Chance Meeting
Friday May 13th, 2022 with Heavy Ben
Yasiin Bey (f.n.a. Mos Def) & Talib Kweli are Black Star

Chance Meeting on Madlib's hard drive of a sequel and a message. Black Star dropped "No Fear of Time" (produced by Madlib), the follow-up to their debut album 24 years later. As a sequel, does The Empire Strike Black? An hour from Black Star, solo productions from Yasiin Bey (the artist formerly known as Mos Def), Talib Kweli, collabs with Common, Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest), Minnesota, Ferrari Sheppard, De La Soul, Oh No, Hi Tek, and a ton from Madlib. In an unconventional move, the album is behind a paywall, available exclusively on the subscription podcast platform Luminary. Alright okay... In a press release, Talib Kweli shared a statement about the new album: "About 3-4 years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe and we started to talk about songs to do on an album, so I flew an engineer out just to see what that would be. Once I realized this conversation is starting to organically become a creative conversation, I started making sure to have the engineer around at all times. There was one day we were just in a hotel listening to Madlib beats, and he’s like, “Play that Madlib tape again.” I’m playing the beats and he starts doing rhymes to the beats. And that’s how we did the first song. This is very similar to how we did the first album. But the first album, there were no mobile studios. This entire album, we have not set foot in one recording studio. It’s all been done in hotel rooms and backstage at Dave Chappelle shows."