Mos Def Talks 50 Cent & Kanye Dropping On The Same Day & Competing With Each Other

Who remembers when Kanye & 50 dropped on the same day back in 2007? On a new #DrinkChamps, Mos Def takes us back to those days as he shares throwback stories.
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[@krownking2310]

POWER OF A DOLLAR needs to be re-released!!!!! Classic!!!

[@donkeykong5414]

Guess Who’s Back as well! Classic mixtape

[@cbm1838]

I was in 11th grade when this happened. After I heard “Good Morning” I knew Kanye had won. And I was a huge 50/G unit fan.

[@berlingray8058]

Can’t Tell Me Nothing guaranteed that Kanye was winning 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ebn128]

Graduation was such a game changing project when it dropped, the absolute peak of Kanye’s chart success. I saw Can’t Tell Me Nothing on BET all the time that Summer, love that song to death. High school was a great time 🥲

[@yunqtule]

Bro they played that so much i was like damn it was a simple as video with Jeezy adlibs i was waiting for Jeezy to pop out that video for years lmaooooooo

[@ebn128]

@@yunqtule no bullshit bruh 😂😂😂 I know Jeezy has to be sick, that’s one of Kanye’s signature songs. 2007 was one of the last good years for rap, shit today is unrecognizable. Youngboy is cool but he ain’t Kanye or 50 or Wayne

[@Broodkast8]

@@ebn128 Have you ever seen 50 live? He can't rap for shit.

[@keplerr]

Wym by peak? Kanye still topping charts

[@darrylmerquillo]

I’m from the Bay Area and I knew that Kanye changed the game with graduation when I was at a sideshow in East Oakland and I seen candy paint Chevy pull up slappin “Good Life” with 15’s in the trunk. That’s when I knew they Kanye and transcended and was accepted by the hood in addition to just backpack rapper fans

[@RALF0691]

That song and 'Can't Tell Me Nothing' got Kanye accepted by the hood.

[@mettagoode7276]

You ain’t never lied homie … all down MacArthur and Bancroft lol don’t forget the blade on e14

[@kidfazer]

Hearing Kanye at a sideshow is legendary

[@c2cmuzik]

That was the golden era for the Bay too…well as it was ending

[@rachelhinojosa9562]

I once declared Mos Def as my favorite rapper. Data would show Kanye as my most played artist.

[@omegaweapon116]

I'll still take Mos Def over Kanye. His delivery and lyrics are just better imo

[@adig2414]

​@omegaweapon116 Kanye's inventiveness, melodies and production though. Also both have exceptional delivery imo. Very soulful. Mos Def is a much better poet, though, true. Ye has had his moments, but they're mostly from the 2000s.

[@Waverunner21]

I remember being 9 years old and mowing my neighbors lawn for $15 so I could beg my mom to take me to the local Best Buy to get the Graduation CD. First CD I ever bought with my own money. I remember my mom being confused cause I had an iPod at the time hahahaha.

[@mettagoode7276]

You a real hustler family , people don’t know them lawns ain’t no joke in that sun

[@maxgarner3263]

Good times though I bet... Miss those days

[@jamalford6995]

I remember you barely 10yrs old “dreaming “you your mom let “you” buy a rap cd at 9yrs old.

[@taejules1482]

I had a stepdad at the time of graduations release, and he worked for a tow company and he found a legit copy of the actual album with the poster and everything. And decided to let me have it, I was a Kayne fan at the time and that was a blessing so that's my graduation story.

[@bryton_hawthorne]

im one of those “graduation is Kanye’s best album” sort of fans lol. hope yall are too so i don’t feel alone in debates hahaha

[@danielhoward6558]

Love when this man Mr. Bey speaks. One of the most insightful and effective speakers in hip hop culture, through his music and beyond. A great commentator and teacher.

