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Album review: Mos Def - 'The Ecstatic'

Album review: Mos Def - 'The Ecstatic'

Hip-hop nearly man comes good

  • Aug 21, 2009
'Ms. Fatbooty Pt.2'

'Ms. Fatbooty Pt.2'

No big chorus or sample hook, making it a little bland...

  • Nov 21, 2000
Mos Def : London Shepherd's Bush Empire

Mos Def : London Shepherd's Bush Empire

He returns, ready to rock da house - which is exactly what he does...

Mos Def : Ms. Fat Booty vol.1

Mos Def : Ms. Fat Booty vol.1

there's no name-calling sexist pay-off, no insecure macho condemnation of female sexuality, just a wounded narrator bewildered by a post-feminist world.

  • Dec 4, 1999
Mos Def/Talib Kweli: New York Roseland Ballroom

Mos Def/Talib Kweli: New York Roseland Ballroom

This is Mos Def making [i]real[/i] music, showing off a voice that's as good at wailing as it is at busting rhymes...

  • Dec 12, 2000
Black On Both Sides

Black On Both Sides

Despite hip-hop being commercially and creatively stronger than ever, the political content of rap is at an all-time low ...

  • Nov 18, 1999

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