mos-def-talib-kweli-history-video-2Words by Landon A.

“Me and my people got history,
These rappers dumb it down considerably,
We “Get it Poppin’” like a hit chorus,
The flow is historic, they can’t get rid of us,
You pick with us, and we lay the law like Leviticus,
Ten years ago we made history so they missing us…”

It’s been a little over a decade since Mos and Kweli released their collaborative masterpiece. When Blackstar entered the atmosphere, I was a 10 year old pint-sized Hip-Hop head listening to whatever cassettes my older sister would jam in her Ford Escort. I can’t say I remember much from that year partially due to my age as well as the amount of brain cells I’ve killed from 9th grade to the present, but I certainly felt the impact these two had on the game once I revisited the record some years later as an older head.

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Fortunately for us, history is said to repeat itself. And if that’s the triple truth Ruth then maybe we can expect to see a new Blackstar album on the horizon (fingers crossed). In the meantime, the Blackstar aligns for a couple minutes as Mighty Mos drops the visual for “History” – shot by frequent Mos collaborators Coodie & Chike – off of his Grammy-nominated The Ecstatic. While watching, we’re all reminded why these two work so good together as they take rookie emcees to class over a donut provided by the late J Dilla.