Roots Manuva

Roots Manuva原名Rodney Smith是倫敦hip hop廠牌Big Dada旗下的一員大將。他的父母來自于加勒比海地區(qū)牙買加的一個(gè)小村子, 這些早年的生活經(jīng)歷也自然而然的融入到他的音樂風(fēng)格里。
Roots Manuva的一些音樂被認(rèn)為是開創(chuàng)了Grime風(fēng)格的先驅(qū), 早在1998年，他就開始在Coldcut主理的著名實(shí)驗(yàn)/HipHop廠牌Ninja Tune下發(fā)片. 由于他對(duì)英倫說唱音樂的影響，[時(shí)代周刊]評(píng)論他是“英國現(xiàn)代大都市的聲音，融dub, ragga, funk和hip hop為一體，橫掃街頭角角落落到充滿大麻的舞池…”
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 (which were usually distributed by Ninja Tune). Smiths work spanned the music spectrum, firmly rooted in dub and ragga but also incorporating much of the trip-hop style often associated with Ninja Tune. He 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 Britains coveted MOBO award. Beginning in late 1999, shortly after its release, 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 breakout single Witness (1 Hope), the album became a British hit and increased his worldwide recognition. It narrowly missed winning the prestigious Mercury award and spawned an excellent dub album, Dub Come Save Me, released one year later. His third album, Awfully Deep, appeared in 2005.