Mos Def’s talent needs to be studied 🤯🔥 On HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, he served as both host a… — @hiphopofthe90s

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@hiphopofthe90s's TikTok video "Mos Def’s talent needs to be studied 🤯🔥 On HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, he served as both host and co-executive producer. Recorded before a live audience at New York’s Supper Club, the series gave established poets and emerging writers a television platform alongside familiar names from hip-hop and soul. Poets such as Black Ice and Patricia Smith appeared on the program, as did Rakim, Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli. The series earned a Peabody Award for bringing contemporary performance poetry to a wider audience. On Black on Both Sides, DJ Premier produced “Mathematics,” while “Umi Says” features Mos singing alongside Weldon Irvine on Hammond organ and will.i.am on Fender Rhodes. Mos played instruments on the album himself, too. He’s credited with bass and drums on “Rock N Roll,” and bass and vibraphone on the instrumental closer, “May–December.” During that same early-2000s period, he also starred opposite Jeffrey Wright in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog on Broadway. Who’s on Mos Def’s level when it comes to lyricism? 🤔⁉️ #rap #hiphop #rapmusic #hiphopmusic" has 383,624 views, 32,942 likes, 785 comments, 1,892 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 9.28% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted 10 days ago and runs 1 minute 21 seconds. It has been saved 4,549 times.

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