Playlist of Mos Def

Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty Explicit

4:05

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From 1999 Album: Black On Both Sides...(Click show more for artist info)...

Born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY, Mos Def began rapping at age nine and began professionally acting at age 14, when he appeared in a TV movie. After high school, he began acting in a variety of television roles, most notably appearing in 1994 on a short-lived Bill Cosby series, The Cosby Mysteries. In 1994 Mos Def formed the rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics with his younger brother and sister, and signed a recording deal with Payday Records that didn't amount to much. In 1996 his solo career was launched with a pair of high-profile guest features on De La Soul's Big Brother Beat and Da Bush Babees' S.O.S. A year later, in 1997, Mos Def released his debut single, Universal Magnetic, on Royalty Records, and it became an underground rap hit. This led to a recording contract with Rawkus Records, which was just getting off the ground at the time, and he began working on a full-length album with like-minded rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek. The resulting album, Black Star (1998), became one of the most celebrated rap albums of its time. A year later came Mos Def's solo album, Black on Both Sides, and it inspired further attention and praise. Yet, aside from appearances on the Rawkus compilation series Lyricist Lounge and Soundbombing, no follow-up recordings were forthcoming, as the up-and-coming rapper turned his attention elsewhere, away from music.

During the early 2000s, Mos Def acted in several films (Monster's Ball, Bamboozled, Brown Sugar, The Woodsman) and even spent some time on Broadway (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog). He simultaneously worked on the Black Jack Johnson project with several iconic black musicians: keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour), and bassist Doug Wimbish (the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Living Colour). This project aimed to reclaim rock music, especially the rap-rock hybrid, from such artists as Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, who Mos Def openly despised. What made Black Jack Johnson so anticipated though was not so much the supergroup roster of musicians or even Mos Def himself, but rather the lack of black rock bands. Following the demise of Living Colour, there were few, if any, that had attained substantial success. Mos Def hoped to infuse the rock world with his all-black band, and during the early 2000s, he performed several small shows with his band around the New York area. In October 2004, he finally delivered a second solo album, The New Danger, which involved Black Jack Johnson on a few tracks.

Two years later, after a few more acting roles — including the Golden Globe-winning Lackawanna Blues and the Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made, both of which were made-for-television movies — Mos Def released his third solo album, True Magic (2006). A contract-fulfilling release for Geffen, which had absorbed Rawkus years prior, the album trickled out in a small run during the last week of 2006. Bizarrely, the disc came with no artwork and was sold in a clear plastic case — though its single, Undeniable, did manage to grab a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. The Ecstatic, released on the Universal-distributed Downtown label, followed in June 2009; at that point, Mos Def had significant acting roles in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind (in which he co-starred with Jack Black) and Cadillac Records (he played Chuck Berry).

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Mos Def - Auditorium Ft. Slick Rick

4:35

The Ecstatic

Blackstar - Respiration ft. Common

4:40

Mos Def - Im Leaving

5:38

Mos Def Travelling Man Remix Produced By REAP

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Mos Def, Nate Dogg & Pharoah Monch - Oh No

3:39

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From 2000 Album: Lyricist Lounge Vol.2...(Click show more for artist info)...

Lyricist Lounge 2 is the second installment in Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series. The release was one of Rawkus' most commercially successful releases, featuring the hit crossover singles, Oh No and Get Up, the former charting on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its success, Lyricist Lounge 2 drew criticisms from underground fans, mainly due to the album's more commercial sound, and also because of its focus on established artists, unlike the first installment, which largely featured up-and-coming MC's.

The album features appearances from Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Nate Dogg, Q-Tip, Wordsworth, Cocoa Brovaz, Beanie Sigel, Royce Da 5'9, Ghostface Killah, Saukrates, Redman, Talib Kweli, dead prez, Kool G Rap, M.O.P., Big Noyd, Prodigy, Erick Sermon, Sy Scott, Planet Asia, Punchline, Cobra Red, Phil Da Agony, C-Town, Dilated Peoples, Master Fuol, JT Money, Pastor Troy, Macy Gray and Guru, as well as late hip hop legends The Notorious B.I.G. and Big L.

