what’s new
A Tribe Called Red with Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Narcy, Black Bear
“R.E.D.,” 8/17/16
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the beat goes on
2,401 posts—and counting.
The voice, too, is a rhythm instrument.
Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def
Live (studio performance), Paris, 3/5/12*
*“Quiet Dog,” “Niggas In Poorest,” “Sunshine/Screwface,” “Forever Alive”
Some folks, seeking communion and transcendence, go to church. Others go hear hip-hop.
Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) & Talib Kweli
Live, Paris, 3/9/12
More? Here. And here. And here. And here. And here.
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lagniappe
reading table
[I]t has been only in the past decade that we appear to have entered an aura-free universe in which all eras coexist at once—a state of possibly permanent atemporality given to us courtesy of the Internet. No particular era now dominates. We live in a post-era era without forms of its own powerful enough to brand the times. The zeitgeist of 2012 is that we have a lot of zeit but not much geist.
—Douglas Coupland, New York Times Book Review (on-line, 3/8/12; print, 3/11/12)
what’s new
Black Star (Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey [formerly known as Mos Def])
TV broadcast (The Colbert Report), 2011
“Fix Up”
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Astronomy (8th Light)”
Vodpod videos no longer available.More? Here.
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lagniappe
reading table
I’m on a crowded ship
and I’ve been served the wrong breakfast.This small mound
of soggy dough
is not what I ordered.“Why don’t you just say
what you mean?”Why don’t I?
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To be awake
is to discriminateamong birdcalls,
fruits, seeds,
“to work one’s way,”
as they say,“through.”
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Apes can mind-read.
Studies showwhat makes us human
is our tendency to point.*****
I am not alone in this
sentence.—Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (2011), misc. fragments
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