Talib Kweli - Ear Drum
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If there's any criticism to be made of Talib Kweli's fourth full-length set, it's the length—20 tracks crammed to capacity on a single CD, not uncommon in hip-hop but still a stultifying amount of material that does something of an injustice to the best stuff. Much of that is frontloaded, at least, including the trance-y social commentary "My Weather Report," the quick-spitting "Hostile Gospel," the Will.i.am-produced club track "Say Something" and the lushly woven "Country Cousins" with UGK. But there are more killers later on, including the soulful, Pete Rock-helmed "Holy Moly," Norah Jones' smooth cameo on the come-on "Soon a New Day," the socio-economic treatise "More or Less" and the churchy "Oh My Stars"...
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