Mos Def- Sunshine

4:32

Mos Def- Sunshine (The New Danger)

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek 'Reflection Eternal'- In This World

Stephen Marley Ft. Mos Def - Hey Baby

5:00

Mos Def - Umi Says

4:15

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From 1999 Album: Black On Both Sides

Born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY, Mos Def began rapping at age nine and began professionally acting at age 14, when he appeared in a TV movie. After high school, he began acting in a variety of television roles, most notably appearing in 1994 on a short-lived Bill Cosby series, The Cosby Mysteries. In 1994 Mos Def formed the rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics with his younger brother and sister, and signed a recording deal with Payday Records that didn't amount to much. In 1996 his solo career was launched with a pair of high-profile guest features on De La Soul's Big Brother Beat and Da Bush Babees' S.O.S. A year later, in 1997, Mos Def released his debut single, Universal Magnetic, on Royalty Records, and it became an underground rap hit. This led to a recording contract with Rawkus Records, which was just getting off the ground at the time, and he began working on a full-length album with like-minded rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek. The resulting album, Black Star (1998), became one of the most celebrated rap albums of its time. A year later came Mos Def's solo album, Black on Both Sides, and it inspired further attention and praise. Yet, aside from appearances on the Rawkus compilation series Lyricist Lounge and Soundbombing, no follow-up recordings were forthcoming, as the up-and-coming rapper turned his attention elsewhere, away from music.

During the early 2000s, Mos Def acted in several films (Monster's Ball, Bamboozled, Brown Sugar, The Woodsman) and even spent some time on Broadway (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog). He simultaneously worked on the Black Jack Johnson project with several iconic black musicians: keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour), and bassist Doug Wimbish (the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Living Colour). This project aimed to reclaim rock music, especially the rap-rock hybrid, from such artists as Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, who Mos Def openly despised. What made Black Jack Johnson so anticipated though was not so much the supergroup roster of musicians or even Mos Def himself, but rather the lack of black rock bands. Following the demise of Living Colour, there were few, if any, that had attained substantial success. Mos Def hoped to infuse the rock world with his all-black band, and during the early 2000s, he performed several small shows with his band around the New York area. In October 2004, he finally delivered a second solo album, The New Danger, which involved Black Jack Johnson on a few tracks.

Two years later, after a few more acting roles — including the Golden Globe-winning Lackawanna Blues and the Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made, both of which were made-for-television movies — Mos Def released his third solo album, True Magic (2006). A contract-fulfilling release for Geffen, which had absorbed Rawkus years prior, the album trickled out in a small run during the last week of 2006. Bizarrely, the disc came with no artwork and was sold in a clear plastic case — though its single, Undeniable, did manage to grab a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. The Ecstatic, released on the Universal-distributed Downtown label, followed in June 2009; at that point, Mos Def had significant acting roles in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind (in which he co-starred with Jack Black) and Cadillac Records (he played Chuck Berry).

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Mos Def - Kalifornia

5:08

Mos Def - Kalifornia
from
The Biker Boyz Soundtrack

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Blackstar - Definition

4:10

Instrumental @2:05
Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star - Twice Inna Lifetime (Track 13)

@3:47
Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star - RE: DEFinition (Track 4)

Eminem Mos Def And Black Thought Freestyle At The Cypher

3:08

Yasiin Bey
Featuring Black Thought & Eminem
Produced by DJ Premier

[Verse 1: Mos Def]
For sinners, saints and scramblers and gamblers
And dirty money handlers, dignitaries and champions, narcotic traffickers
Talented number runners and racketeers
Stars of stage, page and cameras, slang swingers and swaggerers
Double barrels and Derringers, automatics and miracles
Europe Asia and Africa, all the time in America
Atlantic, Ashland, Alblemarle to Albany
Bridge into Baltic, Bedford Ave, Bergen Street
Clinton to Cadman, Church Ave to Clarendon
Road to Central Avenue, Cooper House, Cypress
And live from Bedford-Stuyvesant
The livest high flyingest pilot bombardier from Pyrrhus
Stationed live and direct, Medina mastermind set
Ya can't lock my set now lock off, cool
Peace to the nation of the Gods and the Earths
And the Sun, Moon and Stars, furthermore born knowledge go hard

