How I Got Over
by The Roots
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The Roots bestography
How I Got Over is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by The Roots on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Roots is Things Fall Apart which is ranked number 907 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,911.
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How I Got Over track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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How I Got Over rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  jhuik | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 57/100 | 41 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 80 Music Albums of 2010 | 46/80 | 2 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | all-time fav arteests (pts) #001-100 | 74/100 | - |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2010 | 4/20 | 4 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | HipHopDX's Top 25 Albums of 2010 | 24/25 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2010 | 28/90 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 74 Music Albums of 2010 | 52/74 | 2 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 41 Music Albums of 2010 | 12/41 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 40/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 221 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,066 | |||
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How I Got Over ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/08/2026 16:13 | Tamthebam | 23,344 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/03/2026 18:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,661 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/11/2026 07:22 | leobaraza | 32 | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5406): By skrapoel BestEverAlbums 07/22/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5381): By jhuik
pedro1976 07/03/2026 11:21 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)How I Got Over comments
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With so much on offer, hype included, in the other releases of their time that the constant quality, in both lyric and beat of The Roots is surprising For those who do not yet know all their delicacies, How I Got Over is a great place to begin the experience and get to know one of East Coast´s Boom Bap´s greatest bands (Edited)
Larcx13 12/28/2020 22:50 | #263364
The Roots always release solid records and this is no exception. Not their best however. The first half definitely outshines the second, but still worth a listen or two. The songs themselves are mostly all well arranged, for me I mostly have trouble with the guest singers and the production on their singing. The tracks themselves are not bad at all.
buzzdainer 09/07/2020 15:20 | #257850
This genre-exploding hip hop album opens with Dirty Projectors vocalists Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian humming along to a lush piano before drummer Questlove sparks a fully-formed instrumental revue. It’s the live formula that the Roots have done better than anyone since the group’s inception in the late eighties. How I Got Over features Monsters of Folk, Joanna Newsom, John Legend, and many more artists from a range of genres. It’s a comprehensive essay in the art of hip hop as a musical endeavor. Questlove’s arrangements and his backing band can go toe-to-toe with the best, no matter the genre. “Radio Daze” could be the album’s most accessible track, in incorporating background soul singers, live instrumentation, a jazz piano, Dice Raw’s silky hook and smooth flows from Blu and frontman Black Thought. But my favorite is "Right On," with its brilliant sampling of Joanna Newsom's "Book of Right-On," bringing one of my favorite freak folk artists into the hip hop mainstream.
Introspective and gripping lyricism really is what makes this album amazing.
Can't even pick out my favorites on this album. It's all good.
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