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Has Mos Def's New LP Been Released? Yes And No, Label Says ...

Now you see it, now you don't. At least that's what Geffen Records is hoping will happen with Mos Def's latest album, Tru3 Magic, which was unceremoniously released by the label on December 29...


Although the LP is available for purchase online and at some retail outlets, representatives for Geffen are calling the project a limited-edition "pre-release" rather than a full-scale album release by the rapper — a rare if not unprecedented situation. Responding to whether Tru3 Magic officially came out, a Geffen publicist told MTV News, "It did and it didn't."


According to the label, after the album began leaking online in early December, a decision was made to push the project forward and send it to stores to combat Internet piracy; some copies of the LP were in stores as early as December 19. The oddly timed December 29 official release date — a Friday as opposed to the traditional Tuesday, and during the slow media week between Christmas and New Year's Day — virtually guaranteed that the album would receive little attention. Sources close to Mos Def said the rapper also wanted to move forward with Tru3, which is his last contractual obligation to Geffen under his current deal, according to a label rep.


However, after both parties realized little time would be available to properly promote the LP, Mos and the label came to the joint decision to push the release date back. At the time of the decision, the packaged CD had already been sent off to distributors and shipped to stores. Geffen responded by attempting to recall the album, but once retail outlets receive copies, a recall is difficult: Whether or not to send back the albums is at the discretion of each store.


Now a springtime release, featuring a slightly altered track list and full artwork (the current packaging of Tru3> features only a picture-CD in a blank plastic case), the project will considered a new release for a second time even though it officially charted last week. The LP debuted at #151 on the Billboard albums chart on 11,004 copies sold, according to SoundScan. The single "Undeniable" also received a Grammy nod in the Best Rap Solo Performance category. By adjusting the track list, the album will be eligible to officially debut again later in the year upon its second release, explained a retail representative for Billboard magazine.


So fans who manage to get their hands an early copy of Tru3 Magic, consider yourselves the owners of a collector's item.

Scheint ja sehr wirkungsvoll gewesen zu sein die Aktion bei Platz 151...




Wär' mir ein schwacher Trost...

Anders ist die Sache auch nicht zu verkraften!

Naja, wahrscheinlich hätte Mos Def die CD vielleicht doch mit Cover rausbringen sollen, und so viele Leute wie sich das hier schon gekauft haben...wird bestimmt nicht so rar werden^^

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Nur mal ne Frage: was soll denn "Dollar day" sein? ich mein wieso nimmt er nen Juvenile & UTP Beat her und vergewaltigt ihn dann auch noch so? und das auf nem "album"

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Jop, voll die scheiße eig. 15 Euro umsonst ausgegeben...

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Mos Def Signs New Deal

After releasing his third solo album last year, Mos Def fulfilled his contract with Geffen Records. The Brooklyn emcee was signed to Geffen after Rawkus Records was eventually swallowed up by the major, Mos released both The New Danger and Tru3 Magic with them. The latter of which, came under pretty bizarre circumstances.
Nevertheless, Mos has been a free agent for all of 2007 and has finally inked a new deal with Downtown Recordings. The label is would be best known to most of you as the good folks who released Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere last year.
There is no definitive plans for a new Mos Def album, only talk that he will release it in 2008.

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Mos Def Working On New Album


Freshly signed to Downtown Recordings, rapper Mos Def is in the studio working on a new album.


According to Downtown head Josh Deutsch, Kanye West will produce some tracks on the as-yet-untitled record. Mos Def recently appeared on the track "Drunk and Hot Girls" from West’s new Def Jam album, "Graduation..."



Deutsch tells Billboard.com Downtown has no plans to reissue last year’s "Tru3 Magic," Mos Def’s swan song for Geffen. The set was pushed back numerous times and eventually appeared with no fanfare in late December. It has sold just 86,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Although he didn’t appear in a film in 2007, Mos Def has no less than eight movie roles pending through 2009, including an appearance in the Danny Glover-directed "Toussaint."

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Aha da bin ich mal gespannt..

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die neue mos def "the ecstatic" ist ja soooooo verrückt :love:

eins der dopesten alben dieses jahr, und die beste in mos defs karriere sowieso

produziert von oh no, chad hugo (neptunes), madlib, preservation, mr. flash, georgia anne muldrow, j dilla und mos def.
features von talib kweli und georgia anne muldrow

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Power Music, Electric Revival.

Kann ich nur unterstreichen...wäre bei mir fast völlig untergegangen.
Hab noch recht mitleidsvoll den Play-Button gedrückt,
aber was dann kam hat mich genauso positiv überrascht wie die Wu-Scheibe und U-God...richtig gutes Album.

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Werd's mir wohl auch noch zulegen wenn es ein bisschen billiger wird. Weiß jemand was der Unterscheid zwischen den zwei Versionen hier ist? (US & EU nehm ich mal an?)

2 neue Black Star Tracks:

Black Star - Fix Up (Prod. by Madlib)
http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2011/11 ... -by-madlib



Black Star - You Already Knew (Prod. By Oh No)
http://soundcloud.com/3ddistro/black-st ... -at-218072