{"id":181192,"date":"2023-04-18T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=181192"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T09:42:32","slug":"el-michels-affair-black-thought-glorious-game-album-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/el-michels-affair-black-thought-glorious-game-album-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"El Michels Affair &#038; Black Thought &#8211; Glorious Game (Album Stream)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zz5Xqso7tCI\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited collaborative LP from <strong>Black Thought<\/strong> and <strong>El Michels Affair<\/strong> is here. On Friday (April 14), <strong>Thought<\/strong> \u2013 teamed with <strong>El Michels<\/strong> lead <strong>Leon Michels<\/strong> \u2013 released the 12-track <em>Glorious Game<\/em>. The album includes collaborations with <strong>Kirby<\/strong> (\u201cG<em>lorious Gam<\/em>e\u201d), <strong>Son Little<\/strong> (\u201c<em>Protocol<\/em>\u201d), and <strong>Brainstory<\/strong> (<em>\u201cAlter Ego\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Thought and Leon recently spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/features\/black-thought-el-michels-glorious-game-interview\"><em>Bandcamp Daily<\/em><\/a> about <em>Glorious Game<\/em>, revealing that they decided not to have any rap features on the album.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was a point where we were trying to figure out, \u2018Should we get guest MCs on the record?\u2019 We both came to the conclusion these songs were done,\u201d Michels said. \u201cTo try and chase any features felt forced. Which speaks more to the fact that we were making it for ourselves, and that it happened quick and it felt finished.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Glorious Game<\/em> also marks <strong>Thought<\/strong>\u2019s first project of the year, which will be followed by his upcoming album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okayplayer.com\/music\/black-thought-streams-of-thought-vol-4.html\"><em>Streams of Thought Vol. 4<\/em><\/a>. The LP will include a full slate of collaborators like <strong>Rick<\/strong> <strong>Ross<\/strong>, <strong>JID<\/strong>, <strong>Redman<\/strong>, <strong>Fabolous<\/strong>, <strong>Big<\/strong> <strong>K.R.I.T.,<\/strong> <strong>Curren$y<\/strong>, <strong>Pharoahe<\/strong> <strong>Monch<\/strong> and <strong>Tobe<\/strong> <strong>Nwigwe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"181193\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/el-michels-affair-black-thought-glorious-game-album-stream\/el-michels-affair-black-thought\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-181193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?resize=540%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/El-Michels-Affair-Black-Thought.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff &nbsp; The long-awaited collaborative LP from Black Thought and El Michels Affair is here&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-L8s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}