Black Thought hasn’t had some new material in a good amount of time, but hey I’m definitely glad we got this new joint. There’s a little back story to how this freestyle, over the ‘N.Y. State Of Mind’ beat, came about:
Celebrating the release of Adam Mansbach’s acclaimed new novel, Rage Is Back, J.PERIOD recruits legendary Roots front man Black Thought for an exclusive new dub plate collaboration: “Rage Is Back (Freestyle),” the first single off J.PERIOD’s forthcoming “Rage Is Back” tape dropping later this month.
Set against the backdrop of graffiti-era New York, Manbach’s Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called “the great American graffiti novel”.
The book is currently one of Amazon’s Books of the Month.
Via Okayplayer