The Mighty Mos Def - The Underground Album

Click the cover to cop The Ecstatic, MP3 version available as of today.
This is a gem courtesy of Alex at RubyHornet:
Mos Def is one my true inspirations and to celebrate the release of his new LP, we’re doing different things all week. Today I posted some very vintage Mos Def that I happened upon at Dr. Wax on the southside of Chicago more than a decade ago. It’s definitely something for the Mos Def fan.
Hit the jump for more info + the track list:
Mos Def’s new LP, The Ecstatic, will hit stores on June 9th. I’ll be among the first in line to cop the new CD, as I’ve done with each Mos Def album since he released Black On Both Sides approximately 10 years ago. I don’t know the exact first Mos Def track that I heard, maybe it was The Lyricist Lounge track, “Body Rock”. It could have been on ATCQ’s Love Movement…I’m not sure, and since the internet wasn’t running things back then, learning of a new artist was a little something extra special. I was a Black Star fan, but it was Mos’ Black On Both Sides that flipped a different switch inside me that still has yet to be turned off. Similar in the way that I searched high and low for Beastie Boys records I didn’t have, my daily trips to Dr. Wax always included a stop at the Mos Def section hoping to see something new, rare, or unreleased. One such trip turned up profitable, as I came across The Underground Album, which at the time I thought was some crazy limited release or something in my excitement. Obviously, it’s more of a collection of tracks that someone put together, ran off with their CD burner and took to mom and pop stores as an official bootleg. Anyway, the tracks are still dope, and in honor of the new release we offer up The Mighty Mos Def: The Underground Album featuring songs such as “Universal Magnetic”, “Little Brother”, and “A Soldier’s Dream”. Grab it below and look for more the rest of the week.
1. World Famous (Intro)
2. If You Can Huh You Can Hear
3. From Mos (Interlude)
4. All Praise Due
5. Respiration (remix w/Talib Kweli & Black Thought)
6. High Drama Pt. 3 (remix w/ Mike Zoot, Star Orion, The Jigmastas)
7. Body Rock (w/Tash & Q-Tip)
8. A Soldier’s Dream
9. Universal Magnetic
10. Tinseltown to Boogiedown (Ummah remix w/Lee Majors)
11. Shinjiro
12. The Love Song (remix w/ De La Soul & Da Bush Babees
13. Another World (Ambivalence remix w/Talib Kweli
14. Beautiful (remix w/Talib Kweli and Mary J. Blige
15. If It’s Alright (outro featuring Brixx)
16. Little Brother (w/Talib Kweli)
Download: The Mighty Mos Def - The Underground Album
UPDATE: Yeah, Alex was fucking with you guys [||].
BONUS: Mos Def feat. Talib Kweli - Little Brother
Related: Questlove vs. Jay Dee: The “Little Brother” Beat Story
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
KILLA!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
jumpin roofs like Daewon Song
June 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
has anyone ever seen in print or otherwise, Jay-z speak on Wu-tang, Raekwon specifically. Theres tension there and I’m not sure of the Origns.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
live.gizmodo.com/
^^^
new iPhone
June 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
she had to teach him everything he now knows
^^
Wasn’t she like 17 or 18 when they got together? She teachin niggas shit at 18? Why she know so much already?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
funny high school shit:
my nigga got into an argument in the middle of the commons and she was saying the classic “little dick” this “wack sex” that. Next day he made shorty come back and apologize in front of everyone. She seemed genuinely sincere
^ how did he pull that off? (zilch)
June 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I think it has something to do with the fact that after OB$CL came out a lot of people did the Mafioso thing & Jay was one of them.
I don’t know if that’s what you mean, but I heard there was some tension because Rae felt jay bit his shit. as well as biggie & Nas for that matter.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
my nigga got into an argument in the middle of the commons and she was saying the classic “little dick” this “wack sex” that. Next day he made shorty come back and apologize in front of everyone. She seemed genuinely sincere.
^^
that shit is wack to me, yo. . . bitches stay goin straight to the dick if all else fails. . . and niggas ALWAYS fall for the trap!
even if you got the smallest shmeat on the planet [ll], if you stay cool about it, she just gonna look stupid. . .
