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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
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Film Actor
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Singer
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Brooklyn
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Yasiin Bey
Dante Terrell Smith
Dante Beze
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Vapors
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Skyline
Shining
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there! Then you get across the street and you're like, Yeah I'm here! And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.
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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going how are you doing?
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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