For the person who is new to The Roots, I'd make them a double CD consisting of (not in this order, and I'm sure I'd throw in a "Da Jawn" and/or "Rhymes and Ammo" and some interludes):

1. Pass the Popcorn
2. Good Music
3. Proceed
4. Mellow My Man
5. Datskat
6. Lazy Afternoon
7. Swept Away
8. Essaywhuman?!!!??!
8. Silent Treatment
9. Respond/React
10. Panic!!!!!
11. Episodes
12. What They Do
13. ? vs. Scratch
14. Concerto of the Desperado
15. Clones
16. No Alibi
17. Ital (The Univeral Side)
18. The Next Movement
19. Dynamite!
20. Without a Doubt
21. Ain't Sayin Nothin New
22. Act Too
23. 100% Dundee
24. Adrenaline!
25. You Got Me
26. Rock You
27. Thought @ Work
28. Water
29. Guns Are Drawn
30. Game Theory
31. In the Music
32. Take It There
33. Here I Come
34. Long Time
35. Livin in a New World
36. Atonement
37. Criminal
38. I Can't Help It
39. Singing Man
40. Rising Up