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Black Thought is a Actor American born on 3 october 1971 at Philadelphia (USA)

Black Thought

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Birth name Tariq Luqmaan Trotter
Nationality USA
Birth 3 october 1971 (52 years) at Philadelphia (USA)

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American artist who is the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, as well as an occasional actor. Black Thought, who co-founded The Roots with drummer Questlove (Ahmir Thompson), is widely lauded for his live performance skills, continuous multisyllabic rhyme schemes, complex lyricism, double entendres, and politically aware lyrics.

Biography

Jeunesse
Tariq Luqmaan Trotter est né le 3 octobre 1971 à Philadelphie, dans l'état de Pennsylvanie aux États-Unis. Il est le fils de Thomas et Cassandra Trotter, membres du Nation of Islam. Son père est assassiné alors que Trotter a un an et sa mère connait le même sort durant son adolescence. Il vend brièvement de la cocaïne et est envoyé pour quelques mois à Détroit auprès de sa famille. Trotter étudie le journalisme à la Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts et à la Millersville School. Il rencontre Ahmir Thompson, alias Questlove, en 1987 et forment un duo qui se produit dans les rues de Philadelphie. Trotter sera ensuite quelque temps l'un des deux MCs du groupe The Square Roots. L'autre rappeur s'avère être Malik B., que Trotter a rencontré à l'université.


Carrière
The Roots
The Square Roots se renomment The Roots et sortent leur premier album, Organix, en 1993. The Roots signe pour DGC Records et dévoile son second album, Do You Want More?!!!??! en 1995. Enregistré sans aucun échantillonnage, l'album était principalement populaire parmi les fans de musique alternative que ceux du hip-hop. Autour de la sortie de l'album, The Roots s'est produit au festival de musique alternative Lollapalooza et au Montreux Jazz Festival. Illadelph Halflife, paru en 1996, est devenu leur premier album à figurer dans les quarante premières places du Billboard 200, grâce notamment au succès du single What They Do. Le quatrième album du groupe, Things Fall Apart, sort en 1999.

En 2000, The Roots remporte le Grammy Award de la meilleure performance rap par un duo ou un groupe pour le single You Got Me, supporté par les featurings d'Erykah Badu et Eve. L'album Things Fall Apart est d'ailleurs nommé pour le prix du meilleur album rap. The Roots est resté par la suite actif en sortant Phrenology en 2002, The Tipping Point en 2004, Game Theory en 2006, Rising Down en 2008, How I Got Over en 2010, Undun en 2011 et …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin en 2014.


Carrière solo
En parallèle de sa carrière avec The Roots, Black Thought développe une carrière solo active et variée. Ainsi, il se lance dans le monde du cinéma et participe à des films tels que The Very Black Show en 2000.

En 2017, il se distingue lors d'un freestyle de 10 minutes, dans l'émission hostée par Funkmaster Flex sur la station HOT 97. Une performance unanimement saluée par des pairs tels que Statik Selektah, Black Milk, The Alchemist, Questlove, Diddy ou Styles P.

Le 1er juin 2018, il sort son premier EP solo, Streams of Thought Vol.1 (produit par 9th Wonder) comportant des featurings avec Rapsody , Styles P et Kirby.

Usually with

Jorma Taccone
Jorma Taccone
(2 films)
Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg
(2 films)
Mark Webber
Mark Webber
(1 films)
Nasir Husain
Nasir Husain
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Black Thought (13 films)