[Verse 2: Black Thought]
Remix, rising up out of the flames like a phoenix
Straining to carry the weight of my brain like a genius
Knowing I'm sowing seeds
Let's see whose thumb is the greenest
If I said it I mean it
And did it because I need it
Eat sleep it and bleed it
Write it down and then read it
Asphalt to the cement
Your trash talk is deleted
Blastoff, I lay them out like a Tempurpedic
Black Thought, I told you I'ma win eventually
This unsung, underrated, under appreciated
The one them underachievers had underestimated
Finally graduated from something that's so hated
To one of the most sacred, nobody gonna take it
Face it, I keep doing it well
Doing it sans assistance is do it yourself
Doing it below the radar, we doing it stealth
Doing it again for Illadelph and who else
But check it out
Y'all see him on a job, see my eyes focused where the prize be
I'm like Martin Luther King you like Rodney
The difference is I give it everything inside me
Dear Diary, my fans still swear by me
Even though I'm late night now like here's Johnny
Swimming with them great whites now is how to find me
Funny how it break right down but never mind me
I'm forever grimy, guess it's just Philly shining
Rock rolla bi-polar like Phyllis Hyman

[Verse 3: Eminem]
Like a dope fiend opening up a bottle of dopamine
You’re just hoping he don’t get rope for your throat to choke anything
Oh and just think how dope he could be if he smoked anything
Oh, there goes the bell, the sound of the opening ding
I hit you as hard as barbiturates in the ribs with a switch
And stitch you at the same time before you can flinch to it
My dick is so big, if I add another inch to it
You would swear when I raped you that you was actually into it
I'm not a baller but you can bet your fucking bottom dollar
That I remember when I was without a dollar bill in my wallet
Now watch me kill a koala while I maul a chihuahua
Bum a pill off of Paula like let me holler at you, mama
It's like I'm off the bombom when I bring the fucking drama
Used to bomb ya like Saddam but now that I'm a little calmer
I'm a fucking cross between Osama, Dahmer, Obama, and Dalai Lama
Tell Miley I'm a knight in shining armor
Mail a gift to Taylor Swift's trailer a picture
Of my genitalia with a note saying bitch, I can't wait to nail ya
Drug paraphernalia
Beware, the werewolf will kill ya
That's him in the sheep's clothes, he just shaved his hair off, Cecilia

Roy Hargrove Quintet feat. Yasiin Bey Live at Jazz à Vienne 2015 • NOW ON QWEST TV !

1:43

Roy Hargrove Quintet feat. Yasiin Bey (Aka Mos Def) Live at Jazz à Vienne 2015

Full show now on Qwest TV !

Line up:
Roy Hargrove (Trumpet)
Justin Robinson (Alto saxophone)
Sullivan Fortner (Piano)
Amin Saleem (Double bass)
Quincy Phillips (Drums)

Special Guest:
Yasiin Bey Aka Mos Def

Director: Eric Michaud

On this dazzling concert he leads his working band, a finely tuned quintet in which the trumpeter is well supported by alto saxophonist Justin Robinson and a very responsive rhythm section. Deeply influenced by legends such as Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard, Hargrove excels in this classic small group format in which unison lines, solos and glancing exchanges between the horns and pianist Sullivan Fortner take pride of place. As much as the players have a flawless command of punchy, zestful hard bop and soul jazz, they also sound wonderful on mellow numbers, particularly airy, mid-tempo ballads, where Hargrove’s tonal beauty shines through.

