![]() They HATED this album, and rightfully so: musically, it was all over the place. It was lambasted upon its release, almost on the level of Raekwon’s Immobilarity (still the worst follow-up to a classic album ever). I worked at a record store at the time, and people who bought the CD on Tuesday came back to return it on Wednesday. The New Danger arrived in 2004, a full five years after Black on Both Sides. Before it’s release, Mos Def was still thought of as the smiling, critically acclaimed artist who wrote “Umi Says,” starred in “The Italian Job” and “Brown Sugar,” and owned a bookstore with Talib Kweli. ![]() ![]() I believe in album covers telling you precisely where artists are in their lives at that moment, so when you compare the covers from Mos Def’s breakthrough classic Black on Both Sides to The New Danger, you see a man once open and calm now hidden and confrontational. Zilla Rocca is the illegitimate son of Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
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