I forgot to mention to mention "Travelin Man" 😔 (absolute classic), "I Against I", "Oh No", "The Questions", "Brown Sugar".... other notable joints.
@itsX2024
3 ай бұрын
to add on: Shinjiro, Blak Iz Blak, 7 Days Remix, The R*pe Over, I Get High
@tiger_lord305
3 ай бұрын
@@itsX2024Never heard Shinjiro. Fire joint 🔥
@oneeyedichi
3 ай бұрын
Imma add on the original/unreleased version of "Brooklyn" too kzitem.info/news/bejne/mq570IKejKR9eKA
@owensmith2137
3 ай бұрын
Bright As The Stars as well
@user-ue2dv8om1f
3 ай бұрын
Travelin Man is one of my favorite mos def songs. That song really showed how he was able to spit while making an incredible song simultaneously. Beat is nuts too
@stevnnvets7537
3 ай бұрын
I feel like mos def is the embodiment of 90s hip hop. Idk how to explain it but that black on both sides album feels like a final good bye to 90s decade of hip hop.
@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb
3 ай бұрын
Most Definitely
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
It really was. Bye to the insightful hard rap 🥲
@gbc10gbc
3 ай бұрын
I think mos def is better than Andre 3000
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
without a doubt
@FinessedAnalyzer
3 ай бұрын
From '98 to '00, Jay might've been the only rapper seeing Mos. He had it all from the beat selection, flow, swag, charisma to the diction--and a huge emphasis on the latter, because his vocabulary was just so expansive and he just knew the right words to use. It's why he was so readily embraced by both underground and mainstream hip-hop fans. Whenever I go back and listen to what he did to Black Thought on "Double Trouble" (off of the "Things Fall Apart" album), I'm always reminded of your Black Thought critique on your "Radio freestyles (e.g. Funk Flex) are CORNY" video. Prime Mos was the antithesis to all that boring, rambling raps (without saying nothing) that guys like Black Thought get away with--those guys don't have a "Mathematics" in their chamber.
@FinessedAnalyzer
3 ай бұрын
11:09 -- "Hard knuckles on the second hands of working-class watches" -- as you pointed out, the man just had godly diction--none of that rambling nonsense that other rappers get away with.
@oneeyedichi
3 ай бұрын
“stay fluid even in staccato” 😷😵💫
@oneeyedichi
3 ай бұрын
“propers to b-boys getting busy” “it’s all-city like Phase 2” I love how Mos expresses his hip-hop savviness even pointing out b-boy and graffiti culture When most rappers brush over the other elements that breathe life in the culture
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
@@oneeyedichi agreed. Definitely something I should've mentioned: Mos Def really took the B-boy aesthetic to heart. His name alone tells you what he's reppin. And his flow has elements of really old school stuff like Melle Mel and Lovebug Starski. International B-boy 🫡
@ThatDopeShttt
3 ай бұрын
You're buggin. 'Black On Both Sides' is a certified classic! Even though you dislike all my favourite rappers, I'd still have a beer with ya. Great videos.
@balle733
3 ай бұрын
Did he say Black on Both Sides wasn’t a classic 🤦🏽♂️
@ThatDopeShttt
3 ай бұрын
@@balle733 He said 6 songs were classic, and for it to be a classic album it must have 9 songs i.e Illmatic. However, imo, Umi Says, New World Water, Got, Brooklyn, Rock n Roll, Do it Now, Ms Fat Booty, Hip Hop, Mathematics, Mr N*gga, and Habitat are all damn near flawless ‼
@andMilano
3 ай бұрын
@@ThatDopeShtttHabitat is my shit
@user-ph5yc6jj6w
3 ай бұрын
Where to start videos in the future: Snoop Dogg, Slick Rick, KRS-One, Big Pun, A Tribe Called Quest, EPMD Producer Profile: Timbaland, Dr. Dre, Swizz Beatz, Erick Sermon I think you said you'll do a video on EPMD sometime
@oneeyedichi
3 ай бұрын
Yeah I think a "where to start" but for 80's/golden age hip hop would be fire too
@aandwdabest
3 ай бұрын
He did a profile on timbaland.
