"The Reckoning Is COMING!" says Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) | Joe Budden Reacts to Rare Interview

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[@MHSenju3000]

This aged like gold

[@mystruth5987]

Fine wine 😢

[@CuriousNun]

In what aspect specifically? Cause even though very insightful and introspective, what he said was apparent and obvious. So what made you say that?

[@wideopenwounds]

@@CuriousNun how does it being apparent and obvious to you change the fact that a statement aged well. The obviousness of something has nothing to do with how it ages.

[@CuriousNun]

@@wideopenwounds if that's how it works then cool, it's like saying the sun will rise tomorrow and someone coming tomorrow to say "this aged like gold" 😂

[@wideopenwounds]

@@CuriousNun yeah except the comparison is disingenuous at best, not all things are equally apparent. Comparing a scientific fact that the sun will rise tomorrow that all humans know, vs his comments aging well because of a beef that you didn’t see coming this year at all, nobody did, is apples and oranges.

[@iDesignFLi]

This just makes what Kendrick did to Drake that much better 😂😂😂 💯

[@shaad4044]

This aged like Pharrell 😂

[@shaad4044]

Pharrell Williams that is

[@DashikiBraxton]

@@shaad4044in other words it didn’t age at all lol

[@shaad4044]

@@DashikiBraxton lmao aged so well, time sat still

[@REXae86]

@@shaad4044 like a fine wine imported from Italy.

[@sidepriest]

Lmao

[@rafaelpena4269]

Mos was spitting triple entendre's in an interview😂😂😂

[@daimarwalker262]

Nah quadruple 😂😂

[@marquise7200]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@BProof]

He's had them saved up after years of shit work ethic and disqualifying himself from the conversation.

[@MrStruk17]

He MOST DEFINITELY was🎤🔥🔥🔥💪🏾💯👑

[@DaneBaptisteComedy]

Tupac died at 25; Illmatic dropped when Nas was 19. The lack of consciousness can’t be put down to age.

[@wavyvashon444]

Real shit smh

[@AndreaClinton]

It can when all you see is ass shaking & gang talk, etc.

[@craighunterii8742]

I agree but Pac was still young minded in other aspects. He likely wouldn't have passed at that early age if he learned to subdue his passions

[@Tman33919]

@@craighunterii8742he was stalked by the government his whole life, got put in prison for a false rape charge, he was harassed by white people on his own property, people looking through his windows, he got beat up by the police for jaywalking, he got shot 5 times and the whole world made fun of him and tried to make him out like a criminal. How do you think you would react? I would say 2Pac handled that well at 20-25. Through all that he stayed humble and still made conscious music. He had fun on certain songs, yet he still made more conscious music than not. So based on that I don’t think he was young minded. There are people in their 50’s right now who are immature.

[@marquise7200]

Nah Fred Hampton was 20 running a black panther branch in Chicago we kinda devolving

[@AlSween]

The irony is that Yasiin Bey wasn't focused on Drake really.

[@uzoobidire2249]

😂 you obviously missed it. He was asked about drake. Mos def is am MC, in new york subliminal is a norm and only smart dudes gets it.

[@Msboochie2]

@@uzoobidire2249You missed it, or you have serious comprehension problems.

[@uzoobidire2249]

@@Msboochie2 nope.i will help you understand because you have terrible comprehension problems. You didn't listen to the full interview, I did. You probably are going off of short clips from a podcast and probably don't know that drake did diss Mos Def on IG. Mos Def was asked, "is drake hiphop"? Those responses came from that question If you don't understand, ask questions and do research rather than exposing your ignorance on social media.

[@Giggsboson]

Yasin was talking this shit in his 20s. There are young artists today who speak their mind. Never an age thing. He just doesn't respect cowards. simple

[@yomrap6931]

🎯 You can tell Ice leans towards never speaking up. Mos is saying Hip-Hop should always be that voice & the biggest artist should use their platform to say something. Every album can't be all party & girl songs.

