Cheat Codes

Cat No: 4050538803624

"The generationally-acclaimed modern greats are at their best on a long-awaited collaboration that constantly delights”
NME

"Danger Mouse and Black Thought’s long-awaited album arrives as a tribute to a whole scene rather than just two artists"
DIY

"What do you get when you combine two of the coolest people in music? Something to check out. The Roots’ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse have partnered for the album Cheat Codes”
The Independent

“a project that ranks among this year’s best”
Crack Mag

"12 tracks of widescreen hip-hop delight"
Loud & Quiet 

**** The Guardian
**** The Times
**** The Sun

Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop album in seventeen years - since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM - and Black Thought’s only full length collaboration beyond his pioneering music in The Roots.  

No Gold Teeth is the debut single from the dream team duo of Danger Mouse & Black Thought, and the first single from Cheat Codes.

On No Gold Teeth, Danger Mouse’s soulful, freewheeling production serves as the perfect backdrop to Black Thought’s metronomic, pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge.  The result is a dizzying, thrilling opening single from two of contemporary music’s most respected artists.

Finally putting an end to years of swirling rumors and speculation, the collaboration is now officially announced: Danger Mouse & Black Thought bring us their debut album Cheat Codes.

The natural chemistry between Brian (Danger Mouse) and Tariq (Black Thought) comes through in the ease with which the artist and listener move through this album. Moreover, it’s an album untethered to any genre, era or trend — uncategorizeable and timeless.  It is the sound of the pair observing their own culture and asking questions they still may not have the answers to.

Brian Burton (AKA one half of Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells, and Karen O & Danger Mouse — and universally regarded as the most versatile producer in modern music) has found a formidable new partner in the incomparably prolific rapper Tariq Trotter - rapper, MC & co-founder of The Roots, film and theater actor, producer, writer or, as Hypebeast sums up: "one of the best lyricists in hip-hop history."

Sometimes
Cheat Codes (Explicit)
The Darkest Part (feat. Raekwon and Kid Sister)
No Gold Teeth (Explicit)
Because (feat. Joey Bada$$, Russ, and Dylan Cartlidge) (Explicit)
Belize (feat. MF DOOM) (Explicit)
Aquamarine (feat. Michael Kiwanuka)
Identical Deaths
Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels) (Explicit)
Close To Famous (Explicit)
Saltwater (feat. Conway the Machine) (Explicit)
Violas and Lupitas (Explicit)