Blackstar

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Bowie’s twist involves some canny gender-bending ("she punched me like a dude"), a robbery, and World War I, but the gist is the same—humans will always resort to a language of savagery when necessary, no matter where or when. Parental Advisory sticker was much smaller on MPO pressing, and matrix numbers on the replacement copy seem identical to the original pressing.

David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar) (2016, Clear, 180g, Vinyl) - Discogs

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Last spring, Bey and Kweli joined Chappelle, a longtime friend, for The Midnight Miracle, a podcast that streams only on Luminary, a subscription-based pod network. Every day, somebody asks me where all the real MCs is at,” Kweli announced at the top of “Hater Players.

So Be It” sees the duo throttle it over frenetic production as Kweli gets “lyrical miracle” about politics — “Your whole philosophy is mediocrity / Atrocities committed in the name of owning property monopolies” — while Bey recycles a decade-old verse: “Smarten up, dumbass / This ain’t bum class. Another fan, Matias Hidalgo, told SPIN that the inside gatefold art of the album, which shows a star field on one side and a portrait of Bowie on the other, can be arranged so that Bowie’s image is reflected on the opposite cover. A few pops and crackles from dust that was already on the record before opening the shrink wrap, but still very clean. Or why, when Black Thought arrives on track eight — “Attack thought leaders as Black warriors / Descend into darkness like Black Orpheus / The stars of the story is back, y’all see us” — it feels like one of the only times here that someone carried a single thought from the beginning of a verse to the end.

David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar) (2016, MPO, 180 Gram, Vinyl David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar) (2016, MPO, 180 Gram, Vinyl

Kweli and Bey, born Dante Smith, got to know each other in the early ’90s, freestyling in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park and appearing at the same local spoken-word events. Sound is ok, even on mentioned Lazarus track, but it is quite noisy, lots of pops during more silent parts. As Bey articulated in “Thieves in the Night,” our “synthesized surface conceals the interior America: land of opportunity, mirages, and camouflages. Cats who claiming they hard be mad fags,” Bey snapped on Black Star’s “Re:Definition,” “so I run through ’em like flood water through sandbags.Fear also sees the duo trying to get back on the same wavelength over a decade after the last time we heard them on a song — time apart where Kweli towed the line for sturdy East Coast hip-hop, while Bey took inspiration from left-of-center voices like MF DOOM, rhyming like a getaway car trying to lose the fuzz, moving with puckish disinterest in being followed.

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There are so many haters about white vinyl sellers, but let's be honest: the album is good, but not so much so that Blackstar sales exceed sales of the penultimate albums. This is 100% a masterpiece: from the concept with death at his elbow, through the elaboration of the message until the final execution with that cutting edge electronic/jazz band: what a sublime legacy to humanity!

Reflecting light off one side of the vinyl at certain angle creates what looks like a star,” SPIN reader Robert Matthews told the magazine, with another claimed that “when you reflect light off of side one you get a bird in flight.