If there was an award category for great MCs that never dropped a solo album, Black Thought would be first in line. Thought has been laying down rhymes consistently for 18 years without ever plundering into redundancy. But by today’s standards, an excellent lyricist typically ranks below any chart-topping puppet fastened to the strings of a major label. No wonder Thought's hardly ever mentioned among the upper echelons of rap greats.
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