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Welcome to WIKIPEDIA, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,833,195 articles in English Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project, written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. See more at Wikipedia:About... Overview • Editing • Questions • Help Contents • Categories • Featured content  Today's featured article 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...) Recently featured: Bill Newton Munsey's Magazine Saving Private Ryan Search    Portals  General reference  The Arts  Geography  Health and fitness  History  Mathematics  Science  People and self  Philosophy  Religion  Society  Technology  In the news Boeing Starliner launch The Boeing Starliner spacecraft conducts its first crewed flight (launch pictured), carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station. 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