@@CuriousNun how does it being apparent and obvious to you change the fact that a statement aged well. The obviousness of something has nothing to do with how it ages.
@@wideopenwounds if that's how it works then cool, it's like saying the sun will rise tomorrow and someone coming tomorrow to say "this aged like gold" 😂
@@CuriousNun yeah except the comparison is disingenuous at best, not all things are equally apparent. Comparing a scientific fact that the sun will rise tomorrow that all humans know, vs his comments aging well because of a beef that you didn’t see coming this year at all, nobody did, is apples and oranges.
Yasin was talking this shit in his 20s. There are young artists today who speak their mind. Never an age thing. He just doesn't respect cowards. simple
🎯 You can tell Ice leans towards never speaking up. Mos is saying Hip-Hop should always be that voice & the biggest artist should use their platform to say something. Every album can't be all party & girl songs.
@@yomrap6931 We didn't put that pressure on Jay and he rarely said anything out of the norm. Why do we expect Drake to be woke let Cole and Kendrick have that lane and guys like Lupe.
@@ihateflatbunz He said everyone should do what they're called to do & it was bigger than 1 person but even Jay has said things about social conditions in his music. For instance DJ Khaled lost my respect for not saying a word & he's Palestinian. (Doesn't have to be in the music, say something in an interview)
@@yomrap6931 Exactly. Also, apart from Mel or parks, who seem to educate themselves on topics other than america or the "culture", i feel like what Mos speaks to will go way over there heads. Mos is showing that he has traveled and those travels added to his being hence his appreciation of life and humans has evolved. Not just Turks and Caicos baecations
@@craighunterii8742he was stalked by the government his whole life, got put in prison for a false rape charge, he was harassed by white people on his own property, people looking through his windows, he got beat up by the police for jaywalking, he got shot 5 times and the whole world made fun of him and tried to make him out like a criminal. How do you think you would react? I would say 2Pac handled that well at 20-25. Through all that he stayed humble and still made conscious music. He had fun on certain songs, yet he still made more conscious music than not. So based on that I don’t think he was young minded. There are people in their 50’s right now who are immature.
What? Being a Karen and calling someone a pedo trying to get them cancelled because they were lyrically out rapping you in a beef 😭 sheesh Karen Lamar is wack af for that 💯
Kendrick himself is not using his platform at all, so just keep him in the music conversations. And this does not mean i am a drake a fan cause i hate his music before all this beef.
Props to Joe for pointing out an important aspect to this dialogue, which is shorty truly being educated & enlightened enough to understand what Mos was putting down 💜🫡🤙🏾
Mos Def is extremely calculated in his intentions. He knew calling out Drake would shine a very bright light on him. Thus creating a moment for his words to be heard by all. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
That's what I'm on frfr, sovereignty, having a voice...making every step, and breathe I take a slap in the face to those wanting to participate in the oppressors games
@@Msboochie2 nope.i will help you understand because you have terrible comprehension problems. You didn't listen to the full interview, I did. You probably are going off of short clips from a podcast and probably don't know that drake did diss Mos Def on IG. Mos Def was asked, "is drake hiphop"? Those responses came from that question If you don't understand, ask questions and do research rather than exposing your ignorance on social media.
The fact the comment section is littered with people talking about Drake and his beat selections and how he makes music. Completely missed what Mos Def was saying.
You ever think people don't care like that, at the end of the day it's called entertainment. People like what they like regardless if it's rap or hip hop it's all entertainment.
Coming back to this after the Kendrick battle is even deeper. Especially when understanding that the American military complex puts children and women at risk, the same way that Kendrick alleges Drake does too.
Mos Defs Level of Consciousness is What Hip Hop Was Suppose To Be On. Every MC, Rapper, Listener etc Was Suppose To Carry intelligence At Least To Understand The Spiritual Warfare We're in or What Mos Def is Saying Cause it's Basics. Music is The Weapon And Hip-Hop Was Suppose To Be A Weapon For The Culture. Now It's A Weapon Used Against The Culture. It's DUMBED DOWN.
Kanye used Mos Def and Talib to pretend to be deeper than he is. All he care about is what Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, and some other designer is doing to not let him run their company into the ground.
