She spot me like paparazzi shot me a glance This song is great simply because of Mos’ lyrics and impeccable delivery. It’s also one of the rarest, in that it’s a non-cheesy hip hop love song. Despite the horribly unfortunate name of this song, this is one of my favorite hip hop songs ever. Fat Booty, Black on Both Sides (Mos Def).
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There was intelligence and quality oozing out of every song, from “Brown Skin Lady” to “Thieves in the Night.” When I bought the cd for myself there was an insert advertising the then-upcoming Mos Def solo album, and though I’d known of these rappers for less than a year, I’d never found myself looking forward to a hip hop album this much before.ģ. Focusing on a theme of “too much violence in hip hop,” “Definition” and “(Re)Definition” are two of the most musically intense songs on Black Star, as the rest of the album focused on old school hip hop techniques and departures into the jazzy, soulful sounds of acts like The Roots and Common (Common actually had a verse in “Respiration”). Something that immediately showed Black Star's uniqueness was this creative departure-they took “Definition’s” chorus, threw it behind a different beat, and created a brand new song with a completely different feel. (Re)Definition, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Even though Common and The Roots had been around a while by that point, I discovered them because of Black Star. I’ve loved hip hop for a long time (as have hundreds of thousands of white males my age), but until that point, about the furthest-from-mainstream I’d ventured was Aquemini. Those might be the best four hip hop albums of the last decade!)īlack Star was one of my first introductions into underground hip hop. 2: Hard-Knock Life, Outkast’s revelatory Aquemini, and Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star all came out in the last four months of the year. (Seriously, how great was late-1998 for hip hop? Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, Vol. I set a record for how long it took me to completely wear that tape out, then I headed to Slackers in downtown Columbia to buy the whole album. That song was called “Definition,” and it knocked me over. I was making a tape of a friend of mine’s hip hop collection (he owned turntables and lots of vinyl), and he insisted that I record their first single. My first introduction to Black Star (as they are known when they are a duo) came in a Mizzou dorm in ’98. Definition, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. They’ve only made one album together, and they’ve basically worked as solo artists for the last 7-8 years, but I figure it would be pretty fitting to do a Primer on the two of them together.ġ. In the case of hip hop’s two young(ish) Brooklyn valedictorians, Talib Kweli is the overachiever, and Mos Def is the wiz. In most cases, there are two types of valedictorians: 1) the overachiever-the person who works harder than everybody else, takes unbeatable notes, organizes study groups, and does whatever it takes to get ahead and stay ahead in the classroom and 2) the wiz-the person who grasps everything faster than everybody else, has never had to really work hard at their craft, and seems to move on from one idea before fully developing it.
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