After 24 years, Black Star has returned with a brand new project. The Hip Hop duo, composed of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, released No Fear of Time on Tuesday.
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The Brooklyn-based group was formed in 1997 and named after Marcus Garvey’s shipping company The Black Star Line. No Fear of Time follows the duo’s 1998 project Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Moreover, the long-awaited album isn't available on streaming platforms. It’s exclusively available on the subscription-only Luminary podcast network. Luckily, for non-Luminary subscribers, Black Star dropped a lyric video for the album’s opening track “o.G.”
Black Star teased their sophomore album a few years ago. Most recently, Kweli discussed the album on theThe Midnight Miracle podcast last year. “About three-four years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe and we started to talk about songs to do on an album," Kweli stated. "...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.”
No Fear of Time is produced entirely by Madlib. Fans can subscribe to Luminary and stream the new album via the Luminary podcast website here.
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