In a society where hip hop music has become associated with material possessions, lust for fame and glorified violence Roots Manuva cuts through like a laser beam. Roots – known to his family as ...

For those who remember it, Roots Manuva's "Witness (1 Hope)" is the zenith of the one-man genre known as UK Hip-Hop That Sounds Like Dubplates From 2076. When it came out in July 2001, the world was a ...

We recently caught up with Rodney Smith at Ninja Tune HQ in London. We talked about the new album "Slime and Reason", first single "Buff Nuff" and brand new single "Again and Again" as well as how ...

Before the Streets pushed things forward, before Dizzee Rascal fixed up and looked sharp, Rodney Smith — a.k.a. Roots Manuva — set the tone of future-funking UK hip-hop. Back in early ’99, Roots ...

South London-based producer Wrongtom has compiled an album of re-workings of Roots Manuva tracks for the Big Dada label. Duppy Writer will feature a range of tracks from across the UK rapper’s ...

His voice is as strong as ever, his baritone perhaps (like the patina of the album sleeve) a little cracked with age, so that it feels like he's rapping the blues sometimes – indeed he consciously ...

Roots Manuva named his first album, 1999’s promising Brand New Second Hand, after a song on Peter Tosh’s landmark effort Legalize It. While Manuva isn’t the first artist to use roots reggae as a ...