[@DrBigFMC]

Agreed. Very eloquent and charismatic.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Mos Def seems very invested on this album since more or less Kanye was fulfilling what he wanted to achieve for hip hop culture as a whole which was to go againts the domination of hip hop of gangsta rap and all the baggage and limitations that goes with that. Graduation thus was the moment when what previously was called "alternative hip hop" came to become an almost mainstream genre to be taken seriously both artistically and commercially and not to be just left in the underground or in little ghettoes of hipsters and white college students. In that sense Graduation might have done what Nirvana´s Nevermind did for rock which was to bring out of the underground alternative and indie rock and bring down the domination of crass dumb glam metal

[@mjperkins5400]

Brilliantly written

[@Andrew-wy1gg]

If you were born around that time and were able to experience that 50 cent era i feel bad for you people don't understand how huge he was when he dropped get rich or die trying he was everywhere completely took over

[@mr.getitdone6543]

You ain't never lied 💯💯

[@carlosbash8925]

50 had the world on his hands literally the whole world from every race & age & country was G - Unit

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

One album wonder 50 LOL

[@Darcsied27]

I remember Fif’s Curtis got leaked weeks before it was released, its impressive that he sold that much.

[@uriamudeltoro5075]

This why folks like me miss Mos in the game....how the musical persona lines up with his time working with the arts as well as him as a person....rock on, Sir

[@uriamudeltoro5075]

AND SHOUTS TO THE SLIME AND DRINK CHAMPS FOR THIS....

[@essentialsforeveryone]

Barry Bonds is literally one of my Favorite hip hop songs ever as far as production goes its fucking mental

[@joel10032]

Mos def is like me I always get Reese’s after a meal lol

[@goodvibestv707]

Fun Fact: That Battle with 50 & Kanye changed Mainstream Hip Hop forever. Also The end of Gangsta Rap Era

[@LuckyJackson2020]

fr 50 knew it was to keep himself in the light lol every album its been tied to another human being

[@egertonkamara4453]

Salute straight from Sierra Leone in Africa 🇸🇱

[@cyrilxolani8097]

Amazing that album changed our lives forever ❤️👑✨

[@yoso5934]

I remember on 106 & park . 50 so messy & arrogant was like he’s going to retire if Kanye’s album does better than his. Kanye was outta there 🚀🚀🚀 Musically 50 was done. 😵‍💫

[@lizzywhitty2136]

I love me some damn NORE - when he says “You be using words I don’t even know what they mean - but the whole time I been like Yelp!!🤣😂” Love hearing Mos Def speak on Hip Hop❤❤

[@ChuckGnarlyTV]

Ye vs Fif going on 106 & Park talking trash was classic. Good times.

[@est.inthe80s]

Damn when you think about even though FIf lost if y'all sell 700k and 900k in a week that's legendary in itself

[@whowantsit9820]

Most Def looks like a character from Pirates ☠️ of the Caribbean

[@rm8344]

Graduation is Kanye West best album hands/feet down

[@mrmorale2843]

This lady at the back adores this nigga .

[@montoya-400]

Who is she lol

[@chosenone1990]

Graduation is a classic! Takes me back to high school

[@Onlycanbeme1]

I'll never forget modeling my exercise regime after 50 and reading his literature, as I still do

[@badrelkhiyari3891]

Only the real ones know power of the dollar 50

[@beverlyjones1933]

I LOVE Mos Def most definitely 💜

[@CMM750-V8]

Why is Mos du rag tied like fuck it yo🤣

[@HyzzenBrowlly]

100% correct ✅

[@Balstadt]

I think graduation is very poppy, it's similar to the Carter 3. Don't get me wrong so many bangers on there, but I think my beautiful dark twisted fantasy is a better album overall.

[@deinVatersagt]

People say kanye has the biggest impact here in EU 50 is the goat

[@TheWRLDOFGREG]

Graduation signaled the end of Gangsta Rap & Mafioso style music and the start of the backpack rapper era in Hip Hop People didn’t want to hear the Gangsta Rap music anymore

[@BikeLife609]

Nah, your bugging street music never stopped trap is still a form or gangsta rap that blew up in the graduation era

[@mainzatouchinmoneyyero7057]

We still mourned 2pac. Disappointed in our loss.