@tiger_lord305
3 ай бұрын
My first exposure to Mos Def was his 2000s catalog because that was his most recent work at the time and didn’t care for any of it. I actually first heard of Mos Def on that Bin Laden joint by Immortal Technique. I didn’t really start digging though Mos Def’s discography until I heard Respiration about two years ago. Travelin Man is my favorite joint from him. Always puts me in a good mood. “This thing called rhyming is no different from coal mining, we both on an assignment to unearth a diamond” Great video as always.
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
Quotable 🥵
@tiger_lord305
3 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA Still need that vid on Kool Keith homie
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
@@tiger_lord305 eventually
@CertifiedWorldWide1
3 ай бұрын
That Jordan ad where he hooped with locals w/Umi says playing In the back >
@elbowjuice2627
3 ай бұрын
I really fw The Ecstatic. It sounds super weird but still good at the same time. And obviously Auditorium is an insane beat.
@krate6579
3 ай бұрын
The ASAP and Big Sean comparison was spot on. Big Sean was very popular on the radio but his music was extremely generic so it was forgotten over time. Rocky's old music was distinctive even the Long Live ASAP stuff which I know you're not as fond of. Even a corny non-street song like "Fashion Killa" has found a mainstream modern audience despite not getting any airplay on release. The more people find out about his older songs, especially Goldie or PMW, the more people won't shut up about him. Rocky's label failed him at the time in the early 10s, only pushing Fuckin Problems and Wild For The Night to the mainstream.
@michaelbrown6761
Күн бұрын
Universal Magnetic is such an underrated song. I remember listening to this way back when I was in college
@user-tb9sq5po6z
3 ай бұрын
@ 26:00 I like this commentary about rappers switching up their style as an excuse for masking off a musical fall-off. I think straight away when you said this I just kept thinking of Rocky's Testing album. He literally just named his whole last album off the literal term insinuating experimentation. There is no good reason for rappers to switch genres, but once your ego gets too big, things can get out of control. Unfortunately hip-hop is genre that invites that behaviour. This is why I try to stay away from the mainstream and look into the underground.
@2Slow2Gaf
3 ай бұрын
Let’s gooo!!!! I think my favorite song from him right now is hip hop but I’m still going through his shit
@gbc10gbc
3 ай бұрын
He’s everything that people say dot is… no diss but mos is just better
@user-ph5yc6jj6w
3 ай бұрын
Other good songs & features by mos def imo: Beef Sunshine Thug is A Drug Dollar Day Shinjiro The love song Crosstown beef I've committed murder Life in marvellous times Jam on it 7 days remix Oh no Big brother beat
@dylangeiger454
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for putting me on with universal magnetic that beat is insane
@4EverLaker
3 ай бұрын
I remember listening to you saying in another video didn't like BlackStar that much and someone else saying that the album was a disappointmenr, because its one of my favorite albums of all time. I thought BlackStar was better than Reflection Eternal, but I can't say I listened to Mos Def's first album. I actually respect the fact that you like them both, and they're both better rappers than Kendrick Lamar (who tries hard to be like them).
@andMilano
3 ай бұрын
Black Star album grew on me over the years i dig most of the tracks on there now
@hebrew26commandmentspower55
3 ай бұрын
Mos Def - Beauty In The Dark ... One of my favorite r&b turnt hip hop tracks ..... He did the isleys brothers justice with that track .... 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
@owensmith2137
3 ай бұрын
My goodness that track is amazing
@hebrew26commandmentspower55
3 ай бұрын
@@owensmith2137 Mos Def was in his bag back then ....
@owensmith2137
3 ай бұрын
@@hebrew26commandmentspower55 And he could sing great too! It's a shame he's always left us wondering how much greater he could have been.
@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb
3 ай бұрын
Great video as usual imo Mos Def is definitely a real conscious MC that is authentic and sincere of his raps and lyrical content and his music and his social conscious lyrics doesn't feel forced and pretentious unlike so many so called lyricist of today people put on a pedestal. Lastly Mos Def has a very ill voice and his music is so funky and soulful without trying too hard.
@oozy814
3 ай бұрын
What about “Love” and “Know That”? Wouldn’t those 2 songs make it 8 songs on BOBS which makes it almost classic to your rule? Great video though
@masestanley6813
3 ай бұрын
Tochi which album do u like more Dare iz a darkside or Muddy waters?
