And it wasn't the How I Got Over or Wake Up albums.
It was DYWM. Long story short, I discovered The Roots online after googling "alternative hip hop" because I was so sick of mainstream radio rap stuff. So I kept seeing The Roots' name everywhere under that label and listened to Mellow My Man, and the rest is history.
"She was on that tip about stoppin' the violence About my people she was teachin' me By not preaching to me, but speaking to me In a method that was leisurely"