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That page looks kinda old... I recently picked up the new Mos Def album, The New Danger, and was gonna start a thread about it but I suppose this one could do. It's an odd mix: as far as I can tell some of it is actually Black Jack Johnson material, some of it is straight-up hip hop, and some of it is an attempt to fuse the two (which I guess, yeah, you could call rap-rock, although I always think that's misleading and the good stuff should just be called "hip hop that uses guitars as it has always done"). Oh, and there's a couple of standard "Mos croons over jazzy beats for the jazz cafe ladies" tracks, too. Trying to work out which tracks count as Black Jack Johnson tracks is a little confusing, largely because he says "Black Jack Johnson!" at some point during every other track.
To be honest the best stuff by far is the pure hip hop stuff - no surprise there. 'Sex, Love & Money', 'Sunshine', 'Grown Man Business', the bonus UK track 'The Jump Off' featuring Ludacris, 'Zimzallabim'... It's not up there with Black On Both Sides, but it's worth checking out. |
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