[@markh7831]

Lol who told you that

[@ericknordby9065]

This is a silly ass comment, with all due respect. The streets are represented today in Hip Hop as they were in the beginning and in the Golden Age of the 90's and 00's. Young folks drive what's popular and where the next wave is but it's a mix that always will include the streets, violence, sex, drugs and money because that's what's going on in the hood. There wasn't room for those like Uzi, Juice, Trippy Redd, Lil Pump, Lil Yachty, Yung Thug and the like because of the powers that be and the gatekeepers, not because of the fans and consumers. A wide variety has always existed in Hip Hop and that's quite clear to anyone who is a real fan. You always had the Tribes, De La Soul, Latifah alongside the Cubes, Dres, Eric B and Rakim, BDK, EPMD, Tech, Scarface Biggie and Pac. What's mainstream or what is listened to mostly by the youth has shifted but there will always be representation of the streets. As someone noted about trap, even with some other topics being discussed, different melodies, focus on nearly everything but lyricism, there is, always was and always will be hood shit. Thank God for that.

[@ineverswag]

@@BikeLife609 yeah it never stopped but right after gangsta rap was not the biggest thing in rap anymore. The three biggest rappers to come post grad are drake kendrick and cole whom arent gangsta rappers.

[@Rio909ONT]

50 cent album sold 2 mill world wide first week. What they don't tell you

[@TwoH.Q]

I love 50 but that album wasn’t good. Off the heals of GRODT, and his movie, 2 mil or more was expected. That doesn’t mean it that it was a good album.

[@peabody573]

“What they don’t tell you” you say that like there’s some conspiracy lol

[@thedarknightbegins]

Lmao,2 million total worldwide not first week,Kanye sold 14 million worldwide

[@k2peak360]

They don't tell you that because it's not true. Curtis only sold 1.2 million copies the entire year of 2007 in the U.S. and around. 800,000 in the rest of the world. That's 2 million in 2007 not the first week. You don't know markets if you think he sold more outside the U.S. than he did in the U.S. Curtis was trash and The Graduation is still a classic. No comparison.

[@leroyarmour8184]

Why they not talking about late registration that album got me through Katrina

[@mr.getitdone6543]

Man I really don't get that.. to me that's his best album and it doesn't get mentioned

[@berlingray8058]

Crack Music is a top 5 Yeezy record of all time 💯

[@lynnlewis8443]

I love Mos def, something super attractive about him to me. Like hearing him talk.

[@skibandz8077]

I miss the bars of mos def

[@Onlycanbeme1]

I bought five Curtis' and four Graduations to be honest. They're still two of my favorite artists, so I am not let down, and actually got a return on my investments in my eyes

[@LuckyJackson2020]

lmao

[@buschg7106]

Accurate assessment

[@miltonscott1322]

Revolt tv is the best

[@marcocolo2954]

I couldn’t of said it better

[@goldraceformerlyknownasbla474]

Goat.

[@miltonscott1322]

Diddy is the best mogul out here

[@damarcusmomm05]

How? He doesn't pay his artist 🥴

[@Saviiq]

@@damarcusmomm05 😂

[@Povizle]

Graduation Just went 7 x platinum last week

[@elizabethokeke9834]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@jamaalcurry8990]

Let Mos Def finish his thoughts

[@matthewmann8969]

That day was one of the best ones to come and go lots of people at that point were exhausted, tired, sleepy, resty, nappy, and fed up with 50 at that point for the beefs he had with D Block, Fat Joe, Nas(Even though Nas went at him first), Cassidy, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon The Chef, Gza, Game, Yukmouth, Scarface, Z Ro, And more.

[@alishine2k]

This the shortest Drink Champs in history. And all they did was talk about Ye

[@markh7831]

It was a marketing strategy that worked out for both

[@hypmind]

50🔥

[@MichaelGordonPenn]

Move it, move it!

