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| name = Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star | type = studio | artist = Black Star | cover = MosDef&TalibKweliBlackStar.jpg | alt = | released = September 29, 1998 | recorded = September 1997 – May 1998 | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative hip hop, conscious hip hop | length = 50:11 | label = Rawkus, Priority, EMI, MCA, Universal | producer = Shawn J. Period, Hi-Tek, Ge-ology, 88-Keys, J. Rawls, Da Beatminerz | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Mos Def | type = studio | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star | year = 1998 | next_title = Black on Both Sides | next_year = 1999 }}{{Extra chronology | artist = Talib Kweli | type = studio | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star | year = 1998 | next_title = Train of Thought | next_year = 2000 }}{{Singles | name = | type = studio | single1 = Definition | single1date = May 26, 1998 | single2 = Respiration | single2date = February 23, 1999 }} }}Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (often called simply Black Star[1][2]) is the only studio album by Black Star, a hip hop duo consisting of emcees Talib Kweli and Mos Def (the latter of whom now goes by Yasiin Bey). The album was released on September 29, 1998, to critical acclaim. The title is a reference to the Black Star Line, a shipping line founded by Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. The album deals with modern-day issues, philosophical ideas, and life in Brooklyn, New York City, as the two artists know it.[3] BackgroundThe album's fruition came about from the chemistry between the two emcees. Both planned to release their solo albums around the same time, but they postponed their individual projects and decided instead to collaborate on a full-length LP. The album's cover was designed by artist Brent Rollins.{{cn|date=April 2016}} Music and lyricsThe late jazz musician Weldon Irvine played the keys on the album's opening song, "Astronomy," which interprets the word "black" in a positive way, and contains similes such as "Black, like my baby girl's hair". The next song, and first single, "Definition", is a stern response to hip hop's fascination with death, and a dedication to slain emcees Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.. As the chorus goes, "One two three/Mos Def and Talib Kweli/We came to rock it on to the tip top/Best alliance in hip hop, Y-O/I said, one two three/It's kinda dangerous to be a MC/They shot 2Pac and Biggie/Too much violence in hip hop, Y-O". The chorus is also a play on Boogie Down Productions' anti-gun song "Stop the Violence", as well as "Remix For P Is Free" from their album Criminal Minded. "Children's Story" is a re-imagined version of Slick Rick's original, which features Mos Def cautioning overly materialistic pursuits.{{cn|date=April 2016}} "Brown-Skin Lady" is an affectionate tribute to brown-skinned women. The song encourages black and brown women to be proud of their hair and complexion, and to not be influenced by Western beauty standards. Kweli rhymes, "We're not dealin' with the European standard of beauty tonight/Turn off the TV and put the magazine away/Look in the mirror tell me what you see/I see the evidence of divine presence."{{cn|date=April 2016}} "Thieves in the Night" was inspired by author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye. In the album's liner notes, Kweli explains that the paragraph "struck me as one of the truest critiques of our society, and I read that in high school when I was 15 years old. I think it is especially true in the world of hip hop, because we get blinded by these illusions." The excerpt interpolated in the song is as follows: "And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good but well-behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life." And the version on the track: "Not strong, only aggressive/Not free, we only licensed/Not compassionate, only polite (now who the nicest?)/Not good but well-behaved/Chasin' after death so we could call ourselves brave, still livin' like mental slaves/Hiding like thieves in the night from life/Illusions of oasis making you look twice."{{cn|date=April 2016}} Critical reception{{Album ratings| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}[4] | rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[5] | rev3 = Entertainment Weekly | rev3Score = A−[6] | rev4 = Muzik | rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[7] | rev5 = NME | rev5Score = 8/10[8] | rev6 = Rolling Stone | rev6Score = {{Rating|3|5}}[9] | rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[10] | rev8 = The Source | rev8Score = 3.5/5[11] | rev9 = Spin | rev9Score = 10/10[12] | rev10 = The Village Voice | rev10Score = A−[13] }}Black Star was voted the 24th best album of 1998 in the Pazz & Jop, a poll of American critics nationwide published annually by The Village Voice.