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Topic subjectRE: Was Mos Def wrong for dissing Bono back in the Katrina days?
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2893115, RE: Was Mos Def wrong for dissing Bono back in the Katrina days?
Posted by Nick Has a Problem...Seriously, Mon Jul-21-14 08:14 AM
>People hate Bono cause he's a celebrity humanitarian and he's
>quick to point out all the good things he's done or tries to
>do. I thought what Mos did was foul, I've never heard anything
>about Mos Def giving back to the community or put some of his
>own money to improve living conditions of the poor. I always
>thought of Mos as an underground cat that has no money but I
>was wrong dude has bread. Mos is all talk I guess, kinda like
>a studio gangsta (studio activist). Or he's like a pimp he'll
>talk about issues but no doe.

Mos Def ain't got bread like Bono so he's not gonna be able to help on that level. Didn't him and Kweli have a library or some shit?