Most Recent Role: Gangstalicious on The Boondocks
Alias Name(s): Dante Beze, Mos Def, Most Definitely, Black Dante, Mighty Mos Def, Pretty Flaco, Flaco Bey, Boogie Man
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 12-11-1973
Birth Name: Dante Terrell Smith
Alias Name(s): Dante Beze, Mos Def, Most Definitely, Black Dante, Mighty Mos Def, Pretty Flaco, Flaco Bey, Boogie Man
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 12-11-1973
Birth Name: Dante Terrell Smith
Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973) is a Brooklyn-born rapper and actor, who began his performing career on the television show The Cosby Mysteries in 1994. In 1994, Mos also began his music career, forming the shortly lived Urban Thermo Dynamics with his younger brother DCQ, and his younger sister Ces. Despite being signed to Payday Records, the group only released two...
Most Recent Appearance
The Story of Gangstalicious, Part 2
Monday 4 February 2008 on Adult Swim
Granddad worries about Riley's sexuality when he notices that he begins to dress and act like "in-the-closet" rapper, Ganstalicious.
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He is realising a pair of Converse shoes.
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Not a long time ago,Mos Def has taken up on skateboarding and said that ones of his desires is to host a skateboarding event in the United Arab Emirates.
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Mos def became a Muslim at the age of 19.
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He was introduced to the islam religion by his father,when he was 13.
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He graduated the New York University, where he studied experimental theater.
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Mos def: Our priorities is gettin' ****ed. Lil Jon-I love his music. But why are the East Side Boyz names Big Sam and Lil Bo? What the ****? What's next, Kunta and Kinte?
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Mos Def: (on how america treates black people) This is the same country that ran up in Fred Hampton's crib and shot him in bed with his pregnant wife. You think the rules changed cause *****s got No. 1 records? What are we supposed to tell our kids? After Malcolm, Martin and Dubois we got Sam-Bo?
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Mos: And I'm not really playing by anybody else's rules or trying to live up to anyone's expectations but mine. I'm not even competing with anyone else, in terms of, like, this artist or that camp, I'm trying to be better than my last song -- not even my last album -- I'm trying to be better everyday at what it is that I'm doing. I'm not gonna twist my back into pretzels and question marks to get accolades from the buying public.
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Mos Def: You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It’s mathematics.
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Mos: I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
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Other Appearances
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Chappelle's Show
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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
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Something the Lord Made
Viven Thomas |
The Cosby Mysteries
Dante |
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You Take the Kids
Raymond Kirkland |
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Brooklyn South
McMurder One Darius |
Brooklyn South
Dublin or Nothin' Darius |
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Chappelle's Show
Ep. #102 Musical Guest |
Chappelle's Show
Ep. #211 - Greatest Misses Musical Guest |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
10/12/04 Musical Guest |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Hutcherson, & Talib Kweli feat. Mos Def Himself |
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The Boondocks
Thank You for Not Snitching Gangstalicious |
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Chappelle's Show"Chappelle's Show" takes comedian Dave Chappelle's own personal joke book and brings it to life, with episodes consisting of sketches, man-on-the-street pieces, and pop culture parodies... more
Russell Simmons Presents Def PoetryPraised by the New York Times as an "exuberant, daringly fresh series that breaks poetry out of the neat little boxes it's so often put it," Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry features a spectrum... more
Something the Lord MadeA medical revolution began when Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas joined forces in the operating room to save the lives of infants who suffered from a congenital heart defect. Set in the era of the... more The Cosby Mysteries
From the creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote comes The Cosby Mysteries . Starring three-time Emmy winner Bill Cosby, the series focused on Guy Hanks, a brilliant NYPD criminalist who... more You Take the Kids
This short-lived comedy told the stories of the Kirkland family -- Michael, a bus driver, his wife Nell, and their four children, who shared their Pittsburgh home with Nell's mother, Helen. more
