After that disc dropped in 1998, Kweli and Mos immediately set about working on their separate projects, with Dante's Black On Both Sides winning the race, hitting store shelves the following year. On their critically acclaimed project Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (named as such because they legally couldn't actually call themselves Black Star), Hi-Tek handled the production on nearly half of the album, including the first single "Definition". Kweli and Hi-Tek's team took a brief hiatus when Talib and Mos Def banded together to create Black Star.
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Man from Da Bush Babees), with "2000 Seasons" as its B-side: both tracks found their way to the first Soundbombing compilation, with each track helping Reflection Eternal gain a cult following, not unlike opening an independent flick in twelve theaters in New York before slowly spreading out to the rest of the country. After signing with the once-mighty Rawkus Records, they quickly rushed out a twelve-inch single, "Fortified Live" (which also featured future Black Star mate Mos Def and Mr.
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Hi-Tek was working with his crew Mood and allowed Kweli to guest on a track: ever since then, they've called themselves Reflection Eternal, even when they're not directly working together. Reflection Eternal is made up of the aforementioned Kweli and his producer friend Hi-Tek, who first met up in Cincinnatti, Ohio. My perception of the man is that he was the obvious weaker half of Black Star, which makes the fact that I have reviewed nearly every one of his partner Mos Def's projects even more apparent now, doesn't it? But I try to have an open mind whenever I write, so I'll attempt to look forward to this revisitation.
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You shouldn't take that last statement as an automatic dismissal of Reflection Eternal's Train Of Thought, though: I'm just not the biggest fan of emcee Talib Kweli. Here's one of those albums that it took me forever to actually find the patience to sit through.