Yasiin Bey Gets Raw about the Process behind the Black Star Sequel ‘No Fear of Time,’ and Shares What’s Next for Black Star

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Hip-hop legend and icon Yasiin Bey joins Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh for a second time to talk about the process behind “No Fear Of Time,” including the decision to drop it as a Luminary exclusive, and where the group is going next. In the this interview, Bey also touches on his deep love of fashion and his friendship with the late Virgil Abloh. This episode isn’t solely for fans of Black Star and the artistry of Kweli and Bey. Followers of underground hip-hop, comedy, and fashion will discover some previously unknown gems, too. More Info Listen to the "No Fear of Time" album within "The Midnight Miracle" podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, or on Luminary: https://luminarypodcasts.com/black-star

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. I've gotten this in my DMs for a minute,
0:24.8	so I know that you guys are getting it. Can we just explain once for all why Luminary? Why did you
0:30.1	guys decide to put Blackstar behind specifically Luminary? No, I'll get out of Kuala Lee take that one
0:38.4	further. Well, I get the comments as well. People, I think what Yassine spoke to earlier,
0:47.3	alludes to some of this. People feel entitled. People feel like they are old something. You have a
0:51.6	generation of people who grew up receiving music for free on the internet. And the unfair part about
0:59.2	it is that it's not the fault of the consumer that they have been grown used to receiving music for
1:04.7	free, but the onus is still an artist to try to figure out how to get paid for our music.
1:10.3	And that's something that I wear and I'm okay with that. If you're a Blackstar fan and in the
1:16.0	last 20 years, you bought the Blackstar vinyl or you bought it in iTunes, you paid Universal.
1:22.4	You didn't pay Blackstar. You understand what I'm saying? So people show up and claim to be,
1:29.6	I'm trying to be careful with my words here because I don't want to offend actual fans, right?
1:33.7	But people show up and claim to be fans and they say, well, you know, I bought this album and they
1:38.4	feel like, well, you owe me the language in which they talk about it. Oh, y'all made us wait 24
1:43.7	years. Well, hold on. We didn't make you do anything. You know, me as a fan of Blackstar,
1:49.6	I am grateful for what Blackstar has given me. And so if it took 24 years, I'm fine with that.
1:57.2	I've spoken about this in terms of Miss Hill in terms of Dr. Dre in terms of DeAngelo,
2:05.2	in terms of Shade. I feel like what they've given me, I feel like I still owe them bread for
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