Various Artists - Wild Wild West: Music Inspired B.This bit of Mos Def stage banter was my favorite moment of a show I saw a couple years ago.Daisuke Ishiwatari - Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight.Daisuke Ishiwatari - Guilty Gear 2: Overture (Orig.Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (1991).Missing Persons - Rhyme & Reason (2021 Remastered.The Apples In Stereo - Trick Noisemaker (1995) ☠.Various Artists - Music From The Motion Picture So.Various Artists - Supercop (Music From & Inspired.La Etnnia - El Ataque Del Metano (2005 Reissue).Gente Loca - A Buena Vida Mala Paga (2001) ⚓.Kraneo - De La Calle Pa La Calle (2007) ☠.El Emsí Burrón - Burrón Y Cuenta Nueva (2009).
Channel Live - Station Identification (1995).Channel Live - Secret Science Rap (2006).OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994) ☠.The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves (1984).The Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (1989).The Psychedelic Furs - World Outside (1991).Various Artists - Music From The Motion Picture: B.Various Artists - Senseless: Music From The Dimens.Various Artists - Held Up: Original Motion Picture.Compton's Most Wanted - It's a Compton Thang (1990) ☠.Compton's Most Wanted - Straight Checkn 'Em (1991).Compton's Most Wanted - Music To Driveby (1992).Various Artists - Romeo Must Die: The Album (2000).Amorphis - The Beginning of Times (Limited Edition.Amorphis - Circle (Deluxe Edition) (2013).Various Artists - Street Fighter (All New Songs Fr.The Comas - Wave To Make Friends (1999).The Comas - A Def Needle In Tomorrow (2000).Various Artists - A Thin Line Between Love & Hate.Various Artists - Booty Call (The Original Motion.Various Artists - Soul In The Hole (Original Music.The Black Watch - The King of Good Intentions (199.The Black Watch - Very Mary Beth (2003) ☠.Impaled Nazarene - Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz.Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought (2000).Brand Nubian - Everything Is Everything (1994).Brand Nubian - Time's Runnin' Out (2007).Matt Suggs - Golden Days Before They End (2000).The National - Trouble Will Find Me (2013).Nick Wiz - Cellar Sounds Volume Five: 1992-1998 (2.Various Artists - MTV: The Return of The Rock Volu.Hanz Krypt - Tales From The Krypt (2016).Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (2002 Reissue) ⚓.Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job! (2007) ☠.The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003).Amorphis - Far From The Sun (Deluxe Edition) (2003).Amorphis - Eclipse (Limited Edition) (2005).Though there are highlights throughout, two of the most notable tracks are at the very end: "History," where Talib Kweli joins in over a wistful J Dilla beat, and "Casa Bey," where a playful Mos Def somehow keeps up with Banda Black Rio's deliriously frantic samba funk. Flash, the album is a gumbo that adds juicy dub thwacks, regal synthetic horns, tangled piano vamps, dashes of spiritual jazz, and rolling Afro-beat, almost all of which is cloaked in light reverb. Combined with backdrops from Georgia Anne Muldrow, Preservation, the Neptunes' Chad Hugo, and the Ed Banger label's Mr. Altogether, they provide much of the album's dusty off-centeredness even though "Supermagic" has Mos Def at his most energized and alert, its needling psychedelic guitars and sweeping Bollywood drama are transportive. Some of the productions from brothers Madlib and Oh No were pulled from their instrumental releases, including a pair from the India-themed installments of the Beat Konducta series. For those who are deeply into the Stones Throw label, the album won't take quite as long to process. Oscillating between cerebral gibberish and seemingly nonchalant, off-the-cuff boasts, it's obvious that Mos Def is back to enjoying his trade. It was evident that he was not inspired, no doubt prompting a fair portion of his followers to think, "OK, maybe we should have been more specific: please make a good rap album." On The Ecstatic, it's not as if Mos Def makes a full return to the lucid/bug-eyed rhymes heard on decade-old cuts like "Hater Players" and "Hip Hop." Instead, he comes up with a mind-bending, low-key triumph, the kind of magnetic album that takes around a dozen spins to completely unpack. After he released 2006's True Magic, his first all-rap release in seven years - following the back-to-back instant classics Black Star and Black on Both Sides - it was easier to understand why he had been devoting much more time to acting and diversions like The New Danger. During the first several years of the 2000s, it wasn't unreasonable to want Mos Def, one of the most dazzling living MCs, to make a rap album.