Monday, June 7, 2010

#091 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

Just going through more well respected rappers - I liked his Blackstar stuff with Talib pretty good, lets check his solo stuff.

I have to keep this short. There's a lot to say about credibility, race, intelligence, positivity, etc in hip hop, and I'm tempted to delve into it. But these things are getting too long. For now, suffice to say he has an interesting angle on talking about life as a black man that I found thought provoking. I dig his rapping, and the production's interesting. The styles vary more than almost any rap album I can think of; its a hip hop Mellon Collie. Very much want to revisit 4.5/5

Note: June 30th will be, by my math, the 100th day of this project, so I'm way ahead of my vague album a day pace. Will probably be changing my approach a bit when I get to album 100 though, more to come.

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