#69 Mos Def
February 17, 2008 by clander
In the olden days of white culture, people used to look up to Kings and Princes. These were the people that they adored, and every night they wished and hoped that somehow they could wake up and be just like them. But with Royal Families crumbling, that role has been filled by one man: Mos Def.
He is everything that white people dream about: authentic (”he’s from Brooklyn!”), funny (”he was on Chapelle show!”), artistic (have you heard “Black on Both Sides?”), an actor (”he’s in the new Gondry film!”) and not white (”I don’t see race”).
He has done an amazing job of being in big budget movies (The Italian Job) and having one of his songs become a white person wedding staple (Ms. Fat Booty) but still retaining authenticity and credibility.
If you find yourself in a social situation where you are asked to list your favorite actor or artist, you should always say Mos Def. This way you can name someone that everyone has heard of and you don’t look like you are trying to one up anybody. The only possible negative consequence is some white people might think “I wish I had said that first.”
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I’m black and I like some of Mos Def’s music but I download his songs illegally just to spite him. The whole jihadi thing is not something I can ignore. This heated debate is interesting and all but shouldn’t we be discussing the article?
I’m black and I like some of Mos Def’s music but I download his songs illegally just to spite him. The whole jihadi thing is not something I can ignore. This heated debate is interesting and all but shouldn’t we be discussing the article.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on Mos Def movies.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
White people only like Mos Def because he’s soft!
Mos Def is a great gateway rapper for Whites.
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
LMAO! That is too funny!
And true!
The mighty Mos is amazing, no doubt about that, he has climbed to the top because he knows how the system works and he has set his mind to his goals and manifested his destiny.
Im white but to say i like him because im white is a generalised stereotype assuming i heard/saw him through the crappy pop media outlet that is controlled by corporate fat cats only interested in $$$ which generally is all most of the population (which is now not even majority white) will listen/watch, in short they are told to like him.
I don’t listen to the radio, i don’t watch tv but i do listen to Urban Thermo Dynamics an have done for many years and if you don’t know who they are go look them up!!
So your logic doesnt apply to all but most and f*** kings and queens, the British monarchy is German and they clutch very tightly to their power of which God supposedly willed them to have… does that mean i can will myself to own countries to and declare my bloodline “royal”?? Not to mention that Bush senior sweared his alliegence to the Queen but that was never in the public eye so your all unaware of who really runs your country.
I also sympathise with the Afghanistani rebel group known as the Taliban; their country is being invaded regardless if its for the freedom of the American people against the mystical illusive enemy terrorism, what would you do in that situation!! The only people attacking you is you!
I don’t claim to know who flew the planes into your towers, but i do know who didnt and thats the people they say did as most of them are still alive! If you look at the facts yourself and don’t instead believe the straight up hype your told then you’ll see truth for yourself. I’m sure this is exactly how Mos feels, he’s not a secret jihadi, he doesnt want to bring down America he like me probably doesnt agree with globilisation and the invasion of fundamental islamic countries by fundamental christian countries when globilisation doesnt go the way ‘they’ want it to.
So i don’t know how this post turned into a all out rant but stop supporting terrorism, buy natural goods grown for your health not mass produced ones manufactured for your money!
Peace & Love and if you haven’t heard KRS-ONE; this should help explain things!
This comment fed into every other thing that white people like, such as public radio, black music that black people don’t listen to anymore, being offended, mos def, music piracy, public radio, and awareness. God I love this list.
The comment from above is a good example of why people like Mos Def should not be given a free pass when they make false statements about 911, the Taliban, etc.
Here is person who freely admits he does not pay attention to the news, but gets his information from pop stars.
As a result he does not know the statement that many of the 911 hijackers are alive is false. The BBC has written about it here .
Disagrreing with American foreign ploicy is one thing, but giving ones support or sympathy to the Taliban is insane.
This is a horrific group that is particularly brutal to women, and is antithetical to American ideals such as freedom of religion.
It is too bad that some people can not distinguish between ingratiating music, and irrationalism, or outright enemy propaganda.
I think SWPL is quite right to point out that “White people” tend to respond to Mos Def as if they have all read the same memo.
I look forward to the day when asked about Mos Def, people, not just white ones, will say “I like some of his music, but it’s too bad he is such a flaming jihadi asshole”.
Haha dude i dont get my information from pop stars thats retarded!
If you listen to the news and only the news you are very misinformed. Your told if anything one side of the story, its not what the news is telling you thats the problem, though most of it is propaganda for your country, its what they’re not telling you, you think you have an informed opinion on the world if you watched the news highlights on CNN or any other acronym??
