Tagged: Mos Def
Video: Ski Beatz f. Mos Def, "Cream Of The Planet"
No need to have your guard up the next time you pass a guy on the street reciting rhymes to an audience of one—that being himself. While most street mystics don’t rap as good or … read more »
Stream: Mos Def, "Priority" (Acapella) MP3
Mos Def lent his signature I-don’t-need-to-breathe flow on this track he donated to the Raise Hope For Congo Compilation. The track was originally off his 2009 album The Ecstatic but he performs it here, acapella. … read more »
Goapele f. Mos Def, "Different" MP3
Holler “Ay Bay Bay,” at Goapele. For being the fine songstress who could cast a spell with her piercing voice that makes your knees buckle, her next album Milk & Honey can’t give us our … read more »
Video: Gorillaz "Stylo" Live on Jools Holland
If this is what was going on across 110th street then we would officially move uptown. This song is already bonkers with a crazy video but to hear Bobby Womack’s vibratto wail live is just … read more »
Mos Def, “The Tournament” MP3
OMG a newly uncovered outtake from the Black Star album!!!! JK it’s just an outtake from Mos Def’s most recent solo record The Ecstatic, though it certainly would have fit fine as a B-side to … read more »
Gorillaz f. Mos Def & Bobby Womack, "Stylo" MP3
If you can handle this, just try and imagine a song that is part Kool and the Gang “Ladies Night,” part dark electro beats, part Mos Def, part Bobby Womack, and part “did I just … read more »
Mos Def, “Quiet Dog (Sub Swara RMX)” MP3
Bass masters Sub Swara flipped Mos Def’s ’40s boogie vibe with deeply serious synth stabs, a powerful crescendo of bass melody and a cascade of what are probably live drum samples, since the dudes play … read more »
Stream: Gorillaz f. Bobby Womack & Mos Def, “Stylo”
Damon Albarn has a formula for the first tastes of Gorillaz albums: Whether it’s the self-titled debut’s “Clint Eastwood” or Demon Dayz‘s “Dirty Harry”, you can rely on a heavy mid-tempo break, a lofty disembodied … read more »
Video: Mos Def f. Talib Kweli, "History"
These two have quite a bit of “History” together and this song is just a reminder of the majesty that was that Black Star LP. In fact, people probably ask either of them about a … read more »
