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...Mos 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...
...Mos isn't a 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...
...Mos Def is short for Most Definitely, which apparently he used to say so much that it became his nickname; his real name is Dante Smith. At 31, Mos is one of the few (only?) rapper-actors who is actually good at both. As a musician, he has a reputation for being progressive and socially conscious, a post-bling antidote to hip-hop's rampant gangsterism. His latest solo album, The New Danger, came out in October, and it's an example of how Mos's iron commitment to his idiosyncratic sensibility can get in his way. It features...
...Guide is another cross-'em-up surprise: a nerd-friendly science-fiction comedy (based on the cult-classic novel and radio show by Douglas Adams) about a melancholy English bloke named Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) who roams the galaxy after Earth is demolished to build an interstellar bypass. Mos plays Arthur's winningly unflappable (and alien) best friend, and his laid-back vibe was in full effect on the set. "He slept a lot between takes," says executive producer Robbie Stamp. "The crews used to laugh. He had a phenomenal catnapping ability." But he wasn't phoning it in. "Some...
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...