The Roots’ de facto leader Black Thought has been in full throttle mode for most of 2020.
After dropping Streams of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Able in October, he’s also contributed to tracks with Common, Statik Selektah and British singer Liam Bailey. That’s in addition to leading The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s backing band and his forthcoming Danger Mouse collaboration.
Now, the Philly native has revealed he’s part of a supergroup assembled by T-Bone Burnett called Dopamine that includes DJ Premier, rock icon Elvis Costello, singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff and jazz singer Cassandra Wilson.
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Speaking with The Crate 808 Podcast, Thought explained, “A really unusual sort of motley crew. It’s weird how the songs come to be. Essentially live instrumentation, Premier is right there and he sorta takes it and chops it up.”
Costello and Thought have worked together before. In 2013, they linked up for the Rise Up Ghost project, a full-length LP. Questlove told Billboard at the time, “It goes without saying that Elvis is legendary,” adding the experience was “beyond my wildest dreams” and “the ultimate bucket list check.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Thought revealed he and Q-Tip have an album’s worth of songs complete and has recorded several cuts with Preemo “with the intention of using it as an upcoming [Streams of Thought] volume.”
Listen to the full interview below.
Now this should be dope yell
Still waiting for my invite!
Hahahaha fuck solar! I remember when that bum was using bots to make it seem like fans were checking for him bwahaha “Super Producer MTV’s best rated Solar” Never laughed so hard in my life!
I find it funny how Premier hooks up with everyone yet nobody asks him where the Nas/Premo album is at. It’s always Nas getting grilled with that question for some reason.
Actually Premo was asked about it years ago and stated he was waiting on Nas because dude had like two more albums to complete for the label…dont hold ya breath though…he was also talking about having Pete Rock or Dre produce disk 2 so u know that shit was just a thought and is never coming out…
Nah, at this point, I’m pretty much done waiting for that Nas/Premo album. If it ever drops, then cool. I was mainly referring to people commenting online. Whenever Nas drops an album, there’s always those people complaining and asking “Where’s your album with Premier?” But Premier does albums with MC Eiht and others and haven’t seen one person get upset and ask “Where’s that album with Nas?” Really just pointing it out. But thanks for clarifying.
Absolutely….Peace
Dude been in my Top 5 since 3rd verse
of “No Alibi”….still underrated….cant wait to hear this shit
The reptillion rooms, the sextillion tons
Your armageddon gwan come from the sun
Untouchable cuts that’s unclutchable for some to understand
So y’all sit back and wonder damn
I like to take this time to show you who I am
Original man, Black Thought, aka lieutenant
what happened to his supergroup with Pharoahe Monch, Common and Absolute? More recently the supergroup with Rhymefest and Phonte?
What about Q-Tip’s and Common’s duo, The Standard?
The Elvis Costello/Roots album was called “WISE Up Ghost”…not Rise Up. SMH