When we sing with love, everything around us listens with joy.
I love singing. I'm no pro-level singer but over the past few years I've realized I've become better at it. Being good in singing is one of my dreams.
Troxy, London In the near-decade since his last album, The Ecstatic, the artist formerly known as Mos Def has proved a vaporous figure, scheduling albums that never arrive, relocating to (and then being expelled from) South Africa and, in 2016, announcing his imminent retirement from showbiz. His debut album, 1999's Black on Both Sides, announced a saviour of hip-hop but, following label hassles and other maladies, Yasiin Bey chose a slow fade. Tonight's show does little to clarify the questions that have surrounded the MC in recent years. Is he still retiring? He doesn't say. That long-awaited second Black Star album he recently announced, to the bemusement of bandmate Talib Kweli? It goes unmentioned. Unconcerned with typical promotional duties – indeed, without anything to promote – Bey prefers instead to goof around with jazz maverick Robert Glasper's trio, to live in the moment. “Just be here for this,” he tells the audience, requesting they switch off their phones, before performing a cover of Hotline Bling that locates a haunted loneliness beyond the Drake original. Continue reading...
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