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The rock-rap doesn't work for mos, this album feels so half-assed and boring. He put no dedication into this album, and you can tell. This album is a mess, with songs that feel like a first draft that really needed expanding on. This album is just full of ideas that weren't creative or good.
Mos Def. 3 min Video. Initially regarded as one of the most promising rappers to emerge in the late '90s, Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey), turned to acting in subsequent years as music...
— 1964 Malcolm X speech sampled for the beginning of the album As on Mos Def's other albums, he speaks a dedication to God in Arabic ("Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem") at the start of The Ecstatic. This leads into "Supermagic" and its opening sample of Malcolm X's 1964 speech at Oxford Union. The sample prefaces the album's "small-globe statement", as Pitchfork journalist Nate Patrin explains ...
Oct 18, 2004 · Mos Def's long-awaited sophomore full-length was five years in the making, but perhaps unwisely uses too many scraps from the nixed recording sessions of his rap-rock group Black Jack Johnson. And ...
Black on Both Sides is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Yasiin Bey, then known as Mos Def, released on October 12, 1999, by Rawkus and Priority Records. Released after his successful collaboration Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, [1] [2] Black on Both Sides emphasizes live instrumentation and socially conscious lyrics.
Top Rap Albums; Rap Airplay; Rap Digital Song Sales; Hot Rock Songs; Top Current Album Sales; ... Mos Def & Kweli Are Black Star 08.22.98 60 12 Wks 09.26.98 10 View full chart history Sign Up.
The two formed Black Star whose debut album, Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star, would become one of the most critically acclaimed hip-hop albums. Mos followed that release with his 1999 solo debut, Black On Both Sides, which was certified gold and credited by critics as bringing hip-hop back to its soapbox roots.
