#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.”
Pages: « 60 … 41 40 39 38 37 [36] 35 34 33 32 31 … 1 » Show All
Is this an abbreviation for Most Definately? Seriously, I do not know this person.
I just soiled my man goober panty diapers
Is Mos Defness! Most Definitely.
scoreboard!
I’m pretty sure Mos Def would ask this question, if he knew he was ‘subject matter’ on this blog:
“Does any of the other kind of Stuff White People Like include things like Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
Also related to this is #68, white people standing around at concerts!
the mos def concert was filled with white people NOT getting down.
I need to never read the comments to these blogs again. While I find the blogs themselves hilarious… some of the people who obviously have NO sense of humour and apparently can’t stop reading something they claim to hate just infuriate me. Get a life. If what you believed in was rational, you would not have to try so hard to make other people believe it too.
I don’t know Mos Def.
I like Mos Burger though.
you are the kinda white person that was figured out ages ago. Step aside as a “new and improved!” stereotype gets constructed.
[...] X#69 Mos Def [...]
So true, but have you considered expanding this post to include all alternative or “positive” hip-hop? It seems like every white person I know (especially guys mid twenties to early thirties) loves A Tribe Called Quest and Talib Kweli.
I have to add that the white circles I run in really like Kanye West and Jay-Z (as do I). Nas too for awhile, until he fell off the face of the white earth.
Just found this site today, and I must say it is the bomb diggety. I am biracial native american and white, but obvs culturally I am so white!
Thanks for the laughs.
Who’s Mos Def?
Pages: « 60 … 41 40 39 38 37 [36] 35 34 33 32 31 … 1 » Show All