[14] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, wrote in a contemporary review that Mos Def and Talib Kweli "devise a hip hop imaginary where hater players lose their girls-not-bitches to MCs so disinterested they give 'em right back. The rhymes are the selling point. But the subculture that cares most about these words is what you'll come back to."[13] According to Encyclopedia of Popular Music writer Colin Larkin, the album abandoned "the negativity of gangsta rap" in favor of "a highly intelligent and searching examination of black culture, harking back to the classic era of rap epitomized by Public Enemy and KRS-One. The album's sparse, hard-hitting rhythms were also in marked comparison to the overblown productions of Puff Daddy, which dominated the rap mainstream."[5] Track listing
Samples
Album singles
Personnel
Chart positionsBillboard Music Charts (North America) – album
Billboard (North America) – singles
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Black Star - Black Star,Mos Def,Talib Kweli {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-star-mw0000043603|website=AllMusic|accessdate=11 February 2017}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Black Star|url=https://www.amazon.de/Black-Star-Mos-Talib-Kweli/dp/B00000IADP|publisher=Pias Recordings (rough trade)|accessdate=11 February 2017|date=1 September 2001}} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Moon|first=Tom|title=1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die|url=http://www.1000recordings.com/music/mos-def-talib-kweli-are-black-star/|publisher=Workman Publishing Company|accessdate=September 26, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite web |last=Kaufman |first=Jason |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/black-star-mw0000043603 |title=Black Star – Black Star / Mos Def / Talib Kweli |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=September 27, 2011}} 5. ^1 {{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=0-85712-595-8}} 6. ^{{cite journal |last=Diehl |first=Matt |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,285374,00.html |title=Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star |journal=Entertainment Weekly |location=New York |date=October 23, 1998 |accessdate=September 27, 2011}} 7. ^{{cite journal |last=McPhail |first=Pete |title=Blackstar: Blackstar (Rawkus) |journal=Muzik |issue=42 |location=London |date=November 1998 |page=83}} 8. ^{{cite journal |last=Crysell |first=Andy |url=http://www.nme.com:80/reviews/reviews/19980919115701reviews.html |title=Blackstar – Blackstar |journal=NME |location=London |date=October 19, 1998 |accessdate=January 17, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817222724/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980919115701reviews.html |archivedate=August 17, 2000 |deadurl=yes |df=mdy-all }} 9. ^{{cite journal |last=Powell |first=Kevin |authorlink=Kevin Powell |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/blackstar/albums/album/162843/review/5943898/black_star |title=Black Star: Black Star |journal=Rolling Stone |location=New York |date=October 7, 1998 |accessdate=April 9, 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401202339/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/blackstar/albums/album/162843/review/5943898/black_star |archivedate=April 1, 2008}} 10. ^{{cite book |chapter=Mos Def |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA562 |accessdate=September 27, 2011 |last=Relic |first=Peter |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |page=562}} 11. ^{{cite journal |title=Black Star: Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star |journal=The Source |issue=110 |location=New York |date=November 1998 |page=198}} 12. ^{{cite journal |last=Aaron |first=Charles |authorlink=Charles Aaron |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGaz0_gZPzIC&pg=PA80 |title=Mos Def |journal=Spin |volume=25 |issue=8 |location=New York |date=August 2009 |accessdate=April 9, 2016 |page=80}} 13. ^1 {{cite news |last=Christgau |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Christgau |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1098-98.php |title=Consumer Guide |newspaper=The Village Voice |location=New York |date=November 3, 1998 |accessdate=September 27, 2011}} 14. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres98.php |title=The 1998 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |newspaper=The Village Voice |location=New York |date=March 2, 1999 |accessdate=September 27, 2011}} External links
8 : Black Star (group) albums|1998 debut albums|Talib Kweli albums|Mos Def albums|Rawkus Records albums|Albums produced by Hi-Tek|Albums produced by 88-Keys|Albums produced by J. Rawls |
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