No Fear Of Time
by Black Star
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No Fear Of Time is ranked 2nd best out of 2 albums by Black Star on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Star is Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star which is ranked number 1214 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,433.
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No Fear Of Time track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/27/2025 19:01 | mostlymor | 6,972 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2024 18:08 |  Tamthebam | 23,222 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/26/2024 05:21 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 11/06/2023 19:14 | zomg101 | 2,227 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2023 15:14 | migl | 1,499 | 73/100 |
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swagnadalf 06/22/2022 10:21 | #286586
Mos Def is holding this janky-ass thing together but only just. I love Madlib's production on everything else of his I've heard but this just feels lifeless and flat. Kweli's still out here over packing bars to the point he's falling behind the beat all the time. Like, you can write but you can't edit!
It could never have hit my highest hopes and I was prepared for that but man, this was a big disappointment.
Arthurknight 06/06/2022 12:53 | #286033
Okay some people have tried to make a case that the production being shocking on this album is a deliberate creative decision, and granted that it was recorded in hotel rooms and to some extent that might be the case, I don't care it just sucks. I actually hate the production on this even more than I hate the sheer inaccessibility of the album – worse still, it means that it's not worth the effort to sign up to Luminary for this. The vocal mixing is highly variable: on some songs it's alright, on others it's terrible. Weirdly, on Frequency w Black Thought, you get a bit of both: Kweli is mixed terribly (he sounds entirely out of the song in a very unpleasant way) while Mos Def is recorded quite nicely. Across the album, Madlib basically phones it in. It didn't need to be this way, Madlib produced Bandana on an ipad and that sounds great. I think here he just didn't care – or at least that's what comes across. There's ONE good song here, the closer and title track. It's fun, insightful and offers a kind of late-career introspection that pays off nicely for what is a 24-year comeback and the first Mos Def project in like a decade. It has weight to it (vitally aided by production that doesn't sound like a soundcloud demo), kind of sad since it suggests the duo have the capacity to do a We got it from here...
LebowskiRams 05/03/2022 19:31 | #284918
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