: The story begins with Redford’s death—marked by a flatlining EKG—and moves backward through his life. This reverse arc allows listeners to deconstruct the choices and circumstances that led to his "undun" state.
Thirteen years after its release, no rap concept album has replicated Undun’s specific intellectual grief. Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city (released two months prior in 2011) is a coming-of-age story. Undun is a post-mortem. The Roots Undun zip