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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. (
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Euchloe penia , commonly known as the eastern greenish black-tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae . It is found in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and northern Iraq. The habitat consists of dry and warm rocky areas. Adults are a bright greenish off-yellow, with a wingspan of 32 to 36 millimetres (1.3 to 1.4 inches). There are two generations per year, with adults on the wing in April and from June to July. The larvae feed on plants of the genus Matthiola . This E. penia butterfly perching on a flower was photographed in Pletvar , North Macedonia.
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