[NEW!!!] Black Star - Fix Up (Live)

This is Jon back on this blogging shit, and for good reason. This is one of those "stop the presses!" moments that only happen so often in music (at least as far as I'm concerned). Black Star dropped their genre defining debut album "Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star" in 1998. After both pursuing successful solo careers, they've always been flirting with the idea of dropping a second album...they're finally doing it!

Anyways, they appeared on The Colbert Report during the week. After explaining Mos Def's name change to Yasiin Bey (kind of like The Beatles changing their name to Gravy Train during their career) and explaining how they release music, they performed. Live. It. Was. Fucking. Beautiful. It felt like something they would release in '99.

After the jump I link you to their interview, an embed of their live performance, and a handy 320 kbs mp3 of their live performance. Best available for awhile, I'm sure. FUCKING DOWNLOAD IT.

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Black Star!

My favorite group will forever be Black Star. It's plain and simple. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be the man I am today. No homo. I'd probably be stuck listening to...Lil' Wayne, Gucci Mayne, etc. Fuck, that sounds horrible. But anyways, their album Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star is in my estimation the essential album that every hip-hop fan needs.

That being said, I'm assuming you all have it. Now while we wait for Black Star 2 (which looks like it's becoming the underground Detox joke), I have their B-Sides and Rarities album. This shit could be an album all by itself, real talk.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro (0:36)
2. Respiration [Remix] Feat Black Thought (5:45)
3. Bright as The Stars (4:33)
4. Another World (4:08)
5. Beautiful [Remix] Feat Mary J Blige (4:42)
6. Get By [Remix] Feat Kanye West, Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes (5:44)
7. What’s Beef? (Live From Chappelle Show) (3:09)
8. Hard Margin (4:28)
9. “Tony Touch” Freestyle (2:57)
10. Little Brother (4:01)
11. Brown Sugar (Raw) (3:44)
12. Talking To You Feat Pharoahe Monch Rah Digga and A-Butta (3:09)
13. Fortified Live Feat Mr. Man (4:53)
14. Make it All Better Feat Q-Tip (4:03)
15. High Drama Feat Zoot and Consequence (3:06)
16. I Get High (3:05)
17. One Four Love Pt. 1 (4:02)
18. 5 Minute Freestyle (4:21)
19. Wake Up Show Freestyle Feat Juice and Thirstin’ Howl III (7:09)

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Black Star - Respiration Remix (featuring Black Thought)


Black Star - Beautiful Remix (featuring Mary J. Blige)



Shit, I should've posted this earlier. A must download.