Mos Def

[Praetor]

the new danger este f f f f tare.Nush cine si de ce zice ca a dezamagit.E vorba de versatilitatea unui artist...si cand spui mos...spui versatil.Unora asa le sta bine.Mos e Mos tocmai pentru ca este asa.Calitatea artistului depinde de forte multe variabile.Un artist poate fi de calitate explorand toata varietatea de stiuluri si shmecherii pe care le poate face cu ceea ce i s-a dat sau sa ramana constant.E ca si cand l-ai pune pe Mos langa Guru ca sa dau un exemplu concludent.Concluzia este ca Mos e "de-acolo"....si o sa fie mereu in topul meu.

[VeVe]

n`am cuvinte sa`l descriu p mos...foarte tare!!!

[gr@n@t@]

the new danger este f f f f tare.Nush cine si de ce zice ca a dezamagit.E vorba de versatilitatea unui artist...si cand spui mos...spui versatil.Unora asa le sta bine.Mos e Mos tocmai pentru ca este asa.Calitatea artistului depinde de forte multe variabile.Un artist poate fi de calitate explorand toata varietatea de stiuluri si shmecherii pe care le poate face cu ceea ce i s-a dat sau sa ramana constant.E ca si cand l-ai pune pe Mos langa Guru ca sa dau un exemplu concludent.Concluzia este ca Mos e "de-acolo"....si o sa fie mereu in topul meu.

iti place mai mult Black on Both Sides sau The New Danger? Primul e mai conservator(atata cat poate fi un material semnat Mos), celalalt e futurist; eu, personal, apreciez primul mai mult...

[Praetor]

e ca si cand intrebi pe cineva daca ii place prima lui masina mai mult decat asta noua si mai complicata.Io nu-s un nostalgic si nu traiesc din amintiri so...nu consider tot ce e vechi ca fiind mai bun----albume noi sau chiar artisti.Daca o faceam nush ce treaba mai aveam sa imi expun punctu de vdr in versuri.

[FunkyDeea]

Mos Def o sa ramana intotdeauna in top 5 pentru mine... e foarte tare ... canta o muzica ce pe mine ma relaxeaza.... ma bine dispune... am apreciat faptul ca e unul dintre foarte putinii MC ce chiar pot canta... dispune de un stil unic.... foarte tare
parerea mea e ca albumul cu talib kwely - blackstar e o capodopera a hip hopului contemporan... si albumul black on both sides e genial.... nici The new danger nu mi se pare nereusit, doar ca e muuuuult mai ciudat.... acum cateva zile am gasit p ODC si o serie de 4 albume sub numele generic "We are hip hop".. nu stiu sigur daca e album oficial sau nu... dar e foarte tare si e format in mare parte din hiturile lui mai vechi... dar contine si unele piese pe care nu le-am mai auzit...

[Koma]

pe compilatia "We Are Hip Hop", desi sunt toate scrise "Mos Def featuring..etc", contine majoritatea pieselor cantate de el si unde a fost invitat sa cante..si nu, nu este oficiala.

[FunkyDeea]

Merci

[gr@n@t@]

pe compilatia "We Are Hip Hop", desi sunt toate scrise "Mos Def featuring..etc", contine majoritatea pieselor cantate de el si unde a fost invitat sa cante..si nu, nu este oficiala.

extraordinara compilatie!!saptamana asta am ascultat-o in heavy rotation, e bestiala!

[sunrah]

This life.. This life... :(

[ste faaan]

eu personal sunt fascinat de videoclipul melodiei Two Words unde Mos Def canta alaturi de Kanye West iar de melodie nici nu mai vorbesc - sample-ul cu vioara de la sfarsit e criminal!

"I live by two words, fuck you, pay me!"

[gr@n@t@]

"should've been signed twice"...

[ste faaan]

http://www2.warnerbros.com/16blocks/index.html

trailer-ul anunta un film marfa rau

[gr@n@t@]

mie mi-a placut in The Italian Job...era la fel de stilat cum il stim...

[sunrah]

Ca tot le ascultam in heavy rotation The Panties | Modern Marvel | The Begger.
Efectiv e mult mai bun decat Kweli.. il face cu aceste trei piese.


