I'm not a Mos Def fan, and although I understand the hip hop message often conveyed -- bitches and hos, bling and shiny rims, splattering someone's brains all over a sidewalk because he 'disrespected' you (whatever the fuck that means) -- I disagree with it entirely. No time for it. At all.
And some more enlightened anthropologist will tell me, "Well, that's the culture they came from... It's not their fault." To which another could retort, "Are you suggesting they don't have minds of their own? Do you think these particular individuals are incapable of seeing the message of this existence and somehow deciding that there may be more to life?" Then they'd find a way to boot me out of the department.
Mos Def converted to Islam -- he saw the light -- when he was about 19 (this info pulled from his wikipedia bio). About 3:45 minutes into the video, it starts getting a bit heated, the politically incorrect panel calling out Mos Def who's trying to side-step the train of reality.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
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Also click on the link, as it will guide you to an Atlantic Monthly article on this.
this dude is a stamped and certified cretin. I don't know why hitch even bothered to reply, let alone rip into him.
I like it where Mos Def yells, "I'M FROM BROOKLYN!!!" and Hitchens, while smiling, calmly responds, "Yes, and I'm from Hampshire."
Why waste time worrying about this ignoramus? While at it, why does he appear on news shows, as some kind of expert in foreign affairs?
It's the turning of Rome into a farce, in the days of Imperator Obamakles
Panem et circenses were much better in the original.
Particularly the Panem
They'll bring Mos Def on to cable shows because it's the only way to increase ratings, and perhaps the only way to get a couple of the teenagers to flip their channels from the Yo MTV Raps. And after watching it, maybe a few will stay rather than return to the MTV?
Note: I never heard of Mos Def until catching this YouTube link. Anyone else?
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