The Seed (2.0)

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"The Seed (2.0)"
The Roots - The Seed (2.0).jpg
Single by The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt
from the album Phrenology
ReleasedMarch 31, 2003 [1]
RecordedNovember 2001
Genre
Length4:27
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Cody Chesnutt, Tariq Trotter
Producer(s) The Roots
The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt singles chronology
"Break You Off"
(2002)		"The Seed (2.0)"
(2003)		"Don't Say Nuthin'"
(2004)

"The Seed (2.0)" is the second single by The Roots from their fifth album Phrenology (2002). The track, which features Cody Chesnutt on the guitar and vocals, is an "uptempo retooling" of his song "The Seed" from the album The Headphone Masterpiece . [2] The song's music video was nominated for the MTV2 Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. [3] Jeff Vrabel of Billboard described the track as "a genre-bending mix of rock guitars and Prince-styled keyboards and drums". [4]

Contents

Music and reception

"The Seed (2.0)" is a hybrid mix of "distorted rock, hip-hop and psychedelic soul". [5] Brett Berliner of Stylus Magazine called the track "a rock song, featuring a little bit of funk and just a very little bit of hip-hop." [6] The song was favorably received by music critics. Robert Christgau called it the album's "centerpiece", "2002's freshest roots rock track and jammingest avant rap track". [7] Pitchfork 's Sam Chennault described the song as an "orgiastic garage funk number" and called it the album's "most immediately satisfying track". [8] In 2009, Pitchfork listed it at number 330 in "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". [9] Stylus Magazine's Brett Berliner declared it the album's "best track" with its "catchy hook that stays with listeners for days". [6] In The A.V. Club 's 2002 top fifteen "Songs of the Year", Stephen Thompson listed the single at number nine. [10] Jake Coyle of the Associated Press called it "one of the best rock songs of the decade". [11] It was ranked as the 43rd best song of the decade by Rolling Stone.

Charts

Charts (2003) [12] Peak
position
Danish Singles Chart2
Dutch Singles Chart35
Finnish Singles Chart5
German Singles Chart67
Swiss Singles Chart22
UK Singles Chart33

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