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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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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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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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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
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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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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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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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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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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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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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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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