"This is Once in a Lifetime Like a Hayley 's Comet"

Talk about moving at a snail's pace. I know what you mean, smokeyyy, with the posting habits of this certain individual. But, I need to remind all of you (this means my three readers), that you can't rush perfection. So thanks for the PAT-ience and alls your support of the blog. Now we can move on bigger and better things like: posting on a regular schedule (crowd response: yeah), routinely posting comments on others blogs' (crowd response: yeah), upgrading from Mickey D's to Creepy King Castle's Burgers (crowd response: uh..yeah?), paying your rent on time (crowd response: ok??), and cutting down on Kool-Aid and Sunny D (crowd response: wait what???!! Don't front on the drinks that make any event en-ter-rest-ting.)

ANNNIEWHHOOO, Let's delve into the matter of the moment. I am still suck in the whole mind frame of the late 90's underground rap whole scene yada-yada-yada. I guess yous could call this a continuation of some sorts of the earlier post on the Mighty Mos Def. I was going to start up something else but, I said what the heck let's order Dominio's (Ek-skews-me for the last part, I hit the kool-aid a few times to start John Q up??!!). I know that i will have to soon get into the habit of posting on a daily basis but writing these post takes a lot of planning out. In fact, I just want to take a small detour and give props to Dart Adams of Poisonous Paragraphs, and Max of Hip Hop Isn't Dead, for the write-ups on their blogs.

Now, getting into the subject matter of the day, Jimbrowski, that what is its (Look out for a future post on the "Here we, Here we, Here we go Jungle Brothers.") On the real though, I wanted to discuss the Mighty Mos' equally dope counterpart. That is none other than the essay driven MC: Talib Kweli. Now, unlike the Mighty Mos, Kweli is still known as a dope MC in today's game. When he came out about ten years ago with the whole BlackStar (hint, hint for next post) project about ten years ago, he was a fresh and new MC who seemed to have a lot on his mind (as exhibited in all of the songs he did when he came out). Now I would continue with his story, but let's save that for another time.

Actually let me contradict John Q and say that I will continue a little more with his story (now let's delete the last sentence of the previous paragraph only to type in back in because I will partially continue his story. This means I got y'all with the okie-doke with the okie and dokie and (in Serious voice) GO TO THE NEAREST STORE AND BUY JELLO (that Bill Cosby is on some other man SH..). Talib was also involved in another project when he first came into the rap scene. He was involved in the two man crew of Rapper/DJ with Cincinnati DJ, HI-Tek . This is where the post will lead into main story.

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek formed the group: Reflection Eternal. This group is known for the Dope LP they released in 2000, Train of Thought (be on a look out for post on that), and may be more well known amongst internut heads for the other dope gem they dropped on the masses. Take a good guess as to what it could be. If you guessed "Dis Wack MC's" 12" you are wrong (the gong is gonged, but that seems to be the mission of Kweli and his counterparts. Actually, Reflection Eternal released the "Fortified Live" 12".

The Fortified Live 12'' is an excellent introduction of Talib Kweli to the entire world and, in a way, summarizes entirely who and what he is. On the A-side of this 12" (Look up A-side if you don't know what it means, wait get outta here if you don't know this means) , Kweli tells the world what the haps with himself and the Mighty Mos and Mr. Man (Bush Babees Member) help him round out the cipher on this track. All three of these MC's absolutely kill it on these tracks with memorable quotes from all three. Hi-Tek takes no shorts on production and provides the MC's with a ample arena to (say this in a Kurtis Blow voice) BREAK-SH..-DOWN. On the B-Side of this 12", Kweli takes on solo duties with a intelligent track that discuss the ugly history of African Americans in the USA and how it relates to the African Americans of present time. I love the backdrop for this track for it is real mellow and on some"you can vibe to this sh.." sh.t.

So without further ado, Reflection Eternal's Fortified Live 12", with a little sum-something of course:

Reflection Eternal - 2000 Seasons


The version used in the fan made video is the one of the Soundbombing tape (Go over to Hip Hop Isn't Dead for a good review of Soundbombing vol. I, and for the hell of it, just get that damn tape)

Now, Finally for my (please let someone read this post besides me) readers, here is the Fortified Live 12" (without the clean versions of the two songs):

1		Fortified Live (Dirty Original)
		Featuring - Mos Def , Mr. Man
2		Fortified Live (Hi-Tekstramental)

3		2000 Seasons (Original Version)
4		2000 Seasons (Chill Out Instrumental)

http://www.mediafire.com/?aimmi5mdi1y

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