I posted the cover for this joint yesterday along with vide of Mos Def live in Cape Town. Here’s the official single via RCRD LBL. They also got the the story on the joint, which is a follows…
“We’re stoked to premiere the new single and title track this A.M, a song based on a sample of Banda Black Rio’s “Casa Forte” with Mos doing his mile-a-minute word dance on top. The story behind the beat has it that on a recent trip to South America, Mos linked up with well-known Brazilian rapper MV Bill, who gave him a tape with “Casa Forte” on it. Bowled over by the track, when Mos came home, he turned to DJ Preservation and Dante Smith to (barely) cut it up into a beat, forming the instrumental.”
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