This album is one of those beautiful remix albums that you wish you had thought of. Even though Mos Def's lyrics are not always the most uplifting these tracks backed with reggae songs give the songs a new feeling without losing the original meaning of the lyrics. And although its October I discovered this album in the summertime and this is a PERFECT summer day soundtrack, so try to remember that in a year...I wish I knew where to download the whole album, I'm sure its not hard to find, I just listen to it on youtube but I also know its avaliable on grooveshark. Here are my favorites on it.
History Town- Taken from Shanty Town (great song!) for the beat and History (great song!) for the lyrics these two powerful songs (with a similar message to them) into an amazing laid back but extremely intelligent song.
In My Math- Embarrassingly I don't know the name of the reggae song this is sampled from...but the Mathematics lyrics take on something else with the sample in the back...SO GOOD.
Johnny Too Beef- Johnny Too Bad mixed with What's Beef is obviously amazing. "Beef is not what Jay said to Nas, Beef is when the working class can't find jobs" OHH.
