Tag: Mos Def
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Mos Def, ?uestlove, Jeff Bradshaw & Brass Heaven Performs “Umi Says” Live At Blue Note NYC (Video)
This track off of Black On Both Sides has always been one of my favorite Mos Def songs… During ?uestlove’s recent "?uestlove Eats: In Concert….A Night Of Food & Music", Yaslin Bey hops on stage from the audience to perform "Umi Says" with ?uestlove on drums, Jeff "Mr Trombone" Bradshaw and Brass Heaven accompanying. Run That…
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Hip Hop History Lesson: The Movie ‘Chameleon Street’…
The intro on the track "Brown Skin Lady" (where two guys are talking about light skinned women and being conditioned by "the man"), off Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s classic 1998 album Black Star, samples a sound clip from the 1989 independent film Chameleon Street. Chameleon Street satires the true life story of Detroit…