Actors in discussion to star in the film include Stephen Dorff, Steve Coogan and Mos Def, he said.
In 2000, his spoken-word album The Rose That Grew From Concrete featured luminaries from Mos Def to Nikki Giovanni reading his poetry.
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As a producer, he's worked with a range of artists and styles, from Mos Def to The Polyphonic Spree and Massive Attack.
Is the next Mos Def or Azealia Banks languishing in a region where there's no way to get his or her talent across?
Is the next Mos Def or Azalea Banks languishing in a region where there's no way to get his or her talent across?
The mainstream press has taken notice, too, drawing attention to Glasper's hip-hop-inflected rhythms and his associations with artists such as Mos Def, Common, Q-Tip and Erykah Badu.
Composer and pianist Robert Glasper has recorded with artists ranging from Roy Hargrove to Carly Simon, and he often collaborates with hip-hop stars like Mos Def and Q-Tip.
The most surprising musical movement that Hines foreshadowed, remarkably, was rap: In 1929, Hines himself performed a monologue in minstrel-show ebonics that could easily be done by Mos Def today.
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So for a more objective assessment of his essays on pop culture (which include ruminations on rapper Mos Def, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson and jazz bandleader Billy Eckstein), read this recent review.
One Saturday I sat alone on the floor in our tiny apartment, piecing a quilt, when the CD changer switched to a Mos Def album that Adam had been listening to a few days before.
Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, your basic tetchy Brit, who is dragged along by his un-British indeed, unhuman friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def) on a trip through some of the more risible highlights of deep space.
Boris Kodjoe is believable as an amorous basketball player, and Mos Def has great success with the small role of Christopher, a rapper reduced to driving a taxi. (And one of the only medallioned cabs in New York without a security barrier, which would have impeded several dialogue scenes.) Keep an ear out for Christopher's quick rap on Bogey and Casablanca.
Ms. TONI BLACKMAN (Musician): I think my music is really in the vein of a Lauryn Hill, of a Mos Def, of a Talib Kweli, of the Roots, of artists who are part of hip-hop culture and really committed not only to being on stage and being in the limelight but really committed to the art form and to the tradition of the oral tradition.
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