Baby slow down, just take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay
Baby don't rush this, take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay
I got so much that I want to do
I just want to be close to you
Okay
I got so much that I want to do
That I can show you better than I can say

I don't wanna be no where but here
No where in this atmosphere
Stratosphere, ionosphere
Ain't no sphere that's bright like here
I don't wanna be no where but here
No where in this atmosphere
I'm good where I am

Baby slow down, take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay, hey
I got so much that I want to do
I can show you better than I can say

Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
I wanna show you
Let me show you
Let me show you
Let me show you

Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Come let me take you by the hand
Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Let me show you how
Let me show you how
Let me show you now
Let me show it out
Let me show you how
I wanna show ya how
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Let me show ya
Ohh

Baby slow down just take your time
You and me goin' be here for a while
Okay, hey
I got so much that I want to do
That I can show you better than I can say

Enough talk and let's move
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on


***


This desire...

I come home high and she start to cry
I can't take it..
A brand new excuse does me no use
That won't make it..
She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
What can I say?
I know it's surreal but I'm a hard headed still
Do things my way..

And it's so strong, soo strong
It's like I'm dying..
Trying to hold on, my body says oh no oh out there..
Flying, the price that I pay for the game that I play
Ain't no game at all..
I'm up in the clouds and I'm spiraling down
Nothing breaks the fall..

And it's so strong, so strong
It's like I'm dying..
Try to hold on, my body says oh no oh out there
Flying..
Sounds of the sufferers pray

I come home high and she start to cry
I can't take it..
A brand new excuse does me no use
That won't make it..
She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
What can I say?
I know it's surreal but I'm a hard headed still
Black Dante and it's so strong..
So strong..
So strong..
So strong...

I'm out there flying..
Flying..
Flying..
Flying...

This game is fantastic..desire...

[Mos Def Speaking]

Killers..this life this life
Lovers..this life this life
Hustlers..this life this life
Thieves..this life this life
Gamblers..this life this life
Niggaz..Crackers..Children..Mothers..Fathers..Lovers..Neighbors..Hungry..
Full..the beautiful..the stars..the distance..the close..the
stars..
The heavens..this life
The floor..this life this life
The high..this life
The beneath..this life this life
All..all..everywhere..everywhere..anywhere..somewhere..home...

Come on, this how it goes on..
Ghetto people in the world today, get up!
Ha! Look alive, breathe..wooh!
Ha! How it goes...

[Mos Def Rapping]

Mother, mother...
Head in her hands
Her first born son dead in her hands
The whole thing was a setup, a scam
They knew it was set up and planned
Niggaz he worked with wet him and ran, and thas..
Brother, Brother...
But son, I don't see no brother hood
All I see is thugger hood
Get rich and f**k the hood
All they want is some good smoke from the hood
Lookin for the shorty good stroke from the hood
That's how they touch the hood
But when I touch the hood, I'll make it brighter, black
Because I'm brighter, black
And I'm so black I'm bright, shine through the blackest night
Shine when I'm live, shine via satellite
Shout in the hood, we get the picture
Cuz everytime you out in the hood, you got photographers witcha
What's going on? Ha!

Understand this is real life..
This how it goes on, this how it goes on...
It keep going on, this how it goes on...
Ghetto people look alive, get free
Get involved, remain to breathe...Ha! Wooh!

If Marvin was alive now, wow..
What would I say to him?
Where could I start?
How could I explain to him??
I know the minor world would probably look strange to him
Would he feel like today had a place for him?
Global imprisonment, sickness, indifference
When he said, "Save the babies," was we listenin?
When he said, "Mercy, mercy," did he really know..
That decades later we'd still be killin folks?
Or did he hope that we would realize..
That we the first, the son of earth..
The moon and stars, the great beyond..
We black and proud, we brave and strong..
We raise it up, we quiet storm, forever fresh..
And keepin on..?

Ha! Ghetto people look alive and free, ya get real..
This how it goes on, and you say you say
This how it goes on, and you say you say
This how it goes on..
Ghetto people look alive and free and breathe! Ha!
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Got the beat!

There ain't nothin to be afraid of..
Ghetto people look alive and free, ya get real...
This how it goes on
This how it goes on, keep goin on..
This how it goes on
Now breathe!
Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, Marvin Modern Marvel...


***


Woman you know I love you
Woman you know just how I feel
You try to tell me that you don't know
When I know you know the deal

Woman you know I love you
Woman you know I care...
hey
You try to say
I'm running game
You try to say baby you don't play fair
Oh darling

If there is any doubt in your mind
I want you to be sure...
heeeey
If you don't ever see me again
I want you to be sure
That I love you
Oh girl
Oh baby I love you
Darling I love you...
hey
Oh darling I love you...
hey
(Turn the lights down low)
(Turn the lights down low)

Oh baby
You got to understand how I feel
You need to understand where I'm coming from
Aint no need to be afraid
Aint no need to get up and run
Oh darling
Oh girl you know I love you
Oh darling
You know I know I love you
Oh baby

If you never see me again
I need you to be sure
From this moment right now
Till for ever more
Said I love you
Love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love
you, love you, love you, love you...
babyyyy

Woman I love you
Woman I love you
Woman I love you
AAAAAAHHHHHH...

