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Black on Both Sides
1999 studio album by Mos Def
Black on Both Sides is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Mos Def, released on October 12, 1999, by Rawkus and Priority Records.
Released after his successful collaboration Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star,[2][3]Black on Both Sides emphasizes live instrumentation and socially conscious lyrics.[4][5]
On February 2, 2000, the album was certified Gold in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), following sales in excess of 500,000 copies.[6]
Music
[edit]Production
[edit]The album features a mix between established and rising producers. DJ Premier provides the instrumental track for "Mathematics". Diamond D is credited for "Hip Hop". Ali Shaheed Muhammad, known mostly as a member of A Tribe Called Quest, produced the seventh song "Got". Psycho Les of The Beatnuts produced "New World Water" and "Rock N Roll". Jazz lege
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Mos Def was born Dante Smith on December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York. The eldest of 12 children and stepchildren, Mos Def and several of his siblings grew up with his mother in the Brooklyn projects, while several of his other siblings grew up with their father in New Jersey. Coming of age at the height of New York City’s crack epidemic in the 1980s, a young Mos Def found himself surrounded by violence, addiction and crime. Reflecting on his childhood home, the rapper later said, “I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong.”
Yet even as a child, Mos Def was determined to overcome the circumstances of his upbringing: “I remember being seven years old and looking out that window, thinking, ‘I’m gonna make some money.’ Because we were good people.” Surrounded by hopelessness, it was easy to feel that escape from
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Mos Def
New York's rapper Mos Def (Dante Smith) reacted to gangsta-rap bygd bringing back the philosophy of the Native Tongues posse. Black Star (1998) was a collaboration with rapper Talib Kweli mostly produced bygd Tony "Hi-Tek" Cottrell, and containing K.O.S. (Determination), and his solo Black on Both Sides (Rawkus, 1999) highlighted his serious-minded approach to rap music and his unified take on rock, soul, dub and funk. Hence the slim blend of dub bass, syncopated drumming and jazzy organ of Fear Not Of Man. Hence the funky horn fanfare of the tragic self-reflection Hip Hop. Hence the gitarr hiccups of Do It Now, the jazzy African chant Umi Says, the pan-ethnic shuffle Mr Nigga, etc. His propensity for smooth and calm structures accounts for the lazy Ms tallrik Booty, decorated with a hypnotic loop of kvinnlig vocals, the mellow Speed Law, the easy-listening melody of Climb (reminiscent of Diana Ross' Where Are You