Quote Originally Posted by amat
Mos Def didn't sell out, he tried out a new sound. He spotlighted Black Jack Johnson, and really tried something musically DIFFERENT and The New Danger didn't really pan out well. It had it's spots but it wasn't selling out, he didn't really try the mainstream persona he already had it with his acting, just listen to The Rape Over, it's the same Mos on the mic. Katrina Klap was better then anything Talib has done in the past few years with the Beautiful Struggle, that one he put out with Ms. Hill and Supreme Supreme on it was cool but other then that, he is still on about this "freedom" term that he refuses to define.

Talib is annoying as F*** to me sometimes. He's always talking about this vague "freedom" thing, refuses to define it. He slams major labels then pulls the same label bullshit with his Blacksmith deal preventing the guy from SAS from releasing his mixtape? WTF? Then potshots Jay for pushing Kingdom Come back, yet Eardrum was supposed to be out months ago and now it's coming out in June? F*** that, the singles aren't even that good, especially that Hearsay one, that was worse then anything on Tru3 Magic. And Mos didn't even hype that up like Talib is doing.

I still like Talib and remains a top 5 favorite rapper but he's annoying as S*** at the moment. He always does this off the wall stuff, and it irks me.
to each their own bro. i feel what ya saying.

i would put COMMON above both and yes it might be biased cuz im from chicago, but COMMON's one of them cats that so multi layered he can roc it on the positive tip yet still come off hard, he can please the ladies, he get real deep and poetic. i think if anyone got robbed of their prime or is way under LOVED its COMMON hollaaaaaaaaar