Woman I love you

[sadclown]

hehe the old mighty mos def.imi place si in formula urbam thermo dynamics
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PTCOYI7M -singurul album al trioului

For ten years the rap trio Urban Thermo Dynamics (a.k.a. UTD) fell into the "more a legend than a band category". A family affair, Mos Def had teamed with his younger brother DCQ and his younger sister Ces in 1994 for UTD. The single "My Kung Fu" brought the group to the hip-hop underground's attention and Polygram affiliate Payday London. Payday released the single in 1994, reissued it on the related FFRR imprint, and followed it a year later with the "Manifest Destiny" 12". Work on a full-length was underway when label politics left UTD without a home. Mos Def and DCQ (who was now using the aliases Illson and Jashiya) went on to form Medina Green, another group that would have a long gestation period before delivering much above-ground product. A grey area version of UTD's album Manifest Destiny appeared in 1999, but pressed in such a small quantity that if you blinked, you missed it. By 2003, Internet file sharing had become popular with the underground hip-hop set and lost recordings were being traded and mishandled. Mos Def was now a superstar and file-sharers were digging deep for his early recordings. The rare "My Kung Fu" was being widely distributed but mislabeled as a Medina Green track, while a correctly credited "Manifest Destiny" sat in every deep hip-hopper's share folder. Feeding off the newfound interest, DCQ cleared up all the discography confusion in 2004 by releasing Medina Green's U Know the Flex Mix Tape, Vol. 1 and giving the world the first official version of UTD's full-length, Manifest Destiny. Both were released on DCQ's Illson Media label.

one of my favourite
Artist: UTD (Urban Thermo Dynamics)
Song: My Kung Fu
[ INTRO: Mos Def ]
Baba-baba-baba-baba-baba, you been so good to me
When I was a little boy you were the only one I wanted to be
To be like pa duke and ma duke
How much I love the both of you
I know all the strain we been through
But it's of no consequence cause I'm comin through
[ VERSE 1: Mos Def ]
Check it
I first stood ???? in the ??Brakalak??
In the center of ??Islam??, started ????
This had to be about ten years back
Before I ever even heard of a 24 track
Talkin about you was an MC was ??quite the?? move
Cause if you said you had skill well then you had to show and prove
And if there ever was a party, son, yo, I would set it
And tell the deejay run the beat from (Ultra-magnetic)
I grabbed the mic and then I leave the party buzzin
Tellin all my honeys I was Slick Rick's cousin
When they knew I wasn't, but I had no shame
Pa, you know the name, the Mos always had game
Back in the day ?????
Brothers knew how to act before glocks and crack
And Wendy C was doin radio shows
And 'crossover' meant that you wore your mom's clothes
When Sweet G was talkin about the games that people play
I used to sit back and say: yeah indeed, someday
And as I grew older my kung fu grew better
Instead of shootin the humbles I was shootin ????
And now my time has come
And now hip-hop's an industry polluted by bums
Posin with guns they're puffin mad blunts
Aiyo, brothers just started rhymin last month
They gettin fat deals on any major label
When they only see other people hold the mic cable
Five years ago when peoples danced to house
When the deejay played hip-hop then you walked out
But now you're hard, talkin about you paid mad dues
I used to see your ass ???? wearin platform shoes
I ain't confused, who you think you're foolin with that ????
You ain't genuine, so don't waste your time
Riffin over here cause here ain't no chance
That you could break the sound, son, you ain't that advanced
Times are gettin critical across the land
???? the b-boy, introduce the b-man, understand?
The M-O-S D is who I am, now check it out, y'all
[ CHORUS ]
My kung fu is the style you haven't mastered
[ VERSE 2: DCQ ]
At the age of 18 made a little money
And I needed some advice on how to live my life
Was goin through strife, people couldn't understand
That I was comin into my own, becomin a man
I had to have a plan cause I know what I'm here for
So I can't waste time, y'all
Gotta be on the ball and represent for my peeps
(Where?) in the streets
I make beats and kick facts over fat tracks
It's all of that from the ??Brakalak??
Goin through problems as a adolescent
A lot of troubles and turmoils, there was persistence
And I know that I stutter
But it don't matter cause I'm a bad -
I flip a verse either backwards, sideways
I rocks my [edited] from here, Mondays, Fridays
Saturdays and I get a weekend off
My [edited] ain't soft
(Well, excuse me, baby)
You paid your dues cause I'm the boss
So mother[edited] Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross
Because they know what the time is
I rock [edited] for the fly kids, b-men, bouncin ?? bombastics
Kick it drastic, you get tossed like an ash, kid
Youknowmsayin?
[ CHORUS ]
[ VERSE 3: Ces ]
Well, I'm sleek and I freak a beat
For you and your peeps to bump inside your jeeps
Your Acura, Honda or whatever
Bump it in the Benzi and get your head together
Strollin down the F.D.R.
Playin the microphone star
Deep in your car
With the thump-diddy-thump-da-thump-da-thump-thump
Pop up the trunk and let the bass bump
If you ain't got a ride, well, that's alright
Let the U keep you company on your hike
Trekin down the ave. with your headphones on
Take em off for a sec, you still feel gone
You're pressin rewind, many, many times
I must rock the mic cause it's only right
Comin right up offa Eastern ground
This is how you get down, I hope you like the sound
Thermo offering number one
There's more in store, there's more to come
We far from done, no, the show ain't over
So when we comin through don't say I never told ya
That
[ CHORUS ]
si

