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Do You Want More?!!!??!

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Studio album by

the Roots

Released

January 17, 1995

Recorded

1993–1994

Studio

The Trocadero, Philadelphia
Sigma Sound - Ivory Studios Suite #3, Philadelphia
Nebula Sounds, Philadelphia
Battery, New York City

Genre

Jazz rap

Length

73:45

Label

DGC, Geffen

Producer

The Grand Negaz, Questlove, Kelo, A.J. Shine, Black Thought, Rahzel

The Roots chronology

From the Ground Up
(1994)

Do You Want More?!!!??!
(1995)

Illadelph Halflife
(1996)

Singles from Do You Want More?!!!??!

"Distortion to Static"
Released: July 26, 1994
"Proceed"
Released: February 1995
"Silent Treatment"
Released: April 4, 1995

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Chicago Tribune	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A^[3]
NME	7/10^[4]
Philadelphia Daily News	^[5]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	^[6]
Pitchfork	9.0/10^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]
The Source	4/5^[9]
Spin	^[10]

Do You Want More?!!!??! is the second studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released January 17, 1995, on DGC Records.^[11] The band's major label-debut, it was released two years after their independent debut album, Organix (1993). Do You Want More?!!!??! has been considered by critics as a classic of jazz rap.^[12]^[13] In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. On November 2, 2015, twenty years after its release, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 500,000 units in the United States.^[14] The master tapes for the album, including some unreleased tracks, were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.^[15]^[16]

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
18.	"Intro/There's Something Goin' On"	The Grand Negaz	1:18
19.	"Proceed"	The Grand Negaz	4:35
20.	"Distortion to Static"	Questlove, Kelo, A.J. Shine	4:18
21.	"Mellow My Man"	The Grand Negaz	4:41
22.	"I Remain Calm"	Black Thought, Questlove	4:08
23.	"Datskat"	The Grand Negaz	3:40
24.	"Lazy Afternoon"	Black Thought, Rahzel, Sista Urban, Rachel Graham	5:06
25.	"? vs. Rahzel"	Questlove, Rahzel	3:18
26.	"Do You Want More?!!!??!"	Black Thought, Questlove, A.J. Shine	3:21
27.	"What Goes On Pt. 7" (featuring ELO The Cosmic Eye)	The Grand Negaz	5:32
28.	"Essaywhuman?!!!??!" (recorded live at the Trocadero, December 15, 1993)	Questlove, Black Thought	4:59
29.	"Swept Away"	The Grand Negaz	3:50
30.	"You Ain't Fly"	The Grand Negaz	4:42
31.	"Silent Treatment" (featuring Cassandra Wilson)	The Grand Negaz	6:52
32.	"The Lesson Pt. 1" (featuring Dice Raw)	Questlove	5:12
33.	"The Unlocking" (featuring Ursula Rucker)	The Grand Negaz	8:11
Total length:			73:43

The track listing on some album releases denotes the first track, "Intro/There's Something Goin' On," as track #18, continuing the track count from the band's 1993 album Organix, which contained 17 tracks. The track listing on this album continues from #18 upward to the album's final track, "The Unlocking" (track #33).

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1995)	Peak position
USBillboard 200^[17]	104
USTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[18]	22
USHeatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[19]	2

Chart (2021)	Peak position
UK R&B Albums (OCC)^[20]	18

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1995)	Position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[21]	98

Certifications[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[22]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[edit]

^ Bush, John. "Do You Want More?!!!??! – The Roots". AllMusic. Retrieved October 20, 2009.

^ Kot, Greg (March 23, 1995). "The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 13, 2021.

^ Hopkins, Tracy E. (January 20, 1995). "Do You Want More?!!!??!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

^ "The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??!". NME. November 12, 1994. p. 44.

^ Takiff, Jonathan (January 27, 1995). "The Roots Look Like They're Ready To Sprout". Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2009.

^ DeLuca, Dan (January 22, 1995). "The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC)". The Philadelphia Inquirer.

^ Ngangura, Tarisai (March 13, 2021). "The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??!". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 13, 2021.

^ Moon, Tom (2004). "The Roots". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 702–03. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

^ Johnson, Brett (November 1994). "The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??!". The Source. No. 62. p. 97.

^ Aaron, Charles (June 2008). "Discography: ?uestlove". Spin. Vol. 24, no. 6. p. 88. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

^ "Do You Want More?!!!??! — The Roots". TheRoots.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 28 Jun 2014.

^ Anderson, Brett. "Do You Want More?!!!??!". Yahoo! Music. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2009.

^ "The Roots Announce Do You Want More?!!!??! Deluxe Reissue". 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

^ "RIAA – Searchable Database: The Roots". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 18, 2017.

^ Rosen, Jody (2019-06-11). "The Day the Music Burned". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-12.

^ @questlove (2019-06-11). "For everyone asking why Do You Want More & Illdelph Halflife wont get reissue treatment" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2019-06-11 – via Twitter.

^ "The Roots Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 18, 2013.

^ "The Roots Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.

^ "The Roots Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.

^ "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 March 2024.

^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1995". Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2020.

^ "American album certifications – The Roots – Do You Want More". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 28, 2023.

Works cited

Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

Colin Larkin (2002). Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Edition 4. Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-923-0.

External links[edit]

The Roots

Black Thought
Captain Kirk Douglas
Damon "Tuba" Bryson
Kamal Gray
Mark Kelley
James Poyser
Questlove
Stro Elliot

Studio albums

Organix (1993)
Do You Want More?!!!??! (1994)
Illadelph Halflife (1996)
Things Fall Apart (1999)
Phrenology (2002)
The Tipping Point (2004)
Game Theory (2006)
Rising Down (2008)
How I Got Over (2010)
Undun (2011)
...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014)

Collaborations

Wake Up! (2010, with John Legend)
Betty Wright: The Movie (2011, with Betty Wright)
Wise Up Ghost (2013, with Elvis Costello)

Live albums

The Roots Come Alive (1999)
Jay-Z: Unplugged (2001, with Jay-Z)

Extended plays

From the Ground Up (1994)
The Legendary (1999)

Songs

"You Got Me" (1999)
"The Next Movement" (1999)
"The Seed (2.0)" (2002)
"Wake Up Everybody" (2010)
"My Shot" (Rise Up Remix) (2016)
"You'll Be Back" (2016)
"Who Tells Your Story" (2016)
"It Ain't Fair" (2017)

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