Mos def the ecstatic rar

Crying At Airports Shawn J. Period Remix Feat. Whale 8. Another World Remix Feat. Talib Kweli 9. Shinjiro Jill Scott Smith 'N' Slappy Feat. One Four Love Part 2 Feat. All Praise Due Feat. Rock Rock Y'all Feat. Respiration Dr. Luke Remix Feat. Jill Scott 2. What's That? De La Soul 3. A Tree Never Grown Feat. Make It All Better Feat. Intro Feat. Scritti Politti 7. Moon In Cancer Feat. Travellin' Man 9. Dead Certainty Feat. Big Brother Beat Feat. You Feel Good Remix Feat. Samuel Christian B-Boy Document '99 Feat.

High Drama Part 3 Feat. The Boogie Man Song 2. Freaky Black Greetings 3. Ghetto Rock 4. Zimzallabim 5. The Rape Over 6. Blue Black Jack Feat. Shuggie Otis 7. Paul Oscher 8. Sunshine Close Edge The Panties War Minnesota Modern Marvel Life Is Real The Easy Spell The Beggar Ludacris 03 I Against I ft. Blige 15 Ms. Brixx 17 Ghetto ft. DJ Shadow 20 Foundation ft. Dj Honda 21 Shinjiro ft. World Wide 2. Manifest Destiny 3. Hardcore Nights 4.

Victory 5. Luv It Liv It 6. You Could Run 7. Moon In Cancer 8. Do It 9. My Kung-Fu Flight To Puerto Rico Front Line Like That My Kung-Fu Remix Intro Beef Crosstown Beef Cats Copy It's Nothin' Pump Da Pump Excellence Niggers Know Interlude From Long Time From Da Hood Sugar Double Rubberband Rap Talib Kweli 12 - The Questions feat.

Common 13 - Mos Realest feat. True Magic 2. Undeniable 3. Thug Is A Drug 5. Dollar Day 8. Napoleon Dynamite 9. There Is A Way Sun, Moon, Stars Murder Of A Teenage Life Fake Bonanza Perfect Timing Mos Def Opening Words Freestyle 99 Universal Magnetic Brown Sugar Extra Sweet Remix Another World I've Committed Murder Remix Ft.

Fat Booty Fat Booty 2 Ft. Ghostface Killah Respiration Remix Ft. Breakdown Ft. Travelling Man Remix Body Rock Ft. B-Boy Document Seven Days Remix Ft. Craig David Work It Out Brown Sugar Raw Ft. Definition Ft. Brooklyn Freestyle The Questions Ft. All Praises Due Tinseltown To Boggie Down Remix Stakes Is High Remix Ft.

The Panther Remix Another World feat Talib Kweli A Brighter Day Remix feat. Ronny Jordan The Hard Margin feat. Hurricane feat. Common, The Roots, Dice Raw Body Rock feat. Freestyle feat. Beautiful BlackStar Remix feat. Blige and Talib Kweli Love Rain Head Nod Remix feat. Make It All Better feat. Weldon Irvine World Famous feat. Most Def Remix feat.

Brixx Da Bush Babees Freestyle Brooklyn All Praises Due feat. Respiration Dr Luke Remix feat. Black Star You Feel Good Remix feat.

Wylin Out Kutmasta Kurt Remix feat. Diverse Workin It Out Bullshittin' Jay Dee Remix feat. Grown Men Business feat. Bright As The Stars feat. Six Days Remix feat. DJ Shadow Jayo feat. Jurassic 5 There's Mos's fragmented lyrical style, which loops words within phrases and plays on sound as much as meaning; there are samples comprised largely of keys and strings; there are sung choruses and impromptu scatting. There's the odd club track, too, and a prestigious guest verse, from hip-hop's greatest storyteller Slick Rick.

The feeling that Mos has not really moved on since his heyday he has spent much of the past decade in Hollywood is palpable. Such is the prevailing quality of the production, however - nowhere more apparent than in the Middle Eastern flavours laid on by Madlib - that it doesn't really seem to matter.

O ne of hip-hop's great anomalies, year-old, Brooklyn-born Dante 'Mos Def' Smith is an underachiever in a genre where status remains the chief yardstick. Most rappers overstate their talent, they have to - the rules of engagement dictate that careers can be built on force of will, whether there's also a deeper artistry involved Jay-Z or merely the sound of ringing cash tills P Diddy.

In contrast, Smith's more distinct reputation - as a thoughtful contrarian, a politically minded antidote to the superficial - has somehow survived his own apparent indifference to his talent. He emerged in the late 90s with enormous potential, satisfying both hardcore fans and more sensitive souls who balked at rap's then omnipresent machismo. Frustratingly, he was quickly back under the radar, knocking out half-hearted solo projects that did a disservice to his fearless, multi-faceted solo debut, 's Black on Both Sides.

Then there's the exasperating acting career. That's him. The Ecstatic recaptures the restlessness of old. Whether in terms of the sound, an elastic funk-soul hybrid sprinkled with exotic samples, or the subject matter, which takes in Iraq and the ups and downs of foreign travel, Smith is no longer someone who did his best work a decade ago. The album was recorded during to , and production was handled by J Dilla, Mr.

He's also performed an even greater feat in extracting what might be the last signs of life from a moribund format. The orthodox rap album has been sliding towards irrelevance for much of this decade, a victim of its main practitioners' transformation into the new pop aristocracy. Spilling over with pride and defiance, The Ecstatic is a reminder of more renegade days, being practically a manifesto from someone who recently declared: 'Extended exposure to commercial rap has got to have some kind of negative effect on you' and: 'Reckless capitalism kills black people.

In fact, the title of the best track here, the deranged, handclap-powered 'Quiet Dog Bite Hard' may as well be Smith's motto, even if he has been much too low key for far, far too long.