Legendary hip hop duo Black Star is back with a long-awaited follow-up to their 1998′ classic debut ‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star.’ Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) have been working on this record since 2018, alongside Madlib who produced it. The album drops on May 3rd.
About the release, Talib Kweli shared: “About 3-4 years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe and we started to talk about songs to do on an album, so I flew an engineer out just to see what that would be. Once I realized this conversation is starting to organically become a creative conversation, I started making sure to have the engineer around at all times. There was one day we were just in a hotel listening to Madlib beats, and he’s like, “Play that Madlib tape again.” I’m playing the beats and he starts doing rhymes to the beats. And that’s how we did the first song. This is very similar to how we did the first album. But the first album, there were no mobile studios. This entire album, we have not set foot in one recording studio. It’s all been done in hotel rooms and backstage at Dave Chappelle shows.”