Black Thought is ready to proceed his streak of releasing collaborative albums, this time with El Michels Affair.
Titled Wonderful Sport, the newly-announced undertaking will see the Roots MC workforce up with the Brooklyn-based “cinematic soul” group for 12 new tracks, that are set to be launched on April 14 through Large Crown Information.
Associates for round 20 years, Black Thought and El Michels Affair founder Leon Michels recorded the album through the lockdown section of the pandemic after Thought initially reached out to him for beats.
To go along with the announcement, the duo shared the primary single “Grateful” on Wednesday (January 11). Hearken to it under:
Wonderful Sport will function the follow-up to Black Thought’s joint album with Hazard Mouse, Cheat Codes, which was launched in August 2022. The undertaking peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard 200 chart, with options coming from Raekwon, Joey Bada$$, Russ, MF DOOM, A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels, Conway The Machine and others.
The critically-acclaimed effort was topped one of many Greatest Albums of 2022 by HipHopDX and earned Black Thought a nomination for the Greatest Hip Hop Comeback of the yr.
Throughout an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe following its launch, the Philly native responded to claims that he’s an “underrated” MC.
“I feel over time I’ve undoubtedly felt like, yeah. I imply, folks, everybody says that,” he mentioned on the time. “Everybody I meet, ‘You’re so underrated. You’re so underrated.’ Or in interviews, it’s, ‘How do you’re feeling to be so underrated?’ However yeah, I don’t know.”
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He added: “The folks whose opinions matter to me have at all times correctly rated me, so it’s by no means actually been an enormous deal for me.”
Black Thought beforehand launched his Sean C-produced debut solo album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Ready in 2020, recruiting the likes of Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, Killer Mike and ScHoolboy Q for options. The LP adopted the ninth Marvel-produced Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 and Salaam Remi-scored Streams of Thought, Vol. 2, each of which arrived in 2018.
Try the tracklist for Wonderful Sport under.
01. Grateful
02. Wonderful Sport (f. Kirby)
03. I’m Nonetheless By some means
04. Hole Manner
05. Protocol (f. Son Little)
06. The Climate
07. That Woman
08. I Would By no means
09. Alone
10. Miracle
11. Wonderful Sport (Reprise)
12. Alter Ego (f. Brainstory)
