Mos Def in Sydey
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This is a long shot, but does anybody want to go and see Mos Def at the Enmore in Sydney tonight?
I have 1 dancefloor ticket. They are sold out.
$70
I'll deliver the ticket to you at the Enmore.
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Oh, yes sir, the gent in the middle then?
MO!
- I remember the episode where Moe couldn't hear. "Deaf", I believe that you've spelled it incorrectly.********
- wait so you're saying curly, the guy in the middle, is moe. that's for the sake of irony? or...mcmillions
- Twat, did you say, I cunt hear you?********
- MUST YOU ALWAYS RESPOND TO YOUR OWN POSTS FUCKTARD!utopian
- I remember the episode where Moe couldn't hear. "Deaf", I believe that you've spelled it incorrectly.
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http://jumptheturnstyle.com/?p=2…
This is kind of old in internet time (5 days) but I haven’t seen it covered in many places. The video above is from last Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher and features Mos Def, Salman Rushdie, and Christopher Hitchens. Mos Def begins his streak of retardation at about the 2 minute mark and sustains it for the duration of the succeeding video below. You must watch both videos to understand on what I’m commenting.
Look at how stupid Mos Def acts. It’s interesting because he is commonly touted as one of the most intelligent rappers around, a sentiment with which I agree, but that’s not to say that Mos Def is more intelligent than most people, just most rappers.
For those who missed it, Mos Def asks if Al Qaeda or the Taliban have a clear organizational goal. Hitchens and Rushdie both give him an answer that, yes, they do have a so-called manifesto, it is to restore Islam to a place of supreme (political, social, etc.) power in the world. For some reason Mos Def asks the same question again and then says that he doesn’t believe what the news or any of the guests on Maher’s show tell him anyway (so why did he ask in the first place?) at which point Hitchens shows the audience how a truly intelligent person acts. Hitchens breaks down Mos Def and admonishes him for the idiotic nonsense that is coming out of his mouth. Mos Def then claims that he has some sort of automatic legitimacy simply because he is from Brooklyn, implies that Hitchens is gullible and/or can’t determine strong evidence from weak evidence because his background is not one of poverty, and accuses Maher of conspiratorially planning this event. The audience applauds Mos Def consistently, which worries me.
Unfortunately, after watching these videos I cannot look at Mos Def in the same way that I previously did. This whole exchange reminds me of my ultra-liberal college professors who insisted that hip hop studies is a legitimate area of academic interest, really? If you want to entertain yourself, and maybe appreciate the abilities of an artist, then listen to Mos Def’s music. If you want to educate yourself, then read a Christopher Hitchens book or column. If you have any doubts, simply refer to the videos above.
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ralph on April 1st, 2009 3:09 pm
I stoped respecting Mos when at last years Rock the Bells in Miami he went on a rant about how if you see him on the street not to talk to him even look at him. He didn’t want to know his his fans and didn’t care to.
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^^ DJ ON&ON on April 1st, 2009 9:44 pm
It’s sad to see “Mr. Definately” use the 4 most popular words on Maury/Springer as an argument...
“You don’t know me.”LOL!
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Rapper Mos Def is talented and politcally savvy, but he suffers from the same irrational distrust that afflicts so many young, black men.
http://www.theroot.com/views/mos…
The subject line was ominous: "This is difficult to watch," it said. I probably shouldn't share with you what sort of video I was expecting to find upon opening the message, but I can tell you that the enclosed clip, though not what I imagined, was indeed difficult to watch, especially for a huge hip-hop fan like me.If you like politics and have HBO, or are just into YouTube, perhaps you've seen the video of rapper Mos Def and author Christopher Hitchens, bookending Salman Rushdie and Bill Maher on Maher's talk show, engaged in a conversation about the Taliban. It is a conversation that quickly devolves into the sort of scene that usually precedes a shouting match, or even a fistfight. In and of itself, angry, televised ranting about politics is a vulgarity too often tolerated by Americans (a problem The Root has touched on before), but what made this heated bickering particularly cringe-worthy was the imbalance of it.
Mos Def was overwhelmed by men far more learned about the topic at hand than himself, and in the carnage that ensued, viewers were exposed to one of the sadder problems plaguing parts of the African-American community today: an immovable distrust of everything.
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@mamaschristmasbunny2 things.
1. Mos Def is a Muslim, and so he carrys his torch in favour of 'Allah'.
2. Christopher Hitchens would rip Mos Def to pieces in a debate, argument, or discussion about history and religion, including Mos Def's own: Islam.
I don't know how anyone could see Mos Def as more, or even AS intelligent Hitchens.
Hitchens is the true free thinker on that panel. I'm suprised Maher can even get an intellectual heavy-weight like Hitchens on his show.
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Look. Somebody just discovered the Internet.
- Are you referring to Dante Smith aka "Mos Def"? If so, makes perfect sense to me.********
- Are you referring to Dante Smith aka "Mos Def"? If so, makes perfect sense to me.
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If you're going to give any type of adoration to the man it better be this:
But Alan Rickman made that flick.
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