I remember when Bill Maher and mates tried to put down, humiliate, Mos Def. Thinking themselves more sophisticated/intelligent than him, because he was just a rapper. Time has proven the opposite was true.
Nah, Mos.was on a few times, he just stepped in a discussion with Christpher Hitchens and was way off. It was cringe but it was a moment to realize, sometimes you're the teacher sometimes you're the student.
I remember watching that live and you’re right one is dead, and the other one might as well be because Bill Maher is one of the most worthless human beings alive.
How was he off? I’m all about the hitch slap but please explain considering what his did after and lived in the region he spoke and and not from the W hotel getting information from hand picked perspectives like most westernized media. End on the day, Hitch was for GW like the 70 millions morons who not hates him cuz Jesus Dump says so
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) is very insightful and completely right in his assessment about hip hop and the socio-political state of the world. Not only one of my fav MCs but also human beings. Speak the truth until the walls of Babylon fall...
Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen them actually close their mouths and listen! Having said that, this is the best clip of this podcast I’ve ever seen. 💯🙄🤐
I wish I knew and appreciated this bro back in college. I walked by him on 47th Street in NYC years ago. He looks and exudes the same great energy now as then. The Man!!!
Drake is pushed to be King of this genre because he upholds consumerism in its highest form. Hip Hop is a culture built on being the voice of the voiceless and rap, being the soundtrack of hiphop gave messaging... Drake messaging is safe to any and all establishment...his raps arent political, nor ideological, and when they are personal, its only pertaining to his view of his love life, family and friends. Even the King of "Pop", Michael Jackson gave us edgy political songs. All of the other important artist in music's history have giving us a time stamped opinion of society. Drake literally moves like Switzerland. He is probably the safest rapper ever to hold such dominace, you can put Drake music on and not think.
Man shut up...Lil Wayne ran hip hop before Drake and Wayne was never political or spoke on important topics like that... Y'all just be looking for a reason to bash Drake 😂...
@@rodneyscott5450Wayne is not hip hop. Wayne is a rapper. He raps about a lifestyle like Drake/ Yall get Rap and hip hop confused. Rap is industry. Hip hop is culture. Hip hop has 5 principles that DJ, MC, Break dancing, graffiti and kick knowledge. Has wayne or Drake incorporate any of these in their Music or Videos?
@@rodneyscott5450 listen to Georgia Bush by Lil Wayne and recant your statement sir. Also Tie My Hands spoke on the current state of society at that particular time. Wayne definitely spoke up, you just weren't aware.
Drake is empty calories. Yasin is a founder and a major contributor to the art, and Drake took his creative medium and figured out a way to mass produce, cut corners, package it and sell it. Dude needs more respect.
We need more conscience rappers, When he talks people listen .. Joe was part of that once upon a time, With Broken wings freestyle is still dope to this day...
@@dajion13 do you consume education? The only difference is substance.. That's the whole argument, One of them is junk food devoid of nutrients.. The other ones actual knowledge..
Revisiting this clip, as it popped up… Mos and Kendrick should get together for a discussion… I can’t really hear them on the same track. But, love to both and more power to them and strength to each of their voice.
If you look at Drakes fat contract, he’s obligated to drop an album once a year and part take in two tours annually. UMG owns his image, his publishing, and his freedom when it comes to making public appearances. He is a product for the industry.
Prophetic. If Mos would've let a few of those points breathe, this would've landed on more people I think. He didn't leave any room for the average person to process any one of his points lol it's like he wasn't having a conversation, he was just spilling thought.
It’s good that they didn’t overlook his overall message to hyperfocus on the critique on Drake because that matters more. But not as intelligent people will only hear Drake and respond to that
@@d.o.z.e.shaolin7497 People weren't gonna give a damn about that interview outside the Drake shade. He is talking about some real issues I wish that was the story first and foremost.
Yasin Bey is a man of his words and he stands on what he says Hip Hop is dying, Drake is killing hip-hop and all these new artist that doesn't know real hip-hop if it bit them on their feet
All of them shaking their head in agreement to the Mass Bay colony comment is priceless!!! Mighty Mos waaaay over their head and they are just going along with "Big Words"..LMAO
There are still people who draw their inspiration from Malcolm, from the Panthers, from Marcus Garvey and anti-colonialist struggle. We dont fall for the "black capitalism", getting a piece of the white mans cake, getting a chance to play the part of the oppressor. We listened to Dead Prez, Mos Def, KRS-1. Drake music is good for dancing, but if you have a soul you long for something deeper. People power ✊🏿
That comment that he’s 50 drake is 37. Mate he wrote my Umi say in his twenty’s. Clearly reveals more about your maturity than it does about anything else.
