There are many things that make Mos Def's first solo album a big piece of shit. If you took away all his meanderings from old school classics, that's half the tape gone right there. I think he's the only person who gives Jay-Z a run for his money when it comes to co-opting shit. Mos Def's pretentiousness kills another part of the tape. But I think, and this has come to me in listening to all these old rap tapes, is he has the absolute worst "I'm a rapper doing a rock song" rock song of all, which is like being the king piece of shit in a shit-laden pile of crap. Yeah yeah I know, black man created rock-n-roll, but that does not mean your stupid ass can yell over top a shitty guitar solo and consider yourself The Backyard Babies or something.
I don't know, I used to be way on the Rawkus tip and loved some Mos Def, but that dude is downright pitiful nowadays, a cookie cutter NPR music critic's rapper if there ever was one.
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