Mon 31 Oct 2005
Once again, a post at the MosDefinitely forums leads me to more Mos Def media. This time, it’s a series of animated shorts called The Devil’s Music.
Mos is the voice of the film’s protagonist, a young playa named Shane McDaniel. The series of ten shorts (When we say short, we mean short. Each of them clock in at less than 3 minutes.), created and written by Cheo Hodari Coker, follow the character from through a rollercoaster of events and emotions—some real, some not so real. Here’s the official describes the story:
Shane McDaniel (Mos Def) wants to be a star, and he’d do anything to succeed in the hip hop world. As his star begins to rise, a brush with death makes him realize that the values of gangsta rap might not be ones he wants to promote after all. But when he tries to clean up his act, cosmic forces intervene, reminding Shane that his material is no longer up to him since he did business with the devil; now he must fight to regain his power over his own artistic expression.
The full series can be seen at urbanentertainment.com . You can also buy the DVD at Amazon or other online outlets.
This post is tagged: acting, animation, hip hop, mos def, movies, rap.
Almost ten full minutes of Mos Def spitting rhymes live and direct at Deal Real Records in London. Straight from the soundboard, so the quality is crispy:
