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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."
Respiration
Black Star feat. Common - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star - Rawkus - 1998
Body Rock
Mos Def Featuring Q-Tip & Tash - (single) - Rawkus - 1998
Get By
Talib Kweli - Quality - Rawkus - 2002
So Be It
Black Star & Madlib - No Fear of Time - (self released) - 2022 New
Grown Man Business
Mos Def feat. Minnesota - The New Danger - Geffen - 2004
Funny Money
Talib Kweli + Madlib - Liberation - Blacksmith Music - 2007
Yonders
Black Star & Madlib - No Fear of Time - (self released) - 2022 New
Local Time
Yasiin Bey & Ferrari Sheppard - December 99th - A Country Called Earth - 2017
Big Brother Beat
De La Soul feat. Mos Def - Stakes Is High - Tommy Boy - 1996
Astronomy (8th Light)
Black Star feat. Weldon Irvine - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star - Rawkus - 1998
NY Weather Report
Talib Kweli - Eardrum - Blacksmith Music - 2007
You Already Knew
Black Star (Aretha) & Oh No - (single) - Javotti Media - 2011
Ms. Fat Booty
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides - Rawkus - 1999
Definition
Black Star & Hi-Tek - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star - Rawkus - 1998
Soul Rebels
Talib Kweli & Hi Tek - Train Of Thought - Rawkus - 2000
No Fear of Time
Black Star & Madlib - No Fear of Time - (self released) - 2022 New
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