Mos Def - Universal Magnetic

Another great song by Mos Def with a nice beat and music.

[@llewsub]

Only a true lyrical genius could rap on a snare for a minute and still keep you hooked.

[@the_local_bigamist]

I don't get why he doesn't make "the lists" if you know what I mean. He's one of the best to get in front of a mic, no doubt about it.

[@mcches33]

You can thank Shawn J. Period for this beat. One of the most under-appreciated producers in the world.

[@SunFromBrooklyn73]

Yes indeed

[@delahayenator]

Genius production!

[@mattdanner9472]

Very very true

[@paulcyrus8999]

Agrred 🇬🇧

[@godbodyrock]

by far my favorite Mos Def spit...and yes Shawn J. Period shines

[@guinness7722]

Was lucky enough to get this on one of my Stretch and Bobbito KCR 89.9 tapes back in the day. Must have pressed rewind at the end of this song at least 50 times. The mighty Mos at his finest.

[@LWP121]

This has to be one of the most underrated productions by one of the most underrated producers in the GAME!!!! Respect Shawn J!!! Bow down!

[@IhsanMujdeci]

mos def is on of the 3 only artists that i actually buy the actual cd for

[@6663000]

Mos Def is easily a top 5 MC of all time.

[@whytehunter5050]

Facts

[@blackrogue162]

Illest Mos Def track of all time!!!

[@the_local_bigamist]

Mos Def forever. Just a real guy who happens to be insanely talented.

[@williamgreen4241]

This brother is untouchable. Mad skills & rather unique 👊👌🔪

[@calibomber209]

Anyone in 2018 wishing hip hop had evolved into sumpin like this? Mos definitely , this is hip hop to me!

[@jonnygreen2602]

I remember buying this, among most underground hip hop between 97-2002, at first release. I can still remember peeling the cellophane off and the smell inside the sleeve. It got so much play it crackled like mad. I now have virtually none of my old vinyl :(

[@alexanderpinterscale289]

Brother! what a cool glimpse of the past

[@77Creation]

That 5 year period was the 2nd and final Golden Era. 🖤

[@KingVirmire]

its our job as future parents to show our future children what REAL music is. Life isn't just about material and drugs.

[@korruptnovellst4751]

This ain't nothing to do with real or fake

[@delahayenator]

Great as an old hiphopjunkie to discover when one of your kids sends you a link of something like Jinxtro - Nahncenz. All is not lost 😁

[@delahayenator]

@@korruptnovellst4751 most definitely :)

[@mfasiscrackbeats3543]

i remember hearing this for the first time on Stretch & Bob, recorded it on a 90 minute cassette flexing the next day at school. salute Yasiin/Mos and J. Period for this classic.

[@phillytnoize]

You had to be there to know how much of a classic this is!

[@MuMu124]

This is better than anything in mainstream now

[@delahayenator]

Most definitely!

[@delahayenator]

Its all mathematics here :)

[@timeTravellin]

Still true in 2021

[@AntGamer007]

Fax wtf is the crap being played today. Only few is decent in my opinion.

[@Grizzletopz]

Rawkus era shit was the bomb

[@djjamil3033]

hell yeah... they never put out an alum/single I didnt like... RIP Rawkus

[@shamrock.records]

Im rappin' Rawkus will reborn

[@jonate79]

Goodness gracious!!! Most Def Is killing it on this joint.

[@368carameldelux]

Mos Def makes me wish I was born & raised in Brooklyn............this man is pure genius!! I met him and he is mad cool. I always catch mad wreck to this song (that's dancing my a** off to the hip hop impaired).

[@h2junkey]

SOOOOOO DOPE! Takes me back to like '96-'97

[@UnitedDiscord]

I love the fact that Mos Def was able to get into movies and still come back to the game swingin' n' hittin'. Take notes from this fella, Ice Cube.

[@the_local_bigamist]

Its because Mos Def never pretended to be anything other than himself, except for when acting. Ice Cube had a phoney persona to maintain.

[@1trl2]

This track is on the first soundbombing LP It came out back in '97. & it got some other bangers on there too!

