I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
Mos DefIt's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."
Mos DefRecord companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
Mos DefI never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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