Mos Def is so, so, so, so, so much better than this. So. Much.
His skills as an MC are in plain sight on Black Star. Black on Both Sides is almost as highly regarded as that colab with Kweli but i'll admit i've never listened to the whole album. the tracks i've heard from it, however, are incredible. for my money, Mos is one of the top two or three most elite MCs in the biz. his flow, his pacing, the timbre of his voice, everything about the way he delivers a line is impeccable. and i'm willing to write off new danger as an experiment gone wrong. it happens. the boldness and creativity shown on that album are impressive and due some respect regardless of the fact that they didn't make for very enjoyable songs. when a man is two out of three and his only mis-step is a result of having too much ambition, you still expect good things from him.
and then
out of nowhere
you get true magic
what is this piece of crap?
honestly
i'm seriously asking
will someone who worked on this album please email me and tell me what went wrong?
i don't believe for a second that an MC as talented and as real as Mos Def would listen to these beats and say "damn that makes me feel something." these are some of the most tired, overused, recycled tracks i've ever heard. you're Mos Def for christ's sake and you drop an album full of pop beats from 2003? you've got to be kidding me. you're one of the men that proved, all the way back in the 90s, that rap was real music, and this album sounds like it was produced and mixed by a 19 year old pharell wannabe on a goddamn laptop.
if Mos Def can make an album like this
maybe hip-hop really is dead
His skills as an MC are in plain sight on Black Star. Black on Both Sides is almost as highly regarded as that colab with Kweli but i'll admit i've never listened to the whole album. the tracks i've heard from it, however, are incredible. for my money, Mos is one of the top two or three most elite MCs in the biz. his flow, his pacing, the timbre of his voice, everything about the way he delivers a line is impeccable. and i'm willing to write off new danger as an experiment gone wrong. it happens. the boldness and creativity shown on that album are impressive and due some respect regardless of the fact that they didn't make for very enjoyable songs. when a man is two out of three and his only mis-step is a result of having too much ambition, you still expect good things from him.
and then
out of nowhere
you get true magic
what is this piece of crap?
honestly
i'm seriously asking
will someone who worked on this album please email me and tell me what went wrong?
i don't believe for a second that an MC as talented and as real as Mos Def would listen to these beats and say "damn that makes me feel something." these are some of the most tired, overused, recycled tracks i've ever heard. you're Mos Def for christ's sake and you drop an album full of pop beats from 2003? you've got to be kidding me. you're one of the men that proved, all the way back in the 90s, that rap was real music, and this album sounds like it was produced and mixed by a 19 year old pharell wannabe on a goddamn laptop.
if Mos Def can make an album like this
maybe hip-hop really is dead