@@clopez1148 you're talking about the Black Star album that eventually came out on Bandcamp a year later that you had to pay for monthly on that subscription app. I'm talking about his album he had playing at the Brooklyn Museum in December of 2019. For "one month only." I wish I could have gotten to hear that project, people said it was pretty good.
Nah bro! It would never make the radio! People do not want to hear this! If "RESPIRATION" aint a hit....I don't know what these other eardrums process!
@@theflyent7106agreed, I think the old way of thinking when it comes to hits needs to revamped. I think hits can exist outside of Radio play and billboard top tens, fr fr.
@@fayettevillan1I get the cynicism man fr. Consciousness has always been seen as incompatible with "mainstream" rap success, but I do believe there is a lane he can thrive in and do numbers.
I just want to say, rap did not start out being this deep, introspective thing…. It transformed into that during the 80s, as a reflection of the times… but at its beginning, it was a party genre…. Everything doesn’t have to be DEEP…..
Drake fans are the same fans who would listen to Taylor Swift. These are not hardcore hiphop fans. They dont get it. They dont get the cultural distinction.
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This aged like gold
Fine wine 😢
In what aspect specifically? Cause even though very insightful and introspective, what he said was apparent and obvious.
So what made you say that?
@@CuriousNun how does it being apparent and obvious to you change the fact that a statement aged well. The obviousness of something has nothing to do with how it ages.
@@wideopenwounds if that's how it works then cool, it's like saying the sun will rise tomorrow and someone coming tomorrow to say "this aged like gold" 😂
@@CuriousNun yeah except the comparison is disingenuous at best, not all things are equally apparent. Comparing a scientific fact that the sun will rise tomorrow that all humans know, vs his comments aging well because of a beef that you didn’t see coming this year at all, nobody did, is apples and oranges.
Yasin was talking this shit in his 20s. There are young artists today who speak their mind. Never an age thing. He just doesn't respect cowards. simple
🎯 You can tell Ice leans towards never speaking up. Mos is saying Hip-Hop should always be that voice & the biggest artist should use their platform to say something. Every album can't be all party & girl songs.
@@yomrap6931 We didn't put that pressure on Jay and he rarely said anything out of the norm. Why do we expect Drake to be woke let Cole and Kendrick have that lane and guys like Lupe.
@@ihateflatbunz He said everyone should do what they're called to do & it was bigger than 1 person but even Jay has said things about social conditions in his music. For instance DJ Khaled lost my respect for not saying a word & he's Palestinian. (Doesn't have to be in the music, say something in an interview)
@@yomrap6931 I'm talking Jay in his prime he's just started over the last 7 or so taking stances.
@@yomrap6931 Exactly. Also, apart from Mel or parks, who seem to educate themselves on topics other than america or the "culture", i feel like what Mos speaks to will go way over there heads. Mos is showing that he has traveled and those travels added to his being hence his appreciation of life and humans has evolved. Not just Turks and Caicos baecations
Tupac died at 25; Illmatic dropped when Nas was 19. The lack of consciousness can’t be put down to age.
Real shit smh
It can when all you see is ass shaking & gang talk, etc.
I agree but Pac was still young minded in other aspects. He likely wouldn't have passed at that early age if he learned to subdue his passions
@@craighunterii8742he was stalked by the government his whole life, got put in prison for a false rape charge, he was harassed by white people on his own property, people looking through his windows, he got beat up by the police for jaywalking, he got shot 5 times and the whole world made fun of him and tried to make him out like a criminal. How do you think you would react? I would say 2Pac handled that well at 20-25. Through all that he stayed humble and still made conscious music. He had fun on certain songs, yet he still made more conscious music than not. So based on that I don’t think he was young minded. There are people in their 50’s right now who are immature.
