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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Yasiin Bey
Dante Terrell Smith
Dante Beze
Black Dante
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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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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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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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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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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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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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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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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 is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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