Awfully Deep

by Roots Manuva

Awfully Deep cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 January 2005
  • Label: Big Dada
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 51:28
  • Community rating: 3.49/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Rodney Smith's highly anticipated third studio album further solidifies his status as a leading, deeply idiosyncratic voice in UK hip-hop. The self-produced record features wonky, bass-heavy beats influenced by dub and UK garage, supporting his distinctive, molasses-thick flow and deeply introspective, sometimes paranoid lyricism.

Genres

Descriptors: rap, experimental, sampling, underground, groundbreaking

Tracklist

  1. Mind 2 Motion (04:46)
  2. Awfully Deep (04:02)
  3. Cause 4 Pause (feat. Lotek) (01:11)
  4. Colossal Insight (03:45)
  5. Too Cold (03:58)
  6. A Haunting (03:57)
  7. Rebel Heart (03:33)
  8. Chin High (05:25)
  9. Babylon Medicine (03:16)
  10. Pause 4 Cause (01:28)
  11. Move Ya Loin (feat. Lotek) (03:12)
  12. Thinking (04:48)
  13. The Falling (03:53)
  14. Toothbrush (04:14)

Credits

  • DJ MK - scratches [cuts]
  • Lara Ferros - stylist
  • Andy Ross - written-by, instruments [all other instruments], instruments [all instruments]
  • Ralph Lamb - written-by, instruments [all other instruments], instruments [all instruments]
  • Rodney Smith - written-by
  • Steve Jones - written-by
  • Hazel Sim - backing vocals
  • Limmie Snell - bass

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