So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.
Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.
People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
That's one of our M.O.'s. We like to run the break early, but we don't have a lot of depth on our bench and we usually slow down later. They probably did a good adjustment, but a lot of times, it's us.
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit. He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds .