I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

Live now for the promise of the Infinite

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.