Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star - Definition
throwback joint to 1998 before Mos Def was an actor and Talib was irrelevant, great video shot out of/inside of the Flatbush Avenue staple, the dollar van. all the visuals of Flatbush Avenue with none of the maddening traffic/congestion and foul smells. i remember my homegirl sent me the mpfrees of Black Star and Mos Def's Ms. Fat Booty back in like '99 when it took like an hour to send three songs. Ms. Fat Booty was on some other other ish, being a must include for any mixtape given to a chica with even the slightest bubble. but back to the joint at hand, Definition was a straight banger with the pseudo dancehall beat and all the "i-took-courses-in-black-studies-at-college" musings of Mos Def and Talib. It was a nice respite from the jiggy era and the cash money millionaires post industrial rap complex. never quite understood why this genre was regulated strictly to college campuses and coffee shops. for a second we thought mos def was gonna smash the world but thats not how it went down. Kanye is as close as the genre got and only half of his output has this feel to it, so cheers to you conscious rap, you were fun while ya lasted.
