats, who claim they are so health conscious but are as fat as bol*
Red meat is good for your brain
Pork chops are good for you
Eat meat its whats good for you
March 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
>>>any1 who hates birthday girl is a lame.
Strange….I was just thinking, any1 that likes it is a herb
March 25th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Birthday girl is a cool little track. If you don’t like it you dont like it. If you like it, then you like it. Why someone gotta be a herb or a lame. It’s only music.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Jud Buechler= the food expert
Go get up off your ass and do some exercises and run, lift weights, do a work out tape.
If you in shape you can eat ANYTHING you want. If you were not able to eat it, they would ban it.
McDonalds doesn’t kill you. Fat ass niggas who don’t exercise kill their own selves.
Pork aint never killed no man. You wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for that park.
Animals are created for us to eat and have dominion over and maintain the earth.
Cows are good for you to eat. Yes you can eat them. Yes it’s healthy and good.
To all the white people. I would eat a dog right on your dinner table. Fuck a dog, it aint no different than a buffalo.
Just exercise and eat what you want.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am
An argument does not have to be a profound or terribly complex statement; it just needs to be arguable and defend-able.
Was reading some notes I had from a class…My notes are always impeccable.
>>* Eats a steak and some Potatoes real late at night*
^^I just did that. Well sans the potatoes.
>>*realizes that nahright is a bunch of nerdy/corny cats, who claim they are so health conscious but are as fat as bol*
^^I wouldn’t claim either. Although my scholastic are up to par. I also try to maintain a healthy diet. My metabolism is such that I couldn’t gain weight on an extreme creatine regimen. True story.
>>Red meat is good for your brain
^^Protein. Moderation.
>>Pork chops are good for you
^^ Blank Stare. Taste good. Maybe. I have no qualms with that statement though that’s your preference. Pigs are by nature fat animals sooooooo.
>>Eat meat its whats good for you
^^ Vegetables > Fish > Chicken > Beef > Pork
Daps Boosie. What it is?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Strange….I was just thinking, any1 that likes it is a herb
^^lmao.
To all the white people. I would eat a dog right on your dinner table. Fuck a dog, it aint no different than a buffalo.
^^lol but we don’t condone bestiality over here Judder so act like you know sunshine (nope)
March 26th, 2008 at 12:19 am
You aint an animal, you pussy, when you go down on your girl then you a cannibal
March 26th, 2008 at 12:20 am
England don’t even claim you! Bloody wanker, I got half a mind to reckon I’d sully your face with a bout of fisticuffs we’d ever get within shadows distance.
With that typed what up fucktard?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:21 am
I like that the word “herb” is making a comeback even if its just on nah..
March 26th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Jud = Boosie???
Fuck it I give up on niggas with new aliases
March 26th, 2008 at 12:24 am
one half of D Incredible Rap Team
March 26th, 2008 at 12:25 am
# green eyes Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
ive never lstened to birthday girl.. yall kept saying it was trash
>Concurs everything prior to y’all.
HHF and anybody else onlizzine’ what it does…
March 26th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Pete Rock produced it (it’s a Pete Rock album remember?). Only one track on the album is produced by someone else and it’s Green Lantern.
^^^
Anyone know who produced that Pete Rock/Little Brother ‘Bing Y’All Back’ joint? Billy?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Le Moderator Que va-t-il sur ?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:36 am
HHF and anybody else onlizzine’ what it does…
^^^chilling B, peace to the nite staff mopping the corridor halls and securing the premises
*logs off*
March 26th, 2008 at 12:39 am
England don’t even claim you! Bloody wanker, I got half a mind to reckon I’d sully your face with a bout of fisticuffs we’d ever get within shadows distance.
With that typed what up fucktard?
^^911 just step away from the keyboard you eager beaver (nope), I’d distribute severe beatings if you ever stepped in my field of vision and I’d know if it was you because of the fluffy pink leg warmers you rock with a Harlem/Frisco type flagrancy. You old stinky stickleback lookin ass nigga. What up though chap?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Pete Rock produced it (it’s a Pete Rock album remember?).
^^Are you buckin those shots in my direction El Dickhead Grande?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:51 am
*Types from Erep perspective*
Chillin fam. I was doing some homework and fell asleep with me laptop on my lap…the thing was properly venting some scorching fucking heat on my man muscle, I tell you. Right fucking uncomfortable is what woke me up, see.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Im A Do Me…Im a Do Me
March 26th, 2008 at 12:59 am
*posts from 911 perspective*
Yeah fam, it’s a catacylsmic turn of events that sparks a laptop to be warmin up your scrotal zone, not too dis-similar to the cosmos and the planets that duck back and forth which play an ever increasing role in our lives and the way we maintain. Kool-Aid, twinkie, Herschy bar, fiendin on the dolo tip layin back in the ‘Lac gettin on my deen with the wondorous prophets of knowledge. Nah’mean?
