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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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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 went from selling crack to smoking it
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
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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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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
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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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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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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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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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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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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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