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British rapper/producer Rodney Smith established himself as Roots Manuva in the late '90s and began releasing a series of highly regarded albums through Big Dada. Smith's work was firmly rooted in dub and ragga but also incorporated much of the trip-hop style often associated with Ninja Tune, the U.K. imprint that often distributed Big Dada releases. The MC debuted in 1999 with Brand New Second Hand, a promising album that garnered a sizable amount of attention from the international hip-hop crowd and won Britain's coveted MOBO award. Beginning in late 1999, shortly after the album was released, Smith returned to the studio to begin work on Run Come Save Me, his follow-up. He completed the album and released it on Big Dada in 2001; thanks to his own production on the break-out single "Witness (I Hope)," the album became a British hit and increased his world-wide recognition. It narrowly missed winning the prestigious Mercury Prize and spawned an excellent dub album, Dub Come Save Me, released one year later. His third album, the introverted and somewhat constricted Awfully Deep, appeared in 2005 and peaked within the Top 30 of the U.K. album chart. The following year's Alternately Deep, featuring remixes and original tracks recorded around the same time as those of its predecessor, was a looser affair. It hinted at the prospect of material with lighter subject matter, but Slime & Reason, released in 2008, was yet another set based in inward-looking, occasionally grim, content. Wrongtom, who produced versions of seven of the album's cuts for the sake of a two-disc edition, was eventually allowed to do the same with tracks from the entirety of Roots Manuva's catalog. The result of this experiment, Duppy Writer, was issued in 2010. 4everevolution, released the following year, was the most diverse Roots Manuva full-length and included appearances from Skunk Anansie's Skin and Cass Lewis. ~ Jason Birchmeier & Andy Kellman, Rovi

Title: Bleeds

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Rock

Title: Again & Again

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Title: Get the Get

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Title: Banana Skank

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Rock

Title: Too Cold

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Title: Awfully Deep

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Rock

Title: Stolen Youth

Artist: Roots Manuva

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Collections

Title: Xen Cuts

Genre: Electronica

Title: Countryman

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Dancing Planet (CD3)

Genre: Pop

Featuring albums

Title: Homegrown, Vol. 1

Artist: Skitz

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Pop

Title: The Remedy

Artist: Jimmy Screech

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Pop

Title: Conqwest

Artist: La Jam

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Reggae, Pop

Title: Get Mashed

Artist: Morcheeba

Genre: Club/Dance, Pop Rock

Title: Coming Home

Artist: Nightmares On Wax

Genre: Reggae, Pop

Title: The Mighty Upsetter

Artist: Lee Perry

Genre: Reggae

Title: Homegrown - Volume 1

Artist: Skitz

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Pop

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