Nah Fred Hampton was 20 running a black panther branch in Chicago we kinda devolving
Mos was spitting triple entendre's in an interview😂😂😂
Nah quadruple 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
He's had them saved up after years of shit work ethic and disqualifying himself from the conversation.
He MOST DEFINITELY was🎤🔥🔥🔥💪🏾💯👑
Nothing but facts
This just makes what Kendrick did to Drake that much better 😂😂😂 💯
😂😅😂 Kung Fu Kenny just cured my depression how he did that boy 😂😅
homie you really not peep the message did you lol
What? Being a Karen and calling someone a pedo trying to get them cancelled because they were lyrically out rapping you in a beef 😭 sheesh Karen Lamar is wack af for that 💯
This aged superbly
Like Parisian wine
This aged like Pharrell 😂
Pharrell Williams that is
@@shaad4044in other words it didn’t age at all lol
@@DashikiBraxton lmao aged so well, time sat still
@@shaad4044 like a fine wine imported from Italy.
Lmao
listening to this after Kendrick exposed the colonizer with a smile on my face...
Kendrick himself is not using his platform at all, so just keep him in the music conversations.
And this does not mean i am a drake a fan cause i hate his music before all this beef.
“The dope game is cursed, and so is the dope” is the most profound thing I’ve heard in some time. Especially in context.
This was heat, Yasiin Bey dropped a freestyle in that interview.
Props to Joe for pointing out an important aspect to this dialogue, which is shorty truly being educated & enlightened enough to understand what Mos was putting down 💜🫡🤙🏾
T.I. has left the chat
Fuck that, he was being patronising as fuck. A fool playing his jingles over the words being said.
Yo....I was sitting there like shorty doing fill ins as Mos was speaking....shit is golden...
Yasiin articulated what I've been feeling for a long time
Humongous fax. Same 🤘
Mos Def is extremely calculated in his intentions. He knew calling out Drake would shine a very bright light on him. Thus creating a moment for his words to be heard by all. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
That's what I'm on frfr, sovereignty, having a voice...making every step, and breathe I take a slap in the face to those wanting to participate in the oppressors games
Easy this comment gave me chills. This is how I live life in this realm. Because it is so evil here...
This was before Drake 😂😂
@@jashanestonebefore drake? What does that even mean?
@@puklop this Kdot reply and dismantlemen.
Thanks. Lol
The irony is that Yasiin Bey wasn't focused on Drake really.
😂 you obviously missed it. He was asked about drake. Mos def is am MC, in new york subliminal is a norm and only smart dudes gets it.
@@uzoobidire2249You missed it, or you have serious comprehension problems.
@@Msboochie2 nope.i will help you understand because you have terrible comprehension problems. You didn't listen to the full interview, I did.
You probably are going off of short clips from a podcast and probably don't know that drake did diss Mos Def on IG.
Mos Def was asked, "is drake hiphop"? Those responses came from that question
If you don't understand, ask questions and do research rather than exposing your ignorance on social media.
@@uzoobidire2249him & 200 ppl 😢
@@uzoobidire2249you not even from NY you don’t even go here. STOP embarrassing yourself
Yasiin was on his James Baldwin flow
Criminally Underrated comment
Mos Def basically articulated what Dead Prez rapped about in the song Hip Hop‼️ Fire conversation 🔥
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
A beamer a Lexus or freeedom
Justice, a song, or some substance....
The fact the comment section is littered with people talking about Drake and his beat selections and how he makes music. Completely missed what Mos Def was saying.
Facts
People don’t know the difference between Hip hop or Rap and it shows.
Sleepwalkers
Let them continue to be idiots. Maybe they’ll take the time to ACTUAL listen…this just shows how easily distracted ppl are
You ever think people don't care like that, at the end of the day it's called entertainment. People like what they like regardless if it's rap or hip hop it's all entertainment.
TH-cam is messy for recommending this to me 😂😂. So relevant haha.
Lol facts
Coming back to this after the Kendrick battle is even deeper. Especially when understanding that the American military complex puts children and women at risk, the same way that Kendrick alleges Drake does too.