Come on man get out there, theres so much knowledge on absolutely everything and now its so easy to get hold of it and to make your own mind up on what is going on rather then listen to only what your state wants you to hear! They’re not telling you shit that would be detremental for the state, ie that the taliban aren’t really the guys that flew those planes but they have been blamed because of who they are: A resistance force fighting the oppressive power over afghanistan, you want to know why we’re oppressing them? The drugs trade.
Globilisation is literally the raping of third world countries for their land money and resources for the benefit of first world ones. Just type globilisation into google and see all that they “forgot” to tell you about whats really happening in the world.
Afghanistan is some rediculously high percentage of the heroin trade and that is big big money. If you took your head out of your blog an assuming you know absolutely what its like to be white and looked at just a bit of history you’ll know that countries have fought over afghanistan for hundreds of years for this reason. Before this current war it was america and russia but your told its against communism, before that britain and china and nobody is told anything because public news wasn’t anything but a news paper. It always has been centred around the heroin trade and the money it makes.
I think the planes hitting the towers is an atrocity against the free world, i think the people responsible should be put on trial and made to pick up dog shit and be beaten everyday for the rest of their lives as the death penalty would be letting them off light! Wheres Osama now, you’ll never see him caught because he isn’t working for the taliban! The day before the planes hit the towers the real Taliban rose up and started burning the poppy fields destroying a lot of the crop and damaging the business, the next day George W following executive orders, had the reason to get you the public backing them to launch an illegal invasion on afghanistan. This is the reality and thats not from a pop star or from your so called informed news! Wake up!
Anyways i like your site its pretty amusing, but had i read someof the rest of the site instead of just straight defending someone who has been all over the world and will be way way way more informed then you are then i would not have told you i was white because you now think you know me and trust me you don’t.
If you don’t want to even consider any of the things i’ve dropped on you today then thats cool dude have a nice life, i hope it all works out for you. If you do, just go look bro i wouldn’t write all this if i thought any of it was fake or i was unsure!
Peace.
Taliban attack musicians at Afghan wedding
Mon Jun 15, 2009
Taliban delivers death threats to non-Muslims
Taliban militants are threatening Christians, Sikhs, and Muslim minoritiy sects with death and onerous headtaxes should they not convert to their violent version of Islam.
Pakistan: Villagers take on Taliban, 14 militants killed
June 14, 2009
Taliban dupe boy, 12, into planting bomb
Taliban have destroyed 10 schools in the last week. daily times monitor
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
“Video: radicals beat girl, 17, in Islamic stronghold of Swat, Pakistan,” April 2,2009
Taliban shave men for listening to music April 26, 2009
“Taliban gunmen shooting couple dead for adultery caught on camera,” by Saeed Shah for the Telegraph, April 25:
Afghan girls risk lives to go to school 01/15/2009
“Taliban promises attack on Washington that will ‘amaze’ the world after Pakistan police massacre” March 31, 2009
“Taliban militants behead four in Pakistan” October 11,2009
Human Rights Watch – “Taliban targets civilians”
Taliban kill young couple for eloping April 14, 2009
Pakistan: Taliban demands all unmarried girls be wed to their jihadists January 3, 2009
Pakistani villagers rise up against Taliban August 27, 2008
Peshawar, Mar 1 2007: After banning music in the tribal areas, the Taliban have reportedly started fining taxi drivers and citizens in the Bajaur Agency to the tune of Rs 500 for their only fault of listening to music cassettes in their cars.
PAKISTAN today banned the main Taliban militant group behind a wave of suicide attacks in the country that has killed hundreds of people since last year. August 25, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Taliban militants blew up 16 shops selling music and DVDs in northwest Pakistan overnight, police said Thursday.March 5,2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 27 (UPI) — Taliban militants in northern Pakistan are preventing 300,000 children from being vaccinated against polio, the World Health Organization says.March 27,2009
“Afghan women decry Taleban talks October 29,2008
BRITISH forces have seized heroin worth £50 million ($A111.2 million) and killed at least 20 Taliban fighters in a daring raid that dealt a significant blow to the insurgents in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.February 19,2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed. Sep 28,2004
From Wikipedia -
“Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,600 metric tons in 1999, WHICH WAS THE HIEGHT OF TALIBAN RULE in Afghanistan.
According to a Swiss security publication, ‘SicherheitsForum’ (April 2006, pp:56-57), this resulted in supply exceeding demand and a drop in the high-street price of heroin and morphine in the West, endangering the profitability of European drug smugglers.
