To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.
Mos DefTo me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos DefRecord companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
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