[@Joshua-Gee]

This is keeping me on point in 2020 even on that Quarantine vibe

[@XCL90]

This was the Jam back in the 6th grade!!! I remember hearing this song when my bro bought the single which also contained "If you can Huh you can hear". Just remember that was one of his first records that he bought when first started to mess with Turntables. Ah those were the days...

[@ZingBingChing]

This is so fantastic man, I never get sick of it

[@theEdinero]

My prized vinyl back in the day. Along with the instrumental versions on the other side, damn that was good stuff.

[@Ginga]

It's amazing that this is his first single.

[@the_local_bigamist]

Didn't know that! Any tracks could've been picked. I can see why this was picked though.

[@gaspasser_]

Still listening 2021. The epitome of real hip hop.

[@metrist9]

one of the best song produced by Shawn J Period

[@caps1in1ya1ass1]

Mos Def = One of the best to bless the mic.

[@arvidassburg4500]

bars 🔥

[@whytehunter5050]

💯

[@merits89]

Still getting goosebumps in 2019

[@368carameldelux]

Right here with ya!!!

[@giorgitabatadze1441]

almost 2025 fellas

[@h2junkey]

Damn, takes me back to Summer, 97! I almost got tired of hearing it after being played so much on the local hip hop radio shows.

[@WaffPulse]

I remember hearing Mos Def rhyme the alphabet, I just sat there in silence as a sign of respect

[@SpirallingUpwards]

This backing is dope.

[@JaceBarretto]

forgotten gem this one. Love like thisssss!

[@tomswill9189]

LOVE HIS JAZZY BEATS HE USE THIS IS OFF THE HOOK

[@AmpouleRectale]

Probably one the best debut album ever

[@higherlevel28]

best debut track any artist has EVER made..nuff said

[@tylerdurden2017]

Yasiin bay or Mos Def... pure lyrical genius!

[@slyguy2196]

Legendary from the first time hearing it on the Beat Junkies mix tape from the 90’s...good ol days

[@mellotheoaktree]

This track is a lesson in Hip-hop Greatness! Someone please inform the future! Thank you.

[@mrjace3]

omg!i havent heard this sence it came out.and it just popped up in my head and i had to come here to you tube to see if anyone posted it.thank you so much for this one kid!

[@jamiej7111]

ikr! beautiful man, sick beat

[@anthonytruman]

This and "Next Universe" and "If You Can Huh! You Can Hear" and most Mos Def songs are amazing

[@LennyHabits]

The Universal Magnetic, u must respect it!!!! Mos Def=supreme flow

[@Sullisaur]

Sick beat in this

[@jiriflosman3054]

The ONE who does rap from heart

[@CrankyPills]

best mos def song. should have a video.

[@edski8536]

1st time hearing this!...THIS IS DOPE!!

[@BulgBeats]

same 🔥

[@widerling]

I believe the beginning of this was a freestyle.. Genius!

[@jennifernascimento1218]

no it's the alphabet

[@PHANTASTIKMUSIK]

I got this on vinyl...double homie!

[@fattlip1958]

This is hard asf🔥🔥

[@blackrogue162]

From the Sound Bombin album in 1997. Pure classic shit.

[@Ecoteric]

there is... such a place... that creates... such a melody!

[@Antertainment531]

That bassline is slick as fukk!! Along with the Hannah-Barbara, reptilian sound effects in the back was straight killin 'em!! Lol Summer of '97 was phenomenal, man....

[@TuMopri507]

His flow and rhyme scheme sounded very Q Tip influenced

[@tylerball6101]

He considers Q-Tip one of his style fathers, and he's also considered a Native Tongue family member.

[@williamhesquire]

*Nasal flow.

[@djstarsign]

That was my main issue with him at the time. He sounded too much like Tip at the time.

[@kingofwilcoxstreetkows8351]

Good choice most of what I have done in music is Q Tip Influenced

[@nataliagarcia8185]

I love mos def

[@illa.5767]

Mos Def da master 😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@denzabee1262]

Awwww man I remember when this was played on Radio Active Power 99 in Philly I recorded it off the radio. Mann this still hit 🎯

[@DaRealBigRif]

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[@JEFFCLEVANDR]

Love this Track. Also a huge fan of MATHEMATICS. Mos and Talib need to cut another Blackstarr album.

