For all of you hip-hop (and especially The Roots) fans on 11W, some of you may have seen Black Thought's freestyle yesterday on Hot 97. Ten minutes of pure unabated, unadulterated fire. Now, it is not a freestyle in the most conceptual sense of the word. He doesn't think of lines off the top of the dome. But hardly anyone does that, save for Lupe Fiasco's freestyle on Sway. I'll be damned, however, if someone says this is not one of the best lyrical performances in the past few years. Twenty years of lyrical refinement, Black Thought reinforced why he is one of the best emcees of all time. I'm still trying to decipher all of the bars.