Black Star is the duo formed by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Formed in Brooklyn in 1997, their work is deeply rooted in political and social consciousness. The project emerged in the aftermath of the deaths of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, at a time when hip hop culture, still relatively young, was shaken by the void left by the loss of these two iconic figures. Black Star sought to reconcile these tensions on the album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (1998), and after more than two decades without releasing new material, they returned in 2022 with No Fear Of Time, produced by Madlib.
