The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!

by Saul Williams

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 November 2007
  • Label: FADER Label
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:52
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced almost entirely by Trent Reznor and utilizing Nine Inch Nails outtakes, this fierce, deeply political concept album reimagines David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona. The project flawlessly blends Williams' radical spoken-word poetry and aggressive hip-hop delivery with punishing, mechanical industrial rock production.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conceptual, sampling, progressive, conscious, rap, experimental, spoken-word, industrial

Tracklist

  1. Black History Month (3:15)
  2. Convict Colony (3:26)
  3. Tr(n)igger (3:54)
  4. Sunday Bloody Sunday (4:05)
  5. Break (3:18)
  6. Niggy Tardust (3:35)
  7. DNA (4:09)
  8. WTF! (5:29)
  9. Scared Money (3:48)
  10. Raw (2:51)
  11. Skin Of A Drum (3:57)
  12. No One Ever Does (3:18)
  13. Banged And Blown Through (3:42)
  14. Raised To Be Lowered (5:22)
  15. The Ritual (5:21)
  16. Pedagogue Of Young Gods (3:18)
  17. World On Wheels (1:27)
  18. Can't Hide Love (2:27)
  19. Gunshots By Computer (1:44)
  20. List Of Demands (Reparations) (3:18)

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