I'm leaving on a jet plane...

Well, Mos Def didn't leave on a jet plane but if anyone here has heard "The New Danger" then you'd know something left on that plane, most likely his heart. The new music is mostly unlistenable, but I digress.

In 1998 DJ Honda dropped HII and the following year he released Mos Def's song "Travelin' Man" as a single. A lot of people might remember the remix to the song, which got a lot of rotation as college radio began to decline. Anyway, on the CD single there were two versions of the song: the "remix" and the "main" version. Here is where the controversey starts as the "main" is slightly different than the LP version. Most people bought the single for the remix and never gave the other tracks a second thought, myself included. One day when I was 18, after owning the CD for more than two years, my girl and I went for a drive to smoke some weed and I popped the cd in, hoping to cruise to Honda's laid-back production. I went to mouth some of the lyrics along with Mos and I didn't get the words right. It was kinda embarassing. I was high as fuck but I knew that something was different. My girl was laughing at me, but when we got home I pulled out my H2 LP and found out for myself: the two songs were in fact different- different hook and different mix essentially- and I felt an odd combination of vindication (because I was right) and excitement (because I found some rare shit by accident).

Here are all three versions of the song for you guys:

Travelin' Man LP Version-
http://rapidshare.de/files/10842719/Travellin__Man__Featuring_Mos_Def__LP_Version.m4a.html

Travelin' Man "Main" Version-
http://rapidshare.de/files/10843131/Travellin__Man__Main_Version_.m4a.html

Travelin' Man Remix-
http://rapidshare.de/files/10842950/Travellin__Man_Remix.m4a.html