June 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
[...] I’m on the NahRight tip, here’s a few more links: -Mighty Mos Def: The Underground Album, a collection of some of his early-ish work -Mos Def on the streets of Osaka kicking acapellas -Mos [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I don’t know if that’s what you mean, but I heard there was some tension because Rae felt jay bit his shit. as well as biggie & Nas for that matter.
^ yea well its common knowledge Jay switched his style up… I’m thinking since Biggie was Jay’s fellow Brooklynite, and Rae wasnt feeling Biggie, then naturally Jay caught some of that. Not sure.
Who was Rae speaking off in that infamous line: Nigs Nigga, all these fake niggas running with the globe n shit.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
cOLD Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
has anyone ever seen in print or otherwise, Jay-z speak on Wu-tang, Raekwon specifically. Theres tension there and I’m not sure of the Origns.
————
maybe cause GZA & Jay battled a long time ago
who won depends on who tells the story
June 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
why hasnt anyone metnioned the fact that this link doesnt work?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
cold
halftimeonline.com/hip-hop-icon-series/gza/
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
perhaps bullets bust niggas discuss mad money true lies and white guys, we can see it through the eyes.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
in the buildings niggas buildings
June 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
no breath > mos def
fuck dat link
June 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
*listens to verbal intercourse*
June 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
That’s why I dont argue with chicks. If i think Im right then Im usually right. Why the fuck do i need to argue? Nothing pisses a chick off more than you not arguing back.
But im also reasonable. If im wrong it wont take me long to realize it… But i’ll still wont argue…i’ll just tell her to do what she feels like she needs to do. If it’s some shit u cant get over then leave me, otherwise accept the apology and pipe down.
90% of the time it’s not serious enough for her to leave.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
# KzA Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
jumpin roofs like Daewon Song
^^^what’s that from?? and when did Daewon Song become a pop culture reference?
June 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
the illest shit how niggas talking over each other in the intro, and its still sounding like marble cake.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
That’s why I dont argue with chicks. If i think Im right then Im usually right. Why the fuck do i need to argue? Nothing pisses a chick off more than you not arguing back.
^^
truuuuuuue.
i’m slowly learning this.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
If it’s some shit u cant get over then leave me, otherwise accept the apology and pipe down.
^this
wise words.
90% of the time it’s not serious enough for her to leave
^ word, if you hang in there after the argument, a few days later you forget what you were arguing about to begin with. It aint that serious. (c) the guy that didnt listen to Illmantic OB4CL, until 2007
June 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
definition of a dime.
bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/pleasurep-kyla-pratt.jpg
June 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
knowledge god > verbal intercousre
“whyz my niggaz always yellin that broke shit? lets get money son, now you wanna smoke shit”
June 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
it wont let me download is on another link
June 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
the Download link is not working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Yo, the link isn’t working
June 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
link doesn’t work
June 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
link doesn’t work
June 8th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
[...] I’m on the NahRight tip, here’s a few more links: -Mighty Mos Def: The Underground Album, a collection of some of his early-ish work -Mos Def on the streets of Osaka kicking acapellas -Mos [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
mediafire is trash
June 8th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
weres track 16????????????????????????????????????????????????????
June 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Not sure why the link didn’t work for a lot of you…I re-upped it here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/611158265866f417/
Mediafire=FAIL
June 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
[...] album. Check for the Download below. Tracklist is after the jump. Download HERE Source Nah Right 1. World Famous (Intro) 2. If You Can Huh You Can Hear 3. From Mos (Interlude) 4. All Praise Due [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
weres track 16?
June 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Where’s TRACK 16 “Little Brother”? That’s the one I’ve been looking forever.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
yes.. i need that little brother track too..it seems like the extra classic dilla shit is hardest to find.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Love this! And the new album is great too!!
June 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Mos Def feat. Talib Kweli - Little Brother
http://www.zshare.net/audio/611886955d3a1b4b/
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:34 am
[...] tape is as good as Blackstar, for real for real. Go dig it out! Oh, sht, it’s so good, I’ll do it for you here. [...]