[@IhsanMujdeci]

1:36 lol wether u speak Japanese or goonie goo goo, nice one mos, insert a Eddie Murphy joke in there. Still best hip hop artist ever

[@angeloCOZ]

crazy beat

[@fisharmor]

Mos Def.... he certainly is.

[@simonjakefrances6433]

My god ❤️❤️❤️❤️ this is life

[@CoolCumber187]

hes the true meaning of a lyrisist its asif he doesnt have to think about what he says its just so natural n sounds fucking awesome

[@jerksoda8901]

the universal magnetic, you must respect it! from end to beginning :)

[@OriAlSirr]

this is music DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Souls.never.die27]

Shawn J. Period!!!!!!!

[@loganknoll]

Amazing

[@nooper]

its the Mighty Mos Def!!!

[@georgeszweden9497]

The unsung God of Rap

[@ED-jf6mb]

Stretch and bobbito show use to bump this joint alot

[@Quake2815]

Nice!!!

[@GreenHausNetworks]

Every time I hear those bird samples in the background I find myself looking out the window, ha ha. Dope track, anyway.

[@sdot2k8]

best rapper of all time :)

[@SurgeCess]

When they first broke this track on college radio over here, I knew this was the future of Hip Hop, this was the next level shit that all the underground heads was starving for!

[@njclondon2009]

shame mos def's heart wasn't really in rapping, he really is an unfulfilled genius

[@edski8536]

his music is unique...

[@yungyacht]

mos def is KING

[@edski8536]

....what i like about mos is that i can understand everything he is sayin......

[@chrisappleman]

these are true rhymes

[@ninevoltage]

classic in the makin.

[@angeloCOZ]

the underground is where u want it, i hate it when songs i really love go mainstream and every1 listens to them

[@98bigbutt]

I heard this track on Stretch and Bobbito on WKCR.

[@megalon07]

98bigbutt yo yo yo yo yo yo!!

[@djjamil3033]

brings me back to when I used to live in the west end (atl) and when I bagged my joints from fat beats atlanta

[@77Creation]

Same. CAU student living on Stokes Ave, a few blocks from the Cascade Kroger, Churches Chicken and the cheap Chinese food spots. Had my tape decks set for WRAS, WRFG and WCLK all day every day. 🖤✊🏽

[@djjamil3033]

@@77Creation wow, I stayed on Holderness ave, closer to Lucille ave. WRAS ha the hip hop on saturday with Iras, and sunday had the reggae. Never once ate at the chinese spot across from kroger looked suspect. The malcom x festival at the west end park was right down the street, and I usually ate Yasin's or Soul Vegeterial... LOL and got my books from the shrine. ofthe black madonna. west end aint the same, its gentrified now

[@hongoharuhisa6800]

MOS DEF

[@XanderEwald]

Listened to this one back then until the vinyl wore down the vinyl.

[@cesarmji]

Costa Rican Digging Mos Def !!!! peeeeeeace !!!!

[@whytehunter5050]

True hip hop!

[@allenjones9520]

This is the shit!!! Mos did it once again!!!

[@lasellepigford3649]

“Most of yall brothas is living with ya mothers, boogie man yanking up ya covers” 😂

[@phirekid718]

I love the eddie murphy's Delirious reference "goony goo goo"

[@RaGInBaLLeR23]

" i keep it raw bone like skelator" - LOVE THAT LINE!

[@ZakvonMammel]

Although your grammar makes it difficult to read, it is the most truthful statement about Mos Def

[@edski8536]

.......the wonders of KZbin....look what i would have missed....

[@WahkibaJ]

THIS IS HIP HOP!!

[@ATLS702]

"i reply the u-n-i-v-e-r-s-a-l magnetic work to respect angelic..."

[@dontelewis1685]

I thought hip hop was gonna be like this forever damn where did we fail

[@jameelhussain8952]

this is what real hip hop and rap is about

[@shanajackson3793]

Definition talib kweli