who you got?

i want some opinions, imo mos is nicer...


black on both sides is far and away better than anything kweli has done imo. kweli has a few great albums though, reflection eternal and quality were both very dope.

Finally someone makes this thread.I would have, but my hiphop opinion is not respected amongst my BS peers.(*****es)

Yeah I think Mos is by far the better MC.The thing is Kweli can be more consistent with his albums,his albums have that kind of mass appeal,where as mos is kind of all over the place.I mean it took him forever to follow up Black on Both sides,buts its a classic, but New Danger was only so-so.I think I liked it more than most people,but it lacks focus.Kweli can shine too,but he can also be downright cheesy with his lyrics sometimes "We can cruise like Tom and Penelope..." :dead:

So its Pretty flaco all the way.

I've always like Mos Def better than Talib Kweli but I like them better together.

I prefer Kweli to Mighty Mos...just my preference. I thought Reflection Eternal was better than BOBS.

Kweli has been kind of disappointing lately however. **** so has mos...his last album was pretty sub-par.

Kweli used to rhyme with more passion...but I still think his best verse blows away Mos Defs.

I agree with whoever said it though...they are better together.

Yo check it one for Charlie Hustle two for Steady Rock
Three for the fourth comin live future shock
It's five dimensions six senses
Seven firmaments of heaven to hell 8 Million Stories to tell
Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
with the probable tenth, the universe expands length
The body of my text posess extra strength
Power-liftin powerless up, out of this, towerin inferno
My ink so hot it burn through the journal
I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Hip-Hop past all your tall social hurdles
like the nationwide projects, prison-industry complex
Broken glass wall better keep your alarm set
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom sing
Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream
but you chain cats get they CHA-POW, who dead now
Killin fields need blood to graze the cash cow
It's a number game, but **** don't add up somehow
Like I got, sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock it
but only 15% of profits, ever see my pockets like
sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years
spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like
nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black
That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack
Sixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a ki
A five minute sentence hearing and you no longer free
40% of Americans own a cell phone
so they can hear, everything that you say when you ain't home
I guess, Michael Jackson was right, "You Are Not Alone"
Rock your hardhat black cause you in the Terrordome
full of hard *****z, large *****z, dice tumblers
Young teens and prison greens facin life numbers
Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation
This new math is whippin mother****ers ass
You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
It's mathematics

I think Mos and Kweli are both great, and good for hip hop as a whole, but I prefer Mos' style more. Although the Reflection Eternal album is one of my top 10-15 favorite albums ever.

I like Kweli more, togethere they are best, but solo I feel Kweli a little more.

i'm with mos on this one - lyrically they're almost peers - but i like mos' voice to talib's.

"Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation
This new math is whippin mother****ers ass
You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
It's mathematics"

Yeah,that ****s classic right there.

The whole song is ****ing amazing...but Kweli's verse is on some other ****.

[Pharoahe Monch]
Yo
Truth had me up against the ropes
and semi-concious without no boxing skills
Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil
Watchin the clock is ill when, faced wit the truth
Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of
Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill
Fill they minds not to kill still son, never revealed
True feelings, we speakin on the truth right now in itself is healing
See The Creator, created existence and balance
At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated
So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong
The deliverance of the word false opposite of truth off course
Sure as my slave name sending
Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enabling truth
To stay stable and cling to EARTH!
Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror
Visions of yourself and error could never clearer
The truth is that you ugly, not on the outside
But in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely
The discovery of these things and all are well-hidden
But when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that's the truth

[Female singer]
In due time we will find

[Common] *speaking behind vocals*
See it everywhere, gotta recognize it

Let the truth be told from young souls that become old
>From days spent in the jungle, where must one go
To find it, time is real, we can't rewind it
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did
We find kids speakin cuz it's naturally in us
But the false prophets by tellin us we born sinners
Venders of hate, got me battlin my own mind state
At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great
See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my *****
If it's only one, then why should it differ
So constantly I seek it
Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it
Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it
Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent
Took the negative and positive, cuz *****s got to live
Said I got to get more than I'm given
Cuz truth'll never be heard in religion
After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden
It was the truth

[Female singer]
Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
In due time, we will find

[Talib Kweli]
Check it, on my neck I still got marks from the nooses
The truth it produces, fear that got *****s on the run like Carl Lewis
The truth is my crew is the smoothest bits of saliva juices like the roots is
More organic than acoustics
Heavenly ? but set you free and kill you in the same breath
That **** you gotta get off your chest before your death, unless
The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet
Cuz the truth give the words away to the planet goddammit
I ran wit what God planted in my heart and I understand it
To be the bring the light to the dark, breathe some life in this art
This must be the truth (why?) cuz we keep marchin on (true)
The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin on (true)
You can't see it if you blind but we will always prevail (true)
Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sail
And in the end, our names is on the lips of dying men
If ever crushed in the earth, we always rise again
When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin
The truth is there, it's just the heart you gotta find it in

Speaking of Kweli,anybody played Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure? Kweli does the characters voice.

damn, i was tried last night. i noticed twice that i spelled kweli wrong and put "kweil". :D

Don't like Mos one bit. He did the Eve and Lil Kim move. "Your **** isn't selling, go Hollywood."

Don't like Mos one bit. He did the Eve and Lil Kim move. "Your **** isn't selling, go Hollywood."


yeah but he's a pretty good actor. you ever see "something the lord made"?

andre, cube...you must not like them either huh?

Don't like Mos one bit. He did the Eve and Lil Kim move. "Your **** isn't selling, go Hollywood."
mos has been an actor since he was a child, if anything he is crossing over from acting to music.

Both guys are excellent.

This is a matter of Mos Def's delivery being more appealing to me as opposed to Kweli's. Both guys are highly talented and there is no disputing that.

I'm a West Coast kid. Have much respect for Ice cube. There isn't much he could do to lose respect especially since he's has been great songs prior to doing Fridays and movies.
yeah but he's a pretty good actor. you ever see "something the lord made"?

andre, cube...you must not like them either huh?

Don't like Mos one bit. He did the Eve and Lil Kim move. "Your **** isn't selling, go Hollywood."

Yeah uhhhhh....no.

If anybody did that it was Kweli,whos music is targeted alot more towards that mainstream audience than Mos's music.


b*tch. ;)

Kweli got it wrapped!

EASY for kweli

Didnt yall hear 'Ghetto Rock'?It was terrible

And Talib is better and more consistant!