Hip-hop Is The Last True Folk Art.

Make Today's Solid Ground Out Of Yesterday's Quicksand.

I Began To Fear That Mos Def Was Being Treated As A Product, Not A Person, So I've Been Going By Yasiin Since '99. At First It Was Just For Friends And Family, But Now I'm Declaring It Openly.

I've Been Fortunate With My Acting Career. A Lot Of Scripts Come To Me. I Don't Mind Auditioning If Something That Requires That, But I Haven't Had To In Awhile, Which Is A Nice Place To Be 'cause I've Been On Quite A Lot Of Auditions In My Life.

My Umi Said Shine Your Light On The World, Shine Your Light For The World To See

In The Early '90s, When I Really Started To Find My Voice, I Was Reading A Lot Of Books, And I Was Moved By The Writers, Like Chinua Achebe, And I Wanted To Be Able To Write Rhymes That Were As Potent As What I Was Reading.