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No Fear of Time delivers the fast-paced wordplay and dizzyingly busy production you might have expected from the pairing. Fear doesn’t seem interested in being easily unpacked in the way that its predecessor yearned to teach: Like the podcast, the new record runs short but manages to meander on its way to a neat conclusion. While Kweli tried to find a balance between respect from hip-hop heads and success on the charts, Bey set about befuddling a growing audience: 2004’s The New Danger dabbled in punk and metal with aid from members of Bad Brains and Living Colour. He quickly pivoted, starting a label, Blacksmith Records, and putting out mixtapes like 2006’s Liberation, produced by Madlib.

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Bey made dubious headlines in 2006, when it was revealed that he came up short on child-support payments, and in 2008, when his ex-wife wrote a tell-all detailing an incident of physical abuse and told a newspaper that he refused to sign divorce papers to keep her from marrying anyone else. You aren’t always fully sure what they’re on about, but it’s nice hearing them bounce ideas off each other again.

A curious balance is struck in these new songs where Kweli frets over upsetting current events, and Bey offers the bird’s-eye perspective and a promise that whatever the drama is, it’ll eventually shake out. So Be It” sees the duo throttle it over frenetic production as Kweli gets “lyrical miracle” about politics — “Your whole philosophy is mediocrity / Atrocities committed in the name of owning property monopolies” — while Bey recycles a decade-old verse: “Smarten up, dumbass / This ain’t bum class. 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. As Bey articulated in “Thieves in the Night,” our “synthesized surface conceals the interior America: land of opportunity, mirages, and camouflages.

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In 2018, Philadelphia singer Res, who formed the group Idle Warship with Kweli in 2009, accused the rapper of refusing to release her music for years because she didn’t sleep with him. For once, in front of such greatness, I would not debate too much about technicalities, 1st press 2015 vs 2nds 2016 etc.These are essentially classic David Bowie ballads, laments in which he lets his mask hang just enough for us to see the creases of skin behind it. Fact incorporates a print magazine, exhibition programme, production studio and audiovisual channel. In 2020, he was permanently suspended from Twitter for an acrimonious, weeks-long campaign of posts harassing a Black woman. Both rappers guested on Ye’s The College Dropout; in the Netflix docuseries Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy we learned that Ye really wanted to produce for Black Star.

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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.Rather than trying to outrun those years, as he did in the '80s and '90s, he is now mining them in a resolutely bizarre way that scoffs at greatest-hits tours, nostalgia, and brainless regurgitation.

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Recognisable by "© 2016 ℗ 2015, 2016 ISO Records" on the back cover and Celebrate Records GmbH matrix numbering scheme. Bey and Kweli go verse for verse matching each other’s mood and attack, but some of these tracks feel more like spirited rhyme ciphers than tightly conceived songs. True Magic is remembered as a dud, but it did have “Dolla Day,” a freestyle where Bey criticized the paltry government response to Hurricane Katrina to the tune of the New Orleans rap trio UTP’s 2004 smash, “Nolia Clap. Cats who claiming they hard be mad fags,” Bey snapped on Black Star’s “Re:Definition,” “so I run through ’em like flood water through sandbags.Because as much as Blackstar shakes up our idea of what a David Bowie record can sound like, its blend of jazz, codes, brutality, drama, and alienation is not without precedent in his work. 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. Burns suffered from schizophrenia throughout his life; he once tried to kill himself by jumping out of a mental hospital window and eventually committed suicide by putting himself in front of a train in 1985. Perhaps this helps explain why Bowie has often used jazz and his saxophone not for finger-snapping pep but rather to hint at mystery and unease. MSF Music (ASCAP) administered by Artistshare Music Publishing LLC, Flex Publishing / Sherlock Holmes Music Ltd.