[@ihateflatbunz]

@@yomrap6931 We didn't put that pressure on Jay and he rarely said anything out of the norm. Why do we expect Drake to be woke let Cole and Kendrick have that lane and guys like Lupe.

[@yomrap6931]

@@ihateflatbunz He said everyone should do what they're called to do & it was bigger than 1 person but even Jay has said things about social conditions in his music. For instance DJ Khaled lost my respect for not saying a word & he's Palestinian. (Doesn't have to be in the music, say something in an interview)

[@ihateflatbunz]

@@yomrap6931 I'm talking Jay in his prime he's just started over the last 7 or so taking stances.

[@Giggsboson]

@@yomrap6931 Exactly. Also, apart from Mel or parks, who seem to educate themselves on topics other than america or the "culture", i feel like what Mos speaks to will go way over there heads. Mos is showing that he has traveled and those travels added to his being hence his appreciation of life and humans has evolved. Not just Turks and Caicos baecations

[@easyrider3066]

Mos Def is extremely calculated in his intentions. He knew calling out Drake would shine a very bright light on him. Thus creating a moment for his words to be heard by all. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

[@ChaosBeforeOrder]

That's what I'm on frfr, sovereignty, having a voice...making every step, and breathe I take a slap in the face to those wanting to participate in the oppressors games

[@anu-blisselshabazz2676]

Easy this comment gave me chills. This is how I live life in this realm. Because it is so evil here...

[@iant4281]

This was heat, Yasiin Bey dropped a freestyle in that interview.

[@azmonrougier]

listening to this after Kendrick exposed the colonizer with a smile on my face...

[@DaLumpy1]

Props to Joe for pointing out an important aspect to this dialogue, which is shorty truly being educated & enlightened enough to understand what Mos was putting down 💜🫡🤙🏾

[@kennethrobinson5111]

T.I. has left the chat

[@essayyjay]

Fuck that, he was being patronising as fuck. A fool playing his jingles over the words being said.

[@drewstar8611]

The fact the comment section is littered with people talking about Drake and his beat selections and how he makes music. Completely missed what Mos Def was saying.

[@columbusoking81]

Facts

[@Disniqqahere]

People don’t know the difference between Hip hop or Rap and it shows.

[@focuz4899]

Sleepwalkers

[@SpeedBoostGamer]

Let them continue to be idiots. Maybe they’ll take the time to ACTUAL listen…this just shows how easily distracted ppl are

[@IspeakFacts-wx3gv]

You ever think people don't care like that, at the end of the day it's called entertainment. People like what they like regardless if it's rap or hip hop it's all entertainment.

[@freshpaper800]

Mos Def basically articulated what Dead Prez rapped about in the song Hip Hop‼️ Fire conversation 🔥

[@checkarelli]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@jacobprice8048]

A beamer a Lexus or freeedom

[@snifcompanyculturemediat.v7979]

Yasiin was on his James Baldwin flow

[@nathanvandy4249]

Coming back to this after the Kendrick battle is even deeper. Especially when understanding that the American military complex puts children and women at risk, the same way that Kendrick alleges Drake does too.

[@thehumannugakareemsupreme9484]

Man Kendrick full of ish. He put his wife in danger

[@SmileUp4]

WOW!!! What a powerful speech from MOS!!! He caught me off guard with the truth

[@pmicha04]

I'm glad you all discussed this because this was so much more important of a point he made than the entire Drake conversation

[@Dark_Lotus88]

Wow, shouts out to Mos the prophet 😂😂😂

[@andremiller1566]

Katt Williams said what kind of year it would be. So far its looking like a year of truth ( at least amongst our people ).

[@JoeNeely]

Pray it keep going

[@jflack6]

Until we show up and keep supporting this and all other poisonous bs out here.

[@JohnJayAye85]

Bruh now I see why Kanye holds Mos Def to high regard. 💯

[@HStalhane]

Meanwhile Kanye is Drake's consumerist twin...

