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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
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I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
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I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
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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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The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
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When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.
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Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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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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I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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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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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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