VINYL FORMAT. Regarded as one of the most insightful artists of our time, musician, activist and actor Mos Def has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike with a celebrated body of work that has crossed all artistic genresfrom music to the Broadway stage, film and television. The Ecstatic is Mos Def's fourth solo album. Featuring tracks produced by Mad Lib, Oh No and the late J. Dillay, as well as collaborations with Slick Rick, Black Thought and Jay Electronica.

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While Puff Daddy and his followers continued to dictate the direction hip-hop would take into the millennium, Mos Def and Talib Kweli surfaced from the underground to pull the sounds in the opposite direction. Their 13 rhyme fests on this superior, self-titled debut as Black Star show that old-school rap still sounds surprisingly fresh in the sea of overblown vanity productions. There's no slack evident in the tight wordplays of Def and Kweli as they twist and turn through sparse, {\   [ read more ]

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Regarded as one of the most insightful artists of our time, musician, activist and actor Mos Def has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike with a celebrated body of work that has crossed all artistic genresfrom music to the Broadway stage, film and television. The Ecstatic is Mos Def's fourth solo album. Featuring tracks produced by Mad Lib, Oh No and the late J. Dillay, as well as collaborations with Slick Rick, Black Thought and Jay Electronica.

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Mos Def's partnership with Talib Kweli produced one of the most important hip-hop albums of the late '90s, 1997's brilliant Black Star. Consciously designed as a return to rap's musical foundations and a manifesto for reclaiming the art form from gangsta/playa domination, it succeeded mightily on both counts, raising expectations sky-high for Mos Def's solo debut. He met them all with Black on Both Sides, a record every bit as dazzling and visionary as Black Star. {^Black on Both Sid   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Mos Def has proven he is truly the renaissance artist of the 21st century by using his multiple talents to achieve success not only in music but also crossing over into film, television, and even reaching critical acclaim on Broadway. Mos Def returns with his third album, True Magic, and uses his artistry to speak about the subject of hip hop, the feeding frenzy it generates and questions what its success has created.

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Mos Def has proven he is truly the renaissance artist of the 21st century by using his multiple talents to achieve success not only in music but also crossing over into film, television, and even reaching critical acclaim on Broadway. Mos Def returns with his third album, True Magic, and uses his artistry to speak about the subject of hip hop, the feeding frenzy it generates and questions what its success has created.

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During the first several years of the 2000s, it wasn't unreasonable to want Mos Def, one of the most dazzling living MCs, to make a rap album. After he released 2006's True Magic, his first all-rap release in seven years -- following the back-to-back instant classics Black Star and Black on Both Sides -- it was easier to understand why he had been devoting much more time to acting and diversions like The New Danger. It was evident that he was not inspired, no doubt prompting a fair portion of   [ read more ]

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When it takes you five years to follow up a debut of near-landmark stature, you're setting yourself up for failure. Mos Def's second solo album is not disastrous, but it's a sprawling, overambitious mess. A handful of songs from this 75-minute affair feature Black Jack Johnson, the rock band Mos set up with some very respected musicians: bassist Doug Wimbish (Sugar Hill house band, Living Colour), drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), and key   [ read more ]

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Dumped on a post-Christmas/pre-New Year graveyard release date -- and, oddly, a Friday at that -- True Magic comes in a clear plastic box with no artwork, unless you count the sticker slapped onto the back. The FBI anti-piracy warning is the biggest logo on the package, and beside it, those who would like to see the credits are directed to {/www.mosdefmusic.com}. The week the disc was released, there were no credits to be found on the site; the latest news item, in fact, was posted in early October 2005.   [ read more ]

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When it takes you five years to follow up a debut of near-landmark stature, you're setting yourself up for failure. Mos Def's second solo album is not disastrous, but it's a sprawling, overambitious mess. A handful of songs from this 75-minute affair feature Black Jack Johnson, the rock band Mos set up with some very respected musicians: bassist Doug Wimbish (Sugar Hill house band, Living Colour), drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), and key   [ read more ]

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