Artist: Common, Dice Raw, Flo Brown, Jazzyfatnastees, Mos Def, The Roots
Song: Hurricane
Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind(x2)
[Black Thought]
Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price
Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life
Started out at like twelve
Trapped in a belly of hell
Grew into a man inside of a cell
Yo, anger just swell up
At a early age that develop
Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him
They said he's on a road to become a felon
But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon
He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed
Started making noise but they tried to mute it
They put him through it
For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]
They rather look you in the face and shoot it
And leave your spot looted [or what]
Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught
When you scream at it and do it
With sweat leaking from the outline of your soluid
Don't understand the point that you at
Or how the hell you came to it?
Flashback to images of that night, out in Patterson
They pulled him over heading home from a gathering
And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him
Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?
Chorus
Hurricane
Accuse a Hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane
[Black Thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could y'all stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
You tell me that you know the pain
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could ya'll stand the weather?
You built for that weather?
Yo, know what'm saying?
Know what'm saying?
[Common]
You gotta fight for what you believe in
Nobody knows the troubles seen
This flick left me wondering
'What can become of kings and young kids?'
Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred
A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on
The cops, y'all know what they be on
A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from
Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,
Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night
Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,
Developing his knack to write
Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself
What he loved on the outside world, detached himself
You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system
He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions
This picture proved to be bigger than Black and White
A young soul named Lesra brought him back to life
It's amazing to a man what a book could do
And how certain books seem to look for you
This is the story of a champion's fall and rise
The story left me wiping my eyes
Peace Ru
Chorus
Hurricane
Accuse a Hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane
[Black Thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could y'all stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
You tell me that you know the pain
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever and ever yo, locked down forever
Could you stand the weather?
Yo, yo i can't even explain the pain
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
[Mos Def]
Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistable,
The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]
I am time
I scroll in measurements, control the elements,
I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?]
I am time
I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments
For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?]
I am time
You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,
Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,
You can't do much for me besides serve
Me well and have good dividends returned to you
Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you
Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,
Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully
Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,
Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me
Angel's scribe the page for me,
Keep a full account of all the names for me
And make a special mark for Hurricane who (?) patiently
Chorus
Hurricane
Accuse a Hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane
[Black Thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Yo, yo, a Hurricane forever,
Imagine your locked down forever
Could you stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
I can't even explain the pain
Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever
Could you hold it together?
Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
[Verse 4]
The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star
God placed it in a man on the day he was born
Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster
Framed for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter rising
From out the south water, like torrential rains
In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed
You can't believe the world we live in's injust
All I see is more proof, there's no place for us
They had my man Carter locked in a cage, like an animal
Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical
Or works by remote control
It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul
Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind
There's no where to run, no where to hide
In a six-by-six a guilty man cries
For repentance and lost is what innocence is
Chorus

+the light cu dj krush,respiration feat common,beautiful feat mary j,tonseltown to the boogiedown feat th beatnuts(superba),The High and Mighty f/ Mos Def, Mad Skillz-b-boy document 99,nu mai pun la socoteala foundation si travellin man care sunt speachless si I've Committed Murder (Gangstarr Remix) cu mancy gray(what a voice) Next Universe,another world feat talib kweli si multe altele pe care nu mi le mai amintesc