 | Black Star [Read More ...]
Description: Even in hip-hop--a genre famous for auspicious debuts--Black Star, the first album from the team of Mos Def and Talib Kweli, stands out. It's not just because these guys know their history (an update of Slick Rick's classic "Children's Story," a fine jack of BDP's "The P Is Free"... |
 | Reflection Eternal/Train of Thought [Read More ...]
Description: Talib Kweli is probably the only MC who could do justice to "For Women," Nina Simone's righteous, ragged battle cry, and he does so with his cover on Reflection Eternal. That cut illustrates this album's timeless quality, its personal poeticism, and its strength. Kweli's lyric... |
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Review: Mos Def and Talib Kweli Save Hip Hop:On this year's best hip hop album,Mos Def and Talib Kweli come together with DJ Hi-Tec to form New York City's Black Star. More than just another lame "Let's get jiggy" type of group, Black Star provides an album created to be mentally stimu... |
 | Unlearn [Read More ...]
Description: UNLEARN (un-lurn)v. To return to that which we never had to learn in the first place, e.g. how to eat, sleep, love, smile, play, and listen without judgment; to recognize cultural sublimity over commercial and mass influence. Combining the freshest man-made beats with ingenius h... |
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 | The Magnet: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture [Read More ...]
Review: Surprising hiphop/soul album from Winged Migration compose:Being a new age music reviewer for bn.com, I sometimes received albums from new age labels, but they weren't particularly New Age. One look at this, and I knew it wasn't new age. But gave it a spin anyway. Though hip hop ... |
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Review: Go back to britain:First of all, this first reviewer obviously doesn't realize that she is reviewing a c.d., and not an African American songwriting family tree. This song is worth buying because it is not of the new rap-styles of heavy beats and other strong electronica. Also, y... |
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