Mos Def, being absolutely not treated kindly by sales, awards and guest participations on albums of pop stars, at present is one of the most sign and appreciable persons of hip-hop.

Was born Dante Terrell Smith in area Brooklyn that in New York, and there was it on 11th of December 1973. Already from the earliest age associates noticed in it art endowments: the boy liked to play private theatricals and tried to compose verses. And in 9 years he has tried to write the first rap text. Having matured and definitively having become impregnated with hip-hop of "a gold era», Mos, his younger brother DCQ and sister Ces create group “Urban Thermo Dynamics” which has carried to receive the contract with Payday Records in 1993ã. Young men have been very inspired by it, but business has ended with release only two singles, and the ready album «Manifest Destiny» and remained to lie on a regiment (and has lain there already 10 years while on an interest wave to Mos Def it haven't published). Experts assert that already then Mighty Mos Def was allocated among all with the flow and absolutely not banal lyrics. For couple of years the rapper has a little departed from hip-hop and has continued the actor's career which has begun in 14 years in a television serial «Cosby Mysteries». But in 1996 has begun such that shootings were postponed for long time Hide review