The Roots Ditch Fall Out Boy Track From Album

Put your bottles of urine back in your bags, The Roots have decided to drop their collaborative attempt with Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump.

Billboard have quoted Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, drummer and producer of their new 'Rising Down' LP as saying that the presumptive first single called 'Birthday' was "sticking out like a sore thumb... [from the band's] most incendiary, political album of our career to date."

He explained: "Initially it was going to kick-start the record ... but then that didn't work. Then we were going to have a 'halftime' thing where it was gonna come in the middle of the record as a break from the political thing, but that didn't work, either.

"Then we tried to make it the last song on the record, and that wasn't working," he continues. "Then we tried to make it the hidden track, and that wasn't effective. Basically the album was complete; it starts with 'Rising Down' and it ends with 'Rising Up,' so that makes more sense to me."

'Birthday Girl' will now be released as an iTunes exclusive, preceding the release of the album, which is out on on Def Jam Records on April 28th (29th USA).

The revised tracklisting looks like this:

Rising Down:

01 'The Pow Wow
02 'Rising Down' [ft. Mos Def and Styles P]
03 'Get Busy' [ft. Dice Raw, Peedi Crakk and DJ Jazzy Jeff]
04 '@15'
05 '75 Bars' (Black's Reconstruction)
06 '(Time Up)'
07 'Criminal' [ft. Saigon and Truck North]
08 'I Will Not Apologize' [ft. P.O.R.N. and Dice Raw]
09 'I Can't Help It' [ft. Malik B and P.O.R.N.]
10 'Singing Man' [ft. Truck North and P.O.R.N.]
11 'Up There (Unwritten)' [ft. Mercedes Martinez]
12 'Lost Desire' [ft. Talib Kweli and Malik B]
13 'The Show' [ft. Common]
14 'Rising Up' [ft. Chrisette Michele and Wale]