December 8th, 2009
Pixel Farm Finishes “How I Got Over” For The Roots and Def Jam
Pixel Farm Colorist, Oscar Oboza recently completed film transfer and color correction on the Roots’ “How I Got Over.” The following is an excerpt from Pitchfork’s review of this upcoming Def Jam release:
The breeziest thing the Roots have put forth since “Act Too (Love of My Life)”, probably, the title single from the Roots’ upcoming album is already eliciting a few jeers for loosening the reins (heard someone mention Black Eyed Peas’ sodden “Where Is the Love?”) So what if it doesn’t revisit say, the El-P-inspired spacecraft synths of “Get Busy”? The Roots are virtually taken for granted by now as evocative groove-layers. Here, ?uestlove vies with congas, a low-shimmering organ, and a gorgeous “Who’s worrying ’bout you babe” hooking you in for Black Thought’s poetic license to drop Rwanda like he’s Mr. Lif, whose own stab at this sort of Obama-softened reporting earlier this year wasn’t warm enough. For every housing crisis or Philly shooting, there’s a trope worth revisiting in Black (not bleak) Thought’s reflective mode, and these are some of his blackest thoughts in some time. But unlike those taught him “not to give a f*@%,” his group insists, “Someone has to care”; here, they’d rather worry about the streets rather than glorify them.
–Pitchfork
How I Got Over from Pixel Farm on Vimeo.
