Founding The Roots MC Black Thought recently called into the Crate 808 Hip Hop Podcast to discuss his various upcoming projects, including a genre-spanning supergroup tentatively dubbed Dopamine, set to feature himself alongside DJ Premier, Elvis Costello, Nathaniel Rateliff, T Bone Burnett, and Cassandra Wilson.
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After shooting the breeze with host Kam Thandi and chatting about his new Streams of Thought Vol. 3, collabs with Common, Killer Mike, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, Portugal. The Man, and more, and his upcoming collaborative albums with Danger Mouse and Q-Tip, Thought—real name Tariq Trotter—revealed some details about the new supergroup.
As Black Thought explained toward the end of the hour-long interview, “[DJ Premier] and I formed sort of a supergroup with T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello and Cassandra Wilson, just a really sort of unusual, motley crew of sorts. We’ve been recording this project that’s tentatively called Dopamine. It’s helmed by T Bone Burnett. … It’s weird how the songs sort of come to be, but we come up with some stuff that’s essentially live instrumentation, and Premier is right there and he sort of takes it and chops it up, and we’ve been working in that capacity. I’ve got lots of stuff that Premier and I have recorded in the past year or so.”
Watch the full Black Thought episode of The Crate 808 Hip Hop Podcast featuring the clip about the Dopamine supergroup below:
Black Thought Interview – The Crate 808 Hip Hop Podcast
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