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Stephen Marley - Hey Baby feat. Mos Def

4:58

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Mos Def ft. Pharoahe Monch & Nate Dogg - Oh No Video & Lyrics in Description

4:01

Lyrics:
[Mos Def]
Yeah..
One for the treble, two for the bass
Welcome to the great incredible paper chase
Keep your boots laced if you want to keep pace

[Nate Dogg]
Oh No
Niggas ain't scared to hustle
It's been seven days, the same clothes
Ask them originals cause they know
Mos Def, Nate Dogg, and Pharoahe
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

[Mos Def]
Say my name, say my name
Observe how I stake my claim, I independently lay it down
and played my game, my own two raise my flame
Cause dick ridin ain't my thang
I earned what they said I wouldn't
I got it the way they said I couldn't
But now I'm gettin it and they whole grill is crooked
Mad cause I'm gettin caked out from my bookings
When y'all was askin permission I just stepped up and took it
What!? The kid's better buy my rookie card now
Cause after this year the price ain't comin down
And if you got a joint bubblin then get money now
Cause in a minute, there's gonna be some real trouble comin out
Just a warnin, as usual some cats wont heed it
The hard headed always gotta feel it to believe it
It's a shame the jealous gaze is too short to see it
But when they face hit the cement, they nod in agreement
We could play nice and decent, or dirty like the 7-1 Precinct
Call it a day or make it a long evenin
You keep on schemin, man give me some more reason
to have the women in your mama's church screamin Lord Jesus!
Harder than y'all cause I'm smarter than y'all
I know that deep down it's got to be bothering y'all
Pay attention, watch fly gon' get larger than y'all
Put your pride on the rocks, make you swallow it all
The mathematic problem for y'all, it just get harder to solve
Every day that the saga evolve
The do or die stay rumblin and bumblin hard
And when we move, we ain't got no discussion at all
East coast on your neck and you ain't shruggin it off
Try to bullyfoot and end up stumblin off
I'm Daddy Brooklyn, y'all niggaz are the sons of New York
Gettin spanked when there's too much trouble to talk
Respect mine

[Nate Dogg]
Oh No
Look at who they let in the back door
From Long Beach to Brooklyn they know
We rock from the East to West coast
Queens salute to Pharoahe (you know)
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

[Pharoahe Monch]
Very contagious raps should be trapped in cages
Through stages of wackness, Pharoahe's raps are blazin
And it amazes - me how you claim thug
but go two-ways without SkyTel pagers
I'm intellectual, pass more essays/ese's
than motorcade police parades through East L.A.
More beef then deli's, thus what I vent is just
What you lust to vent is irrele'
Huh, hallelujah, Pharoahe Monch'll do ya
Maintain the same frame of mind - screw ya!
Get the picture, sit ya, seat ya, preacher with scriptures
I'm equipped to rip ya, reach ya
Pharoahe and Mos is verbal osmosis
Coast to coast, we boast to be the most explosive here
Ferocious, the lyrical prognosis
The dosage is leavin you mentally unfocused here
MC's just - come on 'round
You're the next contestants on Catch-A-Beat-Down
Don't be hesitant, sound cracks the sediment
It's evident we medicine for your whole town
Sky's the limit, game's infinite when I'm in it
All windows is tinted, how you seein me when I'm in it?
Rap, we got it on lock man, stop that
Put that mic back down, boy, drop that
Pharoahe's flows blows shows like afros
We hate y'all though, that's why Nate Dogg goes:

[Nate Dogg: repeat 2X]
Oh No
Niggas ain't scared to hustle
It's been seven days, the same clothes
Ask them originals cause they know
Mos Def, Nate Dogg, and Pharoahe
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

[Nate Dogg]
Oh No
Look at who they let in the back door
From Long Beach to Brooklyn they know
We rock from the East to West coast
Queens salute to Pharoahe (you know)
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

Mos Def - Brooklyn

5:11

Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11, 1973), better known by his stage name Mos Def, is an American rapper and actor. Mos Def started his rap career as a member of the Native Tongue Posse collective and by guesting on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. He released a well-received album with Talib Kweli as Black Star, and was a major force in the late 1990s underground hip hop explosion spearheaded by Rawkus Records. His name comes from his frequent use of an abbreviated 'mos def' in place of the words most definitely.

