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Sep 10, 2020 · Black Thought, born Tariq Trotter in 1971, wasn’t even a year old when his father was killed. Although Thought didn’t go into much detail surrounding the murder, ...
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The Tonight Show Band. Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), [1] better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, singer, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove. Regarded as "one of the most skilled, incisive, and prolific rappers of his time", [2] [3] he ...
Sep 20, 2018 · It was 24 years ago this month that Tariq Trotter got into a car in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and drove to appear on the duo’s WKCR 89.9 FM radio show at Columbia University.
Nov 7, 2023 · Trotter was in high school when he experienced one of the biggest tragedies of his life: the murder of his mother. In the aftermath, his friend and creative partner Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson became an anchor. "Music was there for me when I needed it to be, and Ahmir and his family was there for me," Trotter says.
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Dec 28, 2023 · When Trotter was a teen, he experienced one of the biggest tragedies of his life, the murder of his mother, and it was his friend and creative partner Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson who took him in ...
Nov 3, 2017 · Trotter then explained that his father — who was affiliated with Mosque No. 12 — was feared in the Germantown section of Philadelphia where he was raised, but he didn’t give a reason why.
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Dec 14, 2023 · Tariq Trotter, better known as Black Thought, is a Grammy Award-winning artist and co-founder of The Roots. Music critics place him among the greatest rappers of all time. Now Black Thought is out ...
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