I’ve been waiting for this moment since 1998! Yassin (Mos Def) & Talib Kweli are finally set to drop a new Black Star album in 2012! This sophomore album is way overdue. I can’t even imagine how this album is going to sound. I would imagine that there will be some Dilla and some Madlib…..perhaps some Preemo (That would be sick!). 2011 isn’t even over and I already know my album of the year for 2012!
Here’s an excerpt for the MTV interview in which Kweli announces this glorious project
“I am working to put out a Black Star project for people to buy sometime next year,” he said. “Me and Mos [Def] are focused on independence and quality of sound. We’re really into a Madlib/Dilla thing right now. Anything you hear from us is probably going to be that type of sound. And it’s about independence, so we are trying to find out the right mediums to get the songs out. When you heard ‘Fix Up’ on Colbert, it wasn’t even mixed; it was something we recorded a week before. Now we’re at the mixing stage of the song and we are going to put that out ourselves. We have a bunch of songs recorded. We are just trying to figure out the best way to release them, whether it’s going to be one by one, EP or album. Right now, the plan is to release ‘Fix Up’ and then Yaasin is working on a Yaasin Bey Presents project and then we’ll see how it goes.”
