20 years ago to date: Mos Def gave us 1 of the greatest Hip-Hop albums ever

[CoryMack]

Remember watching him on rap city and he co-owned a Black bookstore in Brooklyn. Wonder if it’s still open.

 

[Zero]

Hesitant dap.

I still at the possibilities. This is high level classic. From 98-2000 he was coming for that throne.

He really was and it's such a shame to see what hes become

 

[Trot LaRoc]

Top 20 album OAT

Shoulda been a star but he got distracted by acting and later with all tha other fukkery

His discography is solid

BOBS is a 10
Ecstatic is a 8
New Danger is a 7 bc its kinda uneven but it is a solid album that tried to break new ground

Thats three above average to great albums...more than 95% of MCs can manage

 

[TrifeGod]

His acting wasn’t that bad either I used to just let the last track instrumental play all day

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

Classic

Gonna play this first thing tomoro morning

 

[Blankthawtz]

I still remember cop'n this first day back in '99.....one of my greatest purchases....

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Classic

Gonna play this first thing tomoro morning

yup gonna listen to this on the way to work tomorrow morning

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Monumental album

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Damn bro. This was the day me and my college girl became official and I remember going to galleria mall in Westchester to buy this album

I loved that she was a hip hop head...we use to put each other on to different rap albums.

Now a days these bytches i meet dont even know who mos def is...

Smh

Mos Def and Q-Tip were like the token backpack dudes that the girls loved

 

[~*--------(Big Boom)]

Where one of the Greatest MC's was a local cat

Brooklyn

 

[I love Latina women]

Classic album

But man, cats be sleeping on Yasiin's albums and it's really all because a lot of cats wanted Black On Both Sides 2

Yasiin get the same kind of flack that Nas get for never dropping another Illmatic. People was stuck on Black On Both Sides, they hardly ever take the time to appreciate his catalog but he continued to evolve as an artist.

The New Danger had some dope songs on there. Songs like Champion Requiem, Zimzallabim, Life is Real, Ghetto Rock, Modern Marvel, Sunshine, The Panties
True Magic had some dope joints too; Dollar Day, Fake Bonanza, There Is a Way, Lifetime, U R The One, Undeniable
And The Ecstatic is a classic in my opinion.

 

[PaperEnterprise]

Mos Def and Q-Tip were like the token backpack dudes that the girls loved

She was a Nas groupie. For like a few months I hated Nas lol

She knew her hip hop tho.

 

[ISO]

I was watching Brown Sugar with a shortie last month on Hulu

The next day I listened to this album what happened to Mos man

This is a super classic hip hop album emphasis on the hip hop

 

[King P]

Mos Def and Q-Tip were like the token backpack dudes that the girls loved

I know plenty girls that loved Common as well

 

[x-factor7]

Amazing album

I still maintain that Mos would've blown up if he released an album in the 2002 time-frame, he was in that zone where he was between underground/backpack and mainstream. Kind of like Kanye with the College Dropout. BOBS went Gold and he would've definitely gotten a push, he has the charisma to be a mainstream artist.