spoke<\/a> with Black Thought for Rolling Stone. There, he talks about sending a record to the Roots but never getting any word back. Initially, he thought that his verse might\u2019ve been too dirty for the group. \u201cI said damn, you know what, I was cursing a little bit too much,\u201d Redman recalls. I might have said \u2018b***h\u2019 or something derogatory that they probably didn\u2019t like, and yo, I was actually hurt from that, bro.\u201d<\/p>\nHowever, Black Thought clears up exactly why he might not have heard anything. <\/p>\n
Black Thought Reveals What Happened to The Redman Verse for The Roots<\/p>\n
He tells the Muddy Waters MC that The Roots\u2019 late manager Rich Nichols handled a lot of the song picking process. Moreover, he was especially picky with which records made their albums. Consequently, Redman might have been left on the cutting room floor, even if his verse was great. He just had a specific instinct to pick certain songs. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what happened, Rich, rest in peace, who was very much the brains of The Roots operation, ran such a tight ship,\u201d Black Thought explains. \u201cIt was hard for me to place verses on The Roots\u2019 albums. He would shoot down every submission, and there was something about that verse, something that Rich didn\u2019t like about it. I can\u2019t remember what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
All Black Thought remembers was enjoying what Redman submitted. All he knows is that Rich didn\u2019t like it. Once The Roots<\/a> co-founder digs up the old verse, he says he can tell him exactly why it didn\u2019t make it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never really know just how much unreleased music we\u2019re missing out on. There\u2019s collaborations we might not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4916,157,111,139,3554,69,70375,69332],"class_list":{"0":"post-94900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hip-hop","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-noisey","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-redman","16":"tag-the-roots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}