Yasiin locked in my all time top 10 rap artists tbh

Twilite Speedball one of the most chaotic Neptunes beats ever
I was saying yesterday it could’ve easily fit on Seeing Sounds but nah the aggression is waayyy different. Fits perfectly on the ecstatic

The empire has all the gold and the guns
but when all is said and done there's only one

Beat is insane mane

Yeah he's not a rapper he's a f***ing artist

If I had to choose a favorite hiphop album this is probably it

realness intensifies

Incidentally this just got bolded on rym it seems

hopefully newcomers will listen to it as a result

the instrumentals on this are just too crazy

as someone who grew up with bollywood movies constantly playing in the house stuff like Wahid, Embassy and Auditorium hits so deep in my psyche, only a few things scratch the same itch as this

also this cover has no business being this dope

Nah if I make a collage out of existing pictures it’s stealing? My interpretation of fair use would include sampling. Kanye is a different story and he was also sampling an active artist I believe who should’ve been easy to reach out to and he is rich so there’s not much excuse.

But sample clearance is a label issue anyway so you’re off there too. It’s not on the artist to personally do that, they used to have people at labels whose whole job was basically to clear samples. It’s not on Mos. It’s on whoever released it. Not to snitch but it Madvillainy is still going strong Idk why the Ecstatic can’t, must be one big sample that someone was mad about. F*** em though frankly, the misuse of the laws in the early 90s was partly obvious greed but likely had a racial undertone of trying to undermine hip hop.

Charles Burnett still

Anyone got the link to this? I’ve never listened tbh @Sir_Swagalot

imma pm you g

follow me back so i can do it

History is the best track off this

The remix is crazy too

done

sent

That DJ Preservation tape is something else man

that one's even harder to find than the album

it's on bandcamp for free

djpreservation.bandcamp.com/album/mos-def-the-recstatic

Slick Rick blew me away on this. Can’t believe it was 2009. Good job on contextualising the album OP. This is how you do an appreciation thread. I’m lazy as s*** with mine lol