Mos Def one of the biggest wastes of talent in hip hop

[Tommy Gibbs]

exactly
i remember he was on episode of spin city back in the day, this was back in 98'
same year the blackstar album was released

yep and we all would see him in that Deion Sanders commercial during Rap City episodes and didn't even know it was him until many years later. There are rapper/actors that got into acting after rap and then there are actor/rappers that had skills before the rap shyt(2pac, Mos Def). I think Mos has had 2 classicreleases. A lot of rappers can't say that for their career. I think that he lost his hunger due to the money he was making in hollywood.

 

[Ohene]

2nd biggest after Jay Electronica

But at least Mos gave us a classic

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

2nd biggest after Jay Electronica

But at least Mos gave us a classic

2. Black Star album as well.

 

[I love Latina women]

yep and we all would see him in that Deion Sanders commercial during Rap City episodes and didn't even know it was him until many years later. There are rapper/actors that got into acting after rap and then there are actor/rappers that had skills before the rap shyt(2pac, Mos Def). I think Mos has had 2 classicreleases. A lot of rappers can't say that for their career. I think that he lost his hunger due to the money he was making in hollywood.

yeah
i think he has 2 classic solo albums (black on both sides and the ecstatic)
1 classic group album (blackstar)

 

[The_Third_Man]

Hard to say of hes a waste of talent or under achiever. His live shows suck which floored me twice.

yep, very disappointing

 

[Suspicions]

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

man, he made some of my favorite rap songs!!
He should have made 1 more or another great LP..he had potential.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Agreed.
The only argument would be some stan shyt.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Common had a full career of rap releases and multiple classics. How many rap heads have him in their top ten? I bring that up to say this…even if Mos gave you what you wanted I don’t think you’d revere him like that either because of his content. People always gonna have the more street, less underground dudes ranked higher IMO.

Personally I thought Mos had/has a great career. Black On Both Sides is a classic. The New Danger is a great album. True Magic is super underrated IMO and very good. The Estatic is great. Mos is in my top 15 at least, as is Common.

I loved The New Danger but almost everyone else I knew wasn’t feeling it.

True Magic was a weedplate. The Ecstatic dope. Between BOBS, New Danger, Ecstatic and of course Blackstar (classic) he has quite a great body of work… just inconsistent and spread out.

 

[MrRDU]

What yall know bout this

 

[Threnody]

The New Danger was the only Mos Def album I fukked with this was the hardest shyt ever

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

What yall know bout this

classic Mos!!!

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

 

[up in here]

Rawkus fukked up with Mos. He was a certified star. Had they just signed Black Jack Johnson for an album, he could have made The New Danger a true follow up to BOBS and it would have been much more successful. I’m not saying The New Danger was bad, but if he was able to do an actual Black Jack Johnson project he could have also given us a full Mos Def album instead of a blend. And Mos was still killing it on hip hop tracks at the time, he just needed an outlet for his other artistic pursuits.

 

[alpo]

@TEXAS IS FULL you madddddd​