Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

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• I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Look
  • Rap

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• I would love to do Broadway again.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Again
  • Broadway

• Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Music
  • Rap

• Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Me

• When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

  

  Ice T
  • Game
  • Dream
  • Rap

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

  

  Kanye West
  • Nice
  • Rap
  • Listen

• I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • Moments
  • Win
  • Rap

• If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Anything
  • Broadway

• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Rap

• My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Know

• I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Rap
  • Repetition

• I don't rap to get the women, fuck bitches. Give me a fat slut that cooks and does dishes.

  

  Eminem
  • Women
  • Rap

• There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the wind blows, and the world turns, And the rain drops, and the baby cries, And the bird flies, and the ground quake, And the stars gleam.

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • World
  • Baby
  • Rap

• Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Comfortable

• Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

  

  Byron Howard
  • Done
  • House

• What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Good
  • Travel

• Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Jump

• I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Rap
  • Broadway
  • Midnight