Black Thought : (6) " We record in the spirit of the Berry Gordy camp and Gamble & Huff, where people were writing up to a dozen quality songs within a day because the competition was that hard. " - Black Thought " Anyone that I’ve ever worked with, it’s not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that’s gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that’s when it feels most natural. " - Black Thought " I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, ‘Man, you killed it with Adele.’ " - Black Thought " I feel like I’ve been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed. " - Black Thought " The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation. " - Black Thought " I think we could really play the Olympics. " - Black Thought