Artist.......: Mos Def
Album........: Au In Situ Art Festival (Fort d'Aubervilliers - France)
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rap
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2015-04-15
Str.date.....: 2014-06-01
Quality......: 221kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.facebook.com/MosDef
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1. Au In Situ Art Festival (Fort d'Aubervilliers 18:12
- France)
Runtime 18:12
Size 28.83
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Initially regarded as one of the most promising rappers to emerge in the late
'90s, Mos Def turned to acting in subsequent years as music became a secondary
concern for him. He did release new music from time to time, including albums
such as The New Danger (2004), but his output was erratic and seemingly governed
by whim. Mos Def nonetheless continued to draw attention, especially from
critics and underground rap fans, and his classic breakthrough albums -- Black
Star (1998), a collaboration with Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek; and Black on Both
Sides (1999), his solo debut -- continued to be revered, all the more so as time
marched forward. Mos Def often used his renown for political purposes,
protesting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Jena Six incident in
2007, for instance.
Born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY, Mos Def began
rapping at age nine and began professionally acting at age 14, when he appeared
in a TV movie. After high school, he began acting in a variety of television
roles, most notably appearing in 1994 on a short-lived Bill Cosby series, The
Cosby Mysteries. In 1994 Mos Def formed the rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics with
his younger brother and sister, and signed a recording deal with Payday Records
that didn't amount to much. In 1996 his solo career was launched with a pair of
high-profile guest features on De La Soul's "Big Brother Beat" and Da Bush
Babees' "S.O.S." A year later, in 1997, Mos Def released his debut single,
"Universal Magnetic," on Royalty Records, and it became an underground rap hit.
This led to a recording contract with Rawkus Records, which was just getting off
the ground at the time, and he began working on a full-length album with
like-minded rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek. The resulting album, Black
Star (1998), became one of the most celebrated rap albums of its time. A year
later came Mos Def's solo album, Black on Both Sides, and it inspired further
attention and praise. Yet, aside from appearances on the Rawkus compilation
series Lyricist Lounge and Soundbombing, no follow-up recordings were
forthcoming, as the up-and-coming rapper turned his attention elsewhere, away
from music.
During the early 2000s, Mos Def acted in several films (Monster's Ball,
Bamboozled, Brown Sugar, The Woodsman) and even spent some time on Broadway (the
Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog). He simultaneously worked on the Black
Jack Johnson project with several iconic black musicians: keyboardist Bernie
Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), drummer Will
Calhoun (Living Colour), and bassist Doug Wimbish (the Sugarhill Gang,
Grandmaster Flash, Living Colour). This project aimed to reclaim rock music,
especially the rap-rock hybrid, from such artists as Limp Bizkit frontman Fred
Durst, who Mos Def openly despised. What made Black Jack Johnson so anticipated
though was not so much the supergroup roster of musicians or even Mos Def
himself, but rather the lack of black rock bands. Following the demise of Living
Colour, there were few, if any, that had attained substantial success. Mos Def
hoped to infuse the rock world with his all-black band, and during the early
2000s, he performed several small shows with his band around the New York area.
In October 2004, he finally delivered a second solo album, The New Danger, which
involved Black Jack Johnson on a few tracks.
Two years later, after a few more acting roles -- including the Golden
Globe-winning Lackawanna Blues and the Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made,
both of which were made-for-television movies -- Mos Def released his third solo
album, True Magic (2006). A contract-fulfilling release for Geffen, which had
absorbed Rawkus years prior, the album trickled out in a small run during the
last week of 2006. Bizarrely, the disc came with no artwork and was sold in a
clear plastic case -- though its single, "Undeniable," did manage to grab a
Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. The Ecstatic, released on the
Universal-distributed Downtown label, followed in June 2009; at that point, Mos
Def had significant acting roles in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind (in which he
co-starred with Jack Black) and Cadillac Records (he played Chuck Berry).
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