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

This aged like gold

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

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

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

This aged superbly

This aged like Pharrell 😂

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

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

Yasiin was on his James Baldwin flow

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

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.

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

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 💜🫡🤙🏾

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.

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

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

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.

RU-vid is messy for recommending this to me 😂😂. So relevant haha.

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.

This aged pretty well!!

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

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

Wow, shouts out to Mos the prophet 😂😂😂

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

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

S/O to Joe for putting this on a platform

Yasiin can see the future. He foretold of these events

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

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

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

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.

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

Mos is a different level of consciousness!

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.

This aged well!!! 😂😂😂😂

This is too much for Drake fans to comprehend

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.

If you look at Drakes fat contract, he’s obligated to drop an album once a year and part take in two tours annually. UMG owns his image, his publishing, and his freedom when it comes to making public appearances. He is a product for the industry.

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. 💯🙄🤐

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

Prophetic.

This was prophetic.

Revisited... the foresight

Over the heads of the masses!

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

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

He was spittin bars

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.

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...

The reckoning done reckoned

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

Prophet and the Prophecy

3 months ago he predicted this.

This man been speaking truths for decades ❤️

He is truly rapping

He’s too deep for y’all

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!!!

Thank you for this.

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

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

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

A lot of folks owe that man an apology.

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.

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...

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

Mos ❤ giving love knowledge 📚and jewels 💎

Welp. Here we are 😂

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.

Look at Mos being a prophet 🤣

So many bars

Mos def talking levels

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.

MOS DEF LEGENDARY SINCE DAY 1.

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

Mighty Mos is the truth…..

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

He was right!

Mos def Called it

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

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

Why is everyones legs crossed 😂

Him describing the views photoshoot Is so funny

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

Gotdamn, this aged well

Pure genius!!

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

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

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

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

This man was cookin 😭

Facts ✊✊✊✊

Next level cookery

Drake fans are the same fans who would listen to Taylor Swift. These are not hardcore hiphop fans. They dont get it. They dont get the cultural distinction.

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

gotta get Mos on the show. i can hear it now, Mos dropping truth and Flip goin OH SHIT!! GO!! GOOOO!! 😂😂

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

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

Onelove to the highest degree

What's up with the wild toys lol

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