Black Star
Biography
Marcus Garvey, founder of the united Negro Improvement Association manifested his ideas by creating the Black Star shipping line, designed to repatriate blacks to Africa. Garvey's political vision not only inspired Mos Def and Talib Kweli's band name, but many of their thematic concerns about the African-American community. Black Star is part of the Native Tongues crew, a collective that contains A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, the Jungle Brothers, the Bush Babies and Common. Def's first break was his showcase on De La Soul's album Stakes Is High on the track "Big Brother Beat." Kweli was...Read more
Discography
Lyrics
- Astronomy (8th Light)
- B Boys Will B Boys
- Brown Skin Lady
- Children's Story
- Definition
- Hater Players
- K.o.s. (determination)
- Re:definition
- Respiration
- Theives In The Night
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