NEWS: 27 Aug 2008
UK hip-hop stalwart Roots Manuva has announced a date at Dublin's Academy following the release of latest album Slime And Reason .
INTERVIEW: 01 Mar 2005
Having put his psychiatric problems very firmly behind him, hip hop genius Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva has returned with another landmark album, Awfully...
REVIEW: 28 Jan 2005
Roots’ two previous albums have been credited with influencing everyone from The Streets to Dizzee Rascal, but Awfully Deep is easily his most consistently...
REVIEW: 28 Jan 2005
Awfully Deep burns with a searing personal and creative indecisiveness and – within this genre - you’d be hard-pushed to find someone as willing to lay...
REVIEW: 26 Jan 2005
A relatively low-key comeback on first listen, but this lazy, hazy ramble from Roots is an insistent grower, built on a gentle electronic riddim.
REVIEW: 30 Jul 2002
Roots' Run Come Save Me given a dub re-working. If that sounds appealing on paper, it sounds even better on the ears
INTERVIEW: 06 Dec 2001
EAMON SWEENEY meets ROOTS MANUVA mainman RODNEY HYLTON SMITH and discovers a man who would rather mop than mope
REVIEW: 11 Oct 2001
Two examples of home grown hip-hop that almost make the grade but fall just short
REVIEW: 19 Jul 2001
Big Dada look to be heading for their biggest hit yet with Mr Manuva’s long awaited new 12”. ‘Witness…’ ain’t going to...
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