Black Thought Quotes

Black Thought

Black Thought

American Musician

Born: Oct 3, 1975

Always Like Me Music Think You

Nah, I don't feel overlooked, underappreciated, or none of that because it's a short list of artists, past and present, that I kind of have respect for. And in all of those situations, the admiration and respect is mutual. Black Thought

Respect Past Those Kind Admiration Mutual Feel Because None Overlooked List Situations Short Artists Present

Our plan for Passyunk Productions is to make an impact in the film & tv world by leveraging our collective resources, telling great stories and creating smart programming told from a unique perspective. Black Thought

Great World Smart Perspective Collective Programming Our Resources TV Telling Impact Great Stories Make Stories Plan Creating Productions Unique Film

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity. Black Thought

Music Man Maturity Thinking Some Got Hip-Hop Been Branded Level

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents. Black Thought

Music Word Definitive Something Emotion Come Terms Because Making Encapsulate Lot Up Going Often Represents Want

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way. Black Thought

Music Way Visual Sort Always Dealt Same Artist Started

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes. Black Thought

Our Freestyle Material Lot Tunes Earlier

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation. Black Thought

Thought Black Between Instrumentation Texture Difference Roots Album

I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter. Black Thought

I've always sort of listened to news radio. Black Thought

News Sort Always Listened Radio

I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother's womb. Black Thought

Mother Say Born Like Hip-Hop Womb

I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia. Black Thought

Area Up Mount Northwestern Grew Philadelphia

Something that is funny, that I use sometimes if I'm doing comedy, is the fact that I'm now often mistaken for the rapper Rick Ross. And I don't know that I've ever corrected anyone - like I've never said, 'No no, I'm not Rick Ross, I'm Black Thought from The Roots.' Black Thought

I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some champagne. It's like if someone's writing a novel: You write a series of drafts. Black Thought

You Song Writing Phone Sit Down Some Someone Write Like Another Got Then Pop Novel Series Slam Champagne Drafts

We've always been a band that intentionally transcended race and age. Black Thought

Age Band Always Been Intentionally Race

I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and tragedy, in a way that sort of expresses what the listener or the beholder may have been feeling but was less able to communicate. Black Thought

Communicate Feeling Pain Think Dancer I Think Way Musician Able Writer True True Artist Sort Been Tragedy Articulate Artist May Listener Beholder Less Expresses Actor

The Tonight Show' afforded us the opportunity to work with The Muppets and other ‘Sesame Street' characters, and we always had the desire to do something that spoke to young people. Black Thought