Sa-Roc - The Black Renaissance (feat. Black Thought)
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Sa-Roc - "The Black Renaissance (feat. Black Thought)" from the 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter on Rhymesayers.
The first time Sa-Roc met Black Thought of The Roots, he was pulling her up on stage at the 2014 A3C Hip Hop Festival in front of tens of thousands of people.
“We had a mutual friend who’s close to him and had been sharing music or whatever," the Atlanta-based MC remembered to HipHopDX. "He was anticipating meeting us there and Thought, being the Hip Hop icon who went through the fire and came up doing cyphers and freestyles, he completely believed in making sure an MC is up to par with going through that cold trial-by-fire thing.
The impromptu performance set the stage for the collaboration on today's Song of the Day. She told ABC Australia:
"I knew as soon as I started writing this album, I wanted Black Thought to feature and when [producer] Sol Messiah showed me this track, I was like, 'This is the one.' I have such high regard for Black Thought as an MC and how he elevates lyricism to an extent that's really not seen within the mainstream industry. So, we got on the track, we recorded in the studio, and just went crazy: back and forth bar for bar. So, this is lyricism at its finest."
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| 0:00.0 | The Dead white people I am not your Negro. Yeah black people y'all just got your hero. |
| 0:27.0 | All these rap demons I'm about the depot. Me and the side on my AT-Lian, |
| 0:31.3 | arct of ego. The Queen of Sheba and Musakita, producer Heita, Salut your teacher, my new accedeers a future leader, |
| 0:37.6 | a testament of my evolution to excellence, to be a not to be human, that's what what the question is I'm still the answer regardless |
| 0:44.2 | Rappers is moving targets |
| 0:45.6 | Acknowledge me is the smallest passenger moving forward my little sister bars blast like |
| 0:49.9 | a Lishnikov just because heavy base dance like |
| 0:52.6 | parishnikov the sound pierced like bullets and swords from a nation under |
| 0:56.5 | attack like bulletin boards and I'm rep in a foundation to the fullest of course |
| 1:00.9 | today another life was lost and it could have been yours |
| 1:03.4 | whether in Colorado or Kali Park you but a mile apart from the sharpness of my |
| 1:07.7 | remarks the black oligarch making weaponry out of art my supply and so Messiah |
| 1:12.3 | told me we got to talk I walk through the dark now do I |
| 1:15.4 | roll deep or do I hold heat now when my laid back over a control freak rocking the |
| 1:21.0 | crown gild and gold leaf I'm from a place where the people dream but don't sleep |
| 1:25.0 | You allow tuned into the classics |
| 1:28.0 | This fine art leaders work to the master ain't met a man I woman yet, because it passes. |
| 1:33.2 | Cheers to the slot era. |
| 1:34.4 | You're now tuned into the classics. |
| 1:39.0 | This fine light lead this work to the masters. |
| 1:41.6 | Ain't made a woman yet because it passes. |
| 1:44.0 | Cheers to the slaughter about your head and raise your glasses. |
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