![]() Rolling Stone magazine named it the seventeenth best album of 2009. Released June 09, ‘The Ecstatic’ (his 4th studio album to date) just earned Def a 2010 Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. The Ecstatic Tour is Mos Def’s first ever headline tour of Australia and has been titled in support of his current album of the same name. The Ecstatic Mos Def 2009 8.0 Best New Music By Nate Patrin Genre: Rap Label: Downtown Reviewed: JRapper's first solo album in almost three years is a small-globe statement that. Australian support slots will remain the same but any international supports are TBA.Įveryone at Peace music has been working tirelessly to assure that the tour has been delivered. Unfortunately, despite promoter Peace Music’s best efforts, due to artist scheduling clashes brought about by the Australian date changes, previously announced support slots by Pharoahe Monch and Talib Kweli will not be going ahead. ![]() ![]() Mos did an interview with national broadcaster triple j talking about the upcoming tour earlier this week, you can hear it here: Sun Jan 23rd The Enmore Theatre, SydneyĮnmore Theatre Box Office: Wed Jan 26th The Hi Fi, Brisbane Sun Jan 16th The Palace Theatre, Melbourne Final rescheduled dates have now been confirmed as: The good news is that ‘The Ecstatic Tour’ is going ahead in full. But that's what it is.Due to a few unavoidable reasons ranging from the illness of his DJ to floods in Brisbane, the upcoming Australian tour by Grammy Award-nominated rapper, actor and poet Mos Def has had to have all dates rescheduled. ''Don't call it a comeback,'' chimes Mos Def. ''Ten years ago we made history, they missing us'', raps Kweli. Filename F:EACMos Def - 2009 - The Ecstatic06 - Quiet Dog Bite Hard.wav Peak level 98.8 Track quality 100.0 Test CRC 15304E05 Copy CRC 15304E05 Track not present in AccurateRip database Copy OK Track 7 Filename F:EACMos Def - 2009 - The Ecstatic07 - Life In Marvelous Times.wav Peak level 98. The penultimate History with former Black Star partner Talib Kweli, meanwhile, uses the Dilla beat to good effect, looking back but never lapsing into lazy nostalgia. Lead-off single Life In Marvellous Times sees him trace his days from 5th grade, ''the pre-crack era'', to the present, all to a dramatic electro soundtrack courtesy of Ed Banger associate Mr Flash. This somewhat patchwork approach to audio sourcing, though, hasn't muddied the clarity of Mos Def's narrative. They used to call Mos Def backpack rap, and on The Ecstatic, it's like he's made the term his own, zig-zagging across borders and pulling inspiration from all directions. Dante Mos Def Smith walks the walk and talks the talk literally. But then Auditorium shoots back out East again, a Bollywood-tinged production from Madlib that sees Mos sharing the mic with Slick Rick on a track that weaves a tale of post-occupation conflict in Iraq. Next, Twilite Speedball pulls it back to grey cityscapes, all tight angles in dark alleys, boxed in by horns with Mos reeling off narcotics like a dealer looming from the shadows: ''Bad news and good dope… powder, potions, pills, smoke''. by The New Danger(2004), True Magic (2006) and The Ecstatic (2009). Supermagic erupts on a hacked-up sample of psychedelic Turkish songstress Selda Bagcan, tight rhymes spat over wailing guitar lines. Best known for his music, Mos Def began his hip hop career in 1994, alongside his. The opening run of tracks certainly sounds like an MC out to cover a lot of ground. In this clip from next week's 'People's Party with Talib Kweli,' Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh talk with Yasiin Bey about streaming music. Three years later, though, and The Ecstatic catches the former Black Star MC back on top of his game, lining up beats from Madlib, Oh No and J Dilla and tackling them with a new confidence, scope and narrative thrust. It's been three years since Mos Def's last album, True Magic, and that wasn't anything to crow about – a tossed-off botch of a record that screamed of contract-filler, suggesting Brooklyn rapper Dante Terrell Smith was enjoying his new life as Hollywood character actor so much that time spent back on the mic felt like time wasted. In a recent interview with Vibe, he touched on why the album is no longer streamable: The ownership of that album has come out of.
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