The Roots like William T. Vollmann

The next LP from the hip-hop group The Roots, which will release in April 2008, entitled Rising Down, is named after William T.Vollmann's seven-volume treatise on human violence, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means.  Ecco publishes an abridged paperback.  I hope Bill makes a cameo on the album.  He's got mad words.