On his debut solo LP, Mos Def implores his audience to be proactive in helping hip-hop music put its best foot forward, and he leads by example.
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Mos Def’s second solo LP is one of hip-hop’s most ambitious presentations that finds him advancing his vintage freestyle type of delivery while charting new territory with his Black Jack Johnson rap/rock outfit.
Read moreMos Def’s ‘The Ecstatic’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary
Influenced by MF DOOM’s unique lyrical content and flow, ‘The Ecstatic’ still very much feels like a truly Mos Def album.
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‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star’ sounds quintessentially New York, but the messages and the sound throughout the album give it universal appeal.
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