Black Star Releases ‘No Fear of Time,’ Their First New Album in 24 Years

Black Star has released their first album in 24 years, No Fear of Time. The album is produced by Madlib and can only be listened to on the podcast service Luminary.

The long-awaited comeback from Black Star is here. The duo, consisting of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) released their new album No Fear of Time, their first release in 24 years. The album has released on subscription podcast platform Luminary, also the home of Kweli and Bey’s podcast with Dave Chappelle, The Midnight Miracle.

In a new interview with NPR, Kweli spoke about choosing to release the album on Luminary.

“If you are truly a fan of Black Star, then you will respect the fact that what made sense for us, business-wise, was for us to put it on Luminary and get paid regardless of what happens in the music business,” he said. “If you bought the Black Star album in the last 20 years, you paid Universal Records, which is one of the biggest companies on Earth. You know who you did not pay? You did not pay Black Star, because we didn’t see any of that money.”

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