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Actor

Stealing Cars, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors William H. Macy, John Leguizamo, Emory Cohen, Heather Lind, Felicity Huffman, Mike Epps
Roles Lionel McWorthers
Rating57% 2.857722.857722.857722.857722.85772
Un jeune voleur de voitures passe de juge en juge...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Directed by Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows, Andy Samberg, Imogen Poots, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer
Roles The Roots
Rating66% 3.3490553.3490553.3490553.3490553.349055
A rapper's album bombs, leaving him with little career choice other than to re-form his old boy band.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 1h26
Directed by Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows, Imogen Poots
Roles The Roots
Rating66% 3.349063.349063.349063.349063.34906
Conner, une popstar dont le second album est un flop conséquent, décide de reformer le groupe The Style Boyz, auquel il appartenait.
Get on Up
Get on Up (2014)
, 2h18
Directed by Tate Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Taraji P. Henson, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Viola Davis, Dan Aykroyd, Tika Sumpter
Roles Pee Wee Ellis
Rating68% 3.4484653.4484653.4484653.4484653.448465
The film opens in 1993 with James Brown walking through a darkened hallway as an audience chants his name. He hears the voices of people he knew throughout his life. The film then cuts to 1988 in Augusta, Georgia; James learns that his private bathroom in a strip mall he owns was used without his consent. As he confronts and then forgives the trespasser, he accidentally fires a shotgun, attracting the police.
Yelling To The Sky, 1h36
Directed by Victoria Mahoney
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about domestic violence, Gangster films
Actors Zoë Naelle Kravitz, Jason Clarke, Antonique Smith, Black Thought, Shareeka Epps, Tim Blake Nelson
Roles Roland
Rating58% 2.90172.90172.90172.90172.9017
The film starts out with quiet, studious, high schooler, Sweetness O'Hara riding her bike with a friend down the street, when neighborhood bully Latonya, her boyfriend, and friends begins picking on her. The boyfriend threatens to take her bike, unless she can beat him in a race to a tree down the street. Sweetness agrees, taking off running. The bully comes up behind her and pushes her to the ground, proceeding to kick her. Sweetness' older, yet pregnant sister, Ola, comes to her rescue, beating up the bully.
On the Inside, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Nick Stahl, Dash Mihok, Olivia Wilde, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Daniel Franzese
Roles Tom Bogotus
Rating52% 2.6044352.6044352.6044352.6044352.604435
Après avoir commis un meurtre dans un accès de rage, Allen Ménaric est interné dans un établissement psychiatrique pour patients particulièrement violents. Il se retrouve brutalement plongé dans un environnement aussi brutal que déstabilisant. Grâce à un programme de socialisation, il fait la connaissance de Mia, maniaco-dépressive, qui lui redonne le goût à la vie. Toujours hanté par son passé, Allen décide de protéger la jeune femme des autres patients.
Night Catches Us
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Black Thought, Novella Nelson
Roles Bostic Washington
Rating61% 3.0943253.0943253.0943253.0943253.094325
In 1976 former Black Panther Marcus (Anthony Mackie), returns to his Philadelphia neighborhood to attend his father's funeral. Marcus has been away for several years, part of the time spent in prison on gun running charges and part spent wandering the country. Marcus has a reputation for having snitched on a fellow Panther which led to his death when the police tried to arrest him. Marcus' former friend DoRight (Jamie Hector), now a local gangster, and Marcus' brother Bostic (Tariq Trotter), a Black Muslim, are especially displeased by his return.
Explicit Ills
Directed by Mark Webber
Genres Drama
Actors Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano, Jermaine Crawford, Naomie Harris, Frankie Shaw, Black Thought
Rating55% 2.756792.756792.756792.756792.75679
Le film suit quatre histoires interconnectées autour de l'amour, de la drogue et de la pauvreté à Philadelphie
Brown Sugar, 1h49
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Taye Diggs, Wendell Pierce, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Marc John Jefferies, Nicole Ari Parker
Roles Self - Black Thought [The Roots]
Rating65% 3.250073.250073.250073.250073.25007
Brown sugar is the film that follows the evolving relationship between Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), an attractive young woman who has just been appointed the editor-in-chief of the hip-hop magazine XXL, and Dre (Taye Diggs), an A&R for Millennium Records. They have been bound together since their early childhood. The news that Dre is preparing to be married to Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), a successful entertainment attorney, sends Sidney into a subconscious tizzy.
Brooklyn Babylon, 1h29
Directed by Marc Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Hip hop films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Black Thought, David Vadim, Carol Woods, Olek Krupa
Roles Solomon
Rating59% 2.9508152.9508152.9508152.9508152.950815
In Brooklyn's Crown Heights, where West Indian Rastafarians and other Blacks live next door to the Jewish Chabad community, ethnic tensions are high. After a minor car crash, the headstrong Judah and other Jewish men who patrol the neighborhood as vigilantes confront Scratch, a mouthy African-American hustler. Passengers in the cars make eye contact: Sol, a hip-hop musician, songwriter, and artist (Scratch's friend), and Sara, who is betrothed to Judah but wants to go to college and be on her own. Over the next few days, while Scratch and Judah's conflict escalates in violence, Sara and Sol connect in ways that echo Sheba and Solomon.
Perfume
Perfume (2001)
, 1h46
Directed by Hunter Carson, Michael Rymer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes La mode
Actors Estella Warren, Jeff Goldblum, Mariel Hemingway, Carmen Electra, Omar Epps, Peter Gallagher
Rating36% 1.827271.827271.827271.827271.82727
Prior to a major show, the people involved find themselves embroiled in their own personal battles.
Bamboozled
Bamboozled (2000)
, 2h15
Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Films about television, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Mos Def
Roles Alabama Porch Monkey
Rating66% 3.3472353.3472353.3472353.3472353.347235
Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan), is an uptight, Harvard University-educated black man, working for the television network CNS. At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty, a tactless, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty talk like an urban black man, and use the word "nigger" repeatedly in conversations, he also proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix and that he can use nigger since he is married to a black woman and has two mixed-race children. Dunwitty frequently rejects Delacroix's scripts for television series that portray black people in positive, intelligent scenarios, dismissing them as "Cosby clones".
Yaadon Ki Baaraat, 2h48
Directed by Nazir Hussain, Nasir Husain
Genres Drama, Action, Musical
Actors Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra, Vijay Arora, Ajit Khan, Neetu Kapoor, Black Thought
Rating72% 3.6469053.6469053.6469053.6469053.646905
The film uses the familiar Bollywood theme of siblings separated by fate. Gangland killers assassinate an honest man who defied them, killing his wife as well. The couple's three sons flee the massacre and lose contact with each other. They grow up in entirely different circumstances and are re-united only when one of the sons, sings the song that their mother taught them at their father's birthday at the hotel.