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.

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 ...

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 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 Names His Top 5 Rappers, Says It ‘Has Always Revolved Around My Foundation' The Roots leader looked to 1980s hip-hop pioneers as the "foundation" of his dexterous wordplay.

Black Thought was midway through another episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with his band The Roots, a typical Tuesday—at least for him. This time, Fallon was having him freestyle ...

Black Thought emerged from some other realm where it’s impossible to spit a wack rhyme. Thankfully, he checks in from time to time to bless us mere earthlings with his incredible verses.

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.