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The Ecstatic

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 9, 2024 by Wehwalt (talk) 15:15, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Mos Def

The Ecstatic is the fourth album by American rapper Mos Def (pictured), released by Downtown Records on June 9, 2009. Singer Georgia Anne Muldrow and rappers Slick Rick and Talib Kweli were guest vocalists. The album has been described by music journalists as a conscious and alternative hip hop record. Mos Def's raps about global politics, love, spirituality, and social conditions are informed by Black internationalism and Pan-Islamic ideas. The album's loosely structured, lightly reverbed songs use unconventional time signatures and samples taken from Afrobeat, soul, Eurodance, jazz, reggae, Latin, and Middle Eastern music. The Ecstatic charted at number nine on the Billboard 200 in its first week of release and eventually sold 168,000 copies. A widespread critical success, The Ecstatic was viewed as a return to form for Mos Def and one of the year's best albums. He performed concerts to support the record in North America, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Thank You (Meghan Trainor album), another music album, will be TFA May 12
• Main editors: Dan56
• Promoted: 13 September 2016
• Reasons for nomination: 15th anniversary of release. TFA blurb from its FAC nomination page.
• Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 19:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
• Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:22, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
• Coordinator comment I am now faced with a competing record album for June 2. I'm not sure I can run both. I will ping Gog the Mild, the only supporter other than the nominator, to see whether they have a preference. I would ask other potential supporters to consider the two as competing.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)