Black Thought dropped in on Rapsody’s show at Elsewhere in Brooklyn to deliver a fire freestyle.
Rapsody stopped by Elsewhere in Brooklyn as part her A Black Woman Created This Tour on Thursday night, and the femcee was joined by a very special guest. Highly acclaimed The Roots rapper Black Thought surprised the crowd with an impromptu freestyle. As Rap was finishing up her track “Oprah” f her Eve album, Black Thought stepped on stage rocking a beanie, sunglasses, and his winter coat, to deliver some heat.
“What’s a fly coon to a tycoon/I represent from midnight to high noon/I just pulled up, out the side room/To let you know it’s time to turn up, like the volume,” he spat. “Yo Rap’, we got the band back together, listen/I’m the man, no one can do it better, listen. And I am, Black, as ugly as ever, listen/It’s a difference when you makin’ more than seven figures/I just tell ’em ‘jump!’/Machine gun pump /The sawed-f shotgun, hand on the pump/Impeach an MC just like Trump/Soldier Fortune magazine man the month.”
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The hip hop OG kept going with, “The man on the moon/These Tony Clifton-ass MCs, they got jokes, but I am un-amused/I send a message to my goons with the broom/Get your pieces swept up by the doctors doom.” He then slipped into his incredible verse f Statik Selektah’s 2013 track “Bird’s Eye View” featuring Joey Bada$$ and Raekwon, switching up some the lyrics and even dropping a mention “Coronavirus.”
“Listen, it’s the elephant in the room/Created by a collision the sun and the moon/My sonogram was the image a gun in the womb/That’s soon, to be opened, and the heroin and the spoon/Astonishing/Ayo, my future lookin’ promising/My skin tone that a crystal clear onyx is/My thoughts let the beats break like the Amishes/A stroke genius like Mickalene Thomas is/Hip-Hoppin’, body-rockin’, do-what-it-do/We be the living definition improving the groove/I use the same tools to shoot that Kubrick use/Take your hero to the river, give them two b-rick shoes/Who lose?”
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“If you really ain’t nobody ’til somebody love you/ I say you ain’t nobody ’til they speaking highly you/And Rap’, what they don’t want is any kind trouble/Unless you got a crash dummy or a body double/You got a couple homies that’ll catch a hommie for you?/Well, I’ma fold n*ggas into origami for you/The most notorious poet laureate/Whole story is glorious, stoic warriors/And I got my eyes wide open on you quasi-/Haters still smirking like the gators on an Izod/Lacoste, tomato head n*ggas are/Imposters, it’s a drawn out process/Triple OG’s got a worn out conscience/Reminiscing to when we was all out monsters, on/Our Sierra Leone reigning tyranny/I strike fear in their hearts, make ’em steer clear me/Look, Sanka, Range Rover, Bill folder, higher roller, Ayatollah/Give rappers that Ebola virus, Coronavirus/You got it chopped like Miley Cyrus/Nah, we on your block with Somali pirates.”
Black Thought and Rapsody have teamed up in the past, on “Nobody” in 2017 as well as on “Dostoyevsky” in 2018.