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Glorious Game is a collaborative album between Black Thought and funk and soul group El Michels Affair, led by Leon Michels who is the producer of all tracks on this album. Black Thought spoke about the lyrical and musical content of the album in a FADER interview: "Glorious Game is one of my most personal projects to date in that I made a conscious decision: “I’m gonna make an effort for every song on this project to be a story. It doesn’t have to connect seamlessly, but it’s gonna be all narrative, and it’s all gonna come from a personal place. I identify most with a living, breathing bed of sound because of The Roots’ live instrumentation aspect. And I come from the old school of recording on two-inch reels. Leon, for all intents and purposes, still works that way, and I feel like he’s one of the only producers who exists in that space. He lives in it, and it’s so effortless that it makes the creative process effortless, and that’s all I’m really here for." On the meaning of the title Glorious Game: "Glorious game is just that information passed down from an OG, a gatekeeper, an elder statesman with a cautionary tale here and there but not being too preachy, told from a personal perspective, giving you some jewelry to move with. Hopefully every listener will be able to latch on to a different aspect of this project, and then move on and apply it to what they have to do — to their process or their relationship, their self-awareness, their lives." In the interview fo