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
Dare Iz a Darkside
@4EverLaker
3 ай бұрын
Thieves in the Night ans Astronomy is classic hiphop.
@BlackenedLiam
3 ай бұрын
Yo Tochi, I got a question. I do agree with you about Black on Both Sides not being a full blown classic like that, it got alot of classic tracks but some tracks are just OK. So the album is Half Classic to me, but one album you do consider a classic is Live Love ASAP which is a great album too. But the fact that Live Love ASAP doesn't have great rhymes like Black on Both Sides so would you say that it's weaker than Black on Both Sides cause of the fact it doesn't have the same level of Rhymes or do you still consider Live Love ASAP being better cuz it got more classic songs? Cause I do remember you saying rappers like ASAP Rocky and Playboi Carti could never be on Nas or Jay level cause they dont have rhymes like that. Hope I make sense, your videos are great keep it up!
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
that is an excellent question and something I wrestle with. The truth is that I'm not entirely sure. I consider LiveLoveASAP to be the better album. More groundbreaking production style and the execution is superb throughout (for the most part). Whereas Black on Both Sides is executed a little less brilliantly
@BlackenedLiam
3 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA I see, you could say that the classic songs from Black on Both Sides are better than the Classic songs from Live Love ASAP. Thanks for the response!
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
@@BlackenedLiam that I agree with but LiveLoveASAP is a better listen all the way through.
@krate6579
3 ай бұрын
LLA production is more distinctive. Black on Both Sides is good but sounds not too dissimilar to a lot of music from that era. It's just Mos Def's flow is among the best of 90s rappers. That Brand New Guy beat for example just has an immaculate vibe and not to mention Clams Casino...
@yunfun.8893
3 ай бұрын
32:00 did you hear apparently there was a viral clip of a gay comedian dissing ASAP Rocky recently. I haven't checked it out but people said he got "destroyed" lol
@yunfun.8893
3 ай бұрын
Honestly for years I theorized Rocky was gay. RK members dissed him for it. I remember Etherwulf (Xavier Wulf) calling him a faggot 😂 but there's no way Rocky didn't engage in any of that diddy stuff. The pretty motherfucker stuff he played off well but what if he actually meant it meant it? There are quite a few videos of Rocky being intimate with men (esp Tyler) on the internet. He did a whole fashion campaign with a trans man... people forget 🤔
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
Nah I haven't heard of it.
@yunfun.8893
3 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA It's annoying as a head when a rapper gets dissed repeatedly and it doesn't motivate them to clap back at all. Dude never defends himself against Smoke. The Drake diss was like the first time someone popular actually called him out and then it got negated because he was beefing with someone else☠
@sgttomas
20 күн бұрын
The New Danger made me not even listen to his next album. ... there are some truly abysmal tracks 😢 but buried in the middle are Sunshine (powerful lyrics and Kanye produced that song) and it leads into Close Edge (the Chapelle Show song). I try not to forget about those two gems in the dung pile.
@tochiRTA
20 күн бұрын
@@sgttomas I hear you. It's that bad
@gbc10gbc
3 ай бұрын
The goat is really back 🫡🫡🫡
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
thanks bruh!
@ThatDopeShttt
3 ай бұрын
Oh and to add to this... Someone tell this new "Yasin" guy we want Mos Def back.
@EasternWindTV
2 ай бұрын
The Black Star album literally brought me out of a state of depression in 99
@tochiRTA
2 ай бұрын
great music can do that. Nowadays, hip hop causes depression lol
@robyee3325
3 ай бұрын
That black star album is for the ages
@octoberhhconsumer0095
2 ай бұрын
Ehh.... Illmatic has 8 classic records. NY State of Mind, Life's A Bitch, The World is Yours, Halftime, One Love, Memory Lane, Represent, and It Ain't Hard to tell. One Time 4 Your Mind is not a classic record... sorry. It was Large Professor that gave Nas a weak beat and it being towards the end of the album pretty much foreshadowed Nas with his beat selection issue later on in his career.
@tochiRTA
2 ай бұрын
nope.
@octoberhhconsumer0095
2 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA Sorry Tochi... but that is easily the weakest point of the album and interrupts the flow in a way. "One Love" is before it and "Represent" is after it, you're a man for recognizing stiff beats but yet give that beat a pass... Why?
