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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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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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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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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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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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'
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