[@bookmsteebaby4002]

Being you. Just B.You.

[@mark3684]

Him eating during the interview was very disturbing to me

[@TheSakebomb1]

I remember Graduation. I miss Kanye.

[@palms235]

The last 2 sentence of the video.

[@fwiedwice824]

can we get the full interview pls??

[@freddyvelasquez4168]

Mos Def always keepin’ it a buck…

[@unanuevapecula]

Love me some Yasiin Bey!!

[@MISCDesigns]

Kanye was making AMVs to his own music.

[@cbrown940]

Major moment.

[@JohnSnowjrjr]

It wasn't fair. Because 50 album leaked underground weeks before it came out..💯🎯

[@berlingray8058]

But the album was whack, 50 tried capitalizing off the Justin Timberlake/Timbaland hype that started in late 2006 all the way through Summer 07 & it backfired on him. Ayo Technology was a good record but optics wise it wasn’t an authentic 50 record bc 50 would have never did a record with JT before that collaboration happened. Kanye stayed true to his music

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

Album was trash either way dude stopppp it

[@qarsiq]

is there an 2/3 hour cut to this or nay?

[@birdbangbobaruni]

Ferari F50 got the up on that

[@randononsense6369]

He sound like he off that heron

[@kkgmike4073]

Came here from the Amazing Lucas

[@ms.carpenter7793]

Cool, I’m a fan of Amazing Lucas as well. Did he say to check out this video?

[@flashion66]

50 didn’t retire but he was done after that lost all momentum

[@mr.getitdone6543]

50 lost momentum with the Massacre being mid

[@Blessedmama67]

Aperitif…. That’s why I dig Yasmin Bey.

[@IamJulianVelders]

Drinkchamps, fix your audio & video. The content is so dope but the audio is still horrible after all these episodes...

[@emiliadumitru8030]

If you listen to fifty interviews and read his books he knew Kanye time had come. Just is. But Fifty smarter than he knew he’d capitalize regardless and come back somehow some way. That didn’t stop him none. Grodt fifty was a tsunami. Jay z and the world stopped to wait it out.

[@jason1182]

Who is the lady in pink?

[@yunqtule]

Con-ye lmaoooo him and Cam'ron says or most New york niggas call him Con-YaY instead of Kan-Yay this shit forever us New York niggas lmaoooooo....Mos Def was definitely an Oscar movie with Puff and Halle berry - Monster Ball crazy how Kanye wanted to not be type cast with Common,Mos Def,talib Kweli, Rooots a s Backpack rap though...he said fuck that shit lmaooooooand glad he did

[@iampumanormal]

50 might respond

[@scootermcgoot]

Whose the chick in the back?

[@ceelyacruz]

How big was that piece of candy? Because he’s been cleaning his gum for 10 minutes now.

[@drobinson9146]

Giddy

[@cantgetright888]

This not the first time... they did this before but Wayne was in it too I think 50 lost it was between ye and Wayne who won

[@wit2pz]

My curiosity question is why everybody calls him by his new name, Yasiin Bey, but y'all refer to him as Mos Def. Just curious...

[@jermainehynson7514]

Look him up and check out his music.

[@jordyntaylor877]

Mos Def ethnically identified himself as a Moor (Moorish). As a Moor many have the last name Bey. Yassin Bey is his Moorish name. It is believed that all " black" people are Moors and that to be their truest identity. The Moorish history and who they are is interesting and I suggest you read or find some videos.

[@wit2pz]

@@jermainehynson7514 I'm 48 yrs old; I know all about the Mighty Mos Def! Nothing but the TRUTH!! My question is more directed to Revolt TV for calling him Mos Def and not Yasiin Bey.

[@wit2pz]

@@jordyntaylor877 my question is more directed at Revolt TV and why they refer to him as his former moniker than the name he now prefers. It's reminiscent of how those in the media insisted on calling Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay...

