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Mos Def
The Ecstatic
is the fourth
album
by American rapper
Mos Def
(pictured)
, released by
Downtown Records
on June 9, 2009. Singer
Georgia Anne Muldrow
and rappers
Slick Rick
and
Talib Kweli
were guest vocalists. The album has been described by music journalists as a
conscious
and
alternative hip hop
record. Mos Def's raps about global politics, love, spirituality, and social conditions are informed by Black
internationalism
and
pan-Islamic
ideas. The album's loosely structured, lightly
reverbed
songs use unconventional
time signatures
and
samples
taken from
Afrobeat
,
soul
,
Eurodance
,
jazz
,
reggae
,
Latin
, and
Middle Eastern music
.
The Ecstatic
charted at number nine on the
Billboard
200
in its first week of release and eventually sold 168,000 copies. A widespread critical success,
The Ecstatic
was viewed as a return to form for Mos Def and one of the year's best albums. He performed concerts to support the record in North America, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. (
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