@fno2009
3 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a Where to start for Treach/Naughty by Nature. I love all their obvious classic songs but don't know where to go next...
@arnavnaik6577
3 ай бұрын
My local library has both Black on Both Sides and the Ecstatic on CD. I fw both, though BOBS definitely has the edge imo.
@DuckDodgers345
3 ай бұрын
Black On Both Sides will always be the best hip hop album ever made to me.
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
Better than Illmatic? 😱
@DuckDodgers345
3 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA Lol I know it's a bold statement & mos def didn't have cutting edge moments on the level of nas & supreme clientele but I think he balanced that out with more diverse song writing, bring newer ideas to the table lyrically, heavier more well done live instrumentation & still keeping it experimental in a more convincing style imo. Idk this album just stuck with me more as time went by.
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
@@DuckDodgers345 fair enough. It's a superb album. Is "Represent" better than "Hip Hop?" When you get to the highest levels of rap quality, it all becomes the same and it's just a matter of preference.
@DuckDodgers345
3 ай бұрын
@@tochiRTA What do you think of "sunshine" from mos's new danger produced by kanye west ? Alot of people consider it a powerful moment in his career.
@ishaanmehta8481
3 ай бұрын
Black On Both Sides is #2 just to Illmatic to me. It's so replayable and beautifully flows from one track to the next.
@trnt4005
3 ай бұрын
Mos def is a pretty good singer, Workers Comp and Pistola off of Ecstatic is pretty soulful and beautiful.
@statmerchant6030
3 ай бұрын
I just re-listened to Kendrick's Euphoria... Hard to bump 😕
@itsX2024
3 ай бұрын
i havent heard B-Boy document in years 😮 shii was on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 soundtrack 😅 classic
@mitchgoudreau7670
3 ай бұрын
I love Mos Def. I wish he wasn’t as good of an actor so we would’ve gotten more music. The acting money too good I guess though.
@elbowjuice2627
3 ай бұрын
MENTIONED THAT HE WORKED FOR THE EMBASSY / HIGH STATUS, INTRIGUE AND MYSTERY
@kinetic_balding4051
3 ай бұрын
If you can huh you can hear is one of my favs outside of black on both sides
@lavenderlunchbox
3 ай бұрын
Me and my ex you to listen to black on both sides all day every day…
@MadiAbara
3 ай бұрын
The Black Star album has songs that range from solid to excellent! I wouldn’t call Black On Both Sides a classic either. It has 4 tracks that I skip but definitely a dope album. We need a “where to start” on Redman & Biggie.
@ProletarianTakeover
3 ай бұрын
Fascinating discussion. I hate that Israel shit but a lot of knowledge and instinct.
@ptreznov240
3 ай бұрын
YES been waiting on this. Mighty Mos Def is one of my favorites ever, arguably the best name a rapper has ever had imo, Black Star and Black on Both sides are two of my favorite albums ever. Had he kept putting out quality stuff consistently instead of quasi disappearing a la Andre 3000 Mos could’ve been up there in the hiphop lexicon with Nas, Jay, etc. One Love‼️
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
yeah his name is so ill! It's the perfect B-boy name.
@user-ue2dv8om1f
3 ай бұрын
Mos in the late 90s was incredible man. The way he kicked off that black star album “Black like my baby girl's stare Black like the veil that the muslimina wear Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared? Black like the slave ship that later brought us here Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears That leave black faces well traveled with years Black like assassin cross hairs Blacker than my granddaddy armchair He never really got no time to chill there” 🔥🔥🥵🥵
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
incredible 🥲
@AffA_LaVey
3 ай бұрын
Wbat do you think of big hits music
@user-ue2dv8om1f
3 ай бұрын
Can’t forget about that vid where mos is doing a freestyle next to Jesus at that park 😭 shit was so effortless for him he could’ve been top 10 without a doubt. Still one of my personal favorites tho
@tochiRTA
3 ай бұрын
unreal talent
@prevailwithme
3 ай бұрын
The Ecstatic is his best album!
@thdoom81
3 ай бұрын
"i've lived in the arab world so i understand it"..man this guy is full of himself...can't stand him.."my cousin grew up with mos def" LOL
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