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Next, Twilite Speedball pulls it back to grey cityscapes, all tight angles in dark alleys, boxed in by horns with Mos reeling off narcotics like a dealer looming from the shadows: ''Bad news and good dope! powder, potions, pills, smoke''. Supermagic erupts on a hacked-up sample of psychedelic Turkish songstress Selda Bagcan, tight rhymes spat over wailing guitar lines. The opening run of tracks certainly sounds like an MC out to cover a lot of ground. Three years later, though, and The Ecstatic catches the former Black Star MC back on top of his game, lining up beats from Madlib, Oh No and J Dilla and tackling them with a new confidence, scope and narrative thrust. It's been three years since Mos Def's last album, True Magic, and that wasn't anything to crow about - a tossed-off botch of a record that screamed of contract-filler, suggesting Brooklyn rapper Dante Terrell Smith was enjoying his new life as Hollywood character actor so much that time spent back on the mic felt like time wasted. You wholeheartedly support customers as satisfactory. It is approximately 7-14days on delivery date. I will ship by EMS or SAL items in stock in Japan.
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