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Black on Both Sides [PA] by Mos Def

Black on Both Sides [PA] by Mos Def

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Key Information
Artist: Mos Def
Record Label: Rawkus Records
Contributing Artist: Q-Tip
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: East Coast Rap
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Number of Discs: 1
Song List: Disc 1
: 1. Fear Not of Man
2. Hip Hop
3. Love
4. Ms. Fat Booty
5. Speed Law
6. Do It Now (featuring Busta Rhymes)
7. Got
8. Umi Says
9. New World Water
10. Rock N Roll
11. Know That (featuring Talib Kweli)
12. Climb (featuring Vinia Mojica)
13. Brooklyn
14. Habitat
15. Mr. Nigga (featuring Q-Tip)
16. Mathematics
17. May-December
More Information
Details: Personnel includes: Mos Def (rap vocals, keyboards, vibraphone, bass, drums, congas, percussion); Vinia Mojica (vocals); Talib Kweli, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip (rap vocals); Johnny Why (guitar); Weldon Irvine (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards). Producers include: Mos Def, DJ Premier, Diamond, The Beatnuts, 88 Keys. Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Chung King and D & D Studios, New York, New York. Mos Def, one-half of the much loved Brooklyn duo Black Star, breaks out on his own with the most intense solo debut in hip-hop since THE MISEDUCATION OF LAUREN HILL. Like MISEDUCATION, BLACK ON BOTH SIDES stretches the definition of the genre to incorporate all aspects of music of the African Diaspora, from reggae to jazz, to form a new kind of sound. Def sings, Def raps, Def does all that and then some. The wide scope of the album is most evident by the collaborators he chooses to work with, who run the gamut from the underrated mastermind of a Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Mohammad, to the w...
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