Stretching Your Wings is not a crime!

Three long years can wait for a new album of Talib Kweli be excruciating. In the nice gentleman from Brooklyn but we have to do it with a poet who just consider each step, may be limited to nothing and prefer experimenting a little longer to be primarily with yourself pure. "Blacksmith" is not available in history, and Talib had unfortunately also previously really never get the attention from the very top, which actually should charge him. What is the reason is very simple: The man does not like dictatorship, they would constrain him and take him, what makes him so strong, that "look beyond the box" the and get involved in things that he himself does not know where they lead him. "Gutter Rainbows" also appeared on "Javotti Media", and so it seemed to make sense at the end, to publish the new plant on the label. I've always had great respect for his kind of "art" because Kweli is someone who travels a lot, other cultures trying to understand is on the cutting edge and also politically engaged. He talks a lot with people who processed their stories and to share his own knowledge and his opinions very open with his audience!

At fifteen tracks he takes us through a jungle, the streaky could not be. While listening to you does not all the first run on, it always hide any messages in the thicket, now and then scratching and pinching it, in the end, it is bright, friendly and fascinating. Well, he has packed a lot of features on it, but the quality really does this not detract. In some songs he gerarbeitet before "Gutter Rainbows", was crafted and polished by, inter alia, "Oh No" (4 tracks), Harry Fraud, RZA, Terrace Martin and J.Cole. The paths lead again querbeet in all directions, Kweli manages as to its predecessors, especially, to think the listener to move. Think think, gain insights .... exactly should be music, and it is with him! Like a chameleon, he turns and very safe adapts styles and thereby dips into the wide range of topics. Whether it be the chill PUSH THRU with Kendrick Lamar and Curren $ y, despite carrying a leisurely beats a very special dynamic in itself, or even the electric and synth bomb UPPER ECHELON, where he was on the development in the rap business upset and poisoned arrows against the music industry and Fake Images effort - it will always stick something!

Talib Kweli can be damned aggressive! This I feel on Rocketships where he rummages alongside Busta Rhymes by a dirty and dull sounding soundscape of RZA to spit with Bussa Buss-together venom. Then again, this 360 degree turn to pour out his heart on a minimalistic sounding FAVELA LOVE with the once homeless Brazilian singer Seu Jorge and express his dreams. HamsterWheel example. has a typical NYC Sound as well as NAS installs him every now and then = Trumpets & soul and funk, to a lot of feeling, a great story and a lot of wisdom pressed as a framework through microphone, gorgeous! One can not really pack much or explain in words, you have to internalize the songs easily and understand the texts you should definitely 80% weights, otherwise nothing works here. With IT ONLY GETS BETTER album finds a harmonious and beautiful conclusion, Marsha Ambrosius wears her heart on her sleeve and you have to really notice that one of the greatest poets of Brooklyn with this work has increased again. Long gone from the mainstream has become the man who genre across many other rappers for years a big step ahead again much dared ventured much - and gained much!

I would recommend this album, and do not want to compare with predecessors, the album, it impresses with its own quality and their own sound. So an album can only be created and implemented, if you musically completely opens and the rest, the happening around you and perhaps the airplay dominates, simply ignored. Talib Kweli may think I even appreciate very well and arrange. He knows his place, and just like him. Props also. For creative artwork and the 18-page booklet with all lyrics To forgive FIVE STARS is often not so easy, but I find no dropouts and for me it's really even his best album so far! And now I finish the Rezi with my favorite track, good epilogue also: HOLD IT NOW !!!