Initially recognized for his musical output, Def's screen work since the early 2000s has established him as one of only a handful of rappers who have garnered critical approval for their acting work. Def is also an outspoken critic on social and political issues, and was particularly vocal in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Mos Def - Brown Sugar

3:31

Mos Def - Brown Sugar

Massive Attack feat. Mos Def - I Against I

5:42

I-ya,
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,
my images reflect in the enemies eye,
and his images reflect in mine the same time,

I-ya, I-ya,
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,

Right here is where the end gon' start at,
conflict, contact 'n' combat,
fighters stand where the land is marked at,
settle the dispute about who the livest,
3 word answer,
Whoever survive this,
only one of us can ride forever,
so you and I cant ride together,
can't live or cant die together,
all we can do is collide together,
so I skillfully apply the pressure,
won't stop until I'm forever... one!

A door step where death never come,
spread across time til my time never done,
and I'm never done,
walk tall, why ever run?
when they move if I ever come?
bad man never fret the war, tell'em come
general we have the stock, the mad fire burn

I-ya,
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,
my images reflect in the enemies eye,
and his images reflect in mine the same time,

I-ya, I-ya,
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,
survive (x16)

Reign supreme in your U-N-I,
V-E-R-S-E with the sharpness,
narrow row building no space for partners,
no space for drivers, no space for walkers,
no space regardless,
your on my path then get off it,
hardheaded and unresponsive,
get they lives put on target with harshness,
come with the canons sparkin' they darken,
who am i? one man squadron,
Ma stir the fire this time that'd snatch your tomorrow,
the thousand yard spear that'll pierce through your armor,
you can get it on right now if you want to,
but when ya front 9 get marched through,
I warned you,
You know who forever belong to,

I-ya, I-ya
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,
my images reflect in the enemies eye,
and his images reflect in mine the same time,

I-ya, I-ya,
I against I,
flesh of my flesh,
and mind of my mind,
two of a kind but one won't survive,
my images reflect in the enemies eye,
and his images reflect in mine, survive
survive (x16)

Mos Def - History ft. Talib Kweli

2:27

A Tribe Called Red - R.E.D. Ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear

5:00

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07/19: Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party
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Location: Cape Town, SA
Director: Yassin ' Narcy' Alsalman for the Halluci Nation
Producer: Sol Guy for the Halluci Nation
Writers: Yassin Alsalman, Sol Guy and Ehren Bear Witness Thomas for the Halluci Nation
Talent: Yasiin Bey, Yassin Alsalman, Ferrari Sheppard, Sol Guy, Jason Storey, Akuol
Director of Photography: Walid Kafi
Edited By: Rafe Scoobey-Thai for The Halluci Nation
Drone Operator: Dayne Mallan
Line Producers: Warren Ferreira, Niela Gie, Dayne Mallan
BTS Photography: Mohammed 'Cheb Moha' Hasoon
Style and Fashion by Cheb Moha and Jason Storey for Unknown Union

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Lyrics:
We are the Halluci Nation
Our DNA is of earth and sky

(Yasiin Bey)
True and Living by the G Code
What the fuck is fleek though?
Don't ask them, what do he know?
What I forgot is better than whatever they remember
Nevermind, I'm off it, it's quiet for 'em
Time to put the Temper Tantrums to the quiet cornerHUSH
that's enough said the Ruler, no suckas allowed to break bread or asunder
The Daylight, Lighting and The Thunder
Sun Moon and Stars and the Hunger
Abundance in Bundles
Lessons and Troubles
Towers and Tunnels, Views and Valleys, Waves and Peaks
What's streets you from son? PLANET EARTH
And Ain't scared of no Mars Attacks, What type of bars is that?
Stay off my Jack
Out their corny riot garments, top 5 Dylonin' em
Superfly, slicker Top Rope, Eagle Divin' on em
You Why you lyin' homie? You won't play with my emotions smokey
Big Chief, Heart Rate, Big Beat, B E Y Yasiin, Straight Jacket Come Clean
B.I.G. Said it was a Dream, now its' a living thing,
we true and Living Kings

Ameen and Ameen
Ameen and Ameen
Yasiin and Yassin And The R.E.D.
Ameen and Ameen
Original Nation
Ameen and Ameen
Straight Jacket Come Clean
Yasiin and Yassin And The R.E.D.
Original Nation
True and Living you know we’re True and Living