March 26th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Is dying…
March 26th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Hilarious
March 26th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Ay 911 put the link to your blog again potna
March 26th, 2008 at 1:33 am
*continues with ERep perspective*
You bloody todger, you smell like smeg from a willy. I’d be ripe to bet your slapper has gingivitis. And if you weren’t such a nancy boy I’d box your ears right there as you stand. You’d be wise to belt up! Spewing those loads of cobbler.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
WHAT THE FUCK DID ESKAY TAKE A DAY OFF
March 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Morning Shift Janitor
*Looks around and sees no one*
*unlocks door to Nah Right offices with key ring of 500 keys*
*begins to mop floors before employees show up*
*whistles*
March 26th, 2008 at 8:07 am
SO ANY TAKERS THAT UNCLE MURDA IS THE NEXT TO GO?
March 26th, 2008 at 8:15 am
somebody smoke some weed for me…
March 26th, 2008 at 8:17 am
*see lo k & woodrow walkin in freshly mopped hallway*
*starts yelling*
“YOU NIGGAS IS FUCKIN UP MY FLOORS!”
March 26th, 2008 at 8:18 am
mornin’ y’all…
@digi - he’s a viable candidate, but I’m thinking it’s going to be some other lesser known, more independently signed cat…
March 26th, 2008 at 8:19 am
What would a Preemo and Bun B song even sound like? They should make that happen and show us. In the article outtakes he talks about working with Kane and G. Rap and his feelings about country music.
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I dont know if that would sound right. when I put in a bun cd, I wanna here that Texas bass. Premo dont really use bass like that. They SHOULD do a song together tho.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:20 am
*looks at ven*
*looks at floor*
*sprinkles remaining danish crumbs from fingers onto the floor*
March 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
“YOU NIGGAS IS FUCKIN UP MY FLOORS!â€
Whats good Ven, OL Master of the Custodial Arts(or Janitor if i wanna be a dick head about it)
March 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
>>>Premo dont really use bass like that.
^^^what if Premo stepped out of his element for a change? when was the last time you heard something from him that didn’t sound like the last 15 years of Gangstarr? Even the Christina Aguilera stuff sounded the same…
March 26th, 2008 at 8:24 am
the beat premo did for fatjoe is fire, like the perfect loop
March 26th, 2008 at 8:26 am
you got that Fat joe? I heard some of it on youtube and its nice. Hook ya boy up if you got it
plugindustries@gmail
March 26th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Whats good Ven, OL Master of the Custodial Arts(or Janitor if i wanna be a dick head about it)
***Gotta love “Half Baked”, lol- quotables galore
March 26th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I got to work DUMB early this morning… shit…
I can’t believe I’ve been here for like an hour already…
money is a helluva drug…
March 26th, 2008 at 8:29 am
^^^what if Premo stepped out of his element for a change? when was the last time you heard something from him that didn’t sound like the last 15 years of Gangstarr? Even the Christina Aguilera stuff sounded the same…
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nah. no change. he should just stay in his lane. I wish somebody would come out with an all premo tape. these rap cats be BS’n. even if they didnt wanna make it retail, do a mixtape. Rap cats always talkin bout how the game has changed but they stay tryin to make them ole Stanky booty singles
March 26th, 2008 at 8:30 am
*daps lo, plug, drow*
Whaddidup. So who is this “Cavlar” dude? Firstly, I can only assume he’s some gangster rapper, hence his silly misspelled name.
Who has this?
http://www.tinyurl.com/2jp7vb
March 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Who has this?
http://www.tinyurl.com/2jp7vb
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aww. they got good times on there. one of my favorite ghost songs nobody heard. I gotta cop that
March 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
[...] The Roots heard all your griping and decided to yank “Birthday Girl” from Rising Down. “We told you a few weeks ago that “Birthday Girl” could easily get dropped off of Rising Down. We received word over the weekend that the song is now the International Single and will be an iTunes exclusive. It will not appear on the North American release.”[via OKP, by way of Eskay] [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 8:35 am
lo k Says:
March 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
>>>Premo dont really use bass like that.
^^^what if Premo stepped out of his element for a change? when was the last time you heard something from him that didn’t sound like the last 15 years of Gangstarr? Even the Christina Aguilera stuff sounded the same…
^^^
Preemo should never step out of his element…that’s what makes him. Any emcee know that if you want straight up hip hop, he’s the go-to guy…unfortunately hip hop is dead so…
I wish dude just start givin away beats. I’d take one of them and just read a waffle house menu in the sound booth. That shit would bump in hip hop lounges across the nation…
(p.s. Jay-Z’s “Million and One Questions/Rhyme No More”=Preemo Classic)
March 26th, 2008 at 8:37 am
*daps ven, plug, drow*
@industries - it’s tough… I think part of the problem is that people stay trying to take it back… how about we push shit forward for a change?
and fuck hipster rap for thinking they’re pushing shit forward by taking it back… bastards…
March 26th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
[...] You didn’t want the worst, you didn’t get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed “Birthday Girl,” their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. “Birthday Girl” is still the album’s first international single, but it’s been reduced to “iTunes-only” status in America. I don’t really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it’s due to the Roots’ milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP] [...]
April 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
[...] Here are a few shots from the set of the Rik Cordero directed video for Birthday Girl, starring porn star Sasha Grey. [...]