Black Star's First Album in Two Decades Offers a Hopeful Look at the Future of Music

This buck-the-system mentality seems in line with Black Star’s radical ethos. On their remake of Slick Rick’s “Children Story,” Yasiin Bey, FKA Mos Def, took shots at the late-Nineties Bad Boy era’s willful embrace of cookie-cutter materialism. And on the blistering “OG,” off their latest effort, Talib Kweli declares, “YouTube, they feedin’ us through a catheter/I’m ‘bout to call up Yasiin and move to Africa.” It’s like the streaming era’s agitated version of “Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

However, in practice, things aren’t all that different today. Somewhere between the labels and your AirPods, streaming services intercede with “recommendations” of new albums with the expectation that this or that band could be your life. You’ll pay 10 bucks for an app to tell you what your day should sound like, based on the hot new releases you have to drop everything just to absorb.

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