I was going to do a poll but I want to be more inclusive and open up discussion.

This post stems from non-stop plays of Yasiin Gaye.

So what's your favorite? What's his best?

Thieves In The Night?

Mathematics?

Hurricane?

Go!

but damn, asking what's the best Mos verse is like asking what Primo's best beat is, just way too much greatness to pick one

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>but damn, asking what's the best Mos verse is like asking
>what Primo's best beat is, just way too much greatness to pick
>one

"Mercenaries are paid to trade hot stock tips"

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

Amazing verse

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"There's no space in the budget for a cape
That's when you gotta fly by night to save the day
Crash landings routinely happen
Some survive others never rise from the ashes"

Also

"The windows on the ave look like sad eyes
They fix a sharp gaze at you when you pass by"

>"The windows on the ave look like sad eyes
>They fix a sharp gaze at you when you pass by"
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THAT SHIT IS FIRE

Cause I'm doing better now, don't mean I never lost shit/ I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it -- Black Thought

He paints such a picture on that song.

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His "What's Beef" verse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmhZW1dDis - or "Respiration."




"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas
Beef is when working people can't find jobs

That verse is just too real and a slap on the face to be ignorance in Hip-Hop.

Love it

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun
Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

His adherence to the rhyming scheme for the song and his flow are top notch.

Off topic, but I just went back to looked up the Pharcyde/Tribe mash-up done by the same folks that did the Mos Def/Marvin Gaye mash up and this shit is pure bliss so far.

to choose from.

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I wish the guy that did the Yasiin Gaye joint put Mos Def's Hurricane verse and Nas' Last Words verse on that song.

For the longest I've been saying those two verses go together so well conceptually that it may be the best song lyrically if they were together.

Kweli had a great verse there as well.

As far as Mos though, I also like the one verse on Revelations

Mos has a ton of great verse, but that verse is one of the greatest verses ever and murders every other verse he's spit by a landslide.

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Ima have to do recon, review my Mos catalogue and come back.


He's the perfect emcee for this type of post tho:
A 3-dimensional emcee with equal parts; style, lyricism, voice, flow, delivery, charisma.

I'll be back later.....

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"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

Mathematics comes to mind, probly the 2nd verse.

Someone above mentioned Two Words, GREAT call. I love that verse and feel like it doesn't get the credit it deserves.

I think I may have to go with his verse on Hata Playas. "Visions occupy my synaptic space..."

So dope.

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but this may send me on a Mos Def listening spiral because I know he has so many more

Rest In Peace, Bad News Brown

I'm confused as to why that version was never released. It's exceptional. It sounds like Mos is actually crying at the end. I found it years ago, but have since misplaced the audio.

I totally forget that Kewli has two parts on that song because I never really listen to his parts

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