Sa-Roc - "The Black Renaissance (feat. Black Thought)" from the 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter on Rhymesayers.

The first time Sa-Roc met Black Thought of The Roots, he was pulling her up on stage at the 2014 A3C Hip Hop Festival in front of tens of thousands of people. 

“We had a mutual friend who’s close to him and had been sharing music or whatever," the Atlanta-based MC remembered toHipHopDX. "He was anticipating meeting us there and Thought, being the Hip Hop icon who went through the fire and came up doing cyphers and freestyles, he completely believed in making sure an MC is up to par with going through that cold trial-by-fire thing.

The impromptu performance set the stage for the collaboration on today's Song of the Day. She told ABC Australia:

"I knew as soon as I started writing this album, I wanted Black Thought to feature and when [producer] Sol Messiah showed me this track, I was like, 'This is the one.' I have such high regard for Black Thought as an MC and how he elevates lyricism to an extent that's really not seen within the mainstream industry. So, we got on the track, we recorded in the studio, and just went crazy: back and forth bar for bar. So, this is lyricism at its finest."

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Sa-Roc - "The Black Renaissance (feat. Black Thought)" from the 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter on Rhymesayers.
The first time Sa-Roc met Black Thought of The Roots, he was pulling her up on stage at the 2014 A3C Hip Hop Festival in front of tens of thousands of people.&nbsp;
&ldquo;We had a mutual friend who&rsquo;s close to him and had been sharing music or whatever," the Atlanta-based MC remembered to<a href="https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.58237/title.rhymesayers-mc-sa-roc-says-its-time-for-diversity-of-expression-for-women-in-hip-hop#"> HipHopDX</a>. "He was anticipating meeting us there and Thought, being the Hip Hop icon who went through the fire and came up doing cyphers and freestyles, he completely believed in making sure an MC is up to par with going through that cold trial-by-fire thing.
The impromptu performance set the stage for the collaboration on today's Song of the Day. She told <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/sa-roc-sharecroppers-daughter/12783458">ABC Australia</a>:
"I knew as soon as I started writing this album, I wanted Black Thought to feature and when [producer] Sol Messiah showed me this track, I was like, 'This is the one.' I have such high regard for Black Thought as an MC and how he elevates lyricism to an extent that's really not seen within the mainstream industry. So, we got on the track, we recorded in the studio, and just went crazy: back and forth bar for bar. So, this is lyricism at its finest."
<a href="https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2020/11/2/sa-roc-black-renaissance-feat-black-thought/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

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