It has been said that European Smugglers demanded a reduction in supply to counter lower prices.”
“Afghanistan briefly witnessed one of the world’s most successful anti-drug campaigns when Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar declared that growing poppies is un-Islamic.
Some historians allege the Taliban cynically cut production to increase the values of their own stockpiles, although never verified, the effect in the fields was dramatic: a year’s crop was almost entirely wiped out and production was down to zero.”
The Taliban is not a human rights organization.
This is really a subject for a different thread.
Why don’t you talk to me about Mos Def instead?
most white people i know don’t even know who mos def is
I’m guessing that means this post does not pertain to you?
White kids are conditioned to go to pieces when a Black male mugs for the camera and emotes patois gibberish, no matter how hatefull that person’s “art” maybe.
Mos Def is a closet jihadi, whose career is propped up by Saudi petro dollars.
If you want to see how not very cool he really is. do a search on “Mos Def” and “Christopher Hitchens”.
please take your medication, we are all empathetic to the mentally inflicted, but thats not an excuse for being a menace
No excuse for being a menace, indeed.
Concider the following lyrics fron Mos Def’s “Bush Knocked Down the Towers”.
“So, I’m strapped like Lee Malvo
holdin’ a sniper rifle
these bullets’ll touch your kids
and I don’t mean like Michael
your body’ll be sent to the morgue
stripped down and recycled
I fire on house niggas that support you and like you
cuz innocent people get murdered. . . ”
From Wikipedia entry on the DC snipers -
“Muhammad’s goal in Phase One was to kill six white people a day for 30 days.
Phase Two was intended to begin by killing a pregnant woman by shooting her in the stomach.
The next step would have been to shoot and kill a Baltimore City police officer. Then, at the officer’s funeral, a large number of police officers were to be killed with IEDs.
The third phase was to extort several million dollars from the U.S. government. This money would be used to finance a larger plan: to travel north into Canada and recruit other effectively orphaned boys to use weapons and stealth, and send them out to commit shootings across the country.”
the lyrics you posted arent even by mos def. its from the song “bin laden” by immortal technique. get your facts straight before insulting the man. btw i dont really agree with his beliefs, but hes an amazing mc and if you dont like the blackstar album, then you are insane. ^_^
If you look on Wikipedia you will see “Bin Laden” is collaboration which includes Mos Def. You can also see IT performing “Bin Laden” live on Youtube giving credit to Mos Def.
I think you are a moron. Just figured I should let you know. Of course like the typical male you only can voice your opinion behind a computer screen because you are worried of what might come of your comments. I’m used to it being part Arab, people talk crap about Arabs all the time but I’ve never really had anyone do it to my face. The reason? Fear.
You are poseing.
Go watch Mos def defend Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Bin Laden on Bill Mahr and come back to talk to me about that.
You’re an idiot, plain and simple!
“But for now I’m a soldier abidin’ my time
Writin’ my rhyme behind enemy lines
Palestine, Kosovo, Cashmere
No different than the avenues right here.”
-Mos Def “War Song”
If you watch on Bill Mahr you will see him trying to defend Al Qeada and the Taliban.
I’m not the idiot.
You probably believe that Reptilians are running the worlds governments from their secret lair at the center of the world.
Here’s some advice: see a shrink about your self-worth issues that make you believe things that make you sound like you have privileged information and the need to “enlighten” people with it.
Let me guess: nobody ever took your ideas seriously when you worked on group projects and if they had you totally would have gotten an “A” on that project.
ha-ha
That is a better description of Mos Def than me.
Did you know Mos Def doesn’t think we went to the moon?
He doesn’t believe there are violent passages in the Koran.
He is your hero so you don’t want to believe the truth.
Look for yourself. Watch him on Bill Mahr. It’s right there in his own words – not mine.
my my my, bullied all through high school and now taking revenge via the security of your computer. knock your self out, goof ball
Mos Def has defended Bin Laden, the Taliban, Al Qeada, and identified with the DC snipers, and he has done this over, and over, and over, and over again.
The Hip Hop emperor has no clothes.
[...] Already receiving the highest of praise by critics and fans alike, the new album from Mos Def (The Ecstatic) features one song that’s bound to ware out the repeat button on your stereo. [...]
yeah i agree i thought i jus like mos def cause he is a great rapper and actually raps about things that make sense, but i guess its jus cause im white. and i really dont see the relationship between mos def and kings or whatever the author was talking about. man the things stupid people can come up with when they have no lives.
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