{"id":512947,"date":"2026-06-22T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:38:08","slug":"yasiin-bey-reissuing-mos-defs-the-ecstatic-on-vinyl-and-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512947\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasiin Bey Reissuing Mos Def\u2019s The Ecstatic on Vinyl and Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yasiin Bey<\/a>, the artist formerly known as Mos Def<\/a>, is bringing The Ecstatic<\/a> back into print and, via Qobuz, back online. Originally released on Downtown Records in 2009, a decade on from Black on Both Sides, the album was hailed as a return to form\u2014and featured all-star production from the likes of Madlib, Oh No, and the late J Dilla\u2014but disappeared from official internet channels in the streaming era. The physical reissues are set for August 14 and include a 2xLP that comes with a 120-page hardcover book and a 7″ of bonus tracks \u201cThe Size\u201d and \u201cThe Tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reissue introduces Bey\u2019s new partnership with the Minneapolis independent label Rhymesayers Entertainment<\/a>. The partnership with Qobuz<\/a>, meanwhile, aligns Bey with a streaming platform that touts its high audio fidelity and industry-leading pay-per-stream for artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, is bringing The Ecstatic back into print and, via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,1206],"class_list":["post-512947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}