Black Thought says that bringing hip-hop to late-night TV on the NBC juggernaut has flowed as smoothly as his bars. “That just proves how transcendent it is,” he said.

Last week, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, frontman for the Roots, tried to break the rapper-nets with a 10-minute freestyle with Funkmaster Flex over ...

Black Thought on Ta-Nehisi Coates saying he'd trade Between the World and Me for Black Thought's verses. For me it lent a certain sort of validity to what I'm doing, what I've been doing.

Responding to a tweet that said Drake could not be grouped with names like “Kendrick, Lupe, Eminem, Black Thought and J. Cole,” a fan of the Toronto rapper looked to share their opinion on the ...

The post Danger Mouse and Black Thought Are at the Top of Their Game — No Cheat Codes Required appeared first on Consequence. Danger Mouse, for his part, hadn’t dropped a full-length hip-hop ...

Black Thought reflects on his 30-year career with his debut solo project, Streams of Thought Vol. 1. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images hide caption ...

Tariq Trotter — aka Black Thought — is the best rapper alive. He may not be your favorite of all time. He may not be the best-selling rapper ever. But bar-for-bar, there isn’t a single MC in ...

Black Thought’s viral freestyle — hosted by the legendary radio man Funkmaster Flex on New York’s Hot 97 — feels both lighter and heavier. It has unrelenting momentum, ...

Black Thought is returning with the third installment of his EP series.

Black Thought said that’s when things got physical between he and Questlove. “It led to us coming to blows right quick, and it was the sort of thing that I’d forgotten about it before we ...

Black Thought says that bringing hip-hop to late-night TV on the NBC juggernaut has flowed as smoothly as his bars. “That just proves how transcendent it is,” he said.