![]() Across the album, Bey and Kweli balanced fierce intellect with a perceived sense of duty in their quest to protect hip-hop culture from the Diddy-led shiny suit era. ![]() Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) and Talib Kweli’s 1998 debut Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star tied references to Black popular culture from across eras-the 1997 drama Eve’s Bayou, DJ Clue mixtapes, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s “Black Man’s Cry,” and Toni Morrison novels-to a then-evolving consciousness within hip-hop in general and the streets of Brooklyn in particular. ![]() Black Star have always been preoccupied with the passage of time. ![]()
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