Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Album Black Cinema meets Hiphop
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM
The cover of Mos Def's new album...
...is taken from a film, Killer of Sheep, made by the greatest black American director in the history of cinema, Charles Burnett. Killer of Sheep was completed in the mid 70s; in the early 90s, Burnett completed To Sleep With Anger, the greatest of all black American films. Mos Def's album also has a track that features the singer of my moment, Georgia Anne Muldrow. Her art is to raise singing to the condition of wind.
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