WE’VE BEEN WAITING on a second Black Star album since the Clinton administration. The fact that No Fear of Time now exists is incredible. The mission for the first album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (1998), was to generate buzz for the duo who made it. It introduced Yasiin Bey (then known as Mos Def) and Talib Kweli as young philosophers and budding radicals. Luring you in with prodigious mic skills, the pair sent you away with homework, referencing seminal books, films, albums, and thinkers that listeners could track down in their free time. The two Brooklyn rappers hoped it would build a foundation for their future solo releases, but something else happened: Every time they linked up after that, fans of their collaboration thirsted anew for a sequel.
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