The Roots Release Buoyant New Track, 'Tomorrow' — rollingstone.com

Just about three weeks after announcing their new album, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin with the song "When the People Cheer," the Roots have returned with a second track from the record, a cheerful tune about living in the moment called "Tomorrow." Like "When the People Cheer," "Tomorrow" opens with a piano, but the similarity ends there. While the first track featured a minor-key intro leading into a complex and winding arrangement of socially-conscious rhymes, "Tomorrow" opens with cheerful vintage-soul chords, accompanied by whistling. The vocals are sung throughout by R&B crooner Raheem DeVaughn, with no rapping to be found, and the ballad maintains an optimistic simplicity.

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