Man Kendrick full of ish. He put his wife in danger
THat drake and kendrick beef was not that deep. ffs
Mos Defs Level of Consciousness is What Hip Hop Was Suppose To Be On. Every MC, Rapper, Listener etc Was Suppose To Carry intelligence At Least To Understand The Spiritual Warfare We're in or What Mos Def is Saying Cause it's Basics. Music is The Weapon And Hip-Hop Was Suppose To Be A Weapon For The Culture. Now It's A Weapon Used Against The Culture. It's DUMBED DOWN.
I love this comment so much.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ wow beautiful said Dante would be proud
I'm glad you all discussed this because this was so much more important of a point he made than the entire Drake conversation
Bruh now I see why Kanye holds Mos Def to high regard. 💯
Meanwhile Kanye is Drake's consumerist twin...
@@HStalhaneKanye is consumerist too
Kanye used Mos Def and Talib to pretend to be deeper than he is. All he care about is what Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, and some other designer is doing to not let him run their company into the ground.
Just now you do?
@@superdupeninja8149he said that already.
Katt Williams said what kind of year it would be. So far its looking like a year of truth ( at least amongst our people ).
Pray it keep going
Until we show up and keep supporting this and all other poisonous bs out here.
WOW!!! What a powerful speech from MOS!!! He caught me off guard with the truth
I remember when Bill Maher and mates tried to put down, humiliate, Mos Def.
Thinking themselves more sophisticated/intelligent than him, because he was just a rapper.
Time has proven the opposite was true.
Nah, Mos.was on a few times, he just stepped in a discussion with Christpher Hitchens and was way off. It was cringe but it was a moment to realize, sometimes you're the teacher sometimes you're the student.
I remember watching that live and you’re right one is dead, and the other one might as well be because Bill Maher is one of the most worthless human beings alive.
How was he off? I’m all about the hitch slap but please explain considering what his did after and lived in the region he spoke and and not from the W hotel getting information from hand picked perspectives like most westernized media. End on the day, Hitch was for GW like the 70 millions morons who not hates him cuz Jesus Dump says so
I remember those appearances, poor Mos was out of his depth. Cornell West did his best to save Mos but it wasn't happening.
I really like hearing Bey's thoughts on the emptiness of consumerism and normalizing barbarity.
I believe God is not interested in our misery, hearing that just changed my life
S/O to Joe for putting this on a platform
Called the man a colonist. Lmao that is wild as hell
Aged like fine wine now 😂😂
Wow, shouts out to Mos the prophet 😂😂😂
This aged pretty well!!
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) is very insightful and completely right in his assessment about hip hop and the socio-political state of the world. Not only one of my fav MCs but also human beings. Speak the truth until the walls of Babylon fall...
Drake is an industry plant and that’s ok because he still has to perform and tour … just make hit records, that’s the best “insight”
@@SuperOmnicronsj44if thats all you heard 😴
Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen them actually close their mouths and listen! Having said that, this is the best clip of this podcast I’ve ever seen. 💯🙄🤐
Yep, big ass, immature goofy mouths on this show.
Yasiin can see the future. He foretold of these events
He was speaking on the Empire of Hiphop also ....
I dead ass heard drake playing in Walmart last week😂😂
As a formal target and Walmart manager, he definitely got 3 jawns in rotation 😢
I wish I knew and appreciated this bro back in college. I walked by him on 47th Street in NYC years ago. He looks and exudes the same great energy now as then. The Man!!!
He was spittin bars
Joe be DL loving the attack on Drake. 😂😂😂
Take the dl off he loves this shit.
Especially Parks.
Joe for sure loving it😂😂😂
As he should
Because Drake smashed his girl but he tries to act unbias
Drake is pushed to be King of this genre because he upholds consumerism in its highest form. Hip Hop is a culture built on being the voice of the voiceless and rap, being the soundtrack of hiphop gave messaging... Drake messaging is safe to any and all establishment...his raps arent political, nor ideological, and when they are personal, its only pertaining to his view of his love life, family and friends. Even the King of "Pop", Michael Jackson gave us edgy political songs. All of the other important artist in music's history have giving us a time stamped opinion of society. Drake literally moves like Switzerland. He is probably the safest rapper ever to hold such dominace, you can put Drake music on and not think.
Man shut up...Lil Wayne ran hip hop before Drake and Wayne was never political or spoke on important topics like that... Y'all just be looking for a reason to bash Drake 😂...
