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Consumer Guide: January, 2023

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Consumer Guide: January, 2023

Hip-hop from the desert island our planet has become, chamber folk concerning another island (Haiti), polyrhythms that rock, and 18:36 of irresistibly whispery soprano.

Robert Christgau
Jan 11
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Black Star: No Fear of Time (self-released) A quarter century on, the first follow-up album by the great lost conscious duo of Talib Kweli and Mos Def/Yasiin Bey is also the first hip-hop album or for that matter popular music of any cultural profile to rhyme “cinema nouveau” with “Daniel Defoe”—a Robinson Crusoe reference on an album designed to show u…

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