Tariq Trotter Quotes

United States, Rapper
October 3, 1971

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter, better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper and 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.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

Tariq Trotter
- Heaven
- Find
- Stairway
Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Tariq Trotter
- Think
- Blink

And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

Tariq Trotter
- Function
- Killing
- Liquor
I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it

Tariq Trotter
- Married
- Divorced
Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.

Tariq Trotter
- Brain
- Tie
- Phrenology
I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

Tariq Trotter
- Salad
- Caesar
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.

Tariq Trotter
My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.

Tariq Trotter

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

Tariq Trotter
Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

Tariq Trotter
- Life
- Time
- Pass By