R.E.D. (A Tribe Called)
R.E.D. (A Tribe Called)
R.E.D. (A Tribe Called)
R.E.D. (A Tribe Called)

(Narcy)
Illuminarcy
Emergency on Planet Earth
The Currency is murder, you a man of worth?
They say The Day is coming,
Drumming that you can't reverse
Watch the Banner Burn,
Before the Cannons Burst!
Don't chase an illusion, the Nation Halluci
Hallelujah! A taste of the future,
The People, The Shower, The Pistol,
The Coward that's racing to shoot ya'
Lonely Martyrs
Magic Carpet Dirty Blankets
Coca-Cola, Soul Controller, Holy Waters.
Middle East Mode, Sandglorious....
Cheat Code in Babylonian, The Orient? (huh)
My superhero got the people power
Yasiin and Yassin, You Should Heed The Hour
(We True and Living Kings)

Ameen and Ameen
Ameen and Ameen
Yasiin and Yassin And The R.E.D.
Ameen and Ameen
Original Nation
Ameen and Ameen
Straight Jacket Come Clean
Yasiin and Yassin And The R.E.D.
Original Nation
True and Living
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Mos Def - Sex, Love & Money

4:11

Mos Def Freestyling

48

This freestyle (among several others) can be found on the documentary 'Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme'.

I recommend anyone to pick it up since it sheds a different light on Hip-Hop culture, different from the mainstream and bling bling garbage that has flooded the industry.

Yasiin Bey On South Africa Travel Issues, US Leadership + Returning To Music/Acting

1:1:47

Yasiin Bey Talks opens up on the Mayweather/McGregor fight, South Africa Travel Issues, his thoughts on Colin Kaepernick's stance, tearing down of the US monuments, the current state of rap and more!

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Hip Hop

3:17

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Hip Hop · Mos Def

Black On Both Sides

℗ 1999 Rawkus Entertainment LLC

Released on: 1999-01-01

Producer: Diamond
Unknown, Other, Associated Performer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards: Mos Def
Unknown, Other: Etch-A-Sketch
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Mixer: David Kennedy
Composer Lyricist: D Smith
Composer Lyricist: J. Kirkland

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Mos Def - The Ecstatic

45:39

Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Umi Says - Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

5:13

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides Album
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Beauty in the Dark - Mos Def

5:54

From Taken to the Next Phase, here's Mos with the smooth Beauty in the Dark. Enjoy!

Mos Def - The Panties

4:12

Album: The New Danger
Genre: Hip Hop, Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Conscious (wut? haha)
Year: 2004

Lyrics:
I just want you to
Relax
Ease into it

Baby slow down, just take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay
Baby don't rush this, take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay
I got so much that I want to do
I just want to be close to you
Okay
I got so much that I want to do
That I can show you better than I can say

I don't wanna be no where but here
No where in this atmosphere
Stratosphere, ionosphere
Ain't no sphere that's bright like here
I don't wanna be no where but here
No where in this atmosphere
I'm good where I am

Baby slow down, take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay, hey
I got so much that I want to do
I can show you better than I can say

Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
I wanna show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you

Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Come let me take you by the hand
Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Let me show you how
Let me show you how
Let me show you now
Let me show it out
Let me show you how
I wanna show ya how
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Ohh

Baby slow down just take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay, hey
I got so much that I want to do
That I can show you better than I can say

Enough talk and let's move
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on

Ni**as in Poorest - Final

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Mos Def - Ghetto Rock

3:40

The White Stripes ft. Mos Def - Ms. Doorbell

4:32

05.The White Stripes ft. Mos Def - Ms. Doorbell

This is the fifth track on the album Stars & Stripes by Adrian Champion. I do not own any of this in any way.

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Mos Def - Do It Now

5:55

Album - Black On Both Sides(Please Rate And Comment) :D

Mos Def - Supermagic

2:33

The Ecstatic

Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hard

2:58

The Ecstatic

Massive Attack & Mos Def - I Against I Bassboosted

5:43

I kinda like the way the distorted bass sounds with this one.

