Immediately, Black Star broadcasts the bodily launch of their 2022 sophomore album No Worry of Time, accessible on vinyl and CD for the primary time ever, November twenty second by way of Rhymesayers Leisure. Pre-order accessible at blackstarkeepshining.com.
“The preliminary launch of this album in itself was an inventive assertion,” acknowledged Rhymesayers CEO Siddiq Sayers. “To be daring sufficient to deliver this extremely anticipated album to followers in a non-traditional means that facilities the artwork and artist first is strictly what inventive independence is about. That spirit is on the core of what we’ve completed at Rhymesayers for near 30 years, and we’re proud to deliver this album from a gaggle so necessary to the tradition into the world within the bodily type.”
No Worry of Time lastly reunites one of many biggest hip-hop duos of all-time almost 1 / 4 century after their debut. Group members yasiin bey and Talib Kweli, each enormously influential hip hop artists in their very own proper, first joined forces as Black Star to ship their iconic 1998 breakout, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, which shortly turned one in all hip-hop’s most revered works and launched each already-rising stars into the stratosphere.
After years spent nurturing their respective solo careers, the duo returned with the Madlib-produced No Worry of Time in 2022, recorded guerrilla-style across the globe in motels and in dressing rooms at Dave Chappelle’s exhibits over the course of 4 years and launched solely by way of the podcast platform Luminary. Luminary can be the house of The Midnight Miracle podcast, which the duo hosted with Chappelle. An official video was produced for album spotlight “So Be It,” which the duo additionally carried out throughout their SNL debut, in addition to a lyric video for “o.G.”
The album might be accessible on single-LP vinyl, CD, and cassette, together with a restricted deluxe double-LP that features each the primary model and the instrumentals, every pressed on 180-gram vinyl in distinctive shade remedies mixing opaque white and opaque gold with translucent black ice and a metallic star impact. This deluxe vinyl version is proscribed to 2000 models and includes a foil stamped and numbered matte gatefold jacket, two full-color printed document sleeves, an 8-page matte lyric booklet, and an unique silver foil laminated heavyweight insert. Moreover, 300 models of the deluxe vinyl might be accessible as a premium bundle, which is able to embrace every thing within the deluxe 2xLP vinyl package deal, with insert hand-signed by all three artists – yasiin bey, Talib Kweli and Madlib – together with a No Worry of Time t-shirt and a pair of Black Star slipmats.