[@superdupeninja8149]

@@HStalhaneKanye is consumerist too

[@Cackerot79]

Kanye used Mos Def and Talib to pretend to be deeper than he is. All he care about is what Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, and some other designer is doing to not let him run their company into the ground.

[@frequentiis]

that's a very GenZ thing to say, we millennials been knowing about mos def for DECADES

[@jflack6]

Just now you do?

[@adamp2426]

I remember when Bill Maher and mates tried to put down, humiliate, Mos Def. Thinking themselves more sophisticated/intelligent than him, because he was just a rapper. Time has proven the opposite was true.

[@kactusJacko]

Nah, Mos.was on a few times, he just stepped in a discussion with Christpher Hitchens and was way off. It was cringe but it was a moment to realize, sometimes you're the teacher sometimes you're the student.

[@viperrecords3288]

I remember watching that live and you’re right one is dead, and the other one might as well be because Bill Maher is one of the most worthless human beings alive.

[@mwansa19]

S/O to Joe for putting this on a platform

[@carolrobinson4788]

Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen them actually close their mouths and listen! Having said that, this is the best clip of this podcast I’ve ever seen. 💯🙄🤐

[@jflack6]

Yep, big ass, immature goofy mouths on this show.

[@nefertirilsm3406]

This aged superbly

[@tthex6484]

Joe be DL loving the attack on Drake. 😂😂😂

[@ihateflatbunz]

Take the dl off he loves this shit.

[@b.a3595]

Especially Parks.

[@projectX928]

Joe for sure loving it😂😂😂

[@synergywithisis]

Mos Defs Level of Consciousness is What Hip Hop Was Suppose To Be On. Every MC, Rapper, Listener etc Was Suppose To Carry intelligence At Least To Understand The Spiritual Warfare We're in or What Mos Def is Saying Cause it's Basics. Music is The Weapon And Hip-Hop Was Suppose To Be Weapon For The Culture. Now It's A Weapon Used Against The Culture. It's DUMBED DOWN.

[@jtrealfunny]

I really like hearing Bey's thoughts on the emptiness of consumerism and normalizing barbarity.

[@kasotaylor4842]

Called the man a colonist. Lmao that is wild as hell

[@lovelegacy500]

He was speaking on the Empire of Hiphop also ....

[@TALKONTHANET]

Please add to the board *Black owned vs Black targeted* that’s a conversation that need to be had. Mos is hitting on it. Black artist can’t do their music or speak their mind through their music. They want Black artist to do mall/bubble gum music which is black targeted, like Tubi. Murdock used in living color, 21 jump street etc to make millions off the back of black shows only to create white shows off the rating then cancel the black shows. It’s a pattern of practice.

[@coreycashdollaz]

This right here!!!!! 💯

[@jordandavis3867]

KZbin is messy for recommending this to me 😂😂. So relevant haha.

[@realangrymf]

Mos is a different level of consciousness!

[@dmtmediabrothers]

He was spittin bars

[@kylebourne6839]

Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) is very insightful and completely right in his assessment about hip hop and the socio-political state of the world. Not only one of my fav MCs but also human beings. Speak the truth until the walls of Babylon fall...

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

Drake is an industry plant and that’s ok because he still has to perform and tour … just make hit records, that’s the best “insight”

[@GODHATESVANDAL]

​@@SuperOmnicronsj44if thats all you heard 😴

[@th3realryguyNY]

Over the heads of the masses!

[@derekirving2360]

Yasiin articulated what I've been feeling for a long time

[@willplumtree8061]

I wish I knew and appreciated this bro back in college. I walked by him on 47th Street in NYC years ago. He looks and exudes the same great energy now as then. The Man!!!

[@MotivationalMotivationUnlocked]

Prophetic.

[@bl2528]

Bruh Mos Def is like Yoda of the last great rappers (fallen Jedi).

[@HStalhane]

So... Kanye is Dooku, Drake is Vader?

[@FrancoisDressler]

@@HStalhane Kanye is Obi-Wan

[@josephmoore9706]

​​@@FrancoisDresslerNah, Kanye is Maul after Episode 1

[@xsmoothkriminal7267]

This aged pretty well!!

