BLACK THOUGHT GIVES UPDATE ON NEW ROOTS ALBUM: 'IT'S DEFINITELY COMING'
Black Thought, the lead MC of the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, has given fans an update on the status of the long-awaited new Roots album. Speaking to HipHopDX while promoting his new book, The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are, the Philly rapper said the decade-long drought the group’s fans have been experiencing is set to come to an end soon.
“We’re a lot closer to a new Roots album,” he told DX. “What I’ll say — what I always say is: on the day that Questlove decides to say, ‘Hey, the album is done,’ then it’s done. It’s not like we have to get in underway, the ball has been rolling. There are many songs recorded, many verses written, many a production, you know, a couple of the songs are already mixed.
“But yeah, it’s not done until it feels complete and until it speaks to and tells whatever story it is we’re trying to tell. And I think the more time that passes, the more of a gap there is to catch folks up on, and I think there’s something in that, in wanting to just be complete in our return.”
He concluded: “So yeah, the new Roots album is definitely coming. I think you’re gonna likely see a new Black Thought album — or two — before the new Roots album just because those are the records that I have the final say about.”
The follow-up to 2014’s …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin will be The Roots’ 12th studio album — and 15th overall including their collaborative albums with John Legend, Betty Wright, and Elvis Costello. However, it’s not yet known what label the project — which is currently set to be titled En
