Def, Mos Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Life of Crime

  2013, role: actor , character name: Ordell Robbie
• Play in Full Screen Can a Song Save Your Life?

  2013, role: actor , character name: Saul
• Play in Full Screen Standard Operating Procedure

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mama Black Widow

  2011, role: actor , character name: Papa Tilson
• Play in Full Screen Re:Generation

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Gulf Aid: Concert for the Coast

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Takin' It to the Streets

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I'm Still Here

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Glastonbury 2010

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen NRJ 12 Grammys Awards 2010

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MTV World Stage: Gorillaz

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 2010

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee
• Play in Full Screen Bury Me Standing

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Little Scarlet

  2010, role: actor , character name: Mouse
• Play in Full Screen Bobby Zero

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Welcome to Blakroc

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Bobby Zero

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Next Day Air

  2009, role: actor , character name: Eric
• Play in Full Screen Number One with a Bullet

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cadillac Records

  2008, role: actor , character name: Chuck Berry
• Play in Full Screen Talib Kweli presents Blacksmith TV

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Be Kind Rewind

  2008, role: actor , character name: Mike
• Play in Full Screen Prince Among Slaves

  2007, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen In Prison My Whole Life

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Journey to the End of the Night

  2006, role: actor , character name: Wemba
• Play in Full Screen September in Brooklyn: The Making of 'Block Party'

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Coachella

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 16 Blocks

  2006, role: actor , character name: Eddie Bunker
• Play in Full Screen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  2005, role: actor , character name: Ford Prefect
• Play in Full Screen Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Kanye West: College Dropout - Video Anthology

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lackawanna Blues

  2005, role: actor , character name: The Bandleader
• Play in Full Screen Block Party

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Making of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Made for TV Movie
• Play in Full Screen Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MOBO Awards 2004

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Play in Full Screen The Woodsman

  2004, role: actor , character name: Sgt. Lucas
• Play in Full Screen Juvies

  2004, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Focused Digizine #1

  2004, role: actor , character name: Blak
• Play in Full Screen Something the Lord Made

  2004, role: actor , character name: Vivien Thomas
• Play in Full Screen Essence Awards

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Italian Job

  2003, role: actor , character name: Left Ear
• Play in Full Screen Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Mos Def:

"Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else."

"And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone."

"I'm the only person who's providing for my children."

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"Something the Lord Made."

"Hip-hop is the last true folk art."

"I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind."

"Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective."

"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."

"I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift."

"Reckless capitalism kills black people."

"Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop."

"I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this."

"I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture."

"Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate."

"To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way."

"I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that."

"It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people."

"I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about."

"It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'"

Mos Def