Hip Hop - Mos Def

3:16

Black On Both Sides (1999)

Mos Def - 06 - A Ha

2:36

from the album true magic
i dont own copyright
432 hz

DJ Honda ft Mos Def Travellin Man 1998

4:03

NO OLVIDES SUSCRIBIRTE A NUESTRO CANAL Y SEGUIR DISFRUTANDO DEL MEJOR HIP HOP.

Mos Def- U R The One

4:01

Artist: Mos Def
Song: U R The One
Album: True Magic

Mos Def - Umi says

5:09

The actual music video is up again, but I'll leave this one up anyways, because it's a complete version, and many have already favorited it. No video, but great for just listening to the actual song while doing other things.

Mos Def - Umi Says. Album - black on both sides

Real Hip hop

Mos Def -1998 -Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Twice Inna Lifetime

5:39

Mos Def -1998 -Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Twice Inna Lifetime

MOS DEF - CASA BEY - BANDA BLACK RIO - OFFICIAL VIDEO

4:29

OFFICIAL VIDEO - CASA BEY - MOS DEF RAPPING WITH THE BRAZILIAN BANDA BLACK RIO .
CASA FORTE TRACK FROM THE
MARIA FUMACA ALBUM(1977) .

Yasiin Bey Boiler Room Miami Live Set

23:45

► THE Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) makes a very rare appearance exhibiting new, unheard music for the first time. Overlook this at your own peril.
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Rafael Lechowski y Mos Def - No temas Poeta

2:15

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Dos de los mejores músicos que escuchado en mi vida

No temas Poeta es la unión de dos canciones
- La eterna esencia de Rafael Lechowski
- Leaving On A Jet Plane de Mos Def

Espero que les guste

Bush Knocked down the Twin Towers - Immortal Technique Mos DEF

3:21

Bush Knocked down the Towers - Immortal Technique MosDEF KRS ONE Eminem

Mos Def 12. Monster Music feat. Cassidy

4:22

Mos Def (Mos Definite) 12. Monster Music feat. Cassidy

Mos Def - Love

4:24

A Mos Def classic from black on both sides

Mos Def - Speed Law

4:22

1999 song from Hip Hop album Black On Both Sides by rapper Mos Def.

[Watch it]
Relax, pump the brakes
You're speeding money
You'll smash your whole shit up [slow down]
Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow down
[slow down] Sleeping on the wrong cats

Clear like a megaphone
Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome
Rocked the Trump Tower to the terrordome
Poor house to pleasure domes
Soprano, alto, tenor to baritone
MOS DEF one of the illest that you ever known
Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone
Smash your foundation into pebbles
My words leave your nerves unsettled
You take it to the next level down
Looking like a circus clown
Cats like you can't even get a pound
Worldwide from the river to lakeside
My stage show stay live, make the sound man stage dive
I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball lines
I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine
Got you shook like a fault line
Come all shine and get tarnished
Brooklyn got your pay roll garnished
They form a huddle
Whisper like they want trouble
I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles
Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble
Black steel in the hour
Assemble my skill form my power
My poems crush bones into powder
You mumble like a coward
I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder
SUPER HEREOE!
Get your power, your masks and capes snatched
Brooklyn take what you can't take back
I know a lot of cats hate that
All I can say black
There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at
All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers
[I feel it] you can taste it through the speakers
The three six oh-riginal sketch lyrics so visual
They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video

Tell them cats they need to sit back and observe where they at
Brook-nahm Vietnam
The heat is on
Put your joint on cruise
Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
Take a breath, take ten paces back
Stay on time Omegas
Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
Take their license and their registration papers

My joint's so passionate
Make you peal out and mash your shit
Get wild cold crash your whip
Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset
Tow truck got my tape in the deck
I'm permanent like tattoos and birth marks
Third degree burn marks
Driving on tracks like Dale Earnheart
Stay on the low like the earth spot
Put a big loss on your earn chart
Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart
Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard
Just my name is a daily word
From avenues to streets, terraces and park places
Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements
Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it
Y2K can't delete the true ancient
Apache war drum on the ranges
Skill level dangerous
Arrow head that killed all the cavemen
They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement
And get violated like a plaintiff
I ain't shit to play with
I give a Goddamn what your name is
Delete it and make it so it never get repeated
Believe it
Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother
Conference call you wack crew and tell each other
That they just ain't holding me
I'm Mos Def, your hopefully
Mush off or you get bust off like a ovary

Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at
Brook-nahm Vietnam
The heat is on
Put your joint on cruise
In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
Take a breath, take ten paces back
Brook-nahm Vietnam
The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour
Make these gassed up jokers observe the speed law
Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law
Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law
Cause they speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin,
speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin,
speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin
Relax
Slow down, you better chill money
Lights be changing fast on these streets dude
Smash your whole shit up
You better cool out money
It ain't like that out here
Look at these cats man, it's funny man
He probably just got that car
About to fuck your whole shit up
Speed laws out here money
Knight riding cats
In control like interstaters, state-ahs, state-ahs...
state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs,
state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs,
Stay the.. FUCK off the road, money

Mos Def-Double Trouble

5:54

Artist:Mos Def
Album:We Are Hop Hop
Track:Double Trouble (Ft The Roots)

Stephen Marley feat Mos Def - Hey Baby

4:08

he estado muy alejado de ti por un tiempo
y espero que lo entiendas
que he debido hacer lo que tengo que hacer
para ser un hombre mejor
porque si tuviera que actuar como un tonto
hacer nada conmigo mismo
todas mis bendiciones estarian malditas
y mi mundo se caería
me alegro cuando me siento
y pienso en los buenos momentos que pasamos
y que hicimos para sobrellevarlos
cuando los buenos momentos se tornaron malos
bueno, espero que lo encuentres dentro de tu corazon
y sepas que estas palabras son verdaderas
y por favor no te escandalices
porque debo ir a hacer lo que tengo que hacer

(coro)
hey baby no te preocupes
aunque el camino es pesado
ire a casa contigo de nuevo
porque si pensabas que estaba perdido
tuve que llevar mi cruz
ahora soy libre de todas estas cadenas

un tiempo, un espacio, un lugar diferente
que tan perfecto podemos ser
podria ser el viento que sopla
tu podrias ser ese arbol de sauce
y yo nunca podria deshojar tu pensamiento de no estar a mi lado
asi yo sería el calor del dia
tu serias el frio de la noche
y cada dia le rezo a Jah para que un dia veas
y entiendas el hecho de que debo realizar mi destino
espero que lo encuentres dentro de tu corazon y sepas que estas palabras son verdaderas
y por favor no llores
porque sabes que debo hacer lo que tengo que hacer

(coro)
hey baby no te preocupes
aunque el camino es pesado
ire a casa contigo de nuevo
porque si pensabas que estaba perdido
tuve que llevar mi cruz
ahora soy libre de todas estas cadenas

bueno, no es facil
Jah sabe cuanto he intentado, e intentado
asi que no te hartes
Jah sabe cuanto he intentado, e intentado

(verso de MOS DEF)
Dios sabe, la vida es una gran carretera
con varios signos y giros y serpenteos y curvas
y aunque el camino sea pesado
mi proposito es rockear y seguir rockeando
de ciudad en ciudad y de patios a jardines
y veremos las siluetas parados bajo las luces
y el foco está fuerte, está helado y solitario de noche
y estoy **'feenin** y estoy soñando y te estoy sosteniendo fuerte
pero espera, cada camino que aplano
llega a un fin y estoy de vuelta en casa nuevamente
asi que baby por favor no llores
no existe un valle bajo, y no hay una montaña alta
y nuestro amor no muere con el paso del tiempo
tan solo crece mas, y sigue tan firme
y aunque me haya ido, nunca estoy tan lejos
tu eres la luz entre la oscuridad brillando directamente hacia mi corazon
asi que mi viaje recien comienza

(coro)
hey baby no te preocupes
aunque el camino es pesado
ire a casa contigo de nuevo
porque si pensabas que estaba perdido
tuve que llevar mi cruz
ahora soy libre de todas estas cadenas

(outro)
y si pensaste que estaba perdido, tuve que llevar mi cruz
ahora soy libre de todas estas cadenas

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