THE OFFICIAL MOS DEF ALBUM POST, THE NEW DANGER Options

[*basick*]

This CD is nothing like anything I ever heard before. It reminds me of a certain Benjamin Andre CD or somewhat like Electric Circus.

Well, I got it today. You can't really describe it. It's rap, jazz, rock and more like all mixed. Lots of rock beats, totally different from Black on Both Sides. I totally respect Mos Def as an artist. It's either love or hate I guess.

I didn't like Andre's album at first but now I find it good (except for My Favorite Things), so you might feel that way with The New Danger.

feel free to chime in. also bay area heads the frontline cd came out too... i didnt get a chance to cop it but you know im gonna get it.

tracklisting
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01 02:23 The Boogie Man Song
02 02:20 Freaky Black Greetings
03 03:53 Ghetto Rock
04 03:41 Zimzallabim
05 01:34 The Rape Over
06 05:47 Blue Black Jack
07 04:32 Bedstuy Parade & Funeral Marc
08 04:10 Sex, Love, And Money
09 04:25 Sunshine
10 03:10 Close Edge
11 04:11 The Panties
12 03:07 War
13 03:24 Grown Man Business
(Fresh Vintage Bottles) Feat. Minnesota
14 09:19 Modern Marvel
15 03:11 Life Is Real
16 05:32 The Easy Spell
17 05:19 The Begger
18 04:53 Champion Requiem
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total playtime: 74:51 mins.

modern marvel - crazy ten minute song

[WTFwasIthinking]

I just think that the beats were too club oriented. I mean, he made this album so that it would be more mainstream, and so that he could sell more, but I don't like the end product. I wasn't expecting another Train of Thought or Blackstar, but I was hoping it would be similar to Quality. And it's not.

you don't have an idea of what you're talkin' about.... he didn't make an album to sell... ARE YOU CRAZY!?!?!?! he was as "REAL", if not more, than on ANY ALBUM HE'S BEEN ON...

Track 1 - Revolution/Going Hard - he's talkin' about kids in Sierra Leone gettin' their arms chopped off while they're mining and fans/critics askin' how he can rappers wear diamonds around their necks knowing/not knowing this....

c'mon... get real... stop listenin' to the beats and listen to the lyrics.... Talib's album is AMAZING...

and the craziest thing is, they took two of the best songs from off the advance... (1) because they couldn't clear a sample (LONELY PEOPLE - ya'll gotta hear this song if you haven't cuz it's one of the greatest songs Talib's ever made and it's just straight AMAZING), and (2) I have no idea but it was called Supreme with Mos Def and that track was CRAZY!!!!

Anyway, the only "club banger" beat was the Neptunes produced one and that song was sick IMO... once again, listen to the lyrics... it had nothing to do with partying/clubbing/girls/anything of that nature....

it was actually a story-line talkin' about a girl who threw her life away. It was definitely better than Quality (though Quality is a near classic) but I think this album is a classic.... that's my opinion but I love EVERY track to the enth degree... I love it as much as Train of thought and Blackstar (two AMAZING albums at that)

back to Broken Glass - read the lyrics... they're deep and DOPE AS F*CK...



[Pharrell] Kweli!!!
[T. Kweli] Yeah! They wasn't expecting this! that's why ya
[Pharrell] Hahaha
[T. Kweli] Gotta hope for the best and play 'em for the worst, c'mon!
[Pharrell] Muhf**kers is history!
[T. Kweli] C'mon!!

[Verse - Talib Kweli]
This the story of - Lucy In The Sky Wit Diamonds
Ask her why she crying, she wanna live, she got no time for dying
Was a science, dreams too big for a small town
She gotta get to New York and watch a door fall down
Hopped off the Greyhound, gotta make her way now
She sleeping on the park benches in the playground
But cash burn quick, don't wanna have to turn trick
Ready to quit 'til she met the super pimp
Flashing his toothy smile that drove little Lucy wild
She quick to hop up on his d*ck straight Hoopie style
She let the fella hit but she sang she sell-a-bit [celebate]
He ain't buying that, she ain't selling it
She looking for love in all of the above
Believing videos, trying to back up all on a thug
Who wanna - put it in her, withdraw like a Citi card
But now she shake that ass for tips at the titty bar

[Chorus - Talib Kweli] (Pharrell)
Broken glass - everywhere! (IT'S LOUDER!!)
Louder - than a bomb shattered in in the air (IT'S LOUDER!!)
Try to hold back your tears baby! (IT'S LOUDER!!)
Wait a second, what happens here baby? (IT'S LOUDER!!)
Broken glass - everywhere! (IT'S LOUDER!!)
Louder - than a bomb shattered in in the air, yeah
(How many of y'all think you can do what we do?!)
Yeah! Wait a second (One! Two! Three! C'mon!)

[Verse - Talib Kweli]
Dreams shattered like broken glass
Press ignore it and your hopes get broken fast
You complain for the life you supposed to have
But when you try to make plans God is known to laugh
Throw a song on the phonograph, and Lucy start wilin
The trick start smiling, watch the loot start flying
The Gucci start pilling up, she live designer plush
Start lining up the coke so she could find a rush
Time's up, she's about to turn 33
Her shit started to sag, she got surgery
Now cats are used to drive past her like a Church van
Acting on thirst, 'She Wants To Move' like a N.E.R.D. fan
Bigger house, 10,000 dollar purse fam
She let you in, she wanted rent by the 1st man
She the ring leader in a clique of birds
And they shadowy, like the silhouette behind the curtain

[Chorus]

[Verse - Talib Kweli]
She was a small city girl with big city dreams
Niggaz try to figure how to get up in them jeans
Put her in them scenes, get her on the team
Hit her wit the cream 'til they figured out the schemes
Now she all up in the club looking for a new love
Really like Huey Lewis looking for a new drug
Cause coke's getting old, started free basing
Graduated to crack, smack on occasion
Not catching the bus, but back at the station
Back and forth pacing, acting all impatient
Last hundred dollars, she got to 'Get By'
Now gotta make a choice, go home or get high
Mommy and daddy miss her, she left for the fame
Now what's left is the dirt that's thrown on her name
She need a ticket home if it's the right course
Instead she bought a ticket to ride the white horse

[Chorus]