http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143891292/the-roots-weave-a-tale-of-crime-and-karma
Telling the story right meant giving careful consideration to the lyrics. Trotter says that, more that any other Roots album, undun came together via a slow and deliberate process of revision.
“Everything you hear me saying on this record is at least the fourth or fifth draft,” he says. “I would write a verse and then rewrite it and rewrite it. I don’t sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, ‘We got another one!’ and pop some champagne. It’s like if someone’s writing a novel: You write a series of drafts.”
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143891292/the-roots-weave-a-tale-of-crime-and-karma
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