No Fear of Time, the second full-length album from the Black Star hip-hop duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli, was released 24 years after their first album.
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The new album, which was created by Madlib, will be released via the podcasting service Luminary on May 3. Together with comedian Dave Chapelle, Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli make a podcast.
In a statement, Talib Kweli stated:
We started discussing about tracks for an album when I was visiting Yasiin in Europe approximately three to four years ago, so I flew an engineer over to investigate. I made it a point to have the engineer available at all times after I realized this was becoming into a thought-provoking argument on its own.
He said, “Play that Madlib tape again,” while we were listening to recordings by Madlib one day in a hotel. He starts rhyming to the beats I’m playing. We performed the first song in this manner.
Black Star issued their debut album in 1998
The group’s debut album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, was released in 1998. The two had initially intended to record their solo albums, but they postponed those endeavors to work with DJ and producer Hi-Tek to make one of the most lauded albums in hip-hop history.
The release day for the album was September 29, 1998. The Black Star Line, a shipping firm founded by pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, is mentioned in the title. The CD examines modern issues, philosophical ideas, and Brooklyn life in New York City.
“We produced this (the second album) in a manner very similar to that of the first.” On the first album, there were, however, no mobile studios. During the recording of this album, we didn’t go into a single studio. All of this has occurred in hotel rooms and backstage at performances by Dave Chappelle.
Rumor has it that the duo’s next album No Fear of Time was teased in 2018 at a Madlib DJ gig in Denver, Colorado. Throughout his set, Yasiin Bey showcased brand-new tracks by Talib Kweli, Madlib, and himself.
“New Black Star featuring Talib Kweli, Yasiin, and Madlib is coming soon!” All the time, Madlib. Black Star, 2018. Madlib Madlib’s “Black Star” is used.
Details about their accomplishments
The duo’s debut album was ranked as the second-best album of 1998 in The Pazz & Jop, an annual survey of American critics conducted by The Village Voice. Robert Christgau, the man behind The Poll, wrote the following about Mos Def and Talib Kweli:
“(The duo) conjures up a hip-hop fantasy where hater players lose their girls-not-b*****s to MCs who are so uninterested in them that they give them right back. The biggest draw is the rhymes. You’ll go back to the subculture that values these words the most, though.
According to Colin Larkin of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the album is also said to have abandoned the animosity of Gangsta Rap and adopted an inquisitive examination of black culture.
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