It’s not a super-defined narrative, its just raw… from a sincere place. SR: What are the main issues that you wanted to approach with this album? Ego aside, it’s just like, “Wow, that just happened.” It just happened to me, and it will happen to the world. I’m really proud of the song and feel blessed to have the opportunity to be the screen for that vibration, for that pass through on the world.
And I let it be what it is and it’s fine.
For instance, Jay, Black Thought, and Dave were down to be on the track, but I had to push them. I wanted to get other people on it, but everything in the universeâ?and I don’t want to sound esotericâ?has been pushing it to be my song. I wanted to get Jay Electronica, Black Thought, and Dave from De la Soul, but they were telling me that “Casa Forte” was a difficult cut to rhyme to. MD: Georgia Anne Muldrow, from Los Angeles. SR: Who are the collaborations on the album? SR: Are you playing a lot of the instruments on the album? Also, I looped that rhythm part, like the three times at the beginning. MD: I play the piano and the keys at the end. SR: But is this just you rapping over the straight song? And I chose “Casa Bey” because that’s a family name, but this is after the recording of the song. “Casa Forte” was too close to the original. MOS DEF: The original was called “Casa Forte,” which means “strong house.” And I wanted to call it “Casa Forte” because I wanted it to be as close to the original as possible, but the band, the dudes wanted me to come up with my own shit. Mos Def inspired Spank Rock since since he first heard him on De La Soul’s “Big Brother Beat,” and, says Spank Rock, “His unconditional love for music and community resonates with me to this day.” As they both are putting out new material second album, the seasoned artist’s words could not have come at a better time. After watching the video, he was sat down with Spank Rock, who’s currently finishing his second album with Downtown. His voice, which you might also recognize from his acting in Talledega Nights or Monster’s Ball, filled Downtown Records’ SOHO office as his team watched the first edit of his new video for the album’s single “Casa Bey.” “Casa Bey” samples “Casa Forte,” a 1977 song by Brazilian funk band Banda Black Rio.
The Ecstatic is the appropriately titled, fourth solo album from one of Brooklyn’s finest MCs to ever release a song called “Bin Laden”: Mos Def.
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