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Mos Def and Talib Kweli are two pretty cultured and intelligent dudes who use a bunch of allusions(references to something out side of literature) in their rhymes. In this post, I’ll shed some light on those allusions for you from their song RE:DEFINITION. I'll post a lyric then do an explanation. A lot of it is pretty straightforward, so I'm not going to post all the lyrics. here we go:
"You get kicked into obscurity like judo, no Menudo cause you pseudo, tryin to com... MORE
"You get kicked into obscurity like judo, no Menudo cause you pseudo, tryin to com... MORE
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Here's a great reworking of Slick Rick's "Children's Story" as only Black Star could do. Talib Kweli and Mos Def are dynamic together, yet I've not found either one of them as good individually as they are together. With a lot of Hip hop groups there are always the one or two stand outs, I find myself wishing Blackstar would cut another album together rather than their solo projects.... MORE
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Blackstar Well we finally came to some Hip-Hop, it could be because its raining today, for some reason hip-hop sounds great when it’s raining. Let me start by saying that Hip-Hop gets a bad rap (no pun intended). True hip-hop music originated in the 1970’s in New York from inner city kids who needed an outlet for the frustrations they were dealing with. Rapping about poverty, crime, violence, etc may seem awful to the average person, but it’s exactly what they... MORE
