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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.

Record Companies Are Not Necessarily Interested In You Realizing Your Artistic Dream. The Bottom Line Is That They Got To Sell Records.

I Believe The Projects Were A Social Experiment; We Were Laboratory Rats Stacked On Top Of Each Other, And People Just Knew, Inherently, That There Was Something Wrong. There's Not A Lot Of Regard For The Property By The Residents.

I'm Inspired By Playwrights, Novelists, Poets: The Value Of Language Has Been A Lifelong Passion Of Mine. I Enjoy It. I'm Good At It.

If 'life In Marvelous Times' Can't Get On The Radio, Then I Don't Need To Be On The Radio.