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...def should really be talking about his new movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but it's late in the evening, he's been talking about it all day and, to be perfectly frank, he's a little Hitchhiked out. "Really, on a personal and spiritual level, I don't think it's good to, like, talk about yourself," he says, kicking back with a 7-Up at a downtown Manhattan hotel. "You start to get the idea that everything you have to say is exceedingly important. It's not. It can just be like, 'I'm tired...
...diva. He's a friendly, funny, smart, genuine guy who has a rapidly spiking career as an actor and a hip-hop artist. The key to his success is the Mos Def vibe: quirky, thoughtful, confident but low-key. Canned publicity is painful for him. "It's better if [the attention] comes organically, as opposed to being ... "-he searches for the mot juste -"vigorously campaigned...
Along with Ford Prefect (Mos Def) and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the characters take off across the Universe in a stolen spaceship, getting into all sorts of trouble along...
...transformative experience for me...People don’t realize that someone like Tupac gave himself the same type of college education in sociology and philosophy that Harvard students get here, purely of his own volition and interest. People don’t realize that rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Nas all have vast amounts of literature and orature behind them that move into their works. As far as school, I’m resolved to change the way that I view my education, because any knowledge I can integrate into a song or into a creation...
...about the uncertainty. And the hustle. As if our time at Harvard hasn’t already convinced us we need to make money, and how. As if the hustle of the past four years can’t compare to the rigor of networking at a Def Jam cocktail hour...