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While others asserted themselves in an attempt to set the new direction of hip hop in the late 90s and early 2000s, "Mos Def and Talib Kweli surfaced from the underground to pull the sounds in the opposite direction. Their 13 rhyme fests on this superior, self-titled debut as Black Star show that old-school rap still sounds surprisingly fresh in the sea of overblown vanity productions. There's no slack evident in the tight wordplays of Def and Kweli as they twist and turn through sparse, jazz-rooted rhythms calling out for awareness and freedom of the mind." - Jason Kaufman, Allmusic

Tracklist

A1        Intro
A2        Astronomy (8th Light)
A3        Definitíon
A4        Re:Definition
A5        Children's Story
A6        Brown Skin Lady
B1        B Boys Will B Boys
B2        K.O.S. (Determination)
B3        Hater Players
B4        Yo Yeah
B5        Respiration
B6        Thieves In The Night
B7        Twice Inna Lifetime