The whole idea was to capitalize on the mixtape market, to make some money from it. It was Evil Dee for the first, and then it was The Beat Junkies for the next one. So Rawkus picked up on that and decided to do a mixtape. It was Doo Wop and Tony and all that that era. If you was really, really from the hood and into Hip-Hop culture at that point, it was mixtapes. The vinyl thing kids who were outside of Hip-Hop culture at that point.
So for myself to Black Attack, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Company Flow, Sir Menelik, people like that, it was just a scene that gobbled up the vinyl. “Rawkus’ success came from being able to capture the vibe of the Hip-Hop fan that wanted vinyl have access to vinyl. Man and Agallah were also guests on the Rawkus Records release. That mixtape was a crucial introduction for him and Mos Def, and featured some of their earliest collaborations. With Desus Nice and Kid Mero Kweli also addressed this month’s 20th anniversary of Soundbombing, Vol. The brick-and-mortar store was closed during their blossoming entertainment careers. We just became family…that young-Brooklyn-dad-talk.” Ahead of Black Star’s album, in 1997, Kweli and Mos would buy the historic Nkiru Books, located in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. We developed a family bond before we even talked about doing music-before he was even really a fan of mine. So he’d come around the bookstore I’d go over to his crib, he’d come to my crib. But then, our children were born around the same time-and he used to hang out at the bookstore I worked in Nkiru Books. Mos was part of independent Hip-Hop group Medina Green. So he was out really doing his acting thing and coming to the park and rhyming.” He had he was teaching Mos was one of them kids.
Mos was working on a show with ‘Theo’ Malcolm-Jamal Warner of The Cosby Show. Like, we all used to just freestyle for free. Mos used to come around buy people hamburgers because he had a job. Man, Agallah The Don Bishop 8-Off The Assassin. I used to freestyle Washington Square Park with like Supernatural and Mr. Ahead of 4:00, Talib says, “Yasiin Bey was a dude like-he was like hood-famous. Recently, Talib was asked how the two Brooklyn, New Yorkers (who founded Black Star) got to know one another.
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