Black On Both Sidescan be best described as a manifesto. Mos Def crams so many concepts and genres into his 70-minute opus, yet the album remains uncluttered and breezy, despite its double-album length. The topics forBlack On Both Sidesare familiar: ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes.com
The beauty of music as a historical source; it serves as raw primary material that reveals to listeners the ethos of a particular group at a particular moment. We all know of the blissful yet frustrated soundtrack that accompanies the Vietnam and ...more
All Music Guide
Mos Def's partnership withTalib Kweliproduced one of the most important hip-hop albums of the late '90s, 1997's brilliantBlack Star. Consciously designed as a return to rap's musical foundations and a manifesto for reclaiming the art form ...more
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