[@jordyntaylor877]

@@wit2pz Aah.. I understand. When I saw the title I assumed this was a throw back video from his earlier time from his career (given the topic) and I took a closer look and noticed it said, " revolt" so the I assumed maybe Revolt was airing cips of throw back interview Yassin done by someone else. So I was surprised to see Nore when I clicked the video. I wondered the same about why revolt didn't have his name listed and it had me wondering if he changed it back. I get what ur saying tho and it does seem disrespectful of revolt.

[@desbrowne9604]

All the quality sound equipment and sounds terrible.

[@JuraMalopolska]

K Westowi coś się z głową stało nie? Kurwa to trudno w ogóle porównywać. Kanye to przede wszystkim producent 50 cent to przede wszystkim raper i nie zawsze to co się najlepiej sprzedawało było najlepsze. Ja wolę jednak muzę 50 centa z tamtego okresu, ale Kanye też dawał fajne rzeczy.

[@noecruz9436]

What Anime did Kanye use tho????????

[@puresmokedrank]

Akira

[@magneticqubzian6902]

That boy reaching

[@BC-gn1vo]

50 was also SUPPOSED to 🛑 rapping if Kanye won 🤔 🤨

[@JohnSnowjrjr]

50 album got leaked weeks before the album came out..💯🎯

[@arkmua6774]

Hello ! Aa yo I’m from Iraq , Babylon , the home of the battery electricity, perfume , fan air conditioner , so ma black peoples can stay cool , all that and more and more .. hello ! Yo N.O.R.E , off the top , u the toot yo , that’s the Q yo , if there is something in ma toot , then throw me a tip yo ,it’s such a vibrant ting, most deaf , and thats black love no gloves , it was a set up , they got me drinking with the champs , I’m messed up , across from Dave’s chapel , like a perfect man keep her knees up , then take it back to Ghana , tema , ma hood , where the hustlers come from , sometimes there is no food so we have to boil avocado seeds , we let the lady’s eat the edible’s, imagine that , coming from the gold Cost, the home of the black stars, can u believe that , most deaf, But things is changing now , last time I was in Ghana was 2015 , the cab driver asked me if i wanna take the motor way or George bush highway , I said George bush , highway , because the motor way u have to go over a bridge that wiggles shakes so the cars have to time it u have to drive very fast and if u loose the timin then ur car looses a wheel lol it’s the toot yo , so I said George bush highway ? He said yes boss , , the highway is huge it looked like it was made with pure oil and there is crowds around the highway just looking at it lol the most beautiful highway and now there building roads everywhere , thank you George bush and they say he don’t care about black peoples . Fuvk Kanye he don’t care about black peoples his a bush man that’s how we call them in Africa because they don’t count Africans as black peoples but George bush did , thank I for Iraq and Africa America is cleaning up the world sir back and enjoy the show

[@cardrick2001]

Kanye ran laps over 50

[@wytelester-green8891]

200 thousand in US is not laps

[@cardrick2001]

@@wytelester-green8891 Ran laps over 50

[@mijr9075]

Kanye a back pack rapper so he has more mass appeal

[@Jlangdon92]

Jay z helped buy Kanyes sales lol

[@legendary9689]

🧢

[@daveeaster1061]

Tf is on his head

[@brandonjohnson4001]

Never been a big kayne fan. First album was good but he just wasn’t my vibe

[@witness1013]

MOS def is a waste of skin

[@DarenFGC]

You definitely listen to these young tight ass jeans wearing rappers. Get out of here fruit boy.....

[@mictza450]

You should inbox him your thoughts directly

[@littledoc1976]

Can you explain why you think that?

[@witness1013]

@@mictza450 I have tried, him and Talib

[@Darcsied27]

MOS Def is a talented rapper, also he’s the best rapper/ actor there ever was.

[@RodJeez]

Does Mos Def forget about The Massacre that came out before Curtis and sold 1 million in 1 week?