probably cashed in his acting checks successfully

Interesting take, What do you mean specifically

He was heavily featured and involved in it and Dave was/is a good friend of his. The way that whole s*** went down and Dave was made to look like he "went crazy" was a pretty huge and polarizing example of "the evils of Hollywood" in the culture at that time. I have no doubt they both had extensive discussions about it and it made Mos more distant in every facet of "the industry".

Sounds like you’re describing akon

I can’t argue because I wasn’t around, but during his peak from I learned, mos def seemed much bigger than Vince lmao. I could be wrong tho

Also kinda unrelated to anything Mos Def but is it crazy for me to say Vince the personality is bigger than Vince the artist?

That’s a very hot take. I don’t agree but to each his own.

If there were a billion podcasts & online twitch streaming etc in mos’ popularity peak, he probably woulda been on a lot of them.

It definitely is. There are people on Twitter who LOVE Vince when it comes to him as a personality but have never spoken about liking his music lol.

I think he was definitely more popular to be honest. Not a knock on Vince Staples, but a very different time in media.

THE WHAT OVER ?

Nigga was making movies with MJ s***s crazy

Real controversial title tho

Niggas on twitter complaining about bein black now

We need this energy

Now its time to awaken the kundalini

Lmao wait what they complaining about

I remember Mos being EVERYWHERE when i was a kid

I saw some apparently black kid literally say on twitter "black ppl overestimate how many allies we have when s*** get real we on our own" like theres so many issues with that perspective

We dont need no other race to help us

White people divided asf

Nobody who knows history is trusting rich white ppl to save them

Big Fish was a staple at parties in college

The Rape Over

Man i watched a video on the history of laos and cambodia

America is f***ing evil. These cacs dont care bout nobody

Very wrong. People knew knew Mos from Chappelle, Ye, The Italian Job, Hitchhikers guide, monsters ball…he was also like the face of conscious hip hop. Vince will prolly never be as recognized as Mos

Shoutout Vince but Mos Def has 2 Emmys and 23 Nominations bro was different lol

Vince never been on a Disney Cartoon

They used to roll the TV in class and play something the Lord Made whenever we didn’t have s*** to do at school

Mos was in some very good movies, and was very beloved musically