BLACK THOUGHT Freestyles On Funk Flex
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Sickest shit I ever heard
Thought murdered that freestyle!
I would pay $20 to watch a Web series were every single one of these mumble rappers
these fools keep claiming are so darn smart behind the scenes?
Can FULLY explain what these bars mean.
Sickest shit I ever heard
Thought murdered that freestyle!
What he did to that freestyle would get him fired and banished in this current climate.
Man, went and saw the Roots at the MGM at national Harbor near DC earlier this year. Solid performance. Opened up with "Boom!" using just the drums and black thought.
Quest threw his drum stiqs in the audience at the end. It was like being in a jump ball with 15-20 MFs all slightly taller than my 6 ft ass. Couldn't even get close.
Quest threw his drum stiqs in the audience at the end. It was like being in a jump ball with 15-20 MFs all slightly taller than my 6 ft ass. Couldn't even get close.
"Somebody said the price tag was on a rapper's head/So we gon' see a nice bag, when a rapper dead."
"Yo, the game went they own route/I can't explain what these lame kids is talkin' 'bout/Or how they fit own fit into their whole mouth/I put a couple bodies in a brown bag, then I'm on route."
“not one of y’all peers, he’s the sum of y’all fears,”
SO MANY DAMN QUOTABLES!! GAAAAAWDDD!!!!!
Here's the Reddit discussion thread ...
The Lesson of Black Thought’s Viral Freestyle
By Jelani Cobb
December 17, 2017
Thirty years after co-founding the Roots, with Questlove, in Philadelphia, the hip-hop artist Black Thought continues to hone his skills.
Photograph by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty
Somewhere in the second minute of Black Thought’s viral freestyle performance on Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex show on Wednesday, the rapper dropped the rationale for the lyrical clinic he was putting on. Warned that the gilded cage of success could lead him to “forget that there’s people in the world still enslaved,” he boasts of taking the opposite route: rather than succumb to the temptations of money and fame, he raps, “I barbwired my wrist, and let it fill the page.” It’s an indelible image, and part of a deluge of them delivered by the rapper over the course of a breathless eleven minutes. The content floats between the autobiographical, the metaphorical, and the literary.
The point of this exercise was not simply to establish that Black Thought, née Tariq Trotter, is one of the greats in the pantheon of hip-hop lyricism. He earned that claim years ago. More precisely, his presence in the Hot 97 studio highlighted the possibility that, thirty years after co-founding the Roots, with Questlove, in Philadelphia, Black Thought is still improving his skills. In the combative, Darwinian world of hip-hop, a place where one’s status as an exemplar of the form is as ephemeral as an M.M.A. title, this is no small accomplishment. The densely arrayed metaphors, the calibrated poise, and casual displays of erudition (“I’m international—my passport pages are like “War and Peace”) all point to an artist who remains thoroughly in control of his gifts.
The Roots have enjoyed an uncommon longevity. For the past nine years, they have served as the house band for Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show.” Invariably, that kind of elder-statesman status has made it possible for a younger generation of hip-hop fans to underestimate just how defining the group’s contributions have been to the culture. At least, that was the case up until the moment when Black Thought stepped into the booth with Funkmaster Flex last week.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/likes/the-lesson-of-black-thoughts-viral-freestyle
By Jelani Cobb
December 17, 2017
Thirty years after co-founding the Roots, with Questlove, in Philadelphia, the hip-hop artist Black Thought continues to hone his skills.
Photograph by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty
Somewhere in the second minute of Black Thought’s viral freestyle performance on Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex show on Wednesday, the rapper dropped the rationale for the lyrical clinic he was putting on. Warned that the gilded cage of success could lead him to “forget that there’s people in the world still enslaved,” he boasts of taking the opposite route: rather than succumb to the temptations of money and fame, he raps, “I barbwired my wrist, and let it fill the page.” It’s an indelible image, and part of a deluge of them delivered by the rapper over the course of a breathless eleven minutes. The content floats between the autobiographical, the metaphorical, and the literary.
The point of this exercise was not simply to establish that Black Thought, née Tariq Trotter, is one of the greats in the pantheon of hip-hop lyricism. He earned that claim years ago. More precisely, his presence in the Hot 97 studio highlighted the possibility that, thirty years after co-founding the Roots, with Questlove, in Philadelphia, Black Thought is still improving his skills. In the combative, Darwinian world of hip-hop, a place where one’s status as an exemplar of the form is as ephemeral as an M.M.A. title, this is no small accomplishment. The densely arrayed metaphors, the calibrated poise, and casual displays of erudition (“I’m international—my passport pages are like “War and Peace”) all point to an artist who remains thoroughly in control of his gifts.
The Roots have enjoyed an uncommon longevity. For the past nine years, they have served as the house band for Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show.” Invariably, that kind of elder-statesman status has made it possible for a younger generation of hip-hop fans to underestimate just how defining the group’s contributions have been to the culture. At least, that was the case up until the moment when Black Thought stepped into the booth with Funkmaster Flex last week.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/likes/the-lesson-of-black-thoughts-viral-freestyle
Thoughtful on the mic. Living legend in the game.
the leash was on him...
that freestyle in the end was about to be a PROBLEM!!!
“We back again
For a couple things we lost in the fire
The drive, the desire to perform on a higher plateau
I’m at that show lost in the mire
Wondering how we got so far from inspired”
I’m at that show lost in the mire
Wondering how we got so far from inspired”
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