@@rodneyscott5450Wayne is not hip hop. Wayne is a rapper. He raps about a lifestyle like Drake/ Yall get Rap and hip hop confused. Rap is industry. Hip hop is culture. Hip hop has 5 principles that DJ, MC, Break dancing, graffiti and kick knowledge. Has wayne or Drake incorporate any of these in their Music or Videos?
@@rodneyscott5450 listen to Georgia Bush by Lil Wayne and recant your statement sir. Also Tie My Hands spoke on the current state of society at that particular time. Wayne definitely spoke up, you just weren't aware.
@@ronbattle9602 Okay...You found 2 records out of the thousands of songs Wayne has released 😂...
@@rodneyscott5450 nah I aint gone lie, the scale is definitely uneven as fuck but he did speak up about that Katrina shit that's all I'm sayin lol
Drake is empty calories. Yasin is a founder and a major contributor to the art, and Drake took his creative medium and figured out a way to mass produce, cut corners, package it and sell it. Dude needs more respect.
A philosopher and a prophet. He’s LIT!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Over the heads of the masses!
This was prophetic.
Mos was not wrong. But aubrey apologists scrambling to cape for their dad...its sad.
when he first dropped with wayne what was his music classified as pop?
We need more conscience rappers, When he talks people listen .. Joe was part of that once upon a time, With Broken wings freestyle is still dope to this day...
Listen to that all the time
We have conscious rappers, we can’t consume our way out of this.
@@dajion13 do you consume education? The only difference is substance.. That's the whole argument, One of them is junk food devoid of nutrients.. The other ones actual knowledge..
And y’all won’t buy their stuff, yet again.
This is too much for Drake fans to comprehend
That’s a fact
Indeed
Most of them are kids with a vapid mindset
You know this man know thyself... and I mean know know. Sovereign brother with a mind sharper than a switch 💯
Revisiting this clip, as it popped up… Mos and Kendrick should get together for a discussion… I can’t really hear them on the same track. But, love to both and more power to them and strength to each of their voice.
If you look at Drakes fat contract, he’s obligated to drop an album once a year and part take in two tours annually. UMG owns his image, his publishing, and his freedom when it comes to making public appearances. He is a product for the industry.
Bruh Mos Def is like Yoda of the last great rappers (fallen Jedi).
So... Kanye is Dooku, Drake is Vader?
@@HStalhane Kanye is Obi-Wan
@@FrancoisDresslerNah, Kanye is Maul after Episode 1
@@FrancoisDresslerbe fr
He’s too deep for y’all
Shut up
This was very constructive but not that deep
I mean yeah
No he isn’t
They are always trying to find comedy on serious conversation. I would love to see him on their podcast couch ripping them apart!
It needed to be said!
Prophetic. If Mos would've let a few of those points breathe, this would've landed on more people I think.
He didn't leave any room for the average person to process any one of his points lol it's like he wasn't having a conversation, he was just spilling thought.
This is what I DIG! Deep talk. That's the real talk for me.
Mos def is my favorite rapper of all time.
Mos was singing about “fk a bank, I need a 30 year water tank” in 1995 when the idea of water shortage Or contaminated water seemed ludicrous.
Kendrick prayed to Yaasin Bey for what he was about to do as he lay the verse to “Like That”
Thank you for this.
It’s good that they didn’t overlook his overall message to hyperfocus on the critique on Drake because that matters more. But not as intelligent people will only hear Drake and respond to that
He had to know mentioning Drake was gonna go viral and overshadow everything he said here.
@@ihateflatbunz?? Not really. The whole interview is more important to millions who value humane issues and not worship celebrities
@@d.o.z.e.shaolin7497 People weren't gonna give a damn about that interview outside the Drake shade. He is talking about some real issues I wish that was the story first and foremost.
….he didn't have to mention drake.
Only black people look at rappers as some kind of leader. Lol sad bunch.
Prophetic.
And mathematical
@@martissahouston9720 explain
Aged like wine.
Has yasin wrote any books? I could listen to him/read his words for the rest of my goddamn life most definitely…
Mighty Mos is the truth…..
“We were told that America was a thing that would come and go” wow powerful and profound
Ehh....l guess. Depends on what replaces it. I doubt most will like it.
