The not too long ago reunited Black Star had been the musical friends on final evening’s (November 12) episode of Saturday Night Live – watch their efficiency beneath.
The duo of Yasiin Bey (previously often called Mos Def) and Talib Kweli, reunited earlier this yr with a brand new Madlib-produced album referred to as ‘No Fear Of Time’, their first since 1998’s ‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star’.
On SNL, they introduced one of many album’s highlights, ‘So Be It’, to the present, which was hosted by Dave Chapelle.
Of the Black Star reunion, Kweli mentioned this yr: “This is very similar to how we did the first album. But the first album, there were no mobile studios. This entire album, we have not set foot in one recording studio. It’s all been done in hotel rooms and backstage at Dave Chappelle shows.”
Bey added: “What you will continue to get out of us is a sincere expression. It’s who we really are, what we’re really responding to, and what’s really important to us.”
Watch them deliver ‘So Be It’ to SNL beneath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCIJrpcpWdg
At the beginning of final evening’s episode, Chappelle used his opening monologue to handle anti-Semitict remarks made by Kanye West in current weeks.
“I denounce anti-Semitism in all its forms, and I stand with my friends in the Jewish community,” he mentioned. “And that, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time.”
“I’ve probably been doing this 35 years now, and early in my career I learned that there are two words in the English language you should never say together in sequence, and they are: The Jews,’” he continued. “I’ve never heard someone do good after they said that.”
The forty eighth season of Saturday Night Live premiered final month, with Kendrick Lamar performing a trio of songs from newest album ‘Mr. Morales & The Big Steppers’. Willow, Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow and Steve Lacy have since carried out on the present.
As introduced final evening, SZA would be the subsequent musical visitor on the present, showing on December 3 after the present takes a fortnight’s break.