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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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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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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
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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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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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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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I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this?
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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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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day.
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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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