Yasin Bey is a man of his words and he stands on what he says Hip Hop is dying, Drake is killing hip-hop and all these new artist that doesn't know real hip-hop if it bit them on their feet
This man been speaking truths for decades ❤️
Yasiin has become one of my favorite MC's/thinkers over the past few months💯
A lot of folks owe that man an apology.
This aged well!!! 😂😂😂😂
Look at Mos being a prophet 🤣
So many bars
The reckoning done reckoned
All of them shaking their head in agreement to the Mass Bay colony comment is priceless!!! Mighty Mos waaaay over their head and they are just going along with "Big Words"..LMAO
😅
There are still people who draw their inspiration from Malcolm, from the Panthers, from Marcus Garvey and anti-colonialist struggle.
We dont fall for the "black capitalism", getting a piece of the white mans cake, getting a chance to play the part of the oppressor.
We listened to Dead Prez, Mos Def, KRS-1.
Drake music is good for dancing, but if you have a soul you long for something deeper. People power ✊🏿
Mos ❤ giving love knowledge 📚and jewels 💎
I could listen to this man speak forever
3 months ago he predicted this.
He is truly rapping
MOS DEF LEGENDARY SINCE DAY 1.
I can listen to him all day. He is telling the truth.
Mos def Called it
That comment that he’s 50 drake is 37. Mate he wrote my Umi say in his twenty’s. Clearly reveals more about your maturity than it does about anything else.
This whole conversation makes me wish Yasiin put his music out on platforms where I could hear it.
He does. You have to pay for it exclusively.
@@clopez1148 you're talking about the Black Star album that eventually came out on Bandcamp a year later that you had to pay for monthly on that subscription app.
I'm talking about his album he had playing at the Brooklyn Museum in December of 2019.
For "one month only."
I wish I could have gotten to hear that project, people said it was pretty good.
Three of his first albums (four if you count Black Star) are available to be streamed. It’s just “The Ecstatic” and “No Fear of Time” that aren’t.
We need the ecstatic back on streaming
Revisited... the foresight
If he can put this in song form it'd be a certified hit
Nah bro! It would never make the radio! People do not want to hear this! If "RESPIRATION" aint a hit....I don't know what these other eardrums process!
@@fayettevillan1 doesn't have to make the radio, TH-cam sir
@@theflyent7106agreed, I think the old way of thinking when it comes to hits needs to revamped. I think hits can exist outside of Radio play and billboard top tens, fr fr.
@@fayettevillan1I get the cynicism man fr. Consciousness has always been seen as incompatible with "mainstream" rap success, but I do believe there is a lane he can thrive in and do numbers.
It would not be a hit, do you hear the “hits”? Are they full of knowledge and are prophetic? Or are they “Hey, I just met you, this is crazy”?
YES !!!!!! MOS/YAASIN !!!!! Intelligent conversation that will go over so many people's heads
Him describing the views photoshoot
Is so funny
I just want to say, rap did not start out being this deep, introspective thing….
It transformed into that during the 80s, as a reflection of the times… but at its beginning, it was a party genre….
Everything doesn’t have to be DEEP…..
Shut up.
Agreed
The issue isn't simply lack of depth in messaging, it's creating "art" that's solely designed to sell well without necessarily producing value.
Its evolved even further in the 50 years.
EXACTLY
Why is everyones legs crossed 😂
Drake fans are the same fans who would listen to Taylor Swift. These are not hardcore hiphop fans. They dont get it. They dont get the cultural distinction.
Gotdamn, this aged well
He was right!
Mos def was out here at Paris fashion show around them folks
yeah supporting a black owned label. Ya know, generating and recycling black wealth.
He’s a hypocrite according to his statements played in this video
He was out there not rapping luxury hip hop which is Yasin’s point ❤
Mos def talking levels
I love Mos Def and Drake! I’m 33 and I knew from the first time I heard Drake he would be the next 🤴🏾
The soundtrack to consumption 😮😮😮😮😮 💯🤷🏽♀️
Flip nods his head even tho he doesnt know whats being said🤣🤣🤣
Joe is a real one for digging in to what Mos really meant. Drake fans are children!!
I lost it when they started singing Umi Says like Negro Spiritual or ancient hymn😂
I've always said why am I gonna listen to someone brag about what I don't have.?