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Mos Def & Cornel West on Bill Maher

posted by evil_disco_man 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 2178 views
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Hip-hop artist Mos Def and Princeton professor Cornel West keep it real on Real Time. Agree or disagree - on one topic or another - there are many valid points brought up.

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this guy is a genius!


written by deathcow  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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mos def might have a speech disorder, but luckily we can understand him alright.
cornell west.... who cares.


written by marinara  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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wow, Mos Def sounded much more intelligent on HHGTTG.... the "IQ 80" accent does not suit him

did you even listen to the content of this? how his voice/accent bears any relevance to what he had to say is beyond me. valuable opinion? i think not

mos def might have a speech disorder, but luckily we can understand him alright.
cornell west.... who cares.

yeah, just the kind of retarded comment that you'd expect from people who can't see past the end of their eyelash. Go you


written by alien_concept  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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intelligence migrates to the projects!

As Kant used to say -

it's an a priori faculty, motherfuckers


written by bluecliff  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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wtf why the downvotes


written by deathcow  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^deathcow:
wtf why the downvotes

Well, since you asked, let's go back to your original quote (before you sarcastically edited it)...

"wow, Mos Def sounded much more intelligent on HHGTTG.... the "IQ 80" accent does not suit him"

The IQ 80 accent? As if everyone who speaks "ghetto" or uses slang must be unintelligent. No, Mos Def should go back to the corrupt and despicable school system of the ghetto (he grew up in Brooklyn) and learn himself some real English so us whiteys can understand him better! Then maybe he'll be more accepted into the mainstream media instead of being written off as another tokin' black guy for Uncle Sam to chuckle at. In reality, Mos Def is one of the leading underground hip-hop artists of our time, a man who actually has a message to his music, unlike 90% of the c"rap" that's out there talking about bling, guns and hoes. And as seen here, he's willing to speak his mind and say things in public that many people have thought but are too afraid (read: no balls) to say.

The accent doesn't "suit" him? Please. Do us a jig Mos! As if he's putting on some kind of act. Then to say he sounded more intelligent in some cheesy kiddy movie where he WAS acting, completely degrades what this man has accomplished in his lifetime - and believe me, HHGTTG is barely a blip on his radar.

On to the next quote...

"mos def might have a speech disorder, but luckily we can understand him alright.
cornell west.... who cares."

Speech disorder - pfft, yeah. Maybe he should start talking "more white" so that we can translate this foreign ebonic jibberish. See above.

Cornel West... who cares? Right, he's only a former Harvard professor, current Princeton professor, a best-selling author, civil rights activist, a well-respected sociologist and social critic especially when it comes to matters of race and religion, etc. etc. Nope, he's just using a bunch of big phony words I can't follow, therefore he must be talking out of his ass. In fact, Cornel West has many more meaningful things to say than you or I probably ever will.

I never thought I would give out downvotes, especially to people who upvoted my own video, but those comments completely missed the point.


written by evil_disco_man  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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i think Mos Def is genius and the things he said here are right on. but i do think he talks funny. i grew up in Washington DC which has some of the worst school systems and gettos in the nation or did in the early 90s and i never ran into people that talk like him.. so he might have a speech problem lost of people do.. it dose not make him dumb.


written by 8422  | 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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"Am gonna fuck you up when I see you..."

Hilarious.


written by Farhad2000  | 6 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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*promote !!!!


written by peggedbea  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, June 26th, 2008 5:24pm PDT - promote requested by peggedbea.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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i have a raging crush on mos def also


written by peggedbea  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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West - "I think [Osama] had something to do with the buildings, because he said so."

That's debatable. He has been quoted as both denying and accepting responsibility for the attacks.

The validity of the statements on either side is questionable as well.


written by EndAll  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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Some good points, but he doesn't believe in the moon landing and does believe in bigfoot? *thumbs down*


written by Truckchase  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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Disco, Mos Def has a speaking disorder, I've known him for 8 years.


written by Yogi  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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Seven countries that execute homosexuals:
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania

I like Mos Def, but his views on islam are just as fucked up as someone from a fundementalist megachurch.

Also, food for the conspiracy crackpots, at 1:56-57 Maher does the 'devil sign' AT THE SAME TIME HE'S REJECTING THAT THE GOVERMENT IS RESPONSIBLE!
THIS SIGN: http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/7/P/bush_evil.jpg

dumm dummmm dummm DUUUUMMMM


written by ElJardinero  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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>> ^Yogi:
Disco, Mos Def has a speaking disorder, I've known him for 8 years.


I didn't know that, but I do know I overreacted to those comments. Ah, beer.


written by evil_disco_man  | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH
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