[@Sinn3r1337]

We need more conscience rappers, When he talks people listen .. Joe was part of that once upon a time, With Broken wings freestyle is still dope to this day...

[@njinhere]

Listen to that all the time

[@dajion13]

We have conscious rappers, we can’t consume our way out of this.

[@Sinn3r1337]

@@dajion13 do you consume education? The only difference is substance.. That's the whole argument, One of them is junk food devoid of nutrients.. The other ones actual knowledge..

[@jflack6]

And y’all won’t buy their stuff, yet again.

[@reaganr4251]

This is too much for Drake fans to comprehend

[@5teveV]

That’s a fact

[@emerg0n0see]

Indeed

[@viperrecords3288]

Most of them are kids with a vapid mindset

[@4SZZN]

Drake is pushed to be King of this genre because he upholds consumerism in its highest form. Hip Hop is a culture built on being the voice of the voiceless and rap, being the soundtrack of hiphop gave messaging... Drake messaging is safe to any and all establishment...his raps arent political, nor ideological, and when they are personal, its only pertaining to his view of his love life, family and friends. Even the King of "Pop", Michael Jackson gave us edgy political songs. All of the other important artist in music's history have giving us a time stamped opinion of society. Drake literally moves like Switzerland. He is probably the safest rapper ever to hold such dominace, you can put Drake music on and not think.

[@rodneyscott5450]

Man shut up...Lil Wayne ran hip hop before Drake and Wayne was never political or spoke on important topics like that... Y'all just be looking for a reason to bash Drake 😂...

[@Disniqqahere]

@@rodneyscott5450Wayne is not hip hop. Wayne is a rapper. He raps about a lifestyle like Drake/ Yall get Rap and hip hop confused. Rap is industry. Hip hop is culture. Hip hop has 5 principles that DJ, MC, Break dancing, graffiti and kick knowledge. Has wayne or Drake incorporate any of these in their Music or Videos?

[@ronbattle9602]

​@@rodneyscott5450 listen to Georgia Bush by Lil Wayne and recant your statement sir. Also Tie My Hands spoke on the current state of society at that particular time. Wayne definitely spoke up, you just weren't aware.

[@rodneyscott5450]

@@ronbattle9602 Okay...You found 2 records out of the thousands of songs Wayne has released 😂...

[@ronbattle9602]

@@rodneyscott5450 nah I aint gone lie, the scale is definitely uneven as fuck but he did speak up about that Katrina shit that's all I'm sayin lol

[@beyoutifullyunique03]

He’s too deep for y’all

[@rrbass82]

Shut up

[@pettykingtj]

Cut it out.

[@Noog6284]

This was very constructive but not that deep

[@DamnImb0r3d]

I mean yeah

[@jfraz1992]

No he isn’t

[@HamzatSaba]

Thank you for this.

[@thecunninlynguist]

Mos was not wrong. But aubrey apologists scrambling to cape for their dad...its sad.

[@ihateflatbunz]

when he first dropped with wayne what was his music classified as pop?

[@azlstrhl]

You know this man know thyself... and I mean know know. Sovereign brother with a mind sharper than a switch 💯

[@trippywicks5532]

Has yasin wrote any books? I could listen to him/read his words for the rest of my goddamn life most definitely…

[@ItsGivingBrandNew]

Revisiting this clip, as it popped up… Mos and Kendrick should get together for a discussion… I can’t really hear them on the same track. But, love to both and more power to them and strength to each of their voice.

[@nawfsidemoe9858]

I dead ass heard drake playing in Walmart last week😂😂

[@mjperkins7743]

This was prophetic.

[@Nunofyabizzzzz]

It’s good that they didn’t overlook his overall message to hyperfocus on the critique on Drake because that matters more. But not as intelligent people will only hear Drake and respond to that

[@ihateflatbunz]

He had to know mentioning Drake was gonna go viral and overshadow everything he said here.

[@d.o.z.e.shaolin7497]

@@ihateflatbunz?? Not really. The whole interview is more important to millions who value humane issues and not worship celebrities

[@ihateflatbunz]

@@d.o.z.e.shaolin7497 People weren't gonna give a damn about that interview outside the Drake shade. He is talking about some real issues I wish that was the story first and foremost.

[@Marcus-xu7hn]

….he didn't have to mention drake.

[@IspeakFacts-wx3gv]

Only black people look at rappers as some kind of leader. Lol sad bunch.

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

Yasiin can see the future. He foretold of these events

[@AudioBurial]

Revisited... the foresight

[@fayettevillan1]

All of them shaking their head in agreement to the Mass Bay colony comment is priceless!!! Mighty Mos waaaay over their head and they are just going along with "Big Words"..LMAO

[@GoldSkye]

😅

[@lajeezy2207]

Him describing the views photoshoot Is so funny

[@takme2DamusicstoRE]

This is what I DIG! Deep talk. That's the real talk for me.

[@subliminalfrequency]

YES !!!!!! MOS/YAASIN !!!!! Intelligent conversation that will go over so many people's heads

[@malachiyoung3211]

So many bars

[@Jackie9713]

Mos ❤ giving love knowledge 📚and jewels 💎

[@etiennebunbury1285]

That comment that he’s 50 drake is 37. Mate he wrote my Umi say in his twenty’s. Clearly reveals more about your maturity than it does about anything else.

[@Warrentertainment]

This whole conversation makes me wish Yasiin put his music out on platforms where I could hear it.

[@clopez1148]

He does. You have to pay for it exclusively.

[@Warrentertainment]

@@clopez1148 you're talking about the Black Star album that eventually came out on Bandcamp a year later that you had to pay for monthly on that subscription app. I'm talking about his album he had playing at the Brooklyn Museum in December of 2019. For "one month only." I wish I could have gotten to hear that project, people said it was pretty good.

[@Ginga]

Three of his first albums (four if you count Black Star) are available to be streamed. It’s just “The Ecstatic” and “No Fear of Time” that aren’t.

[@Red5ive]

We need the ecstatic back on streaming

[@samuelj.6186]

I lost it when they started singing Umi Says like Negro Spiritual or ancient hymn😂

[@nemisis49]

Salute to great content

[@TV93412nc]

5:32 I literally said this out loud to myself than buddy said it lmao

[@nozomi3614]

I can listen to him all day. He is telling the truth.

[@rickrubin8049]

Flip nods his head even tho he doesnt know whats being said🤣🤣🤣

[@EarleHolder]

Pure genius!!

[@PFOD1008]

3 months ago he predicted this.

[@theflyent7106]

If he can put this in song form it'd be a certified hit

[@fayettevillan1]

Nah bro! It would never make the radio! People do not want to hear this! If "RESPIRATION" aint a hit....I don't know what these other eardrums process!

[@theflyent7106]

@@fayettevillan1 doesn't have to make the radio, KZbin sir

[@contentovercommaz4754]

​@@theflyent7106agreed, I think the old way of thinking when it comes to hits needs to revamped. I think hits can exist outside of Radio play and billboard top tens, fr fr.

[@contentovercommaz4754]

​@@fayettevillan1I get the cynicism man fr. Consciousness has always been seen as incompatible with "mainstream" rap success, but I do believe there is a lane he can thrive in and do numbers.

[@jflack6]

It would not be a hit, do you hear the “hits”? Are they full of knowledge and are prophetic? Or are they “Hey, I just met you, this is crazy”?

[@mainlaw2486]

Mighty Mos is the truth…..

[@tap_water872]

Mos def was out here at Paris fashion show around them folks

[@ibalance925]

yeah supporting a black owned label. Ya know, generating and recycling black wealth.

[@Atribecalledsuccess]

He’s a hypocrite according to his statements played in this video

[@will4us]

He was out there not rapping luxury hip hop which is Yasin’s point ❤

[@HELLISHHANDZ]

I've always said why am I gonna listen to someone brag about what I don't have.?

[@shawnwoodford-bey4044]

BIG FACTS. ❤

[@tlotlegomolelekwa4463]

The reckoning done reckoned

[@WarriorsforInfoTV]

Ice growing that Freeway beard.

[@LiBlub1]

There are still people who draw their inspiration from Malcolm, from the Panthers, from Marcus Garvey and anti-colonialist struggle. We dont fall for the "black capitalism", getting a piece of the white mans cake, getting a chance to play the part of the oppressor. We listened to Dead Prez, Mos Def, KRS-1. Drake music is good for dancing, but if you have a soul you long for something deeper. People power ✊🏿

[@NP80s]

“We were told that America was a thing that would come and go” wow powerful and profound

[@aloominknottyheadtap900]

Ehh....l guess. Depends on what replaces it. I doubt most will like it.

[@charlesmatthewsiv2088]

I believe God is not interested in our misery, hearing that just changed my life

[@100conquest]

He dropped his kids see ghost bar in a conversation. Now thats hip hop.

[@uncannygold]

Prophetic. If Mos would've let a few of those points breathe, this would've landed on more people I think. He didn't leave any room for the average person to process any one of his points lol it's like he wasn't having a conversation, he was just spilling thought.

[@shaieresmirnoff]

Mos def talking levels

[@falcordaniel.2166]

Lmao everybody is not breathing proper on this clip 😂 Yasin been dropping gems thru features with Navy Blue, J.I.D

[@dourjones4772]

I love Mos Def and Drake! I’m 33 and I knew from the first time I heard Drake he would be the next 🤴🏾

[@urbnctrl]

MOS DEF LEGENDARY SINCE DAY 1.

[@ericbyrd]

And several days later he was performing during a fashion show in Paris. Rapping as models walked by wearing outrageously priced clothing for the 1%. Mos needs to knock it off

[@scottijamez]

Most out here can't even get with what the Mighty Mos is even speaking on

[@jonathanfernandes3626]

Drake is empty calories. Yasin is a founder and a major contributor to the art, and Drake took his creative medium and figured out a way to mass produce, cut corners, package it and sell it. Dude needs more respect.

[@heyousrew6458]

It’s funny cause it is true. I realized this by Summer Sixteen and the hype on Twitter, his Radio Show/Venture with Apple. This guy doesn’t talk about anything important. His is basically monetizing ‘mood’. You could have learned financial literacy instead of just waiting and listening to his releases

[@Beamken]

After his project with future I didn’t really care for him, I don’t get how people are mad at Mos when Drake is literally the most mainstream artists ever

[@ihateflatbunz]

I Dont wanna hear Drake rapping like Kendrick lamar i have Lupe for that we dont ask Jay z to be 2pac.

[@jfraz1992]

Then listen to other artists then

[@ihateflatbunz]

@@jfraz1992 They won't they will try and force others to make their form of music.

[@tmitche9]

@@jfraz1992you can listen to other music and still give critique

[@ScorpioCoaster]

Why is everyones legs crossed 😂

[@Q_Aura]

Onelove to the highest degree

[@naturalbey]

Look at Mos being a prophet 🤣

[@jasonoliver7029]

Next level cookery

[@thatdudeKarim]

What's a Crown 👑 to the Clouds ☁️. Bruh.

[@lowkeypopi]

Wonder why he ain't mention HOV ...full of bars BUT swag rap is his bag alot of his hits was that

[@tremainthompson6291]

He's smoking that 🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥!!!!

[@indianlionbro7857]

Big up Mos Definitely

[@a.m.1517]

Facts ✊✊✊✊

[@adrianbooze2107]

Yasin Bey is a man of his words and he stands on what he says Hip Hop is dying, Drake is killing hip-hop and all these new artist that doesn't know real hip-hop if it bit them on their feet

[@dourjones4772]

history will repeat itself..I learned that in middle school