Music and Lyrics
Music journalist Robert Christgau said that the album's "unresolved" songs segue into one another, which gives it the feel of a mixtape whose music makes up a "world hip-hop" with "poles in Brooklyn and Beirut." Simmy Richman of The Independent categorized it as conscious hip hop with an Eastern-influenced musical backdrop that is reflective of Mos Def's "post-War on Terror" themes.
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