Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter of The Roots & Opinions on Heems & Lapgan

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot interview Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter of The Roots about his memoir. The hosts also review the new album from Das Racist rapper Heems.

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Featured Songs:

The Roots, "You Got Me (feat. Erykah Badu & Eve)," Things Fall Apart, MCA, 1999

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

Heems & Lapgan, "I'm Pretty Cool," Lafandar, Veena, Mass Appeal India, 2024

Das Racist, "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," Shut Up, Dude, Greedhead, Mishka, 2010

Heems & Lapgan, "Accent," Lafandar, Veena, Mass Appeal India, 2024

Heems & Lapgan, "Porches," Lafandar, Veena, Mass Appeal India, 2024

Heems & Lapgan, "Obi Toppin (Darling)," Lafandar, Veena, Mass Appeal India, 2024

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message," The Message, Sugar Hill, 1982

Run-DMC, "My Adidas," Raising Hell, Profile, 1986

El Michels Affair & Black Thought, "Protocol (feat. Son Little)," Glorious Game, Big Crown, 2023

The Roots, "The Roots is Comin'," Organix!, Self-Released, 1993

George Benson, "Give Me The Night," Give Me The Night, Qwest, 1980

The Jacksons, "We Can Change The World," Victory, Epic, 1984

Gene Chandler, "Duke of Earl," Duke of Earl (Single), Vee-Jay, 1961

Brian Eno, "Taking Tiger Mountain," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon,
0:04.0	you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:08.0	Hello, Chicago! Oh. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking with Black Thought of the Roots about his book The Upcycled Self.
0:39.0	I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:41.0	And I'm Greg Kott.
0:42.0	But first, let's review new music from another rapper, Heems. Hey, y'u I'm pretty cool, yo. Everybody love no.
0:54.0	And you thuggy from Queens where my thugs be.
0:56.0	In the Polo Rugby, I Tokyo Drift my buggy.
0:59.0	I've been in OGji, since mama cop me huggies.
1:02.0	That is a little bit of I'm pretty cool from the new Heems records
1:04.7	Laffender. Heems we might recognize that name from a group that we have
1:10.0	reviewed on the show a decade ago, that's racist man. They conflated that to
1:17.4	d as racist, d a s you know as racist as you can tell from the name of that group they have a tongue-in-cheek attitude towards a lot of things in the world
1:27.3	That is very typical of Das Racist and also of Heems's discography
1:32.3	Heems born Hymu Suri of Indian heritage, grew up in Queens, New York,
1:39.0	formed Das Racist with Kool-D D a friend from college.
1:42.8	They both went to Wesley and both.
1:43.8	They both went to Wesley and University in Connecticut.
1:46.6	And this kind of novelty single combination,
1:51.0	Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in 2008.
1:55.0	Really took off.
1:56.0	It was just a weird little side light, very funny, very satirical.
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