Top Rap / Hip-Hop Releases for August 2006

The Roots - Game Theory (Def Jam)

The Roots - Game Theory © Def Jam

With no big leaugue guest appearances and no Scott Storch production (for the first time in 12 years), The Roots manage to craft their strongest album since 1999's gold-certified Things Fall Apart.

1. "Dilltastic Vol Won(derful)"
2. "False Media"
3. "Game Theory"
4. "Don't Feel Right" | Download (MP3) |
5. "In The Music"
6. "Take It There"
7. "Baby"
8. "Here I Come"
9. "Long Time" ft. Peedi Peedi
10. "Livin' In A New World"
11. "Clock With No Hands"
12. "Atonement"
13. "Can't Stop This

Release Date: August 29th, 2006

Honorable Mention

• DMX - Year of the Dog...Again (Sony Urban/Columbia) - (8/1/06)
• Agallah "the Don Bishop" - You Already Know (Babygrande) - (8/8/06)
• Too Short - Blow the Whistle (Jive) - (8/29/06)
• Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin' (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) - (8/29/06)
• Priority Records - No Limit Greatest Hits (Priority) - (8/1/06)

• Kelis - Kelis Was Here (Jive/Zomba)
• Rick Ross - Port of Miami (Slip-N-Slide/Def Jam)
• Defari - Street Music (ABB)
• Masta Killah - Made in Brooklyn (Nature Sounds)
• Lake and Cormega - My Brother's Keeper (Fast Life Music)
• J Dilla - The Shining (BBE)
• Obie Trice - Second Round's on Me (Shady/Interscope)
• Method Man - 4:21...The Day After (Def Jam)
• OutKast - Idlewild (O.S.T.) (LaFace)
• The Roots - Game Theory (Def Jam)