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Danger Mouse & Black Thought
12+ albums
rapHip-Hopunderground hip-hophip hopabstract hip-hop
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Finally putting an end to years of swirling rumors and speculation, the collaboration (once misnomered as Dangerous Thoughts) was officially announced in May 2022: Danger Mouse and Black Thought have recorded an album together, entitled Cheat Codes (August 2022). The first was preceded by the duo's début single, 'No Gold Teeth'. Brian Burton (the artist known as Danger Mouse and one half of Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells, and Karen O & Danger Mouse; one of the most versatile producers in modern music) has found a formidable new partner in the incomparably prolific rapper Tariq Trotter (a.k.a. Black Thought: rapper, MC & co-founder of The Roots, film and theater actor, producer, writer or, as Hypebeast sums up, "one of the best lyricists in hip-hop history." ) For Burton, Trotter was a dream collaborator. For Trotter, he thought the guy who made The Grey Album was pretty cool. The pair first met in 2005, worked on some songs, time went by, life happened—Danger Mouse produced critical and commercial smashes by Gorillaz, A$AP Rocky, Adele, Beck, Michael Kiwanuka, The Black Keys, U2, and more. The Roots became the house band for Late Night then The Tonight Show, while Tariq released his own critically acclaimed series of albums, Streams of Thought. He wrote, composed and starred in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway show, Black No More. He collaborated with Eminem, John Legend, Pusha T, Griselda (Westside Gun, Benny the Butcher), etc, and co-produced a television series wi
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