After 24 years Black Star is back, but only on the Luminary podcasting platform

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In 1998, the Talib Qweli and Yasiin Bey, based in Brooklyn and Yasiin Bey (always traveling by Mos Def and capitalizing his name) found themselves to record solo albums at the same time. With the support of DJs and producers, Hi-Tek, they put their individual projects pending and created Mos Def and Talib Kweli are a black star, one of the most acclaimed albums by the criticism of the history of Hip-hop.

Now, Qweli and Bey, this time with Madlib on boards, announced the imminent exit from the Sophomore album of Black Star, no fear of time, May 3rd. But for indistinguishable reasons, the first decline of the collective in nearly a quarter of a century is exclusive to the network of bright podcasts.

“About 3-4 years ago, I visited Yasiin in Europe and we started talking about songs to do on an album,” said Kweli in a Friday press release, “so I stolen an engineer just for See what this would be. Once I realized that this conversation begins to organically become a creative conversation, I started to ensure the engineer at all times. There was one day we were just in a hotel. Listening to Madlib beats and it’s like “playing again on this band of Madlib.” I play the beats and begins to rhymes at the rhythms. And that’s how we’ve done the first song. “

Kweli added, “It’s very similar to the way we did the first album. But the first album, there were no mobile studios. This whole album, we did not set foot in a recording studio. All this has been done in the hotel rooms and the corridors of the hotel in Dave Chappelle Shows. “The 9-track album falls on May 3rd. You will need a subscription to the luminaire ($ 3 per month after a 7-day trial) or access to Apple’s podcasts to listen.