While touring with him as his DJ, Preservation began to develop remixes of the album’s songs, which he later released on the remix album The REcstatic in 2013. He embarked on an international tour to support the record, performing concerts in North America, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom between September and April 2010. The Ecstatic ( ) Mos Def 2009 Explicit Play on TIDAL Share 1 Supermagic Explicit Mos Def 2 Twilight Speedball Explicit Mos Def 3 Auditorium (Feat. A widespread critical success, The Ecstatic was viewed as a return to form for Mos Def and one of the year’s best albums. Its sales benefited from its presence on Internet blogs and the release of a T-shirt illustrating the record’s packaging alongside a label printed with a code redeemable for a free download of the album. Released on June 9, 2009, The Ecstatic charted at number nine on the Billboard 200 and eventually sold 168,000 copies. Mos Def titled The Ecstatic after one of his favorite novels-the 2002 Victor LaValle book of the same name-believing its titular phrase evoked his singular creative vision for the album. Its loosely structured, lightly reverbed songs used unconventional time signatures and samples taken from a variety of international musical styles, including Afrobeat, soul, Eurodance, jazz, reggae, Latin, and Middle Eastern music. Hope you guys enjoy it ( Mos Def Slick Rick Ecstatic Real Rap Freestyle Off the dome Crazy Flow Unsigned Talent Genius Mitchell T. I even spit a surprisingly dope verse off the top of my head on the second half of the song. Mos Def’s raps about global politics, love, spirituality, and social conditions were informed by the zeitgeist of the late 2000s, Black internationalism, and Pan-Islamic ideas, as he incorporated a number of Islamic references throughout the album. Discover new favorite songs every day from the ever-growing list of Mos Def ’s songs. Me rapping over hands down one of my favorite beats of all time. The Ecstatic was described by music journalists as a conscious and alternative Hip Hop record with an eccentric, internationalist quality. For its front cover, a still from Charles Burnett’s 1978 film Killer of Sheep was reproduced in red tint. Mos' last two albums were both very good, and enjoyable. This release actually lived up to the hype (a rarity in Hip Hop generally) I had personally as well as the industry hype, which will take a while to realize fully. Singer Georgia Anne Muldrow, formerly of the record label, was one of the album’s few guest vocalists, along with rappers Slick Rick and Talib Kweli. The Ecstatic is exactly what I hoped for, and expected from Mos Def incredible. Flash, Oh No, and Madlib, the latter two of whom re-used instrumentals they had produced on Stones Throw Records. He worked with producers such as Preservation, Mr. After venturing further away from Hip Hop with an acting career and two poorly received albums, Mos Def signed with Downtown Records and recorded The Ecstatic primarily at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. The Ecstatic is the fourth studio album by Mos Def. But far more importantly, it also offers a thrillingly accessible demonstration of hip-hop's limitless creative possibilities to those whose experience of the medium stretches no farther than the occasional random episode of Run's House.Mos Def’s fourth studio album. With musical borrowings that range from Banda Black Rio to Selda Bagcan and Fela Kuti to Mary Wells, The Ecstatic is undoubtedly a crate-digger's wet dream. And Slick Rick's immortal guest verses contain more compressed humanity than is to be found in the entire oeuvre of Mos Def's TV tormentor, Christopher Hitchens. The Ecstatic Mos Def 2009 8.0 Best New Music By Nate Patrin Genre: Rap Label: Downtown Reviewed: JRapper's first solo album in almost three years is a small-globe statement that. Mos Def's unhappy recent appearance on US talk show host Bill Maher's Real Time may have given YouTube viewers cause to doubt his political perspicacity, but his analytical skills are beyond reproach on this album. with Noam Chomsky on remix duties, Pretty Dancer proclaims the survival of the phattest ("Too busy surviving to argue about Darwin, darlin'") and History's emotional reunion with Talib Kweli will have people whose lives were changed by Rawkus's first Soundbombing compilation crying into their port and lemon. The irresistible Quiet Dog is Beyoncé's Single Ladies. But just as his co-headlining appearance with Jack Black in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind and a sequence of Emmy, Tony, Obie and Golden Globe nomination-winning acting performances seemed to signal the end of his career's MC phase, The Ecstatic blasts it into another dimension. Like many of the golden generation of New York rappers whose rise was tied up with the New York independent label Rawkus, Mos Def seemed to lose his way somewhat after switching to a major.
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