You cannot explain why these guys, who have both delivered some of their finest performances over Madlib productions in the past, would waste a minute of this comeback effort on filler bars or meandering verses. Black Star’s No Fear of Time reminds us exactly how many years have passed since their first album, and how appreciable but truly unrepeatable that 1998 energy is now. Recognisable by "© 2016 ℗ 2015, 2016 ISO Records" on the back cover and Celebrate Records GmbH matrix numbering scheme. See also: "Girl Loves Me," which has Bowie yelping in the slang originated by A Clockwork Orange’s ultraviolent droogs. A few pops and crackles from dust that was already on the record before opening the shrink wrap, but still very clean.

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The duo’s progressive, pro-Black politics and fiercely independent spirit appealed to a surprisingly wide spectrum of admirers. Associating with the indie-rap and neo-soul pioneers in the Soulquarians collective yielded space on classics like Common’s Like Water for Chocolate and the Roots’ Things Fall Apart and Phrenology.Another fan, Matias Hidalgo, told SPIN that the inside gatefold art of the album, which shows a star field on one side and a portrait of Bowie on the other, can be arranged so that Bowie’s image is reflected on the opposite cover. Kweli and Bey live far away from each other now: They can’t commiserate over a love of New York City or their contempt for the NYPD the way they used to.

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Also these copies do not have the "✲✲" in the etching that is supposed to differentiate this from the first pressing so,,,,,, I don't think that is correct. As the magazine point out, this could be accidental, but as they admit, “it’s a nice thought to imagine the Starman among the stars. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Misgivings and misdeeds stain the legacies of forward-thinking 20th-century entertainers now that we’re privy to Kweli’s sexism, to Dave Chappelle’s support of TERFs, to everyone’s homophobia. Now, as reported by SPIN, it’s been revealed that the LP casts a reflection revealing an image when angled onto walls or ceilings.

No Fear of Time delivers the fast-paced wordplay and dizzyingly busy production you might have expected from the pairing.

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He quickly pivoted, starting a label, Blacksmith Records, and putting out mixtapes like 2006’s Liberation, produced by Madlib. Hall doing his best impression of Bowie’s corrupted, drunk, and immortal alien from the 1976 art film The Man Who Fell to Earth. You could argue that Madlib beats are bringing something different out of them — that all the heady Hi-Tek, J. Or why, when Black Thought arrives on track eight — “Attack thought leaders as Black warriors / Descend into darkness like Black Orpheus / The stars of the story is back, y’all see us” — it feels like one of the only times here that someone carried a single thought from the beginning of a verse to the end. Sofia Coppola’s film, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, is a wish-fulfillment dream that loses momentum when its subject wakes up.In music it was the height of the jiggy era, smack in the middle of the long trail of singles supporting No Way Out and Harlem World, where Puff and Mase made platinum hits out of healthy samples of existing platinum hits. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. This sparked further examinations of the artwork by fans, one of whom discovered earlier this week that the cover, when exposed to a blacklight, appears to change the design to fluorescent blue. It’s there in his close collaborations with avant-jazz pianist Mike Garson, from 1973’s " Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?

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David Bowie fans have uncovered further secrets in the artwork to his final album Blackstar, after the album sleeve’s designer teased in a BBC 6 Music interview this weekend that the vinyl release contains surprises that had yet to be uncovered. Reflecting light off one side of the vinyl at certain angle creates what looks like a star,” SPIN reader Robert Matthews told the magazine, with another claimed that “when you reflect light off of side one you get a bird in flight.Those collisions come hard and strong throughout the album, unpredictable jazz solos and spirited vocals meeting timeless stories of blunt force and destruction.