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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

Mos Def

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
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Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.
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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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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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