The Ecstatic is Mos Def's 2009 album, reissued by Rhymesayers Entertainment. Arriving a decade after his debut Black on Both Sides, it found the artist now known as yasiin bey at his most adventurous, weaving hip-hop together with jazz, soul, and Middle Eastern textures. The production roster reads like a who's who of forward-thinking beatmakers: Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No, Preservation, Mr. Flash, Chad Hugo, and Georgia Anne Muldrow, anchoring restless tracks like Supermagic and Twilite Speedball. Lyrically, bey moves through the personal, political, and philosophical with the incisiveness that has long defined his work.