The post Danger Mouse and Black Thought Are at the Top of Their Game — No Cheat Codes Required appeared first on Consequence. Danger Mouse, for his part, hadn’t dropped a full-length hip-hop project ...

Recorded piece-meal since 2006, the album is laced with high octane guests. A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels pop in for the menacing drone on “Strangers,” while ...

The Roots’ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse have joined forces for a new collaborative album titled Cheat Codes. The album, due out Aug. 12 via BMG ...

The duo has also released lead-single "No Gold Teeth." A press release for No Cheat Codes explains that it's “an album untethered to any genre, era or trend — uncategorizeable and timeless. It is the ...

And finally today, you probably know the rapper and emcee Tariq Trotter as the frontman of the hip-hop group The Roots. It's the house band for "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon." But now Trotter, ...

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is not your regular artist, but a performer creating a full-blown cultural movement. 1 day ago Cheat Codes brings several ear-catching ...

Brian Joseph Burton, also known as Danger Mouse, has been a prominent producer for the past two decades. He began his career in hip-hop, gaining notoriety with 2003’s Ghetto Pop Life and 2004’s The ...

The Roots have been an unusual proposition in hip-hop since the group first appeared on record in the early 1990s—here was an actual band working in a genre built on DJs and sampling, and the person ...

Take opening song “Sometimes,” which turns a bed of violins, piano, guitar, and maudlin vocals into a pulpit for Black Thought to draw lines across Black history: “Images of grandeur from Jamel ...