108 Quotes by Black Thought

Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that's gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that's when it feels most natural.

I strive for improvement. want to be a master of my craft.

It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'

I give back because that is what I was taught and it is what I believe.

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

So in my personal opinion, I definitely feel like I'm a legendary emcee, and I also feel like we're a legendary brand, which is why I started rebranding ourselves years ago by saying 'The Legendary Roots Crew,' which is how we're introduced on 'The Tonight Show.'

I don't know that Dilla was the father of neo-soul as much as he was highly influential in that time when he was doing what he was doing at his best... Dilla's influence transcended genre and it transcended region.