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The New Danger [Edited] - CD

Mos Def | SKU: 14039006 | Release Date: 10/12/2004

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Format: CD (1)
Release Date: 10/12/2004
Original Release Date: 2004
Genre: East Coast Rap
Label: Geffen Records (USA)
Studio/Live: Studio
Mono/Stereo: Stereo

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1. Boogie Man Song, The

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2. Freaky Black Greetings

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3. Ghetto Rock

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4. Zimzallabim

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5. Rape Over, The

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6. Blue Black Jack - (featuring Shuggie Otis)

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7. Bedstuy Parade & Funeral March - (featuring Paul Oscher)

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8. Sex, Love & Money

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9. Sunshine

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10. Close Edge

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11. Panties, The
12. War

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13. Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles) - (featuring Minnesota)

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14. Modern Marvel

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15. Life Is Real

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16. Easy Spell, The

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17. Beggar, The

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18. Champion Requiem

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Release Notes

The New Danger [Edited]: Release Notes: Muze
Personnel: Mos Def (rap vocals, piano, drums); Raphael Saadiq (guitar, bass guitar); Shuggie Otis (guitar); Paul Oscher, Minnesota.Producers: Easy Mo Bee; Kanye West; Minnesota; Mos Def; Psycho Les.Mos Def's mind and music both move as swiftly and exhaustively as his career, which has seen the Brooklyn, NY rapper form a rock band (Black Jack Johnson), star in movies, and flirt with Broadway, in addition to releasing a definitive hip-hop album in 1999's critically lauded BLACK ON BOTH SIDES. Nowhere is the far-reaching nature of Def's ever-percolating mind as clearly demonstrated as on 2004's genre-obliterating THE NEW DANGER.While BLACK ON BOTH SIDES certainly played around with many different styles, THE NEW DANGER lays waste to any musical boundaries, shifting from rap to soul to blues to hard rock, as soothing grooves are blasted out of their slumber by the blistering assault of Black Jack Johnson. Mos Def's thoughts are positively overflowing as he plays musical provocateur on "The Rape Over," lifting the Kanye West beat of Jay-Z's "Takeover" for his own pointed attack on the music industry. Def also decries the state of the world on "War," and offers a roots-blues parable of his band's namesake boxer on "Blue Black Jack." In the middle of all this measured chaos lies "Sunshine," a wistful, sweet, and subtly powerful track, and a reminder of Mos Def's narrative-based lyrical prowess, never showy or flowery, but flush with purpose and soul.

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Performer Mos Def
Producer(s) Kayne West; Warryn Campbell

The New Danger [Edited]: MUZE Review
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Rolling Stone (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]arthy, impressively diverse...Broadening the hip-hop palette without sacrificing, or selling out, its core ideals."Rolling Stone (p.150) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "Mos Def has come through with another eccentric, fuming hip-hop album..."Spin (p.113) - "The radio-ready sin jam 'Sex, Love & Money' throbs with fat horn stabs and flute runs, and 'Ghetto Rock' pairs classic boom-bap with needling guitar..." - Grade: BUncut (p.157) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[He] has proved himself to be hip-hop's renaissance man....An experimental and melancholic set."Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]here's no empty rhetoric here, just honest tales of struggle, of tragedy, of lives thrown into fatal tailspins by impossible